The sixth episode of the sixth season of Rugrats (1991).
Baking Dil
Stu and Lou go to a bakery to get a cake for Didi's birthday, and while there, the babies try to catch a frog to give to Didi as a present.
Hair!
Both Tommy and Grandpa Lou are displeased with their baldness, the former because Angelica tricks him into thinking that not having hair will keep him from growing up, and the latter because Roy Davis, an old friend of his, is coming to visit.
"Baking Dil" provides examples of:
- Big Brother Instinct: When Tommy sees Dil riding the conveyor belt, he decides to put finding the frog on hold until he and his friends can rescue Dil before anything bad happens to him.
- Birthday Episode: This episode takes place on Didi's birthday.
- Jumping Out of a Cake: Played with in that it's not a large cake that a person jumps out of, but a plate-sized cake that the frog jumps out of.
- Oh, Crap!: Stu and Lou set the table in Tommy's backyard, sure they've got everything. Stu wonders if he's forgetting anything, and upon seeing the cake decoration on Lou's party hat, he realizes that he forgot to get a cake, so he rushes off to Bob's Fully Automated Bakery to get one.
- Parental Obliviousness: Stu. While waiting in line, he puts Dil on a conveyor belt underneath a mobile decorated with donuts and cupcakes, oblivious to it taking him away. He's also oblivious to the babies having snuck back into the kitchen to look for the frog that they plan to give to Didi as a birthday present.
- Take a Number: When Stu arrives at Bob's Fully Automated Bakery, the customer tells him to take a number. Stu's number is 546. At one point, he tries to buy someone else's ticket so he can get closer to the front of the line.
"Hair!" provides examples of:
- Baldness Angst:
- Grandpa Lou is being visited by Roy Davis, an old friend of his, but is envious of Roy because Roy still has all his hair and he's lost the hair in the upper part of his head. He tries to one-up Roy by wearing a toupee, but his plan is compromised when Tommy takes it following some trickery from Angelica. Dil then pulls off Roy's toupee, revealing Roy to be bald as well.
- When Angelica tells Tommy that he won't grow up because he doesn't have hair like his friends, he tries to get some, eventually resorting to using Lou's toupee. In the end, Tommy discovers that Stu and Drew were both bald as babies in an old photo, but grew hair when they grew up, meaning Angelica was wrong, and learns to accept his lack of hair, knowing now that it won't last forever.
- Baldness Mockery: Being a one-year-old baby, Tommy only has a few hairs on his head, and is often teased by Angelica for this. The plot of this episode involves her telling him that he won't grow up because he doesn't have hair like his friends, so he tries to get some.
- Continuity Nod:
- This isn't the first time Lou has worn a toupee in an attempt to make himself look younger.
- Tommy imagines adult Chuckie looking the same way he did in their shared fantasy in "What The Big People Do".
- "Eureka!" Moment: When Lou says that he wishes he had some hair in the old attic (referring to the top of his head), this gets him to realize that he does have hair in the attic, in the form of an old toupee he's been saving in the attic of Tommy's house.
- Gum In Hair: When Angelica pigs out on salt water taffy, she gets some of it stuck in her hair. Stu tells her he went through a similar experience, and he had to get his head shaved.
- Imagine Spot: Following Angelica's lie about how he won't grow up because he doesn't have hair, Tommy has one where Chuckie, Phil, and Lil are all adults while he's still a baby.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Angelica lies to Tommy that he won't grow up if he doesn't grow any hair. At the end of the episode, she gets some saltwater taffy in her hair, which Stu sees, telling her that Lou had to shave his head when it happened to him.
- Malaproper: In Tommy's Imagine Spot, Phil and Lil, now adults, mispronounce words such as "climate" (client), "stupervisor", (supervisor), "clothesline" (waistline) and "heartburp" (heartburn).
- Of Corsets Funny: Lou wears a corset to impress Roy with how well he'd kept his figure over the years. At the end of the episode, when his ruse is exposed, Roy reveals that he was wearing one, too.
- Shout-Out: This episode's title is a reference to the 1967 broadway musical of the same name.
