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"Crime and Punishment" is a Season 5 episode of Rugrats.
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Summary[]
Chas falls in love with a traffic cop, but the Rugrats try to sour their relationship after Angelica tells them that police officers like to steal babies. - Description from Klasky-Csupo
Plot[]
Chas is pulled over for running a stop sign. He is smitten with Naomi, the police officer who pulled him over, and ends up inviting her to dinner with him at Didi and Stu's, which she accepts. Chas tries to go without his glasses in an attempt to seem more attractive, but, realizing how unable he is to see without them, decides he'll wear his glasses after all. Unfortunately, Chuckie accidentally broke his father's glasses when Chas had set them down. Chas refuses to patch them up with tape, feeling he'll look even worse. Meanwhile, Chuckie is frightened that the officer will arrest him (after Angelica told the babies that people go to jail when they do wrong things.) He works with his friends to make her leave.
Trivia []
- This episode's name is taken from a novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- The opening sequence is a parody of part of the theme song to The Simpsons (Klasky-Csupo worked on that show before Rugrats), where it looks like Maggie is driving the car, but she is actually using her toy steering wheel while Marge drives the car.
- The episode description from Klasky-Csupo is not entirely accurate: Angelica did not tell the babies that police officers like to steal babies; rather, she said that they put people in jail for doing bad things (implying this happens even to babies).
- The events of "Chuckie Gets Skunked" are mentioned by Tommy.
- Angelica tells the other babies about jail, despite them already having referred to it as "prism" in previous episodes.