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The CableACE Award was an award that was given from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in American cable television programing.
It was originally created to serve as a cable television counterpart to the Emmy Award, which did not recognize cable programming prior to 1988.
The CableACE awards were discontinued in 1997 when their organizers, the National Cable Television Association, finally decided that the Emmys were sufficiently recognizing cable tv programing making a separate awards show unnecessary.
In 1995, the Passover episode was nominated for a CableACE award, but did not win.
The Mother's Day episode won the CableACE award in 1997 for Best Writing In A Children's Special Or Series, awarded to writers Jon Cooksey, Ali Marie Matheson, J. David Stem and David Weiss.
This is also Rugrats' last CableACE award, as the organization discontinued the award in 1998.