Chapter 7, The Viewing, of Phil and Lil's Double Troubles

While Olaughlinhunter went to get snacks ready for people to eat while they watched the video, Nairobi-harper opened his drawer of VHS tapes, to find it stacked full of cassettes.

"Oh my goodness!" Exclaimed Nairobi-harper, as she started tossing gobs of orange Rugrats video cassettes on to the floor, amongst other video tapes.

Zack picked up the copies of A Baby's Gotta do, what A Baby's Gotta do, and Dr. Tommy Pickles, which he showed to Celrock.

"What's on these? Can we watch these?" Zack asked, holding up the two tapes he found on the floor.

"I don't know." Celrock replied, as Peter came over to get a closer look.

"Sorry Zack, those aren't the videos Olaughlinhunter wants to watch." Peter replied.

"What videos did he pick up?" Celrock asked, as with not being able to see, she couldn't tell what the tapes were.

"He picked up A Baby's Gotta Do, what a Baby's Gotta Do, and Dr. Tommy Pickles." Peter replied.

"Oh wow, two of my favorite videos! Tell you what Zack. If Olaughlinhunter should throw me a birthday party next year, I'll ask if we can watch these two videos before we go home from my party." Said Celrock.

"It's a deal!" Exclaimed Zack, as the floor was covered high with gobs of tapes, until Nairobi-harper was practically so deep into the drawer, only her butt and feet showed.

She was about ready to give up, after tossing the video cassette of Rugrats in Paris out, thinking the drawer was completely empty, until she looked on the bottom in the right back corner, and found Phil and Lil's Double Troubles.

"Found it!" Nairobi-harper said with a sigh of relief, as she put the tape on top of the VCR DVD combo unit, and the other authors helped her put the other tapes back into the drawer, before Olaughlinhunter returned with snacks to enjoy while viewing.

No sooner did they have things cleaned up, when he returned with a big bowl of popcorn, and individual packages of M&M's, for anybody who wanted them.

"Popcorn and M&M's for everybody. And little ones, I didn't have to go to the M&M machine to get them out either." Said Olaughlinhunter.

Tommy, Chuckie, and all of the Fan Fic authors laughed, realizing what he was referring to. The rest of the toddlers just stared in confusion. Celrock leaned into Zack's ear and whispered.

"I'll explain later." Celrock whispered into Zack's ear, just as Olaughlinhunter loaded the tape into the VCR, and took a seat on the floor with the rest of the group, who was helping themselves to popcorn and M&M's, just as the previews started to roll.

The first preview on the video was for Harriet the Spy.

"Wow! I haven't seen this movie in years!" Commented Boris Yeltsin.

"Me neither." Replied Celrock.

The next preview was for the Rugrats videos.

"I believe they had that many videos. And I believe a good seventy-five percent of that video collection was just on your bedroom floor, as it never fails. The video you want to watch, is at the bottom of the stack." Said Nairobi-harper.

Olaughlinhunter blushed in embarrassment, before responding.

"Oh, sorry about that. Maybe I should have paid a bit more attention to Chuckie's ways of doing things in The Odd Couple episode." Said Olaughlinhunter, as he chuckled slightly.

But nobody had time to reply, as the next preview to come on was the preview advertising several family favorite films, to The Happy Days tune, which everybody in the room started singing along with. They were so caught up in singing, that before they knew it, that preview had ended, and it was time, for their feature presentation.

The first episode they watched was Baby Commercial from the first season.

"This is my favorite episode." Said Olaughlinhunter.

"It is?" Phil and Lil replied in unison.

"Yep. You guys were so funny in this episode." Olaughlinhunter replied.

It then hit them that they only told Tommy what happened during the original episode, so to have this viewing, so that Peter, Chuckie, Kimi, Dil and Zack could finally find out what happened, was kind of neat.

"Now the rest of you will get to find out how we gotted into the TV." Said Phil to the others.

"Wait a minute, that's not Jonathan." Snapped Angelica, as Jonathan came on to the scene and saw the diaper pyramid.

"I don't think it's the same Jonathan your mommy works with Angelica." Said Susie.

"I didn't think so. And besides, I would have heard about Phil and Lil's little commercial thing from my mommy way before any of the rest of you diaper heads ever knew about it." Snapped Angelica, as Peter shushed her, and everybody watched the rest of the episode in silence.

Later during the episode, Kimi piped up with a comment.

"I was going to be a star once." Kimi commented.

"Yeah Kimi, but you were gonna be a different kind of star. The one that tinkles in the sky, member?" Chuckie reminded her, recalling the events of the season 9 episode, Starstruck.

Of course, little did Kimi know she wasn't going to really be going to the sky, it was only a movie set that took place in outer space, but she like everybody else, would believe anything, as it was hard to tell the difference when they saw the spaceship on the set.

"Wow! So that's how you two got into the TV." Chuckie commented, as the first Non-Adventure for Safety Queen short started.

"Uh huh." Phil and Lil replied in unison, as everybody turned their attention back to the short.

"These Safety Queen shorts are so, lame." Zack muttered.

"I agree." Peter replied, as the next episode of Rugrats started, entitled, Twins' Pique.

"Oh wow, the events of this one occurred after I met the gang." Commented Peter.

Seeing the first part of the episode, where Phil and Lil's mom got them mixed up, which nobody else saw in real time, it suddenly hit Tommy and Chuckie why Phil and Lil were acting so strange and wanting to be different.

"Now I understand why you two wanted to be different." Said Tommy.

"Cuz your mommy couldn't tell you apart." Added Chuckie.

Phil and Lil nodded.

"Wow! Phil wanted to be like my brother, and Lil wanted to be like Angelica? This ought to be really neat to watch!" Exclaimed Kimi, as Phil and Lil in the episode were deciding on who they wanted to be like.

As everybody watched Phil and Lil act like Chuckie and Angelica, more comments were heard.

"You know, I never found Angelica to be as mean as everybody says she is, but Lil makes her sound really nice, by how evil she's becoming. I've never known Angelica to break into her daddy's office." Said Kimi.

"Oh you'd be surprised. One time, she even ran away from home after cutting up her daddy's papers and breaking his fax machine." Explained Nairobi-harper.

Angelica's face turned red, as she rolled her eyes at Nairobi-harper, before turning her attention back to the Twins' Pique episode.

"Wow! With how you're treating Angelica in this episode, you're sure are tough Lil!" Said Kimi.

"Yeah, I can't believe just how mean I was." Commented Lil.

"I did a terrible job of being you Chuckie. I mean, I like mud so much, I thought Lil's plan sounded like fun." Said Phil.

Chuckie nodded.

"I'm glad you guys were nice again by the end. Even though I wasn't borndid at the time this happened, had you guys kept acting like that, who knows what might have happened to me in that forrest when we all gotted losted that one time." Said Dil.

Everybody nodded their heads in agreement, as the second Non-Adventure of Safety Queen short started to play, and they watched it, more or less, in silence, while eating their popcorn and M&M's.

"This girl gives me the creeps. She says stuff I'd expect to hear out of Angelica's mouth." Chuckie commented to himself, as he continued to snack on his M&M's and watch the Safety Queen short.

Soon, it was time for the Rugrats episode, The Unfair Pair, which only Phil, Lil, and Angelica were a part of, so everybody in the room other than the authors, who all saw this episode back when it premiered, would get a glimpse at something they missed out on in real time. Susie, Tommy and Chuckie included. For this reason, everybody more or less, watched this episode in silence, without a lot of comments.

When Angelica made the comment about Tommy and chuckie being the favorites in their families, they gave a look over at their younger siblings before turning their attention back to the TV, realizing how long ago this all happened.

"angelica would have never said anything like that to Phil and Lil, had this play date taken place after we returned from Paris." Chuckie thought to himself.

"Angelica would have never said anything like that to Phil and Lil about me being the favoritest, had their playdate taken place after Dilly was born." Tommy thought to himself.

"You know, I don't blame Phil and Lil for ditching Angelica. I think if I had a twin, and she were at my house, I'd wanna do the same thing too." Commented Boris Yeltsin to Sovietlolliepop.

"Mmm hmmm." Sovietlolliepop replied.

"Remind mommy and daddy to never leave me at boris Yeltsin's house then." Muttered Angelica to herself, overhearing their comment.

"Oh, and why's that? You gonna trick me into thinking my family hates me too?" Boris Yeltsin asked.

"Maybe?" Angelica replied, glaring angrily at Boris Yeltsin, her hands on her hips.

Olaughlinhunter was starting to get annoyed, so decided to put a stop to it.

"Can't we just watch the episode, and not start up any drama? Please?" Olaughlinhunter asked.

"Sorry." Mumbled angelica and Boris Yeltsin in unison.

Once Angelica in the episode had each twin convinced that they were the rejects, they more or less, watched the rest of the episode in silence, to see what would happen.

"Angelica's, the favorite? That's a real good laugh." Said Zack sarcastically.

"Hey! I'd put a sock in it toe head." Griped Angelica.

"Yeah, well, if Phil and Lil weren't playing with you, you didn't have to go through all of that trouble to lie like that. It's one of those times I wish I had been there. And don't call me toe head!" Snapped Zack, just as the third Non-Adventure of Safety Queen short started.

Soon, it was time for the last and final episode of Rugrats on the tape to play, together at Last. Another venture that happened before even Peter knew the gang. As everybody watched them arguing over their Reptar doll, Tommy and Chuckie exchanged looks.

"No wonder Phil and Lil gotted separated." Commented Chuckie.

Tommy nodded, as they turned their attention back to the TV.

"You called me a booger brain Lillian?" Phil asked.

"Hey! I was still mad at you, give me a break Phillip!" Snapped Lil.

Of course, Phil then felt bad about his comment, after he overheard that tommy, Chuckie and Lil were about to go look for him.

"You replaced me with bill our teddy bear?" Lil asked.

"Hey! I started to miss you a few minutes later. Geash." Phil replied.

The authors found it rather amusing watching Phil and Lil comment on their whereabouts in this episode, as while they were separated in the episode, for the majority of it, they were watching it together, after the events happened.

"Steve and Larry with that paint, it cracks me up every time." Said Boris Yeltsin.

"Uh huh, me too." Replied sovietlolliepop.

"Now I see why you thought I was dogfood." Commented Lil, as she saw Phil find her ribbon on the ground, and stare down into Spike's mouth, trying to apologize and start to cry, as he saw Spike licking his lips, thinking he ate her.

"And now I see why you thought I disappeared." commented Phil, as he saw Lil, Tommy and Chuckie searching all over his house, only to find nobody.

Everybody sighed with relief when they saw that Phil and Lil were reunited again by the end of the episode.

After this episode concluded, the ending credits rolled.

"No more episodes or Safety queen adventures?" Zack asked.

"Nope." Olaughlinhunter replied.

"Wow! You two were something, even before I was borndid." Commented dil.

"Uh huh." Said Phil and Lil in unison.

After the ending credits on the tape concluded, Olaughlinhunter started rewinding the video, as everybody cleaned up from their snack, and DemonAloisTrancy came around with a garbage bag for everybody to dump their trash into. Once the mess was cleaned up, everybody headed down the spiral staircase to the front door, where Olaughlinhunter disappeared into another room for a minute, and returned with goody bags for everybody.

"Here you go everybody, and thanks for coming." Said Olaughlinhunter, as he passed out the goody bags to everybody.

"Thanks for having us Olaughlinhunter, it was fun!" Exclaimed Tommy.

"Yeah! I can't wait to hopefully come back again next year." Added Zack.

As Olaughlinhunter handed out the goody bags, he didn't say much, but he did have a word of advice for Angelica when he handed a goody bag to her.

"A word of advice Angelica. If you don't want to have happen to your candy like what happened after Susie's birthday party, might I suggest you eat your treats on the way home? I think we'd all appreciate it if another ransom of Cynthia isn't started." Suggested Olaughlinhunter.

"Oh believe me, I didn't like that my mommy didn't let me keep my candy the lastest time neither." Angelica replied.

"Goodbye, and Happy Birthday again Olaughlinhunter." Said Celrock, as she gave Olaughlinhunter one last hug.

"Thank you." Said Olaughlinhunter, as everybody disappeared out the front door and down the steps.

A few minutes later, everybody was piled into Celrock's driverless car, pulling out of Olaughlinhunter's driveway, heading in the direction of Peter's castle. Once the car was out of sight. Olaughlinhunter headed back inside, and went up to his room, where he decided to check out his Rugrats Search for Reptar game for the Wii, once he saw that Phil and Lil's Double Trouble had finished rewinding, thus, being able to put it back in its box and stash it away in the drawer.

As for the party guests, once the driverless car hit the road, all of the toddlers fell asleep, exhausted from all of that birthday party fun, except for Angelica, who tore into her goody bag, anxious to finish her treats before her parents tried to get rid of them.

And this ends the story, of Olaughlinhunter's birthday party. I do hope you had fun Olaughlinhunter, and not to worry, there'll be plenty more stories, coming soon.