The BEST episodes of Rugrats season 1
Every episode of Rugrats season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rugrats season 1!
Rugrats reveals the world from a baby's point of view. Everything looks bigger, more mysterious and uncontrollable. Angelica, the oldest, likes to terrorize her cousin, Tommy, and his friends, and is famous for screaming, "You stupid babies!" The adults in the series are often clueless.
#1 - Beauty Contest
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/15/1991
Having desire for the Kingfisher 9000 (a top-of-the-line sports boat), Stu and Grandpa enter Tommy in a beauty contest by placing him in girl's clothes and a wig, and naming him "Tonya". Their main competitor -- Angelica C. Pickles.
#2 - At The Movies
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/25/1991
Tommy wants to see Reptar, but the parents took him, and the other Rugrats, to the Westside Octoplex to see The Land Without Smiles (starring the Dummi Bears) instead. The Rugrats left Dummi Bears to go look for Reptar (showing at the same theater), leaving a path of destruction behind them.
#3 - Slumber Party
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/25/1991
Angelica Sleeps over at Tommy's but her desire for an open window leaves Tommy Feeling Ill. This Results in some very Crazy dreams.
#4 - Tommy's First Birthday
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/11/1991
In this episode we meet Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Angelica, Grandpa, and the rest of the gang for the first time at Tommy's birthday party. After Stu gives tommy a flying saucer for his birthday the babies start there first adventure by flying around the house and causing all sorts of Havok
#5 - Waiter, There's A Baby In My Soup
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/18/1991
Stu takes Tommy on a job enterview, but Tommy get's loose and and destroys the kitchen
#6 - Barbeque Story
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/18/1991
Stu and Didi have a 4th of July Party where Tommy loses his favorite ball.
#7 - Baby Commercial
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/8/1991
Betty talks about her trials and tribulations regarding placing Phil and Lil in a diaper commercial, in which the twins rather ad-lib than stick with the script.
#8 - Stu-Maker's Elves
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/22/1991
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.
#9 - Little Dude
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/8/1991
Didi takes Tommy to her workplace-the local high school, for a visual aid. But When Tommy gets free and roams around campus-he becomes friends with a rebellious biker.
#10 - Touch-Down Tommy
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/24/1991
While Didi and Betty go shopping, Stu and the guys babysit the Rugrats while watching the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Oilers (now Tennessee Titans, see note below) 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.
#11 - Fluffy vs. Spike
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/8/1991
Angelica brings Fluffy to Tommy's house, and Fluffy gets Spike into trouble. Angelica actually blames all the things breaking on him, so the babies try to get Fluffy and catch her in the act.
#12 - Reptar's Revenge
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/8/1991
The Rugrats go looking for Reptar at the Sleazola Brothers fair. Instead, they find a cereal addicted person named Leo. I think this is the one where Angelica Wants the cereal.
#13 - Baseball
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/15/1991
Using tickets Grandpa had won in a radio contest, Stu and Grandpa take Tommy to the Grizzlies' baseball game, where they play the Boston Bombers. Tommy, however, was more interested in his balloon than the ballgame. Tommy's balloon hunt helped make a very spectacular catch for Grizzlies player Bucky Majors.
#14 - Incident In Aisle Seven
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/10/1991
Grandpa takes Tommy to the supermarket. Tommy ended up making a mess of things when he was looking for "Reptar Cereal" -- without Grandpa.
#15 - Real or Robots?
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/13/1991
Tommy and Chuckie see a Frankenstein horror movie, the want to know if Stu is a Robot. Stu, however is sleepwalking and dreaming he was a host of a cooking show. Tommy and Chuckie try to hurt him, thinking he was a robot, which wakes him up and scares them.
#16 - Special Delivery
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/13/1991
Stu ordered a doll from Eggbert Toys, his competitor, so he could check out their doll, "Tina Trousers", as a comparison to the doll he's making, "Patty Pants". Thinking that Tommy is getting a new baby in a mail, he hitches a ride with the postman to the post office.
#17 - Momma Trauma
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/6/1991
Didi and Stu take Tommy to Dr. Lepetomaine, a psychiatrist (who mainly says nothing more than "I see", which, at one point, angered Stu), after Tommy was found drawing on walls. Tommy ended up wandering around the office building, while Stu ended up being psychoanalysed.
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#18 - The Trial
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/24/1991
Someone broke "Mr. Fluffles" (Angelica calls it "Mr. Fluffle-Luffles"), Tommy's clown lamp, and Angelica wants to find out who. The fingerpointing, however, eventually points back to her.
#19 - Moose Country
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/22/1991
Grandpa tells the kids that there was a moose once living in the backyard and he saw it. The babies, not knowing that it wasn't a moose, go exploring in the jungle of their backyard that has stuff being done.
#20 - Graham Canyon
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 12/22/1991
The Pickles experience car trouble en route to the Grand Canyon. Eddie & 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 inadvertantly stopped them from further damage while playing in a "canyon" of tires.
#21 - Candy Bar Creep Show
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/27/1991
The Pickles set up a haunted house for the neighborhood kids on Halloween. As treats, they pass out "Reptar Bars", which contain "chocolate, and nuts, and caramel, and green stuff". The Rugrats go to the haunted house in search for them, eventually scaring Angelica and Grandpa as well.
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#22 - Ruthless Tommy
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/22/1991
Two criminals kidnap Tommy, thinking he is the son of millionaire Ronald Thump. Tommy proves to be such a handful for the thieves that they have second thoughts.
#23 - Monster In The Garage
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/27/1991
A rat goes around knocking stuff off the shelves; Stu places the blame on Spike; the Rugrats blame it on the rat, then known merely as "The Monster". After hearing Boris' story about the "dibbick" fighting off the monster with his "klobbermeister", The Rugrats go into the garage in search of this "monster".
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#24 - Grandpa's Teeth
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/6/1991
At the towns barbeque, Grandpa looses his teeth because he ate too much junk food. Spike finds them, and takes them away. Tommy and Chuckie follow them, and find out a duck has them. At the end, Tommy and Chuckie get the teeth back to him.
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#25 - Weaning Tommy
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/10/1991
On advice from Dr. Homer, Tommy's dentist (Didi prefers calling him a "tooth fairy"), Stu and Didi wanted Tommy to start drinking from the cup, so Tommy won't have any bad teeth or cross-bites later. Tommy, however, wants to stick with the bottle instead.