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== [[Fridge Horror]] ==

* If the [[Nostalgia Filter]] hasn't fully fogged up your vision of past cable cartoons, try watching ''[[Rugrats]]'' now in a world where everyone is much more careful when it comes to the safety of children. [[Social Services Does Not Exist|Shudder at the many instances of neglect. Gasp at the fact that the only thing saving the babies from being crushed, burned, exposed to the elements, abducted, starved, eaten, cut to ribbons, or permanently traumatized was dumb luck or their dim-bulb parents eventually realizing they were missing.]] It's like the Nickelodeon execs said, "You know, ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' was too gross and bizarre and ''[[Doug]]'''s too boring. [[Humans Are Bastards|Maybe kids will get a kick out of child neglect and psychological trauma, but we'll hide it under a veneer of adventure and comedy so the]] [[Moral Guardians]] [[Humans Are Bastards|won't get on our asses about it. Then, we'll run it into the ground for ten years and make]] [[All Grown Up|a spin-off]]!" I mean, what would've happened if the parents were too late in realizing where the babies were whenever they went off somewhere? One must also consider the many instances in which Angelica plays on the babies' naiveté and paranoia in order to torment/scare them, for fun or for profit. And considering this happened to them while they're still quite young, what negative effects could this have possibly had on their mental health?

* If the [[Nostalgia Filter]] hasn't fully fogged up your vision of past cable cartoons, try watching ''[[Rugrats]]'' now in a world where everyone is much more careful when it comes to the safety of children. [[Social Services Does Not Exist|Shudder at the many instances of neglect. Gasp at the fact that the only thing saving the babies from being crushed, burned, exposed to the elements, abducted, starved, eaten, cut to ribbons, or permanently traumatized was dumb luck or their dim-bulb parents eventually realizing they were missing.]] It's like the Nickelodeon execs said, "You know, ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' was too gross and bizarre and ''[[Doug]]'''s too boring. [[Humans Are Bastards|Maybe kids will get a kick out of child neglect and psychological trauma, but we'll hide it under a veneer of adventure and comedy so the]] [[Moral Guardians]] [[Humans Are Bastards|won't get on our asses about it. Then, we'll run it into the ground for ten years and make]] [[All Grown Up!|a spin-off]]!" I mean, what would've happened if the parents were too late in realizing where the babies were whenever they went off somewhere? One must also consider the many instances in which Angelica plays on the babies' naiveté and paranoia in order to torment/scare them, for fun or for profit. And considering this happened to them while they're still quite young, what negative effects could this have possibly had on their mental health?

** The episode "Chuckie's Wonderful Life" shows that without Chuckie, Chaz is a mess, living alone in his house surrounded by empty pizza boxes and talking to a sock puppet. It gets worse when you realize that his wife (Chuckie's mother) died of an unmentioned disease (according to the Mother's Day special episode). And since Chaz doesn't have a kid, he wouldn't be as close to the other parents and therefore would have no friends to help him through his wife's illness and his own mental breakdown.

*** All Grown Up (thankfully) fixed this, but imagine somebody as borderline sociopathic as [[Enfante Terrible|Angelica]] as a teenager or even an adult.