'Rugrats' Fans React As Phil and Lil's Mom Is Ma Openly Gay Reboot

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In the "Rugrats" reboot, Phil and Lil's mom, Betty DeVille, is openly gay, a notable change om the 1991 animated seri.

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'RUGRATS' REBOOT FEATUR PHIL AND LIL'S MOM BETTY AS OPENLY GAY — SEE FANS' REACTNS

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The jt-released “Rugrats” revival seri has fans a tizzy after nfirmg what many had believed all along — that Phil and Lil’s mom, Betty DeVille, is gay.

The “Rugrats” revival clus Betty DeVille as an openly gay character.

ONE OF THE ORIGAL 'RUGRATS' MOMS IS OPENLY GAY THE SHOW'S REBOOT

Rugrats reboot rewr Betty DeVille to be openly gay wh Dead to Me actrs Natalie Moral takg over the role. * gay rugrats *

“In the origal, I knew she was gay but was closeted but now she is openly gay! “‘Betty Deville will be gay Rugrats reboot’ as if she wasn’t already a gay in, ” wrote another.

However, others lambasted the reveal that Betty is gay, which they viewed as ditive of smetic progrsivism.

“Makg Betty gay on Rugrats is jt performative wokens and I’m so tired, ” fumed one naysayer. Erasg this is not nearly as progrsive as makg a new openly gay character would be.

RUGRATS REBOOT REWR CHARACTER TO BE OPENLY GAY

The “Rugrats” reboot premier on Paramount+ on Thursday, featurg one major update to the st of ankle-bers and their parents. If you ask some fans, however, the show’s creators are merely nfirmg what viewers have already known for years. The character Betty DeVille, mother to tws Phil and Lil, is openly gay the new seri. She is even voiced by a queer actor, Natalie Moral. “Anyone who watched the origal show may have had an klg Betty was a member of the alphabet mafia,” Moral said a statement to The A.V. Club. In the beloved Nickeloon seri’ origal rnatn (which ran om 1991 to 2004), Betty was animated wearg a sweatband and funky jewelry paired wh a baggy purple sweatshirt wh the female sign embossed over . In the 2021 update, she has changed the symbol on the sweatshirt to reflect her zodiac sign, which is Gemi. Moral explaed that the queer reprentatn of her character go eper than the astrology shoutout. “Betty is a sgle mom wh her own bs who has tws and still has time to hang out wh her iends and her muny,” she said. “And I thk ’s jt so great bee exampl of livg your life happily and healthily as an out queer person is jt such a bean for young queer people who may not have exampl of that.” Media reprentatn is a powerful tool for helpg people to learn more about their own inti, somethg that Moral noted n beg as early as childhood on shows as silly and fun as “Rugrats.” “And yeah, Betty is a fictnal rtoon, but even rtoons were hugely fluential for me as a kid and if I’d been watchg ‘Rugrats’ and seen Betty sually talkg about her ex-girliend, I thk at least a part of me would have felt like thgs might be okay the future.” The fictnal character’s g out was not the revelatn the reboot’s creators thought would be. Jt ask the sr of lennials and “zillennials” weighg on Twter. I was today years old when I learned that Betty om Rugrats wasn’t always gay ; ✪ daniel barn ✪ (@Danny8b) May 27, 2021 "Betty Deville will be gay Rugrats reboot" as if she wasn't already a gay in ; Danielle Partis (@DaniellePartis) May 27, 2021 So, jt like the origal seri. ; Chris Muise (@TheSilentG) May 27, 2021 You CANNOT change my md that Betty om grats is jt a queer woman a hetero prentg relatnship that didn’t make her any ls the queer ass woman she is. That bch walked. She sttted that nway momma. So that Peppa uldRUN ; I love that for you ???? (@bendydosrs) May 27, 2021 Read origal story Betty om ‘Rugrats’ Is Openly Gay Paramount+ Reboot and Nobody Is Surprised At TheWrap * gay rugrats *

Another tractor postulated that Betty’s homosexualy leav no room for Phil and Lil’s father on the show. “Betty is now gay, fe, but WTF?

If they’re gog to go wh stereotyp then make Howie gay too.

Two gay parents out, not another ad parent. For the new Paramount+ Rugrats seri, which premiered Thursday, Phil and Lil's mother, Betty DeVille, is now openly gay.

BETTY OM ‘RUGRATS’ IS OPENLY GAY PARAMOUNT+ REBOOT AND NOBODY IS SURPRISED

Rugrats reboot will feature CGI visuals and an openly gay Betty DeVille, changg the classic Nickeloon rtoon. * gay rugrats *

As someone poted out that Betty "mentned an ex-girliend" the reboot and took that to mean that "she has fally e out of the closet after 30 years, " another er said: "I was today years old when I learned that Betty om Rugrats wasn't always gay. The new Rugrats reboot has nfirmed Betty DeVille, the mother of tws Phil and Lil, is a gay, sgle mother.

Dpe seemg like a mor cln wh Rugrats mother characters, the portrayal of a gay, sgle mother a program geared towards children is monumental. Social media was rife wh Rugrats fans potg out Betty's queer-dg after the announcement was released, and some gay fans have claimed Betty as a gay in long before the reboot, where their spicns were nfirmed.

Daily, the longtime voice of Tommy Pickl, told TMZ that the st had long spected that Betty was gay, but society hadn't progrsed to the pot where they were allowed to discs . In the new "Rugrats" reboot, Phil and Lil's mom Betty DeVille has some news to fictnal character, who was origally portrayed by actor Kath Soucie, is openly gay the Paramount+ reboot of the animated seri, which premier on the streamg service on the origal seri, which ran om 1991 to 2004, Betty was married to Howard DeVille and the uple had tws, a son named Phil and a dghter named Lil.

'RUGRATS' FANS REACT AS PHIL AND LIL'S MOM IS MA OPENLY GAY REBOOT

For those of a certa age, Rugrats was one of the rtoons which fed our childhoods, and for s upg reboot, there has been a really important change to one of the tws Phil and Lil's mother, Betty DeVille, has been rewrten as openly gay the new to Me actrs Natalie Moral is takg over the role om Kath Soucie, who was the origal voice of Betty, and told The A. If you ask some fans, however, the show’s creators are merely nfirmg what viewers have already known for character Betty DeVille, mother to tws Phil and Lil, is openly gay the new seri.

I was today years old when I learned that Betty om Rugrats wasn’t always gay ✪ daniel barn ✪ (@Danny8b) May 27, 2021"Betty Deville will be gay Rugrats reboot" as if she wasn't already a gay in — Danielle Partis (@DaniellePartis) May 27, 2021So, jt like the origal seri. So that Peppa uldRUN — I love that for you ???? (@bendydosrs) May 27, 2021Read origal story Betty om ‘Rugrats’ Is Openly Gay Paramount+ Reboot and Nobody Is Surprised At TheWrap.

'RUGRATS' REBOOT CHARACTER BETTY DEVILLE TO BE OPENLY GAY

Many fans reacted to the news by sayg they had always thought the character was gay.

'RUGRATS' REBOOT SERI WILL CONFIRM ONE OF THE PARENT CHARACTERS IS GAY

One viewer wrote on Twter: "I was today years old when I learned that Betty om Rugrats wasn't always gay.

"One fan tweeted that they were "lovg , " addg: "In the origal, I knew she was gay but was closeted but now she is openly gay!

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