This is weird as I’ve only seen a few episodes of the show Rugrats when it was a new thing many many years ago. It was one of those things I only watched when home from school and sick. There was probably nothing better on. I don’t particularly enjoy it. I am aware there is an “all grown up” spinoff but I’ve seen nothing from it.

Anyway to set the stage of this dream. It had Tommy now “Tom” is in high-school. “Chuck” is there but the others are just gone. They moved or ended up in differnt schools. He’s being brave but he is terrified of the new setting. Cliche as hell.

Tom’s father Stu is a huge YouTube personality. His inventions never sold well but people love seeing him invent cool stuff and being entertaining. Everyone knows his channel and he’s generally regarded as a wholesome dude.

The dream is just an episode of this in which Tom has an argument with a teacher about somthing. Tom knows he is right but gets in trouble for refusing to back down on it. Stu is called by the faculty who also have no idea who he is. Tom is given a detention and misses some Halloween event as a result.

No one other than Chuck knows Tom is actually the son of this YouTube guy and Tom keeps this a secret from everybody.

While Tom is in detention he is watching his fathers new Halloween video. Stu appears on screen and this awesome 3D avatar of a deer skull in a bone theamed suit. There’s even bones outlining his wild hair and a cool scepter. He sings a (possible original) song about “going your own way” and “making your own path” apprently he can sing really damn well.

Though everyone is watching this all around him Tom understand this video is just his father talking to him. It’s like Stu is saying “authority is going to fight you, but hang in there”.