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| Tommy's First Birthday | |
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The Rugrats become themselves as dogs after they ate Spike's dog food. Tommy's First Birthday is the first aired episode of the Rugrats Television series and was first broadcast on the 11th of August 1991.
Plot[]
In the days of the Old West, Maggie is the only cow left on the Dixon Ranch after a wanted cattle rustler named Alameda Slim stole all the rest of Mr. Dixon's cattle. Dixon has no other choice than to sell Maggie to Pearl, a kind, aging woman who runs a small farm called Patch of Heaven. Sam the local Sheriff, arrives to tell Pearl that her bank is cracking down on debtors. Unless she pays the bank $750 in three days, her farm will be sold to the highest bidder. Hearing this, Maggie convinces the farm cows Grace and Mrs. Calloway to go to town to attempt to win prize money at a fair. While the cows are in town, a bounty hunter named Rico (whom Buck, the Sheriff's horse, idolizes) drops a criminal off and collects the reward. Stating he needs a replacement horse to go after Alameda Slim while his own horse rests, he takes Buck. When Maggie finds out that the reward for capturing Slim is exactly $750, she convinces the other cows to try to capture him to save Patch of Heaven.
That night, they hide among a large herd of steers, when Alameda Slim arrives with his henchmen, the Willies. Before Maggie can attack him, Slim begins a yodeling song which sends all the cattle (except Grace, who is tone deaf) into a trance that causes them to dance madly and follow him anywhere. Grace is able to bring Maggie and Mrs. Calloway back to their senses just before Slim closes the path behind him with a rock slide to stop Rico and his men from chasing him. As Rico discusses what his next move will be with his men, Buck starts to argue with the three cows. This causes Rico to believe Buck is unreliable and decides to return him to the Sheriff. Buck escapes, determined to capture Slim for himself to prove his worth.
Maggie, Grace, and Mrs. Calloway continue their search for Slim, determined to pass Buck and get to Slim first, but they have a fallout when they lose the trail in a flash flood. Mrs. Calloway argues that Maggie is going after Slim only for personal vendetta and states that Patch of Heaven would have been better off without her, to which Maggie cynically suggests they part ways. The three spend the night under a large rock. The next morning, however, they are awakened by a peg-legged jackrabbit named Lucky Jack, who has also lost his home, an old mine, to Alameda Slim. Maggie decides to go after Slim with Lucky Jack as a guide, but Grace convinces Mrs. Calloway that they help. At the mine, Slim reveals that he has been stealing all cattle from his former patrons. When his former patrons can no longer support their land, Slim buys the land when it is auctioned off, under the guise of the respectable-looking Yancy O'Dell, using the very money he gets from selling the stolen cattle.
After arriving at Slim's lair, the cows manage to trap Slim. They run off with Willies, the buyer, and Rico in pursuit. When the chase stops, Rico is revealed to be one of Slim's henchmen. Crushed by this, Buck decides to help the cows and fights Rico while setting the other cattle free. Slim dons his O'Dell costume and goes to attend the auction of Patch of Heaven. However, the cows follow by driving the cattle train locomotive to the farm. After a fight against the cows and the farm's animals, Slim is defeated, exposed and arrested, and the reward money is used to pay the farm's mortgage.
A few weeks pass, and at the county fair, most of the livestock on Patch of Heaven have won prizes. Lucky Jack moves in with Jebb the Goat, and two steers and Slim's gentlemanly steed Junior the Buffalo arrive unexpectedly to join the festivities.
Cast[]
- (in Alphabetical Order)
- Rusty: G.W. Bailey
- Maggie: Roseanne Barr
- Maggie Mooing: Frank Welker
- Piggy: Bobby Block
- Mr. Wesley: Steve Buscemi
- Pearl Gesner: Carole Cook
- Ollie: Charlie Dell
- Mrs. Caloway: Judi Dench
- Mrs. Caloway Moo: Frank Welker
- Rico: Charles Dennis
- Larry: Marshall Efron
- Jeb: Joe Flaherty
- Buck: Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Lucky Jack: Charles Haid
- Audrey: Estelle Harris
- Junior the Buffalo: Lance LeGault
- The Willie Brothers: Sam Levine
- Alameda Slim: Randy Quaid
- Annie: Ann Richards
- Sheriff Sam Brown: Richard Riehle
- Piggies: Keaton Savage, Ross Simanteris
- Grace: Jennifer Tilly
- Barry and Bob: Mark Walton
- 5,000 Texas Longhorns: Mark Walton, Dan Castellaneta, Lord Tim Hudson, Harry Shearer, Thurl Ravenscroft, Hank Azaria, Vito Scotti, Scatman Crothers and Paul Winchell
- 5,000 Texas Longhorns Moo: Frank Welker
- Patrick: Patrick Warburton
- Abner: Dennis Weaver
- Vulture: Peter Siragusa
- Rico Black Horses: Frank Welker
- Brown Horses: Frank Welker
- Tan Horses: Frank Welker
- Golden Yellow Horse: Frank Welker
- Westerns Cowboys: Jim Ward and Bruce A. Young with Roger L. Jackson
- Additional Voices: Michael Bell, Timothy Robert Blevins, Bob Bouchard, Tami Tappan Damiano, Debi Derryberry, Randy Erwin, Troy Evans, Bill Farmer, Linda Griffin, Pam Hamill, Roger L. Jackson, Leslie Jordan, Linda Kerns, Kevin Ligon, Edie McClurg, Mickie McGowan, Jordan Orr, Wilbur Pauley, Phil Proctor, Evan Sabara, Garnett Sailor, Peter Samuel, John Sanford, Peter Siragusa, Jim Ward, Joe Whyte, Bruce A. Young, Roger Yuan