[9111B] The Trial


Contributed and compiled by Mark Wroniak.


The Trial
Written by Steve Viksten
Music by Mark Mothersbaugh
Directed by Jim Duffy


Production code: 9111B

Voice credits

Christine Cavanaugh............Chuckie
Melainie Chartoff..................Didi
Cheryl Chase....................... Angelica
E.G. Daily..............................Tommy
Kath Soucie.......................... Phil, Lil, Betty


Quotes and Scene Summary

Opens with Tommy's lamp "Mr Fluffles" shining around a room. Then moves to the kitchen where Didi is with Betty and Tommy is being fed.
Didi: Open up Tommy.
A loud crash is heard and Didi grabs Tommy and runs with Betty to where they find the broken lamp.
Didi: Oh Betty, that was Mr Fluffles, Tommy's favorite lamp.
Tommy starts crying
Didi: There, there sweetie.

Betty picks up Chuckie, Phil and Lil and places them in the playpen, then Angelica enters dragging a blanket.
Angelica: [sounding tired] What happened ? I was taking my nap and I heard a loud sound.
Didi: Oh honey, one of the babies broke the lamp Uncle Stu made for Tommy.
Angelica: Awww, Mr. Fluffleuffles?
Didi: I'm afraid so honey.
Bettty : You know, I saw a lamp just like that one at "Baby World" last week; lets call 'em and see if they still got any.
Didi: Great idea, Betty.

The parents leave the room.
Tommy: I love my clown lamp like a brother, and now he's gone. Why my lamp? Why? He never hurt anybody, he just shined his light on stuff and smiled.
Angelica: Oh quit bellyaching. Forget about your dumb old clown lamp; your mom's in the other room buying you a new one anyway.
Tommy: I don't want a new one; I want my old one.
Chuckie: Tommy, it's goned.
Tommy: Then I want to know who did it. [pointing] Which one of you broke my lamp?
Angelica: Well, Tommy, there's one way to find out. We could have a trial.
Tommy: What's a trial?
Angelica: Here I'll show ya... [Setting up a mock court room] Tommy you sit in this chair; since it was your clown lamp, you get to be the judge.
Phil & Lil: The Fudge ?
Angelica: NO! JUDGE! Can't you babies talk right? [gives Tommy his toy hammer] And here's your gravel. Just hit it on the table and say "Order, Order!"
Tommy: Order, Order!
Angelica: NOT YET! [picking up some toys] See these teddy bears ? They're the jerky.
Phil & Lil: The Jury ?
Angelica: Not the Jury; the Jerky! At the end of the trail the jerky guys whisper to each other, then one of the story-tellers goes to jail. Now since I'm the smartest person here, I'm gonna be the persecutor.
Phil: Why can't we be the persecutor ?
Angelica: Watch it or I'll make you the jerky!

The trial now begins.
Angelica: For my first witless I call....PHIL and LIL!
Phil & Lil: [Gulp] Us?
Angelica: Just stand up.... O.K. now raise your hands. Do you swear to tell Ruth all Ruth and nothing but Ruth so help you Bob? [Phil & Lil look at each other confused] Just say you do.
Phil & Lil: You do.
Angelica: Now say your names.
Phil: But Angelica you know our names.
Angelica: Say them for the jerky!
Phil: Phil.
Lil: Lil.
Angelica: Where were you on the night of June 5th?
Phil & Lil: Huh?
Angelica: Just answer the question, Yes or No ?
Phil: Yes.
Lil: No.
Angelica: Ah-ha! So you DID break Tommy's lamp!
Phil: No.
Lil: Honest.
Phil: We would never break Tommy's lamp.
Angelica: Ah ha ha ha! A likely story.
Phil: But we didn't do it.
Angelica: Then why don't you tell us, in your "own words", [Angelica makes "quotes" with her fingers] just what happened?
Phil: We were playing "you're it".

Scene moves to a flashback as Phil and Lil describe what happened.
Lil: Phil was it.
Phil: Naw. Lil was it .
Lil: Nuh-Ah. Phil was it.
Phil: You were it, Lillian.
Lil: No, you were it Philip.
Phil: You!
Lil: You!
Phil: You!
Lil: You!
Flashback ends as Tommy interrupts .
Tommy: Order, Order! Maybe you guys should talk about the clown lamp instead of who was it.
Phil: Sorry.
Lil: Yeah, Sorry.
Flashback resumes.
Phil: Anyway, we ran over to the lamp and started playing "ring round the rosie".
Lil: We went round and round.
Phil: And round.
Lil: And then we let go.
Phil: We ran and we ran.
Lil: And we ran some more.
Phil: 'Til suddenly we heard it [The lamp crashes].

Flashback ends.
Lil: And that's all we saw.
Angelica: A very good story, but it isn't the whole story, IS IT!?
Phil: What do you mean?
Angelica: You know EXACTLY what I mean don't you Phil?
Phil: Well......
Angelica: Isn't there another story you'd like to tell us Lil?
Lil: Ummm..
Angelica: Like what really happened....[Flashback of Angelica's story begins ] You did start by playing a nice game of "ring round the rosie", but soon the game stopped being so nice. Faster and faster you spin and even faster until you really got dizzy and then you let go, but when you did something you didn't expect happened. YOU KNOCKED THE LAMP!!! So you ran away, and you didn't stop running until you heard a crash, and that's how YOU broke the lamp! [Flashback ends ].
Phil: Nooooo!
Lil: We did knock the lamp when we ran by, but, but we didn't break it!
Phil: Honest!
Angelica: No, maybe you didn't, and besides, there was someone else in the room when the lamp broke wasn't there?
Phil & Lil: Who?
Angelica: Yes who? Who could have knocked over the lamp and then left you to get in trouble....could it have been CHUCKIE?!
Chuckie: NO, NO !
Angelica: There's the poopertrator, I call Chuckie to the stand......Do you swear to tell Ruth and all that stuff?
Chuckie: Do I have ta?
Angelica: You can tell he did it.
Chuckie: I didn't break it.[Tommy hits his hammer ] huh?
Tommy: Just tell your story Chuckie.
Chuckie: I was just watching Phil and Lil play when it happened.[Flashback of Chuckie's story starts] They were playing "ring round the rosie" and it looked kinda dangerous so I just sat on the floor and watch 'em. Then they ran away, that's what I do I was all alone. Then I heard a noise from behind me, I turned around and there it was....a MONSTER! I ran and ran and ran and ran, but I could here it thumping right behind me so I hid under the couch.
Angelica: But that isn't really the whole story, is it, Chuckie?
Chuckie: W-wwhat do you mean?
Angelica: When you were sitting there watching Phil and Lil play, you started thinking about... bad ideas, didn't you, Chuckie?
Chuckie: I don't know what you're talking about.
Angelica: I think you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about Chuckie! That lamp! You wanted to push it more much more, didn't you Chuckie?
Chuckie: NO!
Angelica: Yes! You wanted to push it till it fell over! You wanted to break the clown lamp!
Chuckie: [Cracks under pressure] It's true! It's true! I wanted to break that lamp! I wanted to break it 'cause it was scary! I'm bad Tommy, real bad!
Angelica: Ladies and Gentlemen of the jerky, Chuckie broke the lamp.
Chuckie: NO! I thought about breaking the lamp; I even wanted to, but I didn't do it.
Angelica: LIAR!
Tommy: Order, order! If Chuckie says he didn't broke the lamp, then he didn't broke the lamp.
Chuckie: But Tommy, if I didn't do it, who did?
Tommy: Well, we don't know who broke the lamp, but we do know who did not the broke the lamp. Phil and Lil could not broke the lamp on account of they were playing on the other side of the room. You couldn't have done it 'cause your head was hiding under a pillow. Angelica couldn't have broke the lamp 'cause she was taking her afternoon nap, and I couldn't have broke it 'cause I was..... HEY! Wait a minute! Angelica, didn't you already take a nap this morning before you came over?
Angelica: Umm, I took two naps today.
Phil: But Angelica, if you were taking a nap, how did ya know how fast we "ring around the rosied"?
Angelica: Well....
Lil: And how did you know we hit the lamp when we ran away?
Angelica: Umm......
Chuckie: And, and how do you know all the other stuff you knowed?
Angelica: I, I...
Tommy: Angelica did it? You mean you broke my lamp?
Angelica: Oh brother! Do I have to tell you babies everything? All right, I admit; I'm the one who broke the lamp and I don't care! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Tommy: But why Angelica? Why did you do such a bad thing?
Angelica: Why? I'll tell you why. It all started in the hallway, I was looking for a crayon so I could draw on the wall, and blame it on you Tommy, ha ha ha. And then I saw him, Chuckie sitting there by the closet watching Phil and Lil play some stupid little game, the kind of game babies play but don't invite the bigger better kids to play which really makes me mad. So, I found your Halloween mask lying on the ground, Tommy. I picked it up and put it on and then I attacked him. Chuckie yelled like a fraidy-cat and ran away. That's when I saw it, that stupid clown lamp with it's stupid face, and it's goofy nose, and that STUPID smile. I wanted to make sure he never smiled again. That's right, I did it, and I'd break it again if I had the chance! But you know what? There's nothing you babies can do about it 'cause you can't talk, ha ha ha! I did it! I did it! I DID IT!
Didi: ANGELICA!
Angelica: Oops. I didn't do it! I didn't do it!
Betty: We heard the whole thing Angelica.
Didi: So YOU broke the lamp young lady! Well, you can just sit in the kitchen with us until your father gets back.
Phil: What do you think they'll do to her?
Lil: Do you think she'll go to jail?
Tommy: I don't know.
Angelica: [screaming from the kitchen] Noo! Not the chair! not the chair! [Angelica is strapped into a high chair] Humph.
Chuckie: Does this mean the persecutor did it?
Tommy: Yep, I guess the persecutor's the poopertrator this time.


Executive Producers.....................Gabor Csupo, Arlene Klasky
Executive Producer for Nickelodeon.....................Vanessa Coffey
Creative Producer...................Paul Germain
Supervising Producer.......................Sherry Gunther
Producer....................................... .David Blum
Co-Producer.......................Bee Beckman
Story Editors...................Craig Bartlett, Joe Ansolabehere, Steve Viksten
Creative Consultant........................Chuck Swenson
Production Consultant...............Geraldine Clarke
Characters Designed by.....................Gabor Csupo, Arlene Klasky, Peter Chung, John Holmquist
Production Manager.............................Tami Sloan Tsark
Production Assistants......................Andy Houts, Samuel Williams
Storyboard..........Kelly James, Dexter Reed, Norton Virgien
Storyboard Clean Up...........Antoine Guilbaud
Character Layout..........Mark Ervin, Ross De La Vega ,Dave Gonzales, Mel Polina, Jon Aoanan III, Rey Bohol, Dulce Errazo, Alex Acayen, Moises Macasinag
Background Supervisor..................Maija Aperans
Background Design..............David Allen
Background Layout...............Sean Edberg
Color Concept.....................Gyorgyl Peluce
Color Supervisor............................Li Rene' Harmon
Color Assistant........................Bert King
Painter....................Squid Kato
Supervising Checker...............................Merle Welton
Assistant Checkers.................... Becca Ramos, Susan Zsuzsa Lamv


This episode summary is Copyright 1996 by Mark Wroniak. Not to be redistributed in a public forum without permission. (The quotes themselves, of course, remain the property of and (c) 1991 by Viacom, and the reproduced articles remain the property of the original authors. I'm (Mark Wroniak) just taking credit for the compilation:)


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