omg, when I think about my childhood that episode totally made me panic. It's one of my earliest emet memories. I didn't know why it was happening or what was happening, but I remember I felt really anxious and I would leave the room when that episode came on after that. I wore glasses and if people wanted to try on my glasses I wouldn't let them because I thought they too would be sick. There's another Rugrat's episode where Tommy gets sick and it really bothered me as well..
I was the same age, around 8, when all this was happening

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