History DethroningMoment / Rugrats

** Tropers/JadeEyes1: Not only that, but Drew, the cops, and the waitress were all wrong: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Tarzan is the King of the African jungle (i.e. what most people think of when they think of "the jungle"); King Kong is only the King of Skull Island.]] Anyone who has even a basic knowledge of those characters should know that. Not only does Drew go through a HumiliationConga, but he does at the hands of a bunch of people are too dumb to know what they're talking about -- and, in the case of Drew, too petty and stubborn to admit when they could be wrong.

* Tropers/DiscoGlacier: One moment that leaves a bad taste in my mouth is in "The Big Flush", when [[TheMillstone Lil]] unwittingly traps Deedee and Betty in the steam room when it's at its maximum temperature. Considering the two were in serious danger of heat exhaustion (and they were parched by the time they were freed), this sequence comes off as [[DudeNotFunny mean-spirited]] rather than funny, especially considering this series isn't known for such humor.

* RandomTroper: "The Word of the Day" where Angelica learns a swear word. Drew and Charlotte really did not handle the situation well at all. They just punish Angelica for saying a bad word when she had no idea what she was saying.

* Tropers/{{KoopaKid17}}: The ending to "Angelica's Worst Nightmare" made Angelica more insufferable than she already is. It's built up when Drew and Charlotte tell her that they're not going to have another child after all. [[NoodleIncident What exactly happened is left to the viewer's interpretation]]. Angelica seems to share their pain until she goes up to her room, closes the door and lets out a BigYes. Fade to black. Okay, Angelica is supposed to be selfish but it's downright cruel to celebrate an event that leaves your parents traumatized. This especially considering [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic we were supposed to sympathize with her after her nightmare]], and one that dealt with a potential real-life issue that kids can relate to. This just cements Angelica as being practically ungrateful for being an only child.

** Tropers/JadeEyes1: Not only that, but Drew, the cops, and the waitress were all wrong: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Tarzan is the King of the African jungle (i.e. what most people think of when they think of "the jungle"); King Kong is only the King of Skull Island.]] Anyone who has even a basic knowledge of those characters should know that. Not only does Drew go through a HumiliationConga, but he does so because a bunch of people are too dumb to know what they're talking about -- and, in the case of Drew, too petty and stubborn to admit when they could be wrong.

* Just Another Troper: After reading this list, I'm incredibly surprised nobody has added the episode "Party Animals" to it. This episode, in my opinion, was one of the biggest Stu-torture porns in the whole series. Basically the whole plot of the episode is that Drew and Charlotte have a big costume party at their house. Stu comes dressed up as Tarzan, "king of the jungle" to which Drew tells Stu that King Kong is the real king of the jungle. This leads to an argument that eventually leads to Drew locking Stu out of the house. When Drew refuses to let him back in, Stu decides to climb his way up a drainage pipe so he can climb through an open window. However, his costume becomes stuck and he fails to make it back inside. To make matters worse, the cops show up and arrest him because they think he is some lunatic trying to break into someone else's house. The episode ends with Stu sitting in a cop car as the two cops who arrested him and a diner waitress laugh at him. The absolute worst part of this episode is that nobody at the party tries to look for Stu. In fact, nobody knows that he got locked out in the first place. Not to mention Drew doesn't even get punished for what he did. Keep in mind this whole thing started over an argument over who's "king of the jungle". A simple, petty argument that Drew took too far by locking his own brother out of the house. Drew was the one holding the {{Jerkass Ball}} here, yet Stu, the victim, is the one who received the punishment. It's these kinds of episodes that leave a bad taste in my mouth by the end.

** Kishou: For me, it was the moment that the babies decided to "flush" the pool because they're so convinced that it's a potty. Even when Chuckie explains that there are people in it, Tommy brushes it off saying "they shouldn't be playing in the potty anyway". I get that they're babies and don't know any better, but th It actually made me wish Tommy died via drowning for being actively endangering his and the other's lives because their next big adventure was to go to a pool with no supervision.

* Tropers/{{KoopaKid17}}: The ending to "Angelica's Worst Nightmare" made Angelica more insufferable than she already is. It's built up when Drew and Charlotte tell her that they're not going to have another child after all. [[NoodleIncident What exactly happened is left to the viewer's interpretation]]. Angelica seems to share their pain until she goes up to her room, closes the door and lets out a BigYes. Fade to black. Okay, Angelica is supposed to be selfish but it's downright cruel to celebrate an event that leaves your parents traumatized. This especially considering [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic we were supposed to sympathize with her after her nightmare]], and one that dealt with a potential real-life issue that kids can relate to. This just cements Angelica is being practically ungrateful for being an only child.

* Tropers/{{KoopaKid17}}: The ending to "Angelica's Worst Nightmare" made Angelica more insufferable than she already is. It's built up when Drew and Charlotte tell her that they're not going to have another child after all. [[NoodleIncident What exactly happened is left to the viewer's interpretation]]. Angelica seems to share their pain until she goes up to her room, closes the door and lets out a BigYes. Fade to black. Okay, Angelica is supposed to be selfish but it's downright cruel to celebrate an event that leaves your parents traumatized. This especially considering [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic we were supposed to sympathize with her after her nightmare]], and one that dealt with a potential real-life issue that kids can relate to.

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* Kittens: There was an episode that had a really dumb moment, and the episode's called "Piggy's Pizza Place". The episode wasn't that bad, but what I thought was stupid was when that jerk in the bull costume kept putting Angelica in the time out booth all because she was just trying to get her tickets. Seriously, all she was trying to do was get her tickets off of Piggy's tail that she won fair and square. And its pretty obvious that they're stuck to his tail and she's trying to get them off! How that idiot can't see that I'll never know.
* Tropers/DiscoGlacier: One moment that leaves a bad taste in my mouth is in "The Big Flush", when [[TheMillstone Lil]] unwittingly traps Deedee and Betty in the steam room when it's at its maximum temperature. Considering the two were in serious danger of heat exhaustion (and they were parched by the time they were freed), this sequence comes off as [[DudeNotFunny mean-spirited]] rather than funny, especially considering this series isn't known for such humor.
* Tropers/TotalDramaRox97: Didi can't be given the award for "Most Attentive Parent" but in the episode "The Big Showdown", this inattentiveness irritating levels. Dil was having bad dreams and Didi thinks all the Reptar stuff is scaring Dil. So what does she do? She takes away all of Dil's and Tommy's Reptar stuff and replaces it with a character named Goober the Gopher after a hotline caller recommended it. It's easy to understand why she wanted to keep it hidden Dil, but why Tommy he was never crying or anything? When Tommy shows a distaste to Goober, Didi considers throwing the Reptar stuff away. One can only wonder why she thought that would be a good idea. Thankfully, the hotline director recommends she goes to a Toy Fair where a man dressed as Goober would be. This is where it gets infuriating. While there Betty tells Didi that she might be going overboard and tries to point out Reptar isn't that bad, Didi disagrees. Here's the infuriating part. When they go to meet Goober, the man turns out to be a complete JerkAss. He takes Tommy's Reptar toy making him cry and replaces it with a Goober stuffed animal. Time for Didi to stand up to Goober? Not quite. She defends Goober and is shocked that Tommy would respond that way. The guy just stole your baby's toy, made him cry, and she thinks he's the good guy? I understand Didi can lack common sense sometimes but this episode took it way too far.
* Tropers/CJCroen1393: "Wash-Dry Story" randomly turns into a ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' parody for no good reason. All of the songs (besides "Cynthia", which was actually [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming kind of sweet]]) were completely random, sounded awful and filled with {{Painful Rhyme}}s. It was full of plot holes (how exactly did Angelica know they were all singing when she was at home and not at the laundromat?), the [=McNulty=] boys were [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized horribly]] and the plot was just nonexistent, and not in a good way. Overall just a terribly dull episode.
* PrincessTogezo: I can find something to like about almost any ''Rugrats'' episode, but "Silent Angelica" comes off as a total misfire. It just feels too mean-spirited for a show like this one. Basically, to get new toys, Angelica tries to behave herself by staying quiet until her mom's done with a business call and her dad's done watching a badminton game, but the babies keep being loud. Somehow, Angelica never gets the idea to whisper to them and explain what's going on, and so they think something's wrong with her (like maybe she's sad or sick). At the end of the episode, when the babies are bothering her and being loud, she finally snaps and yells that there's nothing wrong with her and she's just trying to get some toys. However, Drew and Charlotte heard this, and because of her yelling and the mess in the room, decide that Angelica shouldn't get any toys (to add insult to injury, this was just a few seconds before the time where Angelica could stop being quiet). In most ''Rugrats'' episodes, when Angelica gets punished, it's because she did something to deserve it. Here, she was genuinely trying to behave, and yet she got punished anyway. It's uncomfortably similar to the later [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb "Candace Gets Busted"]] in this regard, and definitely one of the weaker episodes of ''Rugrats''.
* Tropers/BronyOfTheOctaves: The episode 'Tricycle Thief' was the biggest middle finger insulting episode of the show. The basic premise is that Susie's tricycle goes missing, and blames Angelica for stealing it just because she ended up damaging it earlier in the episode. Now this would have been a decent episode using the "{{Misblamed}}" plot, but instead comes off as a degrading episode to Angelica with Susie literally decides that as a means to make Angelica confess (to something she honestly doesn't know about..) or else her dang doll is going to be sent into the air by Chuckie's balloon. Even if it's made to seem Angelica "stole" Susie's tricycle, you can tell she didn't and yet this entire episode is making you sit through god knows how many agonizing minutes of Angelica pleading that she didn't steal the tricycle. It's a basic CharacterDerailment to Susie, who's known to be level headed (at least before ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' came in) and just having her order Phil and Lil into holding Angelica like that (especially when Cynthia is let go). It actually made this troper smile when Angelica started to give a huge TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Susie after it's revealed she obviously didn't steal the tricycle, even if it was a little one. But of course it was taken back when Cynthia is returned. The episode was just poorly done and derailed Susie's character, as well as Phil and Lil's, but not so much.
* Tropers/MsCC93: My moment would be in the episode "Chuckie's Wonderful Life," in a scene after Chuckie "loses" his father's CD and gets angry at his friends for influencing him to take his dad's CD (when really, it was Angelica who stole Chaz' CD). Angelica flat out tells Chuckie that [[KickTheDog the world would be better off without him]]. This is taking Angelica too far in my opinion, because even though she's a {{jerkass}}, I'd never think she would do such a thing! In all fairness, Angelica ''[[LaserGuidedKarma does]]'' end up getting punished by her father though.
* Tropers/neonhitch: I love this series to pieces, though I disliked the episode 'Curse of the Werewuff.' Not only did it succeed in being incredibly boring to me, though the characters seem to act like just because Kimi is now there, the previous Halloween episode never happened, and they're acting as if this is the first time they've ever celebrated Halloween. What? I understand that [[Negative Continuity]] exists, and many shows follow this trope, though Rugrats usually follows continuity. The original Halloween episode was excellent, so for them to just ignore it in this episode was a Dethroning Moment for me when I was little, and it is for me now.
* @Troper/middone: To be honest, Mommy's Little Assets or whichever one where Charlotte decides it would be a good idea to bring kids to school has always upset me. Everything is too obnoxious for me, especially the fact that Jonathan gets fired when he was honestly trying his best. Charlotte was a bit overkill sometimes, which disappoints me.
* Just Another Troper: After reading this list, I'm incredibly surprised nobody has added the episode "Party Animals" to it. This episode, in my opinion, was one of the biggest Stu-torture porns in the whole series. Basically the whole plot of the episode is that Drew and Charlotte have a big costume party at their house. Stu comes dressed up as Tarzan, "king of the jungle" to which Drew tells Stu that King Kong is the real king of the jungle. This leads to an argument that eventually leads to Drew locking Stu out of the house. When Drew refuses to let him back in, Stu decides to climb his way up a drainage pipe so he can climb through an open window. However, his costume becomes stuck and he fails to make it back inside. To make matters worse, the cops show up and arrest him because they think he is some lunatic trying to break into someone else's house. The episode ends with Stu sitting in a cop car as the two cops who arrested him and a diner waitress laugh at him. The absolute worst part of this episode is that nobody at the party tries to look for Stu. In fact, nobody knows that he got locked out in the first place. Not to mention Drew doesn't even get punished for what he did. Keep in mind this whole thing started over an argument over who's "king of the jungle". A simple, petty argument that Drew took too far by locking his own brother out of the house. Drew was the one holding the {{Jerkass Ball}} here, yet Stu, the victim, is the one who received the punishment. It's these kinds of episodes that leave a bad taste in my mouth by the end.
* Tropers/YasminPerry: I'm not a big fan of Dethroning Moment pages in general, but "New Kid In Town" is easily one of the worst episodes of the show, thanks to its cringe-worthy case of FridgeHorror, almost bordering on ValuesDissonance (given that the episode was from the early 90's). Basically, the episode is about how the babies are (rightfully) sick and tired of being bullied and bossed around by Angelica. They meet a new boy, Josh, who at first seems nice and friendly, but turns out to be an even bigger bully than Angelica. Angelica comes and "rescues" the babies from Josh, and they go [[StatusQuoIsGod right back]] to being bullied by her. Where oh where to begin? First of all, the episode has the rather terrible message that, it's better to be bullied by a "lesser" bully than to not be bullied at all, as the babies never consider the possibility of either meeting a new kid that won't bully them like Josh or Angelica, or simply not hanging out with Angelica. Secondly, if the episode is taken as a [[{{Applicability}} metaphor]] for something else, like say, DomesticAbuse, it takes a nose dive straight into creepiness. Thirdly, this is yet ''another'' example in the ''loooong'' list of instances where Angelica is bullying the babies and doesn't get any sort of [[KarmaHoudini comeuppance]] for it. In conclusion, this episode does not only have a terrible moral, it makes me like the show ''in general'' a whole lot less, as I was bullied a ''lot'' growing up, so this episode really hit home for me.
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* Tropers/YasminPerry: I'm not a big fan of Dethroning Moment pages in general, but "New Kid On The Block" is easily one of the worst episodes of the show, thanks to its cringe-worthy case of FridgeHorror, almost bordering on ValuesDissonance (given that the episode was from the early 90's). Basically, the episode is about how the babies are (rightfully) sick and tired of being bullied and bossed around by Angelica. They meet a new boy, Josh, who at first seems nice and friendly, but turns out to be an even bigger bully than Angelica. Angelica comes and "rescues" the babies from Josh, and they go [[StatusQuoIsGod right back]] to being bullied by her. Where oh where to begin? First of all, the episode has the rather terrible message that, it's better to be bullied by a "lesser" bully than to not be bullied at all, as the babies never consider the possibility of either meeting a new kid that won't bully them like Josh or Angelica, or simply not hanging out with Angelica. Secondly, if the episode is taken as a [[{{Applicability}} metaphor]] for something else, like say, DomesticAbuse, it takes a nose dive straight into creepiness. Thirdly, this is yet ''another'' example in the ''loooong'' list of instances where Angelica is bullying the babies and doesn't get any sort of [[KarmaHoudini comeuppance]] for it. In conclusion, this episode does not only have a terrible moral, it makes me like the show ''in general'' a whole lot less, as I was bullied a ''lot'' growing up, so this episode really hit home for me.

* Tropers/YasminPerry: I'm not a big fan of Dethroning Moment pages in general, but "New Kid On The Block" is easily one of the worst episodes of the show, thanks to its cringe-worthy case of FridgeHorror, almost bordering on ValuesDissonance (giving that the episode was from the early 90's). Basically, the episode is about how the babies are (rightfully) sick and tired of being bullied and bossed around by Angelica. They meet a new boy, Josh, who at first seems nice and friendly, but turns out to be an even bigger bully than Angelica. Angelica comes and "rescues" the babies from Josh, and they go [[StatusQuoIsGod right back]] to being bullied by her. Where oh where to begin? First of all, the episode has the rather terrible message that, it's better to be bullied by a "lesser" bully than to not be bullied at all, as the babies never consider the possibility of either meeting a new kid that won't bully them like Josh or Angelica, or simply not hanging around with Angelica. Secondly, if the episode is taken as a [[{{Applicability}} metaphor]] for something else, like say, DomesticAbuse, it takes a nose dive straight into creepiness. Thirdly, this is yet ''another'' example in the ''loooong'' list of instances where Angelica is bullying the babies and doesn't get any sort of [[KarmaHoudini comeuppance]] for it. In conclusion, this episode does not only have a terrible moral, it makes like the show ''in general'' a whole lot less, as I was bullied a ''lot'' growing up, so this episode really hit home for me.

* Tropers/YasminPerry: I'm not a big fan of Dethroning Moment pages in general, but "New Kid On The Block" is easily one of the worst episodes of the show, thanks to its cringe-worthy case of FridgeHorror, almost bordering on ValuesDissonance (giving that the episode was from the early 90's). Basically, the episode is about how the babies are (rightfully) sick and tired of being bullied and bossed around by Angelica. They meet a new boy, Josh, who at first seems nice and friendly, but turns out to be an even bigger bully than Angelica. Angelica comes and "rescues" the babies from Josh, and they go [[StatusQuoIsGod right back]] to being bullied by her. Where oh where to begin? First of all, the episode has the rather terrible message that, it's better to be bullied by a "lesser" bully than to not be bullied at all, as the babies never consider the possibility of either meeting a new kid that won't bully them like Josh or Angelica, or simply not hanging around with Angelica. Secondly, if the episode is taken as a [[{{Applicability}} metaphor]] for something else, like say, DometisicAbuse, it takes a nose dive straight into creepiness. Thirdly, this is yet ''another'' example in the ''loooong'' list of instances where Angelica is bullying the babies and doesn't get any sort of [[KarmaHoudini comeuppance]] for it. In conclusion, this episode does not only have a terrible moral, it makes like the show ''in general'' a whole lot less, as I was bullied a lot growing up, so this episode ''really'' hit home for me.

* Tropers/YasminPerry: I'm not a big fan of DethroningMoment pages in general, but "New Kid On The Block" is easily one of the worst episodes of the show, thanks to its cringe-worthy case of FridgeHorror, almost bordering on ValuesDissonance (giving that the episode was from the early 90's). Basically, the episode is about how the babies are (rightfully) sick and tired of being bullied and bossed around by Angelica. They meet a new boy, Josh, who at first seems nice and friendly, but turns out to be an even bigger bully than Angelica. Angelica comes and "rescues" the babies from Josh, and they go [[StatusQuoIsGod right back]] to being bullied by her. Where oh where to begin? First of all, the episode has the rather terrible message that, it's better to be bullied by a "lesser" bully than to not be bullied at all, as the babies never consider the possibility of either meeting a new kid that won't bully them like Josh or Angelica, or simply not hanging around with Angelica. Secondly, if the episode is taken as a [[{{Applicability}} metaphor]] for something else, like say, DometisicAbuse, it takes a nose dive straight into creepiness. Thirdly, this is yet ''another'' example in the ''loooong'' list of instances where Angelica is bullying the babies and doesn't get any sort of [[KarmaHoudini comeuppance]] for it. In conclusion, this episode does not only have a terrible moral, it makes like the show ''in general'' a whole lot less, as I was bullied a lot growing up, so this episode ''really'' hit home for me.

* Just Another Troper: After reading this list, I'm incredibly surprised nobody has added the episode "Party Animals" to it. This episode, in my opinion, was one of the biggest Stu-torture porns in the whole series. Basically the whole plot of the episode is that Drew and Charlotte have a big costume party at their house. Stu comes dressed up as Tarzan, "king of the jungle" to which Drew tells Stu that King Kong is the real king of the jungle. This leads to an argument that eventually leads to Drew locking Stu out of the house. When Drew refuses to let him back in, Stu decides to climb his way up a drainage pipe so he can climb through an open window. However, his costume becomes stuck and he fails to make it back inside. To make matters worse, the cops show up and arrest him because they think he is some lunatic trying to break into someone else's house. The episode ends with Stu sitting in a cop car as the two cops who arrested him and a diner waitress laugh at him. The absolute worst part of this episode is that nobody at the party tries to look for Stu. In fact, nobody knows that he got locked out in the first place. Not to mention Drew doesn't even get punished for what he did. Keep in mind this whole thing started over an argument over who's "king of the jungle". A simple, petty argument that Drew took too far by locking his own brother out of the house. Drew was the one holding the {{Jerkass Ball}} here, yet Stu, the victim, is the one who received the punishment. It's these kinds of episodes that leave a bad taste in my mouth by the end.

* Tropers/BronyOfTheOctaves: The episode 'Tricycle Thief' was the biggest middle finger insulting episode of the show. The basic premise is that Susie's tricycle goes missing, and blames Angelica for stealing it just because she ended up damaging it earlier in the episode. Now this would have been a decent episode using the "{{Misblamed}}" plot, but instead comes off as a degrading episode to Angelica with Susie literally decides that as a means to make Angelica confess (to something she honestly doesn't know about..) or else her dang doll is going to be sent into the air by Chuckie's balloon. Even if it's made to seem Angelica "stole" Susie's tricycle, you can tell she didn't and yet this entire episode is making you sit through god knows how many agonizing minutes of Angelica pleading that she didn't steal the tricycle. It's a basic CharacterDerailment to Susie, who's known to be level headed (at least before AllGrownUp came in) and just having her order Phil and Lil into holding Angelica like that (especially when Cynthia is let go). It actually made this troper smile when Angelica started to give a huge TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Susie after it's revealed she obviously didn't steal the tricycle, even if it was a little one. But of course it was taken back when Cynthia is returned. The episode was just poorly done and derailed Susie's character, as well as Phil and Lil's, but not so much.

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* Tropers/MsCC93: My moment would be in the episode "Chuckie's Wonderful Life," in a scene after Chuckie "loses" his father's CD and gets angry at his friends (when really, it was Angelica). Angelica flat out tells Chuckie that [[KickTheDog the world would be better off without him]]. This is taking Angelica too far in my opinion, because even though she's a {{jerkass}}, I'd never think she would do such a thing! In all fairness, Angelica ''[[LaserGuidedKarma does]]'' end up getting punished by her father though.

* Tropers/BronyOfTheOctaves: The episode 'Tricycle Thief' was the biggest middle finger insulting episode of the show. The basic premise is that Susie's tricycle goes missing, and blames Angelica for stealing it just because she ended up damaging it earlier in the episode. Now this would have been a decent episode using the "{{Misblamed}}" plot, but instead comes off as a degrading episode to Angelica with Susie literally decides that as a means to make Angelica confess (to something she honestly doesn't know about..) or else her dang doll is going to be sent into the air by Chuckie's balloon. Even if it's made to seem Angelica "stole" Susie's tricycle, you can tell she didn't and yet this entire episode is making you sit through god knows how many agonizing minutes of Angelica pleading that she didn't steal the tricycle. It's a basic CharacterDerailment to Susie, who's known to be level headed (at least before AllGrownUp came in) and just having her order Phil and Lil into holding Angelica like that (especially when Cynthia is let go). It actually made this troper smile when Angelica started to give a huge TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Susie after it's revealed she obviously didn't steal the tricycle, even if it was a little one. But of course it was taken back when Cynthia is returned. The episode was just poorly done and derailed Susie's character, as well as Phil and Lil's, but not so much.

* PrincessTogezo: I can find something to like about almost any ''Rugrats'' episode, but "Silent Angelica" comes off as a total misfire. It just feels too mean-spirited for a show like this one. Basically, to get new toys, Angelica tries to behave herself by staying quiet until her mom's done with a business call and her dad's done watching a badminton game, but the babies keep being loud. Somehow, Angelica never gets the idea to whisper to them and explain what's going on, and so they think something's wrong with her (like maybe she's sad or sick). At the end of the episode, when the babies are bothering her and being loud, she finally snaps and yells that there's nothing wrong with her and she's just trying to get some toys. However, Drew and Charlotte heard this, and because of her yelling and the mess in the room, decide that Angelica shouldn't get any toys (to add insult to injury, this was just a few seconds before the time where Angelica could stop being quiet). In most ''Rugrats'' episodes, when Angelica gets punished, it's because she did something to deserve it. Here, she was genuinely trying to behave, and yet she got punished anyway. It's uncomfortably similar to the later [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb "Candace Gets Busted"]] in this regard, and definitely one of the weaker episodes of ''Rugrats''.

* Tropers/CJCroen1393: "Wash-Dry Story" randomly turns into a ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' parody for no good reason. All of the songs (besides "Cynthia", which was actually [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming kind of sweet]]) were completely random, sounded awful and filled with {{Painful Rhyme}}s. It was full of plot holes (how exactly did Angelica know they were all singing when she was at home and not at the laundromat?), the [=McNulty=] boys were [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized horribly]] and the plot was just nonexistent, and not in a good way. Overall just a terribly dull episode.

* Tropers/CJCroen1393: The episode at the laundromat. It randomly turns into a ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' parody for no good reason. All of the songs (besides "Cynthia", which was actually [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming kind of sweet]]) were completely random, sounded awful and filled with {{Painful Rhyme}}s. It was full of plot holes (how exactly did Angelica know they were all singing when she was at home and not at the laundromat?), the [=McNulty=] boys were [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized horribly]] and the plot was just nonexistent, and not in a good way. Overall just a terribly dull episode.

* Tropers/CJCroen1393: The episode at the laundromat. It randomly turns into a ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' for no good reason. All of the songs (besides "Cynthia", which was actually [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming kind of sweet]]) were completely random, sounded awful and filled with {{Painful Rhyme}}s. It was full of plot holes (how exactly did Angelica know they were all singing when she was at home and not at the laundromat?), the [=McNulty=] boys were [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized horribly]] and the plot was just nonexistent, and not in a good way. Overall just a terribly dull episode.

* Tropers/TotalDramaRox97: Didi can't be given the award for "Most Attentive Parent" but in the episode "The Big Showdown", this inattentiveness irritating levels. Dil was having bad dreams and Didi thinks all the Reptar stuff is scaring Dil. So what does she do? She takes away all of Dil's and Tommy's Reptar stuff and replaces it with a character named Goober the Gopher after a hotline caller recommended it. It's easy to understand why she wanted to keep it hidden Dil, but why Tommy he was never crying or anything? When Tommy shows a distaste to Goober, Didi considers throwing the Reptar stuff away. One can only wonder why she thought that would be a good idea. Thankfully, the hotline director recommends she goes to a Toy Fair where a man dressed as Goober would be. This is where it gets infuriating. While there Betty tells Didi that she might be going overboard and tries to point out Reptar isn't that bad, Didi disagrees. Here's the infuriating part. When they go to meet Goober, the man turns out to be a complete JerkAss. He takes Tommy's Reptar toy making him cry and replaces it with a Goober stuffed animal. Time for Didi to stand up to Goober? Not quite. She defends Goober and is shocked that Tommy would respond that way. The guy just stole your baby's toy, made him cry, and she thinks he's the good guy? I understand Didi can lack common sense sometimes but this episode took it way too far.