The Rugrats Movie
Release Date:
November 20, 1998
[Opening: The "Rugrats" TV intro plays in a small rectangle in the center of the screen. Captions "Paramount Pictures presents" and "A Klasky-Csupo production" fade on and off on top of this rectangle. At the end of the intro, where Tommy squirts his baby bottle, The streams of milk cover the entire movie screen, then drips down with a stereophonic cresendo to reveal "The Rugrats Movie" logo. Fade to black.]
[The camera is in the forest and move in the direction of a mountain in which their is a temple surrounded with Reptar statues. The Rugrats climb the cliff and are at the cave's entrance. The temple is dark and gloomy inside, as we are there, looking towards the outside, as the Rugrats race in. Once in the cave, Chuckie stops.]
Chuckie: Aah! This place give me the juicebumps!
[A group of bats fly out of the mouth of one of the Reptar statues.]
Phil: Maybe we should go back!
Lil: Very back!
Tommy: No! We can't go back now, you guys! Okey-Dokie Jones [whips with his jump rope]never goes back!
[The Rugrats move near a door shaped like Angelica's head. They act surprised. Inside the "mouth" is a bright, orange-colored light.]
Tommy: Hang on to your diapies, babies, we're going in!
Chuckie: [voice over] That's Tommy Pickles. He's the bravest baby I ever knowed!
[As Chuckie talks, Tommy races towards the door. As he got there, the door slammed, but he raced in there once it's open, and after he entered, it slammed shut again. Phil & Lil look surprised.]
Chuckie: [voice over] And that's Phil and Lil. Uh, uh, well, they - - they like worms.
[Phil & Lil hold hands and rush in through the door, which closed behind them.]
Chuckie: [voice over] And I'm Chuckie. Uh... I'm not so brave.
[Chuckie was hesitant to enter, but was "whipped" in by Tommy.]
Chuckie: [voice over] But that's OK, 'cause I got Tommy, and he's my bestest friend. [giggles]
[The Rugrats run to a tower on which is perched an idol. They climb the towre to reach the idol. While trying to take the statuette, the idol becomes a banana split and a trap is released, which causes an enormous rock to roll towrds them.]
Chuckie: Watch out!
[The babies starts to shout while running like the wind to try escape the rock.]
Tommy: You guys keep going!
[Suddenly, the floor open itself in front of them. Tommy, Phil & Lil made the jump, but Chuckie misses his, hanging on the brink.]
Chuckie: Tommy!
Tommy: Come on, Chuckie!
[Back to reality: The rock was Didi's stomach.]
Didi: Tommy!
[The babies scream and run away.]
Didi: You kids shouldn't be playing in here!
[The Rugrats run away at full speed...]
Chuckie: [voice over] We thought the fun times would last forever.
[Rugrats run into glass patio door and fall on the floor]
Chuckie: [voice over] But we was wrong!
Didi: Oh, my.
[Betty holds onto Didi as she picks up the Rugrats.]
Betty: Upsy-daisy, Didi.
Didi: Thanks!
[Betty opens the patio door and let the Rugrats go out. The grown-ups are having a baby shower for Didi.]
Susie: Thank you for inviting me to your baby shower Mrs. Pickles.
[Camera zooms out for a panoramic shot of the whole party.]
Didi: Glad you could be here, Susie.
Woman #1: What a pretty party dress, Angelica.
Angelica: Thank you. My mommy's assistant bought it especially for my Aunt Didi's party.
[Susie laughs while making fun of Angelica's dress.]
Angelica: [to Susie] Don't say a word.
[Along the fence, Aunt Miriam is in front of a blackboard, taking bets on the new baby's weight.]
Aunt Miriam: All right, I got $20 on 8 pounds, 6 ounces. 8 pounds 6. Who's got 8-7?
Man: Twelve!
Aunt Miriam: 12 pounds? What are you, crazy?
Chazz: Gosh, you can hardly tell she's gained any weight.
[While turning over, Didi knock over the table with her stomach.]
Woman #2: [as she proceeds to clean up the mess] Oh, don't worry.
Chazz: I mean, you know from behind.
Minka: There you are, Didala. Come. Look what we got for you. Boris, move your tuchus.
Didi: A goat? Oh, mom, you shouldn't have.
Minka: Nothing better for the little bubula than goat's milk.
Boris: Except maybe yak. But you try finding good yak these days.
[The babies run here and bump in the goat.]
Boris: [to the Rugrats] He's saying, "Hello". There you go, kinderlach, some chocolate coins.
[The Rugrats take the coins and hide their selves under the table.]
Woman #3: Everything I, Oh...
[On way to table, Chuckie bumps into ladies; they all gasp.]
[Pan to bottom of table.]
Phil: Aren't you gonna eat it, Tommy?
Tommy: Nope. I'm savin' it for my baby sister.
Chuckie: Oh, you mean, she finally came?
Tommy: Not yet, but they're giving her this big party, so I'm pretty sure today's the day.
Lil: Do you think she got losted on her way to the party?
Tommy: Hmm, I don't know. Maybe we better go look for her. Come on!
[Rugrats climb out from under table.]
Chuckie: Uh, but, Tommy, she could be anywheres.
[Chuckie bump into Didi's stomach.]
Betty: Watch it, pups.
Didi: Careful.
[Charlotte arrives; as per usual, she's talking to Jonathan on her cell phone.]
Charlotte: [on phone] I'll get back to you, Jonathan. I've got to say "hi" to the life of the party. [to Didi] How's our little man?
Didi: I told you, Charlotte, Dr Lipschitz says it's a girl.
Betty: Ha! That windbag thought Phil and Lil were intestinal gas.
Aunt Miriam: Face it, dolly. Riding high, it's a guy.
Charlotte: Well, you know what they say, "Born under Venus, look for a..."
[Charlotte's phone rings, interrupting her conversation. She immediately answers.]
Charlotte: [on phone] Hello?
Didi: Now, now, Dr Lipschitz is the expert. I don't see any of you with a Ph.D. in Latin.
Betty: Yeah, pig Latin maybe. Well, let's just hope for Tommy's sake it's a girl. I'd hate to think how much my pups would be squabbling if they were both boys.
Didi: Uh, uh, uh. Let's not do any gender stereotyping. After all, Stu and Drew are brothers, and they get along just fine.
[Cut to basement, where Stu and Drew are arguing.]
Stu: Pushy!
Drew: Lazy!
Stu: Bossy!
Drew: Inconsiderate!
Stu: Nosy!
Drew: Good-for nothing!
Stu: Busy-body!
Both: Why can't you listen to me?
Drew: We're talking about a real job, Stu, with benefits.
Stu: [shouts] I'm not going to waste my life as a clock-punching, paper-pushing, bean-counting... [calms down] Oh, no offence.
[Stu proceeds to weld.]
Drew: You can't even make ends meet now. You got no insurance, no savings, and another kid on the way!
Stu: For your information, bro, I am working on something right now that is going to put this branch of the Pickles family on Easy Street.
Drew: What is it this time, huh, an electric sponge?
Stu: Of course not! That was last year. [reveals a skeleton of the Reptar Wagon] This, this is the Reptar Wagon! The ultimate in toddler transportation. The perfect children's toy!
[Grandpa fixes an old radio as he talks.]
Grandpa: In my day, we had plenty of fun just throwing rocks at each other. Big bag of dirt clods, that's what the kids want.
Stu: The Reptar Corporation is holding a toy design contest, and the winner gets $500!
Drew: [sarcastically] Ooh!
Stu: And there'll be plenty more if this toy's a hit, and I'll be famous!
Drew: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you said when you built that stupid thing.
[Drew points to a Dactar glider, which is suspended from the ceiling.]
Stu: Maybe Dactar was a little complex, but... this... this...watch! [speaking into microphone, in normal voice] I am Reptar! Hear me roar!
Reptar Wagon: [Stu's voice, distorted] I am Reptar! Here me roar!
[The Reptar Wagon spit fire!]
Grandpa: Dang-flabbit! Can't a man work in his own basement without getting barbecued?
Stu: OK, so maybe real fire isn't the best idea for a children's toy.
[Drew's clothes are smouldering; Stu sprays Drew with the fire extinguisher.]
[Cut to Tommy's room, which was remodelled for the new baby. One side is blue, for Tommy's side, which has a Dummi-bear bed, a "Smile!" poster and a trunk with smiles painted all over, The new baby's side is pink, with a crib festooned with balloons, and an "It's a girl!" banner on the wall. The Rugrats enter the room to their amazement.]
The Rugrats: Oh!
Chuckie: Tommy, somebody's been colouring your room.
Tommy: Yep, it's for my new sister.
Phil: How are we gonna find her, Tommy?
Chuckie: Yeah, we don't even know what she looks like.
Lil: Well, she's a girl like me, so we know she'll be prettyful.
Angelica: [enters, carrying a big bunch of cookies using the lower part of her dress] Oh, brother! You dumb babies got a lot to learn about the facts of lice. [shoves Rugrats en route to table] Now, get out of my way. I gotta get back to the dessert table before the grownups get all the good stuff.
[Angelica dumps cookies on a table.]
Tommy: Angelica, can you help us find my baby sister?
Angelica: I wouldn't be in such a big hurry if I was you Tommy. 'Cause when the new baby gets here, she's gonna gets all the toys and the love and the attention. And your mommy and daddy'll forget all about you. It'll be like, "Look, Deed... there's that little bald kid in the house again".
Tommy: My mommy and daddy won't forget me.
Angelica: That's what Spike said before you were born. Back when his name was Paul.
Tommy: Paul?
Angelica: Yeah, but, then you came along, and they put him out in the rain, and he turned into a dog.
Tommy: That's not gonna happen to me, Angelica. My mommy and daddy will love me no matter what!
[Voice over: Susie is outside, singing to the tune of the first couple of lines of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" [or "The Alphabet Song", or "Baa Baa Black Sheep"]. Boris accompanies her on accordion. Angelica looks on from Tommy's room.]
Susie: [singing] A baby is very neat; a baby is a special treat.
Angelica: Ugh! Who does Susie Carmichael think she is?
Susie: A baby has lots of toes; a baby has a tiny nose.
[Angelica leaves while the other Rugrats watch from inside.]
[Cut to outside. All are singing, unless specified.]
Susie: A baby is a little dickens, a baby is a cuddly chicken.
[Angelica is next to Didi's belly, chuckling, as she plans to make her move.]
Susie: A baby is lots of joy...
[Angelica barges in.]
Angelica: A baby will get all the toys!
Susie: [spoken, to Angelica] What are you doing?
Susie: A baby has a smiley face...
Angelica: A baby is from outside space!
Susie: [spoken, disgusted] Angelica!
Angelica: [spoken, taunting] Susie!
Susie: A baby is extra fancy...
Angelica: A baby poops in his pantsies!
Susie: [spoken, angry] Cut it out!
Angelica: [spoken, defiant] No!
[Music switches to a Tejano beat, using different arrangment.]
[The Rugrats climb outside to watch.]
Susie: Like a birdie, singing in a tree!
Angelica: More like Reptar, screaming in your ear!
Both: A baby is a gift, a gift from a Bob! A baby is a gift from a Bob, Bob, Bob! A baby is a gift...
[Angelica does a gagging gesture.]
Susie: A gift from a Bob!
[Cut to under table, where the Rugrats crawled underneath. Tommy & Chuckie are talking, while music continues under.]
Chuckie: Do you really think babies are a gift from a Bob?
Tommy: I don't know. Why?
Chuckie: Because if Bob bringed a gift, it's probably one of them.
[Return to Susie & Angelica; music reverts to "Twinkle Twinkle", though the Tejano flavor remains.]
Susie: A baby is very special!
Angelica: A baby is, is [screams] notttt!
[Song ends; Angelica's screaming has induced Didi's labor. Didi groans in discomfort.]
Didi: Oh! Betty, it's time!
Betty: It's time? Oh, boy. [to crowd] Everybody to your stations, people! Howard, get Stu. Charlotte, call the hospital. Deed, start your breathing. Come on, good girl.
[Didi begins her rhythmic breathing.]
[The other grownups pick up the Rugrats.]
Grandpa: Up we go, sprout. We got a Pickle to deliver.
Charlotte: Let's go to the car, kids.
[During the rush, the goat broke loose and destroyed the party. While the goat destroys things, it set off the sprinkler system.]
Charlotte: Would somebody turn that sprinkler off?
[The goat comes inside, dragging a chair on his leg.]
[Grandpa and Tommy look on.]
Grandpa: Now, that's what I call a baby shower!
[Cut to exterior of the "Lipschitz Maternity Arts Building"; 3 cars race to the front enterance. Cut to interior, looking at a bank of monitors with Dr. Lipschitz's image on each monitor.]
Lipschitz: [on monitors] Welcome to the Werner P. Lipschitz Center for Holistic Birthing, offering the modern parent the state of the art in primitive birth alternatives.
[While Lipschitz speaks, a statue with Lipschitz holding several babies come into view. Then, cut to a board that displays the names of mothers giving birth, in a fashion of the "Arrivals" and "Delays" board at airports. The gang arrive at the reception desk.]
Nurse: Oh, Mrs. Pickles! You weren't due till next week, now, dear. Well, I guess we could try and squeeze you in somewhere, huh?
Didi: But Dr Lipschitz promised us the all-natural Zen experience in the Tibetan terrace room!
Boris: In my day, a woman just dropped her baby in the potato field and kept going.
[Nurse opens door to a room that has maternity equipment in a middle of a potato field, complete with cows and a farmer.]
Nurse: Ah, yes, the old country room.
Didi: Do you have anything a little cleaner?
Nurse: We could try the aquatic immersion room.
[The gang looks at a window of a tank that has fish, a sea turtle and ruins, plus the pre-requisite maternity gear. The new mother pictured is in scuba gear, while her doctor [holding the notepad] is in an old-fashioned sea diver's outfit.]
Minka: She's having a baby, not a gefilte fish!
[A couple of doctors enter; one of them is Dr. Lucy Carmichael.]
Dr. Lucy: Oh! Stu, Didi, Randy called to say you were on your way. [laughs] I didn't realize you were bringing the whole party! How far apart are the pains, hon?
Stu: Oh, they're... [Didi squeezes Stu's hand very tight] pretty much constant.
Dr. Lucy: OK, Didi; let's go and get you settled in, huh?
[The Rugrats are placed in a playpen.]
Grandpa: Here you go, sprout.
Didi: [to Tommy] Don't worry, sweetie, mommy's going to be OK.
[Grown-ups leave; Didi continues her breathing exercises. Grandpas Lou & Boris sit nearby, preparing to play cards.]
Chuckie: Oh, gosh, Tommy, your mommy sure seems upset.
Lil: Maybe your baby sister really is losted.
Tommy: Whoa! Maybe we can buy her a new one.
[Tommy pulls out his chocolate coin.]
Chuckie: Where're we gonna find a baby in a place like this?
[Pull away to reveal several doctors walking around, carrying babies. The Rugrats, in the usual fashion, break out of the playpen, and crawl out without being caught by Grandpas Lou and Boris, who are too busy playing "Fish".]
Grandpa: You got any queens?
Boris: Go fish!
