The Bank Trick

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is the fourteenth episode belonging to the second season of the Rugrats Television Series.

Summary

Didi needs to go to the bank to run her errands. So in the meantime Tommy and Chuckie raid the bank looking for M&M's. Instead they cause havoc and help the police catch two notorious criminals.

Plot

The episode begins with Tommy and Chuckie playing with Grandpa Lou's chess set that he mail-ordered fifteen months prior to the episode's events. Lou sees what the boys have done in shock. Didi takes the babies with her so she can run her errands while Lou tries to cool down. The first stop is at the bank. Didi's main focus was to pay at the Automated Teller Machine (ATM). Tommy and Chuckie think that it's an M&M machine. Tommy presses the buttons on the machine, but it ruins Didi's credit card. As she takes the boys inside to fill out some forms to buy a new card, Tommy says that the two of them have to go back outside to get the M&M's out of the machine.

While along the way, a couple of bank examiners (Agents Richter and Simms), at least they appear to be, are being shown around by the bank's manager, Mr. Loew, who shows them the bank's tellers.

The babies make their way to the machine, which is broken and needs repairs. Tommy and Chuckie go behind the machine to look for M&M's, but all they do is pull a lever that makes money fly out of the machine. Tommy thinks that the repairman who was there earlier ate all the M&Ms. Just then, a mint shipment crew comes in to lock the local mint in a laser-protected vault. The boys follow the crew, thinking they have a ship full of mints (the candy, not the money).

Mr. Loew shows the examiners the vault, saying that it could detect even a buzzing fly. Tommy and Chuckie go through the lasers (because they were too little to be seen) to find mints in the bags, but all they see is dollar bills (which they think is green wrapping paper. They then see one of the bank's oldest customers, Mrs. Harriet Trencherman, looking at her valuable gems. They think that her gems are candy.

She is interviewed by the bank examiners, but she hurries them out of her sight after Mr. Loew informs them that she is one of the bank's oldest customers (she finds this offensive). As she hurries them out, Tommy and Chuckie attempt to taste the gems, but are disgusted (they think that they're rocks). After finding her gems gone, Mrs. Trencherman faints.

Tommy and Chuckie notice Ms. Haze, who Didi was talking to earlier licking a lollipop. As she attempts to talk to the bank's boss, Mr. Poltax, he tells her not to interrupt him while he makes some important decisions. She walks out of his office, but quickly returns to inform him that Mrs. Trencherman's fainted. As Mr. Poltax follows Ms. Haze to make sure she's all right, Tommy looks for lollipops and Chuckie plays around on Mr. Poltax's computer, thinking it's a TV. The babies decide to give up and to go back to Didi. Along the way, Chuckie unknowingly steps on a security alarm button.

Didi thought that filling all those forms to get a new card was quite challenging. Ms. Haze rewards the two boys with a couple of lollipops. As Didi takes Tommy and Chuckie to her car so she can finish her errands, the bank examiners exit the bank with briefcases full of money to be kept under watchful eye. However, before they can get into their car, they are apprihended by the police. The chief of police reveals that the so-called "bank examiners" are actually notorious bank robbers. Mr. Loew takes the briefcases away from them.