Arthur Read quotes from Arthur

That's NOT how nice animals play!

Francine

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This is all Mom's fault! That cat trying to hurting Pal!

My fault?! That does not my fault. Francine got a cat?

D.W., did you forget that your birthday's today?

No. How could I forget about my own birthday? Now leave me in peace!

Aah! How could D.W. not be excited about her birthday?

I'm drowning! Help me!

Toys stay out of the cereal, please.

I'm going to Happy-Crazy-Wow Day with Buster!

Arthur, you're not going anywhere until you clean your room!

But I just told Buster and I promised I'd meet him!

Then you will have to call him back and tell him you will meet him later. You've put this off long enough now. D.W., as soon as you've finished eating, I want you to work on your room too. It's as messy as your brother's.

But that'll take forever! I'll miss Happy-Crazy-Wow Day!

I have an idea! When I was little and my brother and I had chores to do, we had a saying, many hands make light work.

Honey, I'm not...

Hear me out on this. In other words, the more hands you had, the easier the work became.

It does sound kind of cool.

That's the spirit! It'll go more than twice as fast. Trust me. So why don't you start on Arthur's room first? Whoa, whoa, whoa, time out! Do me a favor and just try it. I think you'll be surprised at how well it works.

Let's do this quick. I'm going to be late.

Ewww!

Ooh! Look what I found!

Stop looking like that! You can't read!

I don't have to read to know what this is.

It's a note from Francine.

I knew it! Arthur has a girlfriend! Arthur has a girlfriend! "Dear Arthur, I love you."

It says "Arthur, don't forget to bring your baseball mitt to school on Monday. Francine."

Arthur and Francine! Arthur loves Francine!

I'll take care of this stuff. You go clean up from under the bed.

If you don't love Francine, then why is your face all red? That just proves you really love her! Arthur loves Francine!

MOM!

I'll take care of it. Look, Arthur, it's very simple: the less time you spend fighting with D.W., the faster you'll get to the park, right?

But she keeps bothering me!

Who, me?

Look, if you both work as fast as you can and talk less, you'll be done in no time.

I will if she will.

There. Now, why not see how fast you can go?

The important thing is to really try to work together. It's the only way this will work!

How can we work together when she won't let me put things away?!

Can I say something?

Arthur, D.W. helped you clean your room, so now it's up to you to return the favor.

I have something to say!

But I'm missing Happy-Crazy-Whatever-It-Is Day!

That's not D.W.'s fault! If you'd cleaned your room when you were supposed to, Arthur, you wouldn't have this problem!

Francine

Presenting the main event! The champion, Arthur Timothy Read!

[walks to the ring while people cheer and throw flowers and climbs into the ring] I've been waiting for this fight for years. And there's no way that I could lose.

Francine

And the challenger, Dora Winifred Read!

[mumbling through his mouthguard, and incoherent] Prepare to lose!

What?

[still mumbling through his mouthguard, and incoherent] Prepare to lose!!!

[pointing to the subtitles] This doesn't help. I can't breathe.

Francine

Get ready to fight!

Arthur!

[sees D.W. #2 sitting in the audience eating snacks, and still mumbling through his mouthguard, and incoherent again] Two D.W.’s?!

Nope, not just two D.W.s. But there was only one of me.

[stepping out of his D.W. body suit] We figured you'd rather fight someone on your own size.

Well, you know what? Maybe you might be right. And I would like to fight someone on my own size. Now you just stay right here. I'll just go find somebody to fight. [runs off, pursued by Binky, screams]

[enraged] Come back here and fight!

[laughs] Binky?!

[walks into his room] What kind of a game was this?

This is not a game. This is a scale model of a Bell X-1 Rocket Plane. The plane that broke the sound barrier.

The sound barrier must be pretty hard. [takes out some pieces] Because this plane is all smashed up.

Nope, it's not smashed. And I'm gonna build it. [yells to D.W. while snatching the pieces from her] Hey, stop touching everything! You'll mix up all the pieces!

I’ve never heard of toys that come already broken.

[while lividly, and relentlessly staring to D.W.] No, it's not!

[backs up from her brother] I'm going. Never say that I didn't go when you need me to go, because I'm going. Like this. [snaps her fingers] And the minute that you need me to go, I'm on my way out of there. No waiting.

[turns red, and yells] (Just) go already!

And if you say please, I go even faster. Because when...

[growls to D.W.] Grrr! [scornfully sends D.W. out of his room]

Ugh.

Was this the same broken plane you were fixing yesterday?

[yells to D.W.] Don't do that! I need to concentrate!

This is a pretty color. [accidentally spills a paint bottle of orange paint over the building instructions which annoys Arthur]

[yells] Aargh!

[getting a little nervous, and laughs] Bye. [quickly runs off]

Hmph.

I've been working on the plane all week. And it was so hard, but I'm almost done. [They enter Arthur’s room and find D.W. holding the plane’s fuselage, and Arthur gets grumpy, and yells to her] D.W., don't touch it! This paint isn't dry yet! [snatches the plane away and sees fingerprints all over it. D.W.’s fingers are colored orange]

Ew! [runs off to tell her mom] Mom, Arthur's plane made my hands orange!

Buster

I never thought about it before, but being an only child was so nice.

This is the best thing I have ever made.

Arthur Read. You've won a blue ribbon. [puts the ribbon on the model]

Well, this calls for a celebration snack! [walks downstairs with Pal]

[comes out of her room] Didn't I hear you say cookies? [sees the plane in Arthur’s bedroom, then unwisely walks inside, and enters, without approval, and consciously defies]

[gives a dog treat to Pal] Good boy.

[runs around holding the plane] D.W. Read to headquarters! Sound barrier broken! What's my next mission, General? [sees the open window]

[pretends to be an airplane, makes airplane noises] Arthur Read, winner of 5000 blue ribbons, requesting landing coordinates! [makes airplane noises]

[comes down] Arthur, maybe you made the plane all wrong. It doesn't fly at all.

No, D.W. I just made it exactly... [realizes what D.W. had said, in shocked] What?!

[looks up at the open window, gasps, then down at his plane on the ground, and picks up the fuselage, when some of it got accidentally loose, and looks shocked, and trembled]

[screaming]

If it could broke the sound barrier, falling out of the window shouldn't be able to shatter like this.

[getting annoyed, wasted, and stern, losing his mind, cringes, and rebukes D.W.] I told you not to touch it!

You've built it all wrong! Don't you ever read the directions?! [Having enough of D.W., Arthur grinds his teeth, and firmly makes a fist] It didn't fly for a second! It wasn't my fault when you've made the plane that couldn't fly!

[getting infuriated, and furious, and yells to D.W.] I'M TELLING YOU... NOT TO TOUCH IT! [elevated his fist, and punches D.W.] [off-screen]

[falls to the ground, and looks a little blank for a minute, then gets up, and instantly runs off, when going back inside the house, crying]

[sternly calling to Arthur to come inside the house] [off-screen] Arthur Read, come in here!

[getting a little screwed, tense, and apprehensive] Uh-oh! Middle name. [gets up]

[quietly whimpers on the kitchen counter]

[whimpers] Weren't they gonna have to amputake my arm?

No, hon. It's amputate, but not amputake.

[surprisingly shouts] They are gonna amputate?!

Nope. I am in charge, and I'm putting ice on it.

[loudly roaring, shrieking, and crying in pain]

What's the matter?

[restlessly crying in pain] That's cold!

[disappointedly telling Arthur to apologize to D.W. for being hostile] Apologize to your sister.

[withholding to apologize to D.W.] No! She could've apologize to me! I've been working all week on this! I tell her a million times not to touch it!

[bitterly dispirited] You're bad!

[gently scolds Arthur for mistreating D.W., and his deeds] Arthur, this means no TV for a week.

[dismayed] What?! But that was so unfair! [turns away] You didn't even care about what she did to me!

[confusingly telling Arthur that she, and Mr. Read will deal with what D.W. did] We will deal with what she did. But what you did was wrong too.

[misunderstood when overreacted by being harsh to D.W., and gets irritated, and huffs] Humph.

[gently provoking] So, I've missed Bionic Bunny from last night, and now I didn't get to watch TV for one week. Can you believe that?!

Buster

[withholds to listen to Arthur's story] Well, no. I didn't believe it. You've hit your sister? That was horrible.

Come on, like you never did hit anyone.

Buster

Nah.

[overhears Arthur, and Buster's conversation, and thinking that Arthur hitted his sister] Didn't you hear that? Arthur hit his sister! I, for one, am shocked!

[asks how Binky had been shocked, giving his difficult report] How come you'd be shocked about somebody hitting somebody?

Why?

Molly

You're Binky Barnes. You've always... [realizing] You know what, I couldn't remember the last time you had hit anyone.

Uh... what do you mean? [The Tough Customers, and Rattles disappointedly stared to him in annoyance, before they heard the school bell ring] Oh! There's the bell! Ha! We don't wanna be late! [The Tough Customers, and Rattles quickly walked inside with him]

Francine

Arthur, why didn't you just apologize?

[still annoyed, and gently objects] Come on, she collapsed my plane. Why couldn't anyone see my side of this?

Muffy

[replies] Um... because you're wrong.

Francine

[turns to Binky at the next table] Oh. Hey, Binky. Didn't you hear that Arthur hit his young sister?

Well, I haven't seen Arthur yet. But as far as I know, Arthur isn't even here.

Francine

Binky was a little upset about what Arthur did that he won't even look at him.

Mr. Ratburn

When the day and night are of equal length, it was called the equinox.

Molly

Did you sock that kid yet?

I haven't seen him yet. [snickers] I'm so smart. [walks away]

[paces outside the boys’ room, Brain comes out] Was Arthur in here?

[shakes his head] Well, nope.

[walks in, very relieved] Oh, uh... thanks, thanks, thanks so much!

[talks to Fern] She shattered my plane!

Fern

But she was just a little girl.

Saying that D.W. was just a little girl was like saying a tornado, just like a little wind.

Buster

[stands beside him] Hey, Arthur! Over here!

Shh! [grabs Buster and pulls him behind the plant. Buster stands beside him]

I thought somebody had called my name.