Toys in the Attic

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Season Two Episode 24b
Toys in the Attic
Original Airdate	April 11, 1993
VHS release	Passover
DVD release	Season 2
Previous Episode	Game Show Didi
Next Episode	Driving Miss Angelica

Toys in the Attic is a Season 2 episode of Rugrats.

Synopsis

The Pickles leave Angelica and Tommy over at Boris and Minka's while they go on vacation. While there, the babies discover the attic at their grandparent's house, which they first taught was haunted, is filled with boxes and boxes full of old toys.

- Description from Klasky Csupo

Plot

Stu , Didi , Drew and Charlotte drop off Tommy and Angelica at the Kropotkins' house so they can spend the weekend at a resort in the Bahamas while Boris and Minka, Didi's parents can watch Tommy and Angelica. Tommy is glad about this, but Angelica is reluctant at first, complaining that "they don't even have cable [TV]!" However, noticing Boris and Minka's belongings, she thinks that it won't be so boring after all. After their parents leave, Tommy and Angelica make a mess of things, breaking relics that they mistake for toys. After feeling faint for a few minutes, Boris and Minka recover to put their things out of reach so the kids can't play with them for a white. Wondering what to do, Boris first suggests that the kids can watch "the sesame seed", but both Boris and Minka argue over who is going to turn it on for them. However, feeling tired, Boris then suggests they all take a nap.

Near the way to the attic, Tommy wonders what's up there. Angelica teases Tommy, saying that there's ghosts up there. Boris finds the parts to Didi's crib so Tommy can rest on it, but falls and "hurts his shmegegge". As Boris fell, a ball bounces from the attic, and Tommy and Angelica are pretty thrilled. After Boris gets back up, he puts together the crib before he carries it downstairs.

After Boris and Minka take the kids to Didi's old bedroom so they can take a nap, Boris says "don't let the bedbugs bite" to them. However, they weren't feeling very sleepy, and Angelica tells Tommy what a dybbuk is (as Tommy misheard Boris's "bedbugs" as "dybbuks"); "It's kinda like a ghost, only scarier, and it lives in your bed." Tommy believes Angelica's ridiculous lie, jumping up in horror. Angelica then suggests that since he's not tired, they should go to the attic to find the toys. Tommy wonders "Where's Chuckie when you need him?"

As the cousins go up the attic, Minka checks Didi's bedroom to check on "her little dumplings", but finds that they've gone missing. As the Kropotkins find their neighbors' children by mistake, Tommy and Angelica explore the attic, finding Minka's old dresses, Didi's baby pictures and some dusty boxes. Finally, they find the toys. Angelica hands Tommy one of Didi's old rubber balls, but it bounces too far that it turns off the lights. At that moment, the attic became dark, and everything around the Pickles cousins seems scary. Their running around also switches on an old gramophone, and the weird old music on the record sounds like ghost music to Tommy. Their screaming seems to make Boris look in the attic, but he becomes covered in a white sheet blown onto him by the wind. Tommy fights off this "ghost" to protect Angelica.

Luckily, Minka turns on the light after hearing Angelica scream, and she finds the kids safe and sound. Also, they find Didi's old toys, Minka's dressmaker dummy and a photo album of when they were younger. The four of them sit together, and Boris and Minka share the album with Tommy and Angelica, telling them the stories behind each picture.

A few days later, Stu, Didi, Drew and Charlotte return from their trip to pick up the kids. When they arrive, Drew is very surprised to find that Angelica has really enjoyed her time there, and hasn't minded the lack of cable TV at all.

Transcript

The transcript can be found here

Quotes

Minka: "Boris! The dumplings are gone!"

Boris: "No, Minka, they're in the icebox."

Minka: "Not those dumplings! The children!"

Boris: "Oh! The dumplings!"

Minka: Boris, did you hurt your "shmegege"?

Trivia

• One of the photos of Boris and Minka's childhood in Russia is in World War 2 and has a Russian flag even though it was under Soviet control until Christmas Day 1991.
• A show Boris wanted to put on for the kids called Sesame Seed is likely to be a parody of Sesame Street.
• Klasky Csupo's description of the episode says "the babies" when Angelica is already three
• Tommy finds a baby photo of Didi.
• Chuckie does not appear in this episode, but he is mentioned by Tommy.
• Charlotte does not appear in this episode, but she is mentioned by Drew. So, it's possible that she was waiting for Stu, Didi and Drew in the car while they walk Tommy and Angelica to Boris and Minka's house and she and Didi could have been waiting for Stu and Drew in the car in the end of the episode while they returned to pick up Tommy and Angelica.

Gallery

The gallery for this episode can be found here