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Rugrats Season One
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1.0 Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing

Tommy wants to explore the toilet, which he calls 'The great white thing'.

The pilot episode of Rugrats was made between 1989 and 1990, which was never aired on TV. However it can be seen on the 'Decade in Diapers' video. This episode features Tommy, Phil and Lil, Stu and Didi, Spike and Grandpa Lou (who was then called Stu Pickles Snr.)

1.1 Tommy's First Birthday

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It's Tommy's birthday and Stu and Didi are trying to make the day special. However there's only one thing Tommy wants and that is to eat Spike's dog food so he can become a dog!

This was the very first televised episode and was a double length episode. Also the first appearence of Chuckie, Angelica, Drew, Betty, Howard and Boris and Minka.

Towards the end of the episode right after the babies eat the dog food you see Lil lick her lips, while Phil and the rest of the babies spit it out. Yet in the following scene Phil says the dog food tasted good, while Lil and the rest of the babies didn't like it.

When the Rugrats were acting like dogs Angelica was in her party dress but when they were acting like dogs Angelica was in her normal clothes

Stu and Didi's adress can be seen on an invoice as '1258 N. Highland' which was the original address of the Klasky-Csupo building

1.2a Barbeque Story
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Angelica tries to spoil the babies fun by throwing Tommy's star ball into next doors yard. Tommy decides to go and get it.

This is the first episode where Chaz (Chuckie's dad) is featured and also the first episode that Tommy wears his regular blue shirt instead of the red one he wore in the pilot and the first episode.

1.2b Waiter there's a baby in my soup
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Stu has an appointment with Mr Mucklehoney (president of a toy company) but cannot find a babysitter. So Stu and Didi end up taking Tommy with them.

At dinner, Didi's napkin keeps changing color

The restauraunt in this episode is called 'Chez Ennui'. Ennui means 'boredom' in French!


1.3a At the movies
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The Rugrats go to the movies. Tommy wants to see Reptar but the adults take the babies to see the Dummi bears movie 'Land without smiles,' They go in search of Reptar themselves.

This is the first time that Reptar and the Dummi bears appear in the series.

At the end of the episode "At The Movies" it shows the Pickles after the movie in a light green car backed into a parking spot. In the next scene it shows them backing out of the parking spot in a blue car.

1.3b Slumber party
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Angelica spends the night at Tommy's house but Tommy gets sick when Angelica leaves the window open.

This episode is the first time that Drew's wife Charlotte is mentioned.

The sucking noise Tommy makes when drinking his bottle is the same as Maggie in the Simpsons. This is because Gabor Csupo provided the voice of Maggie when Klasky-Csupo animated the series (1987-1992)

On the episode "Slumber Party" when Tommy yawns after waking up from being sick he has a full set of teeth. Yet on the episode "Weaning Tommy" we learn that Tommy only has one tooth

When Angelica is punching her pillow we see that her shoe's are off. But when she getting out of bed her shoes are on

1.4a Baby Commercial
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Betty tells Didi about the trouble she had when she took the twins to film a commercial for diapers. As usual, Phil and Lil had their owns plans which didn't fit in with the directors.

In this episode, the twins are dressed in different clothes at the TV studio. There's a spot where they cut to them sitting in the stroller. Notice that they are now wearing the clothes they normally wear. After they cut back to the full scene, they are wearing their studio clothes again.

When Phil and Lil were fighting over the lollipop: Like the second time Lil took it out of Phil's mouth, some red stuff came out like blood or something and Lil put it in her mouth.

The director of the commercial has two earrings, then one, then two, then one, then two, and then one again.


1.4b Little dude
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Didi takes Tommy to work with her to teach her high school students about babies. But Tommy would rather wander around campus on his own and meets a new friend in Rocko (Ramone)

Didi's home economic's class features students Larry and Steve who appear as reaccuring characters in many other episodes.

We find out in this episode that Didi works at Eucaipah High School, although the fact that she is a teacher is only mentioned three times during the entire series.

1.5a Beauty Contest
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Grandpa and Stu enter Tommy in a beauty pagent called 'Little miss lovely' dressing him in girls clothes and calling him Tonya. All to win a boat, but things go wrong when Angelica is entered into the same contest.

The prize at the beauty pagent is a boat called the Kingfisher 5000.


1.5b Baseball
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Grandpa and Stu take Tommy to a baseball game but he is more interested in his new balloon than the game.

Grandpa wins a radio phone in to get the tickets to the game, the question he has to answer is: Which ball player had the most home runs on a Tuesday for all eternity? The answer: Bucky Majors.


1.6a Ruthless Tommy
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Tommy is mistaken for the son of a millionaire and is kidnapped by thugs Bob and Mike, who then find out that Tommy is more trouble than he's worth.

One of the thieves is smoking a cigarette through te entire episode that never gets any smaller.

When Bob and Mike are bringing Tommy back, the grass outside the Pickle's house is pink.

When Bob and Mike leave to get Tommy milk, the stuff on the table is gone then when Tommy looks around, the stuff is back again


1.6b Moose Country
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Grandpa tells the Rugrats a story about a moose so they go in search of one in the back yard.

When Phil and Lil are fighting over how to catch the moose, there is a scene where they are screaming "hole" and "net" at each other but neither of their mouthes are moving

In a couple scenes on the episode Chuckie can be seen with a full set of teeth, meanwhile he only has two.

When Tommy and the twins go back in the hole to help Chuckie get out, they are covered with mud. During several cuts back to them pushing Chuckie, they're clean, but when they climb out of the hole, they're dirty again


1.7a Grandpa's Teeth
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At a picnic Spike steals Grandpa's teeth. Tommy and Chuckie try to get them back because Grandpa can't play the trumpet in the band without them.

This is the first time we learn that Tommy has teeth


1.7b Momma Trauma
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Stu and Didi take Tommy to see a Psychiatrist after they found him drawing on the walls but Stu ends up talking about his childhood while Tommy goes off exploring the building.

The doctor they go to see is called Dr. Lepetomaine.


1.8a Real or robots
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After seeing a horror movie, Tommy and Chuckie believe sleepwalking Stu is a robot.

In this episode, Chuckie says that his mom told him babies come from the hospital. Didi also tells Stu that Chuckie's mom and dad will pick him up in the morning. But we later learn that Chuckie's mom died when he was really small.

This is the first time we see Didi without her glasses.


1.8b Special Delivery
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Stu orders a doll 'Tina Trousers' from a rival toy company to see how it compares to his new toy 'Patty Pants'. Tommy thinks a new baby is coming in the mail and so catches a ride to the post office with the mailman.

When Tommy hides in the mail man's bag, he looks at 'American Baby' magazine


1.9a Candy bar creepshow
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The Pickles set up a haunted house for Halloween and give out Reptar bars, which the babies want to try. In their search for them they end up scaring not only Angelica but Grandpa too.

Reptar bars are made of chocolate, nuts, caramel and green stuff

Grandpa Lou mentions in this episode he has a brother named Sparky


1.9b Monster in the garage
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Something is making a mess in the Pickles' garage, Stu thinks it's Spike. After hearing Granpa Boris' story about monsters the Rugrats think there is a monster in the garage and go looking for it.

In the beginning when Didi, Stu, Grandpa, Tommy, and Chuckie run to the garage, Didi's 'Mud Mask' only covers her face. But, a few seconds later, it's on her neck and the inside of her bathrobe, too. However, in the next shot, it's only on her face.

The license plate on the Pickles' car is a Calafornia plate that says PKLS.


1.10a Weaning Tommy
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Didi takes Tommy to the dentist who tells her Tommy should be drinking from a cup to stop him having bad teeth. But Tommy wants to keep his bottle.

At the beginning of the episode the clock in Tommy's room has no hands.

When Didi is on the phone with Betty the hand that is on her waist is backwards.


1.10b Incident in aisle seven
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Grandpa takes Tommy to the supermarket and ends up making a mess when he goes in search of Reptar cereal.

This episode features Larry and Steve who were first seen in 'Little Dude'

A lobster on the cash register rips the clerk's bowtie off. In the next scene, it's back on.

During this episode, Reptar has white eyes instead of the usual orange


1.11a Touchdown Tommy
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When Didi and Betty go shopping the Rugrats dads babysit but want to watch the Ultra Bowl. Grandpa gives Tommy a bottle of chocolate milk which causes a fight between him and Angelica, who usually thinks she's too big for bottles.

This episode is Chaz's first major appearence and also the first time we see Angelica's cat Fluffy.

When the dads are shown on the couch, look closely and you'll see that there are chocolate stains on the wall (from Tommy's bottle). But Tommy hasn't gotten his bottle yet.

Chick Hearn was one of the commentators. In real life he is the commentator for the L.A. Lakers


1.11b The trial
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Someone broke Tommy's clown lamp and Angelica wants to find out who.

This is when we find out that Chuckie is afraid of clowns.

When Tommy says the last lines of this episode he was wearing his "Judge's Robe". When we do a panoramic shot of the room, he isn't wearing a robe


1.12a Fluffy Vs. Spike
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Angelica brings her cat Fluffy to the Pickles house. Fluffy ends up making a mess and blaming it all on Spike.

While the babies are in the playpen, you can see Lil on the left side and Phil on the right side of the playpen. In the next scene they switch spots. And then in the following scene they return back to their original spots

During the game of Simon Says, Phil's shorts are green in one scene instead of blue


1.12b Reptar's Revenge
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The Rugrats go to the fairground and go looking for Reptar, who turns out to be a man named Leo who is addicted to Reptar cereal.

In this episode, it's Didi who's scared of clowns, rather than Chuckie; please note that he's smiling while the clown came up and startled Didi.

The man in the Reptar suit, Leo, returns later in 'Reptar on Ice'


1.13a Graham Canyon
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The Pickles have car trouble on the way to the Grand Canyon. Tommy and Angelica think that the tyres in the garage are the Grand Canyon. By playing in it they stop the mechancis over charging Stu and Didi for the repairs.

This is the first time Cynthia appears.


1.13b Stu Maker's elves
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Stu recieves an order from Mucklehoney Industries for Patty Pants dolls, but his machine malfunctions. That is, until Tommy and Chuckie interfere.

Stu needs to make 15,000 dolls for Mucklehoney Toys

Near the end, we see Tommy and Chuckie in doll clothes (and Chuckie in doll makeup) in the box where the dolls were kept. After Stu and Didi left the room, Tommy and Chuckie climb out of the box, wearing their normal clothes, probably without pausing to take off the doll clothes that they were wearing