Imagine, being a little baby traversing(everything is big to you when your a baby) the friendly confines of your house. You accidentally bump your head. Your mother blames the father for it, just as an important football game is coming. Oh wait, this was a Rugrats episode.
Touchdown Tommy is one the Rugrats episodes that I like because there is so much stuff going on that would never be allowed in really like. It isn't as over the top as say Looney Tunes, where you have stuff exploding underneath the ocean and bunnies talking to human beings(Yosemite Sam and Buggs Bunny). This was more real looking. No explosions. Just babies operating in their own little world.
Basically, Stu wants to have the guys over for the big football game. In the meanwhile, Didi is mad at Stu because Tommy bumped his head on the coffee table trying to get a balloon. What does inventor Stu do? He makes a deviced made from some bowl and a plush animal. In short, a crude helmet. All the babies end up getting one and Didi is assurred that the babies will be fine during the game while she and Betty go shopping.
During the game, Grandpa gives the babies their milk, and gives Tommy chocolate milk. There is one little problem. When you leave a kleptocratic 3 year-old girl with the babies, only mayhem can come from this. As the football game goes on, so does the chase for the chocolate milk. Angelica wants it and Tommy resists. He and the babies throw it around to keep it from Angelica, creating a mess all over the walls. The babies plight to keep the milk away from Angelica looked like the football games the Stu and his friends wer so engrossed by.
This is comical on so many levels. Everyone knows that if you leave the babies with Angelica, only bad could come from it. There are also other things I never thought of as a child that come to me now. The crude helmet made by Stu would not have protected Tommy very well. It was not up to the standards for a helmet. Chances are, Tommy could have been killed or at least severely brain-damaged from a hit in the head. Ironic considering that the babies butted heads like real football players in those helmets. It is comical when you consider real life implications. In real like, DFACS would have descended on everyone like a swarm of killer bees. Allegations of child neglect would be looming. As a kid watching this, you never really stop to think about it because it isn't real, your just having a laugh watching babies do things adults do.
Touchdown Tommy is one the Rugrats episodes that I like because there is so much stuff going on that would never be allowed in really like. It isn't as over the top as say Looney Tunes, where you have stuff exploding underneath the ocean and bunnies talking to human beings(Yosemite Sam and Buggs Bunny). This was more real looking. No explosions. Just babies operating in their own little world.
Basically, Stu wants to have the guys over for the big football game. In the meanwhile, Didi is mad at Stu because Tommy bumped his head on the coffee table trying to get a balloon. What does inventor Stu do? He makes a deviced made from some bowl and a plush animal. In short, a crude helmet. All the babies end up getting one and Didi is assurred that the babies will be fine during the game while she and Betty go shopping.
During the game, Grandpa gives the babies their milk, and gives Tommy chocolate milk. There is one little problem. When you leave a kleptocratic 3 year-old girl with the babies, only mayhem can come from this. As the football game goes on, so does the chase for the chocolate milk. Angelica wants it and Tommy resists. He and the babies throw it around to keep it from Angelica, creating a mess all over the walls. The babies plight to keep the milk away from Angelica looked like the football games the Stu and his friends wer so engrossed by.
This is comical on so many levels. Everyone knows that if you leave the babies with Angelica, only bad could come from it. There are also other things I never thought of as a child that come to me now. The crude helmet made by Stu would not have protected Tommy very well. It was not up to the standards for a helmet. Chances are, Tommy could have been killed or at least severely brain-damaged from a hit in the head. Ironic considering that the babies butted heads like real football players in those helmets. It is comical when you consider real life implications. In real like, DFACS would have descended on everyone like a swarm of killer bees. Allegations of child neglect would be looming. As a kid watching this, you never really stop to think about it because it isn't real, your just having a laugh watching babies do things adults do.
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