[At the Frensky's apartment, Francine starts flickering with the lights, but Catherine gets irritated by this]
CatherineFrancine! I'm trying to read Shakespeare.
Srry, Catherine. But if I'm to play Edison convincingly, I need experience with electric lights.
[Francine continues flickering with the light switch, but Catherine is still annoyed]
Catherine
Why didn't you just study a phonograph or a movie camera? He invented these.
Great idea, I would. [pause] As soon as I'm done here. [Francine flickers with the light switches once again]
Catherine
Mother!
LLaverne
I'm sorry, honey. But we can't afford to get you a new bike. Maybe next year.
It's not fair! I'll die without a bike. [puts her head down on the table]
No! Not that! Anything but that! You mustn't give up, honey! Be brave! Live, I say! LIVE!
Catherine
[walks out of the room] Oh, Dad. Grow up!
[calmly] Catherine's right. And besides, I have an idea.
I caught you! Give it back!!
[Both pull at the CD, struggling]
Catherine
Time out! I'm trying to do my vocabulary homework. What's causing this vexation?
We're not on vacation. We live here.
Catherine
Vexation, it means "trouble". What's the trouble?
[D.W. loses her grip and falls to the ground]
The trouble is that's mine!
Is not! It's a game I borrowed from The Brain.
[Arthur puts the CD in the computer and starts the game]
Catherine
Phenomenal!
[mumbling] I know he took it!
Maybe it's your guilty conscience that's bothering you!
Catherine
D.W., why don't you sit with me?
Aah! D.W. tore my room apart!! [wiggling angrily] She touched all my stuff!! Tell her to stop touching my stuff!!
I was looking for my Crazy Bus.
Catherine
This calls for some Solomon-like wisdom. [hums] D.W., you stay on that side. And Arthur, you stay on that side. No more bothering each other! Boy, I'm good.
It was on my side! Why do you want it so bad unless my Crazy Bus is in it?!
I don't have your Stupid Bus!!
It's not Stupid Bus, it's Crazy Bus! Stupid Bus is a lame puppet show!!
Catherine
D.W., telephone!
We found your CD! Your father accidentally took it!
Unlike you, I realized that the only way for two people to stop fighting is for one of them to say, "Stop". I'm forgiving you.
This is a trick! I know that this is a trick!!
Catherine
Aren't you happy that your Mom found your CD?
I can't see! Move your head!
You're not the boss of me, Mr. Goopy.
D.W., please move your big, large, enormous, gopher-looking head.
[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.
Mom! Arthur said my head looks like a watermelon except for the bad haircut!
Catherine
I can handle it. Have a good time!
Catherine
I have a lot of homework, so why don't you two go play quietly at opposite ends of the house?
I wouldn't want to go to your stupid messy girl-room anyway!
Catherine
Hey!!
I don't have turtle-breath! Smell!
Catherine
What's going on here?
He called me turtle-breath!
Catherine
Why are you in her room?
I had to! It's a castle coloring book! There's a lot of bricks!
Catherine
D.W., give him his crayon. Arthur, go back to the den.
This isn't working because Arthur knows more words than me. Catherine, you're so smart. What's another word for "boring"?
Catherine
If you wanna know the words that mean the same as other words, you look in a thesaurus.
Catherine
I'll look it up for you.
I did it! I did it! I win! Yahoo! Yay!
Tedious, tedious... hey! Do you know another word for "annoying"?
Does the saurus have a word for someone who eats too much cake?
Catherine
You kids are really working on your vocabulary! I'm so impressed!
You are distended from eating cake. Plus you are both corpulent and adipose.
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".
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!
Dora Winifred! Dora Winifred!
Stop it! Stop it! Make him stop!
Catherine
Alright, bedtime!
Arthur thinks he's so great.
Catherine
Now go to sleep, D.W.
I'm not gonna let him beat me.
3,600 liters a day? What happens if the number just keeps rising? (It cuts to Francine, singing in the shower.) Not the 10:05 but the midnight train!? (She uses a brush to pound on the shower.)
Catherine
(offscreen) You've done it now, Francine. You just used all the water in Elwood City.
(She's gasping.) Oh, no! But Muffy's birthday pool party was today. (It cut to Francine outside, running down, panting.)
Catherine
[offscreen, calls Francine] Hey squirt, come here! [Francine stands up off of the sofa and walks to her and Catherine's room] I was online and found some stuff you might want to use for your paper.
Oh, thanks, but I finished it already. [looks at the printed article in surprise] Hey, this is my paper!
Catherine
You mean, you already used some of this information?
I used the whole thing. It was perfect for the topic. So I cut and pasted it into a new document and added a title.
Catherine
[disappointed] Francine, you can’t do that!
Catherine
Because that’s plagiarism, that's why.
No, it isn't. It's called finishing your work early, so you can enjoy Thanksgiving. [worried] What's "plagiarism"?
Catherine
[picks up the printed article] It's when you take someone else's work and claim it's your own. It's basically stealing.
But I already handed it in. So, you think I can get an "F"?
Catherine
Worse! You could be suspended.
[offscreen, from the kitchen] Kids! Dinner's ready!
Catherine
[whispers] You have to tell Ratburn!
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