Monday, Apr. 18, 2011

A Rugrats Passover

In an episode broadcast on April 13, 1995, Tommy Pickles (with a yarmulke planted firmly upon his bald head), Angelica and Chuckie learn the story of the Exodus when they find themselves trapped in the attic with Grandpa Boris during the family's seder. As the story goes on, the babies imagine themselves in the roles of the biblical characters. Tommy is Moses, Chuckie appears as an abused Israelite slave and, appropriately, Angelica is cast as the pharaoh of Egypt. At the time it aired, the episode was the most watched episode in Nickelodeon's history, but in 1997 it was supplanted by another Rugrats special called "The Turkey Who Came to Dinner" about Thanksgiving.