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River Rats

Season 1, Episode 8, Aired Dec 13, 2003

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When Betty and Chas take Tommy, Phil, and Chuckie to the great outdoors for rafting, Tommy's secret fear of the water is exposed and tested after getting lost. When he was young, he had a near death experience and almost drowned, ever since then, he's been afraid of the water. But when Phil's life is in danger and Chuckie is too scared to help him out, Tommy must put aside his fears to try and save his friend.moreless

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Joe Alaskey

Grandpa Lou Pickles
E. G. Daily

Tommy Pickles
Michael Bell

Chas Finster
Kath Soucie

Phillip "Phil"/Betty DeVille
Nancy Cartwright

Charles "Chuckie" Finster

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What a waste of an episode!

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By Canogaparkcindy, Mar 05, 2011

This is the original camping episode. Which takes the series nowhere. I hate when an episode, no character develops. No situation develops into something else. Although it was quite entertaing. I could watch it. I didn't really get why Tommy was so afraid of water. And no doubt with no fear I would save a friend from drowning. I wouldn't even hesitate even if I was afraid of the water. I dont like the reason why they are going camping. Just because of overuse of video games. At the end it was like cue the music. Cheesey episode, seriously. Ugh! What a waste.moreless
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By yuki_megami, Apr 06, 2007

Betty and Chazz take Chuckie,Phil,and Tommy river rafting.However there is an secret that nobody knows about.Tommy is afraid of water.Due to an incident that happened to him when he was an toddler.When he fall into the water and nearly drowned himself.He decided not to tell anyone about this.However after rafting away from Chazz and Betty.When Phil begin to drowned.Tommy begin to fear the water and seeing that Chuckie,wouldn't help.So he has to go and save Phil himself overcome his fear.

This is an good episode teaches lesson that you would need to overcome your fear.moreless
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- When Tommy falls into the river, he has a flashback, and when it's over, he's underwater looking at Chuckie. How can he be underwater? They are wearing life jackets.
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- In Tommy's flashback, he seems a little older than he did in Rugrats.
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- When Tommy finished talking with Chuckie in their tent, he lays back in his sleeping bag and the view turns to just Tommy. His sleeping bag turns blue, but when it goes to Phil, Chuckie, and Tommy again in the morning, his sleeping bag is the original green color.
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- After Phil grabs the oar that he drops, it cuts to him with the oar laying at the bottom-left corner of the screen, it's blue, but when it cuts back to them all in the raft, it becomes brown again.
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- In a rafting boat, like the one they used, you can fit up to 6, even 8 people in it, and they are 5, so why would they use two boats for such a small group? I mean, you'd think Chas, the over-protected father he is, would've figured that out.
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- We learn that Tommy has Hydrophobia, fear of water.
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- In this episode, Chuckie is perfectly fine in the moving raft, but in the first Rugrats movie, Chuckie gets sea-sick.
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- Tommy saves Phil's life.
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- We learn Chuckie is afraid of boggie boarding.
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- This is the only episode in the entire Rugrats/All Grown Up series where only one of the DeVille twins appeared without the other.
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- Tommy's fear of water reflects all the way back to the early Rugrats episode, "Down the Drain."
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- Alternate Episode Title: "Riding the Waves."
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- We learn that Tommy has a fear of swimming in rivers, due to a near-death experience as an infant.
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- Grandpa Lou makes his first appearance since "All Growed Up," but just in the flashback scenes.
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- Dil, Lil, Kimi, Susie, and Angelica are absent in this episode.
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