The BEST episodes of Rugrats season 5
Every episode of Rugrats season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rugrats season 5!
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 - The Family Tree
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/21/1998
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..
#2 - Fugitive Tommy
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/22/1998
Gabriel Lasky, a.k.a. "The One-Toothed Baby", pops one of the McNulty kids' balls by biting it; however, the McNultys placed the blame on another baby with one-tooth -- Tommy. As they cart Tommy up a hill for Tommy's punishment, Tommy escapes, leading to a manhunt, with the McNultys finding Tommy, and Tommy finding Gabriel. But will the McNultys learn the real story? And will they believe Tommy? While all this happens, Gabriel's grandpa cheats while playing chess with Tommy's grandpa. Not a Quinn-Martin production.
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#3 - Journey to the Center of the Basement
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/19/1998
When Chazz accidentallty took Chuckie's "Reptar Jr." into the basement, the Rugrats go there to find it, with the scenario similar to Jules Verne's classic, Journey To The Center Of The Earth. Meanwhile, Chazz tries to fix some leaky plumbing himself, in order to beat the plumber's bill.
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#4 - Where's Grandpa?
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/29/1998
The adults accidentally left Grandpa behind at a gas station while trying to take home an easily-perishable banana tree they purchased from a nursery about 3 hours from home. Grandpa unwittingly hitches a ride with strangers, but everyone ends up at a cheesy, Canadian-themed tourist stop called "North Of The Border" ("Where You Can Go To Canada Without Crossing The Border"). Tommy & Chuckie try to reunite Grandpa with Stu & Didi, but there's one slight problem -- Grandpa thinks he's in Canada -- with no ID (Tommy threw his wallet out the car window).
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#5 - Hiccups
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/12/1998
After eating Stu's popcorn Tommy develops a case of the hiccups. The only cure is to be scared, but Tommy is a brave baby and isn't scared of anything.
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#6 - Baby Maybe
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/20/1998
The Rugrats' parents go out to see the opera after hiring Ben & Elaine, our newlyweds from Let Them Eat Cake, to babysit them. The couple is babysitting them to get a feel on what parenting feels like, as they plan to have kids in the future. However, the chore of babysitting babies does not go exactly as planned, in advance.
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#7 - He Saw, She Saw
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/21/1998
At a local park, where Stu & Didi took the Rugrats, Chuckie falls in love again, this time for a girl named Emma, and this time, something else gets in the way of their romance -- her big, 3-year-old brother, "Big Binky", who wants to distance Chuckie as far aways as possible from Emma. Knowing the problem, the Rugrats help Chuckie out by pestering Big Binky.
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#8 - Uneasy Rider
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/29/1998
Chuckie learns how to ride a bicycle, with a little help from Angelica. Once he learns, he is befriended by other big kids with bikes. But who are his real friends -- the big bike kids, or the Rugrats?
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#9 - Word of the Day
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/18/1998
Angelica auditions for a part on a Romper Room-style TV program, "Miss Carol's Happy House". However, things get nasty after the audition when Angelica overhears the 74 year-old Miss Carol say nasty things about her viewers backstage; among these nasty things included a cuss word, which Angelica learns and says to her parents.
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#10 - Crime and Punishment
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/20/1998
Chazz falls in love with Naomi, a traffic cop, but the Rugrats try to sour their relationship after Angelica's lie of cops stealing babies. Chazz's date with Naomi later becomes more bizarre after Chuckie accidentally breaks Chazz's glasses; after the breakage, Chazz went without his glasses, as he feared that the taped-up glasses would make him look like a geek.
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#11 - Lady Luck
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/19/1998
Grandpa takes Tommy & Chuckie to the new Seniors Center to play bingo. When Grandpa starts losing, however, Tommy & Chuckie look for "Lady Luck", who turned out to be Mrs. Holkin, the center's supervisor. While they look for her, however, they livened up the center, where "rest & relaxation is the key to happiness", especially since this is a place where aerobics and cha-chas are just as slow as Tai Chi, and where jumping over checkers is prohibited.
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#12 - Jonathan Babysits
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/18/1998
Jonathan babysits the Rugrats at Charlotte's house while she's on assignment, but uses this opportunity to look for Charlotte's tape so he could "dig up dirt" on Charlotte for blackmailing purposes. However, he has to do this while humoring Angelica, as per Charlotte's orders. Meanwhile, the Rugrats dig up dirt (the one used to make mudpies, that is).
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#14 - Angelica for a Day
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/17/1998
The rugrats take the expression " If I were in your shoes" litterally when Angelica and Chuckie change shoes and personalities. Things go bad, but it gets really worse when Tommy takes off Angelica's shoes from Chuckie's feet and he still acts like her. Later on Tommy wakes up, realizes that it was all a dream, and is glad that Chuckie is Chuckie and Angelica is Angelica.
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#15 - Visiting Aunt Miriam
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/22/1998
Aunt Miriam is back; this time, we're visiting her place, as she, Grandpa, and her friends play poker. The Rugrats become scared of the old ladies when one of them jokingly commented that Chuckie was good enough to eat, and when Miriam recruited Chuckie to become her "helper" (which was genuine, but the Rugrats felt different).
#16 - Autumn Leaves
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/12/1998
A change of season makes the babies think that the trees are ill, so they apply whatever remedies they think of to them.
#17 - A Very McNulty Birthday
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/19/1998
At his birthday party, Timmy McNulty bans the girls from playing because they have cooties. However, the girls get back at them by thinking that they actually have a contagious form of cooties.
#18 - Sleep Trouble
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/15/1998
At a sleepover during a windstorm, Tommy & Chuckie try to catch the "Sandman" after hearing Stu's impromptu story about him. They eventually catch Chazz, who came home early from a party.
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#19 - Babysitting Fluffy
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/15/1998
Angelica and her family go on vacation, but Fluffy stays behind at Chuckie's house. But there are 2 problems: Fluffy hates Chuckie, and Chazz is allergic to cats. Eventually, the other Rugrats help out in babysitting Fluffy. Meanwhile, Chazz, Stu and Betty pave Chazz's driveway, without success.
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#20 - The Wild Wild West
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/17/1998
The Rugrats play "Cowboys & Indians", with Angelica playing ice cream thief after stealing coupons for free ice cream from an ice cream man.
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#21 - The First Cut
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/16/1998
Tommy gets hurt while rescuing a baby bird. To help his cut heal, Didi placed a Reptar bandage over it. After Phil & Lil noticed this, they try to get hurt too, so they can get Reptar wrapped around their fingers. Meanwhile, Angelica steps in, telling Tommy that he'll have to go to the hospital to sew him up so he won't get a "reflection" (infection) and get "tangerine" (gangrene). After that, Tommy refuses to have any fun, so he won't get hurt.
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#22 - Piggy's Pizza Palace
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/21/1998
The Rugrats wander around a "Chuck E. Cheese"-type pizza restaurant after Piggy inadvertently stolen the game tickets that Angelica had won. Meanwhile, Stu & Drew try to outwit each other playing a Reptar pinball game.
#23 - Chuckie Grows
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/16/1998
It seems like it when Grandpa accidentally shrinks Chuckie's clothes in the wash, after Chuckie got dirty. Afterwards, Angelica decides to play off Chuckie by thinking that he's a giant and that he'll squash Angelica, the Rugrats and the grown-ups. In the end, this action costs Cynthia her right to have cappuccino; her miniature cappuccino machine was brought over so Stu can fix it.
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