Recently, I've been browsing the net, reading Hey Arnold fanfictions and looking at a couple of Arnold-related websites... what I've found out, astounds me.
Rugrats, Hey Arnold and the Simpsons are sort of connected through so many coincidences and interesting facts, that you wouldn't belive it.
I've listed a few of them for you to check out:
-- Gabor Csupo, one of the producers and creators of Rugrats (the other one is Arlene Klasky [hence the Klasky-Csupo]), was the first voice of Marge Simpson, whose blue hair and yellow skin was also idea of Csupo.
-- Tress MacNeille, who does various voices in the Simpsons, is also the voice behind Arnold's Grandma and Ms. Slovak from Craig Bartlet's Hey Arnold and Charlotte from Rugrats. Dan Castellaneta has played various voices in Rugrats as well as Arnol'd grandpa.
-- Steven Dean Moore is a frequent director for both Rugrats and the Simpsons.
-- Kath Soucie plays various voices for the three mentioned cartoon-creators: Mrs. Vitello and Miriam Pataki from Hey Arnold, Phil, Lil and Betty from Rugrats and some minor voices on Matt Groening's other hit animated series, Futurama.
-- Rick Bugental, the responsible for the "... Theee Simpsoooons... " famous openning was also a frequent director for the Rugrats.
-- Spanish: Marina Huerta plays Chuckie from Rugrats and Bart Simpson and Laura Torres plays both Tommy Pickles (Rugrats) and Martin (The Simpsons).
-- A small connection, but interesting for me: Beavis & Butthead writers Glenn Eichler, Guy Maxtone-Graham, and Larry Doyle wrote at least one episode each for the Rugrats (Eichler is the co-creator of the B&B spinoff, Daria). Also, in the Piggy's Pizza Palace Rugrats episode, one of the rules state "No Cow Tipping", something Beavis & Butthead did once in their first season as a series. In the words of MTV's dastardly duo, "Rugrats rule! Heh-heh, heh-heh, heh-heh-heh-heh!"
-- This is one of my personal favourites: Craig Bartlett (Arnold's creator) was story editor and writer for Rugrats and he is also Matt Groening's brother-in-law [married to Matt's sister, Lisa]. Hey Arnold! was seen in comic-strip form in Simpsons Illustrated magazine, published from 1990 to 1992... how awesome is that, huh?
Don't you love the small world of Cartoons and TV?? lol!
I know this is extremely random, but I thought you might find this interesting and funny. Besides, I had nothing better to do

See you later!
Estoy convencidisima de que Cowco se veria mucho mejor si los creativos de Gusanito.com la hubieran dibujado borrachos y con los ojos vendados... pero dame un poco de credito, no? Lo intente!
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TQM, Cow!
I was kind of bored and I thought of sending you a little drawing....
Claudia Mandujano 0 ReplysIt's kind of random... but as I said... I was bored.
Plus I wanted you to know that we do miss you. And now that you replied (so soon, btw) take this as a kind of welcome for your kind of come back.
LOL!
I hope you have ...
Hey y'all!!
Claudia Mandujano 1 ReplyI just did this because I am dead bored!!
If you are asking what the heck is "SPIMF" well, that's a VTM thing. It stands for Society for the Portection of the Ingenious Muddy Footprints.
Have you seen those footprints going up and down the screen on VTM? well, they took them away ...