All Grown Up!

All Grown Up!
Also known as	'Rugrats: All Grown Up! (in Australia)
Genre	Family comedy[1] Animated sitcom Coming of age
Created by	Arlene Klasky Gábor Csupó
Developed by	Kate Boutilier Eryk Casemiro Monica Piper
Written by	Kate Boutilier Shelia M. Anthony Monica Piper Eryk Casemiro Scott Gray Erin Ehrlich Peter Hunziker Joe Purdy
Directed by	Andrei Svislotski Zhenia Delioussine Ron Noble Louie del Carmen Jim Duffy (III)
Creative director(s)	Michael Daedalus Kenny Jim Duffy
Voices of	E.G. Daily Christine Cavanaugh (pilot) Nancy Cartwright Kath Soucie Cheryl Chase Tara Strong Cree Summer Dionne Quan
Theme music composer	Mark Mothersbaugh Bob Mothersbaugh
Opening theme	"All Grown Up with You" by Cree Summer
Ending theme	All Grown Up with You (Instrumental) Phil & Lil's TV show song ("Coup DeVille" Only) Susie's song ("Susie Sings the Blues" Only)
Composer(s)	Bob Mothersbaugh
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	55 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Arlene Klasky Gabor Csupo Eryk Casemiro
Producer(s)	Jim Duffy Cella Nichols Harris Pemelle Hayes Kate Boutilier
Editor(s)	Kate Boutilier
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	23 minutes
Production company(s)	Klasky Csupo Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon
Picture format	NTSC
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	April 12, 2003 (2003-04-12) – August 17, 2008 (2008-08-17)
Chronology
Preceded by	Rugrats
Related shows	Rugrats Pre-School Daze

All Grown Up! is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó for Nickelodeon. It is a spinoff of Rugrats, and takes place about ten years after the original series where the characters are now pre-teen to teenage.^[2] Tommy, Dil, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi, Angelica, and Susie now have to deal with teenage and pre-teen issues and situations.

After the success of All Growed Up, the Rugrats 10th anniversary special, Nickelodeon commissioned All Grown Up! as a spin-off series based on the episode.^[3] The series ran from 2003 to 2008 with a total of five seasons and 55 episodes. Reruns aired for a time on Nicktoons, and currently air on TeenNick's block The Splat since 2015.

Production

Production of the show began in 2000. The pilot episode, All Growed Up, aired in 2001 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rugrats. Nickelodeon was so impressed by the high ratings it wound up achieving, with more than 12 million viewers tuning in to the special,^[4] that it wound up commissioning an entire series revolving around the teen-aged main characters. Production for the series later began in September 2002, under the pilot's name; however Nickelodeon insisted that the program go with the more grammatically correct title All Grown Up instead, especially since the characters in the special used more grammatically correct words. During summer 2003, teasers for All Grown Up aired. However, the scenes shown were not clips from actual episodes of the show.

At the time, this was not the only spinoff of Rugrats under consideration.

In 2002, Nickelodeon aired the episode Pre-School Daze,^[5] the proposed pilot to a series in which characters Angelica and Susie attend pre-school (the program ultimately aired in the UK in 2005, and then made its North American debut, long after the original series had been cancelled, in 2008.)

Another proposed spinoff was a series featuring Susie and the Carmichael family, who would've moved from Anytown, California to Atlanta, Georgia in the new series; it was first proposed for the 1999-2000 television season, but with Nick and Klasky-Csupo deciding to concentrate on all the original-aged Rugrats, all together, that concept was shelved. The Kwanzaa special, which aired in 2001, had served as a pilot for this new series, but some felt that the (ultimately rejected) series would've gotten against logical rules due to the combined production of the earlier two series.^[6]

The show premiered on April 12, 2003, as a preview before starting its regular run in late November 2003. When the series did start its regular run, more than 3.2 million viewers tuned in, enough to put it into the 2nd place slot for the week (behind an NFL game on ESPN) and making it the highest-rated premiere in Nickelodeon's history at the time. (The April sneak peek did not make the top 15 cable programs for that week, due to the ongoing war in Iraq.) It aired on Nick on CBS on September 18, 2004, and ended on September 17, 2005. The original titles for this series were All Growed Up! and Rugrats: All Growed Up!.

In addition, in its first season, All Grown Up! had its first of two celebrity guest stars: Lil Romeo as "Lil Q" (Cupid) in episode 11, "It's Cupid, Stupid".^[7]

Beginning in Season 4, the show would be put on hiatus numerous times between 2005-2008. The first began on October 10, 2005. The second began on November 25, 2006. And the final one began on November 30, 2007. The show aired on Nicktoons from September 23, 2005 to October 28, 2013.

In early 2007, All Grown Up! was removed from the Nickelodeon schedule in the United States. Although it later returned, no new episodes have been produced since 2008.

Nickelodeon US aired most of the final season of All Grown Up! from November 12, 2007, through November 30, 2007. The final three episodes aired on August 3, 2008, August 10, 2008, and August 17, 2008.

Characters

• Tommy Pickles

Tommy Pickles is the elder brother of Dil Pickles, he is now a pre-teen with a full head of hair. He is often the leader of the pack. Many years ago, he once fell into the river water but his grandpa Lou got him out quickly but this experience affected Tommy, causing him to have a fear of water. He also has an interest in film making. His friends still look up to him for help and advice whenever the situation gets out of control.

• Chuckie Finster

Chuckie is Tommy's best friend and Kimi's stepbrother. Chuckie still is shy and timid, although he has a "rebellious streak" at times. He and Tommy are known to cause havoc at school, angering their vice principal. He gets gross tendencies.

• Dil Pickles

Dil Pickles is Tommy Pickles' younger brother and has inherited his father's interest in inventing. Dil is known as his unconventional interests and beliefs (especially in aliens).

• Phil and Lil DeVille

Phil and Lil are good friends of Tommy, Chuckie and Dil. Phil still has gross tendencies, although Lil has matured and picked up interests in fashion and boys. Both of them played soccer at some point in the series.

• Angelica Pickles

Angelica is the cousin of Tommy and Dil, now a teenager and is still jealous of Susie. Although she still tends to be self-serving and bossy toward her younger cousins and their friends, she has mellowed as she got older.

• Susie Carmichael

Susie Carmichael is Angelica's close friend. Also a teenager, Susie is still known to be helpful and kind to her younger friends. She has a talent for singing.

• Kimi Finster

Kimi Finster is Chuckie's younger step-sister. While she lives with her mother Kira and step-father Chas, she has a good relationship with her biological father, Hiro, who lives in Japan. She also has a half-sibling through her father and step-mother.

Episodes

Merchandise

VHS and DVD releases

A total of twelve All Grown Up! DVDs have been released:

Nick Picks

• Nick Picks Volume 1: Lucky 13
• Nick Picks Volume 2: Interview With A Campfire
• Nick Picks Volume 3: Dude Where's My Horse
• Nick Picks Volume 4: R.V. Having Fun Yet
• Nick Picks Holiday: The Finster Who Stole Christmas

Books

There are a range of All Grown Up! books published:

• Ask Angelica!
• Whats With Dad?
• Chuckie's Ghost
• Cookie Crisis!
• It's About Time
• The Scavenger Hunt
• Welcome to Fifth Grade!
• Boys vs Girls
• Angelica for President
• Coolest Girl In School

References

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to: All Grown Up!

• All Grown Up! at the Internet Movie Database
• All Grown Up! at TV.com
• All Grown Up at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012.