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Night Fright/Transcript
Introduction
A thunderstorm at night. Arthur and Pal are lying in bed. Pal snores. Arthur is awake.
Bed Monster: Will you stop that snoring? I'm trying to sleep.
Closet Monster: Stop yelling. You're giving me such a headache. Everything echoes in this closet.
Bed Monster: You think you got a headache? Listen to that snore! Like a dump truck without a muffler! Pal rolls over and keeps snoring. Oh, my aching head!
Closet Monster: I asked you nicely. Don't make me come out there! Arthur hides under the blanket.
Arthur: Ever have one of those nights you couldn't sleep because of the monsters under your bed and in your closet?
Bed Monster: Come on out here! I dare ya! He throws a shoe into the closet
Closet Monster: Ow! You hit me! I’m gonna give you such a pinch. He throws a pair of tongs.
Bed Monster: Ow! Come and get me, chicken! He throws the other shoe. (clucks like a chicken)
Both monsters keep throwing things at each other.
Closet Monster: Come out from under that bed, scaredy cat!
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Sue Ellen: Then it slammed shut -Bam!- and could never be opened again
Kids: Hh!
Binky comes.
Binky: What’s she talking about?
Francine: That first Scare-Your-Pants-Off video: ‘The Lunchbox of Notre Dame’.
Arthur: That’s the scariest thing I ever heard.
Buster: Augh!
Arthur: It wasn’t that scary.
Buster holds a crumpled piece of paper.
Buster: Not that. I just wrecked my homework. And I have to give it to Mr. Ratburn.
Kids: Hh!
Arthur: Ha! Okay. That’s the scariest thing I ever heard. (laughs)
Binky: (laughs) What a bunch of little babies! Oh, I’m so scared.
Mr. Ratburn has listened to the conversation from a window.
Mr. Ratburn: Hm.
#
At recess Sue Ellen tells the plot of a video.
Sue Ellen: Then it slammed shut: Bam! and could never be opened again
Kids: Hh! Binky comes.
Binky: What’s she talking about?
Francine: That first Scare-Your-Pants-Off video: “The Lunchbox of Notre Dame”.
Arthur: That’s the scariest thing I ever heard.
Buster: Augh!
Arthur: It wasn’t that scary. Buster is holding a crumpled piece of paper.
Buster: Not that. I just wrecked my homework. And I have to give it to Mr. Ratburn.
Kids: Hh!
Arthur: Okay. That’s the scariest thing I ever heard. (laughs)
Binky: (laughs) What a bunch of little babies! Oh, I’m so scared.
Mr. Ratburn has listened to the conversation from a window.
Mr. Ratburn: Hm.
#
The class talk about what scares them.
Sue Ellen: Cemeteries scare me. So whenever I have to walk by one, I whistle. Sue Ellen is shown whistling in a cemetery. It works.
Brain: When I’m worried, I use a laser I built to shine a light on the moon. Brain is shown with a laser that makes the moon sizzle. That makes me feel better. I don’t know why.
Francine: When I’m nervous, I talk to my old stuffed lobster Bob. She hold up a toy lobster.
Mr. Ratburn: How do you deal with your fears, Arthur?
Arthur: Uh...
Binky: (thinks:) If he tells, everyone will laugh at me. If he doesn't tell, I'm his slave for the rest of my life. Oh man, what do I do now? (loud:) Oh, oh, oh, I wanna go next!
Mr. Ratburn: If that's okay with Arthur. Arthur nods.
Binky: I have nightmares, but when I use a night-light, I can get to sleep.
Mr. Ratburn: Good, Binky. That's very common one. Very normal.
Binky: It is? Yeah! Yeah. It's normal. What are you looking at?
After school Arthur goes home with Buster. Binky runs after them.
Binky: Hey, Arthur, wait up! Look, about the way I've been acting, I just wanted to say...
Arthur: Binky, don’t worry. It's okay.
Binky: No, it's not okay. I paid for your lunch and you've got to pay me back. And that racing car racer I gave you, fork it over. And I gave you my dessert, and wiped that mud off your shoes and put three and a half glue on your collage…