Pets and Pests Arthur

# Every day when you're walking down the street

# Everybody that you meet

# Has an original point of view

-# And I say - hey!

-Hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day

# If you can learn to work and play

# And get along with each other

# You got to listen to your heart, listen to the beat

# Listen to the rhythm, rhythm of the street

# Open up your eyes, open up your ears

# Get together and make things better by working together

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

-# Believe in yourself

-Believe in yourself

-# For that's the place to start

-Place to start

-# And I say - hey!

-Hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day

# You can learn to work and play

# And get along with each other

-#

-Hey!

-What a wonderful kind of day

-# What a wonderful kind of day

-Hey!

-#

Hey, DW!

-Hey!

-Whoaaah!

Ah, fresh banana bread, nothing smells better.

You got the prize last time!

-Did not!

-Did too!

It was a ring with a secret compartment.

-Yeah, and I gave it to you.

-That was a hand-me-down prize. I want my own.

-Arthur, please, just...

-OK, OK, here.

Treasure! Now that's more like it!

-Hey, where are all the roubles and pieces of six?

-It's a fortune.

-"A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet."

-What a rip-off!

It's not even a real fortune.

Here, you can have it, I'll take the next one.

BABY KATE GIGGLES

OK, who wants banana bread?

THEY ALL SCREAM

How can something as tiny as this mouse cause so much trouble?

Why are people so afraid of them anyway?

There are plenty of mice heroes, like Stuart Little and Despereaux.

But I guess it's pretty different

when one decides to move in with you.

OK, you can start 'er up again.

SCREAMING AND SHOUTING

SHE GIGGLES

MOTHER SCREAMS

MOUSE SQUEAKS

This kind of trap won't hurt the mouse, it just catches him

when he goes to eat the food inside.

Then we'll let him go, somewhere far away from the house.

You mean far, FAR away.

I don't want him moving back in with his mice family and mice friends.

-Don't worry, DW, he'll be gone before you know it.

-He better be.

SHE SCREAMS

GROWLING

MOUSE SQUEAKS

SHE SCREAMS

We've tried every kind of mousetrap there is.

It just eats the food and escapes!

I think it may actually enjoy the challenge.

-I wish I could help. We never have mice.

-How come?

I don't know, probably because they're afraid of Nemo.

Good little kitty.

Now go find that mouse and eat it!

Hopefully he'll just scare it away.

I don't care what he does, I just want that mouse gone.

Kate, we've been infested! There's a filthy scavenger in the house.

That tiny mouse isn't so bad.

Not him - Nemo. He's downstairs right now. What if he's moving in?

Oh, my couch will be covered in cat hair.

I'll have to rebury all my bones.

Oh, the indignity!

I'm sure it's just for a few days.

< Or a few weeks.

A year at most.

It depends on how long the job takes.

Oh, is this my new litter box?

Back, fiend! Those are DW's toys.

-What do you mean by "job"?

-I'm here to take care of your mouse problem.

But don't worry, they've hired the best.

I don't like to brag, but I'm a black belt in cat-fu,

master of the iron-claw style and pouncing mantis.

NEMO HISSES

TOY SQUEAKS

We're going to be stuck with him forever.

Hello. Anyone home?

Squeak, squeak?

What? Not one even one dead bug in there?

HE SIGHS

Well, they must have an open can of tuna somewhere.

Ooh, ah!

NEMO HISSES AND WAILS

THEY GASP

It was huge!

I don't think it was a mouse at all,

perhaps a deformed rabbit or a wild boar.

It had fangs down to here!

BABY KATE GASPS

-Do you think it was the Gabbernook?

-Oh, no, anything but that!

Yes, yes, that's exactly what it was, you'll need a lion to get rid of it!

Uh...what exactly is a Gabbernook?

Something Kate just made up.

-Oh, it's too good!

-Very funny.

But until that creature is gone, I'll probably be staying here.

THEY STOP LAUGHING

Perhaps I'll sleep in the crib tonight.

I hope you're a heavy sleeper, I cough up furballs at night.

HE COUGHS

I guess we're just going to have to handle this ourselves.

I can't believe I have to sacrifice a perfectly good

piece of salami for this.

-Now what?

-When everybody's asleep, we set the trap. Then...we wait.

Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Ooh-ha-ha...

Hey, stop copying my evil laugh.

Big family, 15 brothers and sisters,

and being the runt of the litter, I was always getting left behind.

-"Where's Nemo?"

-Oh, please, someone make it stop.

MOUSE SQUEAKS

NEMO GASPS There he is!

Now!

BOTH: We did it! We did it!

-Eugh!

-Odious lump.

-Vile spawn.

THEY SCREAM

And then - it appeared, in a puff of sulphurous smoke!

Right behind us! It must have used magic.

Maybe it really is a Gabbernook.

It's the only explanation.

Well, I think Mom and Dad are trying something different, there was

an important meeting at breakfast.

So, the exterminator's coming today

and he's going to take care of the mouse.

I don't want him to take care of the mouse, I want him to get rid of it.

-He will.

-Oh, but how? We've tried everything.

Erm, well, he...

He has a special potion that he sprays the mouse with,

and the mouse goes to sleep.

-Forever.

-Great, when does he get here? The sooner the better, I say.

You've got to be kidding me.

DOOR BELL RINGS

Hey, guess what?

Today you get to meet one of my best, smartest, funniest friends.

-He can do tricks and...

-That's great.

But right now I have to find Nemo and bring him back to Francine.

I can help you look for him, I'm great at finding cats.

Once I found this cat that was lost for seven weeks, see,

I had this tuna fish sandwich in my pocket but I didn't know it,

-cos my jacket smelled funny anyway.

-Nemo, come out!

If the Gabbernook can appear anywhere,

what makes you think you're safe in there?

I don't know, perhaps it will think I'm just a slipper.

If you don't come out, I'm going to hide your catnip.

See, I told you. There's nothing to be afraid of.

< I beg your pardon, sir,

but where can a thirsty rat fetch a drop of water?

NEMO SCREAMS

NEMO MEOWS

That was easy.

It's changed shape and colour!

Oh, what do you want with us, oh, spectral Gabbernook?!

Gabbernook, eh? Can't say I know what that is.

Mind you, I'm new to these parts.

General Brucephalus Calpurnia Higgins at your service.

You're not that mouse that's been pestering us?

Certainly not. I am a white rat, rattus norvegicus,

and I am the proud pet of Ladonna Compson.

-Pleased to meet you, General.

-And I you, madam.

Now what's all this about a mouse?

Would you like me to have a talk with him?

And now, introducing the smartest,

cutest albino rat this side of the Mississippi.

General Higgins!

Hey, where'd he go?

It's time to move on, my boy.

There's a house not far from here owned by a Mr Ratburn.

I hear he has some very nice cheese.

-Any Camembert?

-Most certainly.

-HE CHUCKLES

-Ah, to be a young scamp, roaming from house to house.

DW SCREAMS

-It's gotten bigger from eating all our food!

-Who, whoa, careful!

-That's General Higgins.

-Who?

-My pet rat.

Why do you have a pet rat?

You taught him that? That's amazing!

I also taught him how to play basketball with a ping-pong ball.

He's got a pretty mean dunk. And he sleeps in his own little hammock.

DOORBELL RINGS

That's probably the exterminator. I should get Nemo home to Francine.

Come on, General, we don't want to be here when they start spraying.

Till we meet again, my canine companion and feline friend.

-I look forward to it.

-NEMO: Oh, yes, can't wait.

Can someone please take me home now?

I bet I've lost eight of my lives on this trip.

-Can I play with him again sometime?

-Whenever you want.

Dad! The exterminator's here!

MOUSE SQUEAKS

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