Attack of the Turbo Tibbles

"Attack of the Turbo Tibbles"
Season/Series:	3
Original Airdate:	January 4, 1999
Credits
Written by:	Joe Fallon
Storyboard by:	Robert Yap
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Attack of the Turbo Tibbles is the first half of the 10th episode of Season 3. It first aired on January 11, 1999, along with "D.W. Tricks the Tooth Fairy".

Summary

The Tibble Twins watch an episode of "Terrific Turbo-Trooper Toy T-Bot Team" and start dressing and acting like the T-Bots, a duo of crime-fighting robots. They play roughly while pretending to fight crime and end up hurting D.W. while doing so.

Plot

The episode starts off in Arthur's room. Arthur is doing his homework, but the Tibble Twins are being loud and obnoxious outside. Arthur can't concentrate.

Arthur explains that his homework is harder whenever the Tibbles are playing with D.W. He says that Timmy Tibble can scream for 5 minutes straight, and Tommy Tibble is so loud that he can seem like 4 kids instead of 1. He then wonders what it would be like if they had superpowers...

----ATTACK OF THE TURBO TIBBLES----

Arthur goes downstairs and tries to convince his mother to get the Tibble Twins and D.W. to be quiet. Mrs. Read says she'll talk to them.

She brings them into the house and attempts to get the 3 to be quiet by putting on a Mary Moo Cow video. Surprisingly, they stop being so loud.

In the living room D.W. and the Tibbles are watching the video and it unexpectedly turns off. D.W. tries to fix it by hitting buttons on the remote control, but that doesn't work. The Tibbles think they can fix it since they apparently know how to fix a VCR. D.W. goes into the kitchen to get her mother to fix it for them.

However, the TV starts to work again but a show is on that the two claim that "It's for babies." So they pick up the remote and turn on a different channel. A show titled "Terrific Turbo-Trooper Toy T-Bot Team" is on which they suddenly become interested in since it involves a lot of action. In the show the two main characters battle giant whales.

While watching it D.W. and Mrs. Read come in. Mrs. Read tells them it is not for them and they try to make up excuses. She turns the show off and puts the show for toddlers back on. The Tibbles brag to D.W. about what they just watched.

The next day D.W. walks into the preschool with Emily. They see Tommy and Timmy dressed in costumes of the main characters from "Terrific Turbo Trooper Toy T-Bot Team", much to D.W.'s surprise. They act out a scene from the show.

During coloring time at preschool the Tibbles don't want to color - they want to fight crime. Outside the class was practicing the alphabet and the Tibbles accuse Emily of singing the alphabet wrong. Ms. Morgan gives them a time-out, and the Tibbles see this as a secret command, so they gladly oblige. They watch the show again later, and then play hide and seek, however, they cheat.

D.W. calls the Tibbles' asking them if they want to ride bikes, but they're too busy watching the show.

The next day the Tibbles come dressed as robots again. D.W. and Emily quickly go inside, but the Tibbles follow. They are acting obnoxious so D.W. goes and yells for Ms. Morgan, who gives them a time-out. Once again, they gladly oblige.

D.W. blames Arthur for everything but Arthur gives D.W. advice: he tells her to just tell them that they are annoying and to stop acting like robots.

So at the Tibbles' house D.W. tries to talk to them, but the Tibbles sees her as an enemy. The Tibbles chase D.W. and Emily. Since D.W. is the enemy, one of the Tibbles pull a playground swing back and than lets go. The swing hits D.W. in the face, and her mouth starts bleeding, though this isn't shown . Emily runs to go get Mrs. Tibble, and the Tibbles run away and hide in a garage. They decide to stop playing the game after thinking that D.W. could be dying. Mrs. Tibble then finds them. They plead for forgiveness and Mrs. Tibble tells them that D.W. has been taken to the emergency room.

They drive to the hospital and they are happy that D.W. is still alive, and they hug her. D.W. informs them that they not to do what they see on TV, and the Tibbles finally learn their lesson. As they leave, the Tibbles suggest watching something else, like sports, but D.W. refuses all of their suggestions, and the episode ends.

Trivia

• D.W. also got hit harder in "Arthur's Big Hit"; that was the second time she got hit.
  • When D.W.'s mouth bleeds, the blood isn't seen, but in "Vomitrocious!" blood is seen on-screen. This is probably due to it having more importance to that episode's plot.
  • This was the second episode of Arthur to be rated TV-Y7 for depictions of rough play. The swing hitting D.W. scene caused a lot of controversy as well.
• Sonja Ball, the actress of Jane Read, voiced Huckle Cat in the TV series, The Busy World of Richard Scarry. This was referenced in a TV show the Tibble Twins were watching. The parody of Huckle is a bat, and says "Gee, Lomie! This was the best nap EVER!" And Timmy responds "Nah! Too busy and not scary!"
• The Terrific Turbo-Trooper Toy T-Bot Team is a parody of Power Rangers.

Goofs

• The Tibbles' costumes occasionally switch in the scene where they correct Emily's singing of the alphabet.