D.W. Swims with the Fishes

D.W. Swims with the Fishes is the eleventh episode of Season 13 in the series. It aired on April 5, 2010 along with George and the Missing Puzzle Piece.

Summary
D.W. and James enter the preschool swim meet and recruit their older siblings to coach them. It all goes well until Arthur and Molly begin to get more competitive than D.W. and James.

Plot
D.W. is at the public pool swimming and soon is joined by James and the two win again. James told her he speeded up after he saw Timmy behind him. The lifeguard then tells the kids she has new for them. D.W. tells her mom that they are having a swim meet and wants to win it. At the public pool Arthur and D.W. are there and they see James with his older sister Molly. As D.W. and James are swimming Arthur talks to Molly and Molly tells him that she was forced to this and is hoping no one sees her. Soon D.W. and James get into an argument over whose lane they are in and they start splashing each other. Their older siblings break up the fight, however they are not done with one another yet. Arthur and D.W. go to the store get a new swimsuit and Arthur and D.W. end up seeing James and Molly there and he then chooses another swimsuit for D.W. Early in the morning Arthur wakes D.W. up to start practicing. At the public pool Arthur is busy waiting for D.W. to get dressed into the swimsuit and Molly appears and she and Arthur act surprised to each other there early in the morning. When D.W. and James finally come out after dressing in their swimsuits they are wearing almost identical swimsuits. When they try swimming in their swimsuits they sink to the bottom and Arthur and Molly have to rescue them. Both Arthur and Molly then continued training their younger siblings. At preschool D.W. tells James her hands are puny and James still had his ear plug in from the morning swim and said he'll be glad when tomorrow's race will be over. D.W. tells him she would wish him luck, but she wishes herself luck. At the day of the race D.W. and James are encouraged by their older siblings to win and the race starts. Both D.W. and James have the lead and James then gets stuck. D.W. frees James and they continue racing. Emily however is the winner of the race and D.W. and James both came in second. D.W. and James are given second place trophies and they hand the trophies over to their older siblings and they go back in for a swim. Molly tells Arthur that she felt she had one an award for jerk of the year and Arthur says to her that they had tied. Molly suggests they buy their younger siblings banana splits.

Triva

 * Emily's original appearance is seen near the end of this episode.


 * The Bear Lake Lifeguard makes another appearance in this episode.