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5* "Looks like I'm going to Chicago! Have fun at the reunion!" Grandpa Lou manages to dodge a family reunion he didn't want to attend by accidentally-on-purpose wasting time getting off the train.
6** Made even better when the other adults realize he had that planned the whole time.
7* This moment. Also a moment of funny.
8--> '''Howard:''' [[MistakenForThief Betty a thief?! That's an absurd proposition!]]
9--> '''Stu:''' [[NoYou YOU'RE AN ABSURD PROPOSITION!]]
10** Chaz Finster, of all people, gets one in the same episode, 'Family Feud'. The Pickles and the [=DeVilles=] spend the entire episode hating and insulting each other with poor Chaz stuck in the middle and unable to make them calm down and reconcile. Near the end, the babies wander off (as usual) and when the families do nothing about it but start fighting more, Chaz finally snaps and [[WhatTheHellHero calls them on]] [[CallingTheOldManOut their childish behavior]], bringing them all to shame and ending the feud.
11---> '''Chaz:''' ''(absolutely furious)'' LOOK AT YOU! DON'T YOU SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE?! While you were insulting each other and bringing up every petty difference from your past, you've forgotten about your children, the most important thing in your insignificant lives! You ought to be ashamed!
12---> '''Howard:''' Charles is right. Our behavior's been absolutely disgusting. I'm a failure and I've let everybody down while I should be--
13---> '''Betty:''' Yeah, yeah. Whine later, ya' little man. We gotta find the kids!
14*** It should be mentioned that Chuckie Finster takes after his dad, and when he loses ''his'' docile nature, [[BewareTheNiceOnes watch out]]!
15* The time the kids fight back against the army of Mr. Fiends: Lil doing Doll-Fu, Chuckie's triumphant pose, and Phil doing doll bowling.
16* Though Angelica's KarmaHoudiniWarranty was instated thankfully early, she was still bestowed a few TeamRocketWins moments:
17** Angelica saving the babies from the abusive Josh in "New Kid On The Block".
18--->'''Angelica:''' (''[[MamaBear after catapulting a water balloon at Josh]]'') The next one won't miss!
19*** And later, when he tries to get in her face, she shoves him down and causes him to scrape his elbow. She yells at him not to mess with the babies again as he runs off crying.
20---> "They may be a bunch of dumb babies, but they're ''[[HypocriticalHeartwarming my]]'' dumb babies!"
21** She pulls an impressive IndyPloy against Timmy in "A Very Mc Nulty Birthday". When he throws her and the other girls out of his party for having "cooties", they don monster make-up to scare them. When this and the babies' oblivious antics lead Timmy to think cooties infect kids into monsters and throw Chuckie out after he gains cooties (in fact paint), Angelica then capitalises and convinces Chuckie and the other girls to infect everyone else, leaving only Timmy left, who has to beg Angelica to join the relocated party.
22** Angelica spent the majority of "Word of the Day" being blamed for something that wasn't her fault. She is able to unknowingly stage a EngineeredPublicConfession to reveal Miss Carol is in fact the one who taught her the curse word she had been saying all episode.
23* Spike has many crowning moments under his collar. Busting Angelica when she uses the babies to steal the cookies, scaring off a very scary bulldog, but ''THE'' SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome has to be when he takes on the [[CanisMajor giant wolf]] at the end of the first movie. He ''survives'', even though he fell through the bridge and into the water! [[MadeOfIron Without a scratch]]!
24* Chuckie summoning the courage to stop the wedding in the second movie. And he successfully (if a bit haphazardly) pilots Robo-Reptar with the help of the other babies. What follows is a great and crazy climax which culminates in his final fight with Jean-Claude (who is piloting Robo-Snail), and he '''beats him'''. Meek little Chuckie, who was still suffering from his mother's death, beats a fully grown man in a giant robotic snail, and makes it in time to halt the wedding.
25** "Now, let's go find my Daddy!
26** Not to mention ''saying his first word.'' A BigNo, specifically, and a pretty good one at that.
27* In "Weaning Tommy," Stu and Didi make a serious attempt to get Tommy to drink out of a cup instead of his bottle. He resists completely and becomes increasingly miserable. One night, the incredibly guilty Stu, Didi and Lou each intend to give him a bottle of milk - only to run into each other. They decide to give Tommy his bottle back in the morning, but as they leave his room, Lou notices the bottle he brought is suddenly missing. He shrugs it off before closing the door - leading to the reveal that Tommy was awake the whole time and slyly stole the bottle away from him.
28* The Chanukah special explains the holiday very nicely.
29* Any time Angelica gets punished by her parents.
30** Drew does this in "Runaway Angelica" by sending Angelica to her room after he catches her making a huge mess in his home office.
31** The usually distracted Charlotte disciplining Angelica in "Mommy's Little Assets" after she wrecks her business model. Her potential clients are so impressed by this they give her a contract.
32** In "Chuckie's Wonderful Life", Drew displays TranquilFury after he discovers that Angelica stole Chaz's CD. He forces her to apologize to Chaz and denies her desserts for a week.
33* Chuckie growing a backbone at the end of "Cuffed" and not even turning around when Angelica begs him for help after she handcuffs herself to the bedpost with the key out of reach, because she told him to stay away from her moments prior.
34* [[OpenMindedParent The adults are willing to go with the flow when it comes to their children's antics]], but not to the extent that things get completely out of hand.
35* Tommy giving Chuckie the encouragement to face the monster under his bed.
36* Angelica performing her own rendition of "Vacation", in the Vacation to Las Vegas episode. She's actually damn good. Also counts as a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments CMOF]].
37** The babies spend the whole episode trying to free the "kitties"--that is, massive Siberian tigers--from a Siegfried & Roy-esque act. When they're in the theater and getting dangerously close to the cage, Didi, Betty, and Charlotte show why MamaBear is a trope by barreling down the bouncer at the door and rushing to the rescue. Extra awesome points go to Didi, who, seeing Tommy about to pick the lock on the tigers' cage, grabs a rope and channels Tarzan to save him.
38** Lou gets to take part in the rescue mission, too. First, he gives up some of his casino winnings--which he spent hours earning--to pay for tickets so he and the babies' dads can get into the show. Then, when the magicians start chasing down the babies (and seem ready to hurt them despite the fact that, you know, they're ''babies''), Lou [[ImprovisedWeaponUser hurls his remaining bags of nickels at them]] with blinding accuracy, knocking them out with a laugh ("Easy come, easy go!").
39* When Didi once had to take Tommy with her to the high school where she teaches, a chain of events led to Tommy instigating a food fight by accident. Amid the chaos, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold tough guy gets everyone to stop fighting momentarily so he can get Tommy out of the crossfire. When he safely has Tommy out of the cafeteria? "Okay."
40** Even better when you consider that he had a stare down with a JerkJock minutes beforehand, yet the minute said jock acts unfriendly toward Tommy, the other guy intimidates him into giving Tommy to him, talk about PapaWolf!
41** An earlier awesome moment from the same episode (titled "Little Dude"); the whole reason Tommy was at Didi's school was so she could teach her home ec students to diaper babies. Yet none of her students want to try. Rocko, the said JerkWithAHeartOfGold, walks in late and changes the diaper without flinching (Note: Tommy was carrying a full load). When Didi thanks Rocko, he casually explains he's used to this kind of thing because his little brother is Tommy's age. [[CoolBigSis Cool Big Bro]] indeed.
42* Tommy and Chuckie taking down the Junk Food Kid in "Showdown at Teeter-Totter Gulch."
43* The scene in "Ghost Story" where the babies in Angelica's ghost story encounter Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina (complete with their original voices) in ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters''.
44* One Toystore episode, openly admits at the end that they have an actual working time machine for sale. (Demonstrated as a large robotic gorilla ends up in Colonial Times) HOW COOL IS THAT!?
45* Rugrats being the first cartoon to ever do a Passover special.
46* In "Rebel Without a Bear", Tommy gets upset when Didi takes away a soiled stuffed lion, so he gets led by Angelica to become a BrattyHalfPint like herself, under the guise that he'd get the lion back. Throughout the episode, Tommy trashes the Pickles home, with Chuckie trying to stop Tommy, only to be shut up by Angelica. Until towards the end, when she tries to make Tommy throw away one of Didi's necklaces away, when Chuck finally stands up, telling Angelica to back off and urging Tommy to stop his bad ways.
47* Chuckie working up the courage to go down ''The Slide'' in the eponymous episode, thanks to [[TeamMom Susie.]]
48* In "Farewell My Friend", after being collateral damage to another of Tommy's adventures, he is almost volunteered again. When he attempts to decline, Tommy starts peer pressuring him a very bored tone. Realising how easy he thinks he is, Chuckie snaps, calling out Tommy for all he puts him through by dragging him into his schemes.
49-->'''Chuckie:''' I'M NOT GOING!!!
50* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqpVOsurEIs Reptar destroying Viacom's headquarters.]]
51* In "Faire Play", the guy in the Reptar suit tackling Stu's robotic dragon and ripping its head off to save him and Lou. [[ComicallySmallBribe For 10 bucks!]]
52* The fact that the show has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so far being the only Nickelodeon production to have such an honor.
53* BrattyHalfPint though she may be, Angelica has some pretty awesome moments. One of these occurs in "Rhinoceritis" where she explains she wants to be a doctor. She's been watching ''Binks [=McGill=], Pre-Teen Brain Surgeon,'' and tells the babies that, "Binks [=McGill's=] a doctor and he's ten years old!" When Tommy points out Angelica is only three, she says, "So Binks is a little slow."
54* At the end of "The Santa Experience," Angelica reverses her twisted GiftOfTheMagiPlot trick she played on Phil and Lil. Extra points because she tried so hard to make things right before Christmas.
55** An extra point to Santa, as in the ''real'' one, for telling Angelica that ''trying'' to be good is as important as ''being'' good. It's probably one of the only times she's ever heard that message. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Though given the lump of coal he leaves in her gift,]] [[LaserGuidedKarma it also shows she wasn't entirely off the hook for her actions.]]
56** Said Santa also managed to be somehow aware of Chuckie's arc, and gently hands him his present to help him get over his phobia of him.
57--->'''Santa:''' Merry Christmas, Chuckie. Still think I'm scary?
58--->''*Chuckie smiles*''
59* Although she is a somewhat minor character, Susie has several:
60** Coaching Chuckie through his fear of the slide in the eponymous episode, including giving him his SurvivalMantra of "I'm a big brave dog." Extra points when she wins the bet that Chuckie will conquer his fear, and thus gets ''two'' pudding pops off Angelica.
61** In "And the Winner Is...", Angelica tries to sabotage Susie's talent show act by hiding her tap shoes. Susie expertly turns the routine into a comedy show, sliding around the stage in sock feet and being laughably clumsy. She also wins the talent show.
62** Susie's dedication to fixing toys, including Cynthia, in "Doctor Susie," even though Angelica had tried to sabotage her.
63** Susie breaking off Angelica as she harasses the babies in "Susie vs Angelica". Also in their contest, she wins in all but two feats.
64* Stu turns out to have a fear of the diving board (especially high ones) in "The Big Flush", he is paralyzed with fear when he gets on one but then he sees Tommy and the other babies hopping on a much lower diving board (under the impression that it's the toilet handle) and PapaWolf takes over with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAbOtvblcik Stu jumping off the super high board, landing in the water, and catching Tommy just as he was about to hit the water]].
65* "Baseball": Bucky Majors has two in his featured episode. First, he hits a home run baseball so hard that he tears the cover off it. Later on, Tommy falls from the stands where Bucky happens to be standing. Bucky immediately springs into action and saves Tommy by catching him in his mitt.
66* The entire episode "A Very [=McNulty=] Birthday." Angelica, Susie, and Lil, along with the rest of the gang, have been invited to Timmy [=McNulty's=] birthday party, but Timmy decrees they can't play with the other kids because they're girls and have cooties. The girls' response? Use paint and party accessories to dress and act like monsters, thereby making the boys think they really do have a dangerous malady.
67* The entire "Mega Diaper Babies" episode, where the babies pretend to be superheroes and save the Mega Hyper Heroes from the evil Angelitron. When she manages to defeat them, Chuckie, as Stinky, uses his [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower power to smell really bad]] to save the day.
68* The "Carwash" episode, where Chaz notices that his son Chuckie is in his car with the other babies. He goes PapaWolf by rushing to the car right behind his and [[MusclesAreMeaningless hurling its muscular driver out of it]]! Keep in mind that this is [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Chaz]] we're talking about, Chaz who [[HandicappedBadass has asthma and numerous allergies]].
69** To make it doubly awesome he went through the WHOLE WASH to save them, even taking on the hot wax treatment!
70* "Candy Bar Creep Show": The babies sneaking into the Pickles' haunted house and scaring a group of trick-or-treaters, Angelica among them. At the end of the episode, the babies eat some of the Reptar bars they left behind.
71* In "Grandpa Moves Out", Lou saving Tommy and Angelica by snagging the runaway scooter they're on with ''a fishing pole''.
72* Drew in "Murmur on the Ornery Express" for once laying down the law with Charlotte, making clear this is a family trip and she has to, for once, focus on FAMILY and not business.
73* Normally when Tommy gets mad at Angelica he is firm in tone but quick to back down. Not so in "Family Tree". Thinking Chuckie climbed a tall tree so Tommy can have Chuckie's family all to himself (thanks to a standard baby misunderstanding and Angelica's lies) Tommy demands Angelica help. When she laughs and dismisses this, Tommy, for the first time in the series, becomes ''enraged,'' marching at her and ''growling'' that she ''will'' do it because it's her fault. Angelica actually leans back in fear and Phil and Lil can only stare in shock at how angry Tommy is.
74--> '''Phil:''' Whoa, that is one mad baby.
75* "Game Show Didi" has Didi taking part in a quiz show against a seemingly unbeatable opponent. While she is seemingly outclassed at first, she finally starts gaining momentum with an obscure trivia question, eventually leading to tennis match-style game of wits. By the end of the show, Didi has gotten the upper hand and is just rapid fire buzzing right answer after right answer until she is exhausted.
76* In "Hello Dilly", Dil turns Angelica's preschool into a war zone as payback for Angelica stealing him from his home. He even gives a SlasherSmile when he poops in his diaper. The combined sight and smell causes Angelica's teacher and her classmates to flee. To top it off, Dil falls asleep when it's just him and Angelica in the classroom.
77* From "A Tale of Two Puppies":
78** Chuckie spends the whole episode trying unsuccessfully to help Puppy overcome her fears so she can be adopted by a nice family. Near the end of the episode, Angelica comes over to try to adopt Puppy, and Chuckie gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, telling her all the reasons why she'd be a terrible owner.
79--->'''Angelica:''' Now there's the kind I like; nice and quiet. Yeah, one who'll do everything I say!\
80'''Chuckie:''' No, Angelica. You can't have her!\
81'''Angelica:''' Oh, yeah? How come?\
82'''Chuckie:''' Cause'... you're... loud, and bossy, and selfish, and sometimes plain not very nice!
83** Just afterwards, Puppy overhears Angelica being mean to Chuckie, so she runs up to Angelica and barks angrily at her, saving Chuckie and convincing Angelica not to adopt her after all.
84* "King Ten Pin" has Lou go head to head with an old rival in a bowling match. The babies end up unwittingly sabotaging the guy's attempts to cheat. Lou, not being the least bit surprised that his opponent was playing dirty, delivers a TranquilFury dressing down, and vows to finish the game anyway on fair terms. Despite the large handicap from so many sabotages beforehand, one scene cut later, Lou has won.
85-->'''Lou:''' Suddenly it all makes sense...all these years you've been ''cheatin'''! (...) "Undefeated for fifteen years", eh? Well now I'm gonna beat you ''fair and square''!
86* In "Chicken Pops", Chuckie catches chicken pox, and Angelica tells the babies that Chuckie is going to turn into a chicken. When he wears oven mitts to keep himself from scratching and some feathers from a torn pillow get stuck to the calamine lotion Chas applied to his body, Chuckie believes what Angelica said to be true, so Tommy, Phil, and Lil help train him for his transformation. Near the end of the episode, Tommy, Phil, and Lil end up catching chicken pox from Chuckie, and when Angelica finds out, she tells the babies that they're going to be delicious food at Charlotte's picnic, upsetting Tommy and the twins. [[CowardlyLion Chuckie stands up to Angelica]], telling her that their parents would never eat him and his friends, and they're going to enjoy their new lives as chickens, scaring her away.
87* In "Ice Cream Mountain", Stu and Drew go to a miniature golf course, with the promise of a free game for getting a hole-in-one on Ice Cream Mountain. What they don't know is that Ice Cream Mountain is actually rigged so that [[UnwinnableByDesign nobody can actually get a hole-in-one on it]]. The babies go into the Ice Cream Mountain strucuture believing there's actual ice cream in it, and they end up uncovering the exit of the structure that allows balls to get holes-in-one (while also plugging up the holes that lead to losing the hole) under the mistaken belief that the ice cream might be behind the opening. They don't find their ice cream...but they ''do'' end up [[SpannerInTheWorks causing Stu, Drew, and many other customers to get holes-in-one and thus free games]], [[BreakTheHaughty reducing the greedy owner of the course to tears]]. Almost as if it's a KarmicJackpot for exposing the scam (though more because Angelica was bored to tears and really wanted ice cream for waiting so long), the babies are treated to actual mountains of ice cream afterwards, which [[CreditsGag they happily indulge in during the credits]].

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