The sixth episode of the second season of Rugrats (1991).
Regarding Stuie: Stu falls off the house while building a new duck-shaped weather vane, hits his head, and reverts to babyhood, becoming able to talk to Tommy and the others in the process. The babies have some fun with "Stuie" the "big baby" until Tommy begins to miss his daddy.
Garage Sale: Stu and Didi hold a garage sale in front of their house. The babies catch wind of this, and a series of misunderstandings lead to them believing that Stu and Didi mean to sell everything in the house and try to help. Hilarity Ensues.
"Regarding Stuie" provides examples of:
- Adults Are Useless: While the babies and "Stuie" are playing in the shower, Didi pops in to let Stu know that she's going to go shopping. She takes her husband's babyish crying from within the bathroom as him lamenting over the amount of money she may spend and simply goes on her way.
- An Aesop: Use caution and be careful with what you are doing.
- Amnesia Episode: Stu hits his head in a fall and is mentally regressed to infanthood.
- Circling Birdies: Happens to Stu the first time he bumps his head; stars and quacking ducks float around him.
- Easy Amnesia: One fall and head bump is all it takes to cause Stu to think he's a baby.
- Every Device Is a Swiss-Army Knife: Stu's latest invention is a weather vane that can predict weather patterns, among other things. When Lou asks if it can also show which way the wind is blowing, Stu says that he's still working on that.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: This exchange:Tommy: What's wrong, Stuie?
Stu: Toy broke.
Tommy: Don't worry. When Daddy gets home, he'll fix...
[Beat]
Chuckie: Tommy?
Tommy: He's never coming home.
Chuckie: Who's never coming home, Tommy?
Tommy: My daddy. He's never gonna come home! He turned into Stuie and now he'll never be Daddy again! - Improvised Diaper: Believing that "Stuie" needs a diaper since he's a baby, the babies borrow a bedsheet from the clothesline and wrap it around Stu. He's still wearing it after he gets his memory back, to Didi's bewilderment.
- Injury Bookend: Stu regains his memory the same why he lost it: Being knocked off the house roof by the out of control duck weather vane. (Though he's obviously up there for different reasons this time.)
- Manchild: Stu thinks he's a baby for much of the episode.
- Mood Whiplash: After much Hilarity Ensues from the fact that Stu thinks he's a baby, Tommy eventually comes to realize that his dad is gone and will be as long as "Stuie" is around and becomes depressed.
- Mouth Cam: Used when Stu cries after accidentally pulling off the head of Lil's doll.
- Non-Nude Bathing: At one point in the episode, the babies and Stu take a shower with their clothes on.
- Ocular Gushers: In his baby-like state of mind, Stu is prone to this kind of crying. It's so much so that Lil stops crying herself just to watch and comment in awe.
- Present Peeking: The babies use Stu to grab a box high in the closet, which they thought contained Christmas presents.
- Something We Forgot: Stu forgets to take off the bedsheet he was wearing as a diaper after he gets his memory back, and Didi asks him why he's doing so.
- Stock Scream: This is the first episode to use a distinctive stock recording of when Stu Screams Like a Little Girl that got reused quite a few times during the show, heard both times when Stu falls off the roof. It also gets heard in the next episode...
- Voices Are Not Mental: As "Stuie," Stu remains voiced by Jack Riley, who speaks in a very high-pitched voice.
"Garage Sale" provides examples of:
- Adults Are Useless: Stu and Didi are so busy with trying to have a successful yard sale that they fail to realize that things they obviously don't want to sell are being sold and Grandpa Lou just shrugs and goes along with selling the stuff when he sees it outside and someone makes an offer.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: The adults hold the garage sale in order to get rid of a lot of clutter and free up some extra space in the house. Due to the kids' unknown involvement, they end up getting more free space than they had in mind.
- Call-Back: When Tommy tries to talk Chuckie into helping him, Phil, and Lil get the rest of his family's possessions onto the front yard, he brings up the time they went over the fence to get his ball from the other yard.
- Disco Sucks: This exchange, which provides the page's quote:Angelica: Aunt Didi, what's disco?
Didi: Oh, nothing, sweetheart. It's something that happened a long time ago and it's never, never coming back, so don't you worry. - Garage Sale: ...It's in the title.
- Got Volunteered: When the babies are having trouble getting their last load of junk out, Chuckie suggests that someone should steer the wagon. Due to it being his idea, Chuckie ends up being the one to steer it.
- Literal-Minded: Upon hearing the expression "take it off your hands", Tommy, Phil, and Lil look at their hands.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": The adults when the garage sale is over and they come inside to an empty house.
- Noodle Incident: Alongside the Call-Back mentioned above, Tommy brings up the time the kids put mud in Stu's shoes so they'd make squishy noises when he walked, and the time they filled the potty with Jell-O so the fish wouldn't get hungry.
- Poor Communication Kills: Due to automatically assuming that one of them changed their mind about keeping certain items, the adults sell off stuff that was meant to be kept.
- Scream Discretion Shot: When the adults see that everything in their house is gone, it cuts to outside the house as Stu Screams Like a Little Girl and the satellite dish tumbles off the roof.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: At the end of the episode, Didi tries console Stu over the loss of their material possessions by saying they still have each other. Stu flatly tells her to put a sock in it.
