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"Curse of the Werewuff" is a Season 8 episode of Rugrats.
Characters Present[]
- Tommy
- Dil
- Chuckie
- Phil
- Lil
- Kimi
- Angelica
- Susie
- Spike
- Fifi
- Edwin
- Buster
- Alyssa
- Stu
- Didi
- Chas
- Kira
- Howard
- Betty
- Drew
- Charlotte
- Randy
- Lucy
- Lou
- Lulu
Characters Introduced[]
Synopsis[]
In this Halloween special, the Rugrats (with the exception of Angelica) go trick-or-treating for the first time with their families at a local amusement park for Halloween. With the exception of Chuckie, all the Rugrats are excited for Halloween. To scare the babies, Angelica tells them that you turn into whatever your Halloween costume is (their parents decided to dress the babies up as monsters, so they'd feel scarier than anything they actually saw at the amusement park).
Plot[]
It's Halloween, and Betty is judging Didi for putting a smile on her own jack-o-lantern. It turns out that Chuckie is scared of Halloween. In response, the adults put their heads together and choose to dress the kids as monsters to make them less afraid.
After Angelica, who's wearing a princess costume, gets caught in the act of eating candy before leaving for the local amusement park by Drew and Charolette (who puts her foot down) who both punish her by not letting her go trick-or-treating for disobeying them twice (Although Angelica makes the former change his mind and they tell her that if she's good, they'll take her later). Stu tries to scare the babies with his goblin costume, but only manages to scare Chas and Chuckie. who's scared of Halloween.
That night, Chuckie has a nightmare where he turns into a colorblind werewolf and gets hunted down by his friends and family, who kill him by forcing him into a pumpkin. The next night, the babies gather around to go trick-or-treating. Chuckie sheepishly shows off his Wolf-Man costume, while Angelica gets caught sneaking candy the third time and is banned from trick-or-treating. The princess tries to sweet-talk the parents, only to find they're in no mood for her games. Chuckie is still terrified of turning into a werewolf, so Angelica says that she can turn him back to normal, but she'll only do it on one condition: the babies have to give her all the candy that they get from trick-or-treating, which, with the exception of Chuckie, they don't want to do.
The families all go to the amusement park where Angelica again, begs her parents to let her go trick-ore-treating. Drew finally bends and tells her to she can have candy later if she says on her best behavior.
Later, after getting to the amusement park, Lou and Lulu keep an eye on the kids while the rest of the adults go off and do their own thing. Lou and Lulu take the children to a kid-friendly haunted house (which Lulu describes as more "cute" than "scary") and while there, Angelica sneaks off to get some candy. Chuckie sees another little girl in a princess costume. He tries asking her to turn him back into a baby, but he accidentally ends up scaring her thanks to a trick mirror. After seeing that and remembering what Angelica said beforehand, the other babies (mostly Tommy and Kimi) decide they all want to be human again to give Angelica their Halloween candy so she can turn them back into babies. They go wandering around unsupervised for the sake of getting a horde of candy for Angelica, but when they go to look for her, they see her going into a more mature haunted house and follow her in. The Rugrats make their way through the frightful fun house, only to find Angelica in the corners cowering and shivering. Turns out she more scared of Halloween than Chuckie. The babies agree to lead her to safety if she changes them back to normal, but she refuses unless if they giver all her candy. Chuckie has had enough of this and yells at her to change them back... Angelica casts a spell and Chuckie fearlessly leads the group through some zombies. The kids get cornered in the cemetery, until they all fall through a trap door that leads then down a slide going outside.
They all manage to get out of the haunted house safe and sound, and Angelica laughs at the abies for thinking that they really were monsters, revealing to the babies that she had lied about them turning into their Halloween costumes, to which her cousin, Tommy, points out that since she lied to them, they don't have to give her their Halloween candy. But, like always with Angelica, she still wants it and confiscates a bag of candy from Chuckie (claiming, "I took the curse off hair and square"). But her parents catch her in the act of eating Chuckie's candy red-handed and punish her by not letting her go trick-or-treating as well as going to give her a well-deserved time out for the rest of Halloween. In the end, all the babies, even Chuckie, like Halloween and make suggestions for what to go as next year (like a cat, a rabbit or a frog---which was Phil's idea, since frogs eat bugs).
Quotes[]
- Drew: Well, alright, but just one.
- Drew: Angelica, someone needs a time out.
- Drew: If you're good, we'll... we'll take you later.
Trivia[]
- Here are the following costumes the characters wear in this episode.
- Pickles Family:
- Finster Family:
- DeVille Family:
- Howard, Betty, Phil, and Lil DeVille.
- Howard is a football player, and Betty is a cheerleader.
- Phil and Lil are dressed up as bats.
- Howard, Betty, Phil, and Lil DeVille.
- Carmichael Family:
- Randy, Lucy, Alyssa, Buster, Edwin, and Susie.
- Randy, Lucy, and Edwin are all wearing medieval costumes.
- Alyssa is a beauty queen, and Buster is a baseball player.
- Susie is an angel.
- Randy, Lucy, Alyssa, Buster, Edwin, and Susie.
- During this episode, Drew and Charlotte are the only characters that never wear costumes at all (they are both wearing business suits.)
- Charlotte wears her casual outfit, accessories, and high heels with different colors instead, meaning that she is the only character who wears the same clothes but with different colors in later appearances of this episode. The rest of the characters wear their costumes or entirely different clothes in later appearances of this episode.
- This is the last episode Chuckie is shown standing up to Angelica.
- Angelica explains to the babies what Halloween is, when she had already done so in their first Halloween-Based episode, "Candy Bar Creep Show". Unless, of course, she was refreshing their memories as well as telling Dil of what it is.
- This is the fifteenth half-an-hour episode of the series after "Tommy's First Birthday", "The Santa Experience", "Passover", "Chanukah", "Mother's Day", "Vacation", "The Turkey Who Came to Dinner", "The Family Tree", "No Place Like Home", "Be My Valentine", "Discover America", "Finsterella", "A Rugrats Kwanzaa", and "Preschool Daze".
- Despite this episode airing in 2002, it closes with the original Klasky Csupo, Inc. logo rather than the SPLAT robot logo. This error was never corrected for the VHS or DVD releases.
- The amusement parks all the characters went to is called Dreamland, but for Halloween, they painted over the "D" with "Sc" to call it "Screamland."
- It is actually Betty's idea to dress the babies up as monsters, which gives Kira the idea to dress Chuckie and Kimi up as a werewolf and a witch, respectively.
- Characters with no lines:
- Howard DeVille
- The Carmichael family (with the exception of Susie)
- Spike (1991) and Fifi
- Angelica and Susie's Halloween costumes reflect their personalities: Susie, dressed as an angel, is much nicer and more well-behaved than Angelica, who, dressed as a princess, is very mean, spoiled, and a bratty monster.
- Even though this isn't the first Halloween episode in the series, the babies seem to be unfamiliar with the holiday, and they call it "Hallowmean".
- This is the fourth time Chuckie has wet himself but like in "The Slide", it's only implied, as he says he "doesn't have to go anymore" when he's startled by some things in the haunted house.
- This episode, along with "Bow Wow Wedding Vows" and the Rugrats: Tales from the Crib episode "Three Jacks and a Beanstalk", are the only pieces of original Rugrats media to have never aired on NickRewind, for unknown reasons.
- In the end of Chuckie's nightmare, after Chas, in his village clothes, tells Chuckie that he has to keep him from hurting anyone, he uses the pumpkin to place Chuckie inside it as some sort of punishment. It's unknown what will happen to Chuckie after being placed inside the pumpkin.
- During the scene before Kimi appears in her witch costume after Chuckie's nightmare, a rendition of the song "Teddy Bears' Picnic" can be heard in the background, a possible reference to the 1998 videogame, Banjo Kazooie.
- Morals:
- Actions have consequences.
- It is okay to be afraid.
- Stealing and extorting is wrong and immoral.
- Teasing, intimidating, threatening or scaring your younger siblings or cousins into giving them their treats will eventually come back to bite you in the end.
Goofs[]
- When Grandpa Lou is dressed as Frankenstein's Monster, his face is made up in a pale green color. But when he sic's the kids on the guy dressed as a monster in the kiddie haunted house and says "Get him, kids! Show him who's boss!" his nose and mouth area suddenly change to its normal flesh color.
Gallery[]
The gallery for this episode can be found here
