"Example, on Rugrats, Tommy's grandparents are Boris & Minka. It's a grandparent stereotype we don't really get in fiction in the past 15 years or so, the "turnip, old country, boring, frugal" slav grandparents contrasted with the rough n tumble, "cool", American-born grandparents. As a kid you just "
"rugrats because they used the word "brat", or to, later on, watch the show Friends because they didn't wear bras and their nips were out all the time and they thought it would make me a whore."