Angelica Orders Out

"Angelica Orders Out" is a Season 4 episode of Rugrats.

Characters Present

 * Tommy
 * Angelica
 * Stu
 * Didi
 * Drew
 * Charlotte
 * Lou
 * Chuckie (cameo)
 * Lil (cameo)
 * Phil (cameo)
 * Chas (cameo)
 * Betty (cameo)
 * Howard (cameo)
 * Larry

Synopsis
''Angelica steals Stu's newest invention, the "Pickles Voice Frequency Modulator 5000" and takes advantage of it by ordering plenty of food from a local deli. - Description from Klasky Csupo''

Plot
Stu has created a new gadget: The Voice Frequency Modulator 5000. This item enables people to throw their voice, or sound like someone else. When Angelica has a try, she sounds just like her mother, Charlotte. Stu and Didi plan to go to the Wonderful World of Wicker seminar, while Charlotte goes to a meeting, leaving the kids in Grandpa Lou's care as long as he doesn't fall asleep. Didi suggests that he order from Zippy Snappy Home Delivery Deli for something to eat, asking him to not order any junk food, as she, Stu, Drew and Charlotte are trying to take care of Tommy and Angelica's teeth, or else she will take his teeth away which Lou agrees with while Tommy is worried about Lou after he overheard their conversation.

After the parents leave, Lou shows Angelica the speed-dial phone and has her dial the deli. Lou then orders a healthy lunch of bologna sandwiches on white bread with extra mayo, some steamed carrots with a side of cottage cheese and for dessert, some baked apples, all paid with the Pickles' account. Angelica is upset about the dessert that she's getting, but Lou repeats Didi's words to her: "No junk food or he will lose his teeth." Angelica stares at the phone with a grin, thinking of an idea.

After they had lunch and are eating their baked apples, including Angelica, Lou falls asleep after telling Tommy about the time when he first ate baked apples with his grandfather. Relieved, Angelica goes to the phone and uses the speed-dial button to call the deli again, asking for a big bag of double-fudge chocolate chip cookies to be sent to the Pickles' house, much to Tommy's horror. Tommy tries to tell Angelica to stop since he remembers his mother's warning about taking Lou's teeth away, but she ignores him. When the deli explains that they only take orders from adults, Angelica uses Stu's invention to pretend to be her mother, Charlotte. When the deli recites their dessert menu to Angelica, she proceeds to order every dessert item including flan, then hangs up.

Having another idea, she calls her home where Drew is working on his paperwork. As Charlotte, she tells him that since Angelica has been so good lately, he should go to Toy City and get Angelica the new and very expensive "Cynthia Ultra-Mega Play World" that she's been wanting for so long. Drew initially resists, but Angelica, sounding like Charlotte, yells at him to do it and then hangs up.

After this, Tommy is outraged and threatens to wake Lou up so he can stop Angelica, but she traps him inside of an upside-down laundry basket. She then places a heavy box of Sudso Laundry Soap on top of it to prevent Tommy from knocking the basket away and waking Lou. Afterwards, Angelica starts calling up everyone she knows, using Stu's invention, and apparently requesting more stuff she likes.

When the deli truck arrives, Angelica uses the voice-changer, as well as a portrait of Didi, to make the man leave the delivery by the door and go away. As the delivery man leaves, the screech of the van wakes Lou up. After freeing Tommy from under the laundry basket, Lou is horrified when he discovers that Angelica used Stu's invention to get the desserts he refused to order for her by impersonating Charlotte. While Lou is trying to straighten things out, Didi calls him and says that due to a "very serious splinter incident", the Wonderful World of Wicker seminar was canceled. As such, she and Stu are on their way home. Just then, the doorbell rings and Lou sees that it's Drew with some kind of big box. Angelica is pleased to hear that her father got her the "Cynthia Ultra-Mega Play World" and a shocked Lou is even more mortified that Angelica also called her father with Stu's invention. He asks, “Who else did you call?!” to which she replies nobody. Lou then tells Angelica to hide while he takes care of the situation.

While Lou is talking with Drew, who's irritated about how having to get the toy "Charlotte" ordered him to get, some cream-filled pastries fall out of a hole at the bottom of the deli bag that Lou is holding. Suddenly suspicious, Drew asks his father "Angelica hasn't been eating sweets has she?!". Lou lies by stating that he ordered himself some dessert while the kids were napping, before offering Drew a raspberry flavored one. Suddenly, Chas, Betty, Howard, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil arrive with presents, causing Lou to retreat back into the house as he's confused about why they're here. Angelica tells Lou that she called them too, further angering him. He asks her if she called anybody else, to which she replies that she didn’t.

Lou goes back out to take the toy and tries to get rid of Drew, giving him the bag of desserts. Just as Drew tries to tell his father that he doesn't like cream-filled pastries, the other adults come over and Chas asks Drew if they're not too late for Angelica's surprise party. Now confused as well as suspicious, Drew states that Angelica's birthday isn't for another six months. Then, Stu, Didi, and Charlotte arrive, causing Lou to retreat back into the house again. Inside, even more frantic than ever, Lou grabs Tommy and tells Angelica to get rid of all the food while he keeps them busy.

Once he exits the house, Lou tells everyone that he taught Tommy how to dance and moves him. Drew is even more confused and suspicious since his father told him that the kids were napping. Charlotte arrives and is surprised to see Drew at her in laws' house to the point where she asks her husband "What are you doing here?!" He states that "I guess I'm here for this big surprise party that you didn't even tell me about." A confused and suspicious Stu turns to his father and asks him "Pop, what's going on here?!" Drew back his brother up by asking his father "Yeah, what is going on?! Can somebody tell me what's going on?!" with the other confused and suspicious adults joining in with cries of "Yeah, what's going on?!". As Lou tried to make excuses, they all back him inside enough for them to see Angelica on the floor stuffing her face with the pastries, thinking that he meant "eat the food" when he said "get rid of it".

An angry Didi demands to know what happened here, with Stu also angrily asking Lou if he fell asleep again. Feeling guilty for Lou getting into trouble with his parents because of Angelica betraying their trust, Tommy finds the voice changer which gives him an idea to make Angelica come clean about her actions while Lou tries to explain the situations. As Angelica tries to tell everyone to just forget about it since families being together is what matters, Tommy holds the voice changer to her mouth, makes her sound like Charlotte again and exposes her schemes, making all of the adults, other than Lou, realize what she did. Angelica asks why everyone is looking at her as all of the adults including Lou are staring at her. Lou’s stare and the exposure of Angelica’s actions makes Drew, the Devilles, and Chas realize she was the one who was really making those calls they received all along. Soon, Charlotte, Stu, and Didi understand what has occurred before deducing exactly what indeed happened while they were gone. Later, Stu locks the voice-changer away in a safe containing some of his other inventions to stop Angelica from pulling what she did again. Stu happily tells Tommy that the voice-changer has proven to be "one invention that mankind just isn't ready for" and they leave the basement.

Meanwhile, Angelica is in the kitchen and being forced to eat all of the desserts which she ordered including flan, which she doesn't like as punishment for using her uncle’s invention to impersonate her mother so she could squander her aunt and uncle’s account for her own selfish pleasure, and trick her father, Chas, and the DeVilles for her own personal gain. Angelica protests, but Charlotte sternly replies that since Angelica ordered the flan, she will eat it. Angelica grumbles of how she didn’t know "flan would be so yucky." She ate it eventually. Whilst Lou, with his teeth confiscated as punishment for falling asleep and not supervising the kids, explains that "at least you can eat it without your teeth," which he does with such enjoyment.

Trivia/Goofs

 * This is the only appearance of Stu's voice-changing invention.
 * Angelica would've realized that she was speaking through the invention when Tommy put it in front of her mouth, while she was talking to everyone about what family really meant.
 * Chuckie, Phil, and Lil arrive as cameos with Chas, Betty, and Howard.
 * When Stu puts his voice-changer in the vault, we can see what looks like Mr. Friend from "The Mysterious Mr. Friend".
 * When Angelica goes to get the voice-changing invention, she seems to go to the other side of the kitchen. But Stu had left the invention in the living room.
 * When Angelica is calling some of the families she knows, most of the babies and parents are not even part of the same family. Angelica lied to Lou when he scolded her even though Tommy lectured Angelica about the consequences of lying in "Angelica Nose Best".
 * Lou realized Angelica took advantage of him by her disobedience.
 * This is, so far, the only known appearance of Zippy's Snappy Home Delivery . 
 * This is the only episode where Lou gets mad at Angelica.
 * If one were to think about it, Stu is actually responsible for starting the events of the entire episode. Stu made the voice-changer, showed it to Angelica, and then carelessly left it in the living room. Later, Angelica used his invention to sound like an adult and get the things she wanted. Stu also ended the events of this episode by locking up his voice-changer inside a safe.
 * It's odd that neither Chas nor Howard know when Angelica's birthday is, considering the duo previously performed their clown act for Angelica in the episode "Angelica's Birthday".
 * The lunch that Lou ordered was bologna sandwiches on white with extra mayo for the kids, steamed carrots and cottage cheese for himself, three waters with ice, and baked apples for all. Angelica later ordered a bag of double fudge chocolate chip cookies as well as Larry's recommendations of chocolate cake, eclairs, coconut cream pie (even though she hates coconut), strawberry short cake, chocolate macadamias, flan, and another dessert that begins with chocolate (likely donuts, as they are among the desserts that Angelica is seen pigging out on).
 * Interestingly enough, the cookies that Angelica first ordered are not seen among the desserts delivered. Nor is the large pyramid of flan that appears at the end (though this could be ordered with pressure from (most likely) Charlotte, but off-screen; these are either inconsistent or from a huge bag since it is a large pyramid). Most of these are probably goofs, most likely due to inconsistency or a rush with the animation staff.
 * In this episode, Larry's hair is red, but in all of his other appearances it's blonde.
 * When Stu changes his voice to a deeper tone, he talks and sounds like Darth Vader from Star Wars.
 * The episode was ranked #52 in the "Top 100 Greatest Nicktoon Moments" as part of "Superstuffed Nicktoons Weekend".
 * Didi can be guilty of elder abuse as she took Grandpa Lou's dentures away as punishment for what were originally her husband's and then her niece's wrongdoings.
 * When Angelica presses "2" to phone Drew, "Charlotte" is misspelled as "Charollte", although it was spelled correctly before.
 * For unknown reasons, Angelica and her voice actor (Cheryl Chase) are omitted from this episode's credits.
 * Morals:
 * Never take advantage of the elderly for your own selfish gain; it's greedy.
 * Stealing is wrong.
 * Be careful where you leave your belongings.
 * Too many sweets is not good for you. You could become overweight or obese which can cause type 2 diabetes mellitus, a stroke, or a heart attack which can be fatal.
 * Always listen and obey your parents and do what they tell you to do, because they know what is best for you. It also makes it fair when you behave yourself and do not cause chaos to others who obey instead of disobey.
 * Lying will always get you nowhere, because every lie you tell covers up every previous lie called a web of lies.