Mark Mothersbaugh Teases New 'Rugrats' Theme Song: 'I Updated it a Little Bit'

One of the most recognizable aspects from Nickelodeon's beloved '90s animated series Rugrats is it's iconic theme song. As soon as you hear the crash followed by gentle tones, you know that more adventures with the lovable babies are on the way.

The Rugrats theme tune was written by Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh, who also wrote the show's music throughout it's original 13-year-run, and fans will be delighted to hear that the acclaimed film and TV composer has also been working on the theme song for Nickelodeon's upcoming CG-animated Rugrats revival series!

When asked by Billboard about which Rugrat he thinks would be most deserving of a Rock Hall induction, Mothersbaugh, 70, revealed: "I think Tommy would get it, but Chuckie would be my vote. We're working on the new Rugrats. They're bringing it back. I worked on the theme song again, updated it a little bit."

The character design for Chuckie Finster on Rugrats was actually based on the musician.

The "Whip It" singer also revealed that one of his brothers is also working on producing music and new songs for the series!:

"[M]y brother is doing the episodes and new songs for that right now."

The news comes as Mothersbaugh nearly died last year after contracting COVID-19 (coronavirus). Diagnosed with the illness in May, he was placed on a ventilator twice at Cedars-Sinai hospital to help him breathe as COVID began to attack his lungs.

When Billboard asked Mothersbaugh was now, the musician said: "I got a vaccine shot, because I'm old enough for it, a couple days ago. I got the response people usually get from their second vaccine shot, so I must've had antibodies in my body already. I've had a fever the last couple days, so I'm just now standing up again. That was a lot of fun."

Mothersbaugh followed up the success of Rugrats by writing the Rocket Power theme song, as well as Rugrats' three related theatrical films, and it's spin-off, All Grown Up!. His music could also be heard on Santo Bugito and Clifford the Big Red Dog. He also wrote a new theme song for the original Felix the Cat show, provided some music for Pee-wee's Playhouse, and wrote the theme song for the Super Mario World TV series for DIC Entertainment in 1991.

Mothersbaugh's theme song for Rugrats was eventually sampled for The Rugrats Movie soundtrack for “Take Me There” by Blackstreet, Mya, Mase, and Blinky Blink.

On the film side, Mothersbaugh credits are as extensive as anyone else's in the game. A frequent collaborator with the likes of Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Wes Anderson, the Devo lead has scored hits like The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats In Paris, Rugrats Go Wild, Happy Gilmore, Halloweentown, Mama's Boy, both Jump Streets, the Transylvania trilogy, three of the films in Warner Brothers' Lego franchise, and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok.

Mothersbaugh also revealed in the same interview with Billboard that he's currently working on a new stage musical with his wife Anita Greenspan and legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk:

"I'm doing a musical with my wife and Tony Hawk, we're producing. Tony and I have been friends a long time. Our intention is to incorporate a lot of Devo music into it. Devo is in the Skateboarding Hall of Fame. It's true," said Mothersbaugh, adding "I have pictures of myself after my last skateboard ride where I'm being confirmed at 12 or 13, and all the kids were dressed in choir robes and I have two black eyes and stitches across my face. I took a big fall and realized my myopia was so extreme that it wasn't my calling."

Titled Slam, it's a coming of age story about a group of kids who are skaters, and is based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name.

"We're working with the La Jolla Playhouse right now. It's a weird time to be doing a musical, that's for sure. It'll be a combination of Devo that you know, a little bit of modified Devo, and I'll have some original songs in the project also. Tony will probably choreograph the skaters, so it could look really good.

"He was taking me to see things like comedians, and I was like, 'eh… okay.' Then I said, 'Well, come and see some musicals, my wife is a big musical fan.' So we took him to see some things, and I was going, 'well, this is too small of a stage to skate on' and he was like, 'No, no… in this place, we'd get a running start behind the curtain, so by the time you came out you could be flying through the air. Or else you could drop out of the balcony.' I go, 'They're not gonna let you drop out of the balcony!' I mean, he could do it. But anyhow, his involvement will be in that part of the process."

You can read Mark Mothersbaugh's fantastic interview with Billboard in full on Billboard.com.

Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures announced in July 2018 that they were relaunching Nickelodeon's beloved '90s animated series Rugrats with a 26-episode new season from Nickelodeon and a live-action film featuring CGI characters from Paramount Players. However, although the TV series is still planned, the new Rugrats movie has reportedly been shelved for the time being.

In September 2020, it was revealed that the new Rugrats series would be CG-animated.

Rugrats focuses on a group of toddlers, Tommy Pickles, Chuckie Finster, twins Phil and Lil DeVille, and Angelica Pickles, and their day-to-day lives that became adventures in their imaginations. The original Rugrats Nicktoon series launched in August of 1991 and instantly became a groundbreaking phenomenon, spawning consumer products, three hit theatrical releases, various video games and cementing its place in pop culture history through its iconic characters, storytelling and unique visual style. Rugrats was in production for nine seasons over the course of 13 years, and also spawned three spin-off series, All Grown Up!, Angelica and Susie's School Daze and Rugrats: Tales from the Crib. The series earned four Daytime Emmy Awards, six Kids' Choice Awards and its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Nickelodeon is slated to premiere their Rugrats revival during 2021, with most of the surviving original voice actors expected to reprise their respective roles, including Nancy Cartwright as Chuckie Finster, Melanie Chartoff as Didi Pickles and Cheryl Chase as Angelica Pickles.

However, Dil Pickles, Tommy's younger brother who was introduced in The Rugrats Movie, is not expected to feature in the series until season two.

More Nick: Nickelodeon Unveils First Look at CG-Animated 'Rugrats' and 'Big Nate'!

Original source: The Source.

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Classic Nickelodeon, NickRewind and Rugrats News and Highlights!

'Rugrats' Composer Mark Mothersbaugh Reveals Near-Fatal Experience With COVID-19

Mark Mothersbaugh has revealed that COVID-19 (coronavirus) came within inches of taking his life earlier this year. The Devo co-founder and acclaimed film and TV composer sat down with the Los Angeles Times to talk about his battle with the viral illness, which he was diagnosed with this May. According to Mothersbaugh, he was placed on a ventilator twice at Cedars-Sinai hospital to help him breathe as COVID began to attack his lungs. Then came the fever dreams and delusions.

Devo cofounder Mark Mothersbaugh was on a ventilator for nearly two weeks: “For anybody that’s doubting whether the coronavirus is real, it’s really real.” (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Mothersbaugh — best-known for composing the music for the 13-year-run of Nickelodeon animated series Rugrats, its three related theatrical films, and it's spin-off, All Grown Up! (the character design for Chuckie Finster on Rugrats was also based on him!) - imagined he was visiting one of his favorite book stores and while there, he was attacked with a brick.

“I felt blood from being hit. I was handcuffed to a parking deck downtown. I had this whole elaborate story of how these kids sold me to an ambulance company that then got some sort of a payment for delivering COVID patients to their ICUs. I totally believed it,” Mothersbaugh, 70, tells the Times. At the time, the imaginary vicious beating in downtown Los Angeles is why he thought he had been admitted to the hospital.

The composer says he temperature was holding steady at 103 degrees and rising. Once placed on a ventilator, he had another delusion where he wrote an entire album and subsequently performed it on a tour. "I wrote a whole new Devo album and put together a whole live show," Mothersbaugh adds. "We were standing on top of these projects, which were growing somehow."

Rising to prominence of the front man and co-founder of Devo — you know their hit song "Whip It" — he soon turned his eyes to composing while still with the band. His first credit came with Neil Young's "Human Highway" in 1982. Since then, he's dozens several A-list projects.

In the early '90s, Mothersbaugh came up with the catchy theme song for Nickelodeon's Rugrats and followed it up by doing the same thing for Rocket Power. His music could also be heard on Santo Bugito and Clifford the Big Red Dog. He also wrote a new theme song for the original Felix the Cat show, provided some music for Pee-wee's Playhouse, and wrote the theme song for the Super Mario World TV series for DIC Entertainment in 1991.

On the film side, Mothersbaugh credits are as extensive as anyone else's in the game. A frequent collaborator with the likes of Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Wes Anderson, the Devo lead has scored hits like The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats In Paris, Rugrats Go Wild, Happy Gilmore, Halloweentown, Mama's Boy, both Jump Streets, the Transylvania trilogy, three of the films in Warner Brothers' Lego franchise, and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok.

Mark Mothersbaugh wears a Devo-branded face mask and dome-shield.(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

“Everything’s become more devolved than I would have imagined possible,” Mothersbaugh concludes. “For anybody that’s doubting whether the coronavirus and COVID-19 is real, it’s really real.”

NickALive! wishes Mark well on his road to recovery. And to everyone reading, please wear a mask.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Mark Mothersbaugh nearly died from COVID-19. FaceTiming with his family kept him alive

As Mark Mothersbaugh lay in a Cedars-Sinai hospital bed in early June after contracting the novel coronavirus, a ventilator tube snaking into his throat to help him breathe, the Devo cofounder and acclaimed film and TV composer came to believe that he was recovering from a vicious beating in downtown Los Angeles.

“There’s a bookstore I love there where I get stationery supplies, and in my mind I had been there,” Mothersbaugh, 70, said Thursday afternoon, sitting on the patio of the Hollywood Hills home he shares with his wife, Anita Greenspan, and two teenage daughters. “I was convinced for about two weeks that I had been hit by a brick by somebody in Little Tokyo.”

Wearing chrome-framed eyeglasses, his nose and mouth covered by a black mask branded with the logo of his Mutato Musika commercial music company, Mothersbaugh touched his right temple while recalling the experience, as if searching for a head wound.

“I felt blood from being hit. I was handcuffed to a parking deck downtown. I had this whole elaborate story of how these kids sold me to an ambulance company that then got some sort of a payment for delivering COVID patients to their ICUs. I totally believed it,” he said.

Mothersbaugh’s delusions lasted more than two weeks during his time both on and off the ventilator. In fact, the artist didn’t contract the virus that causes COVID-19 while shopping in Little Tokyo. He caught it shuttling between his house and his Sunset Strip offices and studios in late May. His family was in Palm Springs. After he tested positive, he insisted on isolating by himself.

Three harrowing months later, Mothersbaugh and his family are back together and virus free. His experience, he says, was devastating. It was also unfortunately instructive, as it confirms an argument that he and his groundbreaking band, Devo, have been making for nearly 50 years.

“Everything’s become more devolved than I would have imagined possible,” he said. “For anybody that’s doubting whether the coronavirus and COVID-19 is real, it’s really real.”

He’s seen the doubters first hand. As he was recovering at home, a houseful of TikTok influencers across the street threw massive parties despite the lockdown and made news when Mayor Eric Garcetti shut off the property’s power. De-evolution is really real too.

Adjusting his mask, Mothersbaugh recalled the circumstances that led to his hospitalization.

He’d been taking the coronavirus seriously, he said. As news spread of its dangers, he’d avoided in-studio recording sessions for the four animated films he’d been scoring, instead conferencing in to observe and consult. But still, on at least one occasion near the end of May while working at Mutato, he unintentionally found himself in the company of a number of people he didn’t know.

When symptoms arrived a few days later, he thought his exhaustion was from juggling too many things at once. Then he took his temperature. It read 103. At first he thought he was reading the thermometer wrong. He told his wife, and she immediately started making calls.

Recalls Mothersbaugh, “A nurse came over the next morning and said, ‘You should be in ICU.’ I said, ‘That’s ridiculous.’ She replied that she’d been a nurse for three decades: ‘You need an ambulance right now.’”

From Greenspan’s perspective, the virus steamrolled through her husband’s system. “It went from, ‘I don’t feel good’ on Tuesday to an ambulance to Cedars on Saturday. It was terrifying.” She believes that the nurse, Patricia Lineweaver, saved Mothersbaugh’s life.

Mothersbaugh spent much of the next 18 days on his back, tilted up in his hospital bed in the intensive care unit. Isolated, like all of those infected with the virus, from everyone except essential medical personal, he lost all track of time and space. Tubes and machines cuffed him in place. At one point, he tried to break free of all the stuff attached to him and they had to secure his arms and legs.

During video calls with Greenspan and their daughters, 19-year-old Hui Hui and Margaret, 16, Mothersbaugh pressed them for information about the Little Tokyo brick-throwing incident. Had they found his attackers? Did they have any suspects? “Some of the delusions were very dark,” Mothersbaugh recalled. “Like, ‘Oh no, I have to get out of this place.’”

As he drifted in and out of consciousness, he remembers “a lot of people coming in on stretchers and people going out on stretchers.”

Another extended departure from reality involved Devo, the band he cofounded at Kent State after four students were killed by National Guard members in 1970.

While attached to the ventilator, he said: “I wrote a whole new Devo album and put together a whole live show.” In his hallucination, the band performed it on the streets of Hollywood — through the use of augmented reality. “We were standing on top of these projections, which were growing somehow.”

In reality, while Mothersbaugh was fighting for his life, in the outside world, Devo’s trademark “energy domes,” the flower pot-shaped red headgear the band wore during its early 1980s peak, were becoming a meme on social media. Someone at the company that manufacturers the domes realized that another of its products, plastic face shields, could easily be affixed to the hats to create a Devo dome-shield.

As both the meme and the virus advanced, Greenspan and their daughters kept a constant vigil through video calls.

During one crucial moment, Mothersbaugh believes they helped him stay tethered to the present.

His voice turning soft, he remembered “a time where I just felt exhausted. Like, ‘I could just float down this river right now, and it would be really peaceful. It wouldn’t be a freak-out. It wouldn’t be something I’d be scared of. I could really just do that.’ I really thought about it.

“And then it just happened that [Greenspan] called me, and she and the kids were on my phone, saying, ‘You’re getting out of there soon. Get off of that machine.’ I don’t know if everybody is lucky enough to have somebody do that for them.”

For Mothersbaugh, the message he most wants to convey is: “If you have anyone that you know who’s in ICU with COVID, contact them and keep them in touch with the outside world, because it’s easy to lose track of where you are and why you are. I had no idea I was on a ventilator for 10 days. Time meant nothing.”

Greenspan said that when the nurses finally removed the ventilator tube from her husband’s mouth, the first thing he said was, “Has anybody seen my glasses?”

Nearly two months after being discharged, the TikTokkers are gone and Mothersbaugh is back at work. He says he’s still feeling a few fading after-effects. Holding out his left hand, which is trembling slightly, he described “a little thing with my nerves.” Worse, though, is the overall physical toll, which he described as “creepy.”

“Before COVID, I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m starting to feel about 50 now, and I’m 70.’ When I was in the hospital, I was feeling like I was about 90. And now I’m back to 70, and I’m trying to get back to 50. That’s my goal.”

He says he’s been recovering by completing a visual art project he’s spent decades working on, one involving his long history in postcard art. In collaboration with artist Beatie Wolfe, Mothersbaugh has launched Postcards for Democracy, which the two describe as “a demonstration to support the 225-year-old U.S. Postal Service and the right to vote.” The aim is to help fund the Postal Service in advance of the November election.

Sighing through his face mask, Mothersbaugh said, “I remember at the end of 2019 talking to somebody and saying, ‘You know, I think 2020 is going to be a whole lot better.’ It kind of cracks me up to think about now.”

He added, with a hint of feigned enthusiasm, “We’re all getting to live through a pandemic. Who would have thought?”

###

Original source: ComicBook.com.

On This Day in 2003: Rugrats: All Grown Up Premiered on Nickelodeon

On This Day in 2003: Rugrats: All Grown Up Premiered on Nickelodeon


On this day 17 years ago, All Grown Up premiered on Nick! 17 years later and we’re still rocking out to this theme song! Whose grown up transformation was your favorite?

All Grown Up! was a spinoff based of Rugrats based on the 10th anniversary episode "All Growed Up." It premiered on April 12th, 2003 as the highest-rated premiere in Nickelodeon history (at the time) and ran for 55 episodes over 5 seasons. The theme tune is sung by Cree Summer, who voiced Susie Carmichael on both Rugrats and All Grown Up!.

Check out Nickelodeon's On This Day and Remember When Facebook pages to find out awesome Nick moments from every era throughout Nickelodeon history!

Watch all your ‘80s, ‘90s, and ‘00s Nickelodeon favorites on NickRewind, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! NickSplat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night on TeenNick USA, and anytime you want on NickSplat on VRV, Nick Pluto TV, NickHits on Amazon Prime Video Channels and Nick on CBS All Access!

Like NickRewind on Facebook, subscribe to the NickRewind YouTube channel and follow NickRewind on Twitter and Instagram for exclusive digital content from all of your throwback favorites like Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, iCarly, Victorious, Kenan & Kel, CatDog, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life, The Amanda Show, Clarissa Explains It All, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and so much more!

Join Nickelodeon's official I Was A Nick Kid Facebook Group!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/IWasANickKid/

More Nick: Nickelodeon and Paramount to Bring 'Rugrats' Back for the Next Generation of Kids with an All-New TV Series!

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon, NickRewind, Rugrats and All Grown Up! News and Highlights!

On This Day in 2003 | Rugrats: All Grown Up Premiered on Nickelodeon

On This Day in 2003 | Rugrats: All Grown Up Premiered on Nickelodeon


On this day 16 years ago, All Grown Up! premiered on Nickelodeon!

Nicktoons Facts: All Grown Up! was a spinoff based of Rugrats based on the 10th anniversary episode "All Growed Up." It premiered on April 12th, 2003 as the highest-rated premiere in Nickelodeon history (at the time) and ran for 55 episodes over 5 seasons. The theme tune is sung by Cree Summer, who voiced Susie Carmichael on both Rugrats and All Grown Up!.

Who's grown up transformation was your favorite?

Check out Nickelodeon's On This Day and Remember When Facebook pages to find out awesome Nick moments from every era throughout Nickelodeon history!

Watch all your ‘80s, ‘90s, and ‘00s Nickelodeon favorites on NickRewind, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! NickSplat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 11 PM ET/PT on TeenNick USA, and anytime you want on NickSplat on VRV!

Like NickRewind on Facebook, subscribe to the NickRewind YouTube channel and follow NickRewind on Twitter and Instagram for exclusive digital content from all of your throwback favorites like Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, iCarly, Victorious, Kenan & Kel, CatDog, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life, The Amanda Show, Clarissa Explains It All, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and so much more!

More Nick: Nickelodeon and Paramount to Bring 'Rugrats' Back for the Next Generation of Kids with an All-New TV Series and Feature Film!

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Classic Nickelodeon, NickRewind, Rugrats and All Grown Up! News and Highlights!

Meet the Voice Behind 'Rugrats' Susie Carmichael | Great Big Story

Cree Summer is a lot of things. She’s a mother, an artist, an actress—and, she’s the voice of your childhood. As the vocal force behind characters, such as Susie Carmichael from Rugrats and All Grown Up!, Miranda on As Told By Ginger, Tiff on My Life as a Teenage Robot, Penny from Inspector Gadget, and Elymyra from Tiny Toon Adventures, Cree has made a career bringing some of your favorite cartoons to life. In an industry that doesn’t boast a lot of diversity on or off screen, characters like Susie Carmichael and people like Cree are especially important. Historically, white voice actors would provide the voices for all characters, regardless of race or background. Today, thanks to the work of Cree and others, cartoons are beginning to better represent the kids that look to them for a little bit of guidance and a whole lot of unadulterated joy.

Great Big Story would like to say thank-you to their guest editor this week, Yvonne Orji. Check her out in Insecure,” Sundays at 10:30 P.M. on HBO.

This story is a part of Great Big Story's Human Condition series. Come along and let them connect you to some of the most peculiar, stirring, extraordinary, and distinctive people in the world!

Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on NickSplat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! NickSplat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 11 PM ET/PT on TeenNick USA, and anytime you want on NickSplat on VRV! #NickSplat!

More Nick: Nickelodeon and Paramount to Bring 'Rugrats' Back for the Next Generation of Kids with an All-New TV Series and Feature Film!

H/T: tiogapublishing.com; Additional source: IMDb.

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and NickSplat News and Highlights!

On This Day | 'All Growed Up' Premieres | Nickelodeon

On this day 17 YEARS AGO, we got our first peek at the Rugrats in the special All Growed Up!:


Remember when we got our first peek at the Rugrats All Grown Up?

Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on NickSplat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! NickSplat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 11 PM ET/PT, only on TeenNick USA! #NickSplat!

More Nick: Nickelodeon and Paramount to Bring Rugrats Back for the Next Generation of Kids with an All-New TV Series and Feature Film!

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon, Rugrats and All Grown Up! News and Highlights!

ALL GROWN UP! Theme - Saturday Morning Acapella | Triforcefilms

In their latest addition to Triforcefilms' "Saturday Morning A Capella" playlist, Mr. Dooves performs a a capella version of Nickelodeon's All Grown Up! theme song, which you can watch in the awesome music video below!:



Original Composer - Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh

Nicktoons Facts: All Grown Up! was a spinoff based of Rugrats based on the 10th anniversary episode "All Growed Up." It premiered on April 12th, 2003 as the highest-rated premiere in Nickelodeon history (at the time) and ran for 55 episodes over 5 seasons. The theme tune is sung by Cree Summer, who voiced Susie Carmichael on both Rugrats and All Grown Up!.

Sing along with the lyrics below!:

4...3...2...1...!

Every birthday, my mom and dad would say
You're another year older, another year wiser
But I still go to school to get an education
I treat each and every day like a mini vacation!

All Grown Up!
I really wanna shout it out!

All Grown Up!
I want the world to know!
All Grown Up!
I really wanna shout it out!

All Grown Up with you
All Grown Up... with... you!

###

Follow Mr. Dooves and Triforcefilms on Twitter!

Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on NickSplat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! NickSplat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 11 PM ET/PT, only on TeenNick USA! #NickSplat!

More Nick: SDCC 'Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling' Sneak Peek | Rocko's Modern Life | Nickelodeon!

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Holidays on Nickelodeon and Rugrats News and Highlights!

Rugrats - Then Vs Now - Evolution of Rugrats (Tooned Up S5 E41) | Channel Frederator

Rugrats was one of the first cartoons that helped usher in a new era at Nickelodeon and has been one of the most popular cartoons to come out of the 90's. With several Rugrats movies and spin-offs over the years, a TON has changed!! Which is why Channel Frederator is comparing Rugrats in THEN VS. NOW!



Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on NickSplat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! NickSplat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 11 PM ET/PT, only on TeenNick USA! #NickSplat!

More Nick: 'Rugrats' Season 3 & Season 4 DVD Sets Announced For "Wide" General Release On Tuesday 6th February 2018!

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and Rugrats News and Highlights!

Lil Stands Up For Phil | All Grown Up | NickSplat

Lil DeVille comes to the realization that her brother might actually be "cool." Watch her defend Phil in this exciting clip!:



Clip from All Grown Up episode "Coup DeVille".

More Nick: Mill Creek Entertainment To Release 90s Nickelodeon Series "The Secret World Of Alex Mack" In Its Entirety On DVD On 8/1!

Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on NickSplat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! NickSplat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 10pm ET/PT, only on TeenNick USA! #NickSplat!

More NickSplat: Cardcaptors | Intro with Lyrics | #NickSplat | #TBT | Nickelodeon UK!

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and NickSplat News and Highlights!

Nickelodeon USA Announces The Launch of Nick Sr.

Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids and families, has today announced the launch of a brand-new Nickelodeon channel called Nick Sr.!

Nick Sr., scheduled to launch later today, will feature a wide range of programming featuring an emphasis on the issues which are important to the older generation.

Nick Sr. will channel share with Nick Jr. and will broadcast between the hours of 5:00pm and 10:00pm ET/PT everyday.

Nick Snr. will also be the home of Nickelodeon's brand-new original animated series Ol'Bob SquarePants and Even More All Grown Up!. A spin-off from megahit SpongeBob SquarePants, Ol'Bob OldPants will feature the popular residents of Bikini Bottom in their senior years. In Even More All Grown Up!, a spin-off from Rugrats and All Grown Up!, Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica and the Rugrats gang are back in all new misadventures!

In the debut episode of Ol'Bob SquarePants, 'Retirement Sponge', it's the eve of SpongeBob's long overdue retirement from the Krusty Krab, but Mr. Krabs doesn't want to pay SpongeBob a pension, so thinks of plans to keep SpongeBob working at the diner. Then, SpongeBob and Patrick try to fix Squidward's chairlift with disastrous results in 'Rocket Squid', and in 'Tired Squid', Squidward's plans to relax at Shady Shoals are threatened when SpongeBob & Patrick turn up and nearly get him kicked out!

To compliment the schedule, Nickelodeon has also acquired the format rights to the hit BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, with a US remake slated for broadcast later this year.

Nick Sr. USA follows the successful launch of Nick Jr. Sr.:



Check out Nick USA's Nick Sr. launch trailer below!:



Introducing a brand new network from the creators of Nickelodeon, Teennick and Nick Jr... It's Nick Sr! The only channel where you can hang with elderly characters, kids dressed as elderly characters and REAL old people! Gotcha! But you CAN catch more SpongeBob SquarePants, The Thundermans, Henry Danger, The Loud House and Game Shakers on Nickelodeon. And be sure to tune into Nick Sr... NEVER!

Additional source: ToonZone Forums member superkeegan9100.

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and Nick Sr. News and Highlights!

Chuckie Copies his Butt | All Grown Up! | Susie Sings the Blues | Too Cool For School | The Splat

What happened to sweet ol' Chuckie? Did he really have to resort to copying his buttocks to feel bold?:



Scene from episode All Grown Up! episode "Susie Sings the Blues".

More The Splat: Rugrats And Other Classic Nickelodeon Shows Could Make A Comeback!

Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on The Splat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! The Splat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 10pm ET/PT, only on TeenNick USA! #TheSplat!

Additional source: Rugrats Wiki.

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and The Splat News and Highlights!

Whitewater Rafting Trouble | All Grown Up | Extreme Splat | The Splat

Whitewater rafting doesn't look too good for Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Betty, and Chaz. Watch them tough it out in this thrilling video clip from All Grown Up! episode "River Rats"!:



More Nick: Episode 4: Arlene Klasky of Klasky Csupo | Nickelodeon Animation Podcast!

Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on The Splat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! The Splat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 10pm ET/PT, only on TeenNick USA! #TheSplat!

More #NickAnimation25: "All Grown Up!" Theme Song (HQ) | Episode Opening Credits | Nick Animation 25!

Additional source: All grown Up Wiki.

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and The Splat News and Highlights!

"All Grown Up!" Theme Song (HQ) | Episode Opening Credits | Nick Animation 25

4..3..2..1.. Watch the original theme song and opening credits of All Grown Up! as part of Nickelodeon's 25 Years of Animation celebration! Sing along with the lyrics below!:



Nicktoons Facts: All Grown Up! was a spinoff based of Rugrats based on the 10th anniversary episode "All Growed Up." It premiered on April 12th, 2003 as the highest-rated premiere in Nickelodeon history (at the time) and ran for 55 episodes over 5 seasons. The theme tune is sung by Cree Summer, who voiced Susie Carmichael on both Rugrats and All Grown Up!.

All Grown Up! theme song lyrics:

4...3...2...1...!

Every birthday, my mom and dad would say
You're another year older, another year wiser
But I still go to school to get an education
I treat each and every day like a mini vacation!

All Grown Up!
I really wanna shout it out!

All Grown Up!
I want the world to know!
All Grown Up!
I really wanna shout it out!

All Grown Up with you
All Grown Up... with... you!

More Nick Animation 25: "Rugrats" Theme Song - Episode Opening Credits - Nickelodeon's 25 Years of Animation Celebration!

Check out the official 25 Years of Nickelodeon Animation Tumblr blog for more fantastic Nickelodeon memories, and remember to watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on The Splat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows!

Additional sources: LyricWikia, Wikipedia.

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon's 25 Years of Animation News and Highlights!

The "Rugrats" Diaper Commercial - The Splat

Tommy Pickles and Chuckie Finster can go #2 and still be #1. And now, so can you! And now, introducing all-new Adult Diapers - why should kids have all the fun?



Watch The Splat every night from 10:00pm ET/PT on TeenNick USA! #TheSplat!

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and The Splat News and Highlights!

Angelica Pickles Is 3 Going On 13 - Movie Trailer - "Rugrats"

Angelica Pickles couldn't stand being a baby. Until she made one wish that would change everything...



The following preview has been approved for speaking infants. The film advertised has been rated NR - Not Real. #RugratsAllGrownUp

Watch The Splat every night from 10:00pm ET/PT on TeenNick USA! #TheSplat!

---

Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and The Splat News and Highlights!