Author's Note: Surprise! That's right, I am back with a very special chapter of this story, in honor of the fact that we just celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of Rugrats this past Thursday on August 11, 2016, and ultimately, I'm taking this story off of hiatus. While most chapters focus on a multitude of episodes, this chapter will focus on one, and only one episode, the first episode that started it all, and hopefully to all of my Splat viewers, you got to watch this episode last Thursday night at 10:30, because I'm only presenting the bloopers here, all thought up by yours truly. So without further adue, let's continue the twenty-five year anniversary celebration, with this next chapter here, and I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 11, Tommy's First Birthday Bloopers, Outtakes, and Deleted Scenes

Awakening Tommy, Take 1

"Good morning Champ!" Stu cries happily, as Tommy opens his eyes to stare up at his parents.

Before the two of them can wish him a Happy Birthday, Tommy starts crying.

"Awe, it's okay sweetie." Didi says, picking up Tommy out of his crib and hugging him, patting him on the back, hoping to get him calmed down.

She stands there, gently rocking him back and force, hoping to get him calmed down. Shortly after he quiets down, he closes his eyes and falls asleep on his mother's shoulder.

Awakening Tommy, Take 2

"Good morning Champ!" Stu cries, as Tommy opens his eyes.

They place a banner that says Happy Birthday Tommy on the foot of his crib and throw confetti into the air.

"Happy Birthday Tommy!" Stu and Didi exclaim excitedly in unison.

Just as Didi leans in to give Tommy a kiss, he sits up in his crib, raises his right hand, and hits his mother in the face.

"Cut cut cut!" Director Csupo says off camera.

Co-director Klasky walks on set and approaches the other side of the crib, looking less than amused at Tommy.

"No hitting." Klasky says.

Tommy giggles and hits Klasky in the face.

"Do you want to go sit in time out?" Klasky asks sternly.

Tommy gasps, feeling bad about what he did, looking disappointed, as he shakes his head no.

"No hitting then, and, let's try that scene one more time." Co-director Klasky says to the stage crew, as everybody gets into position, to shoot that scene one last time, which goes the way we see it in the original episode.

End of Blooper

Heading to Breakfast

Stu and Didi have finished changing Tommy's diaper, and Stu is rambling on and on about the hoverrama, as Tommy makes himself comfortable in his mommy's arms, yawning, about ready to fall back to sleep.

"I tell you, this is my greatest invention yet. I swear it's going to put Pickles' Toys on the map." Stu says, as they get downstairs to the kitchen, where Tommy has fallen asleep in Didi's arms.

"Sh'sh'sh'sh'sh'sh'sh'sheeee." Didi says to Stu, putting a finger up to her lips to shush him.

Stu leans in to whisper something to Didi.

"Was Tommy suppose to fall asleep?" Stu asks.

"Cut!" Director Csupo yells into a bull horn.

"He's asleep, what do we do?" Didi calls out to the stage crew.

Everybody exchanges glances, then turns their attention to Didi.

"Tommy's suppose to be playing with your earring, not falling asleep." One of the stage managers says.

"Oh dear!" Didi says, staring down at the sleeping baby in her arms.

She let out a sigh, knowing she'd have to wake him up, not wishing to do so, as she sits down on the couch in the living room, hoping Tommy will wake up, only to lean back and fall asleep in the process.

End of Blooper

Breakfast Time, Take 1

Stu sets Spike's dog bowl full of dog food in front of Tommy in the highchair. Excited, Tommy coos and picks up some of the food, stuffing it into his mouth. He spits it out immediately, and then starts barking like a dog.

"Look Stu, Tommy's pretending to be a dog!" Didi cries.

"That's my Spike, uh, I mean, my Champ." Stu says, patting Tommy on the head, who continues barking like a dog.

"Wait a minute wait a minute." Director Csupo says from off stage.

"What is it, sir?" Stu asks.

"He's not suppose to do that until later on in the episode, at the very end." Csupo replies.

"Oh, ooops." Stu says, looking embarrassed.

"No matter, keep going." Director Csupo says into his microphone, as they keep going, despite their mistake.

Stu points a remote at the TV on the upper kitchen shelf.

"Oh I don't know Stu, all of my books recommend to avoid detours." Didi says.

"Trust me Deed, you've gotta let him know who's boss. Look over here Tommy." Stu says, as the commercial comes on, only it doesn't show the dog food ad it's suppose to be showing.

Instead, a baby who looks similar to Tommy is on the screen, spooning some strained carrots into his mouth. After spooning the carrots into his mouth, the baby smiles and giggles.

"Is your baby, a Goober baby?" An announcer is heard saying in the background.

After that, it shows a close up of the jar where the carrots came from, along with some baby food pouches filled with the carrots.

"Goober, the number one brand of baby food trusted by pediatricians everywhere. Now available in eat it yourself baby pouches." The announcer is heard saying off screen.

End of Blooper

We now cut to the scene where Stu and Didi are going over the birthday checklist. On the kitchen table is a huge mess of papers.

"Stu, let's go over the birthday checklist." Didi suggests.

Stu picks up one of the papers and starts reading it off.

"Flour, eggs, carrots, sugar, salt. Huh? This isn't the birthday checklist Deed." Stu says.

Didi takes the list from his hand and looks it over.

"What is that doing here? That's the grocery list I made the other day when going to pick up the ingredients for Tommy's birthday cake." Didi says, crumpling up the piece of paper and tossing it across the kkitchen into the waste paper basket.

Stu picks up another piece of paper from the table and starts reading it.

"Step one, make sure you place your unit on a flat shelf. Step two, hook up the video connectors to the back of the television. Huh?" Stu said, raising an eyebrow, realizing that this wasn't the birthday checklist either.

"What is it Stu? Apparently you didn't pick up the birthday checklist." Didi said, peering at what he had in his hand to see some strange symbles on the back of it.

Stu hands her the paper and they gasp upon seeing what's at the top.

"VCR quick start guide." Stu and Didi say in unison, as they toss the piece of paper on to an empty chair at the table.

Just then, Lou walks into the kitchen.

"Con flabbid, don't you two know it's Tommy's birthday today? Goodness, it looks like you two haven't cleaned up this room in fifteen years! Why in my day, we knew how to stay organized, and we could set up for a birthday party in fifteen minutes too." Lou commented, taking a seat at the table.

"Oh sorry Pop, we've seemed to have misplaced the birthday checklist." Stu said.

"Well perhaps this will refresh your memory." Lou said sarcastically, tossing a sheet of paper into Stu's hands, at which he looked over and reads aloud.

"Let's see. Half a dozen wired nuts, one roll of electrical tape and a First Aid Kit? Wait! Who wrote that?" Stu asked, as Lou chuckled to himself in the background.

"Pop!" Stu cried, rolling his eyes at him irritated.

"Every time you fix something, you end up hurting yourself." Lou says, pulling a diary out of his pants pocket and showing it to him.

"I do not." Stu muttered.

"Wait a minute, hold it, hold it." Director Csupo says from off stage.

Lou and Stu glance in his direction.

"What is it now?" Stu asks.

"That's the wrong list. You won't be needing that list and that diary of mistakes for another three seasons during the episode, Send in the Clouds. Let's get this mess cleaned up and start again." Director Csupo says, as the screen cuts to black.

End of Blooper

We now cut to the scene where the doorbell has rung and Didi let's in who's suppose to be Betty and Howard with Chuckie, Phil and Lil, only Chas with the kids is standing there instead.

"Oh, hello Didi, I hope we're not too late for Tommy's birthday party." Chas said, walking into the living room with the three toddlers.

"Oh no not at all Chas, come on in." Didi said, closing the door behind them.

"Cut!" A director is heard saying off stage.

"What is it?" Didi asks.

"Chas isn't suppose to appear until next week's episode." The director replied.

Chas looked disappointed and a bit guilty for showing up early.

"I'm not? Oh, yeah, I guess I forgot. Uh, sorry about that." Chas said nervously, staggering off stage, feeling ashamed and embarrassed.

We now cut to the scene where Angelica is in the car, only Charlotte is driving her to the party, and as usual, is talking on her phone with Jonathan instead of paying attention to her daughter.

"When I get to the party mommy, can I play with cousin Tommy?" Angelica asks excitedly.

"No no Jonathan, I told you those memos needed to be printed on yellow paper. They're for the Sunshine Club, remember?" Charlotte barked angrily into her phone, completely ignoring Angelica's question.

"Mommy?" Angelica asks again, but still no answer, as Charlotte is too busy listening to Jonathan complain in her ear.

"Mommy!" Angelica shreaked, causing Charlotte to slam on the breaks, as she screaches to a stop on the street outside Stu and Didi's house.

"I've gotta go Jonathan, I'll call you back." Charlotte says into her phone, slamming it shut and turning to her daughter.

"Angelica? What was that outburst all about? I was on a very important phone call!" Charlotte snapped.

"But mommy… I just…" Angelica started to say as tears came to her eyes.

"Now you know young lady you need to be quiet when I'm busy working. Well come on, let's go to Tommy's birthday party." Charlotte said, getting Angelica out of the car and heading up to the porch, where she rang the doorbell.

Just like in the original episode, Stu is down in the basement, finishing up wrapping up Tommy's present when the doorbell rings, making the loud monitor go off.

"Great Drew's here." Stu said, switching on the monitor to be surprised by who he saw there instead.

"Charlotte? What are you doing here? I thought you had a meeting." Stu said.

"Well I got Jonathan to cancel it. I wasn't gonna miss my nephew's first birthday now was I?" Charlotte said.

"Cut! Cut! Cut!" The director said.

"Well what is it?" Charlotte asked.

"Get off the stage, you're not suppose to show up until the Christmas special next season." The director said.

"You mean I don't get to come to my nephew's first birthday? You mean to tell me, I pushed back that meeting for nothing? This is an outrage!" Charlotte screamed, stomping down the front steps, only as a result of wearing high heals, she tripped over her own two feet, falling flat on her face on the sidewalk.

End of Blooper

We cut to the scene where the babies are talking about eating dog food to turn into dogs.

"Uh, hi Angelica, do you know anything about, dog food?" Tommy asked.

Angelica pulls him close.

"Listen up dummy, I know a lot about dog food, but just out of curiosity, just what did you pipsqueaks wanna know about it?" Angelica asked in a nasty tone of voice.

"Tommy thinks if he eats some, maybe he'll turn into a dog." Chuckie added.

Angelica just glares at the babies in disgust.

"That's the dummest thing I ever heard. You babies can't turn into dogs from eating dog food." Angelica says.

"Why not Angelica, have you ever tried dog food before?" Tommy asked.

"Well, no, but why would I want to. Besides, that stuff smells terrible, you babies would probably just spit it out anyway." Angelica said, turning away as she sticks her tongue out in disgust, as she leaves the playpen.

Meanwhile, the stage crew is looking through their pages of script, trying to find those lines Angelica just said, and Tommy's response, but don't find anything.

"That's not in the script, what's going on here?" One of the stage managers said.

"Angelica, you're suppose to go along with Tommy's plan not foil it." Klasky said.

"Oh really, why should I go along with something a bunch of dumb babies wanna do. After all, they're dumb babies for a reason." Angelica griped, rolling her eyes at Klasky.

"Just, say your lines as written please?" Klasky asked.

The three-year-old blond let out a sigh, as everybody got back into position to reshoot that scene again.

End of Blooper

We now cut to the scene where the puppeteers are suppose to show up. Didi answers the door to find several people she doesn't recognize standing there.

"Are you the puppeteers?" Didi asked.

"Do I look like one lady?" The original man who brings the stuff for the puppet show asked, just as two identical men with dark hair in colorful outfits pop out from behind him.

"We're the puppeteers mam, where do you want us?" The men asked.

"In the living room." Didi said.

"Wait a minute, cut cut cut." The director said from off stage.

"Well what's wrong, we're having a puppet show aren't we?" Didi asked.

"Look back at your script." The director said.

Didi picked up the script that was handed to her earlier before they started shooting, to see her line about asking where the puppeteers are, gasping when she realized what happened.

"Oh, are we not suppose to have the puppeteers then?" Didi asked, looking confused.

"We've been over this a thousand times. No!" Everybody on stage said in unison, as the identical twin men with dark hair exited stage left, feeling dejected.

Didi breathed a reluctant sigh, as everybody got back into position to reshoot the scene again, this time, hoping it would go correctly this time.

We now cut to the scene where Stu and Drew are attempting to put on the puppet show for the kids.

"Who's on First?" The wolf puppet asked.

"What?" The Little Red Riding Hood puppet asked in Stu's voice.

"No, What's on Second. I'm asking, who's on first?" Drew as the wolf asked.

"Wait a minute Drew, I honestly don't know, and we're suppose to be putting on a puppet show for the kids, not doing the Who's on First routine!" Stu said angrily.

"I honestly don't know's on third, we're not talking about him, and what do you mean, what puppet show?" Drew as the wolf puppet asked.

Stu and Drew peered over the stage to see the living room was completely deserted.

"Well where did everybody go?" Stu and Drew asked in unison.

"They probably got scared away by that stupid Who's on First routine." Drew argued.

"Might I remind you that you're the one who started it." Stu argued.

"Did not!" Drew argued.

"Did too!" Stu argued back, now throwing the Little Red Riding Hood puppet into Drew's face, causing him to wear the puppet on his head, making it look almost like a party hat, as it was standing right side up.

"I did not!" Drew screamed, tossing his wolf puppet into Stu's face, where the mouth got stuck on the end of his nose.

"AAAHHH! Somebody help! A wolf is biting my nose!" Stu screamed, getting up and running through the living room in a panic.

At that moment, Drew, still wearing Stu's puppet on his head for a hat starts chasing after his brother, as the two grown men run through the living room, stepping on toys that have been left everywhere, causing a battery operated fire truck to accidentally get switched on, joining in the chase.

End of Blooper

We now cut to the scene where Tommy is trying to reach for the dog food on the shelf, standing on Angelica's shoulders.

"Still can't reach it." Tommy calls.

"What do you weigh now twenty-five pounds? I can't go any higher!" Angelica screams.

"Great!" Chuckie says sarcastically, as he puts the batteries into the remote and starts up the hoverrama.

It flies into the kitchen, only this time, it catchs on to Angelica's pigtails.

"AAAHHH!" Angelica screams, as the hoverrama takes both, her and Tommy for a ride.

"Stop this thing you dumb babies!" Angelica screamed.

Just like in the regular episode, the hoverrama flies Tommy and Angelica all over the kitchen, as Tommy clutches on to Angelica for dear life, and the two of them scream. They then head out of the kitchen, where Tommy lands on Spike's back, but Angelica and the toy fall head first into the birthday cake.

"Oh no my cake! Angelica! What did you do?" Didi scolded, as Angelica, now covered in birthday cake stands up, licking off some of the cake off of herself.

She immediately spits it out into Didi's face.

"Yuck! I hate carrot cake!" Angelica says.

Just then, Charlotte jumps out of the hall closet and comes into the living room, running up to her daughter, where she grabs her by the arm.

"That's it young lady, you're going to time out for a very long time." Charlotte scolded, dragging her daughter away from the party.

"Charlotte! Get off that stage right now!" The director called from off stage, just as the screen cut to black.

End of Blooper

Another take of the scene, this time, Tommy is the only one stuck to the hoverrama as he lands on Spike's back, but this time, the toy lands on top of the cake, and just, stops.

"Huh?" Didi says, looking confused by the loud noise she heard of two things colliding.

Boris and Minca run up to try the cake with their fingers, only find they can't, because it's a giant plastic cake.

"What's going on? This cake is plastic. In the old country we knew how to make real cakes." Boris comments.

End of Blooper

And now, we cut to one final blooper, right after the babies try the dog food.

"Wait a sec, I feel something!" Tommy cries, as he starts to bark.

No sooner does he bark, when he turns into a yellow Labrador retriever puppy, and starts running through the living room, wagging his tail.

"I think I'm getting flees!" Lil comments, just as she turns into a chihuahua puppy and starts chasing after yellow lab Tommy.

"Me too!" Phil cries, as he's transformed into a husky.

"I can't wait to grow a bunch of fur." Chuckie cried, just as he's transformed into a rot wiler.

All of the babies, now as puppy dogs run over to all of Tommy's unopened presents, and start chewing on the boxes. However, they then see that Angelica never turned into a dog, so they go over to her and start licking her face frantically.

"Yuck! Dog germs! Stop it you dumb dogs!" Angelica screams, as the puppy dogs continue to lick her face.

Her scream is heard outside the house, as a view of the outside of Tommy's house is shown, before the screen cuts to black.

End of Blooper

And this, ends chapter 11. Hope you all enjoyed this special tribute to the twenty-five year anniversary, and be looking for more chapters with more bloopers from the other 171 Rugrats episodes, coming soon, as I feel ready to take this story off of hiatus, and bring it back!