The eleventh episode of the seventh season of Rugrats (1991).
Day of the Potty
When Chas goes to the hardware store to buy a new toilet after Chuckie breaks the old one, Chuckie thinks the other toilets are out for revenge.
Tell-Tale Cell Phone
Angelica breaks Charlotte's cell phone and tries to keep quiet about it.
The Time of Their Lives
Angelica uses her new Cynthia watch as an excuse to tell the other babies what to do.
"Day of the Potty" provides examples of:
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: When the babies come to an aisle filled with toilets, Kimi asks Chuckie what if the toilet he broke told the other toilets what he did, causing Chuckie to believe that the toilets are after him for revenge. The babies try to find a place to hide, but everywhere they go, they come across another toilet.Chuckie: Too... many... potties!
Phil: Maybe you should go back to diapies. - Contrived Coincidence: When the babies decide to find their parents, Tommy remembers that they were by a cut-out of a monkey hammering a nail. Some employees move the cut-out, causing the babies to think they got lost and narrowly miss their parents.
- Correlation/Causation Gag: At the hardware store, the babies come across some some small things, and Tommy says "It's just a bunch of broked stuff." Kimi then flips a light switch and a man over the PA system says "Special on paint, Aisle Twelve." Kimi then tells the other babies "That one wasn't broked; it makes a man talk."
- Deadpan Snarker: Phil. This exchange occurs when the babies come to the conclusion that the toilets aren't following them after all:Lil: Maybe they want something.
Chuckie: From me? What?
Phil: Well, not a airplane!
Lil: Phillip!
Phil: Just sayin'! - Fun with Flushing: This episode's plot is kickstarted when Chuckie puts his broken toy airplane down the toilet, only to break the toilet by repeatedly flushing it until it overflows.
- Toilet Humor: Much of the humor in this episode involves actual toilets, and near the end of the episode, Chuckie relieves himself in one of the display toilets.
"Tell-Tale Cell Phone" provides examples of:
- Brick Joke: Early in this short, Angelica calls the John E. Mergency plumbing service on Charlotte's cell phone before accidentally dropping it. At the end of the short, John E. Mergency plumbing service comes to Angelica's house.
- Eat the Camera: This short ends with a zoom-in on Angelica's mouth as she screams when the John E. Mergency plumbing service comes to her house.
- Hide the Evidence: After the battery to Charlotte's cell phone comes off, Angelica hides the phone and its battery in a drawer to keep Charlotte from finding it "broken".
- Punny Name: The plumbing service that Angelica calls before dropping Charlotte's cell phone is John E. Mergency.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: When Angelica shows Charlotte her cell phone, saying she broke it, Charlotte assures her that the battery is always coming off, and that it's not broken.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Charlotte assures Angelica that her cell phone isn't broken after all, Angelica tells her "Uh, good. Cause' it's not like I was usin' it or nothin'." Sure enough, the John E. Mergency plumbing service comes to Angelica's house.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To the Edgar Allan Poe poem, The Tell-Tale Heart.
"Time of Their Lives" provides examples of:
- Chekhov's Gag: At the beginning of this episode, Chuckie wanders into a potted plant, which Kimi uses as Superthing's secret jungle. Near the end of the episode, Chuckie manages to find Angelica's watch in the potted plant.
- Contrived Coincidence: When Angelica loses her watch, Kimi finds it and hides it so she can't boss her and her friends around. However, Stu panics, telling Didi they're running out of time (since his automatic shoe-shining machine isn't ready for Foot Soot, Inc.). The babies misinterpret this as time stopping, and if they can't find the watch, it will never be time for Angelica to go home, and they'll have to live with her forever. They also overhear Didi say that the way things are going, the babies might not get snack time and Stu tell Dil that they have no time for fun. After Chuckie finds the watch, Foot Soot Inc. calls Stu to cancel their order, giving him plenty of time to perfect his machine, and Didi calls the babies into the kitchen for snack time.
- Literal-Minded: When Tommy tries to tell Angelica not to boss him and his friends around, Angelica tells him "Yeah? Well, spit it out!" Cue Phil and Lil spitting.
- Time Out: Angelica threatens the babies with this punishment unless they do as she says.
- Walk Into Camera Obstruction: When Angelica makes Tommy get cookies for her, she says, "That's more like it," and Tommy walks towards the camera and his diaper fills up the screen.
