The Best Episodes Written By Jonathan Greenberg

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   #1 - The Santa Experience

   S2:E2712/6/1992

   After Angelica finds out that Santa Claus is a fake, she decides to take Phil and Lil's presents away. Meanwhile Tommy tries to convince Chuckie that Santa Claus isn't a scary man. The adults take them all for a trip in the mountains for Christmas and that's where the Christmas spirit strikes Angelica and she decides to give Phil and Lil their presents back so she won't get coal for Christmas. Chaz decides to dress up as Santa and when Chuckie sees him he loses his fear of Santa Claus.

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   #2 - Heat

   S1:E1111/11/1996

   Arnold has a really bad day - the city is suffering from a heatwave, and whatever he does, Arnold just can't seem to get cool.

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   #3 - Roughin' It

   S1:E1812/2/1996

   Grandpa, Arnold, and Gerald are all going on an old fashioned camping trip... until Big Bob, Helga, and Phoebe show up with luxurious camping equipment.

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   #4 - Benchwarmer

   S1:E2212/16/1996

   Arnold has trouble with the basketball coach and his favored son.

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   #5 - Best Friends

   S2:E2110/22/1997

   Rhonda and Nadine fall out over working on a project at school, leaving Arnold to work with both of them separately.

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   #6 - Longest Monday

   S2:E710/1/1997

   Schoolyard tradition has it that on the first Monday of June each year, the fifth graders throw the fourth graders into trash cans. So, Arnold and Gerald try to make a run for it. As more people are thrown into trash cans and the fifth graders know all the routes, Arnold and Gerald find out eluding the fifth graders is harder that they thought.

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   #7 - Ransom

   S2:E1110/8/1997

   Gerald and Arnold get on the case when Timberly loses her Barney-esque doll.

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   #8 - Runaway Float

   S2:E3612/1/1997

   After creating an idea for a parade float, Arnold is confident of it showing up in a parade.

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   #9 - Partners

   S2:E3712/1/1997

   A lounge singer moves into the Sunset Arms after renouncing his songwriter, who also moves there.

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    #10 - Mud Bowl

    S2:E1810/20/1997

    Wolfgang and his gang of fifth graders challenge Arnold and his friends to a football game, but he has to first persuade them that his plays are good enough for them to win.

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    #11 - Career Day

    S3:E2110/21/1998

    A. All the kids are paired with adults with interesting jobs except Arnold, who is forced to spend time with the Jolly Olly, the Ice Cream Man.

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    #12 - Passover

    S0:E24/13/1995

    While attending a Passover seder at Didi's parents' house, Boris and the children (and later, most of the adults), get locked in the attic because the door does not open from the inside. To pass the time, Boris tells the children the story of why Jews celebrate Passover, and how Moses saved his people from slavery.

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    #13 - Together At Last

    S2:E49/13/1992

    Phil and Lil want separate lives. Phil goes to Tommy's with Lil's bow on. Lil stays home looking like Phil. They end up wanting to be together.

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    #14 - A Visit From Lipschitz

    S2:E2511/29/1992

    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.

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    #15 - Rebel Without A Teddy Bear

    S2:E321/3/1993

    Tommy loses his stuffed lion. It gets dirty and Didi decides to clean it. Then Tommy gets mad and decides to act mean just like Angelica, but Chuckie eventually saves him by turning Tommy good, and Didi gives Tommy his lion back.

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    #16 - Driving Miss Angelica

    S2:E485/2/1993

    After being saved by Angelica, Chuckie has to be Angelica's slave for life - but when he saves her, things go the other way around.

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    #17 - Tooth Or Dare

    S2:E505/9/1993

    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.

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    #18 - Chuckie's First Haircut

    S3:E310/3/1993

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

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    #19 - Grandpa Moves Out

    S3:E710/17/1993

    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.

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    #20 - The Odd Couple

    S3:E2812/26/1993

    Tommy is staying over at Chuckie's house for a long weekend while his parents go to Wisconsin for a cheese tasting tour. Tommy and Chuckie think they're going to get along great, but soon they start fighting about their different ways of doing stuff.

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    #21 - Chuckie's Wonderful Life

    S3:E342/13/1994

    When Chuckie accidently gives Angelica his father's Latvian Polka Dances CD (using it as a toy), Chuckie, who wishes he weren't born, has a chance to see what would be of the world if it weren't for Chuckie.

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    #22 - Chuckie's Red Hair

    S3:E372/27/1994

    Tommy ""accidently"" lets Chuckie borrow his Boppo toy. Chuckie then relizes it's a clown toy. Angelica finds a switch on it and Chuckie pulls it, deflating Boppo. Then Tommy comes over and sees the deflated Boppo, Then Stu inflates it again.

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    #23 - The Alien

    S3:E393/6/1994

    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.

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    #24 - Pickles vs. Pickles

    S3:E444/10/1994

    Tired of being hassled all the time by her parents, especially when it comes down to the foods she's required to eat, Angelica doesn't take the law into her own hands -- she takes them to court.

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    #25 - No More Cookies

    S3:E485/15/1994

    After getting sick as a result of eating too much cookies, Angelica swears off them, depending on the other Rugrats to keep her away from cookies.

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