Rugrats is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon.
The show focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, twins Phil and Lil, Susie, then later Dil and Kimi and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life experiences that become adventures in the babies' imaginations.
During this time, after the end of the show's production run, Rugrats began to receive a boost in ratings and popularity with constant reruns on Nickelodeon.
Though initially intended as a one-time special, it was popular enough that it acted as a pilot for the Rugrats spin-off series All Grown Up!, which chronicles the lives of the characters after they age 10 years.
[6][7] After seeing his grandpa go to the bathroom so many times, Tommy Pickles wants to find out what a "great white thing" (toilet) is, creating a mess when he investigates.
Tommy wants to see Reptar, but his parents take him and the other Rugrats, to the Westside Octoplex to see The Land Without Smiles, starring the Dummi Bears, instead.
Phil and Lil make a brief appearance in a diaper commercial, and they tell Tommy about it, as well as the mayhem they cause in the process.
Having the desire for the Kingfisher 9000 (a top-of-the-line sports boat), Stu and Grandpa enter Tommy into a beauty contest by placing him in girl's clothes and a wig, naming him "Tonya".
Tommy and Chuckie accidentally wakes him up after using a wrench on his belly button and Didi calls him out for not going to see a psychiatrist in dealing with his sleepwalking issues.
On advice from Dr. Homer, Tommy's dentist, Stu, and Didi take his bottles away from him and try to coax him into drinking from a sippy cup.
While Didi and Betty go shopping, Stu and the guys babysit the Rugrats while watching the "Ultra Bowl XXXVII" on TV.
The Pickles experience car trouble en route to the Grand Canyon/Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
After wandering away from their fathers, Tommy and Chuckie unwittingly end up playing around in a closed toy store, which they never want to leave.
Dr. Lipschitz (Tony Jay), the famous child psychologist whose advice Didi always follows, visits the Pickles but is not prepared for an encounter with the babies.
Angelica steals a planet-atomizing remote from Stuvon (Stu as an alien) and escapes with help from a talking fish.
New neighbors move in across the street from the Pickles, where Tommy helps the youngest member of the family, Susie (Cree Summer), find her new room.
After Angelica intimidates him, the babies consult Susie, and she trains Chuckie to be "the bestest slider in the whole wide park".
Guest stars: Alex Trebek and Charles Nelson Reilly After Angelica saves Chuckie's life from nearly being hit by a gang of big-wheelers, she takes advantage of the debt he owes to her by making him become her personal slave.
Angelica and the babies stage a "circus" of their own after they are forced to leave a real one due to Chuckie's fear of clowns.
Susie's older sister, Alisa, babysits for her younger siblings and Tommy, but things go awry when a "monster" appears.
Tommy plays with an inflatable clown that Stu made for him, but accidentally gives it to Chuckie, who has a great time with it.
Chuckie thinks that there are monsters living underneath his new "big boy" bed, but Tommy ventures under it to prove otherwise.
Charlotte announces that she may be pregnant, which frightens Angelica to the point of her having a nightmare about being rejected by her parents and her new baby sibling threatening her.
When the Rugrats figure out the ruse, Angelica's doll is found by Spike and she barfs from eating the babies' candy.
Angelica learns a curse word from the host of her favorite children's show, Miss Carol's Happy House.
The babies go to the zoo, get trapped inside the pen, and end up accidentally freeing the animals when attempting to leave.
Angelica sabotages Susie's performance by stealing her dancing shoes, causing the girl to slip and fall around the stage.
Chuckie breaks his home's toilet, and the Rugrats take a trip to the appliance store with Chas and Kira to get a new one.
Kira and Chas hire a guy to help boost Java Lava's popularity, but this unknowingly leads to a game of Hide and Seek.
The children go to a cabin that has special memories for Drew, Stu, and Chas, and the babies fear that the fountain in the center of the lake at the lodge will rejuvenate the adults.