The Best Episodes Directed By Norton Virgien

#1 - Chuckie vs. The Potty

Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/13/1992

Chaz wants Chuckie to be potty trained but can't get him to go. The babies try not to let Didi and Stu make him use it. Chuckie has a dream about never learning and he uses the potty overnight.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Joe Ansolabehere

#2 - Mirrorland

Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/27/1992

Phil and Lil tell Tommy and Chuckie that there's a world behind the mirror, so Tommy and Chuckie explore it. The world is the complete opposite of their world, but when it gets too scary they decide to come back.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Michael Ferris

#3 - Barbeque Story

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/18/1991

Tommy has received his favorite toy in the whole world -- a ball. Angelica, always looking to spoil the babies' fun, takes the ball and tosses it into the neighbors' yard, resulting in the babies risking life and limb looking for it.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Steve Viksten

#4 - Waiter, There's a Baby in My Soup

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/18/1991

Stu and Didi ended up taking Tommy to an important dinner at "Chez Ennui" with Mr. Mucklehoney (president of Mucklehoney Industries, a toy company), since Tiffany the babysitter (via telephone) and Grandpa have different plans (the babysitter's OTHER goldfish died and Grandpa was going bowling with a friend of his named Louise). Tommy, however, has plans of his own, and proceeds to get loose in the resturant kitchen, causing absolute chaos.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Craig Bartlett

#5 - Beauty Contest

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/15/1991

Stu and Lou enter Tommy in a beauty pageant for baby girls when they learn that the Grand Prize is the Kingfisher 9000 (a top of the line sport fishing boat). But will a dress and a wig fool Tommy's toughest competiton...Angelica?

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Everett Peck

#6 - Baseball

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/15/1991

Stu and Grandpa take Tommy to see a Grizzlies' baseball game. Tommy, however, is more interested in his balloon hunt than the game, and his balloon hunt helps make a very important play for the Grizzlies' player Bucky Majors..

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: M.S. Freeman

#7 - Real or Robots

Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/1/1991

After seeing a scary movie, Tommy and Chuckie decide to find out if Stu is a human or robot. Too bad his sleepwalking makes him appear to be a mechanical monster!

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Steve Viksten

#8 - Special Delivery

Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/1/1991

When Stu orders a "Tina Trousers" doll from Eggbert Toys to see how it compares to his own "Patty Pants" design, Tommy think the Pickles' are getting a new baby in the mail. Hitching a ride with the mailman, Tommy ends up exploring the post office.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Patric M. Verrone

#9 - Touchdown Tommy

Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/1992

After being inspired by their dads watching a football game, Tommy and the other Rugrats use the living room for a little grid-iron fun of their own... keeping Angelica from stealing their chocolate milk.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Tom Abrams

#10 - The Trial

Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/29/1992

Someone broke "Mr. Fluffles" (Angelica calls it "Mr. Fluffle-Luffles"), Tommy's clown lamp, and Angelica wants to find out who. The finger-pointing, however, eventually points back to her.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Paul Germain

#11 - Regarding Stuie

Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/11/1992

Stu tries to set up one of his wacky inventions on the roof and falls off, landing on his head, and starts to think he's a baby. The Rugrats take advantage of this and have fun with him but Tommy starts to miss his dad.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Guy Maxtone-Graham

#12 - Grandpa's Date

Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 10/25/1992

After 40 years, Grandpa's long-lost love Morgana pays a visit. Morgana broke up with Grandpa over his affair with another woman named Trixie McGee, but never knew the real story. Also, Grandpa doesn't want her to know that he's a grandfather, so he rushes Tommy and Chuckie to bed. In any case, everyone has to contend with Stu's new remote-controlled couch, which is more like a mechanical bull for two.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Steve Viksten

#13 - Family Feud

Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 11/8/1992

After Tommy, Phil and Lil's parents get in a big fight, Chuckie's dad tries to make them the best of friends again. If he fails, Tommy and Chuckie will never see Phil and Lil again!

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Michael Ferris

#14 - The Inside Story

Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 11/22/1992

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 the seed.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Holly Huckins

#15 - Chuckie Loses His Glasses

Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 12/20/1992

Angelica plays a hide-and-seek game with the babies, but it's all a plan to steal Chuckie's glasses. Chuckie tries to look for them but he can't see - so he tries to find his "eyes" but breaks Grandpa Lou's instead. In the end Angelica literally gets sick of them and Tommy gives them to Chuckie.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Rachel Lipman

#16 - The Box

Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 1/10/1993

Stu throws out the box from what they just got, and all the Rugrats imagine what they could do with the box. Racing car, astronaut, anything. So, what will they do?

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Michael Ferris

#17 - The Seven Voyages Of Cynthia

Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 3/14/1993

While Stu and Drew are cleaning Drew's boat, Chuckie and Tommy shanghaied Cynthia so she could be captain; however, when she got lost in the sewer system, it broke Angelica's heart. She did get her back, but not without sailing miles and miles in the sewers and taking a bath in toxic waste. Meanwhile, after being chased away by Angelica, Spike hitches a ride in a garbage truck to the city dump, which doubles as a "scenic overlook."

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Craig Bartlett

#18 - The Slide

Season 2 Episode 42 - Aired 3/28/1993

After Chuckie mistakenly goes down the "big kids' slide" at a Chuck E. Cheese-type place, he's afraid of all slides, and Angelica and Suzie bet on whether he will go down another slide.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Joe Ansolabehere

#19 - Toys In The Attic

Season 2 Episode 47 - Aired 4/11/1993

Didi, Stu, Drew and Charlotte go on a week-long vacation and leave Angelica and Tommy at Minka and Boris's house. Tommy and Angelica think it's boring so they look for toys, ending up finding Didi's old toys.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: John O'Brien

#20 - Tooth Or Dare

Season 2 Episode 50 - Aired 5/9/1993

While Tommy and Angelica are hanging out at Susie's house, the three of them are watching an edutainment-video on dental hygiene. Susie explains that her parents had gotten the video because her older brother, Edwin, had recently lost one of his baby teeth and received money from the Tooth Fairy after he put the tooth under his pillow. Angelica doesn't believe the story until Edwin shows that he really did lose a tooth by smiling at her, and showing that he had lost one of his front teeth. This gives Angelica an idea.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Paul Germain

#21 - Twins Pique

Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1993

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Paul Germain

#22 - Tricycle Thief

Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1993

Chuckie is scared to get a haircut so the rugrats try to make him get over this fear.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Glenn Eichler

#23 - Circus Angelicus

Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/24/1993

Susie's tricycle is missing, and everyone immediately blames Angelica. She denies it, but there is lots of evidence. Did she steal it?

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Larry Doyle

#24 - When Wishes Come True

Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 11/7/1993

Tommy gets really mad at Angelica for ruining his ""3 Baby's and a Guitar"" statue. So Tommy wishes for the worst thing to happen for Angelica. She turned stone, but the babies don't know it's Drew's annivesry present for Charlotte.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Joe Ansolabehere

#25 - Reptar 2010

Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 11/21/1993

Intrigued by the neighborhood circus show, Angelica puts on a show of her own, with the Rugrats volunteering (actually, drafted).

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Peter Gaffney