Rugrats (TV Series)

Mommy's Little Assets/Chuckie's Wonderful Life (1994)

Tress MacNeille: Charlotte Pickles, Famous Ethel

Quotes 

• Charlotte Pickles : Look, Drew. We're both successful executives, we can solve this. Let's brainstorm. What about Betty and Howard?

  Drew : Nah, they took the twins to the big tractor pull.

  Charlotte Pickles : Hmmm. They spoil those kids. Chas?

  Drew : He went to a therapist's convention.

  Charlotte Pickles : Chas isn't a therapist.

  Drew : I know. He's hoping to find one.

  Charlotte Pickles : Well, don't we know any sitters?

  Drew : Well, yeah, but for some reason, we have trouble getting anyone to come back a second time.

• Charlotte Pickles : All right, all right, all right. Why don't I just take them to work with me?

  Drew : Are you sure?

  Charlotte Pickles : They're good kids. I'm an organized 90's mom. How hard could it be?

• Jonathan : [to Famous Ethel and Abe]  Um, this is our fax machine. Our company letter is rather clever, it says, "Just the Fax."

  [laughs, but Abe and Ethel just stare at him] 

  Jonathan : You know, like the... uh... TV show, "Just the facts, Ma'am."

  [laughs again] 

  Famous Ethel : We think television is evil.

• Charlotte Pickles , Drew : [When Drew and Charlotte leave for work, but return when they realize they don't have a sitter for Tommy and Angelica]  I thought you...

  Charlotte Pickles : Honey, you know I'm staging a takeover of Famous Ethel's cookie company.

  Drew : Well, I'm bungee-jumping with the CEO of Cybersystems International. I can't take the kids up on the balloon with me, can I?

• Car Alarm : Stand back! You are too close to the vehicle!

  Angelica : Hey, Mommy, neat! A talking car!

  Car Alarm : An alarm will sound in five seconds!

  Charlotte Pickles : That's nice, sweetie.

  [to Jonathan on the phone] 

  Charlotte Pickles : What? Not you, Jonathan. You know I wouldn't call one of my employees "sweetie." At least not since the Clarence Thomas hearings.

• Angelica : Mommy, what do you do?

  Charlotte Pickles : Let me put it this way. A corporation is like a big, hungry monster. My job is to find plenty of smaller, weaker monsters for it to eat.

  Angelica : Neat! Does this monster eat babies, too?

  Charlotte Pickles : No, of course not.

• Charlotte Pickles : [after Angelica and Tommy make a big mess in Charlotte's office]  Jonathan, don't we have some sort of employee daycare center?

  Jonathan : Uh, actually, you nixed it.

  Charlotte Pickles : Well, I'm un-nixing it! How's a working mother supposed to get by around here?

• Charlotte Pickles : [after Angelica destroys the model of Cookie Town made for Famous Ethel]  Angelica, didn't Mommy tell you this wasn't a toy?

  Angelica : Um, I don't remember!

  Charlotte Pickles : Not only did you wreck a very expensive model and ruin an important business deal, but you disobeyed me and set a bad example for your cousin! Now, if you were the boss and one of your employees behaved like this, what would you do?

  Angelica : [sniffles]  Are you gonna fire me, Mommy?

  Charlotte Pickles : No, of course not, Angel.

  [picks Angelica up and sets her down] 

  Charlotte Pickles : . You're my baby girl and nothing can change that, but from now on, when you want something and I say no, what are you going to do?

  Angelica : Ask Daddy?

  Charlotte Pickles : No, honey, you're gonna be a good girl and do as you're told, okay?

  [Angelica nods] 

• Jonathan : [after Famous Ethel and Abe leave Charlotte's office]  So, do you think they're going to accept your bid?

  Charlotte Pickles : No, Jonathan, I don't think they're going to accept my bid. And one more thing, Jonathan. Call security and have them escort you off the premises.

  Jonathan : I don't understand. What do you mean?

  Charlotte Pickles : [yells]  You're fired!

  Jonathan : Oh, well, that's pretty clear.