Greetings readers, today I'd like to introduce a new series I whipped up. As the title shows, this will focus on some television show episodes that left me, and possibly others, with a weird taste in their mouth after watching them again in adulthood. To kick things off, I'll be starting with Rugrats.

Rugrats Season 2 - Episode 10 - Reptar on Ice (1992)




The episode begins with Tommy and Angelica at Tommy's house in the kitchen as their breakfast gets prepared. Tommy reaches in for a bowl of Reptar cereal that's for Angelica, but is briefly scolded by Didi, being told that he can't eat it. Being the brat she is, she tells Stu and Didi about the extinction of dinosaurs, giving Tommy some concern that Reptar is gone for good. The other babies don't believe it, so a quick search in the backyard gives them hope of finding them. Instead they find a lizard that has the same patterns on its back as Reptar.



At first glance Tommy thinks it belongs to Reptar himself, but before he decides to bring it along it gives chase running to the end of the backyard patio as Tommy catches it. Chuckie warns him about Didi heading to the patio door, following with Tommy who is hiding the lizard in his diaper. Feeling awkward movements from the lizard, Tommy begins acting funny as his mom brings him back in the house with the babies.



Just a reminder folks, having a lizard down your drawers is also like experiencing acid.

Stu and grandpa Lou catch a commercial announcing the premiere of Reptar on Ice, an ice show happening at at a shopping center around the area. The babies are in for a surprise as Stu makes the decision to take them to the show. Tommy hands over the lizard to Chuckie as he shows discomfort. Chuckie obviously has pockets in those shorts, but as they're on their way to to the ice show it's in his clothes. Meanwhile Stu somehow forgets where he kept the ice show tickets as we're shown the man behind the Reptar costume, Leo.



Leo, doing countless performances for the show has grown tired of his job, yet in his contract he still has tons to go. He admits that he's not fond of lizards (that comes into play later) and especially amphibians. As the show begins everyone finds their seats and Chuckie hands the lizard back to Tommy. The show starts with Reptar appearing out of a stage prop volcano.



"Now that's entertainment!"

The plot of the show itself is that Reptar causes destruction upon a city, as a lone human female shows her love towards him as he's about to get captured. As the performance wears thin on the audience and lulling them to sleep, the babies find that it's time to go into the rink and hand the lizard to Reptar, the only problem is that once they arrive, he's gone! Leo happens to be backstage getting some refreshment for a brief moment while the babies search for him in the rink. Eventually as a new scene in the show happens, they all bump into them, causing a halt in the performance. Lou happens to wake up, and he wakes up Stu, alerting him about the babies being out in the rink. As he slips around on the ice Leo notices Tommy covering the lizard in his hands. He freaks out, carrying the woman and hightailing it away from the lizard.



Stu makes it over to Tommy as to return him back to the seat, and the episode ends.

If there are those of you who have never seen this episode of the show, Nickelodeon rarely aired it. It was likely due to the reason of bestiality in the ice show with the relationship of a human and a lizard. That, or the recurrence of Tommy and Chuckie hiding the lizard under their clothes near the beginning of the episode. The episode would later see a release on vhs, as well as the "decade in diapers" video that would come years later after the episode's first airing. For one that aired early during the show I thought it was pretty humorous that this was poking fun at the popularity of actual ice shows at the time, and with that said I would've loved to see a Broadway performance of Reptar on Ice. 

That wraps up part one of this series, stay tuned for more!