Dear Adil/Transcript

Turkey

Adil's Dad: (speaking Turkish)

Adil: (speaking Turkish) Oh, hello. You probably don't understand Turkish, so I'll speak in English. That's my father, and that's our store behind him.

Adil's Dad: Hello! Welcome! Have a good day!

Adil: (to the audience) Please come in.

Adil's Room

Onder: Hi! I'm Onder, Adil's best friend. But not for long.

Adil: Onder didn't do his math homework. He thinks our teacher, Mr. Yuksel, is going to throw him into the Sea of Marmara.

Onder: And I can't even swim.

Ayse: (yelling in Turkish)

Adil: Pay no attention to her. She's not supposed to be here.

Ayse: Look at this little lambie! (giggles)

Adil: Ayse! (to the audience) Okay, I admit it. She's my little sister, but I'm not gonna talk about the stuffed lamb. Whenever Ayse drives me crazy, there's only one person I really want to talk to.

Onder: Adil, ask him to ask his friend the Head if he knows the answers to 5, 7, and 9.

Adil: Onder, his friend's name is not the Head.

(computer beeping)

Intertitle

Arthur Underwater

Binky: Dear Adil.

Pal: (barks)

Arthur: Hey!

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Mr. Read finds some old letters.

D.W.: Who are they from? Arthur's real parents?

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Arthur: Buster, do you know anything about Turkey?

Buster: Sure, there's honey-glazed turkey and smoked turkey, and my favorite: roast turkey.

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Alberto: Hey, is that an Illinois Jack comic?

Arthur: Yes, I borrowed it from Buster.

Alberto: Ha-ha! They're so funny.

Arthur: Funny?

Alberto: Yeah, they always get everything wrong. Like, when Illy went to Ecuador, he found a golden Mayan temple. Ha! The Maya were from Mexico!

Arthur: Oh! I thought the comic was accurate.

Alberto: No. It's like the American TV shows I watched when I was a young kid, in Ecuador They made me think that every kid in the US went surfing after school and then home to their skyscrapers, and put ketchup on all their food. Yep, you would sure have a weird impression of a place, if all you knew of it came from TV and comics.

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Arthur: So that's why he hasn't written back for three weeks. Because I probably offended him with my questions. Maybe I should just get an American pen pal.

Mr. Read: Why don't you write back to him and explain what happened?

Arthur: Well, I'm kind of embarrassed.

Mr. Read: Give it one more shot. It's not always easy making friends in other cultures, but trust me - it's worth it!

(Arthur looks at the list of addresses.)

Arthur: What a minute! Adil has an email address?

(Adil is playing Virtual Goose when he sees that he got an email. He opens it.)

Arthur’s Voice: "Dear Adil. Just wondering if you got my letters.”

Adil: “PS: I didn't know you had email. How do you plug your computer in??" He smiles and shakes his head. Then he answers. “Dear Arthur. I plug my computer into the wall of our apartment. I don't live in a tent.”

Arthur: "Oh, sorry. I read this comic and it gave me some weird ideas about how you live. Is that why you didn't write back?"

Adil: "Yes. I was going to correct you, but I thought it would take forever. And then you didn't answer any of my questions."

Arthur: "That's because my answers sounded boring. I mean, a mall's just one really big store with lots of little stores in it."

Adil: So that's what it is! “We have lots of those in Istanbul. The biggest and oldest one is the Kapalıçarşı. In English, that means ‘The Covered Bazaar’.”

Arthur: Really? Hey, I sort of live near a covered bazaar.

(D.W. comes.)

D.W.: Are you playing Virtual Goose? The answer's D - Do the Hokey-Pokey.

Arthur: Ah, D.W., go away! I'm writing to someone!

(D.W. runs off.)

D.W.: Hokey-Pokey! Hokey-Pokey!

Adil: “Arthur, are you still there?”

Arthur: “Sorry, Adil, my pesky little sister just interrupted me.”

Adil: (laughs) “Ayse is always doing that, and it’s always when I really don't want to be disturbed. How does she know?”

Arthur: “Adil, I think we have a lot more in common than I ever imagined.”

(The story continues after the introduction. Adil’s father is still cleaning in front of his store.)

Onder: Well, was he able to reach The Head? We have to be at school in twenty minutes.

Adil: Arthur's friend's name is Brain, and no, he can't call him now, it's late at night in Elwood City.

(He turns off the computer and stands up.)

Onder: Oh! Well, what did you two talk about?

Adil: He was mad at me.

Onder: Why?

Adil: I found a Mary Moo Cow CD for D.W.

(They leave the room with their school bags.)

(D.W. dances on her bed in pajamas wearing headphones and singing the Mary Moo Cow song in Turkish.)

D.W.: “Seni seviyorum, evet çok çok seviyorum. O kadar tatlı, o kadar güzelsin ki. Seni (...) seviyor, evet seviyor, evet seviyor.”

Arthur: D.W., go to sleep! Ahhh.

(He covers his head with his pillow. D.W. goes on singing.)