When is rugrats coming back

The first Rugrats Shorts debuted on May 14, on Nickelodeon. Additional episodes were released on October 7. In early September , it was announced on Variety that Nickelodeon may "seek to experiment with retooled versions of classics" that could include Rugrats.

On August 8, , two of Rugrats ' three creators stated that they agreed there was definitely a way to bring the baby adventures of Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica back — although they differ on how.

Co-creator Paul Germain says it's a possibility if Nickelodeon is so inclined. The hitch here is Germain, who was largely the creative voice of Rugrats once it went to series, left after the original order of 65 episodes. I thought they lost the spirit of it. I think the way to go [for a reboot] would be to take it back to where it was. I don't know if we could really do that, but that's what I would like to see.

I think it's possible. Germain says he'd rather keep a Rugrats reboot as a time capsule. Cell phones can be interesting, but technology has a funny way of making it very difficult to write around because people are always in constant communication with each other in a way that works against drama. It takes a really fun writers' obstacle away and makes it too easy. Besides the animation, not much has changed — Angelica is still bossing Chuckie around and coming up with schemes.

The original Rugrats series launched in August of and was in production for nine seasons over the course of 13 years, with the final episode airing in Rugrats spawned the sequel series All Grown Up! The movie was pulled the next year and the series was delayed in , so a spring release seems more promising than ever.

Tommy Pickles, in case you were wondering, would be in his 30s now. So would Angelica, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Susie, and all the other Rugrats alumni—except for those who would be even older still. You might think this is beside the point. That is, assuming you missed the extremely cursed aughts follow-up, Rugrats: All Grown Up! Daily as the plucky Tommy and Nancy Cartwright as a still-cowardly Chuckie.

But while the show may have hit the big , no such time has passed for its characters: The babies remain babies, the toddlers remain toddlers, and the terminally uncool something parents remain all of the above.

But I bring up the temporal gap for a reason. While Tommy is still in diapers, the new Rugrats has shifted ahead to the present. Make no mistake—this show is aimed squarely at its now grown-up millennial audience. Well, kind of. Which is to say that the Pickles family, or at least corporate parent ViacomCBS, sure hopes you have kids by now.

Maybe you do, and you can park your mini-me under your own personal nostalgia blast and recoil at how familiar all the set pieces—that pink stucco house, the diamond baby gate, the terrible depilated Cynthia doll—still are.