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"The Alien" is a Season 3 episode of Rugrats.

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Synopsis[]

When Angelica is told she is too big to play in the new playhouse Chas has built for the other Rugrats, she tells them that Chuckie is actually an alien and that the playhouse is a space ship.

- Description from Klasky Csupo

Plot[]

Angelica is having the babies be her slaves and bring her things. Chas announces that he has a surprise: a playhouse he has built for Chuckie and his friends. The babies are excited to play in it. When Chas leaves to answer a phone call, a jealous Angelica pushes the babies out of the way. She tries to go in the playhouse, but she can't fit. She complains that it's too small. Phil says that he and the others can fit inside, but Angelica says no; if she can't go in there, none of them can. Tommy complains that isn't fair. Chas comes and gets Chuckie so he can say hi to his grandma on the phone. Tommy insists that he and the other babies will play in the playhouse, in spite of Angelica's attempts to stop them. Angelica says that there is a good reason they can't play in there: Chuckie is an alien from outer space, and the playhouse is really a spaceship.

Angelica claims that she had been having suspicions about Chuckie, and so she snuck out one night to investigate at the Finsters' house. Looking through a window, she noticed that Chuckie had a zipper on his back, and that the Finster's typical appearances were really costumes. After taking off their costumes, they revealed themselves to be six-eyed reptilian aliens. They reported to outer space with a plan to use their spaceship disguised as a playhouse to kidnap the babies and take them back to their home planet. They intend to study the Rugrats for a future invasion.

The gullible babies believe Angelica's story and are now too frightened to go in the playhouse. Chuckie comes back outside and asks if they are going to play in the playhouse. He seems upset at how distant his friends seem and concludes that they don't like him anymore. Tommy tells him that that isn't the reason and says that they now know that he is an alien. Chuckie denies this, but Angelica, determined to keep up the charade, insists that a real alien would never admit to being one.

They decide to go through a series of "tests", each one making Chuckie seem more alien-like, according to Angelica, though he keeps insisting that he isn't. Finally, Angelica decides to do the ultimate test by spraying Chuckie with a water hose, to see if he will melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. After some persuasion from Chuckie, Tommy decides enough is enough and that Chuckie is his friend, whether he is an alien or not. Phil and Lil still aren't convinced, and they help Angelica with the hose while Tommy tries to stop them.

Finally, Chuckie hides in the playhouse. Tommy, still determined to help his friend, goes in after him despite Angelica's objections. He finds the playhouse to be exciting and fun. Angelica sprays Chuckie with the hose and nothing happens, finally convincing the babies that Angelica had made everything up after all. Phil and Lil join the others in the playhouse and leave Angelica outside. In a blind rage that her plan had failed, Angelica calls them dumb babies and accidentally squirts herself in the face with the hose.

Tommy apologizes to Chuckie for thinking he was an alien; Chuckie accepts, and replies that these days, you can't tell who's an alien. Phil is seen playing with the steering wheel, and the episode ends with the playhouse appearing to be suddenly blasting off into the sky in their imagination.

Trivia[]

  • The appearance of the six-eyed reptilian aliens is very similar to the reptiles of the episode "Calling All Creeps" of the live action series Goosebumps.
  • There are two inconsistencies with Angelica's story. First of all, she wouldn’t have been able to sneak out of her house unnoticed, as the noise she made while tying her sheets together and going out the window would have alerted her parents, and they'd order her to get back in bed. And secondly, she couldn't have been able to get to Chuckie's house because she doesn't know the way.
  • Scientifically speaking, Chuckie could not be an alien, because astrophysicists are still unsure if life exists on other planets.
  • Chas is the only parent to appear in this episode.
  • Chuckie has an "outtie" belly button.
  • Angelica parodies David Patrick Kelly in The Warriors (a line that Kelly ad libbed, incidentally).
  • Morals:
    • Don’t make fun of people because they are different. It might come back to bite you.
    • Don't keep something from someone else just because you yourself can't enjoy it.

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Rugrats Scariest Scenes PART FIVE

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