Pal and the Big Itch

Summary
When Pal is forced to wear a cone around his neck because of an itch, his friends try to make him feel better. When the prickle goes away, Pal starts to miss his special treatment and wants to get the rash back.

Plot
The episode starts of with a car backing and hitting a garbage can. Amigo is intrigued and plays in the garbage. When he arrives home, the family is disgusted. Kate is now talking to Pal about how bad it is to roll around in garbage. Pal continues to scratch an itch on his leg. The next day, is lying in his bed when he sees that Pal is scratching his itch. He suggests that Pal should go to the vet. Pal is afraid by the idea and hides under Arthur's bed. Outside, Kate, Killer, and Amigo talked in the sandbox about Pal's itch. Killer fears that it's "the big itch" which she says it's an itch so bad that no matter how you scratch it, it won't let you go. She then demonstrates by biting a bone and shaking it. Amigo comments that the only thing worse than the big itch is the cone! While he said that, David arrives home with Pal having a cone. Pal then tells Amigo, Killer, and Kate on how traumatizing the vet was. He said that he even lost his appetite. The dogs and Kate gasp, and then Jane sets down Pal's food. Pal tries to eat it, but the cone keeps pushing the bowl. He gives up, and says that the will starve. Kate is now in her crib scratching Pal's back before taking a break. Pal's itch begins to become unbearable. Killer tells a story on her Grandfather

Characters

 * Pal
 * Killer
 * Amigo
 * Kate Read
 * Arthur Read
 * D.W. Read
 * Jane Read
 * David Read
 * Thora Read
 * Ramón Molina
 * The Dogfather
 * Sunny
 * Bobo
 * Mickey
 * Marc Brown (cameo)
 * Perky (indirectly mentioned)

Trivia

 * Marc Brown makes a cameo apperance in the beginning of this episode.
 * Pal's mother, Perky, is indirectly mentioned when Pal is talking to Amigo in the last scene.
 * Moral: Don't take advantage of you friends for special treatment or for your own personal benifit or its a huge problem.
 * This is the last episode where Arthur and D.W. are voiced, respectively, by Jacob Ursomarzo and Christian Distefano.

Episode connections

 * The way Pal never discovers the ending of Killer's story is similar to "Unfinished," in which Arthur never discovers the ending of 93 Million Miles in a Balloon.

Cultural references

 * Killer's story is a reference to.