The BEST episodes directed by Jim Duffy
#1 - Fools Rush In
All Grown Up! - Season 2 - Episode 2
The older brother/younger brother dynamic is compromised when Dil repeatedly tries to save Tommy from his nemesis, the "walking growth spurt," Francine.
#2 - Susie Sings the Blues
All Grown Up! - Season 1 - Episode 2
Susie is discovered as a great singing talent by an agent who leads her to believe she's going to be the next teen superstar.
#3 - The Family Tree
Rugrats - Season 5 - Episode 23
Special: Tommy stays over at Chuckie's house while his parents are on their wedding anniversary. Chaz is starting to treat Tommy like he is his son and that makes Chuckie mad so he takes Angelica's advice and makes trouble for him. Later on Tommy gets whats going on and straightens things out. Meanwhile Didi has been seasick on this cruise, and when Stu finds out he discovers that she's pregnant..
#4 - Sour Pickles
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 16
Grandpa Lou tells the story of how much Stu and Drew fought as babies and try to get th eold tv working so they can watch the TV show, "Blocky and Oxwinkle".
#5 - The Hate Canal
Captain Planet and the Planeteers - Season 2 - Episode 23
Verminous Skumm releases a virus into the Venice canal, turning the rats into more intelligent and more dangerous rodents. The Planeteers, with the help of a female pathologist, arrive to exterminate the vermin.
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#6 - Angelica's In Love
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 9
Angelica falls in love with a biker kid, but dosen't know how to tell him so she gives him hints throughout the whole episode. When they finally have a chance to be together his mom comes and picks him up. After that Angelica decides not to fall in love again, but when a cute foreign kid becomes her new neighbor she falls in love all over again.
#7 - Give & Take
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 19
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.
#8 - Chuckie Loses His Glasses
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 30
Angelica plays a hide and seek game with the babies, but its all a plan to steal Chuckie's glasses. Chuckie tries to look for them but he can't see so he tries to find his "eyes", but breaks Grandpa Lou's instead. In the end Angelica literally gets sick of them and Tommy gives them to Chuckie.
#9 - Reptar 2010
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 17
The Rugrats are having fun watching Reptar 2010 when suddenly the video breaks. So the Rugrats become Reptommy, Chucktar, Replil, Repphil, and Reptelica and create their own endings to the movie.
#10 - Under Chuckie's Bed
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 31
When Chaz replaces Chuckie's crib with a bed, Chuckie starts to be afraid of the monster under the bed, and it's up to Tommy and Chuckie to face the monster.
#11 - The Switching Hour
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Season 1 - Episode 1
Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina hit the human world on Halloween night with disastrous results.
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#12 - The Shot
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 6
Tommy tells the babies that he's going to get his booster shot, but when Chuckie warns Tommy what it is he becomes scared and tries to avoid from getting it.
#15 - Superhero Chuckie
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 21
Captain Blasto, ( Which Was Around Since The 1950s),is Stu and Drew's favorite. They take the babies to a live shooting of an episode and Chuckie wants to be a superhero. His First Order of Business,take Angelica Out!
#17 - A Visit From Lipschitz
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 25
While Didi and Stu go out the famous Dr.Lipschitz babysits Tommy and Chuckie. The babies wonder about him and they accidently reveal him for the phony he is.
#18 - The Last Babysitter
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 15
Elysa finally gets a chance to be mature and responsible by basysitting Tommy, Susie, Buster, and other babies but promblems arise when the lights blackout and Tommy and Suzie see a shadow in the hall.
#19 - Tooth Or Dare
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 50
When Susie tells Angelica about the tooth fairy giving you money Angelica decides to take Chuckie's teeth and make money at the same time
#20 - Scorched Earth
Captain Planet and the Planeteers - Season 2 - Episode 22
Zarm returns and takes over the body of a quasi-Mediterranean dictator. He then initiates a "scorched earth" program designed to take out anyone who opposes his anti-environmental plans. He orders his right hand man, General Baz, to lead the attacks, pitting the soldier against his own sister, who is leading a rebellion against Zarm's rule. The Planeteers are called in to resolve the crisis...
#21 - Twins' Pique
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 2
Phil and Lil decide they want to be different from each other.
#23 - Rhinoceritis!
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 6
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.
#24 - Angelica Breaks a Leg
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 14
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.
#25 - The Gold Rush
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 20
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.
#26 - Game Show Didi
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 46
A)Being a game show contestant on "Super Stumper's" (taped at KLPO's TV studios), Didi spins her "Wheel Of Fortune" and "Presses Her Luck" in order to beat Eugene Haynes, a self-proclaimed genius from Philadelphia, who would go as far as the "Pyramids" to win. Meanwhile, looking for Didi's "place in the sun", the Rugrats wander around the station, putting the studio in "Jeopardy!" Will they "Face The Music"? Will Didi keep her "Concentration"? "The Joker's Wild" as Didi's "place in the sun" can be hers, if "The Price Is Right".
#27 - Home Movies
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 21
Stu shows everyone boring home movies, but the kids make drawings of their own that are brought to life by the Rugrats cartoonists. A VERY cool story with actual art by the children of the makers of Rugrats.
#28 - Dummi Bear Dinner Disaster
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 1
Paul Gatsby, the creator of the Dummi Bears, comes to dinner at the Carmicheals' house. Susie thinks that every time Paul and her father, Randy (who's the head writer for the Dummi Bears) get together, Paul buys the Carmicheals' a new house. Because of this, she and the rest of the Rugrats decide to ruin the dinner so Paul will be mad and not make the Carmicheals' move.
#29 - The Big House
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 5
Tommy has to go to an overprotective daycare with junior delinquit babies trying to break out. At first it seems like a challenge but then Tommy comes up with an idea to make them home free.
#31 - When Wishes Come True
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 13
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.
#32 - Meet The Carmichaels
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 34
New neighbors the Carmichael's come to town and the Pickles help them get settled in. There Tommy meets all the kids: Alisa, Buster, Edwin, and Susie Carmichael. Susie tells Tommy all about her great room, but she can't find it so Tommy and Susie search all around Susie's new house for her brand new room.
#33 - Princess Angelica
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 27
After intensive testing by the Rugrats, it is proven that Angelica is the princess, and contemplates leaving her "fake" parents (Drew & Charlotte, who makes her clean her room once a month) for her "real", royal ones (actually, Sal Fusco, "Home Office King" (555-KING), who charges $100 for a house call).
#34 - Passover
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 51
This is the original series finale of Rugrats. Special: After arguing with Minka over his spotted glasses, Boris runs away. Later, after feeling bad, he decides to get Minka's glasses, only to be trapped in the attic by Angelica, Tommy & Chuckie. Each family member finds him, as well as end up being locked in the attic (it locks from the outside). While in the attic, Boris tells the story on how Passover was established. Angelica, imagining the story as it unfolds, picture herself as the Pharaoh, Tommy as Moses, and the babies as Hebrew slaves. A very interesting episode.
#35 - Naked Tommy
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 29
Trying to be just like Spike, Tommy takes off his clothes, and entices the other Rugrats to do the same, while Stu finds a way to keep Tommy's clothes on.
#36 - The Mysterious Mr. Friend
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 22
Stu invents a new toy: a scary walking, talking, heat-seeking clown doll. The babies encounter it, and are horrified. Eventually, it all comes down to a final battle royale between Tommy and friends and an army of "Mr. Fiends." The babies win the day...or do they?
#37 - Party Animals
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 51
Grandpa Lou tells the rugrats about Aladdin and his magic lamp, so Angelica and the other rugrats make a wish on a real lamp. When it dosen't work Angelica falls asleep but the babies stay awake for the grown ups costume party where they think that all their wishes came true. By the time they tell Angelica the party's over and she dosen't believe the babies.
#38 - The Odd Couple
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 28
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.
#39 - Spike's Babies
Rugrats - Season 4 - Episode 4
The Rugrats are puzzled by the erratic behavior of Spike, who has stolen Angelica's play barbecue, Chuckie's shirt and Stu's franks and frequently goes under the house. The Rugrats thought Spike was under control of aliens from "the planet on Chuckie's shirt". The real story is that Spike has adopted kittens, his "babies". Meanwhile, Stu builds a japanese-style barbecue and a walkway, though he's having trouble keeping the babies out of the fresh cement.
Watch Now:Apple TV#40 - Tommy And The Secret Club
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 30
Angelica is forming a new club, and is running a contest to see who will become a member. The benefit: the member becomes Angelica's slave.
#41 - Chuckie is Rich
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 32
When Chaz wins a clearing house sweepstakes, Chaz and Chuckie are rich, and Chuckie lives the high life until Chaz blows all his fortune in a bad investment.
#42 - Mommy's Little Assets
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 33
Charlotte brings Tommy and Angelica to her office building where, while Charlotte makes a deal with the Famous Ethel cookie factory, Tommy and Angelica wreak havoc in the office by damaging plans for the Cookieland theme park and breking Jonathan's fish aquarium.
#43 - America's Wackiest Home Movies
Rugrats - Season 4 - Episode 8
To win a contest on a tv show Stu and Drew try to record their children's wackiest moments, but they keep missing it every time. Stu determined to win throws a party, but they both end up doing something wacky. Grandpa Lou records it a wins the contest in the end.
Watch Now:Apple TV#44 - Chuckie's Wonderful Life
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 34
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.
#45 - Chuckie's Red Hair
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 37
Chuckie hates being noticed by everyone because of his red hair, so he uses Grandpa Lou's hair dye and turns it black, only to realized he liked getting attention in the first place.
#46 - The Turkey Who Came to Dinner
Rugrats - Season 4 - Episode 26
Special:The Pickles and their friends spend the day making dinner and watching parades and football on TV. However, their plans ran amok when no one bought a turkey for dinner, so the ladies went to the store to get one, only to leave with turkey alternatives, like turkey hot dogs, and they ruined that, too. Meanwhile, the guys set up multiple satellite dishes so they can watch an array of football games, but their fun broke down when they all argue on what game they should concentrate on, with Chazz voting for the non-traditional nature documentaries. Also, Angelica and the Rugrats put on a parade, only that the adults were either cooking or watching the games. All of them placed a blame on a live turkey Grandpa won in a canasta game. What Angelica really wants is to see that turkey get cooked for Thanksgiving, something the Rugrats don't want, even though it "caused" so much trouble.
Watch Now:Apple TV#47 - Spike Runs Away
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 38
When Spike suddenly runs away, Tommy is sad. So Stu and Didi try new pets. The poodle is too mean, the gerbils have ran away and Grandpa Lou squished the spider. Will Spike come back or will he never come home?
#48 - The Mattress
Rugrats - Season 4 - Episode 22
Grandpa is suffering from aches and pains all over his body. The cause of all his suffering -- his mattress, which he was sleeping on since World War II; he was sleeping in it for so long, he has left his body-shaped indentation on the mattress. Stu forces Grandpa to give it up by throwing the old mattress into the trash and buy a state-of-the-art bed in its place. While Stu throws the mattress away, the Rugrats look on, thinking that it was the monster that caused Grandpa to writhe in pain so much.
Watch Now:Apple TV#49 - Angelica's Worst Nightmare
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 41
Charlotte is having a baby, but Angelica does not like the idea of having another mouth to feed.
#50 - Ice Cream Mountain
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 10
Stu and Drew decide to play golf on an impossible course to win. Angelica says that if they win they get ice cream, so in the end the rugrats help them win and they get ice cream after all.