D.W. Goes to Washington/Transcript

(Title card)

D.W. GOES TO WASHINGTON

Writer: Joe Fallon --- Storyboard by: Gerry Capelle

Binky Barnes: (voice-over) D.W. Goes to Washington.

D.W. Read: Ta-da!

(Back to the story)

Dad: It's a holiday weekend, and I don't have to cater any parties. Let's go somewhere.

Arthur: How about—

Mom: Other than Bionic Bunny Playland.

Arthur: How about Washington, D.C.? We've been learning about government in school.

Dad: That's a capital idea!

Mom: (sighs)

Dad: It's a capital idea. Washington is the nation's capital. Get it?

Arthur: Yeah, I got it the first time.

Mom: Let's take a vote. Where's D.W.?

(music plays)

Woman: (singing) You've got to go to Ponyland / You should go to Ponyland / You really must go to Ponyland!

Man: You'll be greeted and entertained by three or more adorable ponies!

Amanda Hulser: It's like a dream come true!

Arthur: D.W., we're going on vacation. We get to vote on where to go. Do you hear me? D.W., do you hear me?!

D.W.: Of course I can hear you. What did you say?

Dad: We're deciding where to take a weekend trip.

D.W.: I vote for Ponyland.

Arthur: Yech!

(Pal whines)

D.W.: I have to go! It's like a dream come true! Please?

Arthur: Remember the last time we went to a place D.W. saw on TV?

(Flashback)

Announcer: Come to Santa's Igloo where Santa spends the summer!

D.W.: Please?

Arthur: Ecccch!

D.W.: What does it say?

Arthur: "Share a sundae with Santa and his friendly reindeer."

(At Santa's Igloo)

Santa: Ho, ho, ho! Didn't ya bring me a sundae? How can you share a sundae with Santa if you don't bring a sundae to Santa?

(Back in the Reads' living room)

D.W.: Okay, so maybe it won't be as great as Santa's Igloo, but I must go to Ponyland!

Dad: How would you feel about going to Washington, D.C.?

D.W.: Ponyland!

Mom: There are lots of great things in Washington.

D.W.: I don't see any ponies!

Arthur: Washington is where the President lives!

D.W.: I don't care about the President. I care about ponies.

Dad: If you go where Arthur chose this time, you can choose our next trip.

D.W.: Promise?

Dad: Promise.

D.W.: Okay, okay. I'll go.

Dad: It'll be fun.

D.W.: Since I made such a sacrifice, maybe you'll buy me a pony?

Dad: No.

D.W.: I could keep it in my room.

Dad: No.

D.W.: I wouldn't ride it in the house!

Dad: No!

#

The Reads visit the Library of Congress.

Guide: The Library of Congress contains eighty million items in four hundred and seventy languages.

D.W.: How many about ponies?

Guide: I… don’t know.

D.W.: You’re fired!

#

The Reads visit the Lincoln Memorial. Arthur reads from a guidebook.

Arthur: Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863.

D.W.: Boy, look at the size of those feet. Where’d he ever buy his shoes? Was he the only giant president?

Mrs. Read: Lincoln wasn’t a giant. The statue is much larger than he was.

D.W.: Wouldn’t you know it? Finally something interesting, and it’s a fake.

Mr. Read: D.W., can’t you please just  try to relax and enjoy what’s here?

D.W.: Okay, Daddy. At least I’ll get to see the Statue of Liberty.

Mr. Read: Um, that’s in New York, honey.

D.W.: What a rip!

#

The Reads start a tour through the White House.

Guide: On the ground floor is the China Room, which contains a collection of…

Mrs. Read: D.W., don’t get left behind!

D.W.: How exciting: another closed door.

Guide: Follow me, please.

D.W.: We could have stayed home and locked each other out of the bathroom. It would have looked just like this.

#

D.W. is trying to find her way around the White House.

D.W.: This government is way too complicated. No wonder Daddy's always complaining about it!

#

Mr. Read talks to a guard.

Mr. Read: Her name is D.W.

Agent: That’s it, initials? You didn’t give the kid a whole name?

Mr. Read: Er, well…  (laughs unconvincingly)

#

Secret Service Agents look everywhere for D.W. D.W. sees them through a window.

D.W.: If those guys weren’t so busy, I bet one of them could help me.

#

With the help of the president, D.W. has found the way to her family.

D.W.: Mommy, Daddy, I saw all the horse pictures.

Mrs. Read: D.W., where were you?

D.W.: I don’t know. A nice tour man brought me back.

Agent 1: This way out, folks.   into his microphone:  Bundle recovered. Ducks in a row. Peas in the pod.

Agent 2: What?

Agent 1: We found D.W.

Agent 2: Who lost a duck?

President: There she is! Stop them!    Two agents come out of a door and block the way out.

Arthur: Oh, great! She probably broke the constitution of something. Now we’re going to jail!   He sees the president.  Mom, Dad, it’s the…

President: D.W.? Have you and your family eaten dinner?

Arthur: The president knows D.W.??

President: I just took it out and there’s plenty to go around. Won’t you join me?

D.W.: Sure.    Arthur stands dumbfounded.