Thomas/Hey Arnold!: Rhonda's Glasses Transcript

Part 1

[Music Playing]

[All Train Engine Characters (PS 118 Students’ voices) Speaking Inquisitively]

Mavis (Helga’s voice): “Crimeny, look at Rhonda, she thinks she’s princess of the bus.”

Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Excuse me, can we do a mirror check? no offense, but you belong in the back with the rest of the geeks, and take your geeky glasses with you.”

Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “You must be new on this route, the front seats are only for the cool kids.”

[Hitting Bump]

[Tires Squealing]

Rosie (Sheena’s voice): “Uh oh, Eugene’s getting carsick again.”

Oliver (Eugene’s voice): [Barfing Sounds]

Oliver (Eugene’s voice): [Groans Weakly] “I’m okay.”

Gordon (Principal Wartz’s voice): [Over P.A.] “Attention, students, all 4th graders, please re…….what is this? I can’t read this without my glasses, oh, report, please report to the nurse’s office for compulsory eye exams.”

Elizabeth (Nurse Shelly’s voice): “My little niece Sheena is in your class, do you girls play together?”

Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “No offense, but we’re not in the same crowd.”

Elizabeth (Nurse Shelly’s voice): “I see, read the 3rd line, please.”

Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “E? uh no, no, no, F? and then a P or an R.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizabeth (Nurse Shelly’s voice): “Gosh, you can’t read any of those letters, can you? poor dear, you need glasses right away.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 262.5pt">[Emily (Rhonda’s voice) Gasps In Shock]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “But that’s impossible, nobody in my family wears glasses.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizabeth (Nurse Shelly’s voice): “Well, then you’ll be the 1st, I’ll go ahead and notify your mother.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Look, I can’t possibly wear glasses, glasses are for nerds.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizabeth (Nurse Shelly’s voice): “Glasses aren’t any big deal, Rhonda, I wear ‘em and I don’t look half bad, now do I?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">[Emily (Rhonda’s voice) Shuddering]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Oh no!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">[Emily (Rhonda’s voice) Gasps In Fear]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Part 2

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “Rhonda, just accept it, you can’t have contacts yet.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): [Tearfully] “But, Mom……..”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “But we both can’t be upset at the same time.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “Hello, this is Brooke calling for Buckley, it’s a family emergency.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “They’re crooked, why are all these frames crooked? every single 1?”

Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Mother, what if my ears are crooked?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “Oh, bite your tongue, you wretched Girl, Buckley dear, we got some truly dreadful news today, I’m still really, our perfect little Rhonda needs [Whispers] glasses.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “Take them off, Rhonda, you’re upsetting me.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “I wanna talk to Daddy.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): [Weeping Uncontrollably] “I hate my life, Daddy, why does everything happen to me? I’m so unlucky.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “Pull yourself together, Rhonda, we’re in public.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “But what are you gonna do about it, Buckley? darling, your first rate.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “Daddy’s gonna buy you a pony, feel better now?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Well, a little, how ‘bout this pair, Mother?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Molly (Mrs. Lloyd’s voice): “They rob you of your beauty, they simply do.”

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Part 3

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">[All Train Engine Characters (‘Hey Arnold!’ Characters’ Voices) Gasp In Unison]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mavis (Helga’s voice): “Crimeny, it’s the geek formerly known as Princess Rhonda Lloyd.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">[All Train Engine Characters (‘Hey Arnold!’ Characters’ Voices) Giggling In Unison]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “What are you looking at?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “Excuse me, can we do a mirror check?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “No offense, but you’re definitely back of the bus material.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Take that back.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): [Imitating Warning Signal] “Geek alert, geek alert!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">All Thomas Characters (‘Hey Arnold!’ characters’ voices): [Chanting in unison] “Back of the bus, back of the bus, back of the bus, back of the bus!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “Geek A Lloyd, geek a Lloyd!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Rosie (Sheena’s voice): “I like your glasses, Rhonda, they kinda remind me of my aunt’s.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Please don’t speak to me.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “You wanna borrow my new pocket protector? it’s really cool.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “I’m pretending not to be here.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “It’s not so bad in the back, Rhonda, everybody’s real nice, we have fun.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): [Groaning] “I’m gonna be sick.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): [Barfing Sounds]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “It’s official, 8:15, my life is over.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Part 4

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Rosie (Sheena’s voice): “Aunt Shelly, Rhonda says the bus ride made her sick and she can’t go to class.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizabeth (Nurse Shelly’s voice): “Mmm hmmmm.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “I get carsick every morning, but 1ce we stop moving around and I stop throwing up, I feel much better.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizabeth (Nurse Shelly’s voice): “Well, that’s very different, but thanks anyway, Eugene.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “I keep these crackers handy ‘cause they settle my stomach, maybe they’ll help you feel better.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Nothing’s gonna make me feel better when I’m wearing these awful glasses, it’s just not fair, I’m the coolest girl in class, I give the best slumber parties and I have the most stylish and up to date clothes.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Rhonda’s all about style.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “And then overnight, I turn into a geek, and kids like you and Sheena are always feeling sorry for me all because of these horrible glasses, [Begins Weeping] I can’t take it!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Elizabeth (Nurse Shelly’s voice): “Oh poor dear, it’s a lot of pressure being the coolest girl in class, I know, when I was your age, I was always the coolest girl in class.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): [Screams In Fear]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): [Weeping In Fear]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “No, nooooooooooooo!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Part 5

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “I can’t believe that they made us watch that dumb hygiene movie.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mavis (Helga’s voice): “Could you even see the screen, Rhonda? you didn’t have your glasses on.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “I don’t need to wear glasses all the time.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Mavis (Helga’s voice): “Right, then I guess you sat in bubble gum on purpose.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): [Gasps In Shock]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “I’ve been walking around with gum on my shirt? Nadine, why didn’t you tell me?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">[All Train Engine Characters (‘Hey Arnold!’ Characters’ Voices) Giggling In Unison]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">[Laughter Stops]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Ow, oh my nose, is it bleeding? aaah!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Rosie (Sheena’s voice): “Don’t worry, this happens to us all the time.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Please don’t touch me, Sheena, I’m not 1 of you.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Part 6

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Gordon (Principal Wartz’s voice): “Attention, peoples, the student health committee meeting has been cancelled due to owns.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Uh, that Band-Aid blends nicely on your skin tone, Rhonda.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): [Growls In Annoyance]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Mavis (Helga’s voice): “How the mighty are falling over, huh, Phoebs? Poor Rhonda, next thing you know she’ll wake up with big buck teeth and start reading computer magazines.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Cut it out, Helga, I don’t need any of your fake sympathies, I’m still a transmitter.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Mavis (Helga’s voice): [Chuckles] “Yeah right, I suppose glasses and bubble gum are not all the latest fashion accessories, oh and I like the toilet paper trailing off of your shoe, it’s so sheik.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Mavis (Helga’s voice): [Laughs]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “What?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt"> [Snapping Sounds]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): [Gasps] “My glasses.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Don’t worry, we can fix your glasses, it happens all the time, Curly, give me the duct tape.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Mmmm, that’s weird, these glasses keep tilting, are your ears crooked, Rhonda?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “It’s official, 11:48, I’m now a total geek.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Part 7

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Gordon (Principal Wartz’s voice): “A reminder about lunch time, students, uh, lunch time is for eating as eating, chewing and swallowing, not throwing it across the table at each other, uh, that’s just how we conduct ourselves.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Thomas (Arnold’s voice): “You can sit at our table, Rhonda.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “I don’t need you to feel sorry for me, Arnold.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Oh, careful, Rhonda, this table’s really old.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Then why are we sitting here?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Rosie (Sheena’s voice): “The good tables are always taken.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “We gotta put some cardboard underneath here, guys.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt"> [Thomas (Arnold’s voice), Rosie (Sheena’s voice) and Oliver (Eugene’s voice) Chuckling In Unison]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “This is so pathetic.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Part 8

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Got the ball, Brainy?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Duck (Brainy’s voice): “Yeah.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">[Breathing Sounds]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Great, now that there’s 4 of us, we can play 4 squares, Curly’s saving us a corner.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “We can’t play with that ball, it’s totally flat.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Well, that’s the only reason they let us keep it.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Why did we let the other Kids take cuts on our court? Curly was saving it for us.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “It’s okay, they probably didn’t see him, see 1ce you’re a geek, people don’t really notice you.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Look, we shouldn’t have to play with the flat ball, we deserve a good ball, like everybody else.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Uh, everybody can here you, Rhonda.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Good, I want them to hear me, we shouldn’t have to sit at the worse table in the cafeteria either, and what’s is the deal with the back of the bus? why should we have to get thrown around like a sack of potatoes? why else? why? don’t geeks have feelings too? if you tickle us, don’t we laugh? if you prick us, don’t we bleed?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Rosie (Sheena’s voice): “She’s right.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “It’s always been this way, Rhonda, I don’t think 1 kid like you is gonna change it.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Then you don’t know, Eugene, if Rhonda Lloyd has to be a geek, then the rules about geeks are gonna change, are you with me? are we gonna fight with this injustice together?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “I don’t know about that, nobody cares what we think, Rhonda.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Then it’s about time, Eugene, it’s about time you showed the other kids below that pencil neck of yours beats a brave heart.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “And you too, don’t let anybody put you down, be proud of who you are.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “You’re so brave, Rhonda, you’re the queen of the geeks.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">All Train Engine Characters (‘Hey Arnold!’ characters’ voice): [Chanting In Unison] “Queen of the geeks, queen of the geeks, queen of the geeks!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Part 9

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “I’m sitting in the front, move over.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “I don’t think so, let’s ask the mirror.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “Mirror, mirror on the bus, is she a geek or 1 of us? geek.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">[All Train Engine Characters (‘Hey Arnold!’ Characters’ Voices) Laughing In Unison]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “I’m not going anywhere, I like it fine right here.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">[All Train Engine Characters (‘Hey Arnold!’ Characters’ Voices) Gasp In Shock]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “I don’t make the rules, you know, now just go.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “It’s a free country, I can sit wherever I want.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “Not on this bus.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “You can’t tell me what to do, I’m not moving.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “What are you looking at? come on, get in the back.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Uh, I’m not going.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “What?”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice) “I’m tired of sitting in the back, and I’m tired of throwing up.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “You little twerp!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Leave him alone and go sit down.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s voice): “I’m not sitting down ‘til you move.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “I’m Rhonda Wellington Lloyd, and I don’t have to move for you or any 1 else, I demand my rights to sit anywhere I want, anytime I want, and these other geeks, I mean….kids, they can sit anywhere they want.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Thomas (Arnold’s voice): “Rhonda’s right, nobody should make anybody else feel bad about who they are or how they look, I say we get rid of the geek seats and let everybody sit where they want.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">[All Train Engine Characters (‘Hey Arnold!’ Characters’ voices) Cheering In Unison]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Daisy (Yellow Haired Girl’s Voice): “This is outta control!”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Hey, you, you might need this.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Touché, Eugene.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Part 10

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Mavis (Helga’s voice): “Nice frames, Rhonda.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “They follow the delicate curve of my cheek.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Oliver (Eugene’s voice): “Hi, Rhonda.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Excuse me, but where are you going? there’s room for both of us, you know, as long as it’s not an ever date thing.”

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 60.75pt">Emily (Rhonda’s voice): “Like my glasses? I have them in 3 designer styles, 1’s for dresser occasions, perfectly, 1s for dresser occasions, but these are my kiekie girl on the go care for every day.”