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* LaserGuidedKarma: After stealing Chas's CD and then allowing Chuckie to think it's 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).
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After stealing Chas's Chas' CD and then allowing Chuckie to think it's 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).
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* HypocriticalHumor: When trying to go over who could watch the kids, Charlotte dryly comments that Betty and Howard spoil the twins when her daughter is noted as being very spoiled herself.
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* NoodleIncident: When Charlotte reaches the top floor later than expected, Jonathan asks her if she had been abducted by ecoterrorists again. After Charlotte introduces Tommy to him, he is shocked to see Angelica, who tells him, "I told you I'd be back!".
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* NoodleIncident: When Charlotte reaches the top floor later than expected, Jonathan asks her if she had been abducted by ecoterrorists again. After Charlotte introduces Tommy to him, he is shocked to see Angelica, who tells him, "I told you I'd be back!".back!"
* PushoverParents: Averted with Charlotte who, while busy with several things at once, still manages to properly discipline Angelica when she gets in trouble. She's not harsh when Angelica starts crying (real tears for once since she thought she upset her mother) but she doesn't let Angelica walk all over her the same way she does with Drew.
* PushoverParents: Averted with Charlotte who, while busy with several things at once, still manages to properly discipline Angelica when she gets in trouble. She's not harsh when Angelica starts crying (real tears for once since she thought she upset her mother) but she doesn't let Angelica walk all over her the same way she does with Drew.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After stealing Chas's CD and then allowing Chuckie to think it's 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).
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* ADayInTheLimelight: This episode marks the first time Charlotte is looking after the kids, and thus has a more pivotal role.
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* TheReveal: Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, makes his first physical appearance in this episode, having only been mentioned by Charlotte many times prior to it.
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* TheReveal: 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.
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* 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 from Chas by snatching the CD..
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* 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 by snatching the CD..Chas.
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* 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 from Chas by stealing the CD from the babies.
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* 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 from Chas by stealing snatching the CD from the babies.CD..
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** Averted with Drew, who usually gives into his daughter's demands, in this episode. When he catches Angelica with Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, not only does he make her apologize to Chas for taking it, but he also punishes her by telling her she won't have dessert for an entire week.
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** Averted with Drew, who usually gives into his daughter's demands, in this episode. When he catches Angelica with Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, he is furious. And not only does he make her apologize to Chas for taking it, but he also punishes her by telling her she won't have dessert for an entire week.
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* 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 from Chas by stealing the CD from the babies
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* 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 from Chas by stealing the CD from the babiesbabies.
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* Didn'tThinkThisThrough: 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 from Chas by stealing the CD from the babies
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* Didn'tThinkThisThrough: 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 from Chas by stealing the CD from the babies
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* Didn'tThinkThisThroughL: 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 from Chas by stealing the CD from the babies
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* Didn'tThinkThisThroughL: Didn'tThinkThisThrough: 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 from Chas by stealing the CD from the babies
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* Didn'tThinkThisThroughL: 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 from Chas by stealing the CD from the babies
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* 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 he realizes that he's all alone, with only his sock puppet to talk to, Chas bursts into tears along with Howard and Betty.
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* 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 he Chas realizes that he's all alone, with only his sock puppet to talk to, Chas bursts he, Howard, and Betty all burst into tears along with Howard and Betty.tears.
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* 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. Chas starts crying with Howard and Betty when he realizes that he's all alone.
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* 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. Chas starts crying with Howard and Betty Then when he realizes that he's all alone.alone, with only his sock puppet to talk to, Chas bursts into tears along with Howard and Betty.
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* EverybodyCries: Howard and Betty are [[InelegantBlubbering crying their eyes out]] at seeing Phil and Lil when Chas drops by to say that he wishes he had a kid. Chas starts crying with Howard and Betty when he realizes that he's all alone.
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* 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. Chas starts crying with Howard and Betty when he realizes that he's all alone.
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*SanitySlippage: In the world without Chuckie, his father Chas has gone insane. In one scene, Betty even comments that "he's getting worse." Taking the death of his wife into account actually makes this even HarsherInHindsight.
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* ForTheEvulz: Angelica simply stole Chas' CD just because she wanted to.
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* ForTheEvulz: Being an ImagineSpot for Chuckie, Angelica is conveyed as especially malicious in this episode:
** Angelica simply stole Chas' CD just because she wanted to. She then pretends to be a supporting shoulder for Chuckie, manipulating him into thinking the world would be better off without him.
** In Chuckie's BadFuture, Angelica is exaggerated into a gluttonous tyrant who kicks Tommy out of his own home, leaving him on the streets. She later refuses him food and snatches his broken rattle (his only remaining toy) before throwing it into a nearby pile, clearly only wanting it out of spite.
** Angelica simply stole Chas' CD just because she wanted to. She then pretends to be a supporting shoulder for Chuckie, manipulating him into thinking the world would be better off without him.
** In Chuckie's BadFuture, Angelica is exaggerated into a gluttonous tyrant who kicks Tommy out of his own home, leaving him on the streets. She later refuses him food and snatches his broken rattle (his only remaining toy) before throwing it into a nearby pile, clearly only wanting it out of spite.
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* KickTheDog: Angelica telling Chuckie that the whole world would be better off without him is easily one of her cruelest moments.
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* KickTheDog: Angelica pretty much serves as this rendition's Mr Potter through and through. Her telling Chuckie that the whole world would be better off without him is easily one of her cruelest moments.
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* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Angelica steals Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, and makes Chuckie think it was his fault that it disappeared. Drew eventually finds the CD, and after returning it to Chas, informs him that Angelica won't have dessert for a week.
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* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Angelica steals Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, and makes Chuckie think it was his fault that it disappeared. Drew eventually finds the CD, and after returning it to Chas, informs him that Angelica won't have dessert for a whole week.
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** Averted with Drew, who usually gives into his daughter's demands, in this episode. When he catches Angelica with Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, not only does he make her apologize to Chas for stealing it, but he also punishes her by telling her she won't have dessert for an entire week.
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** Averted with Drew, who usually gives into his daughter's demands, in this episode. When he catches Angelica with Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, not only does he make her apologize to Chas for stealing taking it, but he also punishes her by telling her she won't have dessert for an entire week.
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** Averted with Drew, who usually gives into his daughter's demands, in this episode. When he catches Angelica with Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, not only does he make her apologize to Chas for taking it, but he also punishes her by telling her she won't have dessert for an entire week.
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* AllJustADream: Chuckie returns to his real timeline, the whole World without thing with the Angel seemingly 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]]]].
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* AllJustADream: Chuckie returns to his real timeline, the whole World "world without him" thing with the Angel seemingly 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]]]].
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When Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her, they nearly ruin an important business meeting.
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When Charlotte is Charlotte's forced to take Tommy and bring Angelica and Tommy to work with her, they nearly ruin an important business meeting.
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** When Angelica climbs on top of a statue in Charlotte's office, she breaks a fish tank that houses two fish named Vesko and Boski. Charlotte tells Jonathan to find somewhere to put the fish, and in a later scene, Vesko and Boski are seen swimming in the water cooler.
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** When Angelica climbs on top of a statue in Charlotte's office, she breaks a fish tank that houses two fish named Vesko and Boski. Charlotte tells Jonathan to find somewhere to put the fish, and in a later scene, Vesko and Boski are seen swimming around in the a water cooler.
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* DisasterDominoes: As Charlotte tells Angelica what Merge Corp does, Tommy climbs a bookshelf and knocks over a stack of books like dominoes, which leads to a trophy getting knocked down and shattered.
* ElevatorButtonsMash: Angelica does this in the elevator on the way to the top floor of Merge Corp Headquarters, causing the elevator to stop at every floor rather than go straight to the top as intended.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her, as the other adults are all gone and apparently, no one will ever agree to babysit Angelica more than once. Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, neglects to keep an eye on the kids (which all the adults do at least once an episode), and Tommy and Angelica get away and roam the building. Charlotte immediately fires him after she finds the children, even going as far as to tell Jonathan to call security on himself. He's re-hired at the end of the episode, with a promotion. To Jonathan's dismay, it's not a Vice President position— it's supervisor of Merge Corps' daycare center, starting with watching Angelica.
* ElevatorButtonsMash: Angelica does this in the elevator on the way to the top floor of Merge Corp Headquarters, causing the elevator to stop at every floor rather than go straight to the top as intended.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her, as the other adults are all gone and apparently, no one will ever agree to babysit Angelica more than once. Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, neglects to keep an eye on the kids (which all the adults do at least once an episode), and Tommy and Angelica get away and roam the building. Charlotte immediately fires him after she finds the children, even going as far as to tell Jonathan to call security on himself. He's re-hired at the end of the episode, with a promotion. To Jonathan's dismay, it's not a Vice President position— it's supervisor of Merge Corps' daycare center, starting with watching Angelica.
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* DisasterDominoes: As Charlotte tells Angelica what Merge Corp [=MergeCorp=] does, Tommy climbs a bookshelf and knocks over a stack of books like dominoes, which leads to a trophy getting knocked down and shattered.
* ElevatorButtonsMash: Angelica does this in the elevator on the way to the top floor ofMerge Corp Headquarters, [=MergeCorp=]-Headquarters, causing the elevator to stop at every floor rather than go straight to the top as intended.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her, as the other adults are all gone and apparently, no one will ever agree to babysit Angelica more than once. Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, neglects to keep an eye on the kids (which all the adults do at least once an episode), and Tommy and Angelica get away and roam the building. Charlotte immediately fires him after she finds the children, even going as far as to tell Jonathan to call security on himself. He's re-hired at the end of the episode, with a promotion. To Jonathan's dismay, it's not a Vice Presidentposition— it's position--it's supervisor of Merge Corps' [=MergeCorp=]'s daycare center, starting with watching Angelica.
* ElevatorButtonsMash: Angelica does this in the elevator on the way to the top floor of
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her, as the other adults are all gone and apparently, no one will ever agree to babysit Angelica more than once. Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, neglects to keep an eye on the kids (which all the adults do at least once an episode), and Tommy and Angelica get away and roam the building. Charlotte immediately fires him after she finds the children, even going as far as to tell Jonathan to call security on himself. He's re-hired at the end of the episode, with a promotion. To Jonathan's dismay, it's not a Vice President
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* MegaCorp: Charlotte's company, Merge Corp, apparently specializes in company takeovers, hostile and benign. When Angelica asks Charlotte what she does, Charlotte tells her, "A corporation is like a big, hungry monster. My job is to find plenty of smaller, weaker monsters for it to eat.".
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Famous Ethel, the owner of Famous Ethel's cookie company, and her husband, Abe, think television is evil, and also don't trust computers, as they want Merge Corp's memo rewritten by hand.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Famous Ethel, the owner of Famous Ethel's cookie company, and her husband, Abe, think television is evil, and also don't trust computers, as they want Merge Corp's memo rewritten by hand.
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* MegaCorp: Charlotte's company, Merge Corp, 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 what she does, Charlotte tells her, explains it to her like this, "A corporation is like a big, hungry monster. My job is to find plenty of smaller, weaker monsters for it to eat.".
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* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Famous Ethel, the owner of Famous Ethel's cookie company, and her husband, Abe, think television is evil, and also don't trust computers, as they wantMerge Corp's [=MergeCorp=]'s memo rewritten by hand.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Famous Ethel, the owner of Famous Ethel's cookie company, and her husband, Abe, think television is evil, and also don't trust computers, as they want
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* SouvenirLand: Following Merge Corp's [=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.
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* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Chuckie serves as this to Chas, and it's perhaps best exemplified in this episode. In the world where Chuckie doesn't exist, Chas goes insane, hoarding empty pizza boxes and talking to a sock puppet. Considering that Chas had already lost his wife and Chuckie is their child, it's very much justified and heartbreaking.
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* ForTheEvulz: Angelica simply stole Chas' CD just because she wanted to.
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* AllJustADream: Chuckie returns to his real timeline, the whole World without thing with the Angel seemingly 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]]]].
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* OrWasItADream: Chuckie returns to his real timeline, the whole World without thing with the Angel seemingly been a dream. [[spoiler: But then the final shot of the episode shows Chuckie looking out the window and sees his guardian angel on a motorcycle. They wave goodbye as he rides into the sun and disappears.]]
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* KickTheDog: Angelica telling Chuckie that the whole world would be better off without him is easily one of her cruelest moments.
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*OrWasItADream: Chuckie returns to his real timeline, the whole World without thing with the Angel seemingly been a dream. [[spoiler: But then the final shot of the episode shows Chuckie looking out the window and sees his guardian angel on a motorcycle. They wave goodbye as he rides into the sun and disappears.]]
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* NoodleIncident: When Chuckie meets his guardian angel, he asks him where he was the time he got his tongue stuck to an ice cube, got his head caught in the back of a weird-looking chair, or when he trapped himself in a birdcage.
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* NoodleIncident: When Chuckie meets his guardian angel, he asks him where he was the time he got his tongue stuck to an ice cube, got his head caught in the back of a weird-looking chair, or when [[{{Birdcaged}} he trapped himself in a birdcage.birdcage]].
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* TheRunaway: Chuckie decides to run away when he feels like he let everybody down. It takes his guardian angel showing him how much worse the world is without him to get him to reconsider.
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* TheRunaway: Chuckie decides to run away when he feels like he let everybody down. It takes his guardian angel showing him how much worse the world is without him to get him to reconsider.reconsider.
* 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.
* 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.
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The seventeenth episode of the third season of ''Rugrats''.
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''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.
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The seventeenth episode of the third season of ''Rugrats''.
'''Mommy's Little Assets:'''
When Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her, they nearly ruin an important business meeting.
'''Chuckie's Wonderful Life:'''
When Angelica tells Chuckie how much better the world would be without him, Chuckie decides to run away. Chuckie's guardian angel shows him how much worse the world is without him.
!! "Mommy's Little Assets" provides examples of:
* 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.
* BrickJoke:
** When Tommy and Angelica wreck Charlotte's office, Charlotte asks Jonathan if they have a daycare center, to which Jonathan reminds her that she nixed it. Without any hesitation, she un-nixes it. At the end of the episode, as a reward for bringing an impressed Ethel and Abe to her house, Charlotte re-hires Jonathan as the supervisor for the employee daycare center, starting with looking after Tommy and Angelica while she and Drew go out to dinner with Ethel and Abe.
** When Angelica climbs on top of a statue in Charlotte's office, she breaks a fish tank that houses two fish named Vesko and Boski. Charlotte tells Jonathan to find somewhere to put the fish, and in a later scene, Vesko and Boski are seen swimming in the water cooler.
* DaddysGirl: Discussed; When Charlotte scolds Angelica for playing with her office equipment and asks how to behave when she tells her "No", Angelica's first suggestion is, "Ask Daddy?", indicating that Charlotte, when properly focused on her parenting, is actually more stern and capable of disciplining Angelica, while Drew is frequently an ExtremeDoormat who struggles to draw the line.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Jonathan.
* DisasterDominoes: As Charlotte tells Angelica what Merge Corp does, Tommy climbs a bookshelf and knocks over a stack of books like dominoes, which leads to a trophy getting knocked down and shattered.
* ElevatorButtonsMash: Angelica does this in the elevator on the way to the top floor of Merge Corp Headquarters, causing the elevator to stop at every floor rather than go straight to the top as intended.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her, as the other adults are all gone and apparently, no one will ever agree to babysit Angelica more than once. Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, neglects to keep an eye on the kids (which all the adults do at least once an episode), and Tommy and Angelica get away and roam the building. Charlotte immediately fires him after she finds the children, even going as far as to tell Jonathan to call security on himself. He's re-hired at the end of the episode, with a promotion. To Jonathan's dismay, it's not a Vice President position— it's supervisor of Merge Corps' daycare center, starting with watching Angelica.
-->'''Angelica:''' (''grabs Jonathan's hand and smiles evilly'') Boy, Jonathan, are we gonna have fun...
* 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."
* MegaCorp: Charlotte's company, Merge Corp, apparently specializes in company takeovers, hostile and benign. When Angelica asks Charlotte what she does, Charlotte tells her, "A corporation is like a big, hungry monster. My job is to find plenty of smaller, weaker monsters for it to eat.".
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Famous Ethel, the owner of Famous Ethel's cookie company, and her husband, Abe, think television is evil, and also don't trust computers, as they want Merge Corp's memo rewritten by hand.
* NoodleIncident: When Charlotte reaches the top floor later than expected, Jonathan asks her if she had been abducted by ecoterrorists again. After Charlotte introduces Tommy to him, he is shocked to see Angelica, who tells him, "I told you I'd be back!".
* TheReveal: Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, makes his first physical appearance in this episode, having only been mentioned by Charlotte many times prior to it.
* ShoutOut:
** Charlotte's two fish are named Vesko and Boski, named for Robert Vesco and Ivan Boesky, notable white collar financial criminals from the 1980s.
** 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!]]".
** Jonathan's line, "Just the facts, ma'am" is the catchphrase of Joe Friday, the protagonist of the television series, ''Series/{{Dragnet}}''.
* SouvenirLand: Following Merge Corp'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.
!! "Chuckie's Wonderful Life" provides examples of:
* AdiposeRex: In the world where Chuckie doesn't exist, Angelica has taken total control of Tommy's house and enslaves his parents. A [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Jabba the Hutt]]-esque Angelica sits on her throne wearing a crown, obviously fattened from the many sweets she had Stu and Didi make for her.
* BindleStick: When Chuckie decides to run away, he makes one from his ball popper.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Tommy, Phil, and Lil all want to play with Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, believing it to be a shiny toy. Chuckie tells them it isn't such a good idea, but they talk him into playing with it. When Angelica steals the CD, Chuckie draws the line and blames Tommy, Phil, and Lil for talking him into playing with it. Feeling bad for Chuckie, Tommy, Phil, and Lil give him their parents' [=CDs=] the next day.
* ContinuityNod: Several of the toddlers from "[[Recap/RugratsS2E3TheBigHouseTheShot The Big House]]" make cameo appearances in this episode, including Big Justin, Doughboy, and Crybaby.
* CrapsackWorld: The world, for the main characters at least, is horrible as a result of Chuckie no longer existing.
* DarkerAndEdgier: For a show involving talking babies, this episode has a surprisingly dark, almost disturbing tone. Even if you just included what happened to Chuckie's father, it's rather bleak. He ends up unemployed, sitting alone in his house, surrounded by tons of empty pizza boxes he's been hoarding, with a sock puppet as his only friend. Meanwhile, Phil and Lil are making their parents' lives a living hell because Chuckie wasn't there to tell them right from wrong and Tommy's living on the streets and going through garbage for food because Angelica enslaved his parents and threw him out of the house because Chuckie wasn't there to back him up.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Angelica steals Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, and makes Chuckie think it was his fault that it disappeared. Drew eventually finds the CD, and after returning it to Chas, informs him that Angelica won't have dessert for a week.
* 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.
* HandPuppet: In the world where Chuckie doesn't exist, Chas' only friend is a sock puppet.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Chuckie's guardian angel shows Chuckie how much worse the world is without him.
* 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."
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Chuckie loses Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, he gets mad at Tommy, Phil, and Lil for talking him into playing with it, and feels bad for upsetting his friends.
* NoodleIncident: When Chuckie meets his guardian angel, he asks him where he was the time he got his tongue stuck to an ice cube, got his head caught in the back of a weird-looking chair, or when he trapped himself in a birdcage.
* ParentalNeglect: A surprisingly dark example in this episode; Angelica enslaves Stu and Didi, causing them to neglect Tommy, who's living on the streets and going through garbage for food.
* PushoverParents:
** In the world where Chuckie doesn't exist, Phil and Lil wreck their parents' house. Betty and Howard are nervous wrecks who do not punish them, instead hoping for a mature yet somewhat cowardly toddler to set a good example and tell them it's wrong.
** In the same world, Angelica takes over Tommy's house and enslaves Stu and Didi, who give into her demands and neglect Tommy, their own son.
** Averted with Drew, who usually gives into his daughter's demands, in this episode. When he catches Angelica with Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, not only does he make her apologize to Chas for taking it, but he also punishes her by telling her she won't have dessert for an entire week.
* TheRunaway: Chuckie decides to run away when he feels like he let everybody down. It takes his guardian angel showing him how much worse the world is without him to get him to reconsider.
'''Mommy's Little Assets:'''
When Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her, they nearly ruin an important business meeting.
'''Chuckie's Wonderful Life:'''
When Angelica tells Chuckie how much better the world would be without him, Chuckie decides to run away. Chuckie's guardian angel shows him how much worse the world is without him.
!! "Mommy's Little Assets" provides examples of:
* 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.
* BrickJoke:
** When Tommy and Angelica wreck Charlotte's office, Charlotte asks Jonathan if they have a daycare center, to which Jonathan reminds her that she nixed it. Without any hesitation, she un-nixes it. At the end of the episode, as a reward for bringing an impressed Ethel and Abe to her house, Charlotte re-hires Jonathan as the supervisor for the employee daycare center, starting with looking after Tommy and Angelica while she and Drew go out to dinner with Ethel and Abe.
** When Angelica climbs on top of a statue in Charlotte's office, she breaks a fish tank that houses two fish named Vesko and Boski. Charlotte tells Jonathan to find somewhere to put the fish, and in a later scene, Vesko and Boski are seen swimming in the water cooler.
* DaddysGirl: Discussed; When Charlotte scolds Angelica for playing with her office equipment and asks how to behave when she tells her "No", Angelica's first suggestion is, "Ask Daddy?", indicating that Charlotte, when properly focused on her parenting, is actually more stern and capable of disciplining Angelica, while Drew is frequently an ExtremeDoormat who struggles to draw the line.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Jonathan.
* DisasterDominoes: As Charlotte tells Angelica what Merge Corp does, Tommy climbs a bookshelf and knocks over a stack of books like dominoes, which leads to a trophy getting knocked down and shattered.
* ElevatorButtonsMash: Angelica does this in the elevator on the way to the top floor of Merge Corp Headquarters, causing the elevator to stop at every floor rather than go straight to the top as intended.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her, as the other adults are all gone and apparently, no one will ever agree to babysit Angelica more than once. Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, neglects to keep an eye on the kids (which all the adults do at least once an episode), and Tommy and Angelica get away and roam the building. Charlotte immediately fires him after she finds the children, even going as far as to tell Jonathan to call security on himself. He's re-hired at the end of the episode, with a promotion. To Jonathan's dismay, it's not a Vice President position— it's supervisor of Merge Corps' daycare center, starting with watching Angelica.
-->'''Angelica:''' (''grabs Jonathan's hand and smiles evilly'') Boy, Jonathan, are we gonna have fun...
* 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."
* MegaCorp: Charlotte's company, Merge Corp, apparently specializes in company takeovers, hostile and benign. When Angelica asks Charlotte what she does, Charlotte tells her, "A corporation is like a big, hungry monster. My job is to find plenty of smaller, weaker monsters for it to eat.".
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Famous Ethel, the owner of Famous Ethel's cookie company, and her husband, Abe, think television is evil, and also don't trust computers, as they want Merge Corp's memo rewritten by hand.
* NoodleIncident: When Charlotte reaches the top floor later than expected, Jonathan asks her if she had been abducted by ecoterrorists again. After Charlotte introduces Tommy to him, he is shocked to see Angelica, who tells him, "I told you I'd be back!".
* TheReveal: Jonathan, Charlotte's assistant, makes his first physical appearance in this episode, having only been mentioned by Charlotte many times prior to it.
* ShoutOut:
** Charlotte's two fish are named Vesko and Boski, named for Robert Vesco and Ivan Boesky, notable white collar financial criminals from the 1980s.
** 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!]]".
** Jonathan's line, "Just the facts, ma'am" is the catchphrase of Joe Friday, the protagonist of the television series, ''Series/{{Dragnet}}''.
* SouvenirLand: Following Merge Corp'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.
!! "Chuckie's Wonderful Life" provides examples of:
* AdiposeRex: In the world where Chuckie doesn't exist, Angelica has taken total control of Tommy's house and enslaves his parents. A [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Jabba the Hutt]]-esque Angelica sits on her throne wearing a crown, obviously fattened from the many sweets she had Stu and Didi make for her.
* BindleStick: When Chuckie decides to run away, he makes one from his ball popper.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Tommy, Phil, and Lil all want to play with Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, believing it to be a shiny toy. Chuckie tells them it isn't such a good idea, but they talk him into playing with it. When Angelica steals the CD, Chuckie draws the line and blames Tommy, Phil, and Lil for talking him into playing with it. Feeling bad for Chuckie, Tommy, Phil, and Lil give him their parents' [=CDs=] the next day.
* ContinuityNod: Several of the toddlers from "[[Recap/RugratsS2E3TheBigHouseTheShot The Big House]]" make cameo appearances in this episode, including Big Justin, Doughboy, and Crybaby.
* CrapsackWorld: The world, for the main characters at least, is horrible as a result of Chuckie no longer existing.
* DarkerAndEdgier: For a show involving talking babies, this episode has a surprisingly dark, almost disturbing tone. Even if you just included what happened to Chuckie's father, it's rather bleak. He ends up unemployed, sitting alone in his house, surrounded by tons of empty pizza boxes he's been hoarding, with a sock puppet as his only friend. Meanwhile, Phil and Lil are making their parents' lives a living hell because Chuckie wasn't there to tell them right from wrong and Tommy's living on the streets and going through garbage for food because Angelica enslaved his parents and threw him out of the house because Chuckie wasn't there to back him up.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Angelica steals Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, and makes Chuckie think it was his fault that it disappeared. Drew eventually finds the CD, and after returning it to Chas, informs him that Angelica won't have dessert for a week.
* 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.
* HandPuppet: In the world where Chuckie doesn't exist, Chas' only friend is a sock puppet.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Chuckie's guardian angel shows Chuckie how much worse the world is without him.
* 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."
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Chuckie loses Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, he gets mad at Tommy, Phil, and Lil for talking him into playing with it, and feels bad for upsetting his friends.
* NoodleIncident: When Chuckie meets his guardian angel, he asks him where he was the time he got his tongue stuck to an ice cube, got his head caught in the back of a weird-looking chair, or when he trapped himself in a birdcage.
* ParentalNeglect: A surprisingly dark example in this episode; Angelica enslaves Stu and Didi, causing them to neglect Tommy, who's living on the streets and going through garbage for food.
* PushoverParents:
** In the world where Chuckie doesn't exist, Phil and Lil wreck their parents' house. Betty and Howard are nervous wrecks who do not punish them, instead hoping for a mature yet somewhat cowardly toddler to set a good example and tell them it's wrong.
** In the same world, Angelica takes over Tommy's house and enslaves Stu and Didi, who give into her demands and neglect Tommy, their own son.
** Averted with Drew, who usually gives into his daughter's demands, in this episode. When he catches Angelica with Chas' Latvian Folk Dance CD, not only does he make her apologize to Chas for taking it, but he also punishes her by telling her she won't have dessert for an entire week.
* TheRunaway: Chuckie decides to run away when he feels like he let everybody down. It takes his guardian angel showing him how much worse the world is without him to get him to reconsider.
