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Show: Rugrats
Episode: S2 E22b
Year: 1993
Writer(s): Lisa Latham
Director(s): Jim Duffy
This episode is just baffling mainly because it gets everything wrong where “The Slide” got everything right. AND THEY AIRED DIRECTLY NEXT TO EACH OTHER! Stu's fear of the high dive is weirdly treated half seriously and half for laughs. If you want to do a story like this, you have to pick one or the other, preferably treating it seriously because a lot of people have acrophobia. If you treat a very serious and rational fear for laughs, then you're just a dick. In “The Slide”, Chuckie was being pressured by both Susie and Angelica to both succumb and get over his fear until he conquered it by himself. Here, Stu is just an idiot, completely forgetting his fear until he gets to the top of the high dive because Howard and Chas are halfhearted about his high dive incident.
I'd also like to bring up the most disturbing scene of the episode where, trying to get the babies swimming lessons, Didi, the DeVilles and Chas, by instruction of the counselor, TRY TO DROWN their babies by dunking them repeatedly into the water in order to have them "become one with the water." WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!? Parents, if you want to teach your baby to swim, you DO NOT dunk them whole bodied into the water even if it's knee deep; you dip them up to their waists and be very careful with them, don't SLAM them like a basketball!
People often call the scene where Lil accidentally locks Betty and Didi into the sauna and turns it all the way up too mean spirited. …What? Compared to most of the episode? No, after that display, the bitches deserved a little 7 minutes in HELL! Plus, Lil didn't do it by intention. Though ultimately, Stu does overcome his fear and saves Tommy and his friends from nearly drowning in the big pool. It's a saving grace, but it doesn't really excuse most of the episode; still, it is nice to see something awesome happen, and seeing Betty and Didi red as lobsters near out of breath is somewhat cathartic.
Cringe-Inducing Audio: 0
Crunge-Inducing Visuals: 3
Lauckluster Writing: 3
Annoyance: 0
Disturbing Content (out of place): 5
Unnecessary Cruelty: 4
Rancid Morals: 0
Low Production Values: 2
Unfortunate Implications: 4
Character Derailment: 5
Final Score: 26/100
Rugrats is owned by Nickelodeon, Viacom and Klasky-Csupo.
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Episode: S2 E22b
Year: 1993
Writer(s): Lisa Latham
Director(s): Jim Duffy
This episode is just baffling mainly because it gets everything wrong where “The Slide” got everything right. AND THEY AIRED DIRECTLY NEXT TO EACH OTHER! Stu's fear of the high dive is weirdly treated half seriously and half for laughs. If you want to do a story like this, you have to pick one or the other, preferably treating it seriously because a lot of people have acrophobia. If you treat a very serious and rational fear for laughs, then you're just a dick. In “The Slide”, Chuckie was being pressured by both Susie and Angelica to both succumb and get over his fear until he conquered it by himself. Here, Stu is just an idiot, completely forgetting his fear until he gets to the top of the high dive because Howard and Chas are halfhearted about his high dive incident.
I'd also like to bring up the most disturbing scene of the episode where, trying to get the babies swimming lessons, Didi, the DeVilles and Chas, by instruction of the counselor, TRY TO DROWN their babies by dunking them repeatedly into the water in order to have them "become one with the water." WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!? Parents, if you want to teach your baby to swim, you DO NOT dunk them whole bodied into the water even if it's knee deep; you dip them up to their waists and be very careful with them, don't SLAM them like a basketball!
People often call the scene where Lil accidentally locks Betty and Didi into the sauna and turns it all the way up too mean spirited. …What? Compared to most of the episode? No, after that display, the bitches deserved a little 7 minutes in HELL! Plus, Lil didn't do it by intention. Though ultimately, Stu does overcome his fear and saves Tommy and his friends from nearly drowning in the big pool. It's a saving grace, but it doesn't really excuse most of the episode; still, it is nice to see something awesome happen, and seeing Betty and Didi red as lobsters near out of breath is somewhat cathartic.
Cringe-Inducing Audio: 0
Crunge-Inducing Visuals: 3
Lauckluster Writing: 3
Annoyance: 0
Disturbing Content (out of place): 5
Unnecessary Cruelty: 4
Rancid Morals: 0
Low Production Values: 2
Unfortunate Implications: 4
Character Derailment: 5
Final Score: 26/100
Rugrats is owned by Nickelodeon, Viacom and Klasky-Csupo.
Animated Atrocities is from
Artisanking101
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You know when I frist saw this ep I was 3 and even I know the the parents did is wrong