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This episode of Rugrats sticks in my memory because it changed my personality at a young, tender age. I was a normal kid for the most part at the age of 5. But after watching this episode where Chucky falls in love with Megan only to have his heart broken, it awakened something in me. It's hard to describe if you haven't experienced this but sometimes the mere exposure to a concept can make that concept become a reality to you and change life's course. The best example of this is how I never realized I could actually ditch school and just... walk out, until 9th grade. It never even occurred to me that it was possible. And like ditching, this Rugrats episode exposed me to the very simple idea of both falling in love and having your heart broken at an age that ought to be impossible. Chucky evens talks about getting married to Megan! So when I went to school after this, it was like my heart was born again and I saw girls in a new light. I was especially fond of a certain someone and tried to emulate Chucky by giving her candy and flowers but she never liked me back and I knew better than to pick on her so I left it at a stalemate for many years. Anyways, this episode of Rugrats damaged me psychologically in a sense. I would never settle for just making friends with a girl I liked. No, it was love instead, and we would get married too. So it turned me into what others thought of as a weirdo since no one thinks like that in childhood. Hell, even people my own age as adults aren't getting married anymore! You could say I'm an old soul but I never thought about this stuff until the episode. I remember running into the kitchen weeping at how Chucky lost Megan. The ending never stuck since I'd been too distraught and sad at Megan's betrayal so I honestly forget it existed. Can friends really solve break ups? If you ask a lot of those 60s pop love songs, no! Once you've lost love, you've lost it forever and can never get it again. Am I living in the aftermath of such a catastrophe? Is this my post-apocalypse? Is the "thread of prophecy severed"? Must I persist in the doomed world I have created? |
