D.W. Goes to Washington/Transcript

(Title card)
D.W. GOES TO WASHINGTON
Writer: Joe Fallon --- Storyboard by: Gerry Capelle
Binky Barnes: (voice-over) D.W. Goes to Washington.
D.W. Read: Ta-da!
(Back to the story) 
Dad: It's a holiday weekend, and I don't have to cater any parties. Let's go somewhere. 
Arthur: How about—
Mom: Other than Bionic Bunny Playland.
Arthur: How about Washington, D.C.? We've been learning about government in school.
Dad: That's a capital idea!
Mom: (sighs)
Dad: It's a capital idea. Washington is the nation's capital. Get it?
Arthur: Yeah, I got it the first time. 
Mom: Let's take a vote. Where's D.W.?
(music plays) 
Woman: (singing) You've got to go to Ponyland / You should go to Ponyland / You really must go to Ponyland!
Man: You'll be greeted and entertained by three or more adorable ponies!
Amanda Hulser: It's like a dream come true!
Arthur: D.W., we're going on vacation. We get to vote on where to go. Do you hear me? D.W., do you hear me?!
D.W.: Of course I can hear you. What did you say?
Dad: We're deciding where to take a weekend trip.
D.W.: I vote for Ponyland.
Arthur: Yech!
(Pal whines)
D.W.: I have to go! It's like a dream come true! Please?
Arthur: Remember the last time we went to a place D.W. saw on TV?
(Flashback)
Announcer: Come to Santa's Igloo where Santa spends the summer!
D.W.: Please?
Arthur: Ecccch!
D.W.: What does it say?
Arthur: "Share a sundae with Santa and his friendly reindeer."
(At Santa's Igloo)
Santa: Ho, ho, ho! Didn't ya bring me a sundae? How can you share a sundae with Santa if you don't bring a sundae to Santa? 
(Back in the Reads' living room) 
D.W.: Okay, so maybe it won't be as great as Santa's Igloo, but I must go to Ponyland!
Dad: How would you feel about going to Washington, D.C.?
D.W.: Ponyland!
Mom: There are lots of great things in Washington.
D.W.: I don't see any ponies!
Arthur: Washington is where the President lives!
D.W.: I don't care about the President. I care about ponies.
Dad: If you go where Arthur chose this time, you can choose our next trip.
D.W.: Promise?
Dad: Promise. 
D.W.: Okay, okay. I'll go.
Dad: It'll be fun.
D.W.: Since I made such a sacrifice, maybe you'll buy me a pony?
Dad: No.
D.W.: I could keep it in my room.
Dad: No.
D.W.: I wouldn't ride it in the house!
Dad: No!
=== # ===
The Reads visit the Library of Congress.
Guide: The Library of Congress contains eighty million items in four hundred and seventy languages.
D.W.: How many about ponies?
Guide: I… don’t know.
D.W.: You’re fired!
=== # ===
The Reads visit the Lincoln Memorial. Arthur reads from a guidebook.
Arthur: Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863.
D.W.: Boy, look at the size of those feet. Where’d he ever buy his shoes? Was he the only giant president?
Mrs. Read: Lincoln wasn’t a giant. The statue is much larger than he was.
D.W.: Wouldn’t you know it? Finally something interesting, and it’s a fake.
Mr. Read: D.W., can’t you please just  try to relax and enjoy what’s here?
D.W.: Okay, Daddy. At least I’ll get to see the Statue of Liberty.
Mr. Read: Um, that’s in New York, honey.
D.W.: What a rip!
=== # ===
The Reads start a tour through the White House.
Guide: On the ground floor is the China Room, which contains a collection of…
Mrs. Read: D.W., don’t get left behind!
D.W.: How exciting: another closed door.
Guide: Follow me, please.
D.W.: We could have stayed home and locked each other out of the bathroom. It would have looked just like this.
=== # ===
D.W. is trying to find her way around the White House.
D.W.: This government is way too complicated. No wonder Daddy's always complaining about it!
=== # ===
Mr. Read talks to a guard.
Mr. Read: Her name is D.W.
Agent: That’s it, initials? You didn’t give the kid a whole name?
Mr. Read: Er, well…  (laughs unconvincingly) 
=== # ===
Secret Service Agents look everywhere for D.W. D.W. sees them through a window.
D.W.: If those guys weren’t so busy, I bet one of them could help me.
=== # ===
With the help of the president, D.W. has found the way to her family.
D.W.: Mommy, Daddy, I saw all the horse pictures.
Mrs. Read: D.W., where were you?
D.W.: I don’t know. A nice tour man brought me back.
Agent 1: This way out, folks.   into his microphone:  Bundle recovered. Ducks in a row. Peas in the pod.
Agent 2: What?
Agent 1: We found D.W.
Agent 2: Who lost a duck?
President: There she is! Stop them!    Two agents come out of a door and block the way out.
Arthur: Oh, great! She probably broke the constitution of something. Now we’re going to jail!   He sees the president.  Mom, Dad, it’s the…
President: D.W.? Have you and your family eaten dinner?
Arthur: The president knows D.W.??
President: I just took it out and there’s plenty to go around. Won’t you join me?
D.W.: Sure.    Arthur stands dumbfounded.
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