Scenes with Arthur Read 133
[zooms into Arthur's house, it is the middle of the night, A door opens, and a light shines on him]
ARArthur Read
[gasp] Huh?
DWDora Winifred Read
[whispering] Come with me.
Shush. [whispering] This was about our lost brother.
AArthur
[whispering] We didn't have a brother.
[whispering] They're keeping him a secret. But I've seen him.
AArthur
[to the audience] Oh. Good.
Arthur and D.W. come downstairs. D.W.'s light pans over to a red book on a small table
(whispering): Wait, don't turn on- (Arthur turns light on) (quietly): -the light...
Arthur turns off light and walks slowly over towards D.W.; D.W. opens the photo album. The look at pictures of a younger Arthur.
See that? I wonder where he is. But Mom and Dad had just sold him or something like that.
AArthur
[gets heated with D.W.] Uh, D.W., that was me.
AArthur
Well, that was before I wore glasses.
Well, you were born with glasses.
AArthur
You're only two years old then, so you just probably didn't remember.
[Title card: Arthur's Eyes]
The rest of the episode takes place about year earlier. Arthur has no glasses and his friends are in Mr. Marco's class
This quiz is to be completed in class. No talking! [writes math problems on the blackboard.]
AArthur
This is a seven, right?
No, Arthur, this is a nine, will you please stop bothering me?
(clears throat) Ahem! Mmm! (handing out test results) These are your test results. Anybody with four or more mistakes should see me after class for extra homework.
[has all questions right, but Arthur has them all wrong] I guess math's not your best subject.
AArthur
I've got a headache!
Yeah, sometimes Francine gives me a headache too.
(Offended, putting her head up with her eyes closed) Hmph.
Scene switches to the gymnasium with Arthur and his friends are playing basketball. The ball goes right to Arthur, but he misses it so a yellow, medium-skinned monkey gets the ball and passes to Francine
FSFrancine's Team
Shoot! (shoots and scores)
[has the ball on a breakaway and passes to Arthur] Arthur!
AArthur
Got it! No I didn't. (misses again, a peach cat gets the ball, passes to Francine)
Binky (in background): Go, go, go, go! (Francine shoots it backwards with one hand and makes it. A rat blows whistle. Arthur has a free shot, but he is double-sighted)
Come on Arthur, you can do this! (Arthur shoots and it goes over the net and into the lockers) Oh, Arthur.
I guess basketball is just not the best sport.
A nurse is doing an eye test at school. The kids come in one after the other, cover one eye and read the test chart with the other.
PDPrunella Deegan
E, G, B, D.
BBBinky Barnes
E, G, B, D.
SESue Ellen Armstrong
E, G, B, D.
AArthur
[clears throat] M, P, 7, R, P, R. Oh, this is not a seven! Eight? Huh?
Francine: [Sing-song voice] Arthur's in trouble!
How do you get in trouble with the nurse?
[Everybody laughs]
AArthur
I think I have to go to the eye doctor.
Arthur has his eyes examined with a phoropter while his parents wait.
IDr. Iris
What can you see?
AArthur
It was just blurry, Dr. Iris.
IDr. Iris
(puts in another lens.) Now what did you see?
(A smiling caterpillar is on the lens, Dr. Iris takes the lens.)
IDr. Iris
Oh. (puts the small caterpillar on a potted plant and puts the lens back in the phoropter.) Is this better now?
AArthur
Yeah, I could read it all!
IDr. Iris
You just need glasses, Arthur. And this is why you've been getting these headaches.
Arthur looks at a shelf with various glasses.
IDr. Iris
All you have to do is choose the frames you like.
AArthur
[puts on aviator glasses] Cool! [briefly imagines himself standing in front of a jetfighter, tries on rectangular glasses] Hmm... Woo-hoo. (He tilts his head and his pupils roll along the rim of the glasses.)
AArthur
Maybe I can try something else. [puts on futuristic glasses. He imagines he is standing on Mars. Behind him an alien wearing the same kind of glasses looks out of a UFO. They wave at each other, takes off the glasses and spots some round brown glasses.] Hey!
IDr. Iris
[reaches down for the glasses and puts them on Arthur] There.
These look wonderful, Arthur.
The next day at school, Arthur is walking in the halls
You look different! You get a new haircut?
AArthur
[enraged and yells at Binky] No!!
School bell rings. Arthur walks into the classroom.
Hey, Buster, look there! (Pointing at Arthur) Arthur's a four eyes! (Sing-song voice) Arthur's a four eyes! Arthur's a four eyes! Arthur's a four eyes!
[Everybody laughs except Buster and Arthur]
[chides Francine] Some people need glasses to see, Francine. Big whoop!
[In the school cafeteria Buster holds two drinking glasses in front of his eyes]
Hey, look you guys, I'm Arthur!
[Everybody laughs]
Arthur gets annoyed and walks out of the cafeteria and past Binky
I know that, this is a new shirt!
Arthur is walking home covering his face with a coat and arrives at his house, his father is raking leaves with D.W. sitting in them.
AArthur
Do not talk to me! [slams the door]
AArthur
[looks at a mirror in his room, takes off his glasses and his reflection becomes blurred.] Well, it was better than being called four eyes. If I lose them, no one can make me wear them. [aputs glasses into their case] I won't even know where they land. [puts glasses into a slingshot, and shoots] Good riddance.
The case with the glasses hits an electric wire, bounces off and land in Arthur's bed room next to Stanley, his teddy bear
AArthur
[goes up to his room, only to find the glasses on his bed, gasps; groans in frustration] Uggghhh! [furiously takes the glasses and angrily throws them out the window, they land in Mr. Read's pile of leaves.]
AArthur
[comes into the kitchen looking pleased. The he sees the case with the glasses on the table, gasps]
AArthur
[has put his glasses on D.W.'s toy hammering bench and guides her hand with the hammer] That's it, D.W..
[giggling, hits with the hammer, but misses the glasses]
What are you doing with your glasses?
AArthur
D.W. took them, Mom. I was just getting them back.
Well, be careful with these. You didn't need them to get broken.
[D.W. hits Arthur's fingers with the hammer]
AArthur
Ow!! [chuckles nervously]
AArthur
[walks to school the next day with his glasses on, goes behind a tree and comes out with no glasses, chuckles, arrives at school. He and Buster pass Mr. Marco]
Arthur, where are your glasses?
AArthur
I lost them. At home I think. It's very harder than ever to see without my glasses.
Why didn't you just wear them?
AArthur
I didn't need them. I know this school at the back of my own hand. Boy's room is the third door from this corner, right?
AArthur
See, why didn't I need them?
See you in class! [walks on]
Arthur passes Mr. Marco who comes out of a door with Mr. Haney
This is why I lock the exams, and...
Oh, well, the examination was better than I thought it would be. Still, in all, I think that we're going to have to go over...
AArthur
[counts the doors but misses the one the teachers came out of] First door. Second. Third. [walks into girl's room by mistake and sees Francine and Muffy talking to each other]
I said, if I'm not batting cleanup, I'm not playing.
FMFrancine and Muffy
Aah!
AMArthur, Muffy, and Francine
What are you doing in here?!
This is the girls' room! Get outta here!
The door hits Arthur in the back as Sue Ellen, Jenna and Maria come in. The door is seen from the outside.
GGirls
Augh! It's a boy! Get him out!
(Everybody hears the screaming and wonders what it is.)
AArthur
Get me out of there!!
(The girls run out. Arthur slowly follows and finds everybody staring at him in disapproval.)
AArthur
Augh! (he drops his lunch box) Uh-oh....
AArthur
[turns on the TV at home] I'm just gonna have to get used to being a four-eyed weirdo...
[Bionic Bunny music plays]
BBBionic Bunny
[on TV] I'm Wilbur Rabbit. And this is the story of how we make the Bionic Bunny show! (He is holding up a car in the studio. He lets go and the car stays in place.) Em, what's my next line? (filmmaker puts glasses on his eyes similar to Arthur's so he can read the script)
AArthur
Wilbur Rabbit wears glasses just like mine? Okay then.
[meets Arthur in the hallway] Old four eyes wass back.
I know that. You're wearing glasses.
AArthur
Binky? Do you know that Wilbur Rabbit wears glasses?
Yes, I saw that on TV last night.
Francine: I didn't see it.
Yeah, wasn't this great how they make him fly?
[In the classroom, Mr. Marco is writing math problems on the blackboard]
Do not ask me to read this problems to you! I have to concentrate.
[The kids are playing basketball in the gymnasium]
Watch out everyone, Arthur has got the ball!
[Arthur shoots and makes it, everyone cheers. In the classroom Mr. Marco hands back quizzes]
Very good Arthur. All correct.
Arthur. How would you like to play on my basketball team today? [shows Arthur her fake plastic glasses] Don't you like them?
AArthur
There was no glass.
They're my movie star glasses. Do they make me look beautiful? Wilbur Rabbit wears glasses, you know.
AArthur
And his are just like mine!
AArthur
And since then, I always wore glasses. Does that solve your mystery?
Yes, I guess... but it wasn't as good as having a lost brother. [sees a picture of a much younger Jane and David dancing to disco.] And, look. Who's this weird guy with Mom?
But Dad doesn't have a beard, Arthur. But maybe Mom's divorced. I gotta wake her up now, and demand an explanation!
AArthur
D.W.! Wait, D.W.! D.W.! [runs after her.]
AArthur
Maybe, you read the list is wrong, Francine. Let me look. You're right. It's Ratburn!
[On the baseball field and soccer field]
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