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The Best Episodes of Rugrats

Every episode of Rugrats ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Rugrats!

The Best Episodes of Rugrats

Focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life experiences that become...

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  1. Background image for Spike's Babies
    8.3/10(195 votes)

    #1 - Spike's Babies

    S4:E2

    Spike adopts a litter of kittens.

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    Director:Rick Bugental
  2. Background image for The Baby Vanishes
    8.1/10(153 votes)

    #2 - The Baby Vanishes

    S3:E11

    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.

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  3. Background image for The Legend Of Satchmo
    7.9/10(185 votes)

    #3 - The Legend Of Satchmo

    S3:E8

    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.

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    Director:Jim Duffy
    Writer:Matt Uitz
  4. Background image for Farewell, My Friend
    7.9/10(122 votes)

    #4 - Farewell, My Friend

    S3:E12

    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.

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  5. Background image for Reptar 2010
    7.8/10(123 votes)

    #5 - Reptar 2010

    S3:E17

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

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  6. Background image for Waiter, There's a Baby in My Soup
    7.7/10(236 votes)

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

    S1:E3

    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.

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  8. Background image for Grandpa Moves Out
    7.7/10(140 votes)

    #7 - Grandpa Moves Out

    S3:E7

    After ruining dinner, making Tommy cry and Spike growl, Grandpa gets out of everyone's way by moving to Flushing Waters Retirement Home, which is luxury, (so it says in the commercial), which turns out to be your run-in-the-mill retirement home.

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  9. Background image for The Stork
    7.7/10(119 votes)

    #8 - The Stork

    S3:E10

    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.

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  10. Background image for When Wishes Come True
    7.7/10(145 votes)

    #9 - When Wishes Come True

    S3:E13

    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.

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  11. Background image for The Last Babysitter
    7.7/10(132 votes)

    #10 - The Last Babysitter

    S3:E15

    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.

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  12. Background image for Stu Gets A Job
    7.7/10(119 votes)

    #11 - Stu Gets A Job

    S3:E18

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  13. Background image for Cuffed
    7.7/10(123 votes)

    #12 - Cuffed

    S3:E23

    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.

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    Director:Jim Duffy
  14. Background image for Angelica's Birthday
    7.7/10(151 votes)

    #13 - Angelica's Birthday

    S3:E26

    It's Angelica's birthday and she's excited, until Grandpa Lou tells her what it's like to be old. So, she decides to become a baby again, but soon finds it's not as great as she thinks.

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    Director:Jim Duffy
    Writer:Andy Houts
  15. Background image for Psycho Angelica
    7.7/10(113 votes)

    #14 - Psycho Angelica

    S4:E5

    Angelica pretends to be a psychic.

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  16. Background image for Potty Training Spike
    7.7/10(124 votes)

    #15 - Potty Training Spike

    S4:E16

    Chuckie teaches Spike bathroom manners.

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  17. Background image for Ruthless Tommy
    7.6/10(174 votes)

    #16 - Ruthless Tommy

    S1:E10

    Being mistaken for the son of the millionaire Ronald Thump, Tommy is kidnapped by some thugs named Bob and Mike. But the kidnappers soon find out that it was more trouble than it was worth when Tommy begins flushing their stolen loot down the toilet.

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    Director:Dan Thompson
  18. Background image for Moose Country
    7.6/10(180 votes)

    #17 - Moose Country

    S1:E11

    After hearing Grandpa's mythical story about a moose, the Rugrats go look for one.

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  19. Background image for Angelica Breaks a Leg
    7.6/10(117 votes)

    #18 - Angelica Breaks a Leg

    S3:E14

    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.

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    Director:Jim Duffy
  20. Background image for Destination: Moon
    7.6/10(148 votes)

    #19 - Destination: Moon

    S3:E25

    When Chuckie's toy rocket flies too high, the babies think that it has gone to the moon. Thinking Grandpa Lou's new trailer is a rocket ship, the pretend to fly to the moon to search for Chuckie's rocket. But they have to watch out for moon monsters!

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  21. Background image for Chicken Pops
    7.6/10(138 votes)

    #20 - Chicken Pops

    S4:E3

    The Rugrats get chicken pox.

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    Director:Jim Duffy
  22. Background image for The First Cut
    7.6/10(310 votes)

    #21 - The First Cut

    S5:E4

    Tommy suffers his first cut.

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  23. Background image for Tommy's First Birthday
    7.5/10(320 votes)

    #22 - Tommy's First Birthday

    S1:E1

    Stu and Didi strive to make Tommy's first birthday a memorable one. They did, but under the wrong circumstances. Meanwhile Tommy wants to eat dog food so he can be just like Spike, eventually selling the other Rugrats on the idea.

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  24. Background image for Beauty Contest
    7.5/10(184 votes)

    #23 - Beauty Contest

    S1:E8

    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?

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  25. Background image for Toy Palace
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Toy Palace

    S2:E1

    Stu and Chaz take Tommy and Chuckie to the Toy Palace and Tommy and Chuckie think it would be neat to live in the store and so they sneek away. Stu and Chaz, completely oblivious to what's going on, leave (with a doll and a monkey doll) Tommy and Chuckie in the store. Tommy and Chuckie explore the store with a lazy security guard watching wrestling. Tommy and Chuckie soon find out living in the toy store isn't so good when they get chased by a giant ape toy called "Thorg."

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  26. Background image for Chuckie vs. The Potty
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #25 - Chuckie vs. The Potty

    S2:E3

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Spike's Babies" is the best rated episode of "Rugrats". It scored 8.3/10 based on 195 votes. Directed by Rick Bugental and written by Mark Palmer, it aired on 8/23/1997. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Baby Vanishes".