It didn't dazzle people with technology, the way new animation usually does, but it didn't have to. Something is missing from all of this, something obvious to any child who spends eight hours at day care wrestling another child for control of a Barbie doll.
Some kids are just plain mean, and even the nice ones can act that way.
A typical episode will find Angelica telling the children that dust bunnies are real, and liable to eat anyone who tries to go from the living room to the kitchen. Good conquers evil, even on cable, and wicked Angelica usually ends up covered in dirt, or chocolate, or boogers, etc. It's only slightly irreverent, usually instructive, and put across by some of the best vocal talent in any animated format. Children relate to the TV show because the adventures of Chuckie, Tommy and friends are always in the forefront, with parents around for comic relief. Here, the situation is puzzlingly reversed.