Tales from the Crib

Summary
Vicita has to use a new bed, but she wants to keep her crib. D.W. tells Vicita the story of how she grew out of her crib.

Plot
One day, while D.W. is playing at Vicita's house, she accidentally breaks one of the latter's Christy doll's heads off. However, Vicita immediately forgives her and is about to get another doll when she finds her crib is disassembled, and she got a new bed.

She is worried and wants her crib, but D.W. tells her about how she got through sleeping in a bed. About a year ago, because D.W. was getting to be a big girl and because Mrs. Read is expecting a new baby, the latter decides to buy the former a new bed and give the crib to the new baby (though D.W. wants to sleep in the crib all her life).

At the store, a salesman shows D.W. a sunflower bed with a "secret" pull-out drawer, but D.W. doesn't care. She also refuses a bed with monkeys on the headboard. Before she can finish insisting she wants the same crib she always had, she observes a royal unicorn bed and picks that one.

Then she tells the Tibble Twins about this, but they say they'd never sleep in a bed because of "Arachnar" (however it's spelled): Lord of the Spider People. But that was just an "Irving Legend" ("the kind of story [one's] old [non-existent] Uncle Irving tells, which is real scary, but doesn't actually happen").

That night, D.W. gets too excited about her new bed to go to sleep, and soon discovers that because her bed doesn't have any bars like her old crib, she gets right out of bed and goes through every book on the shelf. She then realizes not only doesn't she need to stay in her bed, she doesn't even have to stay in her room. So she exits her room and sneaks into her parents' room where Mr. and Mrs. Read are lying down and talking, but D.W. is caught after saying something. Mrs. Read brings D.W. back to her bed, declaring that she knows it's new to sleep in a bed, but even she and daddy need their sleep, and she tells her to stay in bed.

Again, D.W. gets out of bed, assuming it's probably OK to do so if she's quiet, and goes into Arthur's room to play tea party with his teddy bear, Stanley. When she's about to "warm up [Stanley's] cup", she only knocks it (with pens and pencils inside it) over, waking up Arthur and scaring him (as he thinks there are robbers). Mr. Read comes in and brings D.W. back to bed and tells her not to get out of bed anymore... and Arthur tells her not to play with Stanley anymore. D.W. is amused that Arthur was so scared, but he denies it. Then they all go back to bed and stay in for the rest of the night.

The next night, everything starts off normally, and Mrs. Read (tucking D.W. in) tells her not to get up from her bed tonight. Although D.W. desires to get some sleep, she thinks about how much there is to explore. She gets up again (though she was told not to), and she tried turning on the TV, but there's a lot of static on it, so she tries turning it off. Then she accidentally steps on a clown doll who tells her to press the button on her tummy. She then sneaks into the kitchen for some ice cream. Although she manages to get the ice cream, she drops it due to "Arachnar", and spills it, leaving Pal to eat it up. She then runs back to bed and gets caught by the blanket (who seems to be alive) as she tries to get to the crib. This wakes Arthur who thinks the robbers are in D.W.'s room. He goes in to try to save her, but ends up fighting with D.W. instead (by accident). Mrs. Read reveals that there's nothing wrong with fear, but Arachnar doesn't exist; however, D.W. asks Mrs. Read to sleep with her that night anyway, thus ending her trouble sleeping in her bed.

Back to the present, Vicita still doesn't want to sleep in a big-girl bed, but later, Vicita invites her to sleep over on her first night. That night, although Vicita is now sleeping, D.W. gets up from the bed to see what kind of ice cream they had. (She probably must only have been through sleeping in her own bed at her own house.)

Trivia

 * When D.W. sees the bed that she gets, It has unicorns and rainbows on it, but when It is in her room it is a plain solid aqua/teal color. D.W.'s bed remains this way throughout the series.
 * D.W. said that she went through every book on the shelf, however, you can still see some unopened books on her shelf.
 * Tales from the Crib is possibly a reference to a horror comic and show book entitled "Tales from the Crypt".Dw.png
 * Despite the fact that Arthur didn't get Pal until D.W. was much older than in this episode's flashback scenes, Pal nonetheless makes an appearance in the flashback scenes. Besides all that, Pal didn't come along until way after Kate had been born. A possible reason why Pal was put in a flashback was so it would probably give the scene some action since this is a chase scene and every chase scene needs some action or else there would have been nothing else for D.W. to get scared and run up the stairs to her room.
 * D.W. running up the stairs to her room when she gets scared is similar to a scene in the first Veggietales episode Where's God When I'm S-Scared? where one of the main characters Junior like D.W. after he sees his family portrait turn angry and grow Frankenstein bolts out of the sides of their heads gets scared and runs up the stairs to his room just like D.W. when she heard Pal panting for ice cream, and she mistook him for Arachnar, Lord of the Spider People got scared and ran up to her room in the same way as Junior did.

Main Characters

 * D.W.
 * Jane Read (flashback only)
 * David Read (flashback only)
 * Vicita Molina

Secondary Characters

 * Ramon Molina
 * Alberto Molina
 * Arthur (flashback only)
 * Tibble Twins (flashback only)
 * Pal (flashback only)