A character in The Rugrats Movie (1998)

Howard DeVille quotes from The Rugrats Movie (1998)

Phil Proctor

Tied for 10th most-quoted character in The Rugrats Movie (1998): in 3 of its 47 quotes
Most scenes with: Didi Pickles (3), Betty DeVille (3), Tommy Pickles (2)

Scenes with Howard DeVille

3 scenes
Rugrats
[Cut to Tommy's room, which was remodeled for the new baby. One side is blue, for Tommy's side, which has a Dummi-bear bed, a "Smile!" poster and a trunk with smiles painted all over, The new baby's side is pink, with a crib festooned with balloons and an "It's a girl!" banner on the wall. The babies enter the room to their amazement]

Oh!

Tommy, somebody's been coloring your room.

Yep, it's for my new sister.

How are we gonna find her, Tommy?

Yeah, we don't even know what she looks like.

Well, she's a girl like me, so we know she'll be prettyful.

Angelica Pickles
[enters, carrying a big bunch of cookies using the lower part of her dress]

Oh, brother! You dumb babies got a lot to learn about the facts of life. [shoves babies en route to table] Now, get out of my way. [dumps the cookies on the table] I gotta get back to the dessert table before the grownups get all the good stuff.

Angelica, can you help us find my baby sister?

Angelica Pickles

I wouldn't be in such a big hurry if I was you, Tommy. 'Cause when the new baby gets here, she's gonna gets all the toys and the love and the attention. And your mommy and daddy will forget all about you. It'll be like, "Look, Deed...there's that little bald kid in the house again."

My mommy and daddy won't forget me.

Angelica Pickles

That's what Spike said before you were born. Back when his name was Paul.

Angelica Pickles

Yeah, but, then you came along and they put him out in the rain and he turned into a dog.

That's not gonna happen to me, Angelica. My mommy and daddy will love me no matter what!

Susie Carmichael
[Susie is heard outside, singing to the tune of the first couple of lines of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", "The ABC Song" and "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep". Boris accompanies her on accordion] [singing]

A baby is very neat, a baby is a special treat.

Angelica Pickles
[looks on from Tommy's room]

Ugh! Who does Susie Carmichael think she is?

Susie Carmichael
[singing]

A baby has lots of toes, a baby has a tiny nose. [Angelica leaves while the other babies watch from inside. Cut to outside. All are singing, unless specified] A baby is a little dickens, a baby is a cuddly chicken. [Angelica is next to Didi's belly, chuckling, as she plans to make her move] A baby is lots of joy.

Angelica Pickles
[singing; barging in obnoxiously]

A baby will get all the toys!

Susie Carmichael
[whispers]

What are you doing? [continues singing] A baby has a smiley face...

Angelica Pickles
[singing]

A baby is from outside space!

Susie Carmichael
[whispers]

Angelica!

Angelica Pickles
[whispers]

Susie!

Susie Carmichael
[singing]

A baby is extra fancy.

Angelica Pickles
[singing]

A baby poops in his pantsies! [laughs]

Susie Carmichael

Cut it out!

Angelica Pickles

No!

Susie Carmichael
[Music switches to a Tejano beat, using different arrangement. The babies climb outside to watch] [singing]

Like a birdie, singing in a tree!

Angelica Pickles
[singing obnoxiously]

More like Reptar, screaming in your ear!

Both
[singing]

A baby is a gift, a gift from a Bob! A baby is a gift from a Bob, Bob, Bob! A baby is a gift.

Susie Carmichael
[Angelica does a gagging gesture] [singing]

A gift from a Bob!

[Cut to under a table, where the Rugrats have crawled underneath. Tommy and Chuckie are talking, while music continues under]

Do you really think babies are a gift from a Bob?

I don't know. Why?

Because if Bob bringed a gift, it's probably one of them. [points to the baby shower gifts on a nearby table]

Susie Carmichael
[Return to Angelica and Susie, music reverts to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", though the Tejano flavor remains] [singing]

A baby is very special!

Angelica Pickles
[singing]

A baby is, is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!

[Song ends, Angelica's obnoxious screaming has induced Didi's labor] [painfully groans in discomfort]

Oh! Betty, it's time!

It's time? Oh, boy. Everybody to your stations, people! Howard, get Stu. Charlotte, call the hospital. Deed, start your breathing. Come on, good girl.

Lou Pickles
[Didi begins her rhythmic breathing. The other grownups pick up the babies] [picks up Tommy]

Up we go, sprout. We got a Pickle to deliver.

Howard DeVille
[picks up his twins]

Let's go to the car, kids.

Charlotte Pickles
[During the rush, the goat has broken loose and is destroying the party. While the goat destroys things, it sets off the sprinkler system]

Would somebody turn that sprinkler off?!

Lou Pickles
[The goat comes inside, dragging a chair on his leg. Lou and Tommy look on]

Now, that's what I call a "baby shower!"

Lou Pickles
[We rejoin the search party] [finds a clue on the ground, and picks up a wrapper]

Bingo! Lookie here! A wrapper from a Cynthia Sweet bar.

Drew Pickles

My angel! She's been here!

Lou Pickles

Yep, I figure she's tracking the sprouts. It's the Pickles' blood. I myself spent 15 days tracking Sitting Bull through the Northwest Territory. The year was 19...

Howard DeVille

Over here! [he and Chaz return with news of another clue]

We found some wheel tracks and baby footprints heading into the woods. Well, actually, Howard found them. Honestly, I saw them.

They must be in my Reptar Wagon.

Drew Pickles
[sarcastically crosses his arms, angrily mimicking his brother]

"It's the perfect children's toy!" You and your stupid inventions!

[thinking]

My stupid inventions? [brightens] That's it!

[grabs a bullhorn from a policeman and speaks into it]

All right, the pups are in the woods. You men follow those tracks. We'll head to the ranger station and start the search from there. NOW MOVE! HUT, HUT, HUT!

[Stu, Chas and Lou get into the car]

Stu, where are you going?!

Trust me, Deed. I have a plan! [drives off with Lou and Chas]

[Cut to Rex Pester's helicopter. A pilot is flying the chopper while Rex is both reporting and taping with the camera]

A truckload of babies and their pet horse lost in the woods. Our hearts go out to their grief-stricken parents... [Stu's Dactar crashes into the chopper; Stu screams in panic] Look out, Pickles! Now look what you've done! [Stu groans. He fights the pilot over the controls] Are you out of your mind?! Get out! [pushes Stu and Dactar away from the chopper, but breaks the controls off accidentally

[The chopper goes into tailspin]

Whoa!

[crying]

And I never won an Emmy!

[The chopper crash-lands in the forest]

Oops. [drops the chopper's handlebars before continues flying haphazardly] I'm coming, Tommy. I'm coming, Dil. [a couple of screws come loose] Oh! Ah!

Angelica Pickles
[Meanwhile, back on the bridge, the Rugrats are still trying to rescue Angelica, who lost her coat] [still carrying Cynthia as she's climbing back on the bridge]

Ugh! Hurry up, babies!

[The monkeys return]

Don't let them take me!

Angelica Pickles

Don't let them take Cynthia!

I don't think they're going to take anyone. Look!

Babies
[The monkeys leave in fear]

Yay!

Yeah! Go home, monkeys!

Angelica Pickles

Hooray! Dumb-dumb monkeys!

Babies
[The wolf appears at the foot of the bridge and slowly goes towards the babies]

Oh!

[scared]

We wanna go home. We wanna go home.

Babies
[The wolf gets closer, growling viciously]

Aah!

Dil Pickles

Yuckies!

Babies
[Spike then appears from nowhere and fights the wolf]

Yay!

Yay, Spike!

Dil Pickles
[bouncing on the seat]

Spike, Spike!

[Spike and the wolf are fighting too close to the edge of the bridge]

Oh, no, Spike! Spike!

You gotta get outta there, Spikey!

Angelica Pickles

Yo, dumb wolf! [angrily blows raspberries at the wolf]

Babies
[The wolf starts to go toward Angelica. As he was about to bite her, Spike bites his tail and drags him down, while they both slowly go through a hole in the bridge] [alarmed]

Spike!

Dil Pickles
[Both Spike and the wolf fall into the river] [now sad]

Spike?

[tearfully]

Oh, Spike.

Angelica Pickles
[All the babies cry]

Dumb dog! Why'd you have to go and... [sobs]

[Cut to Stu and Dactar]

Whoa! [suddenly spots the babies on the bridge] Deed, I found them! They're over by the ranger station! I'm going IIIIIIIIINNNN!!!!!! [Dactar crashes for the last time, into the ranger's station. The babies gasped. The ranger's station collapsed to the ground. Now feeling all woozy, he gets up on his feet, "wearing" Dactar's remnants, and walks towards the bridge] Ahh!

Babies
[gasped]

The lizard!

Ahh! Ahh! Ahh!

Babies

Ohh!

[pulls up his diaper and speaks to the "Lizard"]

Please, Mr. Lizard, we wish we could go...No. [looks at the babies, who are still sad] We wish we had our doggie back.

Ahhh. [busts through the bridge, still wearing Dactar]

[looks down the hole, suddenly relieved]

Spike!

[We see Spike, alive, licking Stu, who lies on one of the bridge's support arms below]

He's alive!

Thank you, Mr. Lizard!

[Tires screech and headlights shine. The other grown-ups run towards the babies. Then, their parents pick up their own babies and embraces them] [tears of joy]

My babies! My babies! Oh Dil! My darling! [kisses them both]

Howard DeVille
[hugging his twins]

We're here! Mommy and daddy are here!

[hugging their twins]

You rascals!

Daddy's here. Oh, Chuckie!

Charlotte Pickles

Angelica, sweetheart, everything's going to be okay!

Angelica Pickles

Oh, mommy, oh, daddy!

[to Chuckie offscreen]

Did you miss me? You okay?

Lou Pickles
[The monkeys look on in bewilderment. Charlotte's phone rings. Instead of answering it, she tosses it into the water] [pull Stu up with a rope]

You've got the Pickle spirit, son. Maybe not the brain, but the spirit.

Oh, Stu, you did it! You found our boys.

[Stu picks up Tommy and Dil. Tommy drops his watch; Stu picks it up, still in perfect shape] [smiles]

Yeah, I guess I did.

Igor
[Igor and Serge arrive in a police car to recover their monkeys]

My little furry comrades!

Serge

Splendid monkeys, come to papa. Who's your daddy?

Female Reporter
[We look through the viewfinder of a reporter's video recorder]

Babies and monkeys, both lost. Now both found.

[last words; now injured, shoves the female reporter out of sight]

This is my story, pal! I'm Rex Pester. Stay tuned. [the monkeys gang up on Rex and fight him. Camera cuts to static] Aah! No, not my toupee! No!

[laughing]

Go get him, you little simians!

Charlotte Pickles

Hey, Rex, time for your close up!

[mock sympothy]

Oh, dear, too bad.

[Dil drinks his bottle, then shares it with Tommy] [apologizes to Drew]

I'm sorry about all this Drew.

Drew Pickles
[forgives Stu]

It's all right, little brother. For a nincompoop, you're not half bad.

[Everyone walks away from the bridge and talks amongst themselves. Margaret pulls the Reptar Wagon]

Remember there was Swamptar?

Drew Pickles

Oh yeah, I remember that. Got mud all over...

[Fade back to the Okey-Dokie Jones sequence, where the Rugrats enter the temple] [voice over]

And that was our big adventure. The Monkeys founded their daddies, and we all gots to go home and have fried baloney sandwiches. But not Dil, 'cause he gots no teeth. [Dil, wearing a viking helmet, rides on Chuckie's back. They climb and grab the icon as before, but this time, Dil got ahold of it] But if you think thing went back to the way they was before, you're wrong, 'cause now, thanks to Baby Dil, they was even better! [chuckles]

Babies
[After Dil grabs the icon, they all start to topple. Before they hit the ground, we go back to reality, in the kitchen with a banana split. After they fall, Dil slides to the stove with the split; when he hit the stove, the split remain intact] [cheering]

Yay!

[last lines]

Way to go, Dilly!
[Freeze frame, then fade out] [Fade to closing credits, when stills of the movie's scenes flash in the background while the credits are seen in the foreground. Credits from "Directed By" to "Additional Music Material By" are flshed on and off, with one background per credit. From "Production Manager" on, credits scroll, with different lettering and fonts, while the background changes. During the credits, portions of "Take Me There", "Wild Ride" and "I Throw My Toys Around" can be heard]

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