“A Rugrats Chanukah” is the first episode of the show’s fourth season and the sixty-sixth overall. It tells the story of the Jewish holiday through the eyes of the Rugrats, who imagine themselves as the main characters. It attracted controversy when the Anti-Defamation League compared the character designs to anti-Semitic drawings from a 1930s Nazi newspaper. It has been described as “the most memorable episode of Rugrats so far”
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“A Rugrats Chanukah” is the first episode of the show’s fourth season and the sixty-sixth overall. It tells the story of the Jewish holiday through the eyes of the Rugrats, who imagine themselves as the main characters. The episode received a Nielsen rating of 7. 9 and positive reviews from television critics. It attracted controversy when the Anti-Defamation League compared the character designs to anti-Semitic drawings from a 1930s Nazi newspaper. It was the first animated television series to produce a special for a Jewish holiday and the first in the U.S. to do so since Christmas specials were introduced in the 1970s and 1980s. “Rugrats” is one of the most popular children’s television shows on Nickelodeon, followed by “Sesame Street” and “Scooby-Doo” It is the only Rugrats episode to have been made into a movie, with the second to be made into an animated short, “The Rugrats Movie”, which was released in 1998.
It is also one of only two Rugrats episodes to feature a character from a different religion, the other being “Sleeping Beauty” (the other was “Snoopy-Doll” in “Sneaky Pete” in 1998). The episode was directed by Raymie Muzquiz and written by David Stem and David Weiss, who converted to Judaism and wrote the teleplay for a home video version of the episode in July 1997. It has been described as “the most memorable episode of Rugrats so far” and has been compared to “The Little Engine That Could” by some critics.
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