The sixteenth episode of the second season of Rugrats (1991).
Chuckie Loses His Glasses: Angelica steals Chuckie's glasses before he can find the other babies during a game of hide-and-seek, leaving poor Chuckie to stumble around the house and backyard blindly until Tommy and the others catch on to what's going on and go to get Chuckie his glasses back.
Chuckie Gets Skunked: Chuckie gets sprayed by a skunk living in the Pickles' backyard, and the families try all sorts of methods to remove the stench.
"Chuckie Loses His Glasses" provides example of:
- Blind Without 'Em:
- Almost blind, anyway. After losing his glasses, Chuckie begins seeing harmless household objects as creepy monsters and clowns.
- Reversed when Tommy and Angelica wear the glasses and Tommy sees what Chuckie is currently seeing without his glasses and Angelica winds up getting so disorientated that she gets sick.
- Grandpa Lou can't see if his glasses are lost, either. At the end of the episode, he ends up talking to Tommy's clown lamp, having mistaken it for Didi.
- Despair Event Horizon: When Chuckie gets lost in the backyard and accidentally steps on what he thinks are his glasses (actually Grandpa Lou's), Chuckie loses all hope of ever being able to see again and breaks down crying. Fortunately, Tommy and the twins come to his rescue shortly afterward.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Angelica deliberately chose Chuckie to be it and then steal his glasses as petty revenge for him eating her crayons.
- Dramatic Irony: It's quite obvious to the viewers that Chuckie stepped on Grandpa Lou's glasses and not his own (since Tommy currently has them), but poor Chuckie doesn't know this until Tommy and Phil and Lil bring him his own glasses.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Chuckie and the other babies call Chuckie's glasses his "extra eyes." In all future episodes, including the flashback in "Moving Away" that takes place before this one, they know to say "glasses."
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: The episode ends with Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil laughing upon finding out that Grandpa Lou is also Blind Without 'Em.
- Glasses Curiosity: When Tommy and Angelica wear Chuckie's glasses, they see the same things that Chuckie sees without them.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Angelica steals Chuckie's glasses and runs around wearing them. She has some fun with them at first, but they eventually make her feel really dizzy—in fact, the dizziness is still affecting her by the time her dad comes to pick her up, to the point where Angelica ends up vomiting all over his sweater vest).
- Literal-Minded: At the beginning of the episode, Stu tells Drew it's raining cats and dogs. The babies think he means that cats and dogs are falling from the sky, and are disappointed to find out that it's just water.Angelica: It's just a 'spression, you dummies!
- Lying Finger Cross: Angelica does this when she promises Drew that she'll play nicely with the babies.
- Mushroom Samba: Essentially how everything looks from Chuckie's point of view after losing his glasses, seeing screeching monsters and freaky clowns everywhere and mistaking some bushes outside for his friends. Tommy later puts Chuckie's glasses on himself and also sees the monsters and mistakes a bag of groceries for Chuckie.Tommy: This must be what Chuckie sees all the time. No wonder he's so scared.
- Noodle Incident: At the beginning of the episode, Chuckie worries if Angelica is still mad at him for eating two of her crayons. Sure enough, she is.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: The viewers are not spared from seeing Angelica tossing her cookies all over Drew.Drew: Oh, NO! All over my new sweater! Oh, c'mon, honey, let's clean this up.
"Chuckie Gets Skunked" provides examples of:
- Adults Are Useless:
- The adults are so busy looking for the skunk that they fail to notice Tommy and Chuckie going to look for the skunk themselves until it's too late.
- After the adults' attempts to get rid of Chuckie's stench fail, the babies take matters into their own hands and give Chuckie a bath in Minka's borscht. It works.
- Covered in Mud: Grandpa Lou suggests giving Chuckie a mud bath in order to get rid of the stench. Doesn't work, and it seems that it made the smell worse afterward.
- Death Glare: When Grandpa Lou begins to suggest another idea to get rid of the stench from Chuckie, Stu, Didi and Chas give one each to Lou as they know that his next idea would make things worse.
- Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with Stu and Chas meeting the skunk again after Chuckie's smell is removed.
- Hypocritical Humor: After the skunk hunt fails, Grandpa Lou comments on how Stu and Chas panicked and ran away. When Stu points out that Lou turned and ran with them, Lou admits it, saying he'd be crazy not to.
- Imagine Spot: Chuckie briefly imagines having to move somewhere far away where everyone stinks, which he depicts in his mind as a desert island full of skunks and smelly people, when it seems like nothing will get rid of his skunk smell.
- Last Resort Takeout: When Chuckie ends up bathing in Grandma Minka's Borscht she and Grandpa Boris brought over for dinner, which ends up getting rid of the skunk smell, Stu says he'll go pick up pizzas to replace it.
- Noodle Incident: Apparently, Boris has made negative remarks on how his daughter keeps house.
- Oh, Crap!: Combined with Rule of Three. First by Chuckie when he encounters the skunk, then by Chas when he figures out what happened, then finally, Chas again when he and Stu encounter the skunk at the end.
- Overly Long Scream: The end of the episode when Stu and Chas get skunked.
- Scream Discretion Shot: Chuckie when he gets skunked. And again when Stu and Chas get skunked as well.
- Smelly Skunk: One is currently living in the Pickles' backyard.
- Tomato Skunk Stink Cure: Discussed and subverted —
- Chas claims that when he tried using tomato juice to get rid of Chuckie's skunk smell, it didn't work and just stained their bathtub.
- Stu claims that he heard that tomato paste works better than tomato juice, but Chas explains that he actually already tried using tomato paste, but it didn't get rid of the smell and just clogged up the drain.
- When I Was Your Age...: Boris drones on about how people grew up sharing beds with goats back in the old country, though Didi calls him a liar.Didi: Don't listen to him. He actually came from a very well-to-do family. He wouldn't know a goat if it bit him.
