The Best Episodes Written By Rick Gitelson

The minivan gets a flat tire.

Angelica orders take out food.

The babies plot against a repairman.

Chuckie's clothes get shrunk in the wash.

Tommy dreams Chuckie becomes more like Angelica.

Charlotte's assistant baby-sits.

A poker game at Aunt Miriam's house.

Falling leaves concern the babies.

Chuckie becomes jealous of Tommy after hearing about his family tree.

In order to get two Cynthia toys Angelica pretends that she has a twin to get double of what she wants. Everything goes well until the babies like her twin better then her so she decides to go back to being herself.

Angelica Tells Tommy that Susie's ( imaginary ) sister Yvonne disappered of giving all her toys to Susie. Tommy and Chuckie think he will dissaper, and take the toys away from Dil and Didi.

As a challenge to see whether the Rugrats are ""grown-up"", Angelica entices the Rugrats not to sleep during naptime, then uses various tactics to get them to fall asleep. The winner gets to play with Stu's newest invention, the ""Magical Merry Music Ball"".

Stu gets worn out taking care of Tommy and Dil so the adults send him on a spa treatment to make him feel better.

Stu goes shopping for a new car which Tommy, Chuckie, and Dil pretend its a submarine and have an undersea adventure.

Chuckie and the Rugrats go to the park to try out his new pedal-operated toy car that his father gave him. Other kids like his car so much, they become his "friends", just to get a ride. Meanwhile, Didi and Chazz compare notes on Dr. Lipschitz, with Chazz being more up-to-date on his work.

All Singing! All dancing! If you liked their musical talents in the live show and the movie, you'll love (or at least, like) this episode. Recorded ""live"" to an audience of one (Dil). Featuring musical hits!

After Tommy and Chuckie decide to go their separate ways to find new friends. They each find what seem to be kindred spirits, but soon realize that it's diversity that makes the world go around.

Intrigued by Chazz's unusual collection of odd asthma inhalers, Chuckie starts a rock collection, with the Rugrats adding on to it. His most-prized possession in that collection is his first rock, which is moon-shaped and reminds him of his father. The Rugrats follow suit and start collecting other items. However, collecting rocks isn't as easy as you may think.

Stu, Chazz & Howard take the Rugrats to the zoo, where the employees wear animal costumes. After noticing this, the Rugrats learn that animals are people, too, as they see these ""animals"" do human stuff like eat ice cream, play with toys and sell souvenirs. When placed in a caged petting zoo, they think that they will turn into animals and remain there forever and ever. Later, when Tommy dropped his trusty screwdriver outside the pen, the Rugrats call on Dil and the real animals to help him out.

After seeing someone on TV running for mayor of their town, the Rugrats vote to see who's going to be ""mayor"" of their group -- Tommy or Phil. Meanwhile, Didi and Betty work on mailouts in support of the town's mayoral candidate -- Sheila Swann.

After Didi has hided the cookie jar from Angelica, Angelica has threatened the Rugrats with her starvation if they don't find the cookies in time. Their mission becomes a prehistoric fantasy, where the Rugrats, now ""cavebabies"", find Dil, the ""Wise Cave Baby"", so he can point them in the direction of the cookie jar, or, ""Cookiesaurus"".

When Chazz's library book, "The History Of Nasal Inhalers", was due, he took the Rugrats to the library to return it. While there, Chazz decided to get library cards for Chuckie and Kimi, saying that they're "the window to the world". But, will the Rugrats obey the librarian's rules to keep quiet, not eat, and to put the books back? Meanwhile, Chazz's library privileges are revoked when the strict librarian noticed a microscopic tear on a book's cover, forcing him to make a deal.

Now that Spike and Fifi have a family of their own (in Bow Wow Wedding Vows), there's one problem -- what should the Finsters do with all those puppies? Solution -- give them away to good homes, of course. With the Finsters already having a dog of their own, they plan on giving ALL their puppies away. But one of them, Puppy, is too scared to leave, while the brave Spiffy is actually happy to have found a new home. Evidently, Puppy ended up being a permanent part of the Finster's household, while Spiffy will be living with his dad -- at Tommy & Dil's house. But watch how all this plays out, especially as Angelica wanted a dog of her own.

Grandpa and the Rugrats take a trip to a store that specializes in tropical pets, as Grandpa was interested in buying a talking bird for Lulu. After Grandpa buys those little toys out of the gum machine for the Rugrats, Lil gets a toy ring, which was called "the Ring Of The Sunbeams", a ring that's so special, that Angelica wants it all for herself.

Lil tries emulating her prim and proper twin cousins from England, while Phil works to persuade her to stay messy like him. Also, Angelica pretends that she's American royalty.