The Dog Broomer

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Season 2 Episode 11b
The Dog Broomer
Original Airdate	November 15, 1992
DVD release	The Best of Season 2 Season 2
Previous Episode	Superhero Chuckie
Next Episode	Aunt Miriam

The Dog Broomer is the second segment of the eleventh episode of season 2, and the forty-seventh Rugrats segment overall.

Characters Present

• Stu

• Didi

•  Lou

• Tommy 

• Spike

• Chuckie

• Phil 

•  Lil 
• Ilsa Umlaut.
• Bernie.
• Murphy Allen.

Synopsis

The Rugrats think Ilsa Umlaut, the dog groomer Didi hires to clean Spike, is evil. Can they convince her to leave their dog alone?

- Description from Klasky Csupo.

Plot

The babies try to rescue Spike from Ilsa.

Summary

The episode begins with Tommy Pickles and Chuckie Finster watching Spike play near the garbage outside. They wonder what it's like for him, since he gets to have all the fun.

Around the same time, Stu, Didi and Lou begin to watch The Merminator, a Science Fiction musical film which "the bald guy" gave thumbs up. Lou jokingly bets that "the fat guy" hated it. As the film begins, Lou hears Spike wanting to come in and proceeds to open the door for him. Over a few minutes' time, the three adults smell something very unsanitary. Didi had just changed Tommy and Chuckie's diapers recently, and Stu took out the garbage earlier, so it's neither of them. Soon they learn that the smell is coming from Spike.

Didi searches through the yellow pages on her phone book for a phone book for a dog groomer to clean Spike. Tommy and Chuckie overhear and think that "dog brooming" sounds pretty scary.

Later that morning, after Phil and Lil DeVille come over, a storm forms. Tommy tells his friends what he thinks the dog broomer does. After they hear the door bell rings, the babies hide, thinking it's the broomer. It's actually Bernie, the wood cutter who was called to take care of the Pickles' tree stump. Soon after Stu answers, the babies are relieved. The bell rings again, and before Tommy could hide along with his friends, Stu picks him up. Again, Stu answers the door, and an insurance salesman named Allen Murphy comes by to offer the Pickles family protection. As the babies again come out of hiding in relief, Chuckie's getting pretty tired. The bell rings yet again. This time, Didi answers. Ilsa Umlaut, the dog groomer, arrives right on time.

Transcript

The transcript can be found here

Goofs

• Ilsa Umlaut, the con artist dog groomer, describes that pouring rain is "beach weather" in Helsinki. She also states that she went to the best school in Stockholm. Helsinki is the capital of Finland, and Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. The family should have known she was a fraud, because unless Ilsa traveled to many countries many times, she did not keep her story straight.

Trivia

• The movie the parents watch, The Merminator, is a parody of The Terminator. The bold guy that gave it thumbs up whilst the fat guy hated it is an homage to the two reviewers, Siskel and Ebert.

Quotes

• Tommy: You hear that Spike? You've been broomed [sic] for the last time!