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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!

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...
Genres:FamilyAnimationKidsComedy
Network:Nickelodeon

Best Episodes Summary

"Spike's Babies" is the best rated episode of "Rugrats". It scored 8.2/10 based on 180 votes. Directed by Rick Bugental and written by Mark Palmer, it aired on 8/23/1997. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Bank Trick".

  • Spike's Babies
    8.2/10180 votes
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    #1 - Spike's Babies

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 8/23/1997

    Spike adopts a litter of kittens.

    Director: Rick Bugental

    Writer: Mark Palmer

  • The Bank Trick
    8.1/10215 votes
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    #2 - 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, Gary Gurner

  • The Baby Vanishes
    8.0/10145 votes
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    #3 - The Baby Vanishes

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 10/31/1993

    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: Howard E. Baker

    Writer: Rachel Lipman

  • Garage Sale
    7.9/10150 votes
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    #4 - Garage Sale

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 10/11/1992

    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

  • Let There Be Light
    7.9/10158 votes
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    #5 - Let There Be Light

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 10/18/1992

    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

  • Aunt Miriam
    7.8/10122 votes
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    #6 - Aunt Miriam

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 11/22/1992

    Aunt Miriam and Lou were not nice to each other. They always did and acted like Angelica and Tommy are today. Tommy and Chuckie go in the bathroom and find a hair dryer, a radio and a wig. They think Aunt Mirian is an alien and investigate.

    Director: Howard E. Baker

    Writer: Peter Gaffney

  • The Legend Of Satchmo
    7.8/10173 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Farewell, My Friend
    7.8/10114 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Waiter, There's a Baby in My Soup
    7.7/10225 votes
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    #9 - 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, Paul Germain

  • Mirrorland
    7.7/10136 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • Family Reunion
    7.7/10123 votes
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    #11 - Family Reunion

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/25/1992

    While Grandpa goes on to Chicago because he missed his train stop (likely on purpose), the Pickles stop in (fictional) Willoughby, Iowa to attend their family reunion, hosted by Hugh Pickles and his wife Dotti. Angelica tells Tommy and the other kids that reunions are swap meets for kids, with the kids being swapped. Her lie ended up backfiring on her, however, when a couple of other farming relatives, Mackie and Edie, have a kid like Angelica.

    Director: Steven Dean Moore

    Writer: Peter Gaffney

  • Grandpa's Date
    7.7/10131 votes
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    #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, Joe Ansolabehere

  • Cool Hand Angelica
    7.7/10124 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Grandpa Moves Out
    7.7/10134 votes
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    #14 - Grandpa Moves Out

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1993

    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

  • When Wishes Come True
    7.7/10138 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • The Last Babysitter
    7.7/10124 votes
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    #16 - The Last Babysitter

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 11/14/1993

    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: Howard E. Baker

    Writer: Peter Gaffney

  • Reptar 2010
    7.7/10116 votes
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    #17 - 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, Paul Germain

  • Angelica's Birthday
    7.7/10143 votes
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    #18 - Angelica's Birthday

    Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 12/19/1993

    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

  • Potty Training Spike
    7.7/10113 votes
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    #19 - Potty Training Spike

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 10/11/1997

    Chuckie teaches Spike bathroom manners.

    Director: Celia Kendrick

    Writer: David Maples

  • Ruthless Tommy
    7.6/10170 votes
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    #20 - Ruthless Tommy

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/6/1991

    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

  • Moose Country
    7.6/10173 votes
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    #21 - Moose Country

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/6/1991

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

    Director: Dan Thompson

    Writer: Jeffrey Townsend

  • The Inside Story
    7.6/10125 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • Twins Pique
    7.6/10122 votes
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    #23 - Twins Pique

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1993

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    Director: Norton Virgien

    Writer: Paul Germain

  • The Stork
    7.6/10113 votes
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    #24 - 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, Daniel Benton

  • Angelica Breaks a Leg
    7.6/10110 votes
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    #25 - 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