Where to watch Rugrats Season 5
Rugrats season 5 is streaming in Australia on Paramount Plus (subscription). You can also buy it on Apple TV from $12.99. Season 5 was released on 29 May 1998.
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Rugrats Season 5 episodes
S05 E01
Grandpa's Bad Bug
11 mins · Sat, 29 Nov 1997
Grandpa gets out of doing chores by faking a ""bad bug"", though the Rugrats thought that he actually eaten one. To take care of this, they find some ""good bugs"" for Grandpa to eat.
S05 E02
Lady Luck
11 mins · Sat, 29 Nov 1997
Grandpa takes Tommy & Chuckie to the new Seniors Center to play bingo. When Grandpa starts losing, however, Tommy & Chuckie look for ""Lady Luck"", who turned out to be Mrs. Holkin, the center's supervisor. While they look for her, however, they livened up the center, where ""rest & relaxation is the key to happiness"", especially since this is a place where aerobics and cha-chas are just as slow as Tai Chi, and where jumping over checkers is prohibited.
S05 E03
Hiccups
11 mins · Sat, 6 Dec 1997
Angelica tries to scare Tommy out of his hiccups
S05 E04
Autumn Leaves
11 mins · Sat, 6 Dec 1997
Chuckie thinks he made Tommy's tree in the backyard sick when he spilled apple juice on it. They put maple syrup on it, and think it will stick, but it won't. Then, they find out that leaves fall from every tree.
S05 E05
Crime And Punishment
11 mins · Sat, 13 Dec 1997
After eating Stu's popcorn Tommy develops a case of the hiccups. The only cure is to be scared, but Tommy is a brave baby and isn't scared of anything.
S05 E06
Baby Maybe
11 mins · Sat, 13 Dec 1997
The Rugrats' parents go out to see the opera after hiring Ben & Elaine, our newlyweds from Let Them Eat Cake, to babysit them. The couple is babysitting them to get a feel on what parenting feels like, as they plan to have kids in the future. However, the chore of babysitting babies does not go exactly as planned, in advance.
S05 E07
Word Of The Day
11 mins · Sat, 20 Dec 1997
Angelica auditions for a part on a Romper Room-style TV program, ""Miss Carol's Happy House"". However, things get nasty after the audition when Angelica overhears the 74 year-old Miss Carol say nasty things about her viewers backstage; among these nasty things included a cuss word, which Angelica learns and says to her parents.
S05 E08
Johnathan Babysits
11 mins · Sat, 20 Dec 1997
Jonathan babysits the Rugrats at Charlotte's house while she's on assignment, but uses this opportunity to look for Charlotte's tape so he could ""dig up dirt"" on Charlotte for blackmailing purposes. However, he has to do this while humoring Angelica, as per Charlotte's orders. Meanwhile, the Rugrats dig up dirt (the one used to make mudpies, that is).
S05 E09
He Saw, She Saw
11 mins · Sat, 27 Dec 1997
Chazz falls in love with Naomi, a traffic cop, but the Rugrats try to sour their relationship after Angelica's lie of cops stealing babies. Chazz's date with Naomi later becomes more bizarre after Chuckie accidentally breaks Chazz's glasses; after the breakage, Chazz went without his glasses, as he feared that the taped-up glasses would make him look like a geek.
S05 E10
Piggy's Pizza Palace
11 mins · Sat, 27 Dec 1997
The Rugrats wander around a ""Chuck E. Cheese""-type pizza restaurant after Piggy inadvertently stolen the game tickets that Angelica had won. Meanwhile, Stu & Drew try to outwit each other playing a Reptar pinball game.
S05 E11
Fugitive Tommy
11 mins · Sat, 22 Aug 1998
Gabriel Lasky, a.k.a. ""The One-Toothed Baby"", pops one of the McNulty kids' balls by biting it; however, the McNultys placed the blame on another baby with one-tooth -- Tommy. As they cart Tommy up a hill for Tommy's punishment, Tommy escapes, leading to a manhunt, with the McNultys finding Tommy, and Tommy finding Gabriel. But will the McNultys learn the real story? And will they believe Tommy? While all this happens, Gabriel's grandpa cheats while playing chess with Tommy's grandpa. Not a Quinn-Martin production.
S05 E12
The Family Tree
23 mins · Mon, 21 Sep 1998
While Didi and Stu celebrate their anniversary, Angelica and Tommy stay at Chuckie's house. Chas works on the family tree and Tommy and Chuckie decide they're brothers.
S05 E13
The First Cut
11 mins · Sun, 16 Aug 1998
Angelica auditions for a part on a Romper Room-style TV program, ""Miss Carol's Happy House"". However, things get nasty after the audition when Angelica overhears the 74 year-old Miss Carol say nasty things about her viewers backstage; among these nasty things included a cuss word, which Angelica learns and says to her parents.
S05 E14
Chuckie Grows
11 mins · Sun, 16 Aug 1998
It seems like it when Grandpa accidentally shrinks Chuckie's clothes in the wash, after Chuckie got dirty. Afterwards, Angelica decides to play off Chuckie by thinking that he's a giant and that he'll squash Angelica, the Rugrats and the grown-ups. In the end, this action costs Cynthia her right to have cappuccino; her miniature cappuccino machine was brought over so Stu can fix it.
S05 E15
Uneasy Rider
11 mins · Sat, 29 Aug 1998
Jonathan babysits the Rugrats at Charlotte's house while she's on assignment, but uses this opportunity to look for Charlotte's tape so he could ""dig up dirt"" on Charlotte for blackmailing purposes. However, he has to do this while humoring Angelica, as per Charlotte's orders. Meanwhile, the Rugrats dig up dirt (the one used to make mudpies, that is).
S05 E16
Where's Grandpa?
11 mins · Sat, 29 Aug 1998
The adults accidentally left Grandpa behind at a gas station while trying to take home an easily-perishable banana tree they purchased from a nursery about 3 hours from home. Grandpa unwittingly hitches a ride with strangers, but everyone ends up at a cheesy, Canadian-themed tourist stop called ""North Of The Border"" (""Where You Can Go To Canada Without Crossing The Border""). Tommy & Chuckie try to reunite Grandpa with Stu & Didi, but there's one slight problem -- Grandpa thinks he's in Canada -- with no ID (Tommy threw his wallet out the car window).
S05 E17
The Wild Wild West
11 mins · Mon, 17 Aug 1998
At a local park, where Stu & Didi took the Rugrats, Chuckie falls in love again, this time for a girl named Emma, and this time, something else gets in the way of their romance -- her big, 3-year-old brother, ""Big Binky"", who wants to distance Chuckie as far aways as possible from Emma. Knowing the problem, the Rugrats help Chuckie out by pestering Big Binky.
S05 E18
Angelica For A Day
11 mins · Mon, 17 Aug 1998
The rugrats take the expression "" If I were in your shoes"" litterally when Angelica and Chuckie change shoes and personalities. Things go bad, but it gets really worse when Tommy takes off Angelica's shoes from Chuckie's feet and he still acts like her. Later on Tommy wakes up, realizes that it was all a dream, and is glad that Chuckie is Chuckie and Angelica is Angelica.
S05 E19
Babysitting Fluffy
11 mins · Sat, 15 Aug 1998
Angelica and her family go on vacation, but Fluffy stays behind at Chuckie's house. But there are 2 problems: Fluffy hates Chuckie, and Chazz is allergic to cats. Eventually, the other Rugrats help out in babysitting Fluffy. Meanwhile, Chazz, Stu and Betty pave Chazz's driveway, without success.
S05 E20
Sleep Trouble
11 mins · Sat, 15 Aug 1998
At a sleepover during a windstorm, Tommy & Chuckie try to catch the ""Sandman"" after hearing Stu's impromptu story about him. They eventually catch Chazz, who came home early from a party.
S05 E21
Journey To The Center Of The Basement
11 mins · Sat, 19 Sep 1998
Gabriel Lasky, a.k.a. ""The One-Toothed Baby"", pops one of the McNulty kids' balls by biting it; however, the McNultys placed the blame on another baby with one-tooth -- Tommy. As they cart Tommy up a hill for Tommy's punishment, Tommy escapes, leading to a manhunt, with the McNultys finding Tommy, and Tommy finding Gabriel. But will the McNultys learn the real story? And will they believe Tommy? While all this happens, Gabriel's grandpa cheats while playing chess with Tommy's grandpa. Not a Quinn-Martin production.
S05 E22
A Very McNulty Birthday
11 mins · Sat, 19 Sep 1998
At his birthday party, Timmy McNulty bans the girls from playing because they have cooties. However, the girls get back at them by thinking that they actually have a contagious form of cooties.
S05 E23
The Family Tree
11 mins · Mon, 21 Sep 1998
Aunt Miriam is back; this time, we're visiting her place, as she, Grandpa, and her friends play poker. The Rugrats become scared of the old ladies when one of them jokingly commented that Chuckie was good enough to eat, and when Miriam recruited Chuckie to become her ""helper"" (which was genuine, but the Rugrats felt different).