Dear Adil/Transcript

Turkey

Adil's Dad: (speaking Turkish)

Adil: (speaking Turkish) Oh, hello. You probably don't understand Turkish, so I'll speak in English. That's my father, and that's our store behind him.

Adil's Dad: Hello! Welcome! Have a good day!

Adil: (to the audience) Please come in.

Adil's Room

Onder: Hi! I'm Onder, Adil's best friend. But not for long.

Adil: Onder didn't do his math homework. He thinks our teacher, Mr. Yuksel, is going to throw him into the Sea of Marmara.

Onder: And I can't even swim.

Ayse: (yelling in Turkish)

Adil: Pay no attention to her. She's not supposed to be here.

Ayse: Look at this little lambie! (giggles)

Adil: Ayse! (to the audience) Okay, I admit it. She's my little sister, but I'm not gonna talk about the stuffed lamb. Whenever Ayse drives me crazy, there's only one person I really want to talk to.

Onder: Adil, ask him to ask his friend the Head if he knows the answers to 5, 7, and 9.

Adil: Onder, his friend's name is not the Head.

(computer beeping)

Intertitle

Arthur Underwater

Binky: Dear Adil.

Pal: (barks)

Arthur: Hey!

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Mr. Read finds some old letters.

D.W.: Who are they from? Arthur's real parents?

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Arthur: Buster, do you know anything about Turkey?

Buster: Sure, there's honey-glazed turkey and smoked turkey, and my favorite: roast turkey.

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Alberto: Hey, is that an Illinois Jack comic?

Arthur: Yes, I borrowed it from Buster.

Alberto: Ha-ha! They're so funny.

Arthur: Funny?

Alberto: Yeah, they always get everything wrong. Like, when Illy went to Ecuador, he found a golden Mayan temple. Ha! The Maya were from Mexico!

Arthur: Oh! I thought the comic was accurate.

Alberto: No. It's like the American TV shows I watched when I was a young kid, in Ecuador They made me think that every kid in the US went surfing after school and then home to their skyscrapers, and put ketchup on all their food. Yep, you would sure have a weird impression of a place, if all you knew of it came from TV and comics.

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Arthur: So that's why he hasn't written back for three weeks. Because I probably offended him with my questions. Maybe I should just get an American pen pal.

Mr. Read: Why don't you write back to him and explain what happened?

Arthur: Well, I'm kind of embarrassed.

Mr. Read: Give it one more shot. It's not always easy making friends in other cultures, but trust me - it's worth it!