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Season 3 Episode 9a
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Reptar 2010
Original Airdate November 21, 1993
VHS release Return of Reptar
Volume 3
DVD release Season 3
Nickelodeon Rewind, Vol. 3
Complete Series
Previous Episode Sour Pickles
Next Episode Stu Gets a Job

"Reptar 2010" is the ninth episode from Season 3 of Rugrats.

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Synopsis[]

The Rugrats watch a Reptar movie called "Reptar 2010" until the tape breaks. When it does, each of them imagines how they see the story ending.

- Description from Klasky Csupo

Summary[]

The episode begins with the kids and Grandpa Lou watching the movie "Reptar 2010." The movie shows Reptar being teleported to the future and destroying a bunch of buildings. When the movie shows the conversation between Dr. Ventnor and the President, Lou fast forwards the tape, saying this is "the boring part." When he plays the tape again, it shows Reptar frozen in a block of ice and surrounded by nuclear containment rings. But when Reptar wakes up, he breaks free and runs out of the buildings. As Dr. Ventnor starts a lengthy explanation to the President about how to stop Reptar, Lou gradually grows bored and falls asleep.

As Reptar wrecks more havoc on the city, Chuckie feels sympathetic for Reptar, saying that "the buildings were ganging up on him." Tommy tells Chuckie that Reptar was having fun, but Angelica says that he was actually destroying things on purpose, to which Tommy disagrees. As the movie continues, the President asks if the ray-gun that Dr. Ventnor had built wouldn't stop Reptar, and Dr. Ventnor said that it would either work or it would tear the entire universe.

As the ray-gun seems to malfunction, the entire universe begins to tear down the middle before the screen goes to static. The babies start to cry, which wakes up Lou. When he gets the tape out of the VCR, it's shown to be broken and Lou leaves to go fix the tape. Chuckie tells the others he thinks he knows what happens next in the movie.

Chuckie then says he believes that when Reptar saw the ray-gun, he decided to go find a safe place. Chuckie imagines himself as Reptar, as Dr. Ventnor and the President are calling for him so they can use the ray-gun. Reptar-Chuckie sees them and sneaks away. Later, they find him posing as the Statue of "Lizardy" and chase him, but lose him when he falls into a subway station. Soon, they corner him on the Brooklyn Bridge and attempt to shoot him, but miss, as Reptar-Chuckie hides behind a building.

Back in the living room, Phil says he doesn't think that Reptar would hide, and believes Reptar would've gone and had fun. So Phil imagines himself as Reptar, and he is shown playing with a car and rolling it off-screen, and the car explodes. He then goes and does other gross things like swimming in the sewers. As he picks up a bus to play with it, Reptar-Lil comes and tries to take the bus from him, saying she saw the bus first.

Back again in the living room, Angelica disagrees and says that Reptar wouldn't have fought over a bus; he has better things to do. Angelica imagines herself as Reptar, and bullies the president and Dr. Ventnor into giving in to her demands. Yankee Stadium is turned into a small swimming pool that Reptar-Angelica lounges beside.

Back once more in the living room, Tommy says that Reptar would've been having adventures instead of relaxing by a pool, so Tommy imagines Dr. Ventnor and the President put Reptar-Tommy in a laser playpen while they clean up the city. But Tommy escapes and then goes off to find cookies. He finds the cookie factory, but is disappointed to find the cookies are like crumbs for him. He then tosses the factory down and sits on a different factory, wondering if there are Reptar-sized cookies.

At that moment, he sees the moon in the sky and thinks it's a cookie. But when he realizes it's too high up to reach on his own, Reptar-Phil and Reptar-Lil come and help Tommy get some buildings to pile up to reach the "cookie". As Tommy begins to climb up, the Reptar version of Chuckie states it's a bad idea, but they ignore him. Finally, Tommy reaches the cookie moon, grabs it, and slides back down to the city. But as Tommy begins to eat it, Reptar-Angelica comes and tries to take it. She is successful and begins jumping in the air yelling, "Look what I got!"

As they start to fight for the cookie, Reptar-Grandpa shows up and we go back to the living room one final time. Grandpa Lou says he fixed the movie, but that they "lost a few minutes of the middle, though." He pops the movie back into the VHS player, revealing that they actually lost the entire climax of the movie. Reptar is sent into space in a spaceship, and it's implied Reptar actually saved the universe. As the episode ends with the gang looking outside, the cookie is last seen on the moon with a bite taken out of it.

Trivia[]

  • During reruns of this episode in 2001, the scene where Reptar destroys the buildings wasn't removed despite the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11/01.
    • In a strange coincidence, this episode was scheduled to air on 9/11/01, but was pulled out of respect.[1]
  • One of the buildings destroyed by Reptar says "Viacom" (Viacom was at the time the parent company of Nickelodeon. It is now Paramount Global).
  • This is the last episode in which Antoine Guilbaud was the official character designers; he later went off to work on more episodes of Rocko's Modern Life.
  • A loose adaption of this episode was used in the Rugrats: Search for Reptar game.
  • This episode appears on the Return of Reptar VHS tape.
  • Reptar's origins are explained in this episode; he was once a normal Tyrannosaurus Rex that was transported from the Cretaceous period to modern day Earth by a special beam devised by scientists.
  • The Tyrannosaurus was shown standing upright and had three fingers and the Triceratops was seen standing on its hind legs during their fight, which is not historically accurate.
  • In this episode, dinosaurs ruled the Earth 50,000 years ago, which is not true. In real life, dinosaurs ruled the Earth 243-66 million years ago. 50,000 years ago was the Pleistocene epoch.
  • Despite Stu, Didi, and Chas's cameos in the Reptar fantasy and Stu being mentioned, Lou is the only adult that appears in this episode.
  • Lou mistakes one part of the film for the boring part and ends up getting bored and falling asleep to the actual boring part, which is the professor's longing theory.
  • Strangely, Lil isn't wearing her diaper in the Reptar fantasy despite the other babies wearing them, with Phil and Chuckie's diapers being clearly outlined against their clothes.
  • This episode is similar to Godzilla 2000: Millennium.
  • In the Reptar fantasy, when Chuckie expresses concern about Tommy climbing up the pile of skyscrapers to get to the moon, "Oh, Chuck-tar, don't be such a dinosaur" is said in Lil's voice, but it's Phil's mouth that moves when this is said.
  • During Angelica's telling of Reptar, there is a scene where a Giant Gorilla is shown climbing a tower, only for Reptar (who is shown to be much bigger than the gorilla) lifting it up and throwing it away. The Gorilla could be a reference to King Kong.

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