Chuckie's First Haircut | Gallery | Transcript |
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Season 3 Episode 2a | |
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Chuckie's First Haircut | |
Original Airdate | October 2, 1993 |
DVD release | Season 3 Retro Essentials Complete Series |
Previous Episode | Twins' Pique |
Next Episode | Cool Hand Angelica |
"Chuckie's First Haircut" is a Season 3 episode of Rugrats.
Characters Present[]
Character Introduced[]
Synopsis[]
Chas takes Chuckie to the barber for his first haircut, which becomes quite a task when Chuckie expresses his fear in a very loud way.
- Description from Klasky Csupo
Plot[]
Chuckie's hair is getting too long, and when Angelica finds out he needs a haircut, she tells Chuckie, and he gets scared. Chas takes Chuckie to a local barbershop that offers children's haircuts, but Chuckie gets even more scared and ends up wrecking the barbershop. While back at the home of Stu, Didi and Tommy, Chas and Chuckie tell the others their take on the event (with Chas telling Tommy's parents and Chuckie telling the other Rugrats): Chuckie spilled a case of industrial-strength cologne, got into a barrel of hair, knocked over a tub of lather, crashed into a shelf of shampoo, and broke a cardboard cut-out of Crewcut the Clown in two. Chas expresses his embarrassment, but Stu and Didi assure him that he's had worse things happen.
Angelica keeps scaring Chuckie into thinking that his haircut's going to hurt, but Susie tries to assure him that getting your hair cut doesn't hurt. While the adults are thinking of various ways to cut Chuckie's hair, the Rugrats are trying to help Chuckie not be scared of getting his hair cut (Susie even attempts to hypnotize Chuckie into not being scared). In the end, the adults decide that the best way to make Chuckie not scared of getting his hair cut is to show him that getting a haircut really doesn't hurt. They decide to let Chuckie cut off some of Chas's hair, which Chuckie does, but he goes a little overboard with it and ends up cutting off a lot of his dad's hair (this causes Chas to cry, but Chuckie interprets this as proof that getting your haircut does hurt).
In the end, Chuckie decides to just go through with getting his hair cut, realizing that he can't live in fear of it for the rest of his life. He and his dad go to the barbershop, and both of them get their hair cut, with Chuckie going first. When the barber is cutting Chuckie's hair, Chuckie realizes that getting your hair cut really doesn't hurt and likes it. When Chas and Chuckie get back to Stu, Didi and Tommy's house, Tommy, Phil and Lil see Chuckie's new haircut, and Stu offers to take a picture of both him and Chas (who's now wearing a hat to cover up his haircut). When Stu tells Chas to take his hat off for the photo, it's revealed that Chas is now bald, since the barber couldn't really do anything with his hair.
Trivia[]
- Stu, Didi, and Chas are the only parents of the Rugrats to appear in this episode.
- Susie is the only member of the Carmichael family to appear in this episode.
- Both Chuckie and Chas' hair are restored to normal following this episode.
- According to Chas, Chuckie is afraid of spandex.
- This episode reveals that Chas has had numerous embarrassing moments in his life, such as:
- Being stood up at his high school senior prom.
- His boss calling him an imbecile over the P.A. System.
- Getting punched in the jaw by an elderly woman.
- An unknown fourth incident which he admits to have exaggerated on, despite how ugly it was.
- Most boys get their first haircut at the age of two; some kids wait until the age of three.
- Morals:
- Don't be afraid of trying something new.
- Haircuts don't actually hurt (unlike having your hair pulled, the part being cut has dead cells, and is not connected to any nerve endings, so there's no pain.)