Bigboyrats
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Bigboyrats is the name of a YouTube channel created by brothers Zak Wolf (a.k.a. wileyvision13) and Billdeco08. They are perhaps best known in the community for pioneering Speakonia gag dubs of Rugrats episodes, though they did make a couple Drew Pickles Goes To videos and some other videos on the side. While the channel has been gone for many years, the brothers behind it are still active (Zak in particular), and there is a Google Drive containing most if not all the videos they created alongside newer ones.
History edit
The channel first emerged sometime in 2009, producing Barney Bunch-inspired dubs of Rugrats episodes. At first, the videos were met with mixed reactions, since they mainly inherit the Rugrats canon instead of the one the Barney Bunch established (such as Drew and Charlotte still being married), as well as there being a few light jabs at the Barney Bunch in the videos, but the characters very much acted like their Barney Bunch counterparts, such as Drew being gay, as well as the Bunch's usage of crude and sexual humor. Dick the Clown has also been mentioned in one of the videos and even made a brief appearance.
As time went on, the videos became more loved and even influenced, inspiring countless Speakonia dubs of other properties, most famous (or infamous, depending on your viewpoint) being HuckleberryHound69's dub of Robin Hood. The voice cast for the characters would remain a staple for many characters (though they would change overtime), as well as setting the rise of the Betty Bunch following a throwaway line in one of the videos. They even outdid themselves with a full Speakonia dub of The Rugrats Movie retitled The Drew Pickles Movie. Despite their success, the channel was eventually terminated around 2013 due to multiple copyright strikes from Viacom. This didn't deter the brothers though, as they would continue to be active on their own channels, with only a handful of videos.
In the late 2010s, bigboyrats created a Google Drive containing most if not all their videos (though their other Goes To and smaller videos are not there). In 2020, Zak Wolf made a few videos discussing a possible revival of the channel on Google Drive with dubs of the recent Rugrats reboot. As luck would have it, one of the episodes from the reboot would eventually receive its own dub and was uploaded to the Google Drive in 2021, with a few more dubs of it and the original Rugrats series following.
Videography edit
While the bigboyrats channel may be long gone, you can still view their videos via their Google Drive page.
- Angelica's Worst Nightmare
- Angelica Barfs on Drew
- Angelica Fakes A Leg
- Angelica's A Potty Mouth
- Angelica's Super Swell Birthday
- Angelica's Super Swell Crank Calls
- Angelica's Super Swell Home Movies
- Angelica's Worst Chanukah
- Charlotte's Little ASS-ets!
- Chazz Gets Rich
- drew and stu new conversation
- Drew Pickles as a Baby!
- Drew Pickles Gets Sued
- Drew Pickles Goes on a Train Ride
- Drew Pickles Goes To Christmas Land
- Drew Pickles Goes To Reptar on Ice!
- Drew Pickles Goes To Six Flags (lost)
- Drew Pickles Goes To Tommy's Birthday Party
- Drew Pickles Tires To Ruin A Business Dinner
- Drew Pickles's Not Very Swell Halloween
- Drew Pickles's Super Swell Halloween
- Drew Pickles's Super Swell Santa Experience
- Drew Pickles's Super Swell Vegas Vacation
- Drew Pickles's Turkey of Horror
- Stu Gets a Realistic Job
- The Drew Pickles Movie (Originally uploaded in 3 individual parts as well as a trailer before it was uploaded in full as the "Cum-plete Cut")
- The Toy Palace Dub
- Tommy the Transvestite
- Drew Pickles's Super Swell CGI Reboot Adventure
- Angelica Pickles Discovers Online Ordering
- Drew Pickles Goes To an Ultra Bowl Party
Trivia edit
Besides unexpectedly giving rise to the Betty Bunch, bigboyrats helped popularize the phrase "Bag, the patterns are swell!" when Drew reacts to the Rugrats title card. They also tend to poke fun at the numerous tropes on Rugrats, such as starting the episodes with an extreme closeup.