And the Winner Is... is a Season 7 episode of Rugrats.
Characters Present
- Pickles Family:
- Finster Family:
- Carmichael Family:
Plot
Lou, Lulu and Angelica Pickles, and Susie Carmichael are all competing in a local talent competition called "The Young & Young at Heart Talent Show" (the "young" being kids and the "young at heart" being senior citizens). Lou and Lulu are competing in the senior division, for which the prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to Senior World, while Angelica and Susie are competing in the junior division, for which the prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to Cynthia Land. All four are doing dance routines: Lou and Lulu are doing a duet, provided that Lou's back doesn't give out while they're dancing, while Angelica and Susie are both doing solo dance routines (which Tommy points out to Chuckie and Kimi is a problem). Angelica, being the Cynthia doll-enthusiast that she is, really wants to beat Susie in the talent show and win the Cynthia Land-prize. Angelica tries various attempts to one-up Susie before the talent show:
- 1.) While she's at Tommy's house, Angelica uses Tommy's toy binoculars to spy on Susie while she's at her house. While she's spying on Susie, Angelica sees that Lucy's making Susie a really cool dance costume with stripes and sparkles. After seeing that, Angelica gets her own mom, Charlotte, to hire a famous fashion designer to make her a cooler dance costume.
- 2.) While at Wombat Hall, where the talent show itself was going to take place, for a rehearsal, Susie reveals to Angelica that her mom's going to play the Star-Spangled Banner on the piano for her during her dance routine. Hearing that, Angelica gets Charlotte to hire an orchestra to play for her during her dance routine.
- 3.) On the night of the talent show, Susie shows Angelica her new tap shoes. Angelica gets worried, but later, after the director told Susie to take off her tap shoes so there wouldn't be any extra noise during the other performances, Angelica takes the shoes and hides them.
Even though Susie can't find her tap shoes and do her original routine, while she's doing an improvised performance, she realizes that she still has a chance of winning if she turns her act into a comedy (which she indicates to her mom). Susie gets the most applause of any of the other performances.
In the end, Lou and Lulu win the senior division prize and Susie, much to Angelica's shock, wins the junior division prize. Susie thanks Angelica for the encouragement she gave to Susie before she did her performance, to which Angelica give a sheepish/regretful smile.
Trivia
- Before the talent show started, Tommy tells Chuckie and Kimi that he wants his grandparents to win, and Kimi tells the boys that she wants Susie to win. Chuckie ends up admitting to them that he actually wants Angelica to win. Although he had a pretty good reason: "Because when she doesn't win, it doesn't go to well for the rest of us," Chuckie had claimed.
- This episode shows that Susie's mom, Lucy Carmichael, is a talented pianist and is also very good at sewing.
- There's a building in the town where all the Rugrats-characters live called Wombat Hall.
- It's possible that Angelica's mom, Charlotte, might see Lucy as a rival, seeing as how willing she was to help Angelica with her attempts to win the talent show.
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