The fourth episode of the third season of Rugrats (1991).
Grandpa Moves Out:
Lou has a quarrel with Stu and Didi and moves to a retirement home, causing Tommy and Angelica to try to get him back.
The Legend of Satchmo:
The babies go camping in the backyard and become scared that a monster called Satchmo will get them.
"Grandpa Moves Out" provides examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: Just when Stu's car is five feet away from the retirement center, Lou says he has to go back...because he left all his things behind.
- Bait-and-Switch Time Skip: After Lou moves out, it seems like an entire year has passed, as the next sequence shows leaves falling, then snow, then fresh grass and birds chirping. It is then revealed that only a week has passed since Lou moved out, as there is a caption at the bottom of the screen that says ONE WEEK LATER, and Drew says to Stu, "Crazy weather we've been having this week, huh?".
- Bland-Name Product: At the end of the episode, when Lou goes back home (but not before briefly turning around to collect his belongings), he passes by a Clam gas station.
- Bleak Abyss Retirement Home: Roberto Mazatlan advertises a retirement home called Flushing Waters. In the commercial, Roberto claims Flushing Waters to have gourmet food and wonderful on-site fishing, and Lou decides to move there when he feels unappreciated by Stu, Didi, and Tommy when he inadvertently interferes with their dinner. It is later revealed that Flushing Waters is a lot more run-down than advertised, with the "gourmet" food looking like something one would expect from a public school cafeteria, and the fishing creek revealed to be a large fountain stocked with fish that the residents are supposed to catch with nets and put back when they're done. Lou soon finds out that Flushing Waters isn't as luxurious as advertised, but he refuses to admit it to his family until Tommy and Angelica cause a series of mishaps that make him realize that they're the most important things in his life.
- Cool Old Guy: Lou saving his grandkids with his fishing prowess.
- Delayed Reaction: When Lou is leaving, Stu and Didi are busy focusing on dinner. It's not until he declares he's moving out and leaves that the realization hits them.Stu and Didi: (To each other) Moving out?!
- The Door Slams You: When the adults chase after Tommy and Angelica, who are riding an electric scooter, the electric scooter pushes a pair of doors open. Lou, Didi, and Drew make it through before they close, but Stu slams into the door and gets left behind.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: This exchange:Didi: Say, didn't those kids speeding by on the electric scooter look just like Tommy and Angelica?
Drew: Yeah, they sure did.
[Beat]
Didi, Stu, Drew, and Lou: TOMMY AND ANGELICA?! - Kindness Ball: Angelica is unusually nice in this episode. While she's still mischievous and know-it-all, she is unantagonistic towards Tommy for most of the episode, genuinely set on getting Grandpa Lou back. It's not the first time she's joined forces with Tommy and the other babies but it's notable in that she and Tommy have the same goal the entire time without any sort of personal benefit for only her.
- Mind Your Step: As Lou gives Stu, Didi, and Drew a tour of Flushing Waters, he reminds them to watch out for the loose floorboards.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Roberto Mazatlan, the pitchman for the Flushing Waters retirement resort, is a parody of Ricardo Montalbán (though Mr. Montalban did NOT provide the voice). In this ad, he mentions that the chairs at this resort are made of "Rich, Corinthian leather". In the late 1970's, Mr. Montalban was a pitchman for Chrysler, in which he mentions "Rich, Corinthian leather" as one of the features of Chrysler's luxury automobiles.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: After saving his grandkids, the Flushing Waters manager tells Lou he has to leave for all the trouble he and his family caused. Lou however couldn't be happier to go back home.
- Rod And Reel Repurposed: When the electric scooter that Tommy and Angelica ride is about to crash into a wall, Lou pulls out his fishing rod and catches the electric scooter with it, reeling it in before it can hit the wall.
- Seasonal Baggage: Type 2, subverted; After Lou moves out of Tommy's house, the next sequence shows leaves falling, then snow, then fresh grass and birds chirping, implying that an entire year has passed. After the montage, the words, "One Week Later" are superimposed on the screen. Then, just in case the viewer is still confused, Drew visits Stu's house:Drew: Hey, Stu. Crazy weather we've been having this week, huh?
Stu: I'll say. - Senior Sleep-Cycle: When Mildred struggles to remember the name of her seventh grandchild, Angelica asks her, "Sleepy?". Mildred then misunderstands and falls asleep. Angelica also believes that the seniors went to a "Tired Center" because they're all too tired to play with their grandchildren, and she and Tommy get the idea to wake up all the seniors.
- Shout-Out: When Mildred names her grandchildren (Doc, Happy, Grumpy, Dopey, Sneezy, Bashful and Sleepy), they are a reference to the fairy tale, Snow White, perhaps best known for its 1937 Disney film adaptation.
- Something We Forgot: After Lou is evicted from Flushing Waters, Stu and Didi immediately start driving him home from there...only for Lou to point out they need to turn back, because they neglected to bring any of his belongings, much less his own car, with them.
- Status Quo Is God: Lou moves out of Tommy's house and into a retirement home in this episode. Near the end of the episode, Tommy and Angelica end up getting him evicted, and he moves back into Tommy's house. He is happy to do so, as he was miserable the entire time he was at Flushing Waters.
- Very False Advertising: Roberto Mazatlan advertises a retirement home called Flushing Waters, claiming it to have gourmet food and wonderful on-site fishing. Unfortunately, it's more rundown than the commercial made Lou think.
- Waking Non Sequitur: When Angelica gives one of the seniors a Water Wake Up, the senior (obviously a retired sailor) wakes up shouting "Don't submerge, Admiral! I'm still on deck!". Upon noticing Tommy and Angelica, he comments "Hey! You're not the Admiral!".
"The Legend of Satchmo" provides examples of:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: This line when Lou describes Sasquatch:Lou: Some folks call him "Bigfoot." Some call him "The Abominable Snowman." The rest just call him "Sir."
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Lou tells the babies the story of Sasquatch.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: This exchange when the babies try to find their way back to the tent after looking for Chuckie:Phil: Tommy, if Chuckie were here, I think he'd have something to say.
Tommy: What's that?
Phil and Lil: We're doomed! - Camping Episode: Lou and the babies camp out in Tommy's backyard in this episode. Stu, who had a bad camping experience the previous year, worries about them the entire time.
- Horrible Camping Trip: Stu is said to have had one over a year before this episode's events, wherein he got lost for three days.
- Literal-Minded: When Lou shows the babies the Milky Way, they visualize cows, milk bottles, and milk cartons flying through it.
- Malaproper: The babies mispronounce "Satsquatch" as "Satchmo", which leads to Stu and Lou mistaking him for the trumpet player.
- Mistaken for an Imposter: When the babies see Stu coming into the tent to check on them, they assume that it's just Angelica trying to scare them again. The real Angelica then shows up, leading the babies to assume that Stu is Satchmo.
- Noodle Incident: It's mentioned that Stu had a bad camping experience over a year before this episode's events.
- Potty Emergency: Chuckie has one, and tries to wake up Tommy so he can aid him in case of Satchmo, but to no avail, leaving him to go to the bathroom by himself. When Tommy awakens, he worries that Chuckie left to look for Satchmo.
- Scary Flashlight Face: Angelica does this with her pen light after the babies leave the tent and she plans to frighten them pretending to be the "Satchmo."
- Talking in Your Sleep: At one point while sleeping in the tent, Lou mutters "Dust bowl, schmust bowl! I ain't movin' to Californy!"
- Waxing Lyrical: During Lou's description of Sasquatch, he says that "the rest just call him 'sir'", a line from the Jim Croce song "Bad Leroy Brown".
