Revenge of the Chip/Transcript

Television Host: Ha ha ha! So you bit the sandwich and then saw half a worm in the part you hadn't eaten! Right?
Kid: Uh huh.
Television Host: Ha ha! And then what did you do?
Buster Baxter, Francine Frensky, Arthur Read: SPIT IT OUT!
Buster: Go to the emergency room!
Francine: Ew! Get dewormed!
Kid: Ate the rest.
(Laughter)
Arthur, Buster, and Francine: Ugh! That's gross!
Television Host: (laughs again) Boys sure do the most embarrassing things, don't they? Let's watch a reenactment.
Arthur: (to the audience watching his show) It's weird how we all hate being embarrassed, but it doesn't bug us much if it happens to someone else. Sort of. 
Francine: If I were him, I'd wear a bag over my head for the rest of my life.
Arthur: How can you tell everybody he did that? On TV?
Buster: I wonder what kind of sandwich it was.
(the kids see a close-up of the sandwich with a worm inside it on the screen)
Francine: TURN IT OFF!
(all talking at once)
Buster: But there's still ten more embarrassing minutes to come.
(Intertitle)
REVENGE OF THE CHIP
Written by: Dietrich Smith ---- Storyboard by: Mario Cabrera
Francine: (voice-over) Revenge of the Chip!
D.W.: Arthur!
Arthur: (to the audience) SHHH!
(Back to the story)
Arthur: So You Do the Most Embarrassing Things is going to do a live show at Wonderworld next week, and we wrote in for tickets.
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The Reads are sitting at the table. Mr. Read is serving sandwiches.
Arthur: So, “You Do The Most Embarrassing Things” is gonna do a live show at Wonderworld next week, and we wrote in for tickets. 
D.W.: Oh boy, can I come? I've never seen TV before it's TV before. 
Arthur: Come on, D.W.! Every time I take you to something, you act like such a little kid! He checks the inside of his sandwich. And it's so embarrassing! 
D.W.: Uh-uh. Name just one time. 
Arthur: Hm. Flashback: Arthur and D.W. are watching a science fiction movie. While everybody looks intently at the screen, D.W. eats and drinks noisily. Shh! D.W., just watch the movie! A tall moose is sitting in the seat in front of D.W.
D.W.: Hm. She climbs over the seats, almost knocking Arthur's glasses off.
Arthur: Hey! D.W.! No!
D.W.: Ah! Arthur catches her as she falls. Her popcorn lands on Mr. Haney's head.
Mr. Haney: Oh!
Arthur: Er... Sorry, sir. The flashback ends.
D.W.: That was last winter! I was only a little kid! Name something that happened not so long ago! 
Arthur: You thought you were gonna die from eating a green potato chip.
Mr.+Mrs. Read: (giggle)
D.W.: You promised you wouldn't talk about that any more!
Mr. Read: (surpressing a laugh:) Arthur, don't tease DW. 
D.W.: I don't do embarrassing kid's stuff any more. If I prove that I'm more grown-up now, I can go, right? 
Arthur: Yeah, sure. But I know there is no way you can prove that. 
D.W.: Just watch me. 
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Arthur enters the library. D.W. follows pulling a squeaky handcart. The noise makes everyone look.
Arthur: Well, D.W., you're failing so far. 
D.W.: That's what you think. She looks at the books in a shelf. Thin, kinda fat, very thin, medium... She sees a huge volume. Wow! That's definitely not for little kids! 
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Arthur and D.W. walk out the library. D.W. has the big book in her handcart.
Arthur: Getting that book doesn't prove you're grown-up. You can't read it. 
D.W.: Mom and Dad can read it to me for a bedtime story. I'm interested in the subject. What is it again?
Arthur: (sighs) “Macro Economics.“
D.W.: I love that. What is it again? 
=== # ===
Arthur and Buster watch TV.
TV announcer: „The Bionic Bunny Show!“ 
Behind them on the floor lies a tin can phone. D.W. sits on her bed with the other can.
D.W.: Hm. Suspicious. They're using the TV to drown our their voices.
Buster: (through the phone:) Hello, D.W.
Arthur: Hh! Very suspicious!
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Arthur and Buster play with action figures in the yard. D.W. watches them from under a mildly camouflaged green blanket.
Arthur+Buster: (make airplane noises) Buster suddenly looks through the hole in the blanket.
Buster: Hello, D.W.
D.W.: Arg! She falls backwards. Very very suspicious.
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Arthur and Buster are reading comics on Arthur's bed. D.W. watches them from the treehouse through Bionic Bunny binoculars.
D.W.: Very very very suspicious. They're keeping their faces turnes away so I can't read their lips. Oh wait! Here comes! The boys turn around.
Buster: (moving lips slowly:) Hel-lo Dee-dubbel-you.
D.W.: I need more sophisticateted equipment.
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D.W. in her pyjamas phones the operator.
D.W.: I need the number of the nearest lie detector store. Arthur calls from the kitchen. He's holding a newspaper.
Arthur: Hey, D.W.! You're famous! Look, you're in Buster's mom's "Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella" column.
D.W. takes the paper.
D.W.: I can't read. What's it say? Arthur snatches the paper back.
Arthur: "A story that's put a smile on my face for the past few days involves a little girl who thought that green potato chips were fatal. Five-year-old Dora Winifred Read eagerly gobbled up a chip one afternoon, only to be informed by her practical joker brother Arthur that green chips were deadly.“
D.W. sees herself as an adult giving a press conference in the Oval Office. Francine is one of the reporters.
Francine: President D.W., in your past term, you ended poverty and war and outlawed older brothers who break their promises. 
Reporters: (Hooray!)
Francine: But, Mrs. President , I have one question. She holds up a bag. Would you like a potato chip? I checked for green ones!
Reporters: (laugh) The fantasy ends.
D.W.: You've got to help me stop this or I'll never live it down!
Arthur: D.W., I have things to do. A thought bubble appears in which a crying D.W. runs rings around Arthur. (in bubble:) I won't help you! Another bubble appears in which D.W. is quiet and smiling. (in bubble:) Okay, I'll help you. The bubbles disappear. Okay, D.W., I'll help you.
=== # ===
Arthur and D.W. return home.
D.W.: It's hopeless! I can never show my face again. And you won't even admit you did it. She puts on a football helmet. It's just like the times you stole my “Crazy Bus”-CD and my snowball.
Arthur: You know Mom and Dad took that CD.
D.W.: So you finally admit you took my snowball!
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