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Also known as | Rugrats: All Grown Up! |
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Opening theme | "All Grown Up with You" by Cree Summer |
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Composer(s) | Bob Mothersbaugh |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 55 (list of episodes) |
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Editor(s) | Kate Boutilier |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 23 minutes |
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Distributor | CBS Television Distribution |
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Original network | Nickelodeon |
Picture format | NTSC |
Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Original release | April 12, 2003 | – August 17, 2008
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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. 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. 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.
The idea originated in All Growed Up, a special which aired in 2001 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rugrats. Nickelodeon was so impressed by the high ratings it achieved, with more than 12 million viewers tuning into the special, that it commissioned an entire series revolving around the teenage main characters. Production for the series later began in September 2002, under the pilot's name; however, Nickelodeon insisted that the program goes 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, 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.