The third episode of the fifth season of Rugrats (1991).
Crime and Punishment
Chuckie accidentally breaks Chas' glasses, and since Chas is meeting a policewoman, Chuckie thinks he'll get in trouble.
Baby Maybe
Elaine and Ben look after the children to see if being parents is right for them.
"Crime and Punishment" provides examples of:
- Blind Without 'Em: Chuckie takes after his father, as Chas can't see anything without his glasses.
- Call-Back: While coming up with a plan to get Chas and Chuckie to go home, Tommy brings up the time Chuckie got sprayed by a skunk.
- Covered in Mud: Happens to Chas, Naomi, Stu, and Didi when they slip into the mud puddle the babies have made.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Chas, Naomi, Stu, Didi, and the babies all laugh as the babies engage in Filthy Fun.
- Fair Cop: Naomi, whom Chas is almost instantly smitten with. Though Chuckie is scared of her.
- Fake Rabies: To get Chas and Chuckie to go home, the babies have Chuckie lick soap so that he will have a foamy mouth and Chas will think he's sick. When a blind Chas hears Chuckie growling, he thinks that Chuckie is a rabid dog.
- Filthy Fun: Tommy's plans to get Chas and Chuckie to go home involve Chuckie licking soap, Tommy covering Chuckie in garbage, and having Chuckie jump in a mud puddle. When Tommy goes through with the third plan, Phil says that Chuckie is having the best day of his (Phil's) life.
- The Glasses Gotta Go: Chas decides to ditch his glasses to make himself look more attractive to Officer Naomi. This backfires since he's Blind Without 'Em, and Chuckie accidentally breaks them.
- Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: Angelica convinces the babies that Officer Naomi will send the babies to jail if they do something wrong. Chuckie accidentally breaks Chas' glasses, and he is worried that if Officer Naomi finds out, she will arrest him.
- Paste Eater: The soap variant; the babies have Chuckie lick soap to make him look sick so Chas will take him home. Chuckie thinks the soap tastes terrible, but Phil likes the taste of soap, and in a later scene, he belches out a soap bubble.
- Rule of Three: Tommy tries three plans to get Chas to take Chuckie home. First, he has Chuckie lick soap so that Chas will think he's sick. Then, he covers Chuckie in garbage so that Chas will have to take him home to give him a bath and change his clothes. When Chas dresses Chuckie in some of Tommy's spare clothes, Tommy's third and final plan is to have Chuckie jump in a mud puddle for the same reasons as the second plan.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Officer Naomi eventually finds Chas' broken glasses, which makes her realize why Chas is so clumsy. She doesn't know that Chuckie broke them, and she doesn't arrest Chuckie.
- Slippery Skid: When Chas sees the babies making a mud puddle, he tries to retrieve them, only to slip in the mud.
- Soap Punishment: Discussed; When Officer Naomi sees Chuckie with a foamy mouth, she jokes that Chuckie was punishing himself for swearing by washing his own mouth out.
- Tempting Fate: Chuckie says that playing with Tommy's ball is fun, safe, and doesn't break any rules. Afterwards, he tosses the ball into the air, and it lands on Chas' glasses, knocking them off the nightstand and breaking them.
"Baby Maybe" provides examples of:
- The Bus Came Back: Didi's little brother Ben and his wife Elaine from "Let them Eat Cake" return in this episode after a three-season absence.
- Continuity Nod:
- When Tommy tells Chuckie that his Aunt Elaine and Uncle Ben are coming to babysit them, Phil, Lil, and Chuckie, he brings up the events of "Let them Eat Cake". Chuckie tells Tommy that all he remembers about that day is the cake.
- After Elaine and Ben dress Tommy in bunny pajamas that he can't get off, Tommy tells Chuckie, "If I ever had to get nakie in a hurry, I'd be big in trouble".
- Description Cut:
- After Elaine and Ben change the babies' diapers, Elaine decides to dress them in the new clothes she bought them, saying she's sure they'll love it. Cut to the babies screaming and running away from Elaine and Ben as they try to dress them.
- After Elaine and Ben dress the babies in their new clothes, Elaine reminds the babies to be very neat so they won't ruin them. Cut to the babies throwing their food everywhere.
- The Diaper Change: The babies fall for one of Angelica's tricks and intentionally misbehave to avoid being adopted by Elaine and Ben. Elaine tries to cheer them up by moving the scheduled diaper change up from 12:45 to 11:30. During the diaper change, Tommy, Phil, and Lil try to run away. When Elaine catches Phil, she tosses his used diaper aside, which lands on the face of Ben, who assists her with the powder.
- Food Fight: After Elaine and Ben dress the babies in their new clothes, they try to feed them. This results in the babies tossing their food everywhere.
- Gone Horribly Right:
- Angelica tells the babies that Elaine and Ben are going to adopt them, so Tommy gets the idea that if he, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil misbehave, Elaine and Ben won't want to adopt them. Unfortunately, this results in Elaine having an emotional breakdown, and when Angelica tells the babies that Elaine and Ben don't want a baby anymore ever, this gets them to realize that they did too good a job at being bad.
- Angelica's plan to get the babies to misbehave succeeds, and she gets Elaine and Ben to talk Charlotte into taking her to the Cynthia store for some new clothes. This leads the babies to think that Elaine and Ben want to adopt Angelica, so they toss their baby food at Angelica to get her messy, resulting in Charlotte cancelling the trip to the Cynthia store to take Angelica home for a bath.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Angelica tricks the babies into thinking that Elaine and Ben want to adopt them so that they will misbehave and she will seem like an angel by comparison so that she can get new clothes from the Cynthia store. Angelica's plan succeeds, but a little too well, as the babies think that Elaine and Ben are going to adopt Angelica. They toss their baby food at Angelica to get her messy, resulting in Charlotte having to cancel the trip to the Cynthia store and instead taking her home for a bath.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Angelica's plan succeeds, she tells the babies that Elaine and Ben don't want a baby anymore, ever. This gets the babies to realize that they were far too good at being bad, and that the only thing they can do is prove to Ben and Elaine that they're not so bad after all.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The clothes that Elaine and Ben bought for the babies include a pink dress for Lil and a blue baseball cap and blue pants for Phil.
