The twelfth and final episode of the fifth season of Rugrats (1991), and a precursor to The Rugrats Movie.
When Stu and Didi go on a cruise to celebrate their anniversary, Tommy stays with Chuckie's family. Chuckie thinks his family loves Tommy more than him, when they just think he feels homesick (and he actually doesn't). Meanwhile, Didi keeps getting sick on the cruise, but she and Stu eventually find out that it isn't because of seasickness..
This episode provides examples of:
- Beware the Nice Ones: When Angelica laughs and dismisses Tommy's demand to help get Chuckie down from the tree, Tommy becomes genuinely enraged and delivers an angry speech to her, saying this is all her fault for what happened. As he angrily marches at her, Angelica actually leans back in fear before Tommy furiously orders her to climb up the tree and get Chuckie down. Phil lampshades this as he and Lil can only watch in shock at how angry Tommy is.Phil: Whoa, that is one mad baby.
- Cruise Episode: This episode's B-plot involves Stu and Didi going on a cruise for their anniversary. While on the ship, Didi throws up, and Stu believes Didi to be seasick. However, when they visit the ship's doctor, they find out that Didi is pregnant.
- Death Glare:
- After Tommy and Chuckie believe each other to be brothers who came from the same family tree, Lil wishes she had a brother. Phil glares angrily at her to remind her that she does.
- In the beginning of the episode's second act, Chuckie feels like Tommy is going to replace him when Chas, Marvin, and Shirley spend their time with him. Lil tells Chuckie that he can live at her house with her, and Phil can live in the forest, causing Phil to glare angrily at her a second time.
- Evil Is Petty: Angelica decides to make Chuckie think his father and grandparents like Tommy more than him because she wants to be Tommy and Chuckie's big sister, but they don't want her for a sister.
- Human Ladder: Tommy stands on top of Phil and Lil to try to climb the tree they believe Chuckie to be in. Unfortunately, he falls over before making it very far.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes: Following advice from Angelica, Chuckie has Tommy hold a garden hose while he turns it on to frame Tommy for bad behavior so Chas will get rid of Tommy instead of him. Tommy sprays the camera with the hose, and the water is used as a transition to the next scene, which takes place on the cruise ship Stu and Didi are on.
- Jock Dad, Nerd Son: This episode reveals that Chas' dad, Marvin, is much more conventionally manly. When Chas was a kid, Marvin used to toughen him up, beginning on Chas' first birthday, when Chas was tossed into Lake Michigan with a life preserver and some dry toast.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Angelica tricks Chuckie into thinking that Chas likes Tommy better than him, and has him frame Tommy for bad behavior so Chas will get rid of Tommy. After the babies believe Chuckie to have climbed up the family tree, Tommy gives Angelica an angry speech and has her climb the tree to get Chuckie down. When it turns out that Chuckie was never in the tree, Angelica is now stuck up there, begging for someone to get her down.
- Literal-Minded: Angelica tells the babies that a "Family Tree" is a tree that grows babies. Tommy believes that he and Chuckie are brothers who came from the same family tree, due to them liking many of the same things.
- Malaproper: Angelica mispronounces "Anniversary" as "Nursery", which leads her to tell the babies that a "Nursery party" is to celebrate when two people have been friends since nursery school.
- Mistaken for Brooding: When Chas sees Tommy playing on his own, he believes that he's suffering from separation anxiety as the result of his parents being away. Tommy actually just happens to be trying to retrieve a toy that had rolled under the hedge.
- Morning Sickness: When Stu and Didi are on a cruise ship, Stu believes Didi to be seasick. However, when they visit the ship's doctor, they find out that Didi is pregnant.
- Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: When Tommy, Phil, and Lil believe Chuckie to have climbed up a tree, they try unsuccessfully to climb the tree and get him down. When Angelica sees this, Tommy tells her to climb the tree and get Chuckie down, but she refuses at first. Tommy gives Angelica an angry speech, reminding her that she tried to frame him for bad behavior because she was jealous of him and Chuckie being brothers, and the only way she can be a true big sister is if she climbs the tree and brings Chuckie back.
- Rimshot: One plays after this exchange when Tommy sees Chuckie's shoes in the bushes.Tommy: Phil, do bushes wear shoes?
Phil: I don't think so, Tommy, but then I didn't even know babies grew on trees. - "Shaggy Dog" Story: When Chuckie wishes he was never born, Phil and Lil believe him to have climbed back up his family tree. They, along with Tommy, try unsuccessfully to climb the tree to get Chuckie down, then Tommy gets Angelica to do it after giving her an angry speech. It turns out that Chuckie was never in the tree because the tree was too high for him to climb, so he decided to hide in the family bush instead.
- Technologically Blind Elders: Marvin, Chas' father, doesn't know how to work a TV remote and asks Chas why his TV doesn't have an antenna. Chas has to explain to him how Cable TV works.
- The Unfavorite: When Chas and his parents spend time with Tommy, believing him to be missing Stu and Didi, Angelica tricks Chuckie into thinking they like Tommy more than him and are going to get rid of Chuckie.
- Wham Line: In this episode's sub-plot, Stu and Didi go on a cruise to celebrate their anniversary. Didi seems seasick throughout it, but then the end of the episode explains it is something more:"Stu, we're going to have a baby!"
