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Season 6 Episode 1a
Chuckie's Duckling Title Card
Chuckie's Duckling
Original Airdate January 4, 1999 (Canada)
January 18, 1999 (US)
DVD release Season 6
Complete Series
Previous Episode The Family Tree
Next Episode A Dog's Life

"Chuckie's Duckling" is a Season 5 episode of Rugrats, and notably the first episode to air after the release of The Rugrats Movie.

Characters Present[]

Characters Introduced[]

Plot[]

Chuckie finds a duck egg and helps it to hatch. The duckling that comes out, who he names Herbert, adopts Chuckie as his big brother and follows him everywhere. But is Chuckie ready for the big responsibility? - Description from Klasky Csupo 

Summary[]

This episode starts off in a marsh that is to have a condo development built on it. A bulldozer comes by and destroys part of the marsh, scaring a mother duck, and she flies to the Pickle's backyard. The very next day, Lou is getting ready for a checkers tournament. Chuckie and Tommy are playing "the old west" in the backyard with Chuckie as the sheriff and Tommy as the robber. Chuckie asks Tommy to go to jail, but then Dil wants Tommy to come and play. Tommy says that Dil wants to play too, and he’s always bringing him to play because he’s his big brother. Chuckie goes to be by himself. Then, a baby duck hatches in Tommy's backyard, and the first thing it sees is Chuckie. Chuckie adopts the duck, which he calls "Herbert". Phil and Lil come by and ask Chuckie where he got the "chicken". Chuckie finds that, at first, caring for Herbert is exciting, but when the novelty wears out, it becomes a chore, and he begins to realize the responsibilities of actually being an older brother. Before the kids go to the park, Dil puts Herbert in his diaper. Chuckie is upset that Herbert followed him to the park. Meanwhile, Betty and her environmental group protest at the condo site that left the baby duck's mother without a home, while Grandpa tries to win at checkers.

In the end, Betty and the protestors win out, and Herbert's reunited with his mother and siblings. Chuckie's happy for Herbert, and realizes that, despite all the responsibilities of being an older sibling, he's going to miss having Herbert around.

The episode ends with Chuckie returning Dil's rattle to him after he throws it, and Grandpa chasing Conan McNulty after finding out that the tournament is for Backgammon instead of checkers.

Trivia[]

  • This is the first episode to use digital cel and background animation.
  • This is the first episode to air in 1999 as well as the first to air after the release of The Rugrats Movie.
  • This is the first appearance of Dil in the series after the first film.
  • While he doesn't have any biological siblings, Chuckie does eventually become an older step-brother -- he gains a stepsister in the form of Kimi (as well as a stepmother in the form of Kimi's mother, Kira) in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. And in "Finsterella", they legally become siblings when Chas legally adopts Kimi as his daughter and Kira adopts Chuckie as her son.
  • When Tommy and Chuckie play cowboys, music similar to the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is heard.
  • Angelica does not appear in this episode or its sister episode.
  • Spassky Lewis might be a reference to Boris Spassky, a Russian chess champion who was defeated by Bobby Fischer.
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