Jenna's Bedtime Blues

"Jenna's Bedtime Blues"
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Season/Series:	7
Number in season:	6B
Original Airdate:	November 25, 2002;
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Written by:	Glen Berger
Storyboard by:	Jean Saro; Sylvie Lafrance
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"Jenna's Bedtime Blues" is the second half of the sixth episode in the seventh season of Arthur.

Summary

Jenna is reluctant to go to Muffy's annual slumber party because she still wets the bed. She decides to wear a pull-up to bed, but what if the other girls find out?

Plot

All the girls in class are doing nice things for Muffy because they are trying to get invited to one of her girls-only slumber parties at her family's mansion. Jenna receives an invitation because Francine, who is Muffy's best friend, managed to convince her to invite her, but Jenna is worried.

One day, while playing badminton with Francine, she tells Francine that she thought that Muffy didn't like her that much, but Francine told her that Muffy needs to get to know her more. Jenna said that she had other plans, but then Francine told her the party is at night, and then Jenna said, "Well, maybe I didn't want to go to her stupid party in the first place!", and stormed away.

When Jenna goes back to her locker, she heard the other kids spreading rumors about her, but Buster knows why she won't go to the party: it takes place at night, and also thinks she is an alien crime-fighter in disguise. Later, Jenna appears and tells everyone that the rumors they've been spreading about her are false, after Buster sees the ink on her hands, Jenna simply said that her pen broke, and when Francine asks if she was going to the party, she said, "Yeah... sure i can't wait."

Then that same night, she talked to her father, saying that she feels doomed and seeing her alarm in which after Her father put on her alarm and says, if she wears this to the party she will not be at laughed at for the rest of her life, because she isn't the only one to have it because other kids have the same problem too. Then Jenna says if there are really others, but she hasn't meet any of them, but her father says that she has met them, but like her they worried about being teased and they keep it a serect. Then she says; "I had done so many great things, but I still wet the bed." Then he tells she does it time to time and wearing the alarm is helping her improve.but she says if leaves it home she has wear an old daiper and be laughed even more. but her father reminds her it is not a daiper it is pull up and the she asks he doesn't how hard it. But fortunately, her father understands her problem, as he himself also wet the bed when he was a kid. After the nightmare, Jenna wakes and feels her bed, and decided to go to the party.

When the night of the sleepover came, her father told that Jenna should call him and come and pick her up Jenna enjoys the party, but spends most of her time in the bathroom. But when it came time to reveal secrets, she lied and said she loves George, but the next morning, even though she made it throughout the whole night without any bed-wettingand having to go to the bathroom many times. In the morning, the girls have a pillow fight, but Jenna's pull up falls out of the pillow. She told the truth to Francine that she wets the bed. Francine understands, as she used to wet the bed as well.

The next day in class, when Jenna notices that George has been acting differentlys, Francine assures her that her secret will not pass outside the girls, but then George shyly gives Jenna a flower, saying that his ventriloquist dummy, Wally, wanted to give it to her and to think she worried about her real secert getting out.

Characters

Jenna

Muffy

Trivia

Cultural references

The puppets in "Can You Say P?" look similar to the ones in Wimzie's House, which also aired on PBS and was produced by Cinar, like Arthur.
Dr. Doomsday is a parody of Mysterio, but the name is also a parody of both "Dr. Doom" and "Doomsday".