History Recap / RugratsS3E17MommysLittleAssetsChuckiesWonderfulLife

* MegaCorp: Charlotte's company, called "[=MergeCorp=]" in this episodes, apparently specializes in company takeovers, both hostile and benign. When Angelica asks her mom about what she does at her job, Charlotte explains it to her like this, "A corporation is like a big, hungry monster. My job is to find smaller, weaker monsters for it to eat."

The seventeenth episode of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991''.

* VillainousGlutton: Angelica is shown to be this in the world where Chuckie doesn't exist, manipulating Stu and Didi into abandoning Tommy and endlessly making junk food for her to eat.

* AllJustADream: Chuckie returns to his real timeline, the whole "world without him" thing with the Angel seems to have been a dream. [[spoiler: But then the final shot of the episode shows [[OrWasItADream Chuckie looking out the window and sees his guardian angel on a motorcycle. They wave goodbye as he rides into the sun and disappears]]]].

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* TheReveal[=/=]UnseenNoMore: Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, makes his first physical appearance in this episode, having only been mentioned by Charlotte many times prior to it.

** When Angelica tricks Jonathan into leaving to get her a glass of water, she decides to leave to find the model, believing it to be a toy, and tells Tommy, "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Now let's make like a tree and get out of here!]]".

** Solve your problems either by yourself or with help from families or friends not by running away from them.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Angelica as usual. Seeing an opportunity to be mean to the babies, she steals Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD that they were playing with. She wanted it simply because they had it, and it never occurs to her that the CD ''wasn't theirs'' to play with in the first place. This gets her in trouble with her father when he discovers that she stole the CD from Chas.

The seventeenth episode of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.

* NotHisSled: Despite being the Potter of this ItsAWonderfulPlot, Angelica isn't a KarmaHoudini for stealing Chas' CD, as Drew catches her with it and forces her to return it to Chas while also refusing to let her have desert for a week as punishment.

** Running away doesn't always fix things.
** It might make things stay the same.
** Don’t run away from home.
** It doesn't help fix your problems.
** Don’t steal things from others; because stealing is a crime no matter the circumstances. You could go to jail for theft.
** Children could be sent to juvenile hall however since they're young.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Jonathan.

* MoralityChain: Played UpToEleven; Chuckie's guardian angel shows Chuckie that without him, the entire neighborhood has been reduced to a warzone of misbehaving babies, because "nobody was around to tell them it's not such a good idea."

* AnAesop: Don’t put yourself into a lot of stress, because too much stress is not good for your mental health, and it makes you lose track of your tasks.

* EurekaMoment: When Angelica and Tommy go missing, Charlotte remembers that they're at the Cookie World model because Angelica wanted to play with it earlier.

* EurekaMoment: When Angelica and Tommy go missing, Charlotte remembers that they're at the Cookie World model because of Angelica's love for cookies.

* NeverMyFault: Angelica tries to blame Tommy for ruining the Cookie World model after Charlotte catches her doing so. Charlotte lampshades this while disciplining her, saying she's set a bad influence on Tommy.

* SouvenirLand: Following [=MergeCorp=]'s acquisition of Famous Ethel's Cookie Company, Charlotte plans to build a theme park called Cookie World, "The Cookiest Place on Earth", and has Jonathan build a scale model of it, which Angelica mistakes for a toy.

* ADayInTheLimelight: This episode marks the first time Charlotte is looking after the kids, and thus has a more pivotal role.

* ButtMonkey: Jonathan. The elevator door closes on him when he tries to get Charlotte's briefcase from it, Angelica having left it there by mistake, he gets fired despite his best attempts to look after Tommy and Angelica and make sure Merge Corp's acquisition of Famous Ethel's Cookie Company proceeds as planned, and when Charlotte does re-hire him at the end of the episode, she makes him the supervisor of the employee daycare center, making him look after Tommy and Angelica.

* EverybodyCries: Howard and Betty are [[InelegantBlubbering crying their eyes out]] at seeing Phil and Lil wrecking the house when Chas drops by to say that he wishes he had a kid. Then when Chas realizes that he's all alone, with only his sock puppet to talk to, he, Howard, and Betty all burst into tears.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Early in the episode, Charlotte tells Jonathan to get the Mapplethorpe painting off the wall. Robert Mapplethorpe is known for painting nude men, so...
** Jonathan thinks an "I love you" directed towards Angelica is meant for him. Charlotte quickly corrects him, saying she's very circumspect about affection towards her employees "after the Clarence Thomas hearings."

* LookBehindYiu: Angelica tricks the babies into thinking that Spike is being chased by monsters with nets outside to distract them so she can steal Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD.

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Angelica tricks the babies into thinking that Spike is being chased by monsters with nets outside to distract them so she can steal Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD.

* LaserGuidedKarma: After stealing Chas' CD and then allowing Chuckie to think it was his fault, Angelica gets hit with this big time. Drew catches Angelica with the CD, figures out it belongs to Chaz, brings Angelica to his house and orders her to apologize. Drew then kicks it further by saying Angelica gets no dessert for a whole week (a contrast to the vision of an overweight Angelica gorging on sweets).