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Season 2 Episode 4b
Mirrorland Title Card
Mirrorland
Original Airdate September 27, 1992
VHS release Diapered Duo
On The Loose
DVD release The Best of Season 2
Season 2
Complete Series
Previous Episode Showdown at Teeter Totter Gulch
Next Episode Angelica's In Love

"Mirrorland" is the second segment of the fourth episode of Season 2, and the seventeenth Rugrats episode overall.

Characters Present[]

Synopsis[]

Didi and Grandpa Lou visit an antique store/frozen yogurt shop called "Cold N' Oldies" and discover a strange mirror, which the Rugrats use to go to "Mirrorland", the place where "everything is the same, only different".

- Description from Klasky Csupo

Plot[]

While the babies explore the fish tank and Grandpa Lou is asleep in front of the TV, Didi brings home an antique mirror. Of course, being the curious babies they are, Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil go up to it wondering what it is, and what it does. Tommy walks over to the mirror, curious as he sees his reflection and being mesmerized by it as he begins playing with it.

Meanwhile, Lou helps Didi bring in the other stuff she brought while she was out. Tommy and Chuckie play with their reflections in the mirror, while Phil and Lil stand in front of one another and put their hands and faces together, each one pretending that their twin is their own mirror image. They all wonder how a mirror works as Chuckie tells them they probably wouldn't understand: it's very "scientrific." He says that when they look into the mirror, that they're actually seeing a person just like them and a whole other world on the other side, aka Mirrorland, as Tommy refers to it. Chuckie says everything in Mirrorland is backwards. Tommy, Phil, and Lil find this pretty silly, but accept it, since it's Mirrorland, and of course they all want to go there. Chuckie tries to stop them, telling them that they couldn't go because there's always a Mirror boy in the way.

Tommy then moves back and runs towards the mirror, only for Didi to grab him before he hits the mirror and hurts himself. This causes Lou to drop the box he and Didi were carrying inside. Didi puts the babies in the playpen, telling Tommy to play with soft things. Didi then carries the mirror upstairs while Lou discovers what's in the box. Chuckie then says to Tommy that running into the mirror probably wasn't a good idea, to which Tommy actually agrees, then says that they need to outsmart the mirror boys.

Didi is decorating the house with the things she brought. She puts up a cat clock, trying to get it to work, only for it to work for a few seconds before it stops again. Lou then brings in the box and shows Didi the things inside. He puts on an old toupee, and Didi tells him it's only junk. Of course, a ballerina outfit catches her eye, and she decides to go and try it on. While Didi and Lou are preoccupied, Tommy and Chuckie escape the playpen in search for the mirror. Chuckie tries to talk Tommy out of it, saying something bad will happen. Tommy ignores this, as usual, and he tells Phil and Lil that, once he and Chuckie come back, they'd get a turn in Mirrorland.

Tommy and Chuckie then go off in search of the mirror while Didi is trying on the outfit. Didi's glasses fall off her face onto the floor; Spike takes them and heads downstairs just as Tommy and Chuckie get up the stairs. They then spot the mirror in a nearby room. Meanwhile, Lou is trying on the toupees that he found in the box. Didi says she can't find her glasses, and asks Lou if he could help her find them. Back to Tommy and Chuckie, Tommy walks closer to the mirror as he tells Chuckie his plan: he is going to use his favorite ball, knowing that it was possibly the mirror boy's favorite ball. Tommy then has Chuckie call out to the mirror boy to distract him, giving them a chance to enter Mirrorland.

Tommy, when he gets the chance, goes and runs into the mirror, causing it to flip, lifting up Tommy and throwing him into a box behind it. Chuckie then walks up and the same thing happens to him as he lands into the box as well. After climbing out of the box, Tommy and Chuckie think they actually went through the mirror and are now in Mirrorland. Meanwhile, Phil and Lil fight about whether Chuckie and Tommy made it to Mirrorland or not. Spike, still holding Didi's glasses in his mouth, goes into the kitchen and knocks the box full of toupees onto the floor, getting him all dusty and dirty. Tommy and Chuckie explore the upstairs, wondering what else is different. Of course, everything look the same, but Tommy claims it is different, as he tells Chuckie many different things that are done in Mirrorland, like wearing shoes on your hands, sleeping under the bed, and wearing your diaper on your head; he takes off his diaper and puts it on his own head.

Chuckie then wonders if there really is a Mirrorland, and it is not just something Tommy is making up. Tommy and Chuckie then hear Grandpa Lou; Tommy quickly puts his diaper back on and he and Chuckie hide. Lou then comes in the room looking for Didi's glasses and wearing a giant red toupee, causing the babies to think it is "Mirror Grandpa" and that he is mean, since Lou is nice in real life. Tommy and Chuckie then run out of the room, only to see Didi walking blindly down the hall, wearing the ballerina outfit. They think she is the mirror version of Tommy's mom, and that she's a robot, as she walks and trips in a closet.  Tommy and Chuckie then run back to the room that had the mirror, only to run into "Mirror Spike". They run and hide in the guest bedroom as Tommy tells Chuckie to hand him his ball. He throws it and Spike, of course, chases after it.

Tommy and Chuckie then head for the mirror while Spike runs downstairs chasing the ball, only to run into Lou, who takes Didi's glasses off of Spike's face and gives them back to Didi. Didi is surprised by the toupee and tells Lou to take it off as she goes upstairs to change out of the ballerina outfit as the skirt was a bit short. Lou then takes Spike to give him a bath while Phil and Lil still argue over whether Tommy and Chuckie got to Mirrorland or not.  Tommy and Chuckie get back to the mirror and, without another thought, run towards it, causing it to flip around and flip them back to the front, making it seem like they went back through the mirror.

Didi then comes in, dressed in her normal attire, as she takes Tommy and Chuckie back down to the playpen. Didi then overhears Lou having trouble washing off Spike and goes to see while Phil and Lil ask Tommy and Chuckie questions about Mirrorland. Phil and Lil then suspect Tommy and Chuckie are mirror boys and make them answer questions which only the real Tommy and Chuckie would know. Chuckie hesitates when answering, causing Phil and Lil to call him a mirror boy, but he finally answers, and they all burst out laughing. Spike, still wet, then jumps into the playpen and licks Tommy; the twins say that Tommy and Chuckie couldn't be mirror boys, since dogs can tell. In the end, Didi says the babies can be a handful sometimes but are adorable, as Lou says he's going to wash up.

Trivia[]

  • This episode is used as a basis for a mini game in the PlayStation game Rugrats: Search for Reptar.
  • We get to see the adults play dress up in this episode. Look for Spike trying on a false beard and glasses, Didi in a ballerina outfit, and Grandpa Lou trying on rock star wigs.
  • When Lil says she's glad the boys are back, you can hear Kath Soucie's voice slip into Phil's voice at the end.
  • Didi says the mirror is a "French Genuine Louis XIX Looking Glass", but Lou notices the "Made in Taiwan" sticker on the mirror. It should be noted that the last ruler of France named Louis was actually Louis XVIII, which would've been a clear indication that Didi was swindled.
  • The episode ends with the mirrored message "ᗡИƎ ƎHT".

Errors/Goofs[]

  • Didi's mouth doesn't move when she says "Uh-Oh".
  • When Tommy and Chuckie first go into Tommy’s parents' room, the bed has no shoes under it, but they appear in the shot after.
  • In the end, there's a shot of Phil and Lil with their ducks missing from their outfits.
  • Klasky Csupo's description of this episode is inaccurate: It says Lou visited Cold N' Oldies with Didi, but in the episode, it was just Didi who had gone there; Lou was at home with the babies.

Video Clip[]

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The Rugrats Diaper Commercial The Splat

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