The next day, Arthur paints the model in the dining room. D.W. suddenly appears beside him
DWD.W.
Was this the same broken plane you were fixing yesterday?
[yells to D.W.] Don't do that! I need to concentrate!
DWD.W.
This is a pretty color. [accidentally spills a paint bottle of orange paint over the building instructions which annoys Arthur]
DWD.W.
[getting a little nervous, and laughs] Bye. [quickly runs off]
Later, Arthur and Buster walk upstairs
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]
DWD.W.
Ew! [runs off to tell her mom] Mom, Arthur's plane made my hands orange!
I never thought about it before, but being an only child was so nice.
Later, Arthur puts the finished model on a stool in his room
This is the best thing I have ever made.
In his imagination, Arthur sits on a table on a stage. Beside him sits an astronaut.
AAstronaut
Arthur Read. You've won a blue ribbon. [puts the ribbon on the model]
Arthur flies the Bell X-1.
The fantasy ends
Well, this calls for a celebration snack! [walks downstairs with Pal]
DWD.W.
[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.
DWD.W.
[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]
Outside the window, the model plane falls to the ground, and accidentally got a little broken
DWD.W.
[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?!
The screen shattered like glass
Outside the house, the sky has become gray
[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]
In his imagination, he flies the plane, but it suddenly falls to pieces. He hovers in midair for one second, then he falls, followed by his helmet and, finally, his glasses.
The fantasy ends
DWD.W.
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!
DWD.W.
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]
DWD.W.
[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]
Arthur bends to pick up the plane when he hears his mom
[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]
In the kitchen, D.W. sits beside the kitchen sink
DWD.W.
[quietly whimpers on the kitchen counter]
Her dad gets an ice pack from the refrigerator
DWD.W.
[whimpers] Weren't they gonna have to amputake my arm?
No, hon. It's amputate, but not amputake.
DWD.W.
[surprisingly shouts] They are gonna amputate?!
Nope. I am in charge, and I'm putting ice on it.
DWD.W.
[loudly roaring, shrieking, and crying in pain]
DWD.W.
[restlessly crying in pain] That's cold!
Arthur and his mother stand in the hallway
[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!
Mr. Read carries D.W. while passing them
DWD.W.
[bitterly dispirited] You're bad!
A while later, Arthur sits on a chair in the living room facing his parents
[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.
After Arthur gets a taste of his own medicine, the scene pans to the kitchen. That is, where Arthur is getting his injury treated.
Later that evening, Arthur sits beside the kitchen sink, and his father hands him and ice pack.
[holds the ice pack on his arm] And the next thing I knew, I was on the ground. It hurt, and it was so embarrassing, and...
D.W. and her mother come in.
Well, maybe this is how D.W. felt when you punched her.
As a result, the incident makes Arthur understand how D.W must have felt.
Well, yeah. But what's it got to do with this? Binky Barnes was huge!
Mrs. Read carries D.W. to the kitchen, and his parents just looked to them
[calmly] Yeah, I guess I kind of get it now.
[walks into the dining room where D.W. is waiting] I'm sorry for hitting you.
DWD.W.
And I'm sorry for shattering your plane. But what kind of a weak plane doesn't fly?
DWD.W.
Well, I didn't even know yet. But I'm just a little child. Just give me a break.
The next day, at the park, Binky sits on a swing looking worried. Arthur rides by on his bike
Hey, Arthur. I feel really rotten earlier. I just wanted to apologize.
I just wanna say thank you.
Well, everyone had told me that I was wrong, when I didn't get it. [feels his balls] But... you made me understand how bad I made D.W. feel.
Well, you're very welcome. But I didn't try to help you learn some boring lessons. But it was just an accident.
The other Tough Customers come
[points to Arthur] Hey, it's the kid, again, who got hit by Binky, and now lived with him.
Now you've deserved to be in his club, kid.
[walks to Tough Customers] Actually, there was no club. But I founded it earlier, and now I'm de-founding it. Because any club that makes you wanna do something you don't wanna do was so dumb. Anyone else wanna make something of it?
Come on, Arthur. Let's go get a soda.
Oh, man. Now he's got no club. Hmm.
[walks up to them] Do you guys wanna come with us? How about if we just form a new club with no dumb hitting, and all this stuff? And because if anyone does break the rules, I will clobber them.
DWD.W.
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DWD.W.
Arthur, I need your help! What can you tell me about kissing?
DWD.W.
C'mon, you must know something about the birds in the trees. Like, how can I get a boy to kiss me?
I don't know! Ask mom. I'm doing homework.
DWD.W.
Oh! You're no help. [finds a book on the ground of two people kissing] Aha! You do too know something about kissing. You have a book all about it.
This is the story of Romeo and Juliet, D. W. It's based on a play by William Shakespeare. We're reading it in school.
DWD.W.
And? What's it about?
[sighs] If I tell you, do you promise to leave me alone? [D. W. nods] Okay. [starts talking fast] There's this boy named Romeo and this girl named Juliet and their parents don't like each other, but they fall in love anyway and plan to run away together, but there's a misunderstanding and it all ends badly. The end.
DWD.W.
Where's the kissing part?
Dora Winifred Read, what did you just say to me?!
DWD.W.
Uh... Can I have a soda? Tibbles!
DWD.W.
Uh, Arthur did it?
Well, D.W., you're off the hook this time, because you didn't know what you were saying. But I hope you know now that swear words are not appropriate, especially for 5-year-old children.
Because most people are offended by them. It's as simple as that.
DWD.W.
But why? What do they mean?
I guess you could say they mean "I want to hurt your feelings". Good night, D.W.
DWD.W.
Why didn't somebody tell me that in the first place?
MMorgan
Ready for your "listening ears" operation?
TTommy
We'd better check her bravery levels first. Lie down in the Brave-O-Scope, D.W.
[they lie D.W. down on a conveyor belt, checking D.W. on the screen]
DWD.W.
[off screen] What? What's wrong?
MMorgan
I've never seen anything like it!
TTimmy
She has no bravery at all, not a single speck!
MMorgan
[gasps] Poor D.W.! She'll probably never be able to swim without water wings!
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