Arthur Babysits (episode)/Transcript

(DW makes various faces Kate. Kate giggles while Arthur holds a bottle)

• Arthur: D.W., let Kate drink her bottle!

• D.W.: When Mom and Dad come in from the yard, I'm gonna tell them you bossed me around.

• Arthur: You're lucky, did I ever tell you about the babysitters I had? Like Mrs. Gutter?

(Flashbacks of Arthur's various babysitters. First, of Mrs. Gutter, who practiced golf shots in the kitchen.)

• Arthur: She was always practicing her golf swings.

• Mrs. Gutter: FORE! (swings the golf ball and it flies all over the house)

• Arthur: Then there was Mrs. Schmegeggi. She made great cookies, but she was a little clumsy.

(Just as Mrs. Schmegeggi gets cookies out of the oven, the phone rings, but her antlers get stuck in the doorway)

• Mrs. Schmegeggi: Oh, these houses! Poor design! Rotten construction!

• Arthur: The WORST was Mrs. Featherfoffer!

(Mrs. Featherfoffer watches TV while Arthur plays with his airplane)

• Mrs. Featherfoffer: Don't make noise! Go to bed!

• Arthur: But it's daytime....

• Mrs. Featherfoffer: GO! TO! BED!!

• Arthur: Some babysitters are a real pain, and I don't know why. Because it's the easiest job on Earth!

(Kate squirts her bottle in Arthur's eye and giggles)

(INTERTITLE)

(Out in the front yard, David is chopping bushes. Then, Arthur pushes Kate's stroller really fast.)

• Arthur: VROOM! VROOM! VROOM VROOM!

• David: Arthur, don't push the stroller too fast, okay?

• Arthur: Okay, Dad.

(Pushes the stroller slowly this time down the street and sees DW all covered in paint)

• Arthur: D.W.! Why are you so blue, and green and red?

• D.W.: We did finger painting in school (shows him the painting)

• Arthur: Your picture is so neat! How did you get paint all over you?

• D.W.: It was those Tibble Twins! They're driving me crazy! They should be in cages!

• Arthur: They can't be that bad.

• D.W.: You don't know them, Arthur. They give our teacher headaches!

(They approach the Tibble residence)

• D.W.: Don't get too close, that's where they live.

(A babysitter runs out of the house screaming while Tommy and Timmy Tibble squirt her with a water gun while laughing)

• Timmy Tibble: HEY D.W.!

• Tommy Tibble: HEY D.W.! I said it louder!

• Timmy Tibble: HEYYY D.W.! I said it the loudest!

• D.W.: Let's run, okay?

• Arthur: They don't look so bad. What's the problem?

• D.W.: They're the problem!

• Mrs. Tibble: Why hello D.W.!

• Arthur: Hi Mrs. Tibble!

• Timmy Tibble: I can say it louder than that Grandma!

• Mrs. Tibble: You certainly can, sweetheart! (sticks a lollipop in his mouth) Has anyone seen the babysitter?

• Tommy Tibble: She had to go home.... suddenly! (takes the lollipop out of Timmy's mouth. They fight over the pop.)

• Mrs. Tibble: Oh dear, now I have no babysitter for this afternoon. And I must go next door to visit Mrs. Fogel.

• D.W.: You know, Arthur's a great babysitter! And I'm sure he'd be glad to do it!

• Mrs. Tibble: Oh, would you? It would help me out so much just for an hour or so!

• Arthur: Sure, I can do it! I'll take Kate home and be back this afternoon.

• Tibble Twins: YAY!

(Meanwhile at the Sugar Bowl.....)

• Arthur: I can't play kickball this afternoon. I have to babysit the Tibble Twins.

• Prunella: You don't mean the terrible Tibble Twins?!

• Buster: What do you mean?

• Prunella: My sister babysat them once, just once, and still has nightmares about it.

(A flashback of Rubella's nightmare)

• Rubella: Tibbles.... Tibbles... Tibbles.... AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! (Tibble heads come out of her eyes)

• Buster: What did they do to her?

• Prunella: I don't know, she wouldn't talk about it.

• Buster: Back out of it while you're still alive.

• Francine: Oh Arthur, don't listen to them, it'll just be like taking care of D.W. and Kate.

(In a fantasy sequence, Kate cries while Arthur tries to feed her. D.W. looks on upset and hungry as well)

• D.W.: I'M HUNGRY TOO!

(Now D.W. interrupts Arthur and Kate's story time by jumping on the couch.)

• D.W.: 40-11, 40-12, 40-13

(In the bathtub, Arthur plays with Kate, but D.W. turns on the shower on purpose, soaking him completely.)

• Francine: Just figure that the Tibbles are a little worse than your sisters. It'll be easy, right?

• Arthur: I've got to go.

• Prunella: Be tough on them, or you're dead!

• Buster: Tell them that you're in charge and what you say goes!

• Prunella: We may never see him again.....

(Later that afternoon, Arthur arrives at the Tibbles residence)

• Mrs. Tibble: Arthur, come in!

(The Tibbles are playing wildly in the house)

• Mrs. Tibble: My grandsons are very energetic, but I don't think that will be a problem, do you?

(Arthur hallucinates all the accidents that the Tibbles are causing)

• Mrs. Tibble: Are you okay, Arthur?

• Arthur: (gasps)

• Mrs. Tibble: Boys, Arthur's here!

(The boys continue to play wildly)

• Mrs. Tibble: That's Tommy in the red kerchief and Timmy in the blue one. It's their naptime now, so they should sleep until I'm back. See you later boys!

• Timmy Tibble: She's gone!

(The boys attempt to lasso the cat)

• Tommy Tibble: MOUNTAIN LION ON THE LOOSE!

• Arthur: TOMMY! TIMMY! (the cat lands on him) T....

• Timmy Tibble: Don't move, there's a vicious mountain lion on your head!

• Arthur: (pulls the cat off his head) Look guys, it's naptime!

• Tommy Tibble: You tired?

• Timmy Tibble: No. You?

• Tommy Tibble: No! We're not tired! We want to play hide and seek!

• Prunella (echoing voice): Be tough on them or you're dead!

• Arthur: I'M THE BABYSITTER AND WHAT I SAY GOES! IT'S NAPTIME! NOW!

• Timmy Tibble: WE'RE NOT TIRED! LOOK!

• Arthur: HEY! YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME, I'M THE BABYSITTER!

(The boys lasso a statue)

• Arthur: Hey! (falls into the statue as it breaks)

(Now the Tibbles draw on the walls)

• Arthur: (gasps) STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!