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"Chuckerfly" is a Season 6 episode of Rugrats.
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Summary[]
After Angelica convinces Chuckie that he's ugly, he takes a cue from the caterpillar and wraps himself in a cocoon, hoping he'll emerge as a cuter kid. - Description from Klasky-Csupo
Plot[]
The babies are watching a butterfly come out of its cocoon while the grownups are watching Dil. Chuckie's doing somersaults, but he goes unnoticed. Angelica, who is dressed in ballerina attire, informs Chuckie that he has grown out of being cute, and this why no one is paying him any attention. She says that she, on the other hand, continues to only get more beautiful. She tells Chuckie that only beautiful people get good food, and that he will have to live in a shack, with nothing to eat or drink except moldy crackers and "icky" juice for the rest of his life. She dances away, and her dancing gets the attention and praise of the grownups. Chuckie takes this as confirmation that what Angelica told him is true: he has lost his cuteness. Stu gives the babies popsicles, which Chuckie refuses, for fear of getting it on his face and making himself even less cute. He then gets an idea: he decides to wrap himself up in a cocoon of blankets-- not to turn into a butterfly but to become cuter; he feels that he can metamorphose like the caterpillar, and emerge as something more beautiful than before. He has a dream where he turns into some sort of butterfly-hybrid called a Chuckerfly. As a Chuckerfly, he gets attention and adoration from everyone; even Angelica praises his beauty, and wishes she could look like him. When Chuckie wakes up, people begin to notice him-- but not Angelica, who now tries to cocoon herself too.
Trivia[]
- Another Klasky-Csupo cartoon, Santo Bugito, had a character named Miguel who sat silently waiting to hatch from his cocoon. He never did through the run of the show.
- Angelica says, "Some people stay beautiful forever, unless of course, you get 'elastic perjury'"; in All Grown Up!, her mother gets plastic surgery for herself.
- The music heard during the caterpillar's walk in the opening was used in Rugrats: Search for Reptar.
- Moral: Cuteness isn't all on the outside; it's also on the inside.
- This is the first episode where Angelica appears in a ballerina outfit.
Goofs[]
- When Tommy is explaining to his friends how caterpillars (referred to by the babies as "kitty-pillars") turn into butterflies, they initially mispronounce it as "butler-fly", "Flutterby" or "Barfly." But afterward, they correctly pronounce it as "butterfly."
- Didi isn't holding Dil when Chuckie approaches her and the adults, but she does afterward.
- In the dream, everyone except Chuckie has a purplish skin tone.
- However, dreams don't normally make a lot of sense, so this could have been deliberate, as just part of Chuckie's dream.