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DW Read quotes from Arthur

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2nd most-quoted character in Arthur: in 93 of its 265 quotes
Most scenes with: Arthur Read (69), Mrs. Read (26), Mr. Read (20)

Scenes with DW Read 85

The Reads start a tour through the White House.

GGuide

On the ground floor is the China Room, which contains a collection of presidential...

D.W., don't get left behind!

DWD.W.

How exciting; another closed door.

GGuide

Follow me, please.

DWD.W.

We could have stayed home and locked each other out of the bathroom. It would have looked just like this.

She crawls under a cordon and walks to a partly open door.

D.W., stop it! You're gonna get us kicked out!

D.W. comes back.

DWD.W.

I'm just trying to find the government.

Don't break the rules. I don't want the president mad at us.

The tour continues.

GGuide

During Kennedy's administration, a permanent art collection was assembled for the White House...

DWD.W.

I don't like this. It's full of people who make a lot of rules, and everybody's afraid of getting in trouble.

GGuide

In 1948, when Harry Truman was president, the White House was found to be unsafe for occupancy.

D.W. sneaks through an open door and closes it behind her. She sees a wide hallway in front of her. She tries to get back but the door will not open.

DWD.W.

(strains) Uh-oh.

Her parents are on the other side of the door.

D.W.?!

Where has she gone? D.W.!

Oh no, D.W.’s loose in the White House. We’re doomed.

In his imagination, D.W. sits on the president’s desk.

PPresident

It gives me great pleasure to sign the D.W. Law. It is now illegal not to own a pony.

The journalists and guards are sitting on ponies.

JJournalist

Right on, D.W.!

PPony

(neighs)

DWD.W.

(whispers to President)

PPresident

And the national anthem has been changed to "Crazy Bus".

The fantasy ends.

We’ve got to find her before she wrecks the whole country.

Hold it! Where are you taking the cereal?

DWD.W.

Walter is hungry.

Slam on your brakes! Walter who?

DWD.W.

Walter Deer!

Walter Deer? Whoa! D.W., our food isn't good for deer to eat.

DWD.W.

Don't worry, Dad, I'm not gonna let him eat it. I'm just gonna get him to come close to me.

D.W., that's not safe, and it's not allowed. You can look at the deer.

DWD.W.

But if all I had to do was look, then I might as well be at home watching TV.

This is the deer's home. You wouldn't like it if someone fed you strange food in your home.

DWD.W.

I would, if it was a deer.

[Arthur and D.W. sit at the breakfast table in their pajamas. Mrs. Read makes scrambled eggs on toast.]

Planning a party is a lot of work, you know.

DWD.W.

How hard can it be? You invite people and they come!

Speaking of people, let's keep this small. Just Grandma Thora's closest friends, okay?

DWD.W.

That's no fun! Can't we do stuff like rent an elephant or a zebra?

No elephants, D.W., just a nice, small, quiet party. Are you listening, Arthur?

[Arthur goes on reading the cereal box without looking]

Yeah, Mom, a nice, small, quiet...

What do you mean you want me to take D.W. to the race?!

We'll meet you guys down there. We have to drop Kate off at Grandma Thora's first.

Couldn't you get a babysitter or something? She's just gonna blow her whistle at everyone!

DWD.W.

Am not! Not unless I see someone who's not being safe.

You have been getting a little carried away with your whistle, D.W.

DWD.W.

But I'm just doing what Officer Safety said to do.

He didn't mean for you to be a tattletale, D.W. He just wants you to let people know when someone's doing something dangerous, okay?

DWD.W.

I guess.

Good. Now, tomorrow, Arthur, you will take D.W. to the race. And, D.W., you will not bother Arthur.

I can't see! Move your head!

DWD.W.

You're not the boss of me, Mr. Goopy.

D.W., please move your big, large, enormous, gopher-looking head.

DWD.W.

[gasps] At least my head doesn't look like a football with glasses!

No, your head looks like a big meatloaf with raisins!

We'll be back at 10:30. Here's the phone number. The kids shouldn't need anything.

DWD.W.

Mom! Arthur said my head looks like a watermelon except for the bad haircut!

She started it!

I can handle it. Have a good time!

Thanks. Be good, kids!

She started it.

I have a lot of homework, so why don't you two go play quietly at opposite ends of the house?

DWD.W.

I ditch my room!

I wouldn't want to go to your stupid messy girl-room anyway!

DWD.W.

Clammy clam-face!

Turtle-breath!

Hey!!

DWD.W.

I don't have turtle-breath! Smell!

What's going on here?

DWD.W.

He called me turtle-breath!

Why are you in her room?

She took my red crayon.

DWD.W.

I had to! It's a castle coloring book! There's a lot of bricks!

D.W., give him his crayon. Arthur, go back to the den.

DWD.W.

This isn't working because Arthur knows more words than me. Catherine, you're so smart. What's another word for "boring"?

If you wanna know the words that mean the same as other words, you look in a thesaurus.

DWD.W.

I can't read!

I'll look it up for you.

DWD.W.

You are tedious!

Huh?

DWD.W.

I did it! I did it! I win! Yahoo! Yay!

Tedious, tedious... hey! Do you know another word for "annoying"?

DWD.W.

Does the saurus have a word for someone who eats too much cake?

You kids are really working on your vocabulary! I'm so impressed!

DWD.W.

You are distended from eating cake. Plus you are both corpulent and adipose.

You are... vapid.

DWD.W.

If I'm vapid, you're atrocious and heinous. I bet you don't even know what that means. I do.

Well, at least my initials don't stand for "dimwit".

DWD.W.

Ha, Tommy Tibble came up with that and he's my age. You lose!

Oh, I know what you are. You wanna know what you really are? You're such a... Dora Winifred!

DWD.W.

[gasps]

Dora Winifred! Dora Winifred!

DWD.W.

Stop it! Stop it! Make him stop!

Alright, bedtime!

DWD.W.

[whines]

[smirks]

DWD.W.

Arthur thinks he's so great.

Now go to sleep, D.W.

DWD.W.

I'm not gonna let him beat me.

DRDW Read

I said, stop it! [Timmy throws the swings and hits DW's in the face; DW falls over and starts cries; Emily runs over to her]

ELEmily Leduc

What did you do?! What?! Mrs. Tibble, DW's face is bleedin', I think it's broken!

So, what did you think?

Pretty good for just two guys in a cardboard TV, huh?

DWD.W.

It was okay for the basement, but it would never work on real TV. [the end title appears] By the way, who's Dewey?

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

DWD.W.

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?

DWD.W.

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.

DWD.W.

Ewww!

DWD.W.

Ooh! Look what I found!

Stop looking like that! You can't read!

DWD.W.

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

It's a note from Francine.

DWD.W.

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."

DWD.W.

Arthur and Francine! Arthur loves Francine!

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

DWD.W.

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!

DWD.W.

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?!

DWD.W.

Can I say something?

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

DWD.W.

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!

Arthur sits at his desk with a model kit

DWD.W.

[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.

DWD.W.

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!

DWD.W.

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

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

DWD.W.

[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!

DWD.W.

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

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

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