Toy Palace
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| Season 2 Episode 1a | |
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| Toy Palace | |
| Original Airdate | September 6, 1992 |
| Previous Episode | Stu-Maker's Elves |
| Next Episode | Sand Ho! |
Toy Palace is the first episode of Rugrats from season two.
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SummaryEdit
Tommy and Chuckie think it would be neat to live in a toy store.
Recap Edit
Stu and Chaz have taken Tommy and Chuckie to visit the Toy Palace toy store for fun. Although Chaz is concerned about some of the toys (such as a radioactive alligator and an actual working time machine for kids) in addition to the fellow customers aggrivating his asthma, Stu is in his element as a toy inventor and has no problem with any of the toys. Likewise, Tommy and Chuckie love Toy Palace, but too much, because they decide to live in the toy store from now on! Putting toy replacements in their strollers while their dads aren't looking, Tommy and Chuckie manage to slip away as the store closes for the day.
Though the store has an elaborate camera system complete with dozens of cameras, the security guard doesn't pay attention at all as he eats doughnuts and watches TV. Deep inside Toy Palace, Tommy and Chuckie wander around and see things such as a minature setup of a Grizzlies baseball game and a cowboys 'n indians play set. When they accidently activate it, the little indians fire toy arrows with plastic suction cups that strike a nearby teddy bear. Tommy uses a doctor play kit to "save" the bear by covering it in bandages. Chuckie decides to take the bear with them as they go on.
Meanwhile, Chaz and Stu arrive back at their homes, only to finally realize their sons are missing and rush back to the toy store. Back at Toy Palace, after Tommy accidentally activates a large mechanical gorilla called Thorg, the two friend decide to ride on the toy train. However, it turns out to be signifigantly more thrilling than expected as the train tracks are very much like that of a roller coaster.
After Chuckie and the bear fall off the train at the Dummi Bear section of the store, Chuckie wanders around to try and find Tommy. Unfortunately, he walks into a dimly lit section that's filled with clown toys. Chuckie is frightened until Tommy shows up, who exited the train to find Chuckie. But their relief is short lived as Thorg shows up shouting "Thorg hungry! Thorg want eat!" causing the two to flee.
Stu and Chaz finally arrive back at Toy Palace and knock on the security door. The guard cautiously answers, and Stu and Chaz expain the situation to him. However, the guard doesn't believe them because the toy store is armed with a certain state-of-the-art security system and would have picked up on the babies. Stu becomes interested, having heard of the security system, but Chaz wants to find his son. Moments later, he spies both babies on one of the cameras and rushes into the store, followed by Stu and the guard (who is shocked that they penetrated the system).
Thorg appears to be actively chasing Tommy and Chuckie, so they decide that someone needs to fight Thorg: Reptar! They find a large mechanical Reptar not unlike Thorg and manage to activate it. Reptar begins to move, repeating the phrase "Halt! I am Reptar!" in a very heroic sounding male voice. Reptar and Thorg "fight" until the mechanical Reptar pushes Thorg into the time machine. The time machine activates, sending it back to the time of the American Revolutionary War, when George Washington and his army are crossing the Delaware river! Moments later, Stu and Chaz arrive and are reunited with their kids. The security guard is happy to seem them reunited.
TriviaEdit
- There are toys of "Daleks" (an alien race of robots of the SFI series Doctor Who) in the Toy Palace.
- This has been parodied by a 2009 SpongeBob SquarePants episode called "Toy-Store of doom."
- This episode marks the first steps of Chuckie being scared of clowns. Though he was nervous in this episode, he actually became scared in Circus Angelicus.
- The store does not seem to have an alarm or scanner, as the toys Tommy and Chuckie place in their strollers don't trigger the security system. Of course, the plot wouldn't work if their dads knew they were gone even before they tried to leave the store. It's also possible that the entire security system is broken since Tommy and Chuckie never tripped the alarms themselves
- When Thorg is sent back in time, the depiction of the Delaware crossing is like that of the famous painting...which is historically inaccurate!
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