The Turkey Who Came to Dinner

Rugrats
"The Turkey Who Came to Dinner"

Season 4

Number 78

Production code:

416

Airdate:

October 21, 1997 (VHS release)
November 16, 1997 (TV premiere; Australia)
November 10, 1998 (US)

Written by:

Mark Palmer

Directed by:

Rick Bugental
Jim Duffy

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"The Turkey Who Came to Dinner" is the 78th episode of Rugrats, and also the series' Thanksgiving episode. It was originally released as a direct-to-video special on October 21, 1997, and had its televised premiere in Australia on November 16th of the same year.

Synopsis

The babies try to defend a live turkey, which Lou had won in a raffle, from becoming Thanksgiving dinner. Meanwhile, Stu and Drew try to watch football, Didi and the ladies try to find food for dinner, and Angelica wants to hold a parade.

Home video releases

VHS

Rugrats: A Rugrats Thanksgiving

DVD

Rugrats: Holiday Celebration
Rugrats: Season 4

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Season 1	"Tommy's First Birthday" • "Barbeque Story" / "Waiter, There's a Baby in My Soup" • "At the Movies" / "Slumber Party" • "Baby Commercial" / "Little Dude" • "Beauty Contest" / "Baseball" • "Ruthless Tommy" / "Moose Country" • "Grandpa's Teeth" / "Momma Trauma" • "Real or Robots?" / Special Delivery" • "Candy Bar Creep Show" / "Monster in the Garage" • "Weaning Tommy" / "Incident in Aisle Seven" • "Touchdown Tommy" / "The Trial" • "Fluffy vs. Spike" / "Reptar's Revenge" • "Graham Canyon" / "Stu-Makers' Elves"
Season 2	"Toy Palace" / "Sand Ho!" • "Chuckie vs. the Potty" / "Together at Last" • "The Big House" / "The Shot" • "Showdown at Teeter-Totter Gulch" / "Mirrorland" • "Angelica's in Love" / "Ice Cream Mountain" • "Regarding Stuie" / "Garage Sale" • "Let There Be Light" / "The Bank Trick" • "Family Reunion" / "Grandpa's Date" • "No Bones About It" / "Beach Blanket Babies" • "Reptar on Ice" / "Family Feud" • "Superhero Chuckie" / "The Dog Broomer" • "Aunt Miriam" / "The Inside Story" • "A Visit From Lipschitz" / "What the Big People Do" • "The Santa Experience" • "Visitors from Outer Space" / "The Case of the Missing Rugrat" • "Chuckie Loses His Glasses" / "Chuckie Gets Skunked" • "Rebel Without a Teddy Bear" / "Angelica the Magnificent" • "Meet the Carmichaels" / "The Box" • "Down the Drain" / "Let Them Eat Cake" • "The Seven Voyages of Cynthia" / "My Friend Barney" • "Feeding Hubert" / "Spike the Wonder Dog" • "The Slide" / "The Big Flush" • "King Ten Pin" / "Runaway Angelica" • "Game Show Didi" / "Toys in the Attic" • "Driving Miss Angelica" / "Susie vs. Angelica" • "Tooth or Dare" / "Party Animals"
Season 3	"Dummi Bear Dinner Disaster" / "Twins' Pique" • "Chuckie's First Haircut" / "Cool Hand Angelica" • "Tricycle Thief" / "Rhinoceritis!" • "Grandpa Moves Out" / "The Legend of Satchmo" • "Circus Angelicus" / "The Stork" • "The Baby Vanishes" / "Farewell, My Friend" • "When Wishes Come True" / "Angelica Breaks a Leg" • "The Last Babysitter" / "Sour Pickles" • "Reptar 2010" / "Stu Gets A Job" • "Give and Take" / "The Gold Rush" • "Home Movies" / "The Mysterious Mr. Friend" • "Cuffed" / "The Blizzard" • "Destination: Moon" / "Angelica's Birthday" • "Princess Angelica" / "The Odd Couple" • "Naked Tommy" / "Tommy and the Secret Club" • "Under Chuckie's Bed" / "Chuckie is Rich" • "Mommy's Little Assets" / "Chuckie's Wonderful Life" • "In the Dreamtime" / "The Unfair Pair" • "Chuckie's Red Hair" / "Spike Runs Away" • "The Alien" / "Mr. Clean" • "Angelica's Worst Nightmare" / "The Mega Diaper Babies" • "New Kid in Town" / "Pickles vs. Pickles" • "Passover" • "Kid TV" / "The Sky is Falling" • "I Remember Melville" / "No More Cookies" • "Cradle Attraction" / "Moving Away"
Season 4	"Chanukah" • "Mother's Day" • "Vacation" • "Spike's Babies" / "Chicken Pops" • "Radio Daze" / "Psycho Angelica" • "America's Wackiest Home Movies" / "The 'Lympics" • "The Carwash" / "Heatwave" • "Angelica's Last Stand" / "Clan of the Duck" • "Faire Play" / "The Smell of Success" • "The Turkey Who Came To Dinner" • "Potty Training Spike" / "The Art Fair" • "Send in the Clouds" / "In the Naval" • "The Mattress" / "Looking for Jack" • "Hiccups" / "Autumn Leaves" • "Dust Bunnies" / "Educating Angelica" • "Ransom of Cynthia" / "Turtle Recall" • "Angelica Orders Out" / "Let It Snow" • "Angelica Nose Best" / "Pirate Light"
Season 5	"Grandpa's Bad Bug" / "Lady Luck" • "Crime and Punishment" / "Baby Maybe" • "The Word of the Day" / "Jonathan Babysits" • "He Saw, She Saw" / "Piggy's Pizza Palace" • "Fugitive Tommy" / "Visiting Aunt Miriam" • "The First Cut" / "Chuckie Grows" • "Uneasy Rider" / "Where's Grandpa?" • "The Wild Wild West" / "Angelica for a Day" • "Babysitting Fluffy" / "Sleep Trouble" • "Journey to the Center of the Basement" / "A Very McNulty Birthday" • "The Family Tree" • "Chuckie's Duckling" / "A Dog's Life" • "Chuckerfly" / "Angelica's Twin" • "Raising Dil" / "No Naps" • "Man of the House" / "A Whole New Stu" • "Submarine" / "Chuckie's a Lefty"
Season 6	"Baking Dil" / "Hair!" • "Zoo Story" / "I Do" • "The Magic Baby" / "Dil We Meet Again" • "Hand Me Downs" / "Angelica's Ballet" • "Opposites Attract" / "The Art Museum" • "The Jungle" / "The Old Country" • "Ghost Story" / "Chuckie's Complaint" • "Pedal Pusher" / "Music" • "Chuckie's Bachelor Pad" / "Junior Prom" • "Silent Angelica" / "Tie My Shoes" • "What's Your Line?" / "Two by Two" • "All's Well That Pretends Well" / "Big Babies" • "Wrestling Grandpa" / "Chuckie Collects" • "Runaway Reptar" • "Share and Share a Spike" / "Tommy For Mayor" • "Brothers Are Monsters" / "Cooking With Susie" • "Officer Chuckie" / "Auctioning Grandpa" • "Partners In Crime" / "Thumbs Up" • "Planting Dil" / "Joke's on You" • "Big Showdown" / "Doctor Susie" • "Accidents Happen" / "Pee Wee Scouts" • "Chuckie's New Shirt" / "Cavebabies" • "Incredible Shrinking Babies" / "Miss Manners" • "A Dose of Dil" / "Famous Babies" • "No Place Like Home" • "Be My Valentine" • "Discover America"
Season 7	"Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts" • "Angelicon" / "Dil's Binkie" / "Big Brother Chuckie" • "Dil Saver" / "Cooking with Phil and Lil" / "Piece of Cake" • "Sister Act" / "Spike's Nightscare" / "Cuddle Bunny" • "Finsterella" • "Bad Shoes" / "The World According to Dil and Spike" / "Wash/Dry Story" • "Dayscare" / "The Great Unknown" / "Falling Stars" • "Changes for Chuckie" / "The Magic Show" / "A Lulu of a Time" • "Cat Got Your Tongue?" / "The War Room" / "Attention Please" • "And the Winner Is..." / "Dil's Bathtime" / "Bigger Than Life" • "Day of the Potty" / "Tell-Tale Cell Phone" / "The Time of Their Lives" • "My Fair Babies" / "The Way Things Work" / "Home Sweet Home" • "Adventure Squad" / "The Way More Things Work" / "Talk of the Town" • "A Rugrats Kwanzaa" • "All Growed Up"
Season 8	"Pre-School Daze" • "Curse of the Werewuff" • "Bow Wow Wedding Vows" • "Quiet Please" / "Early Retirement" • "The Doctor is In" / "The Big Sneeze" • "The Fun Way Day" / "The Age of Aquarium" • "Daddy's Little Helpers" / "Hello Dilly" • "Cynthia Comes Alive" / "Trading Phil" • "Murmur on the Ornery Express" • "Back to School" / "Sweet Dreams" • "A Step at a Time" / "Angelica's Assistant" • "A Tale of Two Puppies" / "Okey-Dokey Jones and the Ring of the Sunbeams" • "Happy Taffy" / "Imagine That"
Season 9	"Club Fred" • "The Perfect Twins" • "Babies in Toyland" • "Clown Around" / "The Baby Rewards" • "Diapies and Dragons" / "Baby Power" • "Bug Off" / "The Crawl Space" • "Starstruck" / "Who's Taffy?" • "They Came from the Backyard" / "Lil's Phil of Trash" • "Mutt's in a Name" / "Hurricane Alice" • "Bestest of Show" / "Hold the Pickles" • "Baby Sale" / "Steve" • "The Braveliest Baby" / "Gimmie an 'A'" • "Fountain of Youth" / "Kimi Takes the Cake"

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