A Rugrats Creator Has Finally Revealed What Happened To Chuckie's ...

Any self-respecting Rugrats fan – which turned 25 this week – will know that the flame-haired toddler Chuckie never had a mother on the show.

After all, who can forget Chuckie having no one to dance with during Rugrats In Paris?

In later years it was revealed that she had died but for the first half of the show, it was just Chuckie and his dad – and no mention ever of a mum.

But now Rugrats co-creator Paul Germain has revealed the mystery surrounding Chuckie’s mum, admitting that at first they just decided not to have an extra character.

‘We developed the baby crew, and we developed Chuckie, and then we thought, “This kid magically appears at the house, but where are his parents?” So we thought, let’s do Chuckie’s dad – but we decided not to do a mom. We just didn’t want an extra character there.

‘But why? Why would there not be a mom? By the second or third season, we were saying, “What actually happened to Chuckie’s mom?”‘

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Paul added that they considered making Chuckie’s parents divorced but the network, Nickelodeon, were not happy with that idea claiming it was ‘too heavy a subject’.

That only left the option for his mother to be dead but the channel were definitely not on board with that idea.

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‘If you watch the first 65 half-hours of Rugrats, they never mention Chuckie’s mom – or if they do, it’s a tease,’ said Paul.

We mention that she exists but we don’t tell you what happened to her. We even made a joke out of it in one episode. But we weren’t allowed to go into the subject.’

However later in the series when the original writers left and the show had moved to primetime, the show runners decided it was time to deal with the subject of death – something Paul was not happy about.

He said: ‘They did a whole thing about Chuckie’s mom, and that she died, this whole very maudlin thing.

‘I just sat there thinking, “We weren’t allowed to do this, and now you guys are doing it.” That’s something I regret.’

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