Editing Pal and the Big Itch

{{Episode infobox
|season=[[Season 21|21]]
|us=February 15, 2018<ref>http://www.kued.org/whatson/arthur/invasion-the-soccer-fans-pal-and-the-big-itch ([https://web.archive.org/web/20171214094736/http://www.kued.org/whatson/arthur/invasion-the-soccer-fans-pal-and-the-big-itch archived page]; retrieved December 14, 2017)</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/arthurpbs/status/964210971131576322</ref>
|number=7b
|image=Screen Shot 2018-01-11 at 8.34.22 AM 1.png
|writers=[[Peter K. Hirsch]]
|storyboarders=[[Gerry Capelle]]
|prev. episode = [[Invasion of the Soccer Fans]]
|next episode =[[Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone]] 
|titlecard = Pal and the Big Itch title card.png}}
{{EpisodeHeader|2|7|21}}

==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

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

==Trivia==
*This is the last episode where [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] and [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] are voiced, respectively, by [[Jacob Ursomarzo]] and [[Christian Distefano]].
*This episode, along with the [[An Arthur Thanksgiving|Thanksgiving special]], both mark the last time where Pal and Kate have a speaking role.
*'''Moral:''' Don't take advantage of you friends for special treatment or for your own personal benefit or its a huge problem.
*'''Karma:''' Pal took advantage of his friends, so he got caught and Killer refused To tell him her Story.
===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 {{W|The Godfather}}.

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 ==Plot==
-Marc Brown knocks over a trashcan with his car. Pal plays in the trash and comes into the house extremely dirty, much to the family's disapproval.
+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
-'''Pal and the Big Itch'''
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-Later, [[Pal]] discovers a sore on his leg and gnaws at it, despite Kate warning him no to. The next morning, the itching is so bad, that Arthur wants to take Pal to the vet.
-Amigo and Killer tell Kate about the "big itch", which never lets you go. The only thing worse is "the cone". Just then, Mr. Read returns with Pal, who is now wearing a cone to keep him from gnawing at the sore.
-Pal tells a dramatic story of his ordeal at the vet, but brightens up when Mrs. Read gives him food. However, the cone keeps pushing his dog dish away, so that he cannot eat. Amigo offer to bring him table scraps.
-Two days later, Pal treats his friends like servants. Kate scratches his back and Amigo brings him scraps. When Pal itches again and cannot scratch, Killer distracts him by telling him about her grandfather, Fido Carnebone. Fido was known as the Dogfather. In a flashback (or possibly fantasy), he sends his three sons to get a ball back for a dachshund. Killer is about to relate how Fido was betrayed by one of his sons, when Thora calls her. She promises to finish the story later, if Pal is still stuck in the cone.
-A few days later, Arthur removes the cone. Pal runs out to Kate and Amigo. He pretends that he is still suffering, because he wants the roast beef that Amigo has brought, but Kate just laughs at him and Amigo eats the beef.
-Later, Kate is too busy with her toys to scratch Pal. When Killer comes to visit, Pal puts his head in the cone, so that she will tell him the rest of the story. Killer tells him how Fido came across his wounded son, Bobo, in a dark street and got cornered by two big dogs. Bobo had been faking his injury, just like Pal. At this, Killer leaves Pal and swears never to tell him how the story ended.
-Pal is downhearted and gets the idea to get another itch. He jumps into a trashcan which rolls away. Amigo stops it with his body and is hurt.
-The episode ends with [[Amigo]] having to wear a cone. Pal feeds him and tells him of how his mother worked as a circus dog.
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