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# Every day you walk down the street Everybody that you meet

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# Has an original point of view

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-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

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# What a wonderful kind of day We can learn to work and play

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# And get along with each other

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# You gotta listen to your heart Listen to the beat

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# Listen to the rhythm of the street

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# Get together and make things better By working together

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# It's a simple message And it comes from the heart

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# Believe in yourself For that's the place to start

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-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

-What a wonderful kind of day

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# We can learn to work and play And get along with each other

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# What a wonderful kind of day - hey! What a wonderful kind of day - HEY! #

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-Hey, DW!

-Hey...

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-You think you can do it, Arthur?

-I've GOT to, Francine!

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Are you sure it'll be done in time?

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Muffy, why don't you check the mail?

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OK! Maybe there's something for me.

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Muffy's coming!

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Oh, no! If Muffy catches me, my entire birthday will be ruined!

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-Woof!

-Hi!

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What are you playing?

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I'm not playing. I'm writing invitations to my birthday party.

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How do you spell "party"?

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P-A-R-T-Y. Why?

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I'm making invitations to MY party.

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You birthday's not for six months.

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Yeah. But I'm going to invite EVERYONE...and I write slow.

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PAL BARKS Give me that, you little scamp!

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-My invitations are all written.

-Look at that dog.

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He's eating a towel.

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Your dog can't tell towels from food.

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Come on, boy. I can't wait.

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How many days left? One...

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two...three... Four more days until my birthday!

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It would be easier to teach him to use a calculator than to count!

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Ready to go buy party supplies?

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Yeah!

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Wowww!

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Double wowww!

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Uh?

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-How do you get square balloons?

-Blow square breaths!

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Oh.

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-Get these pretty plates, Arthur!

-No way!

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I'm getting THESE!

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Blah!

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KATE GURGLES

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What kind of birthday cake should I bake?

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Chocolate!

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Doo-dee-da-da-dee-bee...

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See? Kate agrees with me about the plates!

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Have a good day at school, honey.

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Don't forget your invitations.

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I hope everybody can come to my party.

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Buster, can you come to my party?

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Are you kidding? Of course!

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-Binky Barnes...

-Me?!

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-Yeah. And Francine.

-Oh, boy! We can play spin-the-bottle!

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It's not too late to un-invite her!

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No.

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I'll recycle that day, so there'll be no bottles in the house.

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BOTH: Will you come to my party?

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Sure. When is it?

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Saturday afternoon. I can't wait!

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GASPS

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THIS Saturday? That's when I'm having MY party!

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I would have handed out my invites earlier,

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-but the printer was late.

-Can't you change it to another day?

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No! The rock band and Pickles the clown have been booked for months!

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You've got Pickles? He did my cousin's wedding. He's a genius!

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-ALL: Oooooh! Pickles!!

-I can't change my party either.

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-My relatives are coming from Ohio!

-ALL: Ooooh! Ohio(!)

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Well!

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Everybody will just have to choose.

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What are you thinking about? About whose party to go to.

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What are YOU thinking about? Where's Ohio?!

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As boys, we have to stick together!

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The rabbit's right! I agree.

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-We go to Arthur's party.

-What about the girls?

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Ah, who needs girls?!

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Who needs boys?! Anyone who doesn't come to MY party

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can't be my friend any more.

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-It won't be fun without the boys!

-Are you my friend or not?

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WHISTLE

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Come here, kids!

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Let's choose sides for tug o' war!

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Muffy, you're one captain. Buster, you're the other.

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-Choose your first player.

-This team looks good to me.

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Fine!

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OK.

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The team that pulls the other team over this line, wins!

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Who needs boys? ..Pull!

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Who needs boys? ..Pull!

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Who needs girls? ..Pull!

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Who needs girls? ..Pull!

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I guess NOBODY wins.

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ALL CHATTER

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Everybody's really starting to hate each other.

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This is just terrible, Arthur. What's a party without boys?

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I wish you could come to my party.

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I promised Muffy. How can I go to both?

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Wait a minute! I have an idea!

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That's a great idea!

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Ssshh! But we have to keep it secret.

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Let ME write them.

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-It has to look like Muffy's writing.

-OK. Do one for ALL the girls.

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I'll write the note to Muffy myself.

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That's a very good plan.

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-I wish I'D thought of it.

-Francine and I will deliver them tomorrow.

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OK!

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-All that's left is...

-Muffy!

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-You think you can do it, Arthur?

-I've got to, Francine!

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Duck!

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Quack!

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Are you sure this is going to be done in time for my big party?

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-Muffy, why don't you check the mail?

-OK! Maybe I got more presents.

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Muffy's coming!

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Mommy! I got a note from Arthur!

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Let's go!

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Mission accomplished!

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Just in time for your favourite! With maple syrup...

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all the way from Ohio!

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-Happy birthday! Guess what it is!

-Eh...

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-It's a chemistry set!

-Oh. ..Thanks(!)

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Time for birthday kisses!

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-And eight birthday hugs!

-And a pinch to grow an inch!

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-DOORBELL

-Mum!

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Happy birthday!

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Hey! What's SHE doing here? And here comes Francine.

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FRANCINE GIGGLES

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Am I at the right place?

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-Yeah. Come in!

-It's a surprise for Muffy.

-It's a surprise for ALL of us.

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DONG!

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Hide! Muffy will be here any minute!

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-What did you say in the note?

-"I have a special present for you.

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-"It's so big, I can't carry it by myself. Come to my house at noon."

-DOORBELL

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Sssh!

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-I'm here for my present.

-SURPRISE!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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I told you your present was too big to carry.

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What's a birthday party without ALL of your friends?!

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DAD: I'd better help you out.

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We should do this EVERY year!

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-Thank you, everybody.

-Next year, we'll do it at YOUR house.

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Time to open your presents. I picked this out especially for you.

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-You have to promise me you'll use it right away.

-Sure. I can't wait.

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It's a spin-the-bottle game! BOYS GASP

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Here.

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Woof!

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LAUGHTER

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PIANO MUSIC PLAYING

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Every time we audition for a class play,

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Francine gets the toughest role.

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Once, Buster was George Washington and she was the cherry tree.

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She was Sir Isaac Newton discovering gravity.

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Eureka!

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Owww!

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Oww! Oww! Oww!

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OWWWWWW!

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And then there was the play that explained the orchestra.

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I am the mighty cymbal!

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Oww-oww-owowowowowowow!

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I guess she's gotten used to it.

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Francine.

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Oww!

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Aaaagh!

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What better way to start the day

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than with 100 exciting math problems?

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All right, class. Next, it's our turn to put on a play. Any ideas?

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-Sue Ellen?

-I don't wanna do some GIRLS' play!

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How about a spooky story? With thunder and lightning...

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..and a massive monster made of mucus who gets his arms pulled off!

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Oh, no!

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Don't worry. They grow back...being mucus.

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Imaginative, but a bit too... complicated for us, Sue Ellen.

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Let's simulate space travel. I can make rocket fuel.

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Again, too complicated. How about the story of inventor Thomas Edison?

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-Did he invent stuff that would hit me?

-No. Can you name his inventions?

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-The Dewey Decimal System?

-No. That was DEWEY!

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Oh. I thought that was his middle name.

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Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph.

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The record player...?

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It was before CDs.

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-It played music with a needle.

-Is that a joke?

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No! I think this play will be very educational for everyone.

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Could you give Francine a good part in the play? She's never had one.

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I'll certainly consider it.

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Francine would be good... if she didn't get hit in the face.

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I realise I'm the obvious Edison, but might I suggest Francine?

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You want Francine to get a good part.

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Uh...yeah.

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He's so smart, it's scary!

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I was the wall in Humpty Dumpty.

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I was Plymouth Rock on Thanksgiving.

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I hope there's a wall in this play!

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Buster, since you have so much energy,

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-you'll be the first lightbulb.

-I'm also very bright!

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Arthur, you're the first phonograph.

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-Binky, you're a locomotive.

-Ye-es!

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For the part of Thomas Edison,

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-Francine.

-SHOUTS OF CONGRATULATIONS

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I...I'm a star?!

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I won't let the class down. I'm gonna give 110% to this part!

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The Thomas Edison section, please?

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In "Biographies," he doesn't have his own section.

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What does a man have to do to be considered important?!

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-What are those?

-Can you believe these are the only books on Edison?

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-Yeah!

-Wanna come to the Sugar Bowl?

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I have no time for ice cream and childish smalltalk!

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-What's with HER?

-Beats me!

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-I'm trying to read Shakespeare!

-Sorry, Catherine.

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But if I'm to play Edison, I need experience with electric lights.

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Why not study photographs? He invented those!

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Good idea. I will. As soon as I'm done here.

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MOTHER!!

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Film is pulled past the shutter... Don't open it! You'll expose the...

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film!

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Hey, Francine! Francine!

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Wanna go to the mall or hang out or something?

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-No. But you're welcome to study incandescent filaments.

-How boring!

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We're talking about the mall! Stuff to buy, clothes to try on...

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My inventions are not boring! Without lights...

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you'd have to shop in the dark! ..Sorry - I guess you already do!

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-That was mean!

-She insulted incadescent filaments first!

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If there's any problems, I can redesign your costumes.

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-What's that?

-I'm a lightbulb.

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-You're an incandescent lamp. I meant THESE.

-Those are air holes.

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If it had air holes, it wouldn't work! Don't you know anything?

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-But...

-Are you tying to ruin this play? No air holes!

-OK!

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In 1879, when the first lightbulb was invented... ..Francine?

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-You're wrong, Mr Ratburn.

-GASPS

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Edison invented the incandescent lamp.

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-It wasn't called the lightbulb till much later. OK?

-She's doomed!

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-You're right, Francine. My mistake.

-Also, it's time for rehearsal.

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-No! No! No! No! No! No!

-What's the problem, Francine?

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Sue Ellen's film has no sprocket holes.

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How could it work without sprocket holes?

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Let's go have the Brain fix that.

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-Francine...

-Why aren't you wearing your bell?

-It makes everything echo.

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Do it right... or I'll UNINVENT you and you won't be in my play at all!

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This is our own fault. We asked Ratburn to give her a good part.

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-She acts like it's HER show.

-Muffy, couldn't you speak to her?

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I could... but I'm NOT speaking to her!

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Francine insulted her clothes.

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-I could pound her.

-No.

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That's OK. I'll talk to her.

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Make it quick. Dress rehearsal tomorrow.

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Then our parents will be here tomorrow night!

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It's Arthur again. He says it's important.

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It can't be as important as what I'm doing.

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It needs air holes, Francine.

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Hmmm!

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Ah-ha!

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Hmmm! ..No. It's perfect.

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I...can't...breathe.

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Everyone feels you're treating them badly.

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Don't bother me. I'm preparing.

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You can't do this! They're really mad at you.

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They're jealous because they don't have my talents.

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That's it! I'm gonna teach her!

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Me, too! Me, three!

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Welcome to our play about Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park!

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MENLO Park, not MENTAL Park!

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It's 1877, and here is my new invention, the phonograph.

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We don't believe it!

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Prepare to be amazed!

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All operators are busy. Please hang up and dial again.

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You're a phonograph! Play music!

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If you are calling from a touchtone phone,

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-press 1 now.

-LAUGHTER

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1879, and here is my incandescent lamp.

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Brighter than any candle!

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-We don't believe it!

-Prepare to be amazed!

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Huh?

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Now, how could THAT have happened?!

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It's time to use my kinetoscope to film The Great Train Robbery!

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Chuga-chuga-choo-choo!

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Chuga-chuga-choo-choo!

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Stick 'em up! You're not robbing THIS train!

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Put 'em up!

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FRANCINE SOBS

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Looks like we had a few "technical difficulties."

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-Can we fix them before tonight's show?

-That's up to Francine!

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Me?! You ruined my show!

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It's not just YOUR show. We worked hard too!

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-The show belongs to ALL of us.

-I guess I was a LITTLE self-centred.

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OK! But we COULD do a good show together...

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IF anybody would want to do anything with me any more.

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Well?

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YEAH!!

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Let's do it, Francine!

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APPLAUSE

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It took all of us to make this play.

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I couldn't have done it alone.

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But THEY couldn't have done it without ME!

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Subtitles by Janice Hamilton BBC Scotland, 2001

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