Arthur, Season 8

D.W.:
Arthur, I need your help! What can you tell me about kissing?

Arthur:
What? Nothing!

D.W.:
C'mon, you must know something about the birds in the trees. Like, how can I get a boy to kiss me?

Arthur:
I don't know! Ask mom. I'm doing homework.

D.W.:
Ohh! You're no help. (finds a book on the ground of two people kissing) Aha! You do, too, know something about kissing. You have a book all about it.

Arthur:
This is the story of Romeo and Juliet, D. W. I'ts based on a play by William Shakespeare. We're reading it in school.

D.W.:
And? what's it about?

Arthur:
(sighs) If I tell you, do you promise to leave me alone? (D. W. nodds) Okay. (starts talking fast) There's this boy named Romeo and this girl named Juliet 'n their parents don't like eachother, but they fall in love anyway and plan to run away together but there's a misunderstanding and it all ends badly. The end.

D.W.:
Where's the kissing part?

(explaining Romeo and Juliet to D. W.)

Arthur:
There's this boy named Romeo and this girl named Juliet 'n their parents don't like each other, but they fall in love anyway and plan to run away together but there is a misunderstanding and it all ends badly. The end.

[At the glass shop, D.W. sees a woman and her teenage son debating]

Mother:
Stop that! You'll break something.

Boy:
[huffs] Whatever.

Mother:
That's enough back talk, young man. You can forget about going to that concert tonight.

Boy:
What?! You can't do that!

Mother:
I can, and I have!

[the boy starts swearing back at his mother by saying a curse word; a bleep is heard when he does it; his mother gasps heavily and drops the glass; it breaks]

Mrs. Read:
[after D.W. accidentally says the swear word to her] Dora Winifred Read, what did you just say to me?

D.W.:
[nervously] Uh... Can I have a soda?

[Mrs. Read says nothing]

D.W.:
[angrily] Tibbles!