I Heart Arlo (2021) s01e04 Episode Script

It's original ♪
Like me.
[opening theme music plays]
[Arlo] We all need
Someone to hold us up ♪
To help us on
We make each other better ♪
Though the world's not always right
Tough times, they can make us strong ♪
We all belong
We're beautiful together ♪
We're beautiful together ♪
[shower running, stops]
Do-de-do-de-doo, do-de-do-do-doo ♪
Hello there, handsome!
Is that a new muscle? Why? What
[crinkles, smacks]
Well, is it that time already?
I have a feeling it's gonna be a good one!
[growls]
[groans]
[straining]
- [crackling]
- Ah
[straining]
[chuckles fiendishly]
- [panting]
- [twinkles]
Nothing like a good shed.
It's been some year, old skin.
We left the swamp, met my dad.
I learned some city slang.
Bodega! Schmear!
I shall call this one
"My Crustaceous Period".
Let's send you to Edmee.
[in sing-song] She'll be
so impressed by her growing boy!
[suspenseful music plays]
[meows]
[dramatic hip hop plays]
Uh-huh. [yowls] Sneak attack!
[hisses, growls]
Oh?
[chuckles nervously]
- [bird growls, shrieks]
- Ah!
- [bird screeching]
- [groaning]
[chuckles nervously]
Ow!
[groans]
[grunts]
- Ow.
- [shrieks]
[groans]
[screeching]
[otherworldly music plays]
[scatting]
[otherworldly music plays]
[gasps]
Ghost!
- [humming]
- Arlo-Arlo-Arlo-Arlo-Arlo-Arlo-Arlo! Arlo!
- Oh! Agh!
- [thuds]
[clatters]
What's going on?
I was outside administering
some street justice
Ah!
- to some local ne'er-do-wells
- Wait. What?
when I saw a ghost
through your bedroom window.
A ghost?
It was
[shudders]
horrible.
Flaky, transparent and green.
- [gags]
- [Arlo gulps]
- A foul and ghastly phantasm
- Ugh.
sent to terrorize us mortals
from a realm unknown!
I mean it wasn't that bad, was it?
Rest assured that it was the most
horrific thing I have ever witnessed,
and it will haunt my every waking moment
until the end of my days on this earth.
I never realized my skin
[hesitates]
that ghost was so disgusting.
- [lighter flicks]
- What you doing?
Just casting a protection spell
to ward off evil spirits.
Oh, how attached are you to Jeromio?
- Ribbit.
- Ah
- Never mind.
- Sure you know what you're doing?
Trust me, I watch a lot of TV.
Have any sage?
I need to create a herbal perimeter.
You could use that oregano
from Tony's you always carry around.
Yes, oregano. Not
[chuckles nervously]
catnip.
[clattering softly]
[sniffing]
Hmm. That ghost is so close
I can almost smell it.
[sniffs] What is that smell?
There it is!
- I think I saw it watering my plants.
- [hisses, yowls]
[inhales sharply, whimpers] Ooh.
[grunts, pants, chuckles nervously]
I think we got it.
I don't feel a spectral presence.
I can't thank you enough for bringing
this very real problem to my attention.
[inhales] I live to serve, what can I say?
Okay, skin, I'm sorry,
but I didn't know how disgusting you are.
I just gotta get you to Edmee
before anyone else sees
[gasps]
[ominous music plays]
[dramatic hip hop music plays]
Psst. Excuse me.
- [skin crinkling]
- [wind gusting]
Hey! I need that back, please.
Whoa.
Got to send it to Edmee!
[shrieks]
[coughs]
[screams]
[gasps]
[tires squeal]
[groans]
Huh?
[ghostly whooshing]
[shrieks]
What?
[coughs] Ugh.
I got that ghost on the run!
[laughs]
A ghost?
Yeah! It looks just like Arlo,
but hideous.
Gotta go bust some ghosts!
Alia, I can help!
Don't get too close! I'll catch it!
Ugh, not ghosts. They're worse than rats.
Better make sure
they don't get possessed.
[light buzzes]
[Tony sighs]
After a long hard day, there's nothing
like sharing a digestif with a friend.
- [pops]
- Bonnisimo.
[laughs]
[crinkles]
- [shrieks]
- [deep voice] Ooh.
- Oh, yeah.
- [enticing music plays]
Mm.
Yeah.
[panting] Alia, do you think
we could just maybe let the ghost go?
Shh.
Don't empathize with the supernatural.
[faint crinkling]
- [gasps]
- Rickety Biscuit!
[shrieks]
[both scream]
It's terrifying!
[dramatic music plays]
[Arlo] Whoa!
- Agh!
- What did I miss?
Something disgusting
and frightening came
Yeah, and we were
minding our own business
And it swoops up and
- The ghost took Arlo.
- [dramatic music plays]
[both gasp] A ghost?
- [gasps] Took Arlo?
- Yeah, that's literally what I just said.
[crinkling]
So I still really need my skin back.
[shrieks]
I hope no one sees this.
[gasps] What is that?
It's awful!
- Ugh.
- I can't look away.
Aw.
[can hissing]
Here's where we belong, skin.
[inhales] We will make a home among
the gross and discarded just like us.
Oh, yeah ♪
[male voice] No, no.
No singing in the dumpster.
[sighs heavily]
Hey, kid.
Marcellus? What are you doing here?
This is my vacation home.
I come here now and then
to get away from the fountain, unwind,
and also, to eat these
discarded pizza crusts.
[chomps] Mm.
Oh. It's environmentally responsible.
You here for the crusts too?
Because forget it, I got dibs.
No.
[sniffles]
I'm here because
[sobs]
I'm not fit for society.
[sobbing]
Finally you realize it! Ugh.
It was just a matter of time.
[sniffling]
Um Look, kid, why don't you
Why don't you tell
what's going on to good old wise
and incredibly handsome
Marcellus here, huh?
[chuckles]
Well, I have a very horrible,
flaky, foul, and hideous secret.
Oh.
Do you want some pizza crusts?
Mm-mm.
Okay, Arlo, whatever it is, I can take it.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Well, I might as well just share,
from gross to gross.
I have this, um
bodily function?
I shed my skin as I grow.
That's it?
Is that not enough?
Not even my top three
grossest things ever.
Doesn't even touch
that inside-out fish Norm,
who owes me five bucks.
- Ew.
- Think I ain't seen a shed skin before?
I was in the tank.
And in the tank,
we all marinate in each other's filth.
The trick to not being ashamed
is not to hide it.
That's why I dress up like this!
You gotta love the skin you're in.
Or, not in.
You know, I think you're right.
It's not such a bad little skin, is it?
- [whirring]
- [gasps]
Ew. Get it, Tony, it's awful!
Agh! Stop blowing it towards me,
it's gross!
Alia! You ready?
We're sending it your way!
You blew it too far!
[ghostly whooshing]
- [low note resonates]
- [breathes deeply]
- I'm about to become a vessel
- [ethereal music playing]
[vacuum whirs]
[gasps]
[gasps]
[giggles] Gotcha!
Oh, no. Ooh.
[grunts, gasps]
[laughs]
[dramatic music plays]
What are you gonna do?
[gasps] Oh, hi, Arlo!
I'm gonna eliminate this ghost.
Forever!
Let's throw this baby into high gear.
[gasps]
- Mm-hm.
- [loud whirring]
Wait!
[whirring stops]
It It isn't a ghost.
It's a part of me.
My very own alligator skin,
shed just this morning.
Ah Oh
- That's yours?
- [gentle music plays]
Today I learned
I don't have to be ashamed of my body
if I love the skin I'm in.
- A wise person taught me that.
- It was me! Ah.
I'm the wise person.
Wise person alert! Right over here.
Everyone hear?
Can we make a record of this moment?
- [skin crinkles]
- [scratching]
At first, I thought
Your disgusting bodily function
was something to be ashamed of?
Mm-hmm.
Arlo, we all thought
that was an otherworldly being.
If it came from you,
it's not scary at all.
We all have weird stuff
going on with our bodies.
Like sometimes I get fleas.
Uh, I get night sweats.
Guitar calluses.
Don't look at me, honey! I'm flawless.
Right Right-right-right-right
I think what Alia
is trying to say is we're all
We're all disgusting!
All equally disgusting.
Oh, I I love how damp you are, Tony.
Ew Come on.
What'll you do with your skin?
I could use it to test out
my new line of moisturizers.
Sorry, Furlecia,
but it's spoken for.
- [gentle music plays]
- [siren wailing in distance]
- [frogs croaking]
- [animals trilling]
Well, well, well.
Hmm. Is it that time of year already?
My sweet, little, alligator boy.
- [sighs]
- [steps approaching]
- [gasps]
- [loud splash]
Huh.
Now, who have we got here?
[closing theme music plays]