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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!

Best episode
S4E2 Spike's Babies
8.4214 votes
Worst episode
S9E6 Lil's Phil of Trash
5.882 votes
Top season
Season 4
7.5avg
Binge time
2d 15h
322 episodes
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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Rugrats Season 4 Episode 2 - Spike's Babies
    8.4/10(214 votes)

    S4:E2

    Spike adopts a litter of kittens.

    Director:Rick Bugental
    Writer:Mark Palmer

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  2. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 11 - The Baby Vanishes
    8.2/10(161 votes)

    S3:E11

    Angelica uses her mother's vanishing cream (thinking it can make people "invisible") on herself and Tommy and Chuckie, but she wants to be noticed later on.

    Director:Howard E. Baker
    Writer:Rachel Lipman

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  3. Rugrats Season 2 Episode 14 - The Bank Trick
    8.1/10(255 votes)

    S2:E14

    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
    Writers:Earl Klasky, Gary Gurner

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  4. Rugrats Season 2 Episode 13 - Let There Be Light
    8.0/10(181 votes)

    S2:E13

    When Stu creates a blackout, every light all over town goes out. Chuckie says that now it's dark, every scary monster will come out, but Tommy says that he knows where there's extra light: the refrigerator. The Rugrats have an adventure and by the time they get to the refrigerator, the power comes back on.

    Director:Dan Thompson
    Writer:Pamela Wick

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  5. Rugrats Season 2 Episode 12 - Garage Sale
    7.9/10(174 votes)

    S2:E12

    The Pickles throw a garage sale and Angelica tricks the babies by letting them help out and give out some stuff too. In the end when Didi and Stu come back inside, the entire house is empty and the money they earnt has to be used to replace everything.

    Director:Steven Dean Moore
    Writer:Steve Viksten

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  6. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 8 - The Legend Of Satchmo
    7.9/10(162 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jim Duffy
    Writer:Matt Uitz

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  7. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 12 - Farewell, My Friend
    7.9/10(134 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jim Duffy
    Writer:Samuel S. Williams

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  8. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 26 - Angelica's Birthday
    7.8/10(164 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jim Duffy
    Writer:Andy Houts

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  9. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 7 - Grandpa Moves Out
    7.8/10(151 votes)

    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.

    Director:Howard E. Baker
    Writer:Jonathan Greenberg

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  10. Rugrats Season 4 Episode 16 - Potty Training Spike
    7.8/10(134 votes)

    S4:E16

    Chuckie teaches Spike bathroom manners.

    Director:Celia Kendrick
    Writer:David Maples

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  11. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 17 - Reptar 2010
    7.8/10(133 votes)

    S3:E17

    The Rugrats are having fun watching Reptar 2010 when suddenly the video breaks. So the Rugrats become Reptommy, Chucktar, Replil, Repphil, and Reptelica and create their own endings to the movie.

    Director:Norton Virgien
    Writers:Peter Gaffney, Paul Germain

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  12. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 23 - Cuffed
    7.8/10(132 votes)

    S3:E23

    After playing with a pair of toy had-cuffs to be donated to an orphanage, Chuckie and Angelica got cuffed together with it and they've lost the key.

    Director:Jim Duffy
    Writer:Steve Viksten

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  13. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 13 - When Wishes Come True
    7.8/10(125 votes)

    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.

    Director:Norton Virgien
    Writer:Joe Ansolabehere

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  14. Rugrats Season 1 Episode 3 - Waiter, There's a Baby in My Soup
    7.7/10(257 votes)

    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.

    Director:Norton Virgien
    Writers:Paul Germain, Craig Bartlett

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  15. Rugrats Season 1 Episode 11 - Moose Country
    7.7/10(200 votes)

    S1:E11

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

    Director:Dan Thompson
    Writer:Jeffrey Townsend

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  16. Rugrats Season 5 Episode 4 - The First Cut
    7.7/10(169 votes)

    S5:E4

    Tommy suffers his first cut.

    Director:Rick Bugental
    Writer:Kate Boutilier

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  17. Rugrats Season 2 Episode 8 - Mirrorland
    7.7/10(162 votes)

    S2:E8

    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

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  18. Rugrats Season 2 Episode 16 - Grandpa's Date
    7.7/10(154 votes)

    S2:E16

    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
    Writers:Steve Viksten, Joe Ansolabehere

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  19. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 15 - The Last Babysitter
    7.7/10(141 votes)

    S3:E15

    Elysa finally gets a chance to be mature and responsible by basysitting Tommy, Susie, Buster, and other babies but promblems arise when the lights blackout and Tommy and Suzie see a shadow in the hall.

    Director:Howard E. Baker
    Writer:Peter Gaffney

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  20. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 10 - The Stork
    7.7/10(127 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jim Duffy
    Writers:Daniel Benton, Deborah Raznick

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  21. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 18 - Stu Gets A Job
    7.7/10(127 votes)

    S3:E18

    Stu, trying to break through his inventor’s block, gets a job at Consolidated Lard.

    Director:Jim Duffy
    Writer:Michael L. Kramer

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  22. Rugrats Season 3 Episode 14 - Angelica Breaks a Leg
    7.7/10(125 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jim Duffy
    Writer:Steve Viksten

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  23. Rugrats Season 1 Episode 10 - Ruthless Tommy
    7.6/10(192 votes)

    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.

    Director:Dan Thompson
    Writer:Ron Birnbach

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  24. Rugrats Season 2 Episode 1 - Toy Palace
    7.6/10(178 votes)

    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."

    Director:Dan Thompson
    Writer:Peter Gaffney

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  25. Rugrats Season 4 Episode 1 - Mother's Day
    7.6/10(170 votes)

    S4:E1

    The children decide to find a new mom for Chuckie for Mother's Day.

    Directors:Norton Virgien, Toni Vian
    Writers:Ali Marie Matheson, Jon Cooksey, David N. Weiss, J. David Stem

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Best Episodes Summary

"Spike's Babies" is the best rated episode of Rugrats. It scored 8.4/10 from 214 votes. Directed by Rick Bugental and written by Mark Palmer, it aired on August 23, 1997. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Baby Vanishes".

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