History WesternAnimation / RugratsGoWild

* EverybodyCries: While the kids and Nigel are stuck in a cave, Susie starts to cry when she feels she won't see her family again. It's not long before Chuckie, Phil, Lil and Kimi also start to cry along with her. Tommy doesn't actually cry, but he does shed a few tears at the moment.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Spike [[note]]Full name: "Down-Spike-Down-Get-Off-That-Couch!"[[/note]], by Creator/BruceWillis. Though at the very least, this is explained through Eliza's powers of talking with other animals. Naturally, this is the only time in the series he does talk, so it's not a permanent thing.

* [[VillainSong Villain]] [[TheVillainSucksSong (Sucks) Song]]: The "Big Bad Cat" number is a combination of both, where it's a [[TheVillainSucksSong Villain Sucks Song]] for Spike, and a VillainSong for Siri.
** Angelica and Susie, weirdly enough, ''also'' get this in the form of "Island Princess", which is a VillainSong for Angelica and [[TheVillainSucksSong Villain Sucks Song]] for Susie.

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: A few pretty jarring examples -- most notably the sea when there are waves.

* ConspicuousCG: A few pretty jarring examples -- most notably the sea when there are waves.

-->'''Stu''': I can't help but feel that somehow this is all my fault. ''(Cue mass of death glares from his family and friends)''

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Sure, nobody is ''really'' going to die in a ''Rugrats'' movie, but one of the darkest moments in the film is when [[spoiler:Nigel and the babies are trapped in the bathysphere on the ocean floor, out of fuel and, soon, oxygen. Nigel]] decides, rather than panicking, to keep the [[spoiler:kids]] distracted by [[spoiler:singing "Old [=MacDonald=]."]] The expression on [[spoiler:his]] face every time [[spoiler:he]] looks at the [[spoiler:oxygen gauge]] shows a clear lack of expectation to survive.

->''"The family vacation goes overboard."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''

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* SmellyFeet: Phil's. He even has Dil smell them at one point just to prove they still are.

** And Spike is now an supporting character, thanks to Eliza Thornberry's [[SpeaksFluentAnimal power]] giving him a speaking role.

* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZrABU9w7Pk Changing Faces]] by the voice of Tommy herself Creator/ElizabethDaily.

* TheCloudCuckooLanderWasRight: Not quite "cloudcuckoolander", but it has the same principle; Angelica tries to freak the babies out by telling them that a giant squid will try to eat them. [[spoiler:Sure enough, the group encounters a giant squid in the bathysphere (although it's depicted as a GentleGiant)]].

** At one point as Chuckie is wandering through the jungle, he sees a bunch of monkeys and screams, "Oh no! Not monkeys!" in reference to [[WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie the first movie]] in which one of the babies' greatest enemies was a troop of circus monkeys that were following them [[spoiler: and chased Chuckie to and nearly off a cliff.]]
** Also, when the adults realize the babies are missing, Didi says "I feel like this has happened before!" which is another nod to the first movie.

* {{Crossover}}: The fact that this is a crossover between ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' was the main marketing gimmick for the movie since both series were very popular at the time.

* EverybodyCries: While the kids and Nigel are stuck in a cave, Susie starts to cry when she feels she won't see her family again. It's not long before Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Kimi also start to cry along with her. Tommy doesn't actually cry, but he does shed a few tears at the moment.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Sure, nobody is really going to die in a ''Rugrats'' movie, but one of the darkest moments in the film is when [[spoiler:Nigel and the babies are trapped in the bathysphere on the ocean floor, out of fuel and, soon, oxygen. Nigel]] decides, rather than panicking, to keep the [[spoiler:kids]] distracted by [[spoiler:singing "Old [=MacDonald=]."]] The expression on [[spoiler:his]] face every time [[spoiler:he]] looks at the [[spoiler:oxygen gauge]] shows a clear lack of expectation to survive.
* FriendToAllChildren: Nigel Thornberry is very nice to the Rugrats gang even after he regains his memories.

* InjuryBookend: [[WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys Nigel Thornberry]] falls on his head and regresses to believing he's three years old. Later, when chaos ensues inside a small sub, a subsequent whack to the head restores his memory.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Rather than put everyone on a nice cruise, Stu brought them all on some old, ''rat-infested'' boat. They end up capsizing in the middle of the sea. He later tries to make up for it by building a communications device, only to have allowed the babies to wander off. [[spoiler: He is able to build a device to raise the submersible from under water]].

** Angelica sings “The Morning After” by Maureen McGovern from ThePoseidonAdventure during the storm.

* StealthPun: Stu Pickles buying everyone tickets for a luxury cruise, then making them take a smaller, rickety looking boat instead, resulting in everyone getting shipwrecked. In short what he did was completely Stu-pid.

** BigDamnHeroes: When Siri catches up to the babies, Donnie springs into action, wearing Chuckie's clothes and wielding Dil's stroller like a katana. He does no great damage to the leopard, but he ensures the kids' escape single-handed.

* OhCrap: Eliza's response when she realizes that Siri wants to eat the babies.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: About the only way they could make Siri, a clouded leopard, into a threat against anyone. She's made out to be massive when in reality, they're [[https://zooparis.wikispaces.com/file/view/Norman%20moat.jpg/432607950/640x480/Norman%20moat.jpg no such thing.]]

* LateArrivalSpoiler: The film's not subtle in it's reference to [[spoiler: Debbie learning about Eliza's Gift of Gab]] in ''The Wild Thornberrys Movie''.

* LighterAndSofter: Like ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis'', this movie is lighter and more comical in comparison to ''WesterAnimation/TheRugratsMovie''.

* GentleGiant: [[spoiler:The giant squid that Nigel and the kids encounter in the bathysphere isn't malicious at all]].

** At the beginning, Nigel refers to the jaguar by its actual scientific name (''Panthera onca'')
** [[spoiler:Everything about the giant squid at the end. Nigel briefly refers to it by its scientific name ("''Architeuthis''"), it's stated to have never been seen alive before (this was certainly true at the time the film was made, though since then some giant squids have been observed alive) and is depicted as a GentleGiant rather than a SeaMonster (a real giant squid would be more likely to silently observe you than try to kill/eat you)]].

** [[spoiler:Everything about the giant squid at the end. Nigel briefly refers to it by its scientific name ("''Architeuthis''"), it's stated to have never been seen alive before (this was certainly true at the time the film was made, though since then [[ScienceMarchesOn science has marched on]] and some giant squids have been observed alive) and is depicted as a GentleGiant rather than a SeaMonster (a real giant squid would be more likely to silently observe you than try to kill/eat you)]].

* ShownTheirWork: [[spoiler:Everything about the giant squid at the end. Nigel briefly refers to it by its scientific name ("''Architeuthis''"), it's stated to have never been seen alive before (this was certainly true at the time the film was made, though since then [[ScienceMarchesOn science has marched on]] and some giant squids have been observed alive) and is depicted as a GentleGiant rather than a SeaMonster (a real giant squid would be more likely to silently observe you than try to kill/eat you)]].

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Siri, the Sunda clouded leopard. Also, Chuckie encounters a baby slow loris and its group.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Siri, the Sunda clouded leopard.