All Growed Up

"All Growed Up"
Rugrats episodes
Rugrats "All Growed Up" VHS Cover
Episode nos.Season 7
Episodes 13 and 14
Directed by
  • Louie Del Carmen
  • Jim Duffy
Written by
Cinematography byNinky Harley
Original air dateJuly 21, 2001 (2001-07-21)
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"All Growed Up" is a special episode of Rugrats and the pilot episode to the spin-off series All Grown Up! that aired on July 21, 2001, on Nickelodeon, to celebrate the series' tenth anniversary. The special serves as the 13th and 14th episodes of the seventh season of Rugrats, and the 143rd and 144th episodes of the series overall. The episode's premise was to focus on what the babies' lives would be like if they were ten years older.[1] The episode proved to be popular enough for a series based on it to be made.[2]

The episode was directed by Louie Del Carmen and Jim Duffy, and written by Kate Boutilier and Eryk Casemiro. In its original American broadcast, the episode was watched by 11.913 viewers,[3] making it the most-watched telecast in Nickelodeon's history.

  1. ^ Shattuck, Kathryn (July 15, 2001). "FOR YOUNG VIEWERS; TV's No. 1 Babies Celebrate Their 10th Birthday". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
  2. ^ Graeber, Laurel (August 22, 2004). "FOR YOUNG VIEWERS; Queen of Mean Turns 13: How Unlucky Is That?". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
  3. ^ "Ouch! WB takes hit in summer viewers". December 4, 2002. Archived from the original on 2002-12-04.