History WhatAnIdiot / Rugrats

'''As A Result:''' The adults are completely blindsided when they find out that their kids were nearly murdered by a madman in a mollusk mech.

'''As a result:''' Angelica guesses which word in the phrase is the bad one to the annoyance of her parents. And when she does, they revoke her privileges to audition for Miss Carol's show.\\

'''Instead:''' The parents just assume its perfectly natural for a 2 year old to steal a 1 year old's brand new toy that he got an hour ago.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Stu to think that Tommy and Chuckie's fear or Mr. Friend is rational and to maybe slowly introduce playtime so that that they can warm up to him more. If not, maybe he can give Mr. Friend to Angelica, Susie or another kid their age.\\

* In "The Mysterious Mr. Friend", Stu creates Mr. Friend, a walking clown doll that has motion sensors and rhymes about friendship and safety lessons. He decides to test Mr. Friend out on Tommy and Chuckie, but he scares them when they first activate him.\\

'''You'd expect:''' Stu to knock on the front door or ring the doorbell, that way, another adult can let him back into the party, and he can tell Drew off for locking him out.\\

* In "Give and Take" Stu makes a brand new toy for Tommy that he can tell Tommy absolutely loves! Chuckie later falls in love with the toy and decides he wants it and railroads Tommy into giving him said toy, a large blow up clown.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Didi, Stu, or Chas to tell Chuckie no, you can't take Tommy's toy home with you.\\

It’s a little more justified that babies would make idiotic decisions- but why do they do it when grown up?

'''Instead:''' - Dill ''takes the video with him'' and as a result, the video gets destroyed and Tommy and co are in a disaster situation. Seriously, ''what the hell''?! So this is not just an example of "WhatAnIdiot", this is also an example of DeusExMachina!

'''You'd Expect:''' Coco would allow the children to the wedding. That way, she would make the chances of marrying Chaz much higher if she remains nice until after the wedding.\\

* In "Give and Take" Stu makes a brand new toy for Tommy that he can tell Tommy absolutely loves! Chuckie later falls in love with the toy and decides he wants it and railroads Tommy into giving him said toy, a large blow up clown.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', Phil and Lil attempt to take Dil back to the hospital in an attempt to make Tommy happy. Tommy, himself, refuses to let that happen and they all get in the Reptar Wagon and drive off. As it leaves the house, Chuckie tells himself to stay out of the conflict.\\

'''You'd expect:''' Didi, Stu, or Chas to tell Chuckie no, you can't take Tommy's toy home with you.//

'''Instead:''' The parents just assume its perfectly natural for a 2 year old to steal a 1 year old's brand new toy that he got an hour ago.

'''You'd Expect:'''Tommy to find some other toy he brought or to simply make a captain.\\
'''Instead:'''He grabs Cynthia, Angelica's most favorite toy, and uses that as captain. Chuckie sees this, tells him that Cynthia belongs to Angelica, and that he doesn't think using her is such a good idea.\\

'''Instead:''' Tommy tells Chuckie that he will only need Cynthia for a little while and that he will return her to Angelica when he's done.\\

* In "Silent Angelica", Angelica tries to be quiet because her mom is having an important business call (and because she was promised toys if she was quiet). However, the babies are brought over for a visit.\\

*** In the same episode, there's a part where the doorbell rings. Angelica goes to tell Drew, who is watching a badminton game with Stu.\\

* In "Spike The Wonder Dog", Angelica uses her new toy, her "Jr. Miss CEO cellular two-way telephone" to make the babies think that Spike can talk, and tricks them into the stealing a jar of cookies for her. She ties a yellow ribbon around Spike's neck and hides the phone in it.

'''You'd Expect:''' The babies would notice that "Spike's" voice sounds a bit like Angelica's (and also that he addressed Stu and Didi as Uncle and Aunt), and wonder who tied the ribbon around Spike's neck, and notice that Spike is somehow able to talk without moving his mouth, and thus realize that Angelica is behind this.

* In "A Visit From Lipschitz" Didi invites Lipschitz to the Pickles' house for dinner after catching him at a book signing, much to the disagreement of Stu, Lou, and Chaz who would rather have spent the evening at a baseball game. In the middle of the evening, the guys have had enough of Lipschitz and leave for the game. Lipschitz recommends Didi leave the house (being the only legal adult of familiarity to Tommy & Chuckie) and follow them to the game to bring them home.\\

** Dr. Lipschitz agrees to watch Tommy and Chuckie, who have wandered off.
'''You'd Expect:''' The doctor to look for the babies and then actually watch them.
'''Instead:''' He decides to take a bubble bath in a stranger's home and proceeds to strip naked in front of a hiding Tommy and Chuckie.

-->'''Steve:''' You, manager? Hardly! After Mr. Wilkie caught you drinking a carton of artificial popcorn butter, dream on!

-->'''Larry:''' I had to, man. A bet's a bet.

-->'''Steve:''' Betcha a buck you won't do it again.

-->'''Larry:''' You're on, dude!

'''As a result:''' The theater is left in shambles, with the confused patrons wondering why their film ended so abruptly and why the popcorn tasted of soda pop.\\
'''Also:''' At one point, Grandpa Lou gets bored with the movie and decides to go get some snacks. While there, he finds the babies and takes them back to the movie.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Dr. Doozer to realize that Didi has a point and send Angelica and Antonio's X-rays to a more experienced doctor.\\

* The families are excited to see the Christmas Wonderland Stu has created for Charlotte's company to celebrate Dil's very first Christmas. A train arrives to take them around to the different areas but isn't big enough for everyone.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' The parents to select someone such as Didi (who is most emotional about Dil's first Christmas), Kira, or even Howard to stick around and watch the kids. \\

'''As A Result:''' Lou instantly falls asleep and the babies once more become lost.

* Stu has been given a massive project for Charlotte's company to create a Winter Wonderland that is going to bring in not just a lot of money but, if successful, more attention to Pickles Toys\\

'''Instead:''' He lazily uses PAPERCLIPS to connect wires and when he sees they aren't working just tries to jerkrig things\\
'''As A Result:'''One of the machines malfunctions and he gets his entire family snowed in a cabin, causing them to almost miss Christmas.

* Tommy and Chuckie are playing in a stream of water and decide they need a captain for their make-shift boat\\
'''You'd Expect:'''Tommy to find some other toy he brought or to simply make a captain\\
'''Instead:'''He grabs CYNTHIA, Angelica's most favorite toy, and uses that as captain\\
'''As A Result:''' Cynthia gets lost and Angelica nearly beats Tommy and Chuckie up for their stupidity.

* In "Chuckie Is Rich" Chaz allows Drew to invest money in a contest in an invention called "the ear-whiz" which supposedly cleans your ear perfectly and is supposed to make a lot of money.\\

'''Instead:''' They are simply impressed by Spike's apparent ability to talk.

'''You'd Expect:''' Didi would refuse to leave the house without taking the kids too.\\

** In "Chuckie Is Rich" Chaz allows Drew to invest money in a contest in an invention called "the ear-whiz" which supposedly cleans your ear perfectly and is supposed to make a lot of money.\\

** "Where's Grandpa?": Tommy and his family go to a Canadian themed tourist attraction. Chuckie and Tommy go on a kiddie train that nearly drives them off a cliff and Stu goes chasing after it. The train stops, Tommy and Chuckie get off and gravity makes the train go backwards, and Stu is still on the track.\\

** "The Big Showdown": Didi feels Reptar is too violent and is scaring Dil so she tries to get Tommy & Dil interested in a new toy, Goober the Gopher. Tommy shows a dislike to it so Didi takes him to a fair where a man dressed as Goober approaches them. The guy tries to give Tommy a stuffed Goober, but Tommy wants to keep his Reptar toy. [[JerkAss The Gopher guy steals his Reptar and forces him to have his stuffed toy, making Tommy cry.]]\\

** In "Silent Angelica", Angelica tries to be quiet because her mom is having an important business call (and because she was promised toys if she was quiet). However, the babies are brought over for a visit.\\

** In "Spike The Wonder Dog", Angelica uses her new toy, her "Jr. Miss CEO cellular two-way telephone" to make the babies think that Spike can talk, and tricks them into the stealing a jar of cookies for her. She ties a yellow ribbon around Spike's neck and hides the phone in it.

** In "A Visit From Lipschitz" Didi invites Lipschitz to the Pickles' house for dinner after catching him at a book signing, much to the disagreement of Stu, Lou, and Chaz who would rather have spent the evening at a baseball game. In the middle of the evening, the guys have had enough of Lipschitz and leave for the game. Lipschitz recommends Didi leave the house (being the only legal adult of familiarity to Tommy & Chuckie) and follow them to the game to bring them home.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' If Didi knew a thing about child care, she would refuse to leave the house without taking the kids too.\\

*** Dr. Lipschitz agrees to watch Tommy and Chuckie, who have wandered off.

'''To Make Matters Worse:''' This episode shows even Lipschitz ''himself'' knows nothing about parenting and is just a sell-out to parents like Didi who choose to buy his books and follow his advice.
*** To add on to this fact...\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Didi to never listen to another word Lipschitz says after this episode.\\
'''Instead:''' She continues to follow his worthless advices in future episodes, such as "Naked Tommy" ("The spontaneous shedding of clothing by infants is a natural outgrowth of their desire to control their physical environment, and explore their personal space...").
** Most of the adult characters on ''Rugrats'' could fall into this trope. To give just one example: In "At the Movies," Stu, Didi, Chaz, Betty and Howard take the kids to see their first theatrical movie, ''The Dummi Bears in the Land Without Smiles.''\\

** In "Spike Runs Away", Stu and Didi try buying new pets to replace Spike, who has run away. After a few attempts, the former settles on gerbils.\\

** In "Garage Sale", Didi tries to sell Stu's old disco suit only for Stu to catch her in the act. Unbeknownst to either of them, the Rugrats bring it out to be sold. Steve finds the suit and asks Didi for an offer.\\

** In "Toy Palace", the toy store has a real working time machine.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The owners would donate it to science or something, since it could be incredibly valuable for the human race.\\
'''Instead:''' They market it as a simple toy. Ignoring the wasted potential of this MundaneUtility, This could actually be very dangerous. People or animals could end up lost in time with the parents having no idea how to get them back (when Thorg is sent back in time, there doesn't seem to be any return portal or device, implying it would be up to aomeone in the present to get them back). This sort of thing could realistically get the store sued by families if their children get lost in time playing with it.
** In "Angelica Breaks a Leg", Angelica sees a soap opera, where a man tends to a woman's needs because she has a broken leg. This gives her the idea to pretend she broke her leg to garner attention from Stu and Didi. Stu and Didi take Angelica to the hospital for an X-ray to determine whether or not her leg is really broken. Around the same time, a football player named Antonio Peaches, who really did break his leg, is sent to the same hospital. Both his and Angelica's X-rays are left in the hands of the young [[Series/DoogieHowserMD Dr. Hoagie Doozer]].\\

* Didi finally reunites with her two infant sons\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Her to have come prepared with food for both babies, knowing they have gone 24 hours without anything to eat\\
'''Instead:''' She has only a single bottle\\
'''As A Result:''' It is up to formerly selfish Dil to, for the first time in his life, actually give Tommy something to eat while Didi once more comes off as the worst parent ever.

* Their boat sinking, Betty dives into the water to retrieve the raft when she spots several items floating in the water, such as Charlotte's cell phone\\
'''You'd Expect:'''Betty to remember that Charlotte got GREAT reception and even if the phone is waterlogged there is a chance it might work\\
'''Instead:'''She saves Dil's binkie instead\\
'''As A Result:''' The family is left deserted on an island with NO WAY to get help.

*** Steve: You, manager? Hardly! After Mr. Wilkie caught you drinking a carton of artificial popcorn butter, dream on!

*** Larry: I had to, man. A bet's a bet.

*** Steve: Betcha a buck you won't do it again.

*** Larry: You're on, dude!