All's Well That Pretends Well

Season 6 Episode 17a
All's Well That Pretends Well
Original Airdate	April 25, 1999 July 6, 2001 (US)
DVD release	Season 6
Previous Episode	Two By Two
Next Episode	Big Babies

All's Well That Pretends Well is a Season 6 episode of Rugrats.

Characters

• Pickles Family:
  • Stu, Didi, Tommy and Dil Pickles.
  • Drew, Charlotte and Angelica Pickles.
• Finster Family:
  • Chas and Chuckie Finster.
• DeVille Family:
  • Howard, Betty, Phil and Lil DeVille.

Plot

The Cirque du Dummi Bear is in town, and the babies want to go. Angelica and her parents arrive at Tommy's house, saying that they have been hearing sneezes coming from Fluffy (though it is actually Angelica trying to hide her cold). After Angelica sneezed, Didi came into the living room, alarmed, asking who sneezed. Angelica says that it was Dil who sneezed. As Didi takes Dil into the kitchen for a checkup, Tommy blames Angelica for lying. However, Angelica doesn't want to miss the show. The babies reluctantly agree.

Didi and Stu put their youngest son back into the playpen after learning that he's not running any fevers, and saying that they have to watch the kids closely, knowing that they can't bring a sick child to Cirque du Dummi Bear; since they don't want to get other people sick. This worries Angelica. Feeling that she deserves to go to the show more than the other Rugrats, Angelica comes up with a plan to make it seem like Chuckie, the twins and her cousins are sick and not her.

She comes into the kitchen, asking the grown-ups, who are at a discussion and eating ice cream, if she can watch the babies in case any of them get sick. Didi shows her a Lipschitz medical book, and in a section, it shows that the main symptoms are pale and blotchy skin, shivering (for fevers) and sneezing (or runny nose). Angelica, trying not to sneeze, exits the room with that thought, and sneezes into Spike's back. She grabs some baby powder and lipstick from the bathroom, saying that there's going to be an "epidermis".

She puts the powder and lipstick on Phil and Lil, saying that they should dress up as clowns (she's actually making it look like the twins have pale and blotchy skin). Tommy thinks that the lipstick dots on their faces look like chickenpox, but Angelica says it's what all clowns wear these days. As she is about to prepare to do Tommy and Dil next, she sneezes again. Didi, alarmed, enters the living room again, and is shocked at the sight of the twins.

In the kitchen, Didi grabs the electronic thermometer from her Lipschitz medical kit and checks their temperature. The thermometer reads normal. As Betty places her hands on her kids' heads to check the temperature, she is relieved that the kids have gotten into the makeup and are fine. Pale and blotchy didn't work. Angelica comes up with another plan to make it look like the babies are sick, with a box of ice cream to make it look like they are shivering.

She apologizes to the babies and gives them the ice cream. The babies get into it, with Tommy reluctantly joining in, and start shaking from eating it all. Angelica enters the kitchen again and informs the grown-ups. Didi, Betty and Chaz take their kids to the kitchen for another checkup, this time with charts. After Didi smells the scent, Betty takes a sample of ice cream from Lil's mouth and says that the kids must have gotten into it and are fine.

Shivering didn't work, either. So the only thing left to do is to make it look like the babies are sneezing. Angelica grabs the feather duster from the kitchen cabinet. However, her plan backfires, thanks to Spike, and Angelica lets out a lot of sneezes. The grown-ups enter the living room and hear her sneezing this time. The regular thermometer from the medical kit reads 101°, and Drew concludes that Angelica can't come because she's sick. Charlotte says that she and Drew will watch her back home while the rest go to the show. This disappoints Angelica.

Drew offers to watch a Dummi Bear video, but Angelica refuses. Just then, a bunch of feign sneezes are heard, and the rest of the group returns. Didi says that as soon as they got to the tent, the kids have been sneezing. As the grown-ups enter the kitchen to consult Lipschitz, the babies say that they didn't want to have any fun at the Circus because Angelica was missing it, so they feigned being sick for her.

Stu comes back to the living room with some good news. While they were at the gift shop, he bought a VHS of the entire show (it's also available on Laserdisc, DVD, HDTV, CD-ROM, Betamax and 8-track, according to Chaz). Angelica is amazed that she can see the show after all. The episode ends with the entire group watching the tape.

Synopsis

The Rugrats are going to the Cirq du Dummi Bear show (a French interpretation of The Dummi Bears), and Angelica really wants to go. Too bad she's catching a cold. Can she hide this fact from her parents and the rest of the grown-ups by making them think one of the other babies is sick? - Description from Klasky Csupo

Trivia

• The Cirq Du Dummi Bear show is available on video cassette, DVD, CD ROM, laser disc, HDTV, Beta and 8-track.

Quotes

Angelica: Get ready, everybody! We're about to have an epidermis on our hands!