What's Cooking?/Transcript

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D.W. Read: Hi! I'm D.W. And this is gonna be the best show you've ever seen. Know why? Because Arthur's letting me do the show opener!

Arthur Read: CUT! D.W., you have to look right at the camera so you make contact with the viewers.

D.W.: Okay, okay!

Arthur: Show opener, take two!

D.W.: Hello, my name is D.W. I'm opening the show today and it's gonna be---

Arthur: Cut! This isn't working. We need---we need a different setting. Someplace more exciting and scenic, like the ocean.

(D.W. is on a boat on the ocean)

D.W.: Hello, everyone!

Arthur: Cut! Too much motion. We need something just as scenic but not as distracting. Like, I know, outer space!

(D.W. is an astronaut in space)

D.W.: He---

Arthur: CUT! This isn't right, either. It's too---

D.W.: Listen, Arthur! You said you were gonna let me do this myself. NOW LET ME DO IT! Hello, and welcome to our show. My name is---

Arthur: Cut. That was actually great, D.W., but we're out of time. Nice job, though.

D.W.: Arrrrgghhhhh!

(Intertitle)

WHAT'S COOKING?

Writer: Hilary Illick --- Storyboard Artist: Stéphanie Gignac

Binky Barnes: (V.O.) What's Cooking?

Kids: (gasping)

(Back to the story)

(Mr. Ratburn is putting up a poster in the school hallway)

Mr. Ratburn: You kids are so lucky. This is one contest I wish I could enter!

(Arthur reads the poster)

Arthur: "Chef Ming Tsai is coming to judge the kids cooking contest." Who's Ming Tsai?

Muffy Crosswire: He's the host of "Simply Ming" on TV!

(Cut to the Read house. Arthur's family is eating at the table.)

David Read: And the judge is Ming Tsai? Arthur, this is huge! What should we make for this contest?

(David is reading off of some recipe cards)

David: Jalapeno cheese straws? Nah, too festive. Brie en croute? Nah, too conservative.

Arthur: This cooking contest is for kids, Dad.

D.W.: Good, then we can make oobleck! I learned the recipe for oobleck at my school.

Arthur: People don't eat oobleck, D.W. And besides, I already know what I want to make- chocolate cake. I love chocolate cake.

David: I have a terrific recipe for chocolate brandy cake with roasted hazelnut filling.

Arthur: I just want a simple chocolate cake, Dad. And I want to make it all by myself, with no help.

Jane Read: You're gonna have to have some help with the oven and the stove, and I'm working on the Crosswire taxes, so it'll have to be Dad.

(David looks at another recipe card)

David: Don't worry Arthur, I'll stick to oven and stove help only. Oh, here! Classic chocolate cake. This is a fantastic recipe, you'll love it.

Arthur: Doing it all by myself includes choosing the recipe.

(Cut to Arthur and Buster reading cookbooks in the library)

Sue Ellen Armstrong: Oh, hi, you guys. Researching recipes?

Buster Baxter: "Getting hungry" is more like it.

(Arthur points to a stack of cards that Sue Ellen is holding)

Arthur: What are those?

Sue Ellen: Oh, those. They're just some information cards I laminated.

Arthur: Information cards?