Hey everyone! I have a new story here as they story idea itself came from PrincsseSofia2017. As the summary says this is an Alternate Universe story where the Rugrats Characters are real actors and are in the process of making the show we all know and love Rugrats. Though the characters are going by their actual names like in the show they're all very different off the acting stage than in the show itself. I won't say much more than that so I don't spoil too much. Don't worry i'll still be writing and updating Terrible Twos as it's my main story i'm working on. I don't know how often I'll update this story but i'll try and do it often along with Terrible Twos.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rugrats, they belong to Klasky Csupo and Nickelodeon. The Story idea belongs to PrincsseSofia2017. I only own the story itself
Also a little side note:
Locations are in bolded print
Acting Scene takes are in italics and bolded print
Edit/Update June 12, 2016 - The Characters all have different names they go by. At the studio they go by the names they are on the show but whenever they are at each others homes when not acting they go by their real names which are:
Thomas Kropotkin (Tommy Pickles)
Diane Kropotkin (Didi Pickles)
Stuart Kropotkin (Stu Pickles)
Angelica Adelaide (Angelica Pickles)
Charlotte Adelaide (Charlotte Pickles)
Andrew Adelaide (Drew Pickles)
Stu Sr. McGee (Lou Pickles)
Charlie Norbert Jr. (Chuckie Finster)
Charlie Norbert (Chas Finster)
Melinda Norbert (Melinda Finster)
Phillip MacArthur (Phil DeVille)
Lillian MacArthur (Lil DeVille)
Elizabeth MacArthur (Betty DeVille)
As this story goes on more characters will be added of course hopefully this will not confuse anyone too much. I'll also post this on the next chapter once it is finished so everyone knows what is going on if this isn't your first time reading the story.
August 1990 - Universal filming studio - Hollywood, California – 9:00 a.m.
At a filming studio a few people were bustling about getting prepared for the making of a pilot episode.
"Okay people is everyone ready? If this pilot goes well then this show will be greenlight for Nickelodeon's nicktoons." Director Csupo asked the group
There were a few murmurs around the room as the cast of the show were preparing for the filming of the pilot.
"Alright places everyone!" Co-Director Klasky exclaimed as she alerted everyone that they were about to begin
"Everyone ready? And….Action!" Csupo stated in a megaphone
-Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing Take 1-
One of the workers pushed the button so the toilet on the set would flush as Stu Sr. was standing at the sink washing his hands. Tommy was looking at the toilet as he should have been as the camera zoomed in on his eyes before zooming out to reveal that Tommy was looking at the toilet. Tommy then began to crawl towards the toilet as he reached out to touch it. Tommy then touched the outside of the toilet bowl
"CUT!" Csupo exclaimed
Soon the filming stopped as everything came to a hault
"Stu Sr. you were supposed to pick up Tommy before he touched the toilet bowl. Now let's try that again." Csupo explained "And Action!"
-Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing Take 2-
The scene went on again as before as Stu Sr. remembered to pick up Tommy as he said his lines
"Hold on there, little fella! This is no place for you!"
"And Cut that was great! Now on to the next scene." Csupo said
The rest of the pilot went on smoothly with very little other mistakes except when the crib had opened on its own when Tommy was supposed to open it with his screwdriver that was located in the crib, and that Tommy fell into the toilet bowl. Or other scenes where Tommy was too afraid to do something. Besides that the rest of the scenes were great.
"Alright everyone you did great hopefully Nickelodeon will approve of this. We'll tell you all in a couple of weeks about Nick's response." Klasky said as the adults talked amongst themselves while the babies talked.
"I didn't knows that acting could bes soo hard it was scary being up in those high places and having to rides on Spike like that's." Tommy said
"I couldn't blame you theres Tommy, besides it is quite digusting for dogs to drink out of the toilet. Besides I don't like fighting with Phil." Lil said
"Right, I thinks it's betterer if we share and works together." Phil agreed with his twin sister
Now sure in the show, Tommy was always the brave one and always the one to take everyone on adventures no matter the danger, and Phil and Lil were gross and disgusting and always fought with each other. Off the stage however they were really the complete opposite. Tommy was basically a scaredy cat, and Phil and Lil were actually kind to each other and never fought or got dirty.
"Anyway Tommy we'll see you laterer it's almost our nappy time." Lil said as she grabbed Phil's hand as they walked over to Betty and Howard, their real parents unlike the ones they had in the pilot.
"B-Bye guys." Tommy waved to his friends before quickly running over to Didi as he clung to her dress, a bit frightened for being left alone in the studio, even though he wasn't exactly alone.
"Ok sweetie, come on lets go home." Didi said as she picked up Tommy as they left with Stu
August 1990 – Universal filming studio - Hollywood, California – 10:00 a.m.
"Alright everyone gather around!" Klasky called the group to gather around
Everyone quickly gathered around both Directors waiting for the news of the results from Nick.
"Well after sending the pilot off to Nickelodeon…the show has been greenlight! We're going to have a show and we're calling it "Rugrats"." Csupo explained in excitement
The whole group then began to cheer in excitement and happiness at the show being greenlight of course Tommy was a bit happy but at the same time afraid knowing that now the show was going to happen he was probably going to have to do a lot more scary things.
"We'll start production over the next few months, Tommy will be one soon and there are more actors needed." Csupo explained
"Isn't this…" Lil started
"Great Tommy, we're going to be on TV." Phil finished
"U-Uh yeah I guess s-sos." Tommy said as a shiver ran through him at the thought about being on TV.
Tommy knew these upcoming months with production were going to be kind of scary, of course once he met Chuckie he didn't feel as scared about being in the show.
September 1990 – Kropotkin Home – Yucaipa, California – 12:00 p.m.
Thomas was a bit nervous at first to meet Charlie Jr. , sure their parents knew each other but he hadn't got a chance to meet Charlie as last time Charlie Jr. and his father Charlie had visited, his mom had taken him to the doctor as he had come down with the virus that had been going around at the time. Thomas yelped at the sound of the doorbell ringing as he ran and hid beneath the living room couch as Stu had emerged from the basement to answer it.
"Hey Charlie, how have you been?" Stuart asked as he opened the door to see Charlie and Charlie Jr.
Charlie was already a year old about to turn two very soon as he toddled away from the two fathers. He had heard about Tommy and went over to the the living room hoping to find said baby. Charlie Jr. looked around only to find the living room empty until he saw Thomas' feet sticking from beneath the couch as he went over and looked under the couch
"Hi what are you doing under heres?" Charlie Jr. asked Thomas
Thomas screamed at first and retreated further under the couch as he shivered violently. Feeling a bit bad for scaring the younger baby Charlie Jr. crawled under the couch so he could be face to face with Thomas.
"A-Are you Charlie?" Thomas fearfully asked
"Mhm, and you must be Thomas." Charlie Jr. said "Sorry for scaring yous."
"I-It's ok, nice to meet yous." Thomas said
"Nice to meet ya too. Want to go plays something?" Charlie Jr. asked
"S-Sure." Thomas agreed
Thomas and Charlie Jr. then crawled from beneath the couch as they walked over to the playpen. Charlie quickly spotted the jack-in-the-box as he picked it up and began to turn the handle. Hearing the music made Thomas' eyes widen as he ran over to Charlie and stopped him from turning the handle anymore
"N-No don't turns that or that scary jerk-in-the-box clown will comes out!" Thomas exclaimed grabbing onto Charlie Jr's hand
"I know, that's the bestest part!" Charlie said happily
"Not for mes, it's just scary. C-Can we play something elses?" Thomas asked
"Ok," Charlie agreed as he looked around the room scanning it for something to do until he spotted the screen door open just a bit. "Hey lets go outside!"
"I-I don't think that's such a good idea, what if it rains or we see an icky bug or somethings?" Thomas fearfully asked
"Aw quite being such a baby and come on." Charlie Jr. said as he grabbed Thomas' arm and dragged him outside.
"B-But we are babies!" Thomas exclaimed as Charlie dragged him into the backyard
"Come on Thomas we can plays in your sand box."
"But what about sand monsters?" Thomas asked
"Just come on Thomas there are no sand monsters." Chuckie said sitting in the sandbox
Thomas nervously followed and sat next to Charlie as they played in the sandbox together. After a while Thomas had gotten used to Charlie and actually felt that things wouldn't be so bad if Charlie was there with Thomas. Though Thomas was still a bit nervous as he and Charlie did things Tommy wouldn't normally do like break out of the play pen, or try to explore the basement where his dad worked on his computer programs, but after a while Thomas didn't mind too much. Thomas actually was starting to have fun despite his fears and was sad when Charlie had to leave.
"Don't worry Thomas I'm sure we'll gets to see each other agains soon. Asides we're going to that big place so we can bes on TV together." Charlie reassured Tommy "Anyway I has to goes now bye Thomas!"
"I guess you're right, sees ya later Charlie." Tommy said waving to his new friend as Charlie Jr. ran over to Charlie who picked him up
Soon after Charlie and Charlie Jr. left, Diane had picked up Thomas to bring him to the table to have dinner before moving on to a bath, which Thomas of course didn't like at all, and being put to bed as they had to leave for the studio again that next morning to start working on the very first episode of the new show they were all going to be in.
There's the first chapter, hope you guys enjoyed it. Anyway in case anyone is a bit confused about the characters here's a bit of an explanation.
Thomas (Tommy) - Off the stage he is actually a scaredy cat like a certain red head we know from the show
Charlie Jr. (Chuckie) - Off the stage he is actually brave like a certain bald headed leader we know
Phillip (Phil)&Lillian (Lil) - Off the stage they don't like fighting or being disgusting
The Adults are pretty much the same except Stu is a computer programmer, except the results of his programs are much like in the show as an inventor, a failure, and the adults actually watch the babies pretty closely unlike in the show.