Editing Rhyme for Your Life

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[[Binky]] wants to write a poem for his mom for her birthday but is unable to write one. He has a dream where everyone speaks in rhyme and finds himself able to do the same.

This episode begins with [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] and [[Buster]] about to see a play by [[Mr. Ratburn]] at a Renaissance fair. Before the play starts, Arthur encounters [[Binky]], who is dressed in a beige-colored cloak and holding a cane in his right hand and he is also speaking in rhyme. Arthur is confused and Binky mentions that all will be clear when Binky tells Arthur the story of how it happened.

In Binky's story, Binky is trying to figure out what to give [[Mrs. Barnes|his mother]] for her birthday, so he chooses on giving her a poetic birthday card. Unfortunately, Binky finds himself unable to write a birthday poem for his mother. [[Muffy]] suggests he finds somebody to write the poem for him, so he goes to the library and attempts to bribe [[Fern]] into writing it with a sandwich and a pickle. Fern turns him down, saying that he can't buy a poem, and suggests that he look for one himself, giving him a poetry book to read.

Later that evening, after reading the book and trying to write the poem, he gives up and falls asleep. In his dream, he finds himself in a strange land that is far away. [[Francine]], who is a coach driver, and Muffy as a rich person in the carriage, tell him that he is in a land called Verseburg, and that it is a crime to speak in prose. He begins to notice that everyone in the village is only speaking in rhyme. He stumbles upon a girl named Clementine, daughter of Dr. Rhymenstein, who takes her back to the doctor's castle (and she looks and sounds a lot like D.W.). Dr. Rhymenstein (who looks a lot like Mr Ratburn) tells Binky about a hideous monster he created, ruining his reputation. The monster, called the Purple Orange by the doctor, eats him up and kidnaps Clementine, who claims she doesn't like fruit at the best of times. Binky goes to the police station to tell Fern as a policewoman what he saw, but she arrests him for failing to speak in rhyme. Hans and Frans, who look like the [[Tibble Twins|Tibble twins]], place him in a cell with poet [[William Carlos Williams]], who believes that people should be able to speak in prose. They both escape through a tunnel that William dug with a pen. William gives Binky his rhyming dictionary so he can learn how to rhyme, then tells him to find the Purple Orange and clear his name. Binky learns how to speak rhyme, able to ask for eggs from Buster as a farmer going by "Meg", and while walking through a blizzard. He rescues Clementine from the Purple Orange and then screams, starting an avalanche that crushes it. Binky is rewarded with a mountain barracuda for his bravery when he returns to the town. Binky then wakes up from his dream and goes to bed.

*[[Bailey]]

*[[Prunella Deegan]]

 

 

*Binky mentions twice the "giant clam" nightmare from the episode [[Double Dare]]: first when he finds himself in Verseburg in his dream, and then in the morning after.

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