Mother's Day (Rugrats)
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 2 |
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| Original air date | May 6, 1997 |
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Kim Catrall as Melinda Finster |
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Kim Catrall as Melinda Finster
"Mother's Day", also known as the "Rugrats Mother's Day Special" or "Rugrats Mother's Day", is the second episode of the fourth season of the animated television series Rugrats and the show's sixty-seventh overall. Released as a Mother's Day special, it revolves around the holiday from the Rugrats' perspective. The Rugrats attempt to find Chuckie Finster the perfect mother while sharing their favorite memories about their moms. At the end of the episode, Chuckie's mother is revealed to have died of a terminal illness. It concludes with Chuckie and his father Chaz looking through a box of her belongings, including a poem she had written for her son. Meanwhile, Didi Pickles tries to plan the perfect Mother's Day with her mom Minka and Stu Pickles and Betty DeVille work together to make a machine to help mothers.
Norton Virgien and Toni Vian directed the episode from a script by Jon Cooksey, Ali Marie Matheson, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Susan Hood, and Ed Resto. Prior to the episode's production, series co-creator Paul Germain had pitched two potential storylines to explain the absence of Chuckie's mother. However, Nickelodeon executives rejected his proposed ideas that the mother was either divorced from Chaz or had died. Minor references to the mother appear in earlier episodes that contradict the later establishment of Chuckie's backstory. During the show's revival in 1997, the concept was revised and approved as a Mother's Day special. Germain said that he was disappointed about being unable to cover the topic during his time on the series.
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