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The following is a list of episodes from the first season of Rugrats.
Episodes
Ep. # | Image | Title | Original air date (United States) |
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1 | "Tommy's First Birthday" | August 11, 1991 | |
Stu and Didi strive to make Tommy's first birthday a memorable one. Meanwhile, Tommy wants to eat dog food so he can be just like Spike, eventually selling the other Rugrats on the idea. | |||
2 | "Barbeque Story" | August 18, 1991 | |
Angelica, always looking to spoil the babies' fun, tosses Tommy's favorite beach ball into the next yard, resulting in the babies risking life and limb looking for it. | |||
"Waiter, There's a Baby in My Soup" | August 18, 1991 | ||
Stu and Didi take Tommy to an important dinner at Chez Ennui with Mr. Mucklehoney (president of Mucklehoney Industries, a toy company). | |||
3 | "At the Movies" | August 25, 1991 | |
When the parents take the Rugrats to the Westside Octoplex to see The Land Without Smiles (starring the Dummi Bears), the Rugrats leave to go look for the Reptar movie that's showing at the same theater, leaving a path of destruction behind them. | |||
"Slumber Party" | August 25, 1991 | ||
Angelica stays over with Tommy, but her desire for an open window leaves Tommy feeling ill. | |||
4 | "Baby Commercial" | September 8, 1991 | |
Betty talks about her trials and tribulations regarding placing Phil and Lil in a diaper commercial, in which the twins ad-lib rather than stick to the script. | |||
"Little Dude" | September 8, 1991 | ||
Didi takes Tommy to her workplace, a local high school, for use as a visual aid. When two teenage girls lose him, he gets down to exploring the campus, rugrat style! | |||
5 | "Beauty Contest" | September 15, 1991 | |
Hoping to win a Kingfisher 9000 (a top-of-the-line sports boat), Stu and Grandpa enter Tommy into a beauty contest by placing him in girl's clothes and a wig, and naming him "Tonya". But their main competitor is Angelica! | |||
"Baseball" | September 15, 1991 | ||
Using tickets Grandpa won in a radio contest, Stu and Grandpa take Tommy to the Grizzlies' baseball game, where they play the Boston Bombers. Tommy, however, is more interested in his balloon than the ball game. | |||
6 | "Ruthless Tommy" | September 22, 1991 | |
Being mistaken for the son of millionaire Ronald Thump, Tommy is kidnapped by some thugs, Bob and Mike, who soon find that he's more trouble that it's worth! | |||
"Moose Country" | September 22, 1991 | ||
After hearing Grandpa's mythical story about a moose, the Rugrats go look for one. | |||
7 | "Grandpa's Teeth" | October 6, 1991 | |
At a picnic, Spike steals Grandpa's teeth, leading to a frantic search by Tommy and Chuckie. | |||
"Momma Trauma" | October 6, 1991 | ||
When Tommy draws on the walls, Didi insists on taking him to a therapist. While there, he sneaks away and goes for an adventure around the office building, while Stu ends up being psychoanalyzed. | |||
8 | "Real or Robots?" | October 13, 1991 | |
After seeing a Frankenstein-type horror flick, Tommy and Chuckie want to see if Stu is a human or a robot. | |||
"Special Delivery" | October 13, 1991 | ||
When Stu orders a doll from his competitor Eggbert toys, called "Tina Trousers", Tommy, thinking he has a baby sister arriving in the mail, sneaks out with the mailman to the post office. | |||
9 | "Candy Bar Creep Show" | October 27, 1991 | |
The Pickles set up a haunted house for the neighborhood kids on Halloween and give out Reptar Bars to the trick-or-treaters. The Rugrats go to the haunted house to search for them, eventually scaring Angelica and Grandpa as well. | |||
"Monster in the Garage" | October 27, 1991 | ||
When a rat goes around knocking stuff off the shelves in the garage and Stu places the blame on Spike, the Rugrats set out to prove Spike's innocence. | |||
10 | "Weaning Tommy" | November 10, 1991 | |
On advice from Dr. Homer, Tommy's dentist, Stu and Didi take Tommy's bottles away, which makes him miserable. | |||
"Incident in Aisle Seven" | November 10, 1991 | ||
Grandpa takes Tommy to the supermarket where Tommy makes a huge mess while looking for the new Reptar cereal. | |||
11 | "Touchdown Tommy" | November 24, 1991 | |
While Didi and Betty go shopping, Stu and the guys babysit the Rugrats while the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Oilers duke it out on the gridiron in "Ultra Bowl XXXVII". Later, Grandpa gives Tommy a bottle of chocolate milk; Angelica, who normally thinks she's too old for baby bottles, fights Tommy over it, which sends the Rugrats into their own football game over the bottle. | |||
"The Trial" | November 24, 1991 | ||
Someone broke "Mr. Fluffles" Tommy's clown lamp, and Angelica wants to find out who so the Rugrats hold a mock trial. | |||
12 | "Fluffy vs. Spike" | December 8, 1991 | |
Angelica brings Fluffy the cat to Tommy's house. Fluffy makes a mess of things, and Angelica blames Fluffy's crimes on Spike. | |||
"Reptar's Revenge" | December 8, 1991 | ||
The Rugrats go looking for Reptar at the Sleazola Bros. fair. This Reptar, however, is a cereal addict named Leo. | |||
13 | "Graham Canyon" | December 22, 1991 | |
The Pickles experience car trouble en route to the Grand Canyon. Eddie and Ace, a couple of crooked auto mechanics working at "Twin Cactus Auto Repair", try to make a simple, cheap thing more expensive, but Angelica and Tommy inadvertently stopped them from further damage while playing in a "canyon" of tires. | |||
"Stu-Maker's Elves" | December 22, 1991 | ||
Stu has received an order from Mucklehoney Industries for 15,000 "Patty Pants" dolls. However, he is having trouble with the machine. Tommy and Chuckie fixed it while fetching the "Zippo-Glider", which Chuckie accidentally tossed into the basement. |
Character debuts
Note: This does not include characters who debuted in the pilot episode, "Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing".
- "Tommy's First Birthday": Betty DeVille; Howard DeVille; Chuckie Finster; Angelica Pickles; Drew Pickles; Boris Kropotkin; Minka Kropotkin
- "Barbeque Story": Chas Finster
- "At the Movies": Reptar; Larry and Steve