A Rugrats Chanukah - Nick Knacks SPECIAL
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- čas přidán 23. 12. 2019
- There aren't many Hanukkah specials out there, but out of what there is, Rugrats just may have the gold standard. We discuss the show's relationship with Judaism, how A Rugrats Chanukah came to be, and see to just what the Anti-Defamation League was objecting to.
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As a Jew, I cannot tell you how much this special matters to me. It was like the premier of Black Panther. We just hadn't seen our holidays on TV in this way. The less said about the holiday armadillo, the better.
what about Tom Petty?
I’m Jewish, I didn’t watch the episode, I know about the story of Hanukkah, but it’s special to me.
Black characters existed before Black Panther.
I went to Catholic School in the 90's and my 1st grade teacher was weirded out at me knowing "so much" about Judaism, thanks to the Rugrats specials. I just thought the stories behind the holidays were very interesting after seeing these cartoons as a small child, and was telling everyone at school about them. She actually called up my mom and asked if we were Jewish. My mom said: "Well we have Jewish friends, but she learned it from TV. Why are you so concerned?" She didn't have a good answer. I'm agnostic now but thanks, Rugrats, for teaching so many of us to understand and respect other cultures.
Sounds like the sort of Catholic upbringing in my family, though I never really dig that deep into Judaism because of a TV special like this one, but finding out there were other faiths out there is something that did bewildered you at a young age.
How DARE you know so much about other cultures?!
@@ColinLooksBack Hi, Colin!
This is hilarious:)
If I had "known too much" about other religions as a kid, I don't think anyone would have been concerned. I wonder if your teacher thought you might convert to Judaism?
@@ladyvincenza I'm not sure. I mean, we were Catholic so there's a lot of overlap to begin with
Rugrats helped in educating a small town kid who lived primarily Christian area learn about different cultures. I remember an incident from when I was in 2nd grade. My teacher who was 100% about teaching us diverse cultures and different holidays once asked " What are the other two holidays are there in the Christmas season!?" I proudly rose my hand and proclaimed "Chanukah and Kwanzaa!" She was so proud of me but I didn't have the heart to tell her it was because I had watched the Rugrats specials. But thank you Rugrats! For a brief period I was seen as the smartest kid in class.
do you like Tom Petty?
I never understood why Angelica hated latkes! Latkes are a perk of having Jewish friends!
Seriously! Besides, who hates potatoes? lol
@@EvilPinkDragon I know! How could she hate potatoes when they are mashed or made into fries?!
I agree.They are really good! My guess is she was expecting traditional pancakes and when you expect one taste and get another, it's a little jarring.
@@ladyvincenza I had this happen with green olives and grapes it ruined olives for the longest time for me
Some people make latkes really poorly. I remember my father made them once and they were like 50% onion. They were awful.
Also I don't see any sour cream on that latke. That's kinda a crime.
Growing up Jewish I will be forever grateful for Nickelodeon for doing this and the Passover special too
While I certainly don't think that people within a group can't have internalized bigotry, I feel like it would've done the ADL well to look into who the showrunners were and to have discussed this with them before blasting them like this. Had they learned of the relatively large number of Jewish artists and writers behind the show, maybe instead of just condemning the franchise outright, they could've worked with the show to find ways to continue respectfully portraying Jewish culture and heritage (as I feel they were doing). Perhaps then the whole kerfuffle over that comic strip may have been avoided.
Stu is being so supportive. I love him.
Dangit I was hoping you’d review the Cynthia Holiday Extravaganza
I'm Jewish and, FWIW, I find this special much more interesting/funnier than most Xmas specials.
There's some irony in that Christmastime is the time of year when a Jewish holiday gets the most notice around here (the US).
It's not just Rugrats, most of Klasky Csupo's character designs aren't that appealing looking. Anyway, I agree it's a shame that we didn't get get more Jewish themed Rudrats episodes, but that we got any at all is a miracle on to itself. It would be nice get more specials like these revolving around Jewish holidays, and for the record I'm a Christian who became an atheist.
KC nickelodon animation is an acquired taste i feel and i can enjoy all of them still to this day cept as told by ginger, that one did nothing for me
Funny, I was just thinking about this one this morning. As a kid I watched it whenever it came on even though I wasn't (and still am not) Jewish. I didn't think much of it as a kid but looking back, this was pretty groundbreaking for a kid's cartoon.
Rugrats certainly had a thing for mixed families. I have a lot of respect for that and respect for Nickelodeon for giving them the ok to make it. Admittedly, I'm not Jewish myself, my mother's side is Catholic and my father's side is presbyterian, (I'm still Christian either way, though I don't go to church every Sunday any more, I keep a Bible on my book shelf for guidance) but I still found it interesting to learn of these traditions and holidays. Hanukkah itself and it's history I found fascinating as a kid, still do. Though darn Adam Sandler for keeping that song stuck in my head!
Anywho, Thanks for the video and I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays.
I was raised Catholic myself (presumably on both sides of my family). I often refer to that particular denomination of the Christian faith thanks to not only realizing why I represent the majority as far as holidays celebrated at the tail end of the year is concerned (at least in my respective area), but also realizing in retrospect some legitimate reasons for the episodes discussed in this review, though there are a few synagogues in my respective area that I happen to pass by on a regular basis.
We watched this at Baptist Sunday school when I was a little kid to learn those stories
It is an excellent episode and a good way to teach something they'd otherwise be bored by
i just remember sitting around the tv with my cousins on hanukkah and someone pulled out a tape of this. i really felt seen and represented watching it, especially as a kid with a jewish mom and a gentile dad.
As someone who watched all of your Animorphs video, this is the first non-Animorph video of yours I've seen, and that's only because I just finished watching "A Rugrats Chanukah." So this is the Nick Knack content you produce post-Animorphs. It's cool!
I always wondered as a kid why Drew and Charlotte let Angelica participate in all the Jewish Holidays seeing how they themselves were Christian. None the less, I never really saw a problem with them airing Jewish episodes when I was a kid. It didn’t bother me at all and felt cool to learn about someone else’s culture.
I mean they participated in Passover, makes sense since it’s so close to Easter. I feel they use here as a stand in for those that ignore the Jewish holidays or never give them a second glance given they are close to other Christian based holidays. I mean she understands by the end, but that’s the message. Understanding someone else’s traditions
A lot of Christianity is taken from Judaism (and Paganism and other traditions)
Yo, this is a good video. Can you review Rugrats Kwanzaa next holiday?
That was a good one.
Kwanzaa is not a real holiday.
This takes me back to 1996! Thanks!!
6:49 - that six seconds was the first image or sound I've seen of Weinerville whatsoever since 1997. I feel like I've lived too long.
7:45 - no Angelica, the real question is what bobo head adult served you that with no sour cream or applesauce.
Until this video I never really gave much thought to Hanukkah. Religion in general isn't much of a thing where I live, but especially not minority religions.
Either way, thank you for explaining some of the details of Hanukkah in this video!
Welp….. looks like I found my new marathon CZcams channel
from what knowledge i have my family isn't jewish but my mother did call me bubala when i was small and she loved jewish food her favorite was matza ball soup and latkes which i definitely couldn't agree with Angelica with. This episode and the passover episode were some of my favorite eps of Rugrats
Yes yes yes I watched this yesterday
In fighting stereotypes the ADL became one.
Happy everything to everybody.
The ADL complaints are so funny to me. As someone with Jewish family (my mom is Jewish) we all have very exaggerated features. The women in our are small and we’ve got big noses all around. I draw myself like that all the time. I see other Jewish people do the same which is why I love the designs of the grandparents in the show. I understand wanting to stop anti semitism before it can begin but I’d hate if someone were to take away from the funny and caricature-esque designs that were made
Great video! Just a small tip for your Hebrew pronunciation: Kaddish is pronounced more with an "ah" sound and Rosh Hashana is pronounced with the o being an "oh" sound and the a being an "ah" sound. The accent pattern sorta falls like Rosh Hashána although that looks really weird to write.
Came here to say this! Well put.
Happy Holidays to our Jewish friends. Take that Fox News.
I think Fox News must have a few Jewish friends... Ivanka Trump... Eric Cantor... uh...
@@ladyvincenza They're about as Jewish as that idiot in charge of the HUD is Black.
@@christopherb501 That's right. A Jew isn't a jew unless you approve, and if a Black steps out of line then they are not Black either. Do you hear the ridiculous hypocrisy?
Happy chinavirus anniversary. I'm guessing you'll blame fox news too...
😎saw this special when I was 12 in 1996 I also remember the Passover episode too
As a Jew I never liked the Chanukah special. I LOVED the passover special and still do to this day. Great video as always!
I thought you were my cousin. Anyways nice video and Happy Holidays.
Great vid, as someone who grew up with Rugrats I never saw this epsiode. Which is a fucking shame, I don't know if they didn't air it as much because of ADL or I just happened to have never catched it. But, I feel like I would have liked.
So, fun fact. While I am the age of the typical viewer of Rugrats while episodes were being made, my mother was often watching with me, or reading the books they made to me as a youngling and truthfully admitted that this special, and a book adaptation of it, actually helped her learn what the story of Chanukah was, as well as Passover and Kawanza.
Im not jewish, but my grandmother always had menorah and lit it on her own. As a young adult, I asked what it was about and why it seemed she lit candles every night until the new year. Thats when she explained her reasoning and introduced me to Chanukah and Kwanzaa as well.
Now i am married and am expecting kids. This year, I am introducing my wife to both holidays and hope to have this as part of our family tradition with my kids and her to some effect going forward. And i plan to use the rugrats epsiodes to help with holidays.
(And all the luck in dreidel was on her side last night haha)
Hi, Jewish person here! I loved the Hanukkah and Passover specials as a kid, and still do. And the ADL made valid points. Just because you aren’t familiar with the history of antisemitism and antisemitic tropes doesn’t mean you can dismiss it. It’s possible that the Jewish people who worked on the show weren’t necessarily familiar with these things either (I could get into why but it would take a while, basically, the conversations around representation were not mainstream then as they are now). Ideally the ADL would have offered guidance on what they could have done instead, but ultimately it was the show and network’s responsibility to do more research/consult with people who were more knowledgeable on the subject.
10:24 THANK YOU
Happy Hanukkah!!🕎🕎🕎🕎
As somebody who is Jewish, these specials were the only time I felt like my people were represented
This issue of expression of lived experience in the face of a history of marginality clashing with a censor council's worries about offending seems to come up a lot.
Like,
Jewish writers: * put their lived experiences in the show in the most affectionate manner*
Faceless Organizations: "Being Jewish is antisemitic"
Jewish Writers: "wtf no it's not"
Non-Jewish executives: * stops the specials that helped a generation of kids learn about Passover and Chanukah, helped normalize culture away from being stuck on just Christian holidays*
I got a similar feeling watching the Nick at Night episode. Women who like Donna Reed, are basically told they should be offended by it. The show almost didn't make it on the air because of certain feminists whose perspectives aren't wrong, but aren't in a void either. When money gets into the picture and worried about theoretically people who aren't themselves, things get... indeed, complicated.
Bur from the ADL's perspective, the decisions they made make plenty of sense. They don't just have to look out for things that are antisemitic in-itself, but it could reminds someone of a racist stereotype indirectly. Internalized hatred is more than just repeating things or hating yourself, it's dialectical. We don't know what each other is thinking and sometimes we can't just trust someone on face value. Internalized hatred can make people hide aspects about themselves for safety reasons, which can lead to people feeling uncomfortable around others who are more comfortable with themselves.
So I think maybe if the ADL and writers had worked with each other from then on more closely during the development process, they could requested their changes before going live, it'd been smoother than the boss abruptly speaking over everyone and pulling the plug on it like that.
Agreed but the responsibility was on the show and the network to reach out to the ADL in advance.
You: Now, I'm not Jewish.
Every Jewish person hearing you pronounce Chanukah and Rosh Hashana: We know.
What is your opinion on Rugrats as a whole?
is no one going to comment about how the sign over the shoppe reads "Moyhl" in Hebrew and the sign in English below it says "Cut Rates"?
I resent that I was too young to get the shin pun when I was thirteen. I don't even *remember* the shin pun.
You should consider a Nick Knacks Addendum on M.A.S.E.
Man I would hate to have my religion represented by an organization like ADL.
I imagine Pepe the Frog wouldn't have become as widespread a hate symbol if the ADL didn't class him as such.
There are times when the ADL actually does good, but then there are times like this, and there are far too many of those, where they end up doing more harm than good. Going after fellow Jews like this certainly doesn't help them.
See now I'm just wondering what Tommy Wiseau's religion even is.
@@TackyRackyComixNEO Lisa
@@thomaswiseau2421 you know what you're right.
You are accurate on the story of Chanukah, but I must correct you on pronunciation. Rosh Ha Shanah (rohsh ha Shah-nah) means “head of the year”).
I got worried that I’d forgotten my Hebrew for a second when they said it 😂
Good video, and in regards to people who call you out for being too focused on social issues, the thing is this is history. If it weren’t for your own personal, modern perspective, I’d be better off reading the wiki of whatever you’re talking about. The mark of a good critic, author or historian is having a believable voice in your texts, and you do that well.
PS: I only watch Nick Knacks, so if the Animorphs/Trump video opened up a big political can of worms, okey dokey I get it. (As a New Zealand citizen, I don’t have to worry as much about US politics anyway.)
If November-January goes to hell, New Zealand's my target for escape (whenever I can travel internationally again thanks to COVID, anyway).
"I wanna play with your dreidel"
I just got Season 9 for Christmas.
שלום ישראל &سلام فلسطين
The fake zionist colony don't want peace, they want problems always!
I'm inclined to ignore anything the ADL says.
I do, but with a heavy grain of salt since a large part of their funding comes from the state of Israel, and as such it pushes the states ultra fundamentalist agenda. The ADL is as big a force for good, as it is a source of Israeli talking points. I am much less critical of organizations like the ACLU, or the Southern Poverty law Center.
Eh, SPLC labeled memes as anti-Semitic terrorism, so I'm just as critical about them.
@@lainiwakura1776 the labeled some memes as racist, not ALL memes.
This was what made me based when I was 8 years old..
"ecspecially"
Ah, so the ADL is run by no fun allowed Jewish stereotypes themselves. I have Jewish blood and no one in my family was upset about us learning about Jewish-ness from a cartoon.
The ADL really painted themselves into a corner. They really screwed over the creators, fine the comic strip used a prayer, and that can rub people the wrong way. But the rest is just them being overly sensitive
As a kid, and even now. I don't see the racial caricature. It's an old man. Old men in their late 70s don't often look pleasing. More so If they lived a rough life. Also all adults looked ugly as sin in the Rugrats. Adl was crying wolf on a well intentioned show that tried to normalize Jewish characters for children, and educate them especially when those children had no knowledge of the material, or manner of encountering until much later
It's too bad that the show didn't explore Boris and Minka's home country, Russia. They did 2 Jewish episodes, but nothing about Russia.
As one gentile to another, I just have to say that your pronounciation of "Rosh Hashanah" is atrocious. On the other hand, good on you for at least trying to say it right.
More on topic, I am personally happy that the showed did take these occasional dips into Judaism, giving a focus to aspects of the culture that rarely gets brought up, especially in children's media. It's a bit sad that there was such a backlash to it.
Outside of this, the only thing I could remember openly Jewish in the shows I watched growing up was X-Men Evolution in a Christmas episode; during a montage of most of the characters being at home with their families or off doing their own thing, Kitty Pryde was lighting up a menorah with her parents. Oh, and some Krusty stuff from the Simpsons. If I strained myself I _might_ think of more...but it's about it.
ya hurt your shmegegge?
Im sorta jewish, jewish ancestroy, raised christian but rejected it by age 8 and now agnostic and psusdopagan that really likes to aknowleges some of my ancestores at least when they settled Alabama were still jewish.
I just want to take this moment to commend the Disney Channel of 2021 for "The Ghost and Molly McGee", with two episodes featuring *great* Jewish representation. One is about about the Bat Mitzvah of the best friend character, Libby, and the other its own Hanukkah show.
Equally as fitting -- Libby herself is voiced by Lara Jill Miller, who has her own nice gig at Nickelodeon on "The Loud House" as Lisa.
The ADL had a point about not featuring the mourner's Kaddish in the comic, but they took it too far with everything else. Even if the designs did unfortunately resemble propaganda cartoons, in this case actual Jewish people said yes, some of their relatives did look like Boris and Minka. It was a complicated situation, but because the ADL took things too far we were robbed of more Jewish representation.
(But you're right in that what we got was excellent. Harold from Hey Arnold! is one example I can think of.)
To quote my late Jewish Grandmother, all the other Jewish Holidays are depressing and not really worth celebrating.
Have you ever heard of Purim?
I do not like that the adl getting so hostile to this. To me it's absurd. I learned so much from these episodes and because I was such an inquisitive kid it galvanized me to learn more. I first learned of the Holocaust or showa. I was so broken and disturbed because I loved Rugrats. So I was able to really connect with true horror of it. To me it was learning that the Nazis murdered the Rugrats. I'm firmly against racism, extremism and violent bigotry. So if I was able to learn compassion and turn away from racist ideologies by watching Rugrats how can that be a bad thing? It's a cartoon so yeah like all the features are literally going to be exaggerated. Was kimmi offensive for having more almond shaped eyes? Is it not better to have the representation? I kind of agree that the Boris model on it's own with no context could possibly be seen as offensive but once placed in the show with all the other bizarre character designed it's actually one of the more normal looking ones. I had Russian step grand parents and the characters reminded me of them and I loved it. Idk... I'm a intersectional anarchist and anti-fascist I get called an sjw all the time but sometimes I think people can offended too easily. And definitely when you have. Something like this where it's actually trying to be inclusive.
It sounds like you (and some others in these comments) lack the historical context to understand the points that the ADL made. Please listen to *all* marginalized when they are speaking up on negative tropes.
@@jillsarah7356 dude ughz hoe abouf this ...please read my comment and think about what was said before responding! I would hope my statements in regards to being an intersectional anarchist, my name referring to being aspie and my profile of my flag denoting queer idednty would have properly set up my statues as a marginalized person as well as show I clearly am someone who routinely fighting for minorities. My point was not to ignore marginalized people and I certainly do not ignore history. I simply believe many people are disingenuous with complaints about racism, sexism, transphobia, ableism, homophobia etc... again this is from someone who repeatedly had experienced ableism, transphobia and general bigotry. But at some point you have to be able to tell the difference between harmless jokes and depictions that are literal cartoons meant for children are not the same as genuine state oppression and suppression. They tried to make a children's comic they are not making nazi propaganda. They aren't kkk members. They aren't making anti Trans CZcams videos and aren't queen hating religious groups calling to kill queen people. Some leftists and liberals especially need to grow a spine.
why be mormon? why not a born again King James Bible believer?
The King James Bible is a bad translation of the Bible.
@@Nagoragama that's what you'd like, would you? there is no single standard, no final authority but yourself. if it isn't a bible, it's the person.
you think you're quite prudent. you think you're so scholarly by claiming God's word is bad?
many questions i could ask you but this one i will ask now.
Jesus said that the he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words hath one that judge him, the word that i have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
how can God fairly (on our part) judge us
if we do not have that word by which we all will be judged?
you alexandrian cultists (or, yea hath God saiders) really got to desperately got to get rid of a perfect standard, because if not, then you'll be faced with two problems.
1. if you reject it, you'll be seen as the infidels you alexandrian really are
or 2. if you do subscribe to the perfect standard, you'd have to get rid of some sins that you could keep (should you not hold to that perfect standard)
@@xceptamanbbornagainnokingd5836 I didn't read the whole thing since after the first few sentences you come across like a bot that isn't really responding to what I said, so I'm assuming these are auto-generated replies or you're using a machine translator to speak in English.
Regardless, there's really nothing magical about the King James version just because it uses "thees and thous." Every translation has a political motivation. Look up a more modern one that is devoted to preserving the original meaning of the text as much as it can.
@@Nagoragama or you're just hiding the truth that you're offended.
and that is why you didn't read the rest
i don't know why you think it's bot or auto respond, but the truth
is your faith is vain, and you cannot tell anyone they are doing wrong
without a perfect standard (which it would seem you don't have)
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