And Rugrats is a show I find mostly charming, so a show that’s basically a mash-up of Rugrats with the gross humor of my favorite Nicktoon Ren & Stimpy sounds more than a little intriguing. The premise is somewhat attractive as I enjoy shows where the main characters are ignorant children. It’s yet another program I’ve discovered via this project of mine as I’m always on the hunt for Christmas shows. Fox Family Channel, on the other hand, was pretty far from my mind and I never knew this thing existed. Cartoon Network was somewhat on my radar due to its programming towards teen audiences, so I was tangentially aware of some its more straight-forward kids entertainment. When this show debuted on the Fox Family Channel I was in high school. It has a post 90s vibe to it in that it shares a lot of similarities with other shows of the era, namely contemporary Ed, Edd, n Eddy, but it’s also struggling to push this style further and beyond what’s been done before. It’s a bit cheap looking in places, and also fluid and experimental in others. It’s likely digital in nature at a time when animators were struggling to produce digital art on par with traditional hand-drawn animation. This particular show has the look of a lot of cartoons from this era. A lot of the productions have been Canadian in nature, so your place of origin may impact what you feel is the company’s most notable work, but for me I best know it from Heavy Metal 2000. The production company is CinéGroupe which had been in the business since 1974. They were often cheaper to employ and studios love saving a buck or two when possible. Mega Babies is a joint US and Canadian production which was common in the 90s as Canadian voice actors famously did not belong to any union. The show is known for being rather gross. Since the show isn’t exactly well-remembered, maybe they preferred to not be credited. Wikipedia lists many other actors who likely handled bit roles on the show, but were frustratingly not credited in the actual program. Dumont, who is an announcer on the program, and Dean Hagopian who is credited on IMDB as simply handling various male voices. The only other credited members of the cast are Richard M.
Their caretaker is Nurse Lazlo (Bronwen Mantel), an old lady the babies simply refer to as Nursie, who appears to be of Russian descent and was also granted super intelligence by the same planet thing as the babies. The babies are orphans granted super powers when the planets aligned, or some such nonsense quickly established by the opening credits. This is fairly common in animation as all of the babies in Rugrats were voiced by women. All three babies are voiced by female actresses, but only Meg is female in the show. Mega Babies stars three colorful babies in Derrick (Laura Teasdale), Buck (Sonja Ball), and Meg (Jaclyn Linetsky). The show ran from October 1999 through April 2000 on Teletoon (Canada) and the Fox Family Channel.