"Today, though, Doug stands as the purest distillation of Nickelodeon’s simple, soulful interest in the inner lives of kids. Like the rest of his generation, Doug Funnie wanted to be different but wasn’t. He wished his massive nose was smaller. He wished he could dance. He wished he were smarter. The show constantly portrayed the false relationship between becoming a better person and becoming a different person; it grappled again and again with the devastating epiphany of adolescence that there are things about you that you can’t change."
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The Genius of ‘Doug,’ ‘Rugrats,’ and ‘Ren & Stimpy,’ 20 Years Later - Atlantic Mobile
I remember watching Doug as a kid and trying to guess the title of the episode after the little prologue, before Doug came out and painted it during the credits.
