Rugrats

Rugrats is a Nickelodeon cartoon about the (often imaginary) world of a group of talking babies. Their leader is a one-year-old, Tommy Pickles, whose courage contrasts his friend Chuckie's paranoia; Phil and Lil, twins, love to switch identities and eat bugs; and newborn Dil joins them later on. Angelica, a toddler, often bullies the babies. Rugrats was aimed at children, but attracted a large adult audience as well.

The show spawned the spinoff All Grown Up, set ten years later, which was not nearly as popular as the original.

In Fanfiction
Some of the fanfic is NSFW, which is a charge if it involves the kids (unless they've been aged up), for obvious reasons. Slash fic, both NSFW and SFW, exists too, usually between Didi and Betty or Drew and any of the guys who are not Stu. This can be done well, but often is not—some of the stories slash Betty for the sole reason that she's butch, which has the troublesome implication that all lesbians are butch, or all butch women are lesbians. Any shipping that involves one or two of the parents committing adultery is OOC.

A common plot in fanfiction is to set the story years into the future, with the babies grown up and usually married and with children of their own. Again, this can be done both well and poorly. A badfic with this as its premise will often characterise the babies' kids as carbon copies of their parents.

Similarly are stories set anywhere within the ten-year gap between Rugrats and All Grown Up!, which, as is to be expected, can be either good or bad.

A lot of fans have noticed that, ever since Kimi was adopted, Angelica has been the only Rugrat who is an only child (since Tommy and Dil are brothers, Phil and Lil are brother and sister, Chuckie and Kimi are adoptive siblings, and Susie has three older siblings named Alisa, Buster, and Edwin). Unless the story takes place during or after All Grown Up!, though, they're an uncanonical sibling, since she remained an only child in All Grown Up!.

Missions in this Continuum

 * "DREW PICKLES GOES TO MCDONALDS," Agent July (DF)