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A talent scout offers Susie the chance to become a pop star, provided she can cover the $1,000 cost of recording a demo. Susie convinces her older sister Alisa to lend her some money she has been saving for a house, but after paying the scout she discovers she has been conned. Completely devastated, she vows never to sing again but is encouraged by her friends to perform at a talent night at Chas and Betty's café, the Java Lava.

Lil is invited to a party with all of the popular kids from school, provided her brother Phil does not come with her. This newfound attention prompts her to want more independence from her twin, while Phil struggles with not having Lil in his life. When the other kids make fun of Phil at the party, she stands up for him, realizing how close to her brother she really is.

Chuckie has a crush on Nicole Boscerelli, but she does not notice him. He goes to Kimi for help on changing his image to get Nicole to notice him and they create an alter ego for him as foreign exchange student, Chongo. Despite Tommy telling him that doing so will only lead Nicole to like the fictional Chongo, Chuckie is convinced that he can keep the charade going until he is resorted to changing between Chongo and himself while Nicole is at the Java Lava.

Chuckie is concerned when Kimi hits it off with school bad boy Z, roping the gang into investigating Z which leads them to believe he is a thief. When they try to tell Kimi she is unmoved and sneaks off, eventually found helping Z load merchandise into a truck. Chuckie confronts Z about being a thief and Kimi explains that he has actually been raising money for charity. Kimi is initially angry for her Chuckie not being trusting, but Z encourages Kimi to forgive him as he was only looking out for her.

Tommy enters a film contest which is to be judged by his favorite director, Martin Costomiris, but after his attempt to make a sci-fi film starring his friends does not work, he is drawn to their secret conversations they have unaware were being filmed. Despite Dil's objections, Tommy starts recording more of his friends in secret, who all, except for Chuckie, become outraged and they refuse to talk to Tommy if he intends to enter their private moments into the competition. In the end, Tommy re-cuts the film with bloopers from his first attempt at making a movie and clips of the gang as babies, this time showing them in a more positive and proud light.

While the gang are under stress about the upcoming Standardized Test, Betty and Chas set up a neighbourhood watch to catch the thief who has been stealing from gardens. Dil is suspected when stolen stuff keeps turning up in the Pickles' house but when he tries to take the heat off by returning what was stolen he is caught by Betty and everyone believes him to be the culprit. The real thief turns out to be Tommy, who has been sleepwalking under stress preparing for the test.

Dil makes friends with the new boy Lil' Q, guest star Lil' Romeo, a hacky sacker whose hacky sack has a similar effect to cupid's arrow. He first hits Nicole, who Chuckie is planning to ask to the upcoming Valentine's Day dance, causing her to fall in love with Tommy, which leads to a fall out between him and Chuckie. Lil' Q tries to undo this mistake but instead hits Sean Butler, a boy Aneglica wants to ask her to the dance, and he falls in love with Susie. Lil' Q then hits Z, who also falls in love with Susie and he and Sean argue over who is taking her to the dance, upsetting Kimi who wanted Z to ask her.

Grandpa Lou chaperons Tommy's class field trip to the Human Body Museum. Tommy becomes embarrassed, because Lou is quite slow as he is a lot older now than he used to be, so they do not get to do everything there is at the museum and he keeps telling old stories, which no one finds interesting. Sean and Tommy sneak off and Sean makes them go to a part of the museum that is out of bounds. They get trapped and Lou saves them in a way that reminds Tommy of some of the war stories that he had told him. Tommy then forgives Lou for embarrassing him.

When Tommy wins the National Junior Director's Chair Award, the recognition and attention he receives concerns Dil that he and Tommy are growing apart. Tommy becomes annoyed when Dil keeps trying to spend more time with him and the two end up on the live TV talk show What's Your Tragedy?, where Dil admits to Tommy that he is ashamed of being different and that he fears losing Tommy as he is the only one who understands him. Tommy reassures Dil he will never stop caring about him and he should not be ashamed of who he is.

Angelica gets a new design for her room. However, the Cynthia doll is missing as her mother, Charlotte, accidentally misunderstood her when she told her to get rid of "all the toys". Now that Angelica realizes that she misses Cynthia, she goes out to find her.

A 13-year-old girl, Francine who seeks revenge on Tommy. At first he does not know why, but then Lil and Kimi convince Tommy that Francine has a crush on him. When he finds out that Francine did not have a crush on him, she humiliates him even more (along with Dil's numerous failed attempts of saving him). In the end it becomes apparent that she was only humiliating him because he had cut her scene in one of his films. Once they discuss the misunderstanding they become friends.

Chuckie and Kimi initially agree to work together on their family tree project, however Kimi realizes she knows nothing about her Japanese heritage and decides to do a separate project on her biological family's side. The Finster family support Kimi in exploring her ancestry, leading to them embarrassing themselves in front of the school when Kimi has them perform a traditional dance at the school's culture festival. The more time Kimi spends embracing Japanese culture the more Chuckie feels she does not want to be a part of her adoptive family. After realising how important Chas and Chuckie are to her, she includes the Finster line on her family tree.

Angelica has been invited to one of Savannah's parties, and must find a dress that she has not already worn. While working at the hospital she trips and breaks her nose. Not wanting to be seen by anyone, because she has a cast on her nose she fakes having a crazy illness after seeing it on a drama on the hospital television. She then meets a small boy in the hospital, who has greater problems than herself and sees that she is being selfish by pretending to be ill so that she can stay in the hospital and not be seen by Savannah and her friends.

Susie is forced to choose between singing at the TV Talent Show, and leading her language team to victory in the language bowl, which is held on the same day.

For the school's upcoming science fair, Tommy has an idea to create a machine that can sort socks by color to prevent wearing odd socks. After asking his dad, Stu, for a little advice, Stu becomes a little too helpful and takes over so much that Tommy has to admit that the project is no longer his design at the prize-giving event.

Angelica tries to help Chuckie become more popular for her school project, but it backfires when he takes her advice, and he becomes more popular than her.

When Angelica signs up for a talent show, Tommy tells her to let Susie know, but only leaves a message on the Carmichaels' malfunctioning answering machine and Susie misses her chance to sign up. Angelica's face breaks out in zits, the others tell her it might be some form of karmic retribution for not letting Susie sign up. Guilt-ridden and experiencing worse and worse luck Angelica seeks help, Dil for tells her to do good deeds, but when the zits get bigger she finally rectifies the situation by letting Susie take her place in the talent show instead.

As the holiday season approaches, Chuckie is dreading another forgettable Christmas. To liven things up, he mistakenly steals a great tree to replace the lame one his dad has picked out. When he discovers that the whole community is after the thief, he hatches a plan to rectify the situation.

Susie thinks that Angelica does not think much about the future. While Angelica worries about getting a navel piercing, Susie tries to get a scholarship to a good college. The girls get lost during a school trip and Susie loses her laptop with all of her work on that she needs to show to a college.

As Phil and Lil's birthday nears, the twins realize that they are more different from each other than they think. Phil is getting to like girls, and Lil is wearing a pink training bra. After a shocking incident, they decide to have separate parties for the boys and the girls as they try to out-prank each other.

Susie trains Harold to help him get a date with Angelica. He soon becomes the most wanted boy in school.

Angelica falls for Darryl, but she gets too nervous to talk to him whenever he is around. Her mom loses her CEO job and decides to become a full-time mom. Then, they get stranded together on a sail boat on the same day as Darryl's rock concert.

Tommy attends a Hebrew school to prepare for his bar mitzvah. While there, he meets Rachel, and falls deeply in love with her. After a while he lies and says that his father, Stu is a rabbi but at the Hebrew School Picnic Rachel finds out and they find out they are both working on the same house.

When Angelica is outraged when Charlotte and Drew have to cancel their vacation to Hawaii, they decide that Angelica could use more discipline and have her stay with Susie's family for a week. The rest of the gang all bet on how long she can handle the Carmichael family rules. Angelica has trouble adjusting early on but is spurred on by the bet and starts doing all the family chores. Not wanting to lose the bet, Kimi and Lil encourage Susie and her brothers to give Angelica more, harder chores to do, which leads to Angelica falling off the roof of the house.

Phil has a crush on Lil's best friend and soccer teammate Wally they start hanging out more often, making Lil feel out of the loop. So Lil develops a plan to pull them apart. Phil and Wally's relationship falls apart when Lil tells Wally that he does not like her. When Phil finds out that Lil lied to Wally, he becomes upset at his sister.

Tired of being considered a "goody goody" by the popular kids, Susie tries desperately to prove that she can be a bad girl.

When Tommy forgoes going to the traditional opening day ball game outing with his Grandpa, Lou takes Dil instead. This makes Tommy jealous as he and Dil compete to be Grandpa's favourite grandson during a fishing trip. Meanwhile, Drew and Stu want to get rid of Lou's car because it's so old and seems to be worthless, but they soon learn that the car belonged to Elvis and was very valuable.

• This is the only episode Chuckie is absent in, making Tommy the only character to appear in every episode.

The gang are preparing for what may be their last Halloween trick-or-treating. While trying on their costumes in the Finster's garage they find TP+KF carved on the wall, leading Chuckie to believe that Tommy has a crush on Kimi. The argument between Tommy and Chuckie escalates to where their friendship falls apart. After the rest of the gang's attempts to bring them back together fail, including the reveal that it was Kimi who carved the initials, they eventually make up when Chuckie saves Tommy from middle school goons.

While preparing for her parents' tenth wedding anniversary with Chuckie, Kimi leads a petition drive to ban cell phones in school. To prevent having phones banned, Angelica hoodwinks Chuckie into helping her keep them with a rival petition, while Susie helps Kimi counteract. A debate on the issue between Kimi and Chuckie at a school assembly turns personal – in particular when Chuckie reveals Kimi asked for a cell phone for Christmas – and they stop speaking to each other. Their feud boils over to the anniversary party until Tommy shows a video of their parents' wedding when they were babies, which brings them to tears and they make up.

When Tommy's gang's parents feel that they are spending too much time watching TV, they ban it from the house. So to get their televisions back, they do something dare-devilish. They make a tree house with a zip-line in the backyard to scare and anger their parents into giving them their TV back.

With Stu and Didi away at an Invention Convention, Dil wants to host a viewing party for a "real" alien autopsy video with Tommy. But when both Grandpa Lou and Grandpa Boris show up to babysit the kids, they all start to have a feud. This gets even more difficult when Phil, Lil, and Chuckie show up and Dil invites ten other kids to come see it, much to Tommy's frustration.

• This is the final appearances of Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Dil in the series.

• This is the series finale of All Grown Up and the finale of the original Rugrats continuity.

• Original series (1991–2004)
• All Grown Up! (2003–2008)
• Reboot series (2021–present)

• Tommy Pickles
• Angelica Pickles
• Reptar

• The Rugrats Movie (1998)
• Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000)
• Rugrats Go Wild (2003)

• Musical
• Comic strip
• Judaism in Rugrats
• Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast (cameo)
• Let My Babies Go!