Rugrats

Rugrats is an animated series, produced by Klasky-Csupo, Inc. for Nickelodeon. The show is about how babies view life and perceive the events happening around them. Each rugrat is characterized by his or her own individual personality quirk.

Setting

The series has a very vague setting. It has been shown that the Rugrats, as it is probably assumed, live in the United States, but the name of a specific city or state is never mentioned. The best guess as to which region of the country in which the series takes place is somewhere in the southwest, since the family has taken trips to both the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas, and Stu once mentioned "driving through the desert" while returning home from a one-day trip. There have also been several scenes of desert or arid land around the area where the Rugrats live.

Related Topics:
United States - Grand Canyon - Las Vegas

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It is also unclear what type of community the characters live in; it could be a small city or a suburb of a larger city. This ambiguity in the setting was probably done intentionally to help give the impression of seeing the world through the naive eyes of toddlers.

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One episode does however show they live somewhere in California due to the license plate shown on Grandpa's station wagon. Also in the episode Special Delivery, a post office has the state's bear flag in front of it.

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Their whereabouts in California are probably in the locus of Oakland. In one episode, painters remark that black and silver, Raiders colors are awesome.

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In another episode in the first season, Didi is shown teaching at a high school in Yucaipa, an actual town about 70 miles east of Los Angeles. It does seem to snow in the wintertime, as in the episode where the babies play in the snow and pretend to go to the north pole.

Related Topics:
Yucaipa - Los Angeles

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However, in The Rugrats Movie, it is implied that the family lives close to Interstate 99, so the setting could also be somewhere in central Pennsylvania. This could be a script or drawing goof, as California has a state California State Route 99 serving the east side of the San Joaquin Valley.

Related Topics:
Interstate 99 - Pennsylvania - California State Route 99 - San Joaquin Valley

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