Before the series began production, an hour-long episode of Rugrats entitled "All Growed Up" was aired in 2001 as the franchise's 10th anniversary special.
[5] A talent scout offers Susie the chance to become a pop star, provided she can cover the $1,000 cost of recording a demo.
Susie convinces her older sister Alisa to lend her some money she has been saving for a house, but after paying the scout she discovers she has been conned.
Completely devastated, she vows never to sing again but is encouraged by her friends to perform at a talent night at Chas and Betty's café, the Java Lava.
He goes to Kimi for help on changing his image to get Nicole to notice him and they create an alter ego for him as foreign exchange student, Chongo.
Chuckie is concerned when Kimi hits it off with school bad boy Z, roping the gang into investigating Z which leads them to believe he is a thief.
In the end, Tommy re-cuts the film with bloopers from his first attempt at making a movie and clips of the gang as babies, this time showing them in a more positive and proud light.
While the gang are under stress about the upcoming Standardized Test, Betty and Chas set up a neighbourhood watch to catch the thief who has been stealing from gardens.
Lil' Q tries to undo this mistake but instead hits Sean Butler, a boy Aneglica wants to ask her to the dance, and he falls in love with Susie.
Lil' Q then hits Z, who also falls in love with Susie and he and Sean argue over who is taking her to the dance, upsetting Kimi who wanted Z to ask her.
The more time Kimi spends embracing Japanese culture the more Chuckie feels she does not want to be a part of her adoptive family.
Angelica's face breaks out in zits, the others tell her it might be some form of karmic retribution for not letting Susie sign up.
When Tommy forgoes going to the traditional opening day ball game outing with his Grandpa, Lou takes Dil instead.
While trying on their costumes in the Finster's garage they find TP+KF carved on the wall, leading Chuckie to believe that Tommy has a crush on Kimi.
After the rest of the gang's attempts to bring them back together fail, including the reveal that it was Kimi who carved the initials, they eventually make up when Chuckie saves Tommy from middle school goons.
While preparing for her parents' tenth wedding anniversary with Chuckie, Kimi leads a petition drive to ban cell phones in school.
Their feud boils over to the anniversary party until Tommy shows a video of their parents' wedding when they were babies, which brings them to tears and they make up.
They make a tree house with a zip-line in the backyard to scare and anger their parents into giving them their TV back.
With Stu and Didi away at an Invention Convention, Dil wants to host a viewing party for a "real" alien autopsy video with Tommy.
This gets even more difficult when Phil, Lil, and Chuckie show up and Dil invites ten other kids to come see it, much to Tommy's frustration.