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The first episode of the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991''.

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The first episode of the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991''.
''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991''. It's also the last episode to feature Creator/DavidDoyle as the voice of Grandpa Lou before his death. Appropriately, both segments are ADayInTheLimelight for Grandpa.
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The first episode of the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.

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The first episode of the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.
''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991''.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Grandpa Lou claimed that he used to stay up for fifteen days in a row and liked it. However, one hard-to-beat record for the most time without sleep is 264 hours, or eleven days, which was an extreme. After about a week, a person would hallucinate due to the lack of REM sleep. After less than two weeks, a person would experience brain damage, possibly permanent. It's pretty impossible for him to do this, much less enjoy it. It is possible that he is exaggerating with the number 15.

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* BeyondTheImpossible: Grandpa Lou claimed claims that he used to stay up for fifteen days in a row and liked it. However, one hard-to-beat record for the most time without sleep is 264 hours, or eleven days, which was an extreme. After about a week, a person would hallucinate due to the lack of REM sleep. After less than two weeks, a person would experience brain damage, possibly permanent. It's pretty impossible for him to do this, much less enjoy it. It is possible that he is exaggerating with the number 15.
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* GamesOfTheElderly: Lou takes the babies to the senior center for bingo night. At first, none of his numbers are called, but as soon as the babies find the female manager, whom they believe to be "Lady Luck," Lou's numbers begin to be called, and when she arrives, he gets a bingo.



* RuleOfSymbolism: In the boring senior center, none of Lou's numbers are called. But as soon as the babies find the female manager, whom they believe to be "Lady Luck," Lou's numbers begin to be called, and when she arrives, he gets a bingo!

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* RuleOfSymbolism: In the boring senior center, none of Lou's numbers are called. But as soon as the babies find the female manager, whom they believe to be "Lady Luck," Lou's numbers begin to be called, and when she arrives, he gets a bingo!
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*BleakAbyssRetirementHome: The episode revolves around a senior center where its denizens are kept from having any fun, its manager believing that senior citizens are only happy when they are quiet and relaxed. Thanks to the babies, however, things turn into a riot, and the seniors are soon letting out their inner youths.
*DotingGrandparent: Grandpa Lou decides to take his grandson and the other babies to the senior center, having promised to look after them while Stu and Didi were out for the night.
*LiteralMinded: Upon hearing Grandpa Lou say he's "got a date with Lady Luck tonight," Tommy assumes that Lady Luck is a woman whom Lou is in love with and so decides to find her.
*RuleOfSymbolism: In the boring senior center, none of Lou's numbers are called. But as soon as the babies find the female manager, whom they believe to be "Lady Luck," Lou's numbers begin to be called, and when she arrives, he gets a bingo!
*TrailOfBreadCrumbs: The babies leave a trail of bingo chips from the bingo room onward as they look for "Lady Luck."

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon seeing the bugs on his bed (the babies having placed them there), Grandpa Lou fears that [[LaserGuidedKarma karma's out to get him]], so he runs downstairs and confesses to Stu and Didi that he broke his promise to them.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon seeing the bugs on his bed (the babies having placed them there), there as "good bugs" to get rid of his "bad bug"), Grandpa Lou fears that [[LaserGuidedKarma karma's out to get him]], so he runs downstairs and confesses to Stu and Didi that he broke his promise to them.


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*RhymesOnADime: See AnAesop above.
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The first episode of the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.

'''Grandpa's Bad Bug'''

Grandpa Lou lies about being sick (having a "bad bug", to be specific), but when the babies try to help him get better, their actions make him think karma has it out for him.

'''Lady Luck'''

Grandpa Lou takes the kids to a (rather dull) senior center for bingo night, and in the search for "Lady Luck", who the babies think is an actual person, they end up making things much more fun for the seniors.

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*AnAesop: Mentioned in the rhyme Stu remembers Lou saying to him when he was a kid:
-->''If a promise you don't keep\\
It will haunt you in your sleep.\\
And as you lie beneath your quilt,\\
You'll have a conscience full of guilt.''
*BeyondTheImpossible: Grandpa Lou claimed that he used to stay up for fifteen days in a row and liked it. However, one hard-to-beat record for the most time without sleep is 264 hours, or eleven days, which was an extreme. After about a week, a person would hallucinate due to the lack of REM sleep. After less than two weeks, a person would experience brain damage, possibly permanent. It's pretty impossible for him to do this, much less enjoy it. It is possible that he is exaggerating with the number 15.
*{{Hypocrite}}: Grandpa Lou told Stu about the dangers of breaking promises, but in this episode, he breaks a promise.
*MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon seeing the bugs on his bed (the babies having placed them there), Grandpa Lou fears that [[LaserGuidedKarma karma's out to get him]], so he runs downstairs and confesses to Stu and Didi that he broke his promise to them.
*NoodleIncident: The last time he visited the lodge, Grandpa Lou was so tired he couldn't get out of bed for a week.
*PlayingSick: Grandpa Lou pretends to have a bug in his stomach as an excuse for staying in bed after staying up late. The babies, overhearing this, think that he ate a bad bug, and so try to remove it.
*TastesLikeFeet: When the babies try to lure the "bad bug" out of Grandpa Lou's stomach by placing old picnic food on his face, the old food falls into his mouth, causing him to choke. When Stu comes up, Lou complains that the food tastes like a sweaty sock.

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