The Word of The Day (Rugrats, 1991)

The Word of The Day is the first half of the 5th episode from Season 5 of mh:besttvshows:Rugrats.

Plot
Angelica passed the "Word of The Day" to her classmates at "Miss Carol's Happy House", after overhearing it herself. Too bad it's a slang word Miss Carol said in a fit of rage! - Description from Klasky Csupo.

Why It's a Little (Car Honk)

 * 1) Angelica is treated very unfairly in this episode.  When she learns about the bad word and uses it on live TV, the episode decides depict her as the only person who is truly in the wrong and deserving of full blame for the incident when in fact a lot of other characters we’re just as guilty and should have been held accountable for their roles.  Drew and Charlotte were partially at fault for not confronting Miss Carol and the network over teaching their daughter the bad word and for not properly clarifying the situation properly and instead punishing her for trying to get clarification.  The staff at Miss Carol’s Happy house were also partially at fault too for failing to teach Angelica the actual fun phrase and having her go on TV without a proper rehearsal, which left Angelica unable to figure out what she was supposed to say.
 * 2) The poor parenting from Charlotte makes her slightly unlikable, mainly at the part where she gets a call from Jonathan, and leaving Angelica unattended, and led to Angelica seeing Miss Carol’s true colors.
 * 3) Speaking of Charlotte, She and her husband Drew were unlikable as a whole because they very poorly addressed the bad word situation as they failed to tell Angelica what the bad word was, what it meant, and why it is wrong to say it and instead they tell her not to say it and when she does say it to try to understand what the word was, they punish her for it.  Because of this, Angelica is unfairly punished in this episode for something that is partially Drew and Charlotte’s fault to begin with.
 * 4) The episode is poorly written, because they didn’t handle the topic about teaching children that saying swears is bad very well, and the censors aren’t that good to listen too, the truck honking and TV bleep sound, and especially Charlotte’s screaming.
 * 5) Charlotte and Drew don’t show the best parenting, as they probably should have said the bad word to teach Angelica why it was bad, but they were hesitant, which made things worse.
 * 6) There are annoying moments in the episode, like Charlotte’s screaming, and Angelica getting on Miss Carol’s nerves.
 * 7) Miss Carol is a very unlikable character, who hates children, and will say the swear word to describe what she thinks of them. Man, what a cruel woman.
 * 8) Even worse, Miss Carol actually returns in a future episode, albeit, only on a video tape the Pickles family had.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The episode started off good, until we got to the part where Angelica sees Miss Carol’s true colors.
 * 2) The animation and voice acting are still good as usual.
 * 3) Many of the other characters, especially the babies, are still likable.
 * 4) *Angelica is actually tolerable for the first time here since we showed empathy for her for getting punished for something that Charlotte and Drew brought upon themselves.
 * 5) A few funny moments in the episode, like what words the baby thinks are bad, like Phil saying "bath", and later the babies telling Angelica that "dumb" is also a bad word.
 * 6) While this episode did a poor job of executing it, it did show that saying a swear is not a good thing, especially if a child says it, and that not all people are nice as you would want them to believe.
 * 7) *For Klasky Csupo, later in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, they had another cruel woman, Coco LaBouche, but she was executed way better than Miss Carol, as her hating children was shown the right way, and she was also really entertaining and menacing.
 * 8) *For Nickelodeon, one of their later episodes from SpongeBob SquarePants, "Sailor Mouth", executed censoring bad words a lot better and made it pretty funny.
 * 9) The ending is at least good, as Miss Carol was fired after showing her true colors. Also, the babies went to comfort Angelica when they see her sad. And they convinced her that calling them "dumb" makes them feel bad, so Angelica says "Alright, alright. I won’t call you dumb babies." Followed by her smiling and saying "Much."