| Under Chuckie's Bed | Gallery | Transcript |
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| Season 3 Episode 16a | |
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| Under Chuckie's Bed | |
| Original Airdate | January 9, 1994 |
| VHS release | Bedtime Bash |
| DVD release | Season 3 Complete Series |
| Previous Episode | Tommy and the Secret Club |
| Next Episode | Chuckie is Rich |
"Under Chuckie's Bed" is an episode of Rugrats from Season 3.
Characters Present[]
Character Introduced[]
Synopsis[]
Chas moves Chuckie from his crib to a regular bed. Soon Chuckie realizes that his new sleeping arrangement has something the crib doesn't... monsters underneath! Will he ever get a good night of sleep again?
- Description from Klasky Csupo
Plot[]
It starts with Chuckie asleep in his crib with his clothes on. He wakes up and talks about how great his crib is. Chas comes in, puts Chuckie's glasses on his face and tells him he will be getting a big surprise. He then puts Chuckie into the playpen with Tommy, Phil, and Lil. Chas talks to Betty and Didi about helping build D.I.Y. furniture. Betty says she enjoys building things. The babies think something is wrong with Chuckie, as he seems both happy and sleepy. He says he just got up from his favorite place: his crib. Meanwhile, Chas is taking the crib apart while Betty and Didi are moving a mattress in. Didi is unsure it should be a surprise, as Lipschitz says you need to talk to the child first. Phil and Lil tell Chuckie that his crib is being taken away in pieces by the grownups. Chuckie refuses to believe anything has been done to his crib, and he and his friends run to his room, only to find a bed. This causes Chuckie to cry and scream.
That night, Chas puts Chuckie into his new bed and reassures him. Chuckie puts his glasses on and thinks he hears something scary. He doesn't like being expected to sleep in a bed with no sides. He tries to fall asleep, but he hears a voice say "hi", and he screams. Hearing his son screaming, Chas comes to reassure him and then puts Chuckie to bed again. Chuckie tries to reassure himself, but it doesn't work. He hears the monster's voice again, and it says it has candy. Chuckie refuses and repeatedly tells himself he is imagining the voice, and there's no such thing as monsters. He then takes a look under his bed and sees what he thinks is a monster reaching for him.
The next morning, Tommy is in the sandbox where Phil and Lil are burying Chuckie, who says the bed is terrible because it is too wide, doesn't have "no sides" and has something else that he thinks his friends won't believe. Tommy says they will believe Chuckie. Chuckie explains that there's a monster under the bed and describes it. Tommy and Lil say monsters do exist, but they live in caves and swamps. Angelica appears and says monsters do live under beds. Tommy states that is not true. Angelica begins telling the story of a boy named Barnaby Jones, from a few blocks down, who thought it wasn't true, until one night when he was reading and eating. A monster said it had cake and ice cream and then ate Barnaby. Angelica then says you can only be safe under the covers, then mockingly sings, "Chuckie's going to get eated by the monster under his bed!" Lil says Angelica is a terrible singer, but Tommy is determined that Chuckie will be okay, and there's no monster. Didi suggests maybe Tommy should stay over that night to help Chuckie get used to his bed.
Chas puts Chuckie and Tommy to bed. Everything seems to be going alright, until Chuckie thinks he hears the monster again and ducks under the covers. Tommy says he must look under the bed. They both look, but are scared, as they think they see the monster, which alerts Chas. When Chas turns the lights on, the monster is revealed to really be Chas's sweater. He reassures the boys and leaves. Chuckie is now relieved that there is no monster after all and states he's starting to like his new bed. Then he falls out of the bed, now thinking that there still may be a few more problems.
Quotes[]
Betty: (to Didi, over Chuckie's crying and screaming) Well, I guess the Chuckster found his surprise!
Trivia[]
- The monster is voiced by composer and music editor David Eccles, who also voiced Krumm on Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.
- This episode marks the second time Angelica makes up a story to try and scare Tommy and Chuckie. The first being in "Down the Drain".
- In this episode, Chuckie gets a new bed to replace his crib, but in previous episodes he has a bed (For instance "The Odd Couple"). This must be due to a continuity issue, or episodes set in the wrong order, or it was made to take place before the episodes Chuckie slept in his bed.
- This episode was released as part of Bedtime Bash.
- Starting with this episode, the intro's color is darker, with the exception of episode 57.
- In this episode, Angelica tells the story of how "little Barnaby Jones" got eaten by monsters. His name is based on a detective series of the same name, which aired on CBS from January 1973 until 1980.
- Also, in that scene, the comic book Barnaby was reading has what looks like a monster attacking Angelica.
- Moral: Face your fears (like in "Down the Drain", "The Slide" and "Chuckie's First Haircut").
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