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The eleventh episode of the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.

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The eleventh episode of the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.
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* RunningGag: The plumber Chaz talks to on the phone repeatedly asks if they could come over to check out the situation several times throughout the episode, only for Chaz to always turn the offer, insisting he can handle it by himself.

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* RunningGag: The plumber Chaz talks to on the phone repeatedly asks if they could come over to check out the situation several times throughout the episode, only for Chaz to always turn down the offer, insisting he can handle it by himself.

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* RopeBridge: One is featured in the babies' fantasy. In reality, it is a fallen ladder.



* RopeBridge: One is featured in the babies' fantasy. In reality, it is a fallen ladder.
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* TeamRocketWins: A rare case one of Angelica's schemes actually works, though since it's against the even meaner Timmy, she's more in KarmicTrickster mode here.

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* TeamRocketWins: A rare case where one of Angelica's schemes actually works, though since it's against the even meaner Timmy, she's more in KarmicTrickster mode here.
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* RunningGag: The plumber Chaz talks to on the phone repeatedly asks if they could come over to check out the situation several times throughout the episode, only for Chaz to always turn the offer, insisting he can handle it by himself.
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* GirlsHaveCooties: Timmy doesn't allow the girls to play party games with him, and tells them they have cooties. Tommy and Chuckie, who don't understand what cooties are, try to cure them. Meanwhile, the girls get back at Timmy by pretending they really do have cooties.
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* HeManWomanHater: Timmy and his brothers refuse to let the girls play with them and convince Tommy, Chuckie (until he touches the girls' paint), and Phil to do the same.
* KarmicTrickster: Angelica hatches a scheme to trick the boys after they were excluded from playing games by pretending that their "cooties" are contagious with some green finger paint to add to the illusion.
* KindnessBall: Angelica works with Susie and Lil to get back at Timmy being mean to them simply because they're girls and even lets Chuckie in on their scheme when the boys shun him.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: After the boys are convinced the girls have become contagious monsters, Chuckie, having touched their paint, is kicked out of the party by Timmy. After explaining what has happened, Angelica convinces Chuckie to join them in infecting the others so they can hijack the other party guests from Timmy.

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* SureLetsGoWithThat: After the boys are convinced the girls have become contagious monsters, Chuckie, having touched their paint, is kicked out of the party by Timmy. After explaining what has happened, Angelica convinces Chuckie to join them in infecting the others so they can hijack the other party guests from Timmy.Timmy.
* TeamRocketWins: A rare case one of Angelica's schemes actually works, though since it's against the even meaner Timmy, she's more in KarmicTrickster mode here.
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* PostTreatmentLollipop: Discussed. Tommy finds a bag of lollipops and explains to Phil that he gets one whenever Didi takes him to the doctor. This leads Tommy to believe that lollipops can cure diseases.

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* PostTreatmentLollipop: Discussed. Tommy finds a bag of lollipops and explains to Phil that he gets one whenever Didi takes him to the doctor. This leads Tommy to believe that lollipops can cure diseases.diseases.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: After the boys are convinced the girls have become contagious monsters, Chuckie, having touched their paint, is kicked out of the party by Timmy. After explaining what has happened, Angelica convinces Chuckie to join them in infecting the others so they can hijack the other party guests from Timmy.
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The eleventh episode of the fifth season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''.

'''Journey to the Center of the Basement'''

The babies go to the basement to retrieve Chuckie's Reptar Junior toy from the "mole people".

'''A Very [=McNulty=] Birthday'''

When Timmy [=McNulty=] doesn't let the girls into his birthday party because he thinks they have cooties, the girls get their revenge.

!! "Journey to the Center of the Basement" provides examples of:
* HelpImStuck: Chuckie gets his foot stuck between some rocks (in reality, the lever to Chas' water main), and the other babies have to pull him out.
* ImagineSpot: As the babies search the baesement for Reptar Junior, they imagine themselves as explorers in a dark cave.
* {{Malaproper}}: Phil mispronounces "eternity" as "paternity".
* RopeBridge: One is featured in the babies' fantasy. In reality, it is a fallen ladder.
* ShoutOut: This episode's title is a reference to the 1864 Jules Verne Science Fiction novel, ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''.
* TemptingFate: Tommy manages to frighten away a mole person (in reality, a mouse) with his helmet's light, and not long after he and his friends cheer upon discovering this, the light goes out.

!! "A Very [=McNulty=] Birthday" provides examples of:
* BaitAndSwitch: The episode begins with a close-up of what looks like leaves in the rain. However, it is soon revealed to be the design on Didi's umbrella.
* BirthdayEpisode: Timmy celebrates his birthday in this episode.
* CorrelationCausationGag: Tommy and Phil give everyone infected with the cooties lollipops, believing the lollipops will cure them. Everyone sucks on the lollipops as the rain washes off the green finger paint, believing the plan to work.
* GirlsVsBoysPlot: When Timmy refuses to let Angelica, Susie, and Lil play, claiming they have cooties, the girls get back at him by covering themselves with green finger-paint.
* HazmatSuit: When Chuckie worries that he and Tommy are going to catch the cooties if they get too close to the girls, Tommy suggests that they wear special clothes like the doctors on TV. Tommy and Chuckie dress themselves in footie pajamas that respectively belong to Teddy and Terry, as well as caps with goggles.
* NoodleIncident: When Didi complains to Colleen about the rainstorm outside, Colleen tells her that on Timmy's birthday last year, there was a monsoon that washed everything away, including a pony she rented.
* PostTreatmentLollipop: Discussed. Tommy finds a bag of lollipops and explains to Phil that he gets one whenever Didi takes him to the doctor. This leads Tommy to believe that lollipops can cure diseases.

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