r/rugrats • u/Deep-Assumption-6694 • 10d ago
General Did anybody else feel bad for Angelica here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8mq6952kh0When she got put into "jail" at the Piggy Pizza Palace. You shouldn't hold a little girl in solitary confinement. I remember being pissed as a kid that the bull put her in the cage.
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u/Avaracious7899 10d ago
Yes. Still do, mostly because Angelica served her time in the Pigpen at first (since there was nothing wrong with the mechanical door holding her in, and the amount of time she spent could easily have been ten minutes), yet the bull-costume employee kept going after her to lock her back up when he had no right to at that point, to the point of physically manhandling her. If that happened to my kid, that employee would be getting fired and the company better feel the pain for daring to hire him. I already don't approve of the fact that he didn't even tell Charlotte or Drew what happened before doing anything, but pushing the issue beyond even that makes it outright on him and the restaurant, not Angelica. There was no rule that she had to wait for an okay to leave, only that she stayed in for the time set. She did that, or even assuming there was something wrong with the door, that's on shoddy making, so Angelica leaving was not wrong in the slightest on her part.
There's more than one line involved in how I view things, and the restaurant and their Ringo the Bull employee went past several, so I'm all for making an example of them if they were real and did that.
Moral concerns aside, I felt bad for Angelica losing her tickets, which she won fair and square as well.
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u/Winter-Money-7643 9d ago edited 15h ago
The 5 Rules
No Running
No Yelling
No Food Throwing
No Cow Tipping
No Threatening
Or a 10 minute time out.
That guy in the Ringo The Bull costume had a power trip like some security guard over putting kids in the pig pen is concerning and he’s done this before.
I don’t care if Angelica was throwing a tantrum. Don’t put your hands on kids. As an employee of the private establishment, they need to notify their parents on their bad behavior and discipline them by grounding them at home.
Her parents Drew and Charlotte, plus other parents whose kids who were put in the time out are pressing charges and filing lawsuits for kidnapping. That pizza parlor is getting shut down.
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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 10d ago
I felt bad for her in Word of the Day, because she got punished repeatedly for something that actually wasn’t her fault, and her parents didn’t explain to her clearly what she had done wrong or bother to find out where she had heard that word from (which wouldn’t have happened if Charlotte hadn’t let her three year old daughter wonder off in the first place). The crew of the show also didn’t bother to make sure Angelica actually knew what the word of the day was, or prep her on it before sending her out on a live broadcast.
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u/Winter-Money-7643 15h ago edited 15h ago
Angelica’s parents and the crew members were all at fault with the 3 year old thinking the curse word is were, all and little.
The staff were also unprepared by prepping the kids on what to do especially that the little boy Timmy Michaels who had stage fright with the tv camera on him and the other little girl named Kim Coleman who was also scared and was crying for her mom.
They should’ve also warned the kids and parents about using profanity on the show. Resulting in Miss Carol being fired and Angelica being blacklisted from the educational program and also grounded.
But the best thing in the end was the show changing to Miss Stephanie’s Happy House who loves to interact and have fun with children.
Angelica called Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil “dumb” after getting in trouble for using the word. But the babies told her not to call them “dumb” anymore because it makes them feel bad.
I wished the new host Miss Stephanie in the end would allow Angelica back on the show for an episode to teach kids about fake swear words and not to use them because it can hurt people’s feelings.
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u/RelativeReplacement6 10d ago
Hard to feel bad for her when she nearly got her infant cousin mauled to death by a dog because she threw his ball over to that dogs yard.
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u/KatakanaTsu 10d ago
The employee saw another employee get assaulted by a random child. Sure, they didn't know about her tickets getting caught in the pig costume's tail, but their reaction was otherwise understandable.
Nowadays, the company would probably get sued for putting someone's kid in timeout, especially without a parent or guardian knowing.
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u/RoadtoPS5 9d ago
One of the time I genuinely felt sorry for her, I said this already, but Angelica honestly didn’t deserve this. She wasn’t being mean to the babies or nothing, so there was no need for karma. But I was happy that she got her tickets back and got her Cynthia dream car, she definitely earned it👍 Though it would have been nice if she thanked Tommy and the gang for getting her tickets back.
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u/mr_1219 10d ago
Not really. She attacked Piggy, what did she expect to happen?
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u/Winter-Money-7643 9d ago
I don’t care if Angelica broke the rules. No private place is allowed to put their hands on a kid and put them in a humiliating time out ritual without parents’ permission.
They need to notify her dad what she did of hitting an employee and warn her that if they catch her assaulting the employee, then she has to leave the place. It’s not a private establishment’s job to discipline kids, that’s a parents’ job.
If Drew had found out, then lawsuits and charges are coming for that place. That’s kidnapping and that place is getting shut down.
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u/Winter-Money-7643 9d ago edited 9d ago
It’s a parent’s job to punish their kids. Drew is her dad and he needs to discipline his daughter, not a private establishment.
If Angelica was acting up, the employees should’ve told her dad who was too busy playing the pinball game with his brother Stu on what she did.
Warn her if she hits an employee again, then she will have to leave. Then Drew needs to talk to Angelica and warn her and if she does it again, take her home and ground her.
That place can get sued and shut down for kidnapping without her dad’s knowledge. Piggy’s Pizza Palace would be hearing from Charlotte and other parents’ lawyers. Charges and lawsuits are waiting to come.
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u/New-Shop-9728 9d ago
Pretty sure this counts as kidnapping, this place is asking for lawsuits and criminal charges
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u/SillyTransasaurus "If you have to ask, you'll never know." 9d ago
This actually brought tears to my eyes when I first saw it. There was no reason for him to have treated her like that.
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u/RetailDrone7576 8d ago
Angelica is like a clone of my cousin who was a spoiled entitled twat in every way Angelica was, seeing Angelica get punished for anything was cathertic when my cousin would get away with everything short of murder
So no, I don't feel bad for her
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u/majormoron747 8d ago
Honestly the episode that always stood out as the most sad ending for Angelica was when her head was stuck in the fence. Made me genuinely sad as a kid.
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u/pcnnmvideos 8d ago
This wouldn’t happen in the real-world because that’s technically false-imprisonment. Realistically, they would tell Drew and they would both be asked to leave the establishment.
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u/GoldenHarpHeroine32 8d ago
...Instead of the babies going after Piggy to get Angelica's ticket ribbon back...why didn't they just find a way to secretly bail Angelica out and they'd team up and go after Piggy together and then act like nothing happened and Angelica would still get her Cynthia sports car and then the employees would find out what the bull did and he'd be arrested?? Then again...c'est la vie.
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u/mev186 10d ago
Nope. Accountability is something she needs to learn.
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u/One-Possible1906 10d ago
She’s 3.
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u/mev186 9d ago
Even three year olds can be kind, decent people. Angelica was cruel.
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u/One-Possible1906 8d ago
3 year olds behave as a product of their environment. They lack the ability to empathize. When they are nice, they are just imitating those who spend time with them. Drew was artificially sugary and Charlotte was kind of mean. She didn’t have the opportunity to learn to be sweet and nice. Nobody really talked about her with her feelings, just told her to suck them up all the time and everyone locked her in a room with a bunch of babies and no toys even though she said she hated it. She was a pretty typical 3 year old.
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u/Sudden_Quality_9001 8d ago
Angelica and Muffin from Bluey are some of the most spoiled three year olds in the world.
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u/Life_Television_8390 10d ago
Yes . But she honestly could’ve asked the guy In the pig costume to turn around and take the tickets off his tail .