The BEST episodes of Rugrats season 4

Every episode of Rugrats season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rugrats season 4!

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.

Last Updated: 11/4/2024Network: NickelodeonStatus: Ended
Chanukah
star
7.83
41 votes

#1 - Chanukah

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/4/1996

Thsi is the first episode of the resurrected Rugrats series. Special: After Grandma Minka tells some of the story of Chanukah, Grandpa Boris was infuriated after hearing that at last minute, Boris was replaced by an old rival for the role of King Antiochus, "...the meaning of Chanukah" in a Chanukah play. The babies are convinced that the rival is "the meany of Chanukah" and the babies are determined to get the "meany", while Stu makes a mechanical menorah (candlabre to put the eight candles of Chanukah), he has to go all the way to the synagogue where the play is at to bring his menorah.

Directors: Raymie Muzquiz
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Mother's Day
star
7.70
30 votes

#2 - Mother's Day

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/6/1997

Special: The Rugrats find presents for their mother, but ended up trying to find Chuckie a mother, as he didn't have one. The answers for this mystery are in a special box, which Chazz doesn't want Chuckie to see. Meanwhile, Stu works on his present for Didi -- a robot that uses "Clapper" technology and used to automatically cook AND serve a person's meal, as well as clean the house (like his other inventions, it went haywire), Betty uses a computer to collect her thoughts on being a mother of twins (using these thoughts to reprogram Stu's robot, it overloaded the computer), Didi takes Minka to the International House of Mud for a mud bath (Minka doesn't like bathing with strangers, and you can get all the mud you want at home for free), and Angelica builds a statue of herself using macaroni, gum, and glue (Chuckie broke it).

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Vacation
star
7.20
20 votes

#3 - Vacation

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/8/1997

Special: In this episode, the Pickles, Finsters & DeVilles journey to the notorious gaming capitol of the world, Las Vegas (the babies call it "Slots Vegas"). At a Viking-Circus-Arctic oriented hotel complex, the women go have fun on their own, leaving the men to watch the babies. Stu was stuck with the babies when Chazz and Howard decided to have fun on their own, while Grandpa decided to do a little gambling. All heck later broke loose in the smorgasbord room when the Rugrats escaped from Stu to look for Heimlich and Bob's "kitties" (actually, tigers, which are displayed on Jumbovision for everyone to see). And yes, we get to hear Angelica sing a real, professional song on Heimlich & Bob's stage.

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star
7.11
9 votes

#4 - Angelica Orders Out

Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 11/15/1997

Stu invents the "Pickles Voice Frequency Modulator 5000", a microphone that distorts voices. Angelica's distorted voice sounds exactly like Charlotte's. While the Stu, Didi & Chazz are away at a whicker seminar, and advantage of the mike, and the phone's speed-dial function, by placing orders for sweets from Zippy's Deli, and by tricking the other grownups in believing that a surprise birthday party for Angelica is being organized.

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star
6.92
12 votes

#5 - Clan of The Duck

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/4/1997

.Lil says that dresses are better than pants, so Chuckie and Phil try it and they like it. Things go well until they go to the park and two babies fall in love with them, so they recieve help from these Scotish babies who all wear dresses.

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The Turkey Who Came to Dinner
star
6.90
10 votes

#6 - The Turkey Who Came to Dinner

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/10/1997

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.

Writer: Mark Palmer
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Spike's Babies
star
6.80
15 votes

#7 - Spike's Babies

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/23/1997

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.

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star
6.78
9 votes

#8 - In the Naval

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/18/1997

)The Rugrats and the Pickles men go on a fishing boat. When the small bait pool didn't provide enough action for Angelica and her doll, Water Sport Cynthia, she decides to tow her on the back of the boat. This was fun -- until a swordfish ate Cynthia. Inspired of Grandpa's days in the Navy Seals, Tommy and his team of "Wavy Seals" step in to get Cynthia back.

star
6.78
9 votes

#9 - Looking for Jack

Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/1/1997

On the way to a "Dummi Bears" concert, Charlotte's minivan gets a flat tire after running over a bunch of broken bottles of olive oil. She looks for a jack, but the minivan wasn't equipped with one, sho she calls her mechanic, without success. Meanwhile, the Rugrats try to look for a "Jack" for her, but ended up inside an Italian restaurant. They found a "Jack", but this "Jack"'s an Italian restauranteur with an interest in the "Dummi-Bears".

America's Wackiest Home Movies
star
6.76
17 votes

#10 - America's Wackiest Home Movies

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/6/1997

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.

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Angelica's Last Stand
star
6.75
12 votes

#11 - Angelica's Last Stand

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/4/1997

Angelica tries to make money by running a lemonade stand. She tricks the babies into working for her, but when the babies aren't getting paid Susie suggest that they go on a strike. It eventually kicks in, and they all decide to run the stand equally.

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Ransom of Cynthia
star
6.73
11 votes

#12 - Ransom of Cynthia

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/8/1997

Angelica eats all her candy at Susie's birthday party and finishes it. She wants more, but her dad won't let her. She tricks the babies into getting her candy by being a burglar and hiding Cynthia. She tricks them eats the candy, and gets sick. While Spike, ends up finding Cynthia.

Dust Bunnies
star
6.67
12 votes

#13 - Dust Bunnies

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/27/1997

Didi cleans around the house and there's dust all over, so Angelica tells Tommy and Chuckie that they are dust bunnies. Throughout the whole episode they try to outrun the dust bunnies, but will they make it!

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The Mattress
star
6.60
10 votes

#14 - The Mattress

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/1/1997

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.

star
6.60
10 votes

#15 - Educating Angelica

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/27/1997

Charlotte finally decides to take Angelica to preschool, but Angelica soon learns that its not as easy as it seems. She has a problem with sharing, so she brings Tommy to school but even he makes better friends than Angelica. In the end she makes friends and learns the value of sharing.

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star
6.43
14 votes

#16 - Heatwave

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/13/1997

Trying to fight their thirst on a hot day, the Rugrats get a drink from a drinking fountain, only to get their relief thwarted when Grandpa broke a water main after a couple of workers leave for a "mid-morning pre-lunch break" (to get away from Grandpa's boring storytelling). However, with the help of Sabu, they manage to find relief before the most brutal time of the day, "The Time of No Shadows" (noon).

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Send in the Clouds
star
6.38
8 votes

#17 - Send in the Clouds

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/18/1997

Tommy's wish for his house to be among the clouds comes true when the fog rolls in. However, it ended up to be a mistake when Didi wants to go jogging and Stu wants to go to the hardware store. At that point, the Rugrats try all they can to keep Stu & Didi from falling out of the house

Radio Daze
star
6.36
14 votes

#18 - Radio Daze

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/1997

While listening to an old radio show with Grandpa, The Masked Detective, Tommy plays the detective and help solve a mystery of "The Malties Woodchuck", where Angelica wants to take the "Malties" (choclolate-coated malt balls) that are hidden inside a hollowed-out woodchuck (which is placed inside a locked drawer) and eat all of them herself. The Rugrats play-act the case in a film-noir fashion, while the actual radio show is played in the background. In the actual radio show, The Masked Detective looks for Madame Evil, who has stolen rocket pellets from a scientist.

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The Carwash
star
6.33
18 votes

#19 - The Carwash

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/13/1997

Stu and Chaz take the babies to a carwash to get the car cleaned, but Angelica tells them something bad about it and now they're afraid to go.

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star
6.33
9 votes

#20 - The Art Fair

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/11/1997

After Angelica leaves the room after finishing her painting, the Rugrats come in and do finger-painting on it. After Angelica noticed what they did, she chased them around the room in a fit of anger, splattering paint all over the place. When Charlotte noticed this, she called it a work of art, and hired her to redecorate Chazz's den. The moment came when Charlotte entered Angelica i

Potty Training Spike
star
6.25
8 votes

#21 - Potty Training Spike

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/11/1997

After using the potty trainer a while, Chazz decides to graduate Chuckie to the toilet, using the Big Boy Potty Training Seat. But after noticing that Spike is using the tree to "do his business", Chuckie decides to follow suit, but Didi insisted that Chuckie uses the toilet. At this point, Tommy thought the rules have changed regarding the use of the tree as a "rest area". Therefore, the Rugrats decide to teach Spike to "relieve himself" the way humans do, first by using a diaper on Spike, then by having him use a toilet. As for Chuckie, he's afraid to go himself while everyone else is looking at him.

star
6.25
16 votes

#22 - The Smell of Success

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/20/1997

After trying countless remedies to cure Chuckie's stuffed-up nose without any success, Chazz took him to Dr. Brander, where she cured Chuckie's congestion with "The Noserator". Afterwards, Chuckie can smell anything and everything. However, success has its price.

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star
6.07
15 votes

#23 - Psycho Angelica

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/30/1997

Angelica's a psycho, but we all love her anyway. Seriously, Angelica becomes the Rugrats' "Psychic Friend" by predicting the future. But her antics, demands for payment in toys & cookies and outlandish predictions make her their "Psychic Fiend" instead. Meanwhile, the adults watch Stu's knee surgery on video, while eating pizza.

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star
6.06
16 votes

#24 - Chicken Pops

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/23/1997

Chuckie develops the chicken pox, and dosen't know what they are so Angelica makes something up and says that it turns you into a chicken. The babies avoid him until Susie shows up and tells them what chicken pox really does.

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Faire Play
star
5.93
14 votes

#25 - Faire Play

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/20/1997

The Rugrats and the Pickles go to a medieval fair, where Didi, Stu and Grandpa will be helping out. While Didi makes stained-glass windows, Stu and Grandpa operate a mechanical dragon that Stu invented. However, thanks to the mechanical dragon's numerous glitches, it ended up making an "Ye Olde Mess" out of the entire fair. However, there's one thing that can help defeat the dragon... Reptar. And its all based on the Rugrats' wishes.

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