The Rugrats Movie

The Rugrats Movie is a 1998 American animated comedy film based on the Nickelodeon animated television series Rugrats. It was directed by Igor Kovalyov and Norton Virgien and was written by David N. Weiss & J. David Stem.[3] The film introduced Tommy Pickles' baby brother Dil Pickles, who appeared on the series the next year. The film features the voices of E. G. Daily, Tara Strong, Christine Cavanaugh, Kath Soucie, Cheryl Chase, Cree Summer, and Charlie Adler, along with guest stars David Spade, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Cho, Busta Rhymes, and Tim Curry. The events of the film take place before the sixth season of Rugrats.

Plans for a Rugrats film adaptation, along with Ren and Stimpy and Doug, began when Nickelodeon made a contract with 20th Century Fox to produce films between 1993 and 1995.[4] However, the contract expired with no films into production. Around the same year when the contract expired, development of the film restarted with Paramount Pictures since Nickelodeon's parent company, Viacom, purchased the studio in 1994 and production had restarted on the television series after a small hiatus.

The Rugrats Movie was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on November 20, 1998.

Plot
Didi Pickles is pregnant with her second baby, which she believes will be a girl while everyone else believes it will be a boy. Didi goes into labor during her baby shower and her friends rush her to the hospital. While this is happening, the kids crawl off and explore a nursery area before being found by the other parents. When the baby is finally born after a montage of past lives, it turns out to be a boy and they name him Dil.

Dil quickly becomes a very spoiled and mean baby, crying non-stop for attention, not listening to his parents, keeping all of the toys for himself, and refusing to share with his older brother Tommy. After a nasty fight between Tommy and Dil over Tommy's teddy bear, their father Stu has a conversation with Tommy about being a big brother and the responsibility he now has as such, assuring him that one day he will be happy to have Dil as his little brother. He also gives Tommy a locket with a picture of Tommy and Dil taped together and a watch inside, which he calls his "responsibility" which Tommy pronounces "sponsitility".

Meanwhile outside of town, a circus train loaded with monkeys stops at a station so the driver and ringmaster can get coffee. While they get coffee, the monkeys hijack the train, and the driver and ringmaster are unsuccessful to stop them. The monkeys accidentally speed up the runaway train causing it to derail and crash into the forest.

When Dil pushes the other babies too far, they decide to take him back to the hospital despite Tommy's disapproval, and end up driving recklessly through the streets in a Reptar Wagon which Stu had built for a contest in Japan. Along the way, Dil secretly steals Angelica's Cynthia doll, which prompts her to take the family dog, Spike and they embark on a quest to find the babies and retrieve Cynthia.

The babies eventually crashed in the woods, where they realize that they are lost. They spot a ranger's cabin where they believe a "lizard" (a mispronunciation of wizard) lives and decide to go there, believing that he can take them home. After an encounter with the gang of runaway circus monkeys, Dil is taken away by them. Tommy vows to find Dil by himself, after Chuckie, Phil and Lil agreed they are better off without him.

Meanwhile, the parents find out that the babies are missing and try to find them. However, it becomes a media sensation with numerous news reporters constantly asking the adults questions and one of them, the arrogant and insensitive Rex Pester, intentionally infuriates Stu's brother Drew into attacking Stu by telling him he lost Angelica.

Tommy eventually finds Dil during a storm, and they are forced to take shelter under a tree. But as Tommy tries to take care of him, Dil selfishly drinks all of the milk and keeps the large blanket for himself, which leads to the blanket tearing in half and Tommy falling into a puddle of mud. Tommy finally snaps and nearly pours banana baby food on Dil for the monkeys to take him away, but Tommy's rage and the storm's lightning and thunder scare Dil so much that he sees the error of his ways. They reconcile and sleep peacefully.

After the storm, the other babies find Tommy and Dil, and after running into Angelica and Spike they make their way to the ranger's cabin. While on a bridge, they are confronted by the monkeys but are then scared off by a huge wolf who's been stalking the babies intent on killing them since they arrived in the woods. Spike intervenes and fights the wolf until they both fall from the bridge. Meanwhile, Stu, who has been looking for the babies via a pterodactyl-like aircraft he made, finally finds them, but crash lands into the ranger's cabin. Believing he is the "lizard," the babies wish for Spike back instead of going home. Stu falls through the bridge and finds Spike, who actually survived the fall by landing on a strut of the bridge.

Soon afterwards, the babies are reunited with their families while the monkeys are reunited with their circus owners. The monkeys attacks Rex, much to the families' amusement. Dil finally learns to share when he drinks half of a bottle of formula and gives the other half to Tommy. The families return home and the babies accept Dil as one of the group after he assists them in getting an ice cream sundae from the top shelf of the refrigerator.

Main

 * E. G. Daily as Tommy Pickles
 * Tara Strong as Dil Pickles
 * Christine Cavanaugh as Chuckie Finster
 * Kath Soucie as Phil, Lil, and Betty DeVille
 * Cheryl Chase as Angelica Pickles
 * Cree Summer as Susie Carmichael

Supporting

 * Jack Riley as Stu Pickles
 * Joe Alaskey as Grandpa Lou Pickles
 * Melanie Chartoff as Didi Pickles and Grandma Minka
 * Michael Bell as Drew Pickles, Chas Finster and Grandpa Boris
 * Tress MacNeille as Charlotte Pickles
 * Phil Proctor as Howard DeVille

Guest

 * David Spade as Ranger Frank
 * Whoopi Goldberg as Ranger Margaret
 * Tim Curry as Rex Pester
 * Hattie Winston as Dr. Lucy Carmichael
 * Andrea Martin as Aunt Miriam
 * Busta Rhymes as Reptar Wagon
 * Roger Clinton, Jr. as Air Crewman
 * Margaret Cho as Lt. Klavin
 * Edie McClurg as Nurse
 * Charlie Adler as United Express Driver
 * Gregg Berger as Circus Television Announcer
 * Tony Jay as Dr. Lipschitz

Baby singers

 * Lenny Kravitz
 * Iggy Pop
 * Lisa Loeb
 * Gordon Gano
 * B-Real
 * Patti Smith
 * Jakob Dylan
 * Phife Dawg
 * Beck
 * Lou Rawls
 * Dawn Robinson
 * Laurie Anderson
 * Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson of The B-52's without member Keith Strickland

Production
Talks about making Rugrats into a feature film existed since the beginning of the series. The first attempt was in 1993, when Nickelodeon made a two-year contract deal with 20th Century Fox to produce new material, but an unnamed Nickelodeon executive did not rule out the possibility to make films based on their existing properties, one of those that was proposed was Rugrats, alongside Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show,[6][7][4] but the contract expired, with no movies produced (although Doug eventually got a theatrical film from Disney in March 1999). In 1994, Viacom acquired Paramount Pictures, and Paramount would distribute the movies instead, development on the movie started a year later in 1995.

Two months before the release of the movie, an episode prequel titled "The Family Tree" was aired as the final episode of the fifth season. Both the film's beginning and ending parody Paramount and Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones film series. This later inspired the second segment of the episode "A Tale of Two Puppies / Okey-Dokey Jones and the Ring of the Sunbeams", that aired during the show's eighth season on June 1, 2002.

This film was the first Rugrats media to use digital ink and paint, rather than traditional cel animation in the show.

Two songs were cut from the film during production. The first revolves around Stu and Didi in a nightmare sequence where Dr. Lipschitz criticizes their parenting through a song. The second depicts the Rugrats pushing the Reptar Wagon through the woods, debating what to do about Dil in an army chant style. These two scenes were cut from the theatrical, VHS, DVD, and Laserdisc releases. However, these scenes are shown on CBS and Nickelodeon television airings of the film.[8] These scenes were also present in the print novelization.

The film was released in theaters with a CatDog short titled "Fetch", in which Cat wins a radio contest, and attempts to answer the phone as Dog chases down his tennis ball. This short was later broadcast in CatDog Episode 21. However, the VHS, DVD and Laserdisc release contains a different CatDog short from Episode 28 titled "Winslow's Home Videos", in which Winslow shows clips of some of his favorite home videos featuring CatDog's wacky antics.

Home video
The Rugrats Movie was released on VHS and DVD on March 30, 1999 by Paramount Home Entertainment, which was reprinted many times. Paramount also released the film on Laserdisc. On March 15, 2011, the film was re-released in a three-disc trilogy DVD set alongside its sequels, in honor of Rugrats' 20th anniversary.[9] In addition, it was re-released in some movie sets by Paramount, in 2016 with all the non-sequel Nickelodeon-animated movies up to Barnyard, as well as a separate 2-disc set with Hey Arnold!: The Movie.[10] As of 2020, no Blu-ray release has been announced.

Soundtrack
The Rugrats Movie: Music From the Motion Picture was released on November 3, 1998.[11] The enhanced soundtrack contained thirteen tracks, bonus CD-ROM demos and commercials.[11] Amazon.com's Richard Gehr praised the CD for "[bridging] demographics as nimbly as the [original] show itself [did]" and for songs "fans of all ages will love".[11]

Entertainment Weekly 's David Browne rated the Music From the Motion Picture with a C.[12]

Browne noted that, while the soundtrack is enjoyable for children and does "[make] concessions" for parents, adults may dislike the amount of rap.[12] Allmusic's William Ruhlmann reviewed the soundtrack positively, saying "the result" of the singers and songs "is a romp in keeping with the tone of the show and the film".[13]

The Rugrats Movie: Music from the Motion Picture spent twenty six weeks on Billboard 200, peaking at #19.[14]

One song written for the film's soundtrack that was ultimately removed was "(Safe in This) Sky Life", a new track by English rock musician David Bowie; the song marked a reunion with longtime collaborator Tony Visconti, who would go on to produce all of Bowie's material from 2002 up until his death in 2016. The track would later be re-recorded as a B-side for Bowie's 2002 single "Everyone Says 'Hi'", under the shortened title of "Safe".[15]

In honor of its twentieth anniversary, the film's soundtrack was released on vinyl on November 30, 2018.[16]

Video games
A side-scrolling video game titled The Rugrats Movie was released for Game Boy and Game Boy Color in 1998 and 1999 respectively. It was developed by Software Creations and released by THQ. Brøderbund also developed and published a computer game based on the film, titled The Rugrats Movie: Activity Challenge. It was released in September 1998, as part of the film's marketing campaign.

Follows
Rugrats (1990) (TV Series)

Followed by
Rugrats in Paris (2000)

The Rugrats: All Growed Up (2001) (TV Short)

Rugrats: Still Babies After All These Years (2001) (TV Short)

All Grown Up! (2003) (TV Series)

Rugrats Go Wild (2003)

Spin-off
The Rugrats Movie (1998) (Video Game) ​​​​​​​Video game based on the film.

Referenced in
Rugrats: Search for Reptar (1998) (Video Game) The film's poster can be seen in the Reptar 2010 level.

At the Movies: Message in a Bottle/My Favorite Martian/Children of Heaven/Blast from the Past/God Said, 'Ha!' (1999) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Roger Ebert mentions that some movies, such as this one and "My Favorite Martian" (1999), have a cut-off age after which you are no longer able to enjoy them.

Caroline in the City: Caroline and the Ultimatum (1999) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​poster visible at Mr. Chu's video store

Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (2000) (Video) ​​​​​​​On theater marquee.

Becker: The Film Critic (2000) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​The poster is seen on the outside wall to the movie theater as Becker and Jake go inside.

Lizzie McGuire: Timmy Turner's First Day of HillRidge Junior High (2001) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​VHS is briefly seen on display at the library in HillRidge Jr. High.

Dinner for Five: Episode #1.6 (2002) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Title mentioned by Ray Romano.

The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)

Undercover Brother (2002)

Taz Wanted (2002) (Video Game) ​Poster seen in the level "Samsonian Museum".

Lizzie McGuire: Lizzie's Misadventures in HillRidge (2002) (Video Game) ​​​​​​​VHS is briefly seen on display in the video rental store at the Style Shack.

The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)

Game Grumps: Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2012) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​The movie is talked about.

The Blockbuster Buster: Top 10 Cartoons That Should Never Be Movies (2013) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​mentions the Rugrats movies

Jambareeqi Reviews: Hey Arnold! The Movie (2014) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​a fellow movie based on a Nicktoon

Animation Lookback: The Best of Stop Motion - Ray Harryhausen 1/2 (2014) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​The 1998 Mighty Joe Young remake was in competition with this film.

Honest Trailers: Jurassic World (2015) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​"I am Reptar. Hear me roar!"

Pitch: The Interim (2016) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​mentioned in dialogue

MsMojo: Top 10 Kids' Movie Concepts That Are Actually Terrifying (2017) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Helplessly Lost in the Woods is #9.

Outside Xtra: 7 Shockingly Scary Moments in Non-Horror Games (2020) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​The film's poster is shown.

Featured in
Leeza: Episode dated 20 November 1998 (1998) (TV Episode) Clips shown in connection with Tara Strong's appearance to promote the film.

At the Movies: Enemy of the State/Waking Ned Divine/A Bug's Life/Celebrity/The Rugrats Movie (1998) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Reviewed.

Troldspejlet: Episode #21.12 (1999) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​reviewed + footage used

At the Movies: That's Not All, Folks! (1999) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​A clip is shown.

Rugrats: Still Babies After All These Years (2001) (TV Short)

The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) (Video Game)

The Nostalgia Teen: The Rugrats Movie (2011) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Movie is reviewed in episode.

The Nostalgia Teen: Buddy (2011) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Monkey clip used.

WatchMojo: Another Top 10 Innuendos in Kids Movies (2015) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Born Under Venus gets an honorable mention.

WatchMojo: 10 Hidden Jokes in Kids Movies That Will Ruin Your Childhood (2018) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Diaper Humor is #3.

MsMojo: Top 10 Best Nickelodeon Movies of All Time (2019) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​The Rugrats Movie is #1.

WatchMojo: Top 10 Insane Things Movies Just Glossed Over (2019) (TV Episode) ​​​​​​​Why Didn't Child Protective Services Intervene or Investigate the Parents When Their Children Went Missing? gets an honorable mention.

Spoofs
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Bambi (1942)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Tommy pretends to be him but he calls him Okie Dokie Jones, the monkey idol grabbing scene and the rolling boulder scene are parodied.

Blondie: Live! (1982) (Video)

The Fugitive (1993)

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)

Transcript
(Opening: The second half of the Rugrats theme song plays in a small rectangle in the center of the screen. Captions "Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies Present" "A Klasky Csupo Production" fade on and off on top of this rectangle. At the end of the intro, where Tommy squirts his bottle. The streams of milk cover the entire movie screen, then drips down with a stereophonic crescendo to reveal "The Rugrats Movie" logo. Fade to black.)

(The camera is in a jungle 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 juice bumps!

(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 Dokey Jones 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 braveliest 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 and Lil look surprised.)

Chuckie: (voice over) ''And that's Phil and Lil. Uh, uh, well, they--they like worms.''

(Phil and 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 okay, 'cause I got Tommy, and he's my best friend. (giggles)

(The Rugrats run to a tower on which is perched an idol. They climb the tower to reach the idol. While trying to take the statuette, the idol becomes a banana split and a trap is released, which causes a rock to roll towards them.)

Chuckie: Watch out!

(The babies starts to shout while running like the wind to try escape the rock.)

Tommy: Keep moving it's right behind us!

(Suddenly, the floor open itself in front of them. Tommy, Phil and Lil made the jump, but Chuckie misses his, hanging on the brink.)

Chuckie: Tommy! Help me!

Tommy: Come on, Chuckie!

(Back to reality: The rock was Didi's stomach and idol a banana split.)

Didi: Tommy! (The babies scream and run away.) 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 mom's assistant bought it especially for my Aunt Didi's party. (Susie laughs while making fun of Angelica's dress.) 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: 12!

Aunt Miriam: 12 pounds? What are you, crazy?

Chaz: Gosh, you can hardly tell she's gained any weight.

(While turning over, Didi knock over the table with her stomach.)

Woman #2: Oh, don't worry.

Chaz: 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 and bump into the goat and it bleats.) 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 saving 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 bumps 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..." (Her phone rings, interrupting her conversation. She immediately answers.) Hello?

Didi: Now, now, Dr. Lipschitz is the expert. I don't see any of you with a PHD 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: I'm not going to waste my life as a clock-punching, paper-pushing, bean-counting... Oh, no, offense.

(Stu proceeds to weld.)

Drew: You barely make ends meet now. You've 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 throwin' 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 spits fire.)

Grandpa: Dang-flabbit! Can't a man work in his own basement without gettin' barbecued?!

Stu: Okay, so maybe real fire isn't the best idea for a children's toy.

(Drew's shirt is smoldering; Stu sprays Drew with the fire extinguisher.)

(Cut to Tommy's room, which was remodeled 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 friend'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.)

All: Oh!

Chuckie: Tommy, somebody's been coloring 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 friends 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", "The Alphabet Song" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep". Boris accompanies her on an 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: (barging in) A baby will get all the toys!

Susie: What are you doing? (continues singing)A baby has a smiley face...

Angelica: A baby is from outside space!

Susie: Angelica!

Angelica: Susie!

Susie: A baby is extra fancy.

Angelica: A baby poops in his pantsies!

Susie: Cut it out!

Angelica: No!

(Music switches to a tejano beat, using different arrangement.)

(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 and 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. (points to the baby shower gifts on a nearby table)

(Return to Angelica and Susie, music reverts to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", though the tejano flavor remains.)

Susie: A baby is very special!

Angelica: A baby is, is NOT!!!!!

(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. 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 sets 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 entrance. 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 tibetin terrace room!

Boris: In my day, a woman just dropped her baby in the potato field and kept going.

Nurse: Ah, yes, the old country room.

(Nurse opens door to a room that has maternity equipment in a middle of a potato field, complete with cows and a farmer.)

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 is in an old-fashioned sea diver's outfit.)

Minka: She's having a baby, not a gifelte 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 bringin' the whole party! How far apart are the pains, hon?

Stu: Oh, they're... (Didi squeezes his hand very tight) pretty much constant.

Dr. Lucy: Okay, Didi, let's go and get you settled in, huh?

(The Rugrats are placed in a playpen.)

Grandpa: Here you go, sprout.

Didi: Don't worry, sweetie, mommy's going to be okay.

(Grown-ups leave; Didi continues her breathing exercises. Grandpa and 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 Grandpa and Boris, who are too busy playing "Fish".)

Grandpa: You got any queens?

Boris: Go fish!

(The Rugrats enter the newborns' nursery.)

Phil: Hey, a baby store.

Lil: Nice and wiggly.

Tommy: You guys help me pick one my mom will like.

(The song "This World is Something New to Me" begins as babies cry and Chuckie steps on one of the light switches on the floor. For your convenience, the newborns' lines will be identified by the artist singing it.)

Lisa Loeb: Where am I?

B Real: How did I get here?

Patti Smith: Today is very different than yesterday.

Lou Rawls: So this is the world?

Laurie Anderson: I miss my old womb.

Gordon Gano: The wallpaper here just ain't the same.

Fred Schneider: This word is something strange.

Loeb: I'm wet,

Phife: I'm cold!

Lenny Kravitz: (waggles a diaper) I need a change!

All: (tosses the blankets in air) This world is something new to me.

Phife: Oh, my head! What is this? I can't take it!

Dawn Robinson: (on an adjacent monitor) Me either!

(Robotic camera zooms in on next baby.)

Beck: I'm hungry.

Rawls: I'm tired.

Jakob Dylan: (pounds a crib floor to make a pacifier bounce) I'm irritated!

Rawls: But I love the extra leg room.

Smith: (Points to her bellybutton) Man! They cut my cord!

Iggy Pop: (Looks in his diaper) Consider yourself lucky!

Dylan: This world is way too big!

Pop: (baby points at Chuckie) And populated by fuzzy pigs.

All: This world is something new to me.

Schneider: This world is such a gas. (passes gas)

Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson: P.U., where's your class?

All: This world is something new to me.

(2 baby carriers collide with each other as the Rugrats push them around.)

Beck: Quiet! can't a guy get some shuteye?

Smith: It's so noisy in here.

Pop: I can barely hear myself suck.

(baby grabs a bottle from Chuckie.)

Dylan: The food here tastes pretty good,

Phife: My compliments to the chef.

Robinson: And you gotta holler to get fed.

Rawls: But I could get used to that.

(babies cry, Chuckie falls on floor onto a light switch])

Loeb: This world is way too bright,

Beck: Can't somebody turn down the light?

Gano: (looks inside his diaper) So that's what that thing looks like.

Dylan: All things here are meant for play,

(throws a pacifier; robotic camera follows it.)

Schneider: It's gonna be a real cool day.

All: This world is something new to me.

(Newborns pee in the air to make a fountain, while unidentified babies sing: "da-de-da-da-da", etc.; one of the female babies say "Real cool", while another one says "Look!")

All: This world is something new to me.

(Robotic camera retracts and monitor shuts off as number ends.)

(Grandpa enters the nursery.)

Grandpa: There you are.

Boris: Oy, gevalt! You kinder gave my ticker such a scare.

(They pick up the Rugrats and leave the nursery. As they leave, they shut the light out, and the rainbow from the musical number fades away.)

(Cut to Didi's room. Apparently, the room she has chosen is the usual, ordinary birthing room. Didi's rhythmic breathing continues, though it's now at a faster pace. The staff work on Didi while Dr. Lucy gives orders.)

Dr. Lucy: All right, Didi, you can do it. Push now! (to the staff) Have we got a good reading on the EFM?

(Didi screams. We cut to what seems to be a graphic representation of a baby being born, from a baby's point of view inside Didi's body. In order, we see a blast of blue light, a group of planets, a school of fish mingling in aquatic plantlife, dinosaurs, dolphins and monkeys, stonehenge, the sphinx, atoms and finally, bright light, all of them rendered in CGI. These items zoom by while the baby is born. A grand version of the Rugrats theme song plays under. After the bright light, we cut back to outside Didi's body, still looking from the baby's point of view, which starts out as out of focus.)

Dr. Lucy: Here it comes.

Didi: Gorgeous!

Stu: Didi, she's so beautiful. She's... she's a boy!

(Baby's eyes are now in focus and the baby cries.)

Didi: Hello, my wonderful, sweet baby boy.

(Switch back to audience's point of view, where we now see the new baby in Didi's arms.)

Stu: Well, I guess we won't be naming him after my mother.

Didi: He doesn't look much like a trixie. What about my cousin Dylan?

Stu: Dylan Prescott Pickles.

Nurse: Dil Pickles.

Stu: Yeah, I like it.

(Grandpa take Tommy into Didi's room. After being placed next to Dr. Lucy, Tommy gives her his coin.)

Grandpa: Here you go, sprout.

Didi: Tommy, I want you to meet someone very special. This is your brother, Dylan. Dil, this is Tommy.

Tommy: Baby.

Didi: See, they already love each other.

(Dil hiccups before he tweaks Tommy's nose.)

Tommy: Waaaaaahhhhh! Aaaaaahhhhh!

(And finally...)

Tommy, Dil: Aaaaahhhh! Waaaaaahhhh! Aaaaahhhh! Aaaaaaahhhh!

Betty: Well, that's a start.

(Cut to exterior of the Pickles house. Caption "Four Weeks Later", a gong sounds. Cut to the kitchen, where Stu and Didi are in their morning clothes, and the kitchen is a big mess. Didi is literally sleeping in the kitchen sink, among the suds. Dil is crying continuously.)

Stu: Didi, what are we gonna do? He hasn't stopped crying since we brought him home.

(Pan to playpen.)

Phil: Somehow it's not as much fun around here anymore.

Chuckie: Yeah! What is your brother so sad about?

Tommy: I don't know! But whatever it is, it must be really bad.

Lil: Maybe he's broked!

Tommy: What?

Phil and Lil: BROKED!

(A monkey's head on a cymbal doll that Lil was holding pops off.)

Tommy: Broked?

(Stu, Didi and a crying with altar Dil walk by.)

Tommy: He's not broked, he's a... just a little loud!

Angelica: Ooh! That baby's getting on my nerves!

(Angelica goes into another room and slams the door. Grandpa is in his chair, sleeping as a fishing show is seen. The goat is next to him, also sleeping. Angelica changes the channel and turns up the volume. The first thing she sees is a commercial. Caption "Coming Soon". The commercial had monkeys and a ringmaster doing tricks in a circus ring.)

Announcer: Direct from Moscow, the Banana Brothers Monkey Circus! Featuring the most amazing monkeys since Brezhnev! This is real monkey business, so Trotsky on down. The Banana Brothers Monkey Circus! (circus logo slides into view)

Angelica: GRANDPA! CAN WE GO TO THE CIRCUS?!

(The goat bumps into the armchair's back.)

Grandpa: It's enough of a circus around here already!

(Cut to a train, which pulls into a station. Two men, Serge and Igor, leave the cab room of the engine.)

Igor: Serge, you stay here and watch monkeys, I get us coffee.

Serge: No, Igor, you stay and watch monkeys and I get us coffee.

Igor: Nyet! Monkeys watch you, I GET COFFEE!

(Cut to interior of diner, where both men are enjoying their coffee. Igor drinks from a cup, while Serge drinks from a dish. Both are also eating donuts. Their train is in view through a window as monkeys climb out and on top of the train to hijack it by riding in the engine's cab.)

Serge: I think coffee's better in St. Petersburg.

Igor: Nyet, is better in Kiev.

Serge: No, it's better in St. Petersburg!

Igor: Nothing is better in St. Petersburg!

(While the men argue over coffee, the train begins to move. Serge does a spit-take.)

Serge: Look! The train!

(The men rush out, bumping over tables and other customers.)

Igor: Let me out! Stop!

(By the time Serge and Igor get out of the diner, the train's already racing off into the distance; Igor rants angrily in Russian and throws his hat to the ground and stomps on it.)

(Cut to the train still rolling off. Inside the train engine's cab, it's revealed the monkeys have commandeered it. The lead monkey, who is driving the train, puts on an engineer's cap and smiles. Another monkey pushes a lever that increases the train's speed. When it passes a flashing "Danger, Slow Curve" signal, the train derails and crashes into a vast forest. Before we fade out, one of the monkeys climbs out, bewildered.)

(Fade into a night scene, where Didi is reading a bedtime story to Tommy.)

Didi: "And then the wizard looked down at the little boy and said: "your wish has been granted". And the little boy looked..."

(Dil starts altar crying again.)

Stu: Deed! Help!

Didi: I'll be back, sweetie.

(Cut to Stu, who's holding Dil at his crib.)

Stu: All I did was cough, Deed. I tried not to, but I had a feeling in my throat. And then I coughed! And now he's crying! And now he's got the hiccups! (sobbing) Waaaah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, aaaaaahhhh!

Didi: Oh, Stu.

(Didi places a baby pacifier into Stu's mouth. Didi cranks a baby mobile; Stu spits out the pacifier.)

Didi: Stu, why don't you sing Dil a lullaby?

(Dil hiccups.)

Stu: I am too tired to sing.

Didi: All right. I'll make something up.

Stu: Good.

(Tommy holds up his book, but he's ignored.)

(The couple starts to sing, ad-libbing as they go along.)

Didi: Baby, please, rest your head.

Stu: ''Yeah... now it is time for bed.''

Didi: That's good.

Stu: Thanks.

Didi: You're cuter than...

Stu: Uncle Ned!

(They both laugh.)

Didi: Our little...

Stu: ''Uh... quadroped?''

Didi: Oh, Stu. It didn't work. He's still awake.

Stu: I got one. I got one.

Didi: Okay.

Stu: ''Twinkle! Twinkle! How times flies...''

Didi: Slowly in the starry skies.

Stu: Baby, please, close your eyes!

Didi: Shh, shh, shh... you're as sweet as...

Stu: Apple pies!

(Tommy holds up one of Stu's slippers, but he's still ignored.)

Didi: As you grow and love and play...

(Didi tucks Dil in his crib.)

Stu: In our hearts, you'll always stay.

(A dejected Tommy walks away with his book and Stu's slippers. Stu kisses Dil.)

Didi: So sleep and dream the night away, eh?

(Lights are turned out. Dil falls asleep. Didi kisses Dil.)

Stu: Ah, that was good.

(Stu and Didi walk out of the boys' room. Tommy is in the closet, holding one of Stu's slippers. He sings his own line of the lullaby, to himself.)

Tommy: ''Baby, please, rest your head. Now it is time for bed. Please stop. Don't you see? I want mom and dad for me.''

(Tommy sheds some tears. Camera is focused again on Dil, when we hiccups a little.)

(Cut to outside, where Spike is also forgotten in the rain. He howls.)

(Fade in to next morning, Dil cries, the Rugrats are playing inside a crate to be used to ship the Reptar Mobile to Japan. Grandpa finds them playing among the foam peanuts.)

Grandpa: Hey, sprouts, crate's no place for you to play. You wouldn't want to get shipped to Japan with Reptar, now would you? (Grandpa dumps the babies out of the crate, picks it up, and moves it to the next room.) I better put this where I can keep an eye on it.

(We see Dil nibbling on what was Tommy's blanket.)

Chuckie: Dil, that's Tommy's blankie.

Tommy: Yeah, it used to sleep with me before we even got you!

(Dil hits Tommy with his rattle.)

Dil: My blankie!

Chuckie: He's not very nice. (Dil hits him with the rattle.) Ow!

Lil: That's not how you get things from a brother, Tommy.

Tommy: It's not?

Lil: No, it's not. Here, watch.

(Lil shoves Tommy and Chuckie, then tries to take a Reptar doll from Phil.)

Phil: Hey, that's my Reptar, Lillian!

Lil: Is not, Phillip!

Phil: Is too, Lillian!

Lil: Is not!

Phil: Is too!

Lil: Is not!

(Lil tosses Phil to ground. Arguing immediately stops.)

Lil: See, Tommy, now you try it.

(Tommy walks over to Dil and smiles innocently at him, before grabbing the bear, trying to yank it out of Dil's hands.)

Dil: Teddy mine!

Tommy: Mine!

Dil: Mine!

Tommy: Mine!

Dil: Mine!

Tommy: Mine!

Dil: Mine!

(Dil gives Tommy a rattle hit. The babies continue to tug at the teddy bear.)

Phil: Gosh, Tommy learns fast.

Lil: Yeah.

(Grandpa and Stu take the Reptar Wagon from the basement.)

Stu: Hurry, Pop, they'll be here to pick it up any minute.

(Angelica and Drew come over.)

Angelica: Daddy, why can't I watch Shirleylock Holmes at our house? I'll never be able to hear it with that new baby squawking the whole time!

Drew: Now, sweetheart, daddy's got to put in a little overtime today, so that mommy won't be so ashamed of his quarterly earnings.

(Stu answers the door.)

Angelica: Hi, Uncle Stu. Sorry to hear your pony is so slow.

Stu: Uh, we don't have a pony Angelica.

Angelica (to Drew): Then how come you told Mommy, Aunt Didi got saddled with a loser?

Stu: "Loser"?

Drew (laughs nervously): He--he... I...

(Dil's crying is heard from upstairs.)

Stu: Excuse me, bro. My tax deductions are... CRYING!!

(Stu slams the door. Drew opens it again and puts Angelica's things inside.)

Drew: YOU CAN'T DEDUCT THEM IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY INCOME!

(Drew slams the door.)

(Tommy and Dil are still arguing over the teddy. The other Rugrats watch, while Chuckie is exhibiting signs of boredom.)

Stu: Tommy! Dil! Boys, what are you doing?

Chuckie: Ohh...

Stu: Dil... let's say we give Tommy a little turn with the bear, huh?

(Stu tries to take the teddy bear, causing Dil to usual cry.)

Stu: Or not.

(Stu returns the teddy bear to Dil this stopped Dil's crying, but now Tommy cries with his Cadenza cry.)

Stu: Hey, champ, why don't you come with me for a minute? I got something to show you that's even better than your old teddy bear.

(Stu picks up Tommy and takes him to his workshop. After setting him on the workbench, Stu gives Tommy a pocket watch with a photo of him and Dil inside.)

Stu: We weren't going to give you this until you were a little bit older, but, I think now's the right time. Shiny, huh? And Grandpa Lou put your picture inside. I know it's hard, Tommy. You have a little brother now, and that's a big change.

(Tommy puts down the watch.)

Stu: Uh, Dil can be pretty tough to get along with, huh? But sometimes little brothers, they aren't everything you'd hoped they'd be. (Stu opens a drawer, then pulls out a picture of himself and Drew, when they were kids.) That's why big brothers have got to have faith. And one day, you'll see... he'll change. After all, you've got responsibility now. I know I can trust that you'll stick by Dil's side and be a swell big brother.

(Tommy looks at the watch in his hands.)

Tommy: (thinking) Sponsatility...

(Cut back upstairs, where a goat is eating sleeping Grandpa's newspaper. The Rugrats stand and look at the Reptar Wagon.)

Phil and Lil: Wow!

Chuckie: What is that, you guys?

Lil: Reptar!

Phil: On wheels!

Chuckie: What do you think it's for?

Phil: I don't know.

(Lil climbs into the wagon.)

Lil: I bet it could take us to the baby store.

Phil: Great idea, Lillian. We could take Dil to the hopsicle and get Tommy's money back.

(Lil climbs out.)

Lil: Yeah, it's money back bearanteed.

Chuckie: Guys! Guys, Tommy's not gonna be happy about this.

(Phil and Lil lug Dil towards the wagon and places him in there.)

Lil: Well, he's sure not happy now.

Chuckie: Well...

Lil: You watch. Once Dil goes back to the baby store, Tommy will be happy here.

Chuckie: I don't know about this.

(Tommy enters the room.)

Tommy: What are you doing?

Phil: We, uh, actually, Lillian was, uh...

Lil: We're taking Dil back to the hopsicle, Tommy. We're gonna get your moneys back.

Tommy: What?! You can't do that. My mommy and daddy wanna keep him!

Chuckie: See? See?

Phil: Why? All he does is cry and poop.

Tommy: Well, so do you.

Phil: I don't cry that much.

Tommy: Well, you poop an awful lot.

Phil: Look who's talking, Mr. Chocolate Pants.

Tommy: I am not a poopie monster!

(Angelica is in the living room, watching "Shirleylock Holmes", it's about to go to a commercial, when the title sequence for that show is displayed.)

Announcer: ..."Shirleylock Holmes, Girl Detective", right after these messages.

(Disturbed by the babies' noise, Angelica goes and ask them kindly to make less noise...)

Phil: What are you happy, Tommy?

Tommy: Well, I'm not!

Angelica: Hey, babies. Knock it off! Cynthia and me are trying to watch TV!

(Dil steals Cynthia from Angelica.)

Angelica: Hey, hands off the merchandise, pinkie.

(Angelica and Dil tug at Cynthia, only for Angelica to lose her grip and fall into the crate.)

Phil and Lil: Pretty good.

(Angelica growls.)

Tommy: Be nice, Angelica. He didn't mean it.

(Angelica grabs Tommy by his collar.)

Angelica: You wanna ride in a wagon? I'll give you a ride... to outside space!

(Angelica tosses Tommy into the wagon. She then kicks the Reptar Wagon, hurting her foot. She hears on the TV that the show is out of commercial.)

Angelica: Ow! My show! Next commercial, you babies are in big trouble!

(Angelica slams the door.)

Lil: All aboard!

Chuckie (to himself): Just walk away, Chuckie. Walk away. (to the Rugrats) Ooh! Wait for me!

(Chuckie climbs into the moving Reptar Wagon, which has now left the house, down the street.)

Phil: Which way to the hopsicle?

Tommy: We're not going to the hopsicle!

Chuckie: Well, we're going somewheres!

(Cut back to house, the goat is eating the foam peanuts. A delivery boy for United Express arrives to pick up the crate. Grandpa is still asleep.)

Delivery boy: Uh, pardon me. Pickup for Pickles to Japan?

Grandpa (half-asleep): Take it away, take it away.

(The delivery boy seals up the crate with the goat inside and carries it out on a hand truck. He gives Grandpa a receipt, laying it on him while he sleeps.)

Delivery boy: Yeah, have a good day.

(Cut to Angelica, watching TV, while outside, Spike barks loudly.)

Angelica: Pipe down, Spike! Me and Cynthia are watching...(She noticices that Cynthia's missing) Cynthia? (Angelica proceeds to the living room.) Nice try, babies. Now gimme back my... (gasps) (Angelica sees that the Rugrats and the Reptar Wagon are gone. She only sees Cynthia's shoe on the welcome mat.) CYNTHIA-A-A-A!

(Pull away from front door and pan to Dil still holding Cynthia, as the Rugrats driving the Reptar Mobile on the street. It careened away from a car, which causes it to crash. Then, the wagon does down a few flights of stairs on a hill, before smashing through the rails and getting back on the street, swerving away from another car, which also crashes with the sound of glass smashing.)

(Cut back home, where Angelica enters the yard in her "Shirleylock Holmes" costume and roller skates.)

Angelica: They took Cynthia, Spike! Come on! You're gonna be my butthound! We gotta search every doghouse, playhouse, tree house and doll house! I want those foogitives back in custardy! (Spike runs off, with Angelica in tow.) Whoa! Bad dog! Bad dog! STOP!

(Back inside, Stu enters the living room, talking to Didi on a cordless phone.)

Stu: Deed, just go to the spa and relax. Pop and I are doing fine taking care of the, uh... (Stu sees that the crate's gone.) Pop, where's the crate?

(Grandpa wakes up.)

Grandpa: Oh, I guess the delivery folks must've come.

Stu: Wow. They loaded her up and everything, huh?

Didi: Stu, let me talk to Tommy.

Stu: Sure, I'll let you talk to Tommy. Pop... uh... uh, where are the kids?

Grandpa: That's funny. They were here a minute ago, playing in the...

(Stu and Grandpa look outside the front door, the camera pulls away from them.)

Both: THE CRATE!

Stu: Uh, honey... I'm gonna have to... call you back. (Stu hangs up then glares at Grandpa in anger.)

(Cut back to the Rugrats and the wagon, as they tear through the streets. During the course of their run, they ran over some garbage cans, knocked over a trash collector and caused a plated glass truck to crash. About this time, Dil barfs on Chuckie.)

(They went through a truck filled with wine glasses, which is broken on the road. Then, they enter a park, where they bumped into some kids on the slides, and where it actually slid down some slides, before landing on a see-saw. They left the park and got back on the road, only to go on an overpass that's still under construction. When the wagon got to the end of the uncompleted bridge, a robotic arm grabbed a post and turned itself around, sending Dil's pacifier falling out of the wagon in the process. And, while they avoided getting hit by 1 truck, they ended up driving into a mattress factory, toppling mounds of mattresses, then landing inside a "Nighty Night Mattress" truck, which later takes off from the loading dock. While all this happens, Busta Rhymes' "On Your Mark, Get Set, Ready, Go" plays in the background.)

(Cut to Stu and Grandpa speeding on the road.)

Stu: How could you fall asleep when you were supposed to be watching the kids?!

(Grandpa is sleeping.)

(The mattress truck is in front of Stu and Grandpa. The back door opens with the Rugrats in view, jumping on a mattress. However, Stu isn't watching the road at that moment, as he's talking to Grandpa.)

Stu: We'll never find the babies with this jerk in front of us!

(The truck's back door closes shut just as Stu returns his attention back to the road. As Stu passes the truck, he inadvertently causes it to swerve and roll off of the road, into a forest. The truck driver ditched the truck before going into the forest. The oblivious Rugrats were still inside, having fun.)

Phil: This is more fun than picking noses!

Lil: Or making bubbles in the bathtub!

Chuckie: I don't know if I should throw up or throw down!

(The truck driver looks down, then walks away.)

(Fade into the "United Express" plane, the crew has opened up every package and crate on board, finding nothing unusual, except for a goat.)

Pilot: I've turned this plane upside down, and I assure you there are no children.

Co-Pilot: No.

Pilot: We found a kid, but he's not the one you're looking for.

(Cut to Stu and Grandpa at the controllers' tower, listening as the goat bleats on the other side of the radio.)

(Stu and Grandpa return home, resuming their search there.)

Stu: (looking in the closet) Tommy!

Grandpa: (looking under the bed) Sprout?

Stu: (looking down the basement) Dil!

Grandpa: (searching in a cookie jar) Angelica?

Stu: (searching under the kitchen sink) Where can they be? We gotta find them!

Didi (entering): Find what?

(Stu bangs his head under the sink.)

Grandpa: Einstein here lost the kids.

Stu: I lost the kids?!

Grandpa: See?

(Didi gasps and drops her bag of groceries on the floor, with the bag opening on impact and the goods falling on the floor.)

(Fade back to the forest. The Rugrats got out of the truck, unhurt and started roaming around.)

Chuckie: Where are we?

Tommy: I don't know. It looks kinda like the park.

Lil: Only biggerer.

Chuckie: Biggerer? This place is bigger than the park and the backyard all put together. This is bad you guys. This is bad.

(Dil begins to grunt and grimace. His face has turned a dark pink.)

Lil: Oh, oh, Tommy, I think your brother is broked again.

Tommy: Oh, no. Dil, are you okay?

Phil: I think he's gonna explode.

Dil: Poopie.

Tommy: What?

Dil: POOPIE! (A plopping sound can be heard.)

All: Eww!

Tommy: Well, I guess we'll have to change his diapie.

Phil: What do you mean, "we"?

(Cut back to home, where police cars and news trucks arrive on the scene.)

Didi: I can't believe you left them with your father! The man slept through Pearl Harbor, for heaven's sake!

Grandpa: I sounded the alarm as soon as I could!

(Lt. Klavin, a police woman, is there, asking the Pickles various "important" questions.)

Lt. Klavin: Uh, Mrs. Pickles, did your son have any enemies?

Didi: Oh...

Lt. Klavin: Uh-huh. Any underworld or mob connections?

Didi: He is a baby!

(Meanwhile, back at the forest, Tommy tries to change Dil's diaper. Tommy is powdering Dil's bottom, they all cough as the baby powder clouds up.)

Lil: The powder goes on his bottom, Tommy!

Tommy: Well, I'm doing the best I can.

(Dil hits Tommy with his feet.)

Dil: Pee-pee.

(Dil pees.)

Phil: Look out!

Chuckie: Stop it, Dil!

Phil: Get him off me!

(Chuckie falls, then a frog jumps on his head.)

Chuckie: Aah! Frog, frog!

(Chuckie runs around before falling in a leaf pile. The frog then escapes.)

Chuckie: Your brother made a frog jump on me!

Dil: Stop it!

Chuckie: Stop it!

Dil: Stop it!

Chuckie: You stop it!

Dil: Stop it!

Chuckie: Stop it!

Tommy: Hey, guys, maybe we should stop playing around and figure out how to get home.

Lil: But, Tommy, we don't even know where we are.

Tommy: I know! I've got my sponsativity!

(Tommy shows his pocket watch.)

Lil: What's a sponsativity, Tommy?

Phil: Sounds yucky.

Tommy: No, it's what you get for being a big brother. It's just like Okey-Dokey Jones uses when he has to find his way home.

Phil: I thought that's called a crumpass.

Tommy: Well, my dad gave it to me, and he called it a sponsativity.

Phil: Where's it say to go?

Tommy: Well, um, uh, hmm. This way. Uh... That's the way! Straight up that hill!

(In another part of the forest, Angelica is on a paved road, being towed on her roller skates by Spike.)

Angelica: Aah! Bad dog, bad dog! STOP!

(They approach the scene of the mattress truck's crash, complete with tow truck and flares. Spike finds Dil's pacifier on the ground and stops. But Angelica keeps going, and Spike is tugged along on his leash as he and Angelica fall into a ditch. Angelica is screaming with her landing square on a trunk of a tree, knocking her unconscious. We fade out, then fade back in again once Angelica comes to. As soon as her vision clears, the first thing she sees is Spike, holding her detective hat.)

Angelica: You know, not all dogs go to heaven.

(We pan across the expanse of the forest, where we see the mattress truck accident scene overhead.)

(Cut to Stu and Didi's street, which is jam-packed with police cars and news trucks. The reporters and cameramen gang up at Stu and Didi, grilling them with questions.)

Channel 3 Male Reporter: Mr. Pickles, is it true you shipped your own children to Tokyo in a wooden box?

Channel 11 Female Reporter: Is it true a dingo ate your baby?

Black Female Reporter: Mr. Pickles, how many pecks of pickled peppers did you pick?

(Rex Pester flies into the scene in his chopper. The other reporters get out of his way. After he lands, rushes towards Stu and Didi, shoving the other reporters en route. We see Rex through his camera.)

Rex Pester: Childhood, a time of innocence, a time of joy. A time of unspeakable, unrelenting tragedy. Mrs. Pickles, tell us how it feels to know you may never see your children again.

Betty (disgusted): Criminy! Can't you pit bulls show some compassion?

Rex Pester: I'm so sorry. Forgive me. (back to Didi) Please tell us how it feels to know you may never see your children again.

(Betty attempts to fight with Rex. Grandpa and Stu hold her back.)

Betty: Augh! Get him! Let me at him! All right!

(Cut to the interior of Charlotte and Drew's car. Charlotte is on the phone with Jonathan. The car stops at Stu and Didi's house where they see the commotion.)

Charlotte: Hold on, Jonathan. There's an alarming crowd at my in-law's indicating either a yard sale or a family tragedy. Let me get back to you.

(They get out of the car, when Rex hounds them.)

Rex Pester: Hey, Mr. Pickles, how does it feel knowing your brother lost your only daughter?

Drew (furiously): HE WHAT?!

Rex Pester: Share your pain.

(Drew's face boils red. He lunges at Stu and fights him.)

Drew: YAAA!

Stu: YOU'RE BREAKING MY ARM!

Drew: ONLY 'CAUSE I CAN'T REACH YOUR NECK!

(While the other adults try to break up the fight, Rex goes back to camera. He displays the pictures of the Rugrats, one by one, while he incorrectly says their names.)

Rex Pester: And there you have it. 2 sour Pickles and: young Tammy, baby Dale, the twins Bill and Jill, little Chunky, and poor Amelia, all vanished without a trace. (caption "Rex Pester, Big Action News") I'm Rex Pester, and I'll be back with more "Big Action News"!

Chas (rushing in): Mr. Swenson said he saw Angelica and Spike run thought his garden and head north on I-99!

Charlotte: My baby!

Didi: Let's go!

(Everyone starts to leave.)

(Grandpa appears in military fatigues.)

Grandpa: Private First Class Pickles reporting for duty!

Chas: Just get in. Come on.

(The vehicles drive away towards the forest.)

(Cut back to forest. The Rugrats are pulling the Reptar wagon, with Tommy pushing it and Dil inside.)

Tommy: Good job, you guys. We're almost there. Good, Dil. Now, play nice. (Dil hits Tommy with his bottle.)

Phil: Not much fun back there, is it?

Tommy: Oh, we're doing okay. That's some good hitting there, Dilly. (Dil hits him again.)

Chuckie: I'm hungry. Right about now my daddy would be making me a fried baloney sandwich. I can almost smell that burning. Ooh, it tastes all crunchy.

Tommy: Stop it, Chuckie. You're making me hungry. (Dil hits him again.)

(The Rugrats stop at the top of a hill.)

Chuckie: Oh, no!

Lil: We can't see our houses from here, Tommy.

Phil: We can't see any houses from here.

(We look at the panoramic forest from the top of the hill.)

Chuckie: We're doomed! Doomed. Doomed, I tell you!

(Pull away, until we see a wolf growling from a distance.)

(Cut to Stu and Didi, and the other adults at the scene of the mattress truck accident. Lt. Klavin finds Dil's pacifier on the side of the road.)

Lt. Klavin: Mrs. Pickles, I know this is hard for you, but can you identify this binky?

(Lt. Klavin holds Dil's pacifier. Stu and Didi gasp in shock.)

(Cut back to the Rugrats. Chuckie is crying.)

Phil: This is all Dil's fault, right, Chuckie?

Chuckie: Uh...

Tommy: Uh, uh! This never would've happened if you hadn't putted him in the wagon in the first place, right, Chuckie?

Chuckie: Uh... no! Uh--uh...

Lil: It's not our fault you got a bad, naughty, stinky baby for a brother!

Chuckie: He's not naughty. He's just a... he's just a... a baby!

Tommy: How could you be mad just because you're...

(Dil grabs one of the yellow tapes on Tommy's diaper and tears it off, this causes Tommy's diaper to fall down.)

Tommy: ...um... standing there all nakie? I mean, I'm sure he's trying to help. And side's, it's hot, phew, 'sploring in the woods all day. Ah! A little breeze feels good. Just what I needed. Oh, thank you, Dil.

(Dil hiccups.)

Phil: Those hiccups are really starting to bug me.

Lil: Face it, Tommy. Having a baby brother just isn't what you expected.

(The Rugrats then see a small house at the bottom of a hill.)

Chuckie: Hey, you guys, look. Somebody's house. Tommy was right.

Tommy: Wow. My sponsativity does work.

Phil: Yeah, but who'd have a house way out there in the forest?

Tommy: Maybe a lizard lives there.

Chuckie: A lizard?

Tommy: You know, a big guy with a pointy hat that grants wishes. All's we got to do is knock on the door and say we wanna go home. See? Then everything will be back to norman.

Phil: Thanks, Bob!

Lil: Thank you, Bob.

Tommy: Come on, guys! We're off to see the lizard!

(Tommy trips on something.)

Chuckie: Oh, Tommy, are you okay?

Tommy: I'm fine. I just tripped in a little hole, that's all.

(They see a large animal footprint on the ground.)

Chuckie: Gosh, it looks kinda like Spike's feet, only if he was a giant.

Phil: I saw feetprints like that in our storybook. A wolf made them, and then he ate that Little Red Riding girl.

Chuckie: The wolf ate a girl?

Phil: They got her out.

Tommy: I don't think it's a wolf, Chuckie. If it was, we'd hear him say...

(The wolf howls in the distance as Tommy prepares to mimic such a sound.)

Phil: That was pretty good.

Tommy: I didn't do anything.

(The wolf howls again. The Rugrats scream. They all get into the Reptar Wagon and take off.)

Tommy: Do you see the wolf?

Chuckie: I don't know what he looks like.

Phil: Teeth! Teeth and fur! And teeth!

(Dil pulls a lever to make the Reptar Wagon move.)

Tommy: No, Dil! Bad Dil! No!

(We cut to a disney-esque forest scene, similar to "Bambi", where we see a couple of deer eating off the ground, a pair of chipmunks and rabbits kissing each other, a couple of birds on a branch singing and a raccoon scampering about a squirrel and a skunk look on. This serene scene is disturbed and the animals run in panic when the Rugrats and the Reptar Wagon crashes on through, this movement obviously being an insult to Disney from Nickelodeon.)

Reptar Wagon: I am Reptar! (roars)

(We then cut to a forest road, where forest rangers Frank and Margaret are driving around in a jeep. The radio is playing.)

Ranger Frank: Margaret? That's your name, isn't it? I'm sure you've run afoul of many a scary pedestrian. But out here, we have what you might call... hmm, how should I put it? Actual danger.

Ranger Margaret: Danger?

Ranger Frank: Grizzlies that'll rip the top off your car. Bobcats, wolves, wolverines, which are something entirely different.

(Just then, the Reptar Wagon crosses the road in back of them. Margaret turned around and caught a glimpse of it.)

Ranger Margaret: And dragons. Ha!

(Cut to Reptar Wagon.)

Chuckie: Tommy, I saw some grownups. Stop! Stop!

Tommy: I don't know how!

(Tommy pushes several buttons in vain.)

(The Reptar Wagon is barreling toward a cliff at top speed.)

Lil: Well, I hope you figure it out, 'cause I didn't bring no bathing suit!

(They all scream. Then, the wagon comes to a complete stop at the edge of the cliff. They teetered, but managed not to fall off.)

Phil: Any further, and I would've needed a fresh diapie.

(Dil plays with the brake. The Rugrats scream.)

Tommy: Dil, no!

(Too late, the brake is disengaged and the wagon rolls off the cliff in the water. When the Reptar Wagon hits the water, special floaters inflate, keeping the wagon afloat. The tip of its tail doubles as a propeller.)

Reptar Wagon: Aqua Reptar, engaged.

(Fade to ranger station.)

Ranger Margaret: I'm telling you, I saw a dragon.

Ranger Frank: Margaret.

Ranger Margaret: A big green, fire-breathing dragon. I've got to call headquarters. (rushes to the phone)

Ranger Frank: While you're at it, you might ask for a new assignment, say, a city park. 'Cause, you see, out here in the country, you have to be just a little tougher.

(Frank sees the Reptar Wagon in his telescope. The wagon floats with the current in the water.)

Ranger Frank (shrieking hysterically): AAAH! AAH! THE DRAGON! I JUST SAW IT! I SAW IT!!

Ranger Margaret: Where? Where? (looks through the telescope, but the wagon is nowhere to be seen) Here? Where?

(We rejoin the search party. Grandpa finds a clue on the ground.)

Grandpa: Bingo! Look at here! A wrapper from a Cynthia Sweet bar.

Drew: My Angel! She's been here!

Grandpa: Yep, I figure she's tracking the sprouts. It's the Pickles' blood. I myself spent 15 days tracking Sitting Bull through the Northwest Territory. The year was 19--

(Chas and Howard return with news of another clue. Chas interrupts Grandpa's story.)

Chas: Over here! We found some wheel tracks and baby footprints heading into the woods. Actually, Howard found them. I saw them.

Stu: They must be in my Reptar Wagon.

Drew: (sarcastically) "It's the perfect children's toy!" (angrily) You and your stupid inventions!

Stu: (thinking) My stupid inventions? That's it!

(Betty grabs a bullhorn from a policeman and speaks into it.)

Betty: All right, the pups are in the woods. You men follow those tracks. We'll head to the ranger's station and start the search from there. NOW MOVE! HUT, HUT, HUT!

(Stu, Chas and Grandpa get into the car.)

Didi: Stu, where are you going?

Stu: Trust me, Deed. I have a plan.

(Stu drives off.)

(Cut to the water, where the Rugrats are floating along in the Reptar Wagon. They play pirates.)

Tommy: Slob the poop deck, Mr. Phil. Hoist the ankle, number one.

(The Rugrats sing.)

Tommy: A pirate's life is a life for me!

Lil: Yo ho ho and a bottle of yum!

Chuckie: I get seasick on the sea!

Phil and Lil: Yo ho ho and a bottle of yum!

Phil: Hoist the Reptar flag real high!

Tommy: My sword is pointed to the sky!

Lil: You need a patch across your eye!

(Chuckie groans nauceously)

Lil: From Zanzibar...

Phil: to candy bar!

Phil and Lil: Yo ho ho and a bottle of yum!

Tommy: We search for treasures near and far!

Phil and Lil: Yo ho ho and a bottle of yum!

Lil: Beware your ship should cross our path.

Phil: We'll shoot a cannon through your mast!

Chuckie: Remove your gold baboons by half.

Dil: Yo oh oh oh!

Tommy: A pirate's life is the life for me!

Phil and Lil: Yo ho ho and a bottle of yum!

Chuckie: Adventure on the open sea.

Phil and Lil: Yo ho ho and a bottle of yum!

(Song ends when the wagon hits a bump in the river; this jolted Dil and Chuckie overboard.)

All: Oh!

Tommy: Dil!

(Tommy was able to save Dil, but Chuckie was left in the water.)

Chuckie: Help me, Tommy!

(Chuckie notices that the water is shallow and is able to stand up, with the water going up to his pants. After standing up, he feels a wiggling sensation in his pants. He took out what was causing it.)

Chuckie: Fish!

Phil: Man overboard!

Lil: Hang on, Chuckie!

(Lil throws a life ring to Chuckie, which he was able to catch. The wagon tows him as if he was water skiing.)

Chuckie: Aah!

Phil: Look at him go!

(Lil laughs and Chuckie screams. The twins got Chuckie back on board.)

Chuckie: Tommy, why didn't you help me?

Tommy: I'm sorry, Chuckie, but, Dil, he needed me and he's just a...

Phil and Lil: Just a baby!

Lil: Uh-oh!

(The Reptar Wagon move closer to the brink of a waterfall.)

Tommy: Hard to port side. Turn! Turn around! Help me, you guys! Help!

(The Rugrats steer the wagon away from the waterfall.)

Tommy: Dil, no!

(Dil places a lever to make the wagon go backward, towards the brink. Tommy switches another lever to steer the wagon away from the waterfall and onto the bank. The landing was hard, throwing the Rugrats onshore. Tommy's watch also flew out of Tommy's diaper, but he caught it before it went in the water.)

(Cut back to home, where the guys are in the garage.)

Stu: I knew my Dactar would come in handy.

(Stu tries to lower Dactar down with a rope, but Dactar, and parts of the ceiling, collapse on Stu and Grandpa.)

Stu: Pop, are you okay? (Grandpa is sleeping under the wreckage, unharmed) Oh, pop.

(Cut back to the forest.)

Chuckie: Do you think we'll still be able to find the lizard's house, Tommy?

Tommy: Sure, Chuckie. Long as I got my sponsatility, we'll never be losted.

Phil: Which way are we apposed to go?

(Tommy uses his watch to find his way.)

Tommy: Um... uh... um... that way.

(The Rugrats follow a trail. Time passes.)

Chuckie: Hey, lookie, footprints. Maybe there's other babies around here.

Lil: Those are our feetprints, Chuckie.

Phil: You're leading us around and around, Tommy.

Tommy: But it was working before.

Lil: I don't think it ever worked. I think your sponsatility's broke, just like your brother.

Tommy: My brother is not broke!

Lil: He pulled the lever!

Phil: He tried to send us into the big Jacuzzi.

Lil: We could have been drownded.

(As Chuckie covers his ears to avoid the argument, he spots something and points in fear)

Chuckie: Hey, you guys! Clow--clow...

Lil: What is it, Chuckie?

Chuckie: CLOWN!!

(Chuckie points to a rail car with a clown's face painted on it.)

Phil: What's a train doing in the middle of the forest?

Lil: Maybe some giant baby losted his choo-choo.

(The door of the rail car slowly opens. A figure, which looks like some sort of mysterious person, appears. In reality, it was actually 3 monkeys hiding underneath the clothes. From here on, a sense of mayhem prevails while Devo's "Witch Doctor" plays over.)

Monkeys: Eee! Eek! Ooh-ahh-ahh! Ting, tang, walla walla bing bang!

(4 more monkeys emerge from the top of the car, one of these was wearing a yellow hat, another was wearing a pink dress and carrying a parasol and the 3rd monkey who is an infant wearing a diaper.)

Monkeys: Ooh-ee! Ooh-ahh-ahh! Ting, tang, walla walla bing bang!

(The top monkey, the one with the starry hat, razzes.)

(The Rugrats try to run away, but found themselves surrounded by a circle of monkeys.)

Singer: ''You want to learn something that I can teach to you. You want to know a secret that I swear is true.''

(A monkey holds onto Chuckie while another monkey, in a tree, pulls by its tail.)

Singer: Monkeys, we have more fun than humans ever do!

(The monkey swings from the tree and crashes through a picture of a palm tree. He, then, crashes through the picture, banging on a drum. A compartment opens, with another monkey, with another drum. In that drum, yet another money with yet another drum exits, though this time, it's an upright snare drum. A fourth monkey burst through the top of that drum and "drums" on the 3rd monkey's head.)

Monkeys:'' Ooh, eee, ooh ahh ahh! Ting, tang, walla walla bing bang!''

(A monkey takes Tommy away in a trike. 2 more monkeys, one of them with a bow on her head, walk on their hands while Phil & Lil ride on their feet. They crash down.)

Monkeys: ''Ooh, eee, ooh ahh ahh! Ting, tang walla walla bing bang!''

(Chuckie and another monkey are up in a tree. The monkey steals his glasses, causing Chuckie to fall down. The monkey with a wizard's cap pulls put a pillow to catch Chuckie, but them pulls away. As Chuckie is about to crash, another monkey in a tree pulls Chuckie back up with its tail, tosses Chuckie up in the air, and lands in the arms of another monkey, which gave back Chuckie's glasses.)

Singer: ''We learn to climb and swing before we learn to run. We like to party and there's room for everyone. Come by and see us if you really wanna have some fun.''

(2 monkeys fight in front of the Reptar Wagon, they run away after Dil bonks them in the head with his bottle.)

Monkeys: ''Ooh, eee, ooh ahh ahh! Ting, tang, walla walla bing bang.''

(The parasol monkey parachutes off the top of the car, with her baby holding on. Phil and Lil follow with a skeleton of a parasol, but crashes.)

Monkeys: ''Ooh, eee, ooh ahh ahh! Ting, tang, walla walla bing bang!''

( A monkey in a tree wearing tennis shoes peels bark from a branch and eats the bugs inside. 4 other monkeys eat the bugs off the back. Lil takes a bug off the 4th monkey's back, but Phil swipes it from her, then eats it.)

Singer: ''You'll never see us tired 'cause we're way too smart for workin'. A monkey knows a lot more than a man.''

(3 monkeys hold onto Chuckie as he dives down; his glasses land onto Dil's head, then promptly stolen by the parasol monkey, along with Dil's bottle, which was given to the monkey's baby.)

Singer: ''We love swinging in the trees and eating our bananas. Don't you know we never need a plan?''

Dil: Mine! Mine!

(Instrumental portion of song plays under while the Rugrats continue prancing with the monkeys.)

Dil: Aaahh!

Tommy: What? What do you want?

Dil: Hungry, hungry.

(Tommy goes to tend to Dil as the song continues; Chuckie falls on the ground and lands on a monkey's back. The monkey rides Chuckie off somewhere.)

Monkeys: ''Ooh, eee, ooh ahh ahh! Ting, tang, walla walla bing bang! Ooh, eee, ooh ahh ahh...''

Tommy: Oh, but I really wanna go play with the monkeys.

(Tommy opens a jar of banana baby food and gives it to Dil, which feeds himself. While doing this, the monkeys caught a whiff of the banana aroma and smile.)

Dil: Hungry, hungry.

(Dil eats the banana baby food and makes a mess of himself. Tommy tosses the jar away and was about to get another one when 3 monkeys run across the Reptar Wagon. 2 of them steal the diaper bag. Many of the other monkeys follow.)

Tommy: Watch my brother. I gotta get the diapie bag.

(2 monkeys start to lick Dil, which is now covered with creamed bananas.)

Chuckie: Hey, leave him alone. He's not a nanner.

(Chuckie tries to pull Dil away from the monkeys.)

Chuckie: Oh, no! Hey, guys, help! There's a monkey who's trying to take Tommy's brother!

Phil: So?

Chuckie: Oh, just help me, okay? (to the monkeys) Let go of my hair! Hey!

(Dil flew into Phil and Lil's arms, but a monkey in a tree tries to steal him. Meanwhile, Chuckie tries to take his glasses back from the baby monkey.)

Chuckie: Let go!

Phil and Lil: Okay.

(Phil and Lil let Dil go, the monkey takes him away. The other monkeys follow. The baby monkey that had stolen Chuckie's glasses strategically leaves them on the ground.)

Chuckie: Oh, this is just great. I tell you, it can't get any worser than... (Chuckie steps on his glasses, cracking the lenses.) ...this.

Phil: At least the monkeys are gone.

Lil: Yeah. And they took baby Dil with them.

Chuckie: (gasps in horror)

(The monkeys climb a tree with Dil.)

(Meanwhile, in another part of the forest.)

Angelica: Hey, Spike! Where are you going, you dumb dog?

(Angelica trips on a stone. One of the blades on one of her roller skates breaks off.)

Angelica: Hey, my rolly blade is cracked. Oh, Cynthia. Are they taking care of you? Will they know to comb your hair, or change you into your sports jumper with matching neckerchief at lunch time?

(Spike appears in front of her. Also, the wolf is in back of her as well. Angelica, oblivious to the wolf, unknowingly throws her roller skate at the wolf's head.)

Angelica: Pee-yew, Spike! Dog breath! Spike?

(Spike notices the vicious wolf and promptly drags the unsuspecting Angelica from the wolf's jaws. The wolf growls as he watches them escape)

(Back home, Stu is preparing for takeoff with Dactar.)

Stu: Don't worry. This time she'll fly. I'm facing into the wind.

(The handlebars come loose. Dactar is attached by rope to Stu's car, driven by Grandpa.)

Grandpa: He's ready?

Chas: No.

Grandpa: Go?

Chas: No!

Grandpa: All right, then!

(Grandpa drives off; the rope snares Stu's foot, dragging him along. Stu screams as Dactar flies haphazardly.)

(Back in the forest, the Rugrats, minus Tommy, are replacing Dil with something.)

Chuckie: Oh! This is bad! Bad!

Phil: Shh! Here comes Tommy.

Lil: Put the blankie on him.

Tommy: Okay, guys, I got it.

Chuckie: Um, I think it's gonna rain, Tommy.

Phil: Oh, yeah, we better go.

Tommy: I gotta finish feeding my brother.

Lil (swatting the jar out of Tommy's hands): I don't think he's hungry.

Chuckie: Yeah. Besides, he's, um...

(Tommy lifts the blanket to find the baby monkey drinking from the bottle.)

Tommy: A monkey?

Phil: Wow! Look at that!

Tommy: My brother turned into a monkey?

(Thunder from a distance.)

Chuckie: Come on, Tommy. We gotta get out of here.

Tommy: I can't go home with my brother being a monkey!

Chuckie: Oh, but, Tommy, we gotta get to the lizard's house.

Tommy: That's it! I'll get the lizard to wish him back into a people!

Phil: The lizard's only going to give us one wish.

Chuckie: Yeah, and if you use it up on Dil, how are we gonna get home?

Tommy: He's my brother, Chuckie! I have to wish him back!

Lil: You can't do that!

Tommy: Yes, I can! What would you do if Phil turned into a monkey?

Lil: That's different. I like Phillip! Besides, you'd be wasting your wish anyway, 'cause that's not even your brother. (Lil gasps, as she has accidentally spilled out the truth to Tommy; Tommy and Chuckie gasp.) Wait a minute.

Chuckie: What Lillian means is... um... the monkeys kinda took baby Dil, and we just--we thought you wouldn't mind a baby monkey instead.

Tommy: What?!

Lil: Look it, Tommy, nobody likes him!

Phil: We're gonna find that lizard, Tommy. You can find your brother by yourself!

Tommy: Will you help me, Chuckie?

Chuckie: Sorry, Tommy.

Tommy: But--but you're my bestest friend.

Chuckie: Yeah? Well, if--if I'm your bestest friend, then how come when I got throwed up on, you didn't help me? Huh, huh? And when I falled overboard, you didn't help me. And then when the monkey grabbed me, you didn't even care about my boo-boo.

Lil: Face it, Tommy. You don't got a bestest friend no more. All you gots is a brother!

Tommy (dejected, close to tears): Oh, um... fine. I'll go find him by myself.

(Tommy sadly goes off to find Dil, leaving the other Rugrats behind. With another crack of thunder, it starts to rain. The baby monkey escapes, leaving its a diaper behind.)

(In another part of the forest, Spike is afraid to go any further.)

Angelica: You dumb butthound! Fine! I hope you turn into a frog. (makes a face) Nyah! I'll find Cynthia myself!

(Angelica sings "One Way or Another".)

(During the song, Angelica crosses a creek, rides a log in the water, climbs a mountain, then a tree, then goes through some sort of canyon with Tommy and Dil's heads chiseled on, before climbing another mountain, imagining that Cynthia's on the top, when it's actually Spike.)

One way or another

I'm gonna find you

I'm gonna get you, get you, get you, get you

One way or another

I'm gonna win you

I'm gonna get you, get you, get you, get you

Cynthia, oh, Cynthia

I need to see you

I need to see you, see you, see you

From that kid or his brother

I'm gonna get you

I'm gonna get you, I'll get you

I'll find the full diaper bag

And if you're ripped or you're hurt

I'll push them in dirt

Yeah!

(Angelica stamps her foot into the handle portion of Spike's leash, which causes Spike to run, dragging Angelica along the way. Music continues under while Angelica yells at Spike.)

Angelica: Aah! Ooh! Oh! Stop! I said stop! CYNTHIA-A-A!

(Back in another part of the forest, Tommy finds Dil with 2 monkeys. Dil is crying.)

Tommy: Hey! Gimme back my brother! Shoo! (tries to tug Dil away from the monkeys.)Oh! Get outta here, you monkeys! Go!

(The wolf howls offscreen. The monkeys leave.)

Tommy: Come on. Let's get outta this rain.

(Cut to the ranger's station. A nervous Frank is talking to Margaret.)

Ranger Frank: I know you rookies can get excited and lose your heads, but veterans like me know the key is to remain calm and cool and collected.

(The Rugrats' parents enter, panicking. Frank falls from his chair among seeing their silhouettes from the lightning.)

Didi: Please, our kids are lost in the storm. You've got to help us!

Ranger Frank (delirious): THERE'S DRAGONS OUT THERE! I'M A PARK RANGER! NOT A KNIGHT AT A ROUND TABLE! GO FIND SOMEBODY WITH A LANCE!

Ranger Margaret: Never mind him. Come with me.

(Margaret leaves with the grown-ups, leaving Frank alone, whimpering and sobbing hysterically.)

Ranger Frank: W-what are you-, come here, I got the dragon...

(Cut to under a tree, where Tommy and Dil has taken refuge.)

Tommy: We'll just have a little bottle and take a nice nappy, and everything will be okay.

Dil: Mine! Mine!

(Dil steals the bottle.)

Tommy: But, I'm hungry, too. (Tommy tries to grab the bottle from Dil.) Stop it! Dil, that's enough! Stop it! Unh! (Dil laughs and finishes off the bottle.) You didn't leave any for me!

Dil: BURP! All gone.

(Tommy tosses the bottle to the ground, then gets a blanket from the bag, covering both of themselves with it. Tommy and Dil try to sleep. Dil tries to have the blanket all to himself.)

Tommy: Oh.

(Dil's leg peeks out of the blanket.)

Tommy: Dil.

(Dil's arm now peeks out.)

Tommy: Dil!

(Dil grabs the blanket from Tommy and covers himself with it.)

Dil: My blankie! My blankie!

Tommy: Dil!

Dil: My blankie! My blankie!

Tommy: I need some blankie, too.

Dil: Mine! Mine! Mine!

Tommy: Mine!

Dil: Mine!

(Tommy and Dil pulls the blanket on opposite ends in a tug of war fashion, the blanket tears in half; sending Tommy falling into a mud puddle; Dil laughs)

Dil: Yucky lookie.

Tommy (furious): You think it's funny?! Phil and Lil was right! You're a bad, naughty baby, and you're never gonna get any better! I'M THROUGH BEING YOUR BIG BROTHER! I DON'T WANT MY SPONSITIVITY NO MORE!

(Tommy tosses his watch against a tree; miraculously, as they say in those Timex commercials, It takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Meanwhile, a group of monkeys look on nearby.)

Dil: Monkey! My monkey! Mine!

Tommy (still furious): You want monkeys? Oh, okay. I'll give you monkeys. You'll have a monkey mommy and a monkey daddy and a monkey brother! I shoulda let my friends take you back to the hopsicle, but, no, I said, "He didn't mean it," I said. (He kicks a frog) "He was only playing!" (He kicks a bottle) Well, I was wrong! Now I don't even have friends!

(He tosses out a diaper, a container of baby powder, baby wipes and Cynthia, which the monkeys all grab.)

Tommy: Dil wants monkeys, and monkeys want the nanners. So everybody gets what they want!

(Tommy brings the baby food to Dil, and in his rage, prepares to use it to cover Dil.)

Dil: My nanna. My nanna.

(Dil looks at Tommy, who looks frightening as lightning flashes above, emphasizing his anger. Dil is suddenly then very frightened to see Tommy this angry.)

Dil: T--T--T--

(Tommy has calmed down and is back in a right frame of mind. He sets the baby food down and hugs Dil, as the monkeys look on sadly from a tree.)

Tommy: I'm sorry, Dil.

Dil: Toto.

Tommy: It's okay, Dil. Everything is gonna be okay.

(Camera zooms in to Tommy's watch, which is still on the ground.)

(In another part of the forest, Phil and Lil pushes a frightened Chuckie on, even though the lightning makes a trees resemble monsters. Then, lightning strikes a tree. They all run for cover, with Phil accidentally leaving his blue shoes behind near a fallen tree trunk.)

Chuckie: Phil? Lil? (Chuckie sees Phil's shoes, though its placement leads Chuckie and Lil to think that a tree has fallen on him.) Aah! Ohh! Oh. Phil.

Lil: Chuckie?

Chuckie: He always loved climbing on trees. Now a tree's climbed on him.

(Lil is crying, while she holds Phil's shoes.)

Lil: He was my favoritest brother. Speak to me, Philip!

Phil: Have you guys seen my shoes?

Lil: Philip! (Lil hugs Phil.) I don't like this adventure anymore, Philip.

Phil: Gosh, Chuckie, this time we really are doomed.

Lil: Doomed! Doomed! Doomed! (cries)

Phil: Snap out of it, Lilian! We gotta find the lizard!

Chuckie: I don't know, guys. If we find the lizard and Tommy doesn't, how's he ever gonna get home?

Phil: What are you worried about him for? He's the one who was gonna let you get eated by a fish!

Lil: All he cares about now is baby Dil.

Chuckie: Yeah, well, somebody has to! Don't they?

(Back at the tree alter, Tommy retrieves his watch. A crack of thunder hits. Dil starts wailing, terrified and homesick. Tommy calms his brother down, sings him a lullaby, similar to what he sung earlier in the film.)

Tommy: (singing) ''Baby, please! Rest your head? Soon we will be home in bed. Until then, I'll protect you like no other. You're okay for a little brother.''

Dil: My Tommy.

Tommy: My Dil.

(Dil hiccups. Dil offers to share his blanket with Tommy. Tommy and Dil fall asleep. The Camera pulls away upward from the tree, the storm ends and the sky begins to clear.)

(In another part of the forest, the grownups are still looking for the Rugrats. The Jeep that they were riding in got stuck in the mud.)

Didi: Oh, we'll never find them. Can't you do something?

Ranger Margaret: Come on, baby. Come on!

Stu: (on radio) Sky Pickle to ground Pickle.

Didi (grabbing the radio): Stu, Stu, is that you?

(Cut to Stu, now flying in his Dactar glider over the woods.)

Stu: Roger that, Deed. We have aerial search!

(As Stu flies, he crashes through a flock of migrating geese but continues flying on as one goose flies into and gets stuck in his face.)

(Back to the forest; the monkeys gang up on Tommy and Dil.)

Tommy: Oh, no. Nice monkeys. Ohh.

(Out of nowhere, Phil and Lil come to Tommy and Dil's rescue.)

Phil: Not so fast, you monkeys!

(Phil and Lil pull the monkeys away by their tails.)

Tommy: Lil! Phil! You came back! Oh, but--but where's...

(Chuckie is driving the Reptar Wagon at full speed. The monkeys get out of the wagon's way.)

Reptar Wagon: I am Reptar, the perfect children's toy!

Tommy: Chuckie!

Chuckie: Hi, Tommy!

(Chuckie reaches for a jar of baby food in the wagon, and removes the lid)

Chuckie: Hey, monkeys! You want nanners? Well, come and get 'em!

(Chuckie runs with the banana baby food, with the monkeys following him.)

Lil: Gosh, I never knowed he was so brave.

Phil: Yeah. We're gonna miss him. Well, we better get in the wagon and get outta here.

Tommy: No! You guys take Dil and go look for the lizard. I gotta go help my bestest friend.

(Tommy starts walking around with his watch.)

(Cut to Angelica, who's at the site of the train wreck, still being towed by Spike.)

Angelica: Ohh! Aah! Ooh! Dumb dog. There's no babies around here. Aah!

(Angelica crashes into Chuckie.)

Angelica: There you are! Hand over my Cynthia, Finster.

Chuckie: Run, Angelica! The monkeys are coming! The monkeys are coming!

Angelica: Huh?

(Chuckie runs from Angelica; a herd of monkeys follow. One of the monkeys conveniently drops Cynthia near Angelica.)

Angelica: Cynthia! (Another monkey tries to steal Cynthia.) Hey! Ohh! STOP!

(Angelica grabs the monkey by the tail and is once again towed away.)

(Spike finds Tommy and licks him.)

Tommy: Spike! You found me!

(Chuckie trips on a stone near a cliff. The camera pans away to show the water and on the other side of that bridge, that wolf. Tommy rides Spike towards Chuckie, who is cornered by the monkeys. Chuckie throws the jar of stewed bananas into the river, but the wind slops the food onto him.)

(The Monkeys look at the water, then sniff the air and turn to the banana-covered Chuckie.)

Chuckie: Ugh! Oh! Ohh! Nice monkeys. Nice monkeys. I was only kidding. Don't be mad at me. Please? Okay. Help!

(The monkeys bounce onto Chuckie and try to lick the food off.)

(Tommy and Spike come to the rescue, they chase the monkeys away.)

Chuckie: Tommy! Thank goodness!

(Spike licks Chuckie.)

Tommy: Come on, Chuckie! (Tommy pulls out his pocket watch and points it at the direction of a fire tower.) Chuckie! The lizard's house! Let's find the others! We gots a lizard to see!

(Tommy and Chuckie ride on Spike's back. Camera pans in the air to the Reptar wagon, parked at a distance.)

Chuckie: Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey. Ohh! Ohh! Spike! I can't look! I can't look!

(A low branch knocks Tommy and Chuckie off. Spike runs off.)

Tommy: Spike! Spike!

(The monkeys find Tommy, Chuckie and the gang up on them.)

(Meanwhile, back at the Reptar Wagon, Dil plays with the brakes, thinking that its round handle is a ball.)

Dil: My ball!

(The brakes disengage, and the wagon rolls off.)

(Back with the monkeys.)

Chuckie: Don't let them take me, Tommy! I don't wanna be monkey boy!

(Phil and Lil sees Tommy, Chuckie and the monkeys.)

Phil and Lil: Aah!

Tommy: Aah!

(The twins pull Tommy and Chuckie in as the wagon rolls by.)

Reptar Wagon: Hang onto your diapies, babies.

Phil: Good one, Dil.

Tommy and Lil: Thanks, Dilly. Whoo-hoo!

Tommy: Thanks, Dil.

Lil: Dilly, you're my hero! (kisses Dil) Bye-bye, monkeys!

(Meanwhile, Angelica is still being towed by a monkey.)

Angelica: Aah! Oh! Stop it! (She bites the monkey's tail. The monkey runs off in pain, leaving Cynthia behind. Angelica picks up Cynthia and kisses her.) Cynthia! (She sees Reptar Wagon passing by.) Hey, you stupid diaper bags! Wait for me! (Angelica hops on while Phil and Lil fend off 2 monkeys.) Dumb monkeys!

(The wagon goes on some railroad tracks but eventually reach the end of the line, crashing a "Do Not Enter" sign into many pieces and going through a tunnel. Then, it goes on a rickety old bridge over the river.)

Angelica: After all I've done for you babies, you were gonna leave me and Cynthia beh--I-I-I-I!

(The Reptar Wagon hits a missing board on the bridge. Angelica, who was sitting on Reptar's tail, catapults off into the air.)

Phil: I didn't know she could fly.

Lil: I think it's 'cause she's a witch.

(Angelica dangles on a broken board by a strap on her jumper.)

Tommy: Hang on, Angelica!

(Angelica's other roller skate comes loose and goes over the falls.)

(Fade to Rex's helicopter. A pilot is flying the chopper over the forest while Rex is both reporting and videotaping with his camera.)

Rex Pester: A truckload of babies and their pet horse lost in the woods. Our hearts go out to their grief-stricken parents...

(Stu's Dactar glider suddenly appears and crashes into the chopper, making it violently spin around by the tail, and making Rex drop his camera. Stu shrieks in panic.)

Rex Pester: Pickles! Now look what you've done!

(Stu grunts. He and the chopper pilot fight over their aircrafts' controls.)

Rex Pester: Are you out of your mind, Pickles?!

(Rex uses both his legs to push Stu and Dactar out of the chopper--but Stu accidentally yanks out the throttle in the process, sending the chopper into a violent tailspin and causing it to crash-land into the forest below.)

Stu: Whoa!

Rex Pester (sobbing and screaming as his chopper crashes): AND I NEVER WON AN EMMY!

(Stu is flying again on his Dactar, though haphazardly.)

Stu: Oops. (drops the chopper throttle and continues flying) I'm coming, Tommy. I'm coming, Dil. Oh! Ah!

(A couple of screws come loose, though Stu still flies.)

(Meanwhile, back on the bridge, the Rugrats are still trying to rescue Angelica.)

Angelica: Ugh! Hurry up, babies!

(The monkeys return.)

Chuckie: Don't let them take me!

Angelica: Don't let them take Cynthia!

Lil: I don't think they're gonna take anyone. Look!

(The monkeys flee.)

All: Yay!

Lil: Yeah! Go home, monkeys!

Angelica: Hooray! Dumb-dumb monkeys!

(The cheering stops when the Rugrats hear a growl behind them. They turn around and gasp in horror: the huge vicious wolf is at the foot of the bridge and slowly goes towards the babies!)

All: Oh!

Chuckie: We wanna go home. We wanna go home.

(The wolf gets closer, growling.)

All: Aah!

Dil: Yuckies!

(Spike then appears from nowhere, and pins the wolf to the ground.)

All: Yay!

Tommy: Yay, Spike!

Dil: Spike, Spike!

(Spike continues fighting the wolf. The wolf rips off Spike's collar. Spike pins the wolf again. The wolf forcefully swats Spike, sending him to the edge of the bridge, hanging for dear life!)

Tommy: Oh, no, Spike! Spike!

Lil: You gotta get outta there, Spikey!

Angelica: Yo, dumb wolf!

(Angelica blows a raspberry, in an effort to distract the wolf from killing Spike. The wolf turns his attention to Angelica and starts to go toward her! Before he can bite her, Spike bites his tail and drags him down, while they both slowly go through a hole in the bridge.)

All: Spike!

(Both Spike and the wolf fall into the water.)

Dil: Spike?

Tommy: Oh, Spike.

(All the Rugrats cry.)

Angelica: Dumb dog! Why'd you have to go and... (sobs)

(Cut to Stu and Dactar.)

Stu: Deed, I found them! They're over by the ranger station! I'm going in-n-n-n!

(Dactar crashes for the last time, into the ranger's station. Stu, all woozy, gets up on his feet, "wearing" Dactar's remnants, and walks towards the bridge.)

Stu: Ahh!

All: The lizard!

Stu: Ahh! Ahh! Ohhh!

All: Ohh!

(Tommy pulls up his diaper and speaks to the lizard.)

Tommy: Please, Mr. Lizard, we wish we could go... (Tommy stops and looks at the others who are still crying over Spike) No...We wish we had our doggy back.

Stu: Ahhh.

(Stu busts through the bridge. Then, we hear Spike bark from under the bridge--he's alive and so is Stu.)

Tommy: Spike!

Phil: He's alive!

(Spike licks Stu, who lies on one of the bridge's support arms below.)

Lil: Thank you, Mr. Lizard!

(Tires screech and headlights shine. The other grown-ups run towards the babies. Then, their parents pick up their babies and embrace them.)

Didi: My babies! My babies! Oh, Dil! My darling!

Howard: We're here! Betty--Betty and daddy are here!

Betty: You rascals!

Chas: Daddy's here. Oh, Chuckie!

Charlotte: Angelica, sweetheart, everything's going to be okay.

Angelica: Oh, mommy, oh, daddy!

Chas: Did you miss me? You okay?

(The monkeys look on in bewilderment. Charlotte's phone rings. Instead of answering it, she tosses it into the water. Grandpa pulls Stu up with a rope.)

Grandpa: You've got the Pickle spirit, son. Maybe not the brain, but the spirit.

Didi: Oh, Stu, you did it! You found our boys.

(Stu picks up Tommy and Dil. Tommy drops his watch; Stu picks it up, and smiles at it still in perfect shape.)

Stu: Yeah, I guess I did.

(Tommy and Dil hug each other.)

(Igor and Serge arrive in a police car to recover their monkeys.)

Igor: My little furry comrades!

Serge: Splendid monkeys, come to papa. Who's your daddy?

(The monkeys happily run towards their circus owners; one monkey kisses Serge on the lips)

(We look through the viewfinder of a reporter's video recorder.)

Reporter: Babies and monkeys, both lost. Now both found!

Rex Pester: This is my story, pal! (An injured Rex shoves the reporter out of sight.) I'm Rex Pester. Stay tuned!

(The monkeys gang up on Rex and fight him. Camera cuts to static.)

Rex Pester: Aah! No, not my toupee! No!

Betty (laughs): Go get him, you little simians!

Charlotte: Hey, Rex, time for your close up!

(Angelica, Phil, Drew, Lil, Howard, Chuckie, Didi, and Stu joined in laughing.)

Chas: Oh, dear, too bad.

(Dil drinks his bottle, then shares it with Tommy.)

Stu: I'm sorry about all this Drew.

Drew: It's all right, little brother. For a nincompoop, you're not half bad.

(Everyone walks away from the bridge and talks amongst themselves. Margaret pulls the Reptar Wagon.)

Stu: Remember there was Swamptar?

Drew: Oh, yeah, I remember that. Got mud all over...

(Fade back to the Okey-Dokey Jones sequence, where the Rugrats enter the temple.)

Chuckie: (voice over) ''And that was our big adventure. The Monkeys founded their daddies and we all gots to go home and have fried bologna sandwiches. Expect Dil, 'cause he gots no teeth.''

(Dil, wearing a viking helmet, rides on Chuckie's back. They climb and grab the icon as before, but this time, Dil got a hold of it.)

Chuckie: (voice over) But if you think thing went back to the way they was before, you're wrong, 'cause now, thanks to Baby Dil, they was even better! (laughs)

(After Dil grabs the icon, they all start to topple. Before they hit the ground, we go back to reality in the kitchen with a banana split. After they fall, Dil slides to the stove with the split, when he hit the stove, the split remain intact. Cut to the Rugrats cheering.)

All: Way to go, Dilly!

(Freeze frame, then fade out.)

(Fade to closing credits, when stills of the movie's scenes flash in the background while the credits are seen in the foreground. Credits from "Directed by" to "Additional Music by" are flashed on and off, with one background per credit. From "Production Manager" on, credits scroll, with different lettering and fonts, while the background changes. During the credits, portions of "Take Me There", "Take The Train" and "I Throw My Toys Around" be heard. Fade out.)

(After the closing credits, there is a bonus scene where Boris' goat returned, eating flowers while Grandpa rests in the Reptar Wagon. The goat accidentally pushes the wagon with Grandpa inside, leading to a wild goose chase as the goat tries to rescue Grandpa and Edwin watching "On Your Marks..." plays as Grandpa rolls down the hill. Fade out.)