Rugrats the Movie

Tommy Gets His Sponsitility

Fade in to next morning, Dil cries, the babies are playing inside a crate to be used to ship the Reptar Wagon to Japan. Grandpa finds them playing among the foam peanuts.

" Oh, darn." Said Chuckie, covering his ears from Dil's crying. Lou walks to see the problem, but stops when he sees Tommy and his friends.  " Hey, sprouts, crate's no place for you to play. You wouldn't want to get shipped to Japan with Reptar, now would you?" He asked as he dumps the babies out of the crate, picks it up, and moves it to the next room. " I better put this where I can keep an eye on it."

They see Dil nibbling on what was Tommy's blanket. "Dil, that's Tommy's blankie." Said Chuckie as they walked over to him. "Yeah, it used to sleep with me before we even got you." Said Tommy.

Dil hits Tommy with his rattle. " My blankie!" Said Dil, smiling as Chuckie helps Tommy before he falls.

"He's not very nice." Said Chuckie as Dil hits him with the rattle, making Chuckie drop Tommy. "Ow!" He glared at Dil.

"That's not how you get things from a brother, Tommy." Said Lil as Tommy looked at her. "It's not?" He asked.

"No, it's not. Here, watch." She said as she shoves Tommy and Chuckie, then tries to take a Reptar doll from Phil.

"Hey, that's my Reptar, Lillian!"  Phil said, trying to pull the Reptar toy to his side.

" Is not, Phillip!" Lil did the same thing.

" Is too, Lillian!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not" They start doing a tug-a-war until Lil tosses Phil to the floor. The arguing immediately stops."See, Tommy? Now you try it."

Tommy walks over to Dil and smiles innocently at him, before grabbing the bear, trying to yank it out of Dil's hands.

"Teddy mine!"

"Mine!"

"Mine!"

" Mine!"

" Mine!"

"Mine!"

" Mine!" Dil hits Tommy on the head with his rattle. The babies continue to tug at the teddy bear.

"Gosh, Tommy learns fast." Said Phil. "Yeah" Lil agreed. Phil looks around and looks at Chuckie and Lil. " Hey, where's CJ?" Phil asked.

"Her daddy should be coming over with Angelica and CJ." Lil replied as they watched Tommy and Dil fight.

Grandpa and Stu take the Reptar Wagon from the basement. "Hurry, Pop, they'll be here to pick it up any minute." Said Stu.

Angelica and Drew come over carrying CJ with one arm and a bag on the other hand.

" Daddy, why can't I watch Shirleylock Holmes at our house? I'll never be able to hear it with that new baby squawking the whole time!"

"Now, sweetheart, Daddy's gotta put in a little overtime today, so that Mommy won't be so ashamed of his quarterly earnings." Drew replied as he carefully rings the doorbell, so he wouldn't drop CJ.

Stu answers the door to see his brother and his two nieces. "Hi, Uncle Stu. Sorry to hear your pony is so slow." Said Angelica as she ran in. Drew gives CJ to Stu and kisses her head.

"But we don't have a pony Angelica." Stu said as Drew puts a pacifier in CJ's mouth and gives her her favorite penguin plush.

"Then how come you told Mommy, Aunt Didi got saddled with a loser?" Angelica asked her dad. ""Loser"?" Stu asked in shock, looking at his brother. CJ looks like she doesn't know what's going on around her. Drew tried to speak, but was cut off when Dil's crying is heard from upstairs.

"Excuse me, bro. My tax deductions are CRYING!" Said  Stu as he angrily slams the door. Drew furiously opens it again and angrily puts Angelica's things inside since Stu already had CJ's things.

" YOU CAN'T DEDUCT THEM IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY INCOME!" Drew yelled as he  slams the door.

Tommy and Dil are still arguing over the teddy. The other babies watch, while Chuckie is exhibiting signs of boredom.

" Tommy! Dil! Boys, what are you doing?!" Stu asked in shock as he sat CJ next to Phil. CJ takes the cow pacifier out of her mouth to look at the twins while Stu was settling Tommy and Dil.

"What's going on?" CJ asked as Chuckie peeks from the side of the couch. " Tommy and Dil are fighting..." Was all he said.

" Dil... let's say we give Tommy a little turn with the bear, huh? " Stu asked as he  tries to take the teddy bear, causing Dil to start wailing. "Or not."  Stu returns the teddy bear to Dil. This stops Dil's crying, but now Tommy cries.

" Hey, champ, why don't you come with me for a minute? I got something to show you that's even better than your old teddy bear. My niece, why don't you come along?" Stu asked as Stu picks up Tommy and CJ and takes him to his workshop.

After setting them on the workbench, Stu gives Tommy and CJ a  pocket watch. "We weren't going to give you this until you were a little bit older, but I think now's the right time. And I was going to give this to Angelica, but she doesn't handle things like this well." Stu holds out a pocket watch and gives it to Tommy.

"Shiny, huh? "He opens the watch to reveal a taped photo of Tommy and Dil inside. "And Grandpa Lou put your picture inside." Stu said before looking at CJ. He does the same thing he did with Tommy's, revealing a picture of a younger Angelica with CJ when she was first born.

Tommy looks at it, intrigued. " I know it's hard, Tommy and CJ. You have a little brother and cousin now, and that's a big change. Tommy scowls and puts down the watch. " Uh, Dil can be pretty tough to get along with, huh? But sometimes little brothers and sisters, they aren't everything you'd hoped they'd be." Stu said, as he opens a drawer, then pulls out a picture of himself and Drew, when they were kids. "That's why big brothers and sisters have got to have faith. And one day, you'll see... he'll change. After all... I had this talk with Angelica too, she got used to you, CJ. " He puts a chain on the watch. "you've got responsibility now. I know I can trust that you'll stick by Dil's side and be a swell big brother and big cousin." He told them as CJ just stared at him.

Stu puts Tommy and CJ on his lap. Tommy looks at the watch in his hands as CJ though of something. Angelica might not treat CJ well, but that doesn't mean that Angelica loves her little sister.