The Best Episodes Directed By Jim Duffy

#1 - Princess Angelica

Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 12/26/1993

Charlotte and Drew go on a power rafting trip. Angelica has to stay with Uncle Stu and Aunt Didi. She gets mad for not giving her attiention, so she fakes breaking a leg. It drives Stu and Didi nuts, but she eventually gets caught and in the end she gets it back double as Charlotte breaks her leg.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Rachel Lipman

#2 - Sand Ho

Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/1992

The Rugrats act out the pirate story Grandpa told them before he fell asleep (as usual).

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Peter Gaffney

#3 - The Big House

Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/20/1992

Tommy has to go to an overprotective day-care with junior delinquent babies trying to break out. At first it seems like a challenge but then Tommy comes up with an idea to escape.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Paul Germain

#4 - Angelica's In Love

Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/4/1992

Angelica falls in love with a biker kid but doesn't know how to tell him, so she gives him hints throughout the whole episode. When they finally have a chance to be together, his mother comes and picks him up. After that, Angelica decides not to fall in love again - but when a cute foreign kid becomes her new neighbor, she falls in love all over again.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Paul Germain

#5 - The Bank Trick

Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 10/18/1992

Didi needs to go to the bank to run her errands. In the meantime Tommy and Chuckie raid the bank looking for M's. Instead, they cause havoc and help the police catch two notorious criminals.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Earl Klasky

#6 - Beach Blanket Babies

Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 11/1/1992

The Rugrats go to the beach and Chuckie brings the sea monkeys from his house. Chuckie and Tommy can't lift the cooler, so they wait for the cooler to be empty and then bring it back and throw it in.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Mark Trafficante

#7 - The Dog Broomer

Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 11/15/1992

Didi thinks that Spike needs a bath, so calls the best dog groomer. Tommy and Chuckie think the dog groomer is trying to hurt Spike, so they try to keep him from getting washed.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Gary Glasberg

#8 - A Visit From Lipschitz

Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 11/29/1992

While Didi and Stu go out, the famous Dr. Lipschitz babysits Tommy and Chuckie. The babies wonder about him and accidentally reveal him for the phoney that he is.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Jonathan Greenberg

#9 - Chuckie Gets Skunked

Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 12/20/1992

The adults are trying to catch a skunk. Tommy and Chuckie join the hunt and Chuckie ends up being skunked. The babies and grown-ups try everything to get rid of the smell, but the real cure is Minka's borscht.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Peter Gaffney

#10 - Meet The Carmichaels

Season 2 Episode 34 - Aired 1/10/1993

New neighbors the Carmichaels come to town and the Pickles help them get settled in. Tommy meets all the kids: Alisa, Buster, Edwin and Susie Carmichael. Susie tells Tommy all about her great room, but she can't find it so they search all around Susie's new house for her brand new room.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Steve Viksten

#11 - My Friend Barney

Season 2 Episode 39 - Aired 3/14/1993

Chuckie introduces his imaginary friend Barney (who looks just like Chuckie, according to Chuckie), to the other Rugrats, but becomes concerned when Barney "oversteps his authority." Meanwhile, Didi runs with Betty in the "Save the Grunion" 10km marathon, paying a little "price" at its end.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Peter Gaffney

#12 - The Big Flush

Season 2 Episode 43 - Aired 3/28/1993

The Pickles and De Villes go to an indoor swimming pool, and the babies, convinced that it's a giant toilet, try to flush it by jumping on the diving board. Stu must face his fear of the high dive to save the babies.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Lisa Moricoli

#13 - Game Show Didi

Season 2 Episode 46 - Aired 4/11/1993

Chuckie accidentally swallows a watermelon seed. The babies all pretend to go inside of him and find the seed. Angelica wants to grow the seed so Chuckie will explode and die. Tommy stops her and they get the seed, but at the end, Spike eats it.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Andy Houts

#14 - Party Animals

Season 2 Episode 51 - Aired 5/9/1993

Grandpa Lou tells the Rugrats about Aladdin and his magic lamp, so Angelica and the other Rugrats make a wish on a real lamp. When it doesn't work, Angelica falls asleep - but the babies stay awake for the grown-ups' costume party where they think that all their wishes came true. By the time they tell Angelica, the party's over and she doesn't believe the babies.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Holly Huckins

#15 - Dummi Bear Dinner Disaster

Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1993

Paul Gatsby, the creator of the Dummi Bears, comes to dinner at the Carmicheals' house. Susie thinks that every time Paul and her father, Randy (who's the head writer for the Dummi Bears) get together, Paul buys the Carmicheals' a new house. Because of this, she and the rest of the Rugrats decide to ruin the dinner so Paul will be mad and not make the Carmicheals' move.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Rachel Lipman

#16 - Cool Hand Angelica

Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1993

After Susie talks about her rough experiences at camp Angelica says that she could handle that entire camp in a day. Of course she's lying and trying to make herself look good but her wish comes true when her parents enroll her in the same camp as Susie and she realizes that it's not a piece of cake.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Peter Gaffney

#17 - Rhinoceritis!

Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1993

Playing doctor (not THAT kind of playing doctor) with her ""Binks McGill"" doctor kit (based on the TV show), Angelica diagnoses Chuckie with the entirely ficticious ""Rhinoceritis"", in which Chuckie will turn into a rhino. The signs of ""Rhinoceritis"" includes a bump on a head (where ""a horn is growing in""), scaly skin (actually, scabs), and ornery behavior. Meanwhile, Drew helps Stu and Didi with their income tax, with some sound advice for those who don't file properly.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Doria Biddle

#18 - The Legend Of Satchmo

Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/17/1993

The babies, Angelica, and Grandpa have a campout outside. Grandpa tells the legend of the Satchmo, which leads to Chuckie using the restroom, and Tommy figuring out where Chuckie is. Angelica Scares them, Stu is scared to let them sleep outside because of a campout when he was 34. He calms himself down and sleeps with the kids.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Matt Uitz

#19 - The Stork

Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 10/24/1993

Angelica asks, ""Where do babies come from?"" Her parents originally planned to give her a well-thought-out answer, but ended up answering ""the stork"". After Angelica tells the Rugrats about this, Tommy finds his new ""brother"", ""Milton"", in the nest, as an unhatched egg. Angelica, however, wants it (""Miltonia"", her new ""sister""), to herself.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Deborah Raznick

#20 - Farewell, My Friend

Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 10/31/1993

When a glass was broken in Chaz's greenhouse while the Rugrats go on an adventure, Chuckie does not want to go on any adventures with his friends anymore, but Chuckie's decision also affects Chuckie and Tommy's friendship.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Samuel S. Williams

#21 - Angelica Breaks a Leg

Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 11/7/1993

Charlotte and Drew go on a power rafting trip. Angelica has to stay with Uncle Stu and Aunt Didi. She gets mad for not giving her attiention, so she fakes breaking a leg. It drives Stu and Didi nuts, but she eventually gets caught and in the end she gets it back double as Charlotte breaks her leg.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Steve Viksten

#22 - Sour Pickles

Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 11/14/1993

Grandpa Lou tells the story of how much Stu and Drew fought as babies and try to get th eold tv working so they can watch the TV show, ""Blocky and Oxwinkle"".

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Scott J. Schneid

#23 - Stu Gets A Job

Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 11/21/1993

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Michael L. Kramer

#24 - The Gold Rush

Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 11/28/1993

Angelica finds a nickel in the sand box and thinks there's a fortune under the sand, so the babies dig. They start arguing about finding more nickels. Angelica maks the nickel with an X, but the wind blows it away and Angelica digs frantically to find it again. The babies don't care about nickels anymore and they just play happily again.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Doria Biddle

#25 - The Mysterious Mr. Friend

Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 12/5/1993

Stu invents a new toy: a scary walking, talking, heat-seeking clown doll. The babies encounter it, and are horrified. Eventually, it all comes down to a final battle royale between Tommy and friends and an army of "Mr. Friends." The babies win the day...or do they?

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Michael Ferris