Arthur · Season 1
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!
[walks out of the room] Oh, Dad. Grow up!
[calmly] Catherine's right. And besides, I have an idea.
You don't want them to think you're a little kid anymore.
Yeah... I mean, no offense.
Sometimes you feel like you're too old for certain things.
I just don't want people to make fun of me.
Real friends don't make fun of real friends. And your friends seem like real friends. They all seem to be concerned about you.
Tissues to your left, dear. I see one more thing. Oh, yes, here's a cartoon of you as green gloop. (clears throat) I said there's a cartoon of you as green gloop! (Mrs MacGrady turns her head to where the students are hiding) Green gloop! (the students pauses for a one little bit; Buster, haves his hands on the rope, quietly let it go; the students feel guilty and decide to stops causes their friend further humiliation and do nothing happens)
(blows her nose) I just wish they'd stop.
What's in the pencil?!
Cucumbers: yucky. Mushrooms: yucky. Onions: yucky and smelly. Wait a minute, this isn't lettuce. What kind of a salad is this?
Uh-oh. [singsong] She's going to pop.
This is spinach.
Is something wrong?
This is spinach, AND I...HATE... SPINACH!!! [everyone in the restaurant gasps and laughed] Uh-oh!
[fiercely] That's it, I quit.
No!
[sternly quietness] Dora Winifred Read. [cut to Arthur's house with Grandma Thora and Baby Kate]
Back so soon. Did you all have a good time?
D.W. just punched her salad and then exploded! [pauses, David and Jane disappointedly stared to him] All over the waiter. But everyone was looking at us.
THEY WERE NOT!!! Everybody was making this into such a big deal!?
[sulky] No restaurants for you, young lady, until you behave and learn to eat what's placed in front of you. Now go to your room.
Jane, please.
Well, what about Grandma Thora's birthday at the Once Upon a Restaurant next week?
D.W. will not be joining us and gonna kill me.
Oh. well, that's too bad. [sighs] Dinner without D.W. I guess we'll just have to suffer through it without her.
If D.W. couldn't come to the restaurant, I'd be just as happy coming over here for dinner.
What? And miss Once Upon a Restaurant?
It just wouldn't be a happy birthday, if D.W. isn't here.
[Jane and David is not maintaining and arguing in off-screen] But this was the best restaurant ever! This was unfair! But am I supposed to do everything with D.W., or what?
[Arthur watches Francine feed Kate spinach]
Baby Kate is such a big girl! She loves her spinach. Yes, she does. Don't you, Katie-watie?
[runs inside] Kate, stop! It's a trick! Don't eat it!
No, no. Kate is a big girl. It's not like some sisters who throw their food and have tantrums like babies.
BUT I'M NOT A BABY!
Am too!
Am not!
Am too!
*Quiet.* If you're not a baby, then prove it. [she hands D.W. a spoonful of spinach; D.W. is about to take a bite when Kate spits up her spinach and smiles]
Well, this looks like I'm not the only one with a good taste around here. But I didn't hate spinach.
[Arthur stages a phone conversation at home with D.W. listening]
Oh, Grandma! I'm so glad you changed your mind. I can't believe we're going to the restaurant after all.
Hey, what are you telling Grandma?!
Nope, it was nothing, D.W., now leave me alone! What's that, Grandma! Oh, yes, I think it'll be just as much fun without her.
Without who?! Let me talk to her! [tries to take the phone]
D.W., isn't there some dancing vegetable on T.V.?
Give me the phone!! I can go wherever I want!!
But you said you didn't want to go to restaurants, remember that? And this one might have spinach. And... [holds the phone out of D.W.'s reach]
Grandma, I'm coming to your party, and it's gonna be lots of fun! Ha, so there! You're not the boss of me, Arthur Read!
Well, Grandma, I guess there's nothing that I could do. We're just going to have to take D.W. with us.
Yeah, that's right. Mom, Dad. I wanna go to the restaurant. And I'll try new food, and eat it all! [runs to find her parents]
Well, this works, but, thanks!
[at the other end, impersonating Grandma Thora] I'm glad I can help you, sonny!
Why's everyone looking at me? I like spinach. And everyone knews it. (Arthur rolls his eyes as D.W. sits back and smiles.)
[To Francine after Slink whisper to him just one last dare.] Uh, Francine, I need advice!
What does he need advice for? He just has to run home as fast as he can.
[She walks up to Buster. He then proceeds to kiss Francine. Arthur and Muffy gasp.]
Where's he going now?
He's running home as fast as he can.
[Francine is now chasing Buster out of the ballpark in rage.]
Buster Baxter, I'm gonna get you!!!!!
And then, the evil genius escapes in his supersonic jet to his other space station shaped which is shaped like a giant clam and...
Buster, snap out of it!
Buster, there's no way we could do something that complicated.
Huh?! Oh, you're right. Why even bother?
Well, we could do a supersonic jet.
Really?
Paper. Marker. Spray-paint. Tah-da!
Wow! It's just like I imagined! Better!
Well, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it was nothing like the James Hound movie...
Well, yeah. I mean, we've tried it but...
It's much better!
Really?
And the next one's going to be even better! Oops! [ejects the videotape]
(plays with dolls on the living room floor) This is Tiffany and this is her servant. And this is their lifeboat and these are the angry sharks... (Kate grabs Tiffany and D.W. gasps) No! I'll do the playing! You just watch me! (Both Kate and D.W. pull at the doll. The head falls off and D.W. gasps.) Aaugh!! Look what you did!
Play nicely, D.W.
But she killed Tiffany! [Kate giggles]
Here. Give that to me. This looks easy to fix. Don't worry. (She gives D.W. the fixed doll back.) Oh, there we go! Good as new! No need to get excited.
How come you're always on her side?
I'm not on anyone's side. But Kate's a baby, and you're a big girl.
[angrily] I am not a big girl, I'm a little girl! (Kate chuckles) Be quiet, you!
D.W.
You sweet, little baby-wayby! (She sees Jane leaves the room) This was mine! You can only touch it when I say so.
[concerned] D.W.?
[to Jane] No!!!
Give it back, or I'll pinch you!!!
Mama? [Jane grabs her]
I'll SMASHED alarm clock!
UAaRGh!! [drops the Tiffany doll]
[sternly] Dora Winifred Read, go to your room, and Arthur we're not smashing alarm clock in DW's room ever again!
But what did I do?
What about my supper? How will I survive?!
Supper's not till 6. You'll be out long before then.
But what if you forget about me? I could starve to death! Mom! Mom! (She clings to her mother’s leg. Mrs. Read looks stern. She sits D.W. down on the bed.)
It's 4:30 now. When the clock says 4:40, you can come downstairs. And I'll set the alarm so you'll know when it's time.
(cries on her pillow) You don't love me!? You only love Kate and Arthur and Daddy and Pal and... and Grandpa, and Aunt Lucy, and...and... (Jane has left the room with Arthur punched Jane Read's back and Nadine appears.) How long did she say?
10 minutes. When it says 4:31, that means one minute has gone by.
[after D.W.'s fantasy] What are you doing here?
The clock was broken and the time was stopped and I was just coming to warn you-
[to DW] Nice try, D.W., back to your room, now.
[goes backs upstairs to her room in walks, annoyed] Sheesh! You never have to treat me like a criminal.
(grieves) And how about when Cousin Lucy got married? I had to stay at home and cook and clean while everyone else went to the wedding. (Imaginary flashback: D.W., in rags again, which are now completely tattered, cleans the fireplace and sneezes)
[indignantly in shouts] AREN'T YOU DONE YET?! YOU STILL HAVE THE BEDS TO MAKE AND YOU HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED THE BREAKFAST DISHES!!
[to Jane; Shouts] NEVER!!!
[in tears] Can't I go to the wedding, please?!
Weddings are *NOT* for little girls!
But what about Kate? She's going!
(insanely) Kate is a baby! Besides, we like her better than you. Ready, everyone? [these leaves in the house]
Don't forget to brush the dog. (D.W. brushes away her tears. She watches from the window as the family gets in the car and leaves with Arthur tells "Never, Mom! NEVER!!". The flashback ends. D.W. sniffs on her pillow.)
[moans] It was so sad being me.
But you went to the wedding, D.W.
Whose side are you on, anyways?
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