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| {{Episode infobox | | {{Episode infobox |
| |ep. name = Flea to Be You and Me | | |ep. name = Flea to Be You and Me |
| |image = 0809ami.jpg | | |image = Flea to meet you.png |
| |season = [[Season 8|8]] | | |season = [[Arthur (season 8)|8]] |
| |airdate = | | |airdate = December 25, 2003 |
| |prod. code = 809a | | |prod. code = 80901 |
| |prev. episode = [[Tales from the Crib]] | | |prev. episode = [[Tales from the Crib]] |
| |next episode = [[Kiss and Tell]] | | |next episode = [[Kiss and Tell]] |
| |writers = [[Jonathan Greenberg]] | | |writers = [[Cusi Cram]] |
| |storyboarders = [[Gerry Capelle]] | | |storyboarders = [[Jonathan Greenberg]]<br>[[Gerry Capelle]] |
| |titlecard = 0809atc.jpg | | |transcript=|titlecard = Fleatobeyouandme.png |
| |number = 9a|us = December 25, 2003<ref>http://www.ket.org/episode/ARUR%20%20000809</ref>|story = [[Cusi Cram]]}}{{EpisodeHeader|1|9|8}} | | |number = 9A}}'''Flea to Be You and Me''' is the ninth episode of Season 8. It first aired on December 25, 2003. |
| | ==Summary== |
| | An Italian circus flea tells the gang his experiences from around the world. |
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| An Italian circus flea tells Kate, Pal and Amigo about his globetrotting journey.
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| ==Plot== | | ==Plot== |
| Pal has a terrible itch and is afraid he might be given a bath. Kate and Amigo discover a flea in Pal’s fur. Amigo wants to squish it, but the flea begs for mercy and begins to tell the story of its life.
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| The flea’s name is Pepe. He and his brother Sale worked in a flea circus on the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. One day, a gust of wind blows him off the stage. He is rescued by a rat named Alessio who rescues him from being stepped on and takes him to a closed open air market where they have dinner.
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| The next morning, Pepe finds himself on a ship bound for Africa, because Alessio has decided he has had enough of humans with traps and poisons.
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| In Alexandria, Egypt, Pepe talks to some flies who offer him a ride on their camel. The camel takes him to Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
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| Pepe decides to stay there with one of the flies. When he settles on a hippopotamus, the birds want to eat him as a parasite, but when he shows some of his circus tricks, they let him stay. Then the hippopotamus dives and Pepe is without a home again.
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| Pepe hears safari tourists speak Italian and hides in their luggage. Instead of Italy he ends up in Japan. There he makes friends with a cricket who makes beautiful music. When a Japanese girl captures the cricket in a jar, Pepe is caught as well. He tries to cheer up the cricket by singing. When that does not work, he jumps through an air hole and opens the jar cover.
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| Pepe lives a few months on the family's dog. Then he lands in a bottle of rice vinegar and ends up in the Read house as a gift from David Read’s Japanese pen pal (see “Dear Adil”). Pepe falls out of the bottle onto Pal.
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| Kate, Pal and Amigo suggest mailing Pepe to Italy in a letter. Pepe instead rides away on a squirrel. Mrs. Read notices that Pal isn’t scratching anymore, but decides to give him a bath anyway.
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| Some time later the Reads receive an ad in the mail announcing “Dottore Pulce's Amazing Flea Circus” with the reunited brothers Pepe and Sale.
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| ==Characters==
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| *[[Kate Read]]
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| *[[Pal]]
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| *[[Amigo]]
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| *[[Pepe]]
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| *[[Jane Read]]
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| *[[Arthur Read]]
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| *[[David Read]]
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| *[[Alessio]]
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| *[[Tatsuya Matsumoto]]
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| *[[Unknown Male Adult Rabbit (Number 4)]](cameo)
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| *[[Rae's mother]](cameo)
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| * This episode aired on Christmas Day.
| | The title is similar to an album titled "Free to Be You and Me". |
| * Adult fleas can only digest blood and their digestive tract is in their abdomen, not their thorax.
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| * "Dottore Pulce" is Italian for "Doctor Flea".
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| *'''Moral:''' You should listen to the person's whole story before you judge her/him telling it.
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| ===Cultural references===
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| *The title is similar to the album titled "{{W|Free to Be You and Me}}".
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| *While trapped in the jar, Pepe sings part of the famous aria "Largo al factotum" from Gioachino Rossini's opera "{{W|The Barber of Seville}}".
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| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| Flea to meet you.png
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| </gallery>
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{EpisodeNav|8}}
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| [[Category:Season 8 episodes]] | | [[Category:Season 8 episodes]] |
| [[Category:Episode pages without home video]] | | [[Category:Episode pages needing attention]] |
| [[Category:A to Z]] | | [[Category:Episode pages needing plot]] |
| [[Category:Arthur episodes]]
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| [[Category:2003]]
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