The idea of rebooting the original Nicktoons has long been rumored, but now seems closer than ever before. So what does that mean for fans of the old shows? Closure.

Entertainment Weekly reported Monday that it was highly likely many of the original Nicktoons would be coming back. A Rugrats deal had been closed, but shows like Ren & Stimpy were looking unlikely.

That brings us to another big time Nicktoon show, Doug. In the original show, creator Jim Jinkins gave fans a main character to root for and a love story that fans never had closure on. That all may change if the show does get a reboot. That’s if Disney agrees to the reboot.

However, if the show does make a comeback, Jinkins has admitted he’s already written some scenes including the one giving fans an answer to a long pondered question. Do Doug and his lifelong crush, Patti Mayonnaise, end up together?

Jinkins created the character in the 1980s as an alter ego of sorts. A lot of the show is loosely based on Jinkins life. As a result, the creator has a strong emotional and personal attachment to the show and its characters.

The love story between Doug is very similar to Jinkins’s love story involving the real life Patti Mayonnaise:

It’s my ten-year reunion, and I didn’t go. I was in New York working like crazy as a freelancer and just trying to make it there. And I got a phone call in New York and it’s Patti. The real Patti. And my heart’s beating fast. She’s like, ‘I was at the reunion! You weren’t!’ and I was like, ‘Yeah…sorry…I had to work.’ And she goes, ‘I found out you live in New York. Guess what—I do, too!’ And she told me where she lives. We lived across Central Park from each other. And she says, ‘Why don’t you come over for dinner?’

So now we’re in a Doug show. I’m like, what do I wear? What will she look like!? All that’s happening as I’m walking across Central Park to her apartment, just wondering and just hoping, all those things. I was, at the time, very available…

So this is all wonderful, right? And then she wheels and goes, ‘Oh, Jimmy, I want you to meet my husband.’

And I don’t even remember the rest of the evening.

Ouch. (Eerily similar to the finale of The Wonder Years, but with the genders reversed.) So while the real life Doug and Patti didn’t end up together, that doesn’t mean the show version of the couple won’t.

“It doesn’t happen because, really, most people don’t end up with their first love,” says Jinkins. “But then again, maybe I do do it! There isn’t some rule! It’s not in the Bible. It’s just that most people don’t. I don’t know the answer yet. But I would predict that what I would do is make it where Patti is maybe not married, but in a serious relationship.”

Jinkins isn’t fully ready to close the book based on his quotes, but if a Nicktoons reboot fails, he might not be able to close the book on the TV screen in real life.

[Entertainment Weekly]

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