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"The Perfect Twins" is a Season 9 episode of Rugrats.
Characters Present[]
- Tommy
- Dil
- Chuckie
- Phil
- Lil
- Kimi
- Angelica
- Stu
- Didi
- Chas
- Kira
- Howard
- Betty
- Lou
- Drew
- Charlotte
- Lulu
- Boris
- Minka
Characters Introduced[]
Plot[]
Betty's relatives from England come to America to pay a visit. Coming along are their kids, Smedley and Hedley, who are also fraternal twins like Phil and Lil. Unlike Phil and Lil, however, Smedley and Hedley dress differently, behave properly, keep clean, and finish each other's sentences without delay or incorrectness. Therefore, they consider such "twinny" behavior a sign that they are "perfect twins". This eventually leads to Lil wanting to be as prim and proper as Smedley and Hedley, while Phil decides to remain as messy and disorderly as usual, saying he doesn't want to be perfect.
Meanwhile, Winifred, the British twins' mother, tries to sell Betty on her method of raising twins, a method that Betty steadfastly refuses to subscribe to.
Also, Betty gets the neighbors to pose as her relatives, as her real relatives didn't come, due to Howard's cheap invitation software that he bought at a dollar store that made the year of the date 2052.
Later, Angelica, dressed as a princess for a dance recital, tricks Smedley and Hedley into believing that she's queen of America. As a result, they do everything she says; even bad things that they feel aren't proper.
Soon, the cake Betty presents is in the form of Buckingham Palace, but Howard notices his video camera is nearly dead, so no one can eat the cake until he can replace the battery.
However, "Queen Angelica" (unaware that Betty clearly stated that no one could eat or take the cake) sends Hedley and Smedley and Lil to get the cake. Once Hedley and Smedley take the cake, Lil is left to take the blame. Phil, Tommy, Chuckie and Kimi try to get Lil back out of trouble by tricking Hedley and Smedley into believing that Queen Angelica likes a "special dance" (according to Kimi). They lead Hedley and Smedley into dancing until they do a somersault causing the cake that they had placed in their pockets earlier) to fall. Winnie is horrified and rushes into the house to get her children clean clothes. Betty, feeling guilty for blaming and punishing Lil, sends her back to Phil. Hedley and Smedley begin arguing as they throw mud at each other, much to Winifred's horror. Betty calms her down and takes her back to the house to give Winifred her own talk about twins. Phil and Lil reunite and start a huge row at how Phil is a nutter as the episode ends at arguing once more.
Trivia[]
- Sometimes acting "twinny" can be mandatory in school if a teacher pairs his or her classmates in groups.
- This is the nineteenth and final half an hour episode of the series after "Tommy's First Birthday", "The Santa Experience", "Passover", "Chanukah", "Mother's Day", "Vacation", "The Turkey Who Came to Dinner", "The Family Tree", "No Place Like Home", "Be My Valentine", "Discover America", "Finsterella", "A Rugrats Kwanzaa", "Preschool Daze", "Curse of the Werewuff", "Bow Wow Wedding Vows", "Murmer on the Ornery Express", and "Club Fred".
- Of the "hometowns" Betty assigned her "relatives", Poughkeepsie is a city in New York (Boris and Minka), Pacoima is a part of Los Angeles in California (Didi and Stu), Paducah is a town in Texas as well as a city in Kentucky (Drew and Charlotte), and Podunk is the name of multiple places (but also can be used as a placeholder name for an insignificant or even fictitious town- which might have been an intentional joke) (Chas and Kira).
- This is Boris and Minka's last appearance in the original Rugrats until the reboot series.
- After 13 minutes, there is a role reversal (in which Stu and Drew argue over who is Carl from Pacoima, because normally only Phil and Lil call each other by their real names while arguing, not the adults and sometimes Angelica addresses Chuckie by his last name).
- Lil gets in trouble for something she didn't do; "Fluffy vs. Spike" and "Angelica Nose Best" are other episodes in which someone is accused of something he/she didn't do.
- Phil's line: "A twin's gotta do, what a twin's gotta do" is similar to Tommy's original catchphrase "A baby's gotta do, what a baby's gotta do".
- This is another episode that ends in someone's mouth. Other episodes that have that same feature are "Piggy's Pizza Palace" and "Brothers are Monsters."
- Morals:
- Innocent until proven guilty.
- There is no "right" or "wrong" way to be twins; whether your twin sibling is similar to, or different from you, or if they don't agree with you on everything, they are still your twin, and you can love and appreciate them for who they are.
Goofs[]
- When Hedley and Smedley tell Lil that she's not twins with them, their voices are switched.
Video[]
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