Tommy's First Birthday

"Tommy's First Birthday" is the first ever episode of Rugrats.
==Plot==
The series opens when Tommy Pickles is woken up by his parents, Stu and Didi, on his first birthday. They take Tommy over to the kitchen to feed him, but he then sees a TV commercial for Huskie's Choice Dog Food and decides that he wants to eat it, believing it will turn him into a dog. Meanwhile, his mother, Didi, is panicking over having the perfect birthday party for Tommy. This includes the puppeteers (to which the stage and puppeteers are booked, but not the puppeteers), a carrot cake (much to her father, Boris' displeasure, hoping it would be a chocolate cake), and a really elaborate invention from Stu - the Hoverama.
After convincing his fellow babies to eat dog food, Tommy makes several attempts to sneak into the kitchen. When he finally does, he discovers that his dog, Spike, has already finished off his bowl of dog food. But when he spots another can on top of the shelf, he attempts to get it with Chuckie and Angelica's help. However, all he ends up doing is destroying his kitchen and ruining the Hoverama. Soon, all the adults are complaining about various items, when Grandpa Lou opens a can of dog chow for Spike. The Rugrats finally eat it, but all but Phil spit it out. Then, thinking they are dogs, they start walking around on all fours (hands and legs) and barking. This breaks the adults out of arguing and watching them in awe, and the episode ends with Grandpa Lou taking a picture of Tommy's birthday party for the Pickles Family Album.
==Trivia==
*In this episode, Tommy wears a red shirt instead of his usual signature blue one.
*This is the first appearance of Chuckie and Angelica, but not the first appearance of some other main characters such as Tommy, Phil, Lil, Didi, Stu, Spike, and Lou, who all appeared previously in the pilot.
*This episode appears to be the first time that the other babies have ever actually seen Spike, due to them believing him to be a transformed Tommy after eating dog food.
*On the receipt for the puppet stage and the puppets, Stu and Didi's address is seen and is 1258 N. Highland. This was the address of Klasky Csupo from 1988 to 1995.
*In this episode, Angelica is wearing the special party dress. But near the end, while the Rugrats act like dogs, Angelica is briefly seen wearing her normal dress, not originally introduced until the next episode.
==Home video releases==
;DVD
*Rugrats: Season 1
*Rugrats: The Complete Series
;iTunes
*Rugrats: Season 1
==External links==
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Category:Series premieres
Category:Birthday episodes