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* Everything Susie's [[CoolOldLady Great Aunt T]] does in the Kwanzaa special is either this, funny, awesome or all three. A couple of moments that stand out however are:
** When Susie cries because her intended present for Aunt T (a clay bust of herself) was ruined, Aunt T consoles her and tells her she loves the present anyway. [[spoiler:She even uses it as a cup of unity to toast at the Kwanzaa dinner]].
-->'''Aunt T:''' Well, it's not gorgeous but it has a lot of character, [[TakeThatMe just like me]]! (''hearty laugh'')
** In one flashback, she helped out Susie's mom by loaning her some money after her financial aid for Harvard fell through. She then tells her that [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre she knows she'll make a great doctor someday]] and after a timeskip is there at her graduation.
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** A smaller one earlier in the episode: Tommy's worried because Angelica's being quiet, so he turns down playing outside with his friends and tries to get her to talk to him. Even though she's constantly awful to him and has made him mad on occasion, he still cares about his cousin.
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**Angelica's fondness of the little reindeer the fake Santa gives her is pretty heartwarming in itself, especially since she started out resenting it.
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* In "LIttle Dude", Tommy becomes friends with the local 'tough guy', Ramon, and it's because he happens to be a CoolBigBro with his own little brother who's around Tommy's age. This becomes more apparent when "Number 12" was about to something to to Tommy, but he just halts everything, calmly taks the child away and leaves the cafeteria to get te kid ou of harm's way. That is rather sweet for the apparent tough guy of the school.

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* In "LIttle Dude", Tommy becomes friends with the local 'tough guy', Ramon, and it's because he happens to be a CoolBigBro with his own little brother who's around Tommy's age. This becomes more apparent when "Number 12" was about to something to to Tommy, but he just halts everything, calmly taks the child away and leaves the cafeteria to get te kid ou of harm's way. That is rather sweet for the apparent tough guy of the school. He even calls Tommy "[[AffectionateNickname Little Dude]]"
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* In "LIttle Dude", Tommy becomes friends with the local 'tough guy', Ramon, and it's because he happens to be a CoolBigBro with his own little brother who's around Tommy's age. This becomes more apparent when "Number 12" was about to something to to Tommy, but he just halts everything, calmly taks the child away and leaves the cafeteria to get te kid ou of harm's way. That is rather sweet for the apparent tough guy of the school.
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** In the same episode, Angelica has one ImagineSpot where she visits Santa's workshop, and the elves lecture her on how mean she had been. The girl admits that she calls many people 'dumb' but never really means it; as this happens only in her imagination, it's a good view of Angelica's subconscious mind and how she actually resents her own mean ways more than once. Later, she gives gifts to all the babies, even giving Dil his very first Christmas present (a toy reindeer that Angelica was already very fond on), and a small camera for Tommy, that later becomes a very clever ForeShadowing of his film-making dreams in AllGrownUp. So yeah, Tommy discovered what he wanted to do in life thanks to Angelica.

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** In the same episode, Angelica has one ImagineSpot where she visits Santa's workshop, and the elves lecture her on how mean she had been. The girl admits that she calls many people 'dumb' but never really means it; as this happens only in her imagination, it's a good view of Angelica's subconscious mind and how she actually resents her own mean ways more than once. Later, she gives gifts to all the babies, even giving Dil his very first Christmas present (a toy reindeer that Angelica was already very fond on), and a small camera for Tommy, that later becomes a very clever ForeShadowing of his film-making dreams in AllGrownUp.''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp''. So yeah, Tommy discovered what he wanted to do in life thanks to Angelica.
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** Hell, Angelica protecting the babies generally; if you fuck with the babies without her permission it will not end well.
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* In "Let Them Eat Cake", the Pickles and Finster families attend Didi's half-brother Ben's wedding, with Tommy and Chuckie excited about eating wedding cake. But when the bride, Elaine, can't be found, Tommy and Chuckie try to find the cake themselves. Eventually, they become discouraged, sitting down on a cart [[FailedASpotCheck which has a cake]], unaware of it [[OhCrap until it goes runaway]]. They get out, upset losing the cake, but discover Elaine, who was nervous about a "permanent" aspect of marriage. Ben finds them, teasing asking if Tommy and Chuckie had been looking for her, and admits to Elaine that he'd been feeling nervous too. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Reassured, the wedding goes on, with Tommy and Chuckie enjoying some cake]].

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* In "Let Them Eat Cake", the Pickles and Finster families attend Didi's half-brother Ben's wedding, with Tommy and Chuckie excited about eating wedding cake. But when the bride, Elaine, can't be found, Tommy and Chuckie try to find the cake themselves. Eventually, they become discouraged, sitting down on a cart [[FailedASpotCheck which has a cake]], unaware of it [[OhCrap until it goes runaway]].starts moving]]. They get out, upset losing the cake, but discover Elaine, who was nervous about a "permanent" aspect of marriage. Ben finds them, teasing asking if Tommy and Chuckie had been looking for her, and admits to Elaine that he'd been feeling nervous too. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Reassured, the wedding goes on, with Tommy and Chuckie enjoying some cake]].
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* In "Let Them Eat Cake", the Pickles and Finster families attend Didi's half-brother Ben's wedding, with Tommy and Chuckie excited about eating wedding cake. But when the bride, Elaine, can't be found, Tommy and Chuckie try to find the cake themselves. Eventually, they become discouraged, sitting down on a cart [[FailedASpotCake which has a cake]], unaware of it [[OhCrap until it goes runaway]]. They get out, upset losing the cake, but discover Elaine, who was nervous about the permanent prospect of marriage. Ben finds them, teasing asking if Tommy and Chuckie had been looking for her, and admits he'd been feeling nervous too. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Reassured, the wedding goes on, with Tommy and Chuckie enjoying some cake]].

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* In "Let Them Eat Cake", the Pickles and Finster families attend Didi's half-brother Ben's wedding, with Tommy and Chuckie excited about eating wedding cake. But when the bride, Elaine, can't be found, Tommy and Chuckie try to find the cake themselves. Eventually, they become discouraged, sitting down on a cart [[FailedASpotCake [[FailedASpotCheck which has a cake]], unaware of it [[OhCrap until it goes runaway]]. They get out, upset losing the cake, but discover Elaine, who was nervous about the permanent prospect a "permanent" aspect of marriage. Ben finds them, teasing asking if Tommy and Chuckie had been looking for her, and admits to Elaine that he'd been feeling nervous too. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Reassured, the wedding goes on, with Tommy and Chuckie enjoying some cake]].
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* In "Let Them Eat Cake", the Pickles and Finster families attend Didi's half-brother Ben's wedding, with Tommy and Chuckie excited about eating wedding cake. But when the bride, Elaine, can't be found, Tommy and Chuckie try to find the cake themselves. Eventually, they become discouraged, sitting down on a cart [[FailedASpotCake which has a cake]], unaware of it [[OhCrap until it goes runaway]]. They get out, upset losing the cake, but discover Elaine, who was nervous about the permanent prospect of marriage. Ben finds them, teasing asking if Tommy and Chuckie had been looking for her, and admits he'd been feeling nervous too. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Reassured, the wedding goes on, with Tommy and Chuckie enjoying some cake]].
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* The ending to the "Family Tree" episode; Stu and Didi were on a romantic cruise but Didi kept getting sick. It's not until the end that we find out why...
-->'''Stu:''' You feelin' alright, Deed?\\
'''Didi:''' I feel wonderful! Stu...[[WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie We're going to have a baby!]]\\
'''Stu:''' Really? Deed that's wonderful! (''they hug, then Didi [[MoodWhiplash pukes again]] offscreen'') Well, I guess I'll have to get used to ''this'' again...
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** To make the latter even better, the twins comment that their first laugh is their mother's favorite memory of them.
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* At the end of the first Christmas Special, a man who appears to be Santa Claus walks through the door to wish everyone a merry Christmas. He give each of the children a gift and notably asking Chucky, who had been afraid of him, if he(Santa) was still scary, [[LickedByTheDog to which Chucky smiled]]. He even gave Angelica a present who, though she had been bad, was trying to do good to make up for it. Santa told her "sometimes trying your hardest to be good is as important as already doing good". He gives her the toy she wanted but also leaves her a small lump of coal inside so she knows that she still needs to be good.

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* At the end of the first Christmas Special, a man who appears to be Santa Claus walks through the door to wish everyone a merry Christmas. He give each of the children a gift and notably asking Chucky, who had been afraid of him, if he(Santa) he (Santa) was still scary, [[LickedByTheDog to which Chucky smiled]]. He even gave Angelica a present who, though she had been bad, was trying to do good to make up for it. Santa told her "sometimes trying your hardest to be good is as important as already doing good". He gives her the toy she wanted but also leaves her a small lump of coal inside so she knows that she still needs to be good.
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* Chas, Kira, Chuckie, and Kimi being a happy family.
** Specifically, the first episode after the second movie, where Kira formally adopts Chuckie as her son and Chas formally adopts Kimi as his daughter.

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* Chas, Chaz, Kira, Chuckie, and Kimi being a happy family.
** Specifically, the first episode after the second movie, where Kira formally adopts Chuckie as her son and Chas Chaz formally adopts Kimi as his daughter.



--> "Hi Chuckie. Well I guess washing Wawa wasn't the best idea. You know there is still a lot about you I don't know yet. Like your favorite sandwiches or your favorite games or the songs or stories you like. Those things may take a while. What i do know is I love you very much. I hope that will do till I get the other things sorted out."

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--> "Hi Chuckie. Well I guess washing Wawa wasn't the best idea. You know there is still a lot about you I don't know yet. Like your favorite sandwiches or your favorite games or the songs or stories you like. Those things may take a while. What i I do know is I love you very much. I hope that will do till I get the other things sorted out."
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* In "The Shot," Tommy and his new friend Hector spend most of the episode terrified of getting a shot at the doctor's office; Tommy having heard horror stories from Chuckie and Angelica doesn't help. It ends up being an immense relief when [[RhymesOnADime Dr. Schachter]] turns out to be a perfectly {{Nice Guy}}. He even gives Tommy a lollipop and lets him pick his own bandage!
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* At the end of the first Christmas Special, a man who appears to be Santa Claus walks through the door to wish everyone a merry christmas. He give each of the children a gift and notably asking Chucky, who had been afraid of him, if he(Santa) was still scary, [[LickedByTheDog to which Chucky smiled]]. He even gave Angelica a present who, though had been bad, was trying to do good to make up for it. Santa told her "sometimes trying your hardest to be good is as important as already doing good". He gives her the toy she wanted but also leaves her a small lump of coal inside so she knows that she still needs to be good.

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* At the end of the first Christmas Special, a man who appears to be Santa Claus walks through the door to wish everyone a merry christmas.Christmas. He give each of the children a gift and notably asking Chucky, who had been afraid of him, if he(Santa) was still scary, [[LickedByTheDog to which Chucky smiled]]. He even gave Angelica a present who, though she had been bad, was trying to do good to make up for it. Santa told her "sometimes trying your hardest to be good is as important as already doing good". He gives her the toy she wanted but also leaves her a small lump of coal inside so she knows that she still needs to be good.
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** Before that, Tommy's song for Dil.
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** Arguably the entire episode, although special mention goes to the scenes of Tommy and Phil and Lil talking about their mums. Specifically, Tommy refers to him being in a "giant fishtank" (an incubator) and Didi comes in and holds his hand, while Phil and Lil mention that they first started laughing after they were fed "the old way" (breastfed).
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* "Chuckie's Complaint" has a man having to wear a Reptar costume for his job. He finds it degrading until the babies come over and give him a hug, which makes him decide that his job is worth it if his presence makes children happy.
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* Meta example: After Chuckie's first voice actress Christine Cavanaugh died in 2014, Series/The90sAreAllThat aired a marathon of episodes that centered on Chuckie in her memory.
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* At the end of the first Christmas Special, a man who appears to be Santa Claus walks through the door to wish everyone a merry christmas. He give each of the children a gift and notably asking Chucky, who had been afraid of him, if he(Santa) was still scary, [[LickedByTheDog to which Chucky smiled]]. He even gave Angelica a present who, though had been bad, was trying to do good to make up for it. Santa told her "sometimes trying your hardest to be good is as important as already doing good". He gives her the toy she wanted but also leaves her a small lump of coal inside so she knows that she still needs to be good.
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* Stu saying how proud he is of Tommy in "Real or Robots?"
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* A comic strip (Whether or not it's canon to the show is debatable) showed Chuckie standing on a crack in the sidewalk. Angelica asks him what he's doing, and Chuckie says "Step on a crack, bring your mother back". Angelica is about to call him a fool because it's ''break'' your mother's back, before she realizes [[WhamLine what he said]], and then stands next to Chuckie looking up at the sky saying "See anything yet?"
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** The episode in general counts, because Tommy wanted Dil to play with them and their walking "Follow Me Reptar". But he was also protective of Dil; while the babies were coming up with ways to motivate him (a cookie, arguing, fear of clowns) and the adults were excited of the prospect, Tommy wanted his brother to learn at his own pace. In a GenerationXerox moment, Dil sees Tommy walking by and tried climbing up to walk and play with them. [[SubvertedTrope He]] [[StatusQuoIsGod fails]], but Tommy, knowing this, assures him again he doesn't have to walk and that he'll be close-by whenever he does want to play. True brotherly love.

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** The episode in general counts, because Tommy wanted Dil to play with them and their walking "Follow Me Reptar". But he was also protective of Dil; while the babies were coming up with ways to motivate him (a cookie, arguing, fear of clowns) and the adults were excited of the prospect, Tommy wanted his brother to learn at his own pace. In a GenerationXerox moment, Dil sees Tommy walking by like as mentioned in Tommy's flashback, and tried climbing up to walk and play with them.him. [[SubvertedTrope He]] [[StatusQuoIsGod fails]], but Tommy, knowing this, assures him again he doesn't have to walk and that he'll be close-by whenever he does want to play. True brotherly love.
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** The episode in general counts, because Tommy wanted Dil to play with them and their walking "Follow Me Reptar". But he was also protective of Dil; while the babies were coming up with ways to motivate him (a cookie, arguing, fear of clowns) and the adults were excited of the prospect, Tommy wanted his brother to learn at his own pace. In a GenerationXerox moment, Dil sees Tommy walking by and tried climbing up to walk and play with them. [[SubvertedTrope He]] [[StatusQuoIsGod fails]], but Tommy, knowing this, assures him again he doesn't have to walk and that he'll be close-by whenever he does want to play. True brotherly love.
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** Specifically, the first episode after the second movie, where Kira formally adopts Chuckie and Chas does the same with Kimi.

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** Specifically, the first episode after the second movie, where Kira formally adopts Chuckie as her son and Chas does the same with Kimi.formally adopts Kimi as his daughter.



* The episode where Susie's tricycle goes missing. She accuses Angelica of stealing it because Angelica had been mean to her earlier (which makes the assumption somewhat rational). As the episode goes on, it looks like Angelica did steal it and Susie ties her Cynthia doll to a balloon for Chuckie to let go as revenge...only for it to be revealed later that Angelica ''didn't'' steal it after all. Susie's father had moved the trike so he could pain the shed. After this, Angelica reveals she was making (well, trying to anyway) an apology card for Susie for being mean to her earlier. So we have an episode where [[SpoiledBrat Angelica]], of ''all'' people, is apologetic. And to top it off, she does get her doll back.
* Spike nursing kitties in the episode "Spike's Babies" and the babies try to help him.

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* The episode where Susie's tricycle goes missing. She accuses Angelica of stealing it because Angelica had been mean to her earlier (which makes the assumption somewhat rational). As the episode goes on, it looks like Angelica did steal it and Susie ties her Cynthia doll to a balloon for Chuckie to let go as revenge...only for it to be revealed later that Angelica ''didn't'' steal it after all. Susie's father had moved the trike so he could pain paint the shed. After this, Angelica reveals she was making (well, trying to anyway) an apology card for Susie for being mean to her earlier. So we have an episode where [[SpoiledBrat Angelica]], of ''all'' people, is apologetic. And to top it off, she does get her doll back.
* Spike nursing kitties sheltering a litter of stray kittens in the episode "Spike's Babies" and the babies try trying to help him.



* In "A Step at a Time", when the babies are recounting the time they first walked, Tommy tells them that when Chuckie had come over to his house with his dad (this was after Chuckie started walking), and Tommy wanted to play with Chuckie, so he pulled himself up using the back of the couch in the living room and starts walking. Chuckie is the whole reason why Tommy started walking in the first place.
* In "Angelica's Worst Nightmare", Angelica wakes up from a nightmare involving her newborn baby brother terrorizing her and her parents ignoring her. When her father goes to see her, she starts breaking down and telling her dad that she doesn't want a new sibling and to be ignored like she was in her nightmare. Her father reassures her that he and Angelica's mother will always love and care for Angelica since she is their first child and she will never ever be replaced.

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* In "A Step at a Time", when the babies are recounting the time they first walked, Tommy tells them that when Chuckie had come over to his house with his dad (this was after Chuckie started walking), and Tommy wanted to play with Chuckie, so he pulled himself up using the back of the couch in the living room and starts walking. Chuckie is Chuckie's the whole reason why Tommy started walking in the first place.
* In "Angelica's Worst Nightmare", Nightmare" (where it seems like Charlotte's pregnant again): Angelica wakes up from a nightmare involving of her newborn sibling--in this case, a baby brother terrorizing brother--terrorizing her and her parents ignoring her. totally ignoring. When her father dad goes to see her, she starts breaking down and telling confesses to her dad that she doesn't want a new sibling and to be ignored like she was in her nightmare. Her father Drew reassures her that he and Angelica's mother Charlotte will always love and care for Angelica since she is she's their first child and she will she'll never ever be replaced.
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** In the same episode, Angelica has one ImagineSpot where she visits Santa's workshop, and the elves lecture her on how mean she had been. The girl admits that she calls many people 'dumb' but never really means it; as this happens only in her imagination, it's a good view of Angelica's subconscious mind and how she actually resents her own mean ways more than once. Later, she gives gifts to all the babies, even giving Dil his very first Christmas present (a toy reindeer that Angelica was already very fond on), and a small camera for Tommy, that later becomes a very clever ForeShadowing of his film-making dreams in AllGrownUp. So yeah, Tommy discovered what he wanted to do in life thanks to Angelica.
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* In "Angelica's Worst Nightmare", Angelica wakes up from a nightmare involving her newborn baby brother terrorizing her and her parents ignoring her. When her father goes to see her, she starts breaking down and telling her dad that she doesn't want a new sibling and to be ignored like she was in her nightmare. Her father reassures her that he and Angelica's mother will always love and care for Angelica since she is their first child and she will never ever be replaced.
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-->''When the whippoorwill sings, that's me whispering, "Good night."''
* The episode where Susie's tricycle goes missing. She accuses Angelica of stealing it because Angelica had been mean to her earlier (which makes the assumption somewhat rational). As the episode goes on, it looks like Angelica did steal it and Susie ties her Cynthia doll to a balloon for Tommy to let go as revenge...only for it to be revealed later that Angelica ''didn't'' steal it after all. Someone else (I think Susie's mother) had moved the trike. After this, Angelica reveals she was making (well, trying to anyway) an apology card for Susie for being mean to her earlier. So we have an episode where [[SpoiledBrat Angelica]], of ''all'' people, is apologetic. And to top it off, she does get her doll back.

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-->''When the whippoorwill sings, that's me whispering, "Good "Night night."''
* The episode where Susie's tricycle goes missing. She accuses Angelica of stealing it because Angelica had been mean to her earlier (which makes the assumption somewhat rational). As the episode goes on, it looks like Angelica did steal it and Susie ties her Cynthia doll to a balloon for Tommy Chuckie to let go as revenge...only for it to be revealed later that Angelica ''didn't'' steal it after all. Someone else (I think Susie's mother) father had moved the trike.trike so he could pain the shed. After this, Angelica reveals she was making (well, trying to anyway) an apology card for Susie for being mean to her earlier. So we have an episode where [[SpoiledBrat Angelica]], of ''all'' people, is apologetic. And to top it off, she does get her doll back.
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* Angelica saving the babies from Josh. "They may be just a buncha dumb babies, but they're '''my''' DUMB BABIES!"

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* Angelica saving the babies from Josh.Josh, also doubles as a MomentOfAwesome. "They may be just a buncha dumb babies, but they're '''my''' DUMB BABIES!"

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