"Oskar Can't Read?" is an episode in the Hey Arnold! TV Series.
Synopsis[]
Oskar is fed up with the troubles of being illiterate, and with Arnold's help, learns how to read.
Plot[]
During dinner, Ernie asks Oskar to pass the salt, but he passes the pepper instead. The mailman asks Oskar to sign the paper but he makes up an excuse saying he’s busy. Grandpa asks Oskar to read the recipe while he cooks, Oskar says the onion (which is far from him) prevents him from seeing the words.
Oskar holds the fishbowl water and asks Arnold to help him open this aspirin. That when Arnold realizes that Oskar is illiterate and Oskar sadly admit this but believe he’s fine being illiterate. Unfortunately, Ernie and Mr. Hyunh heard the conversation and began teasing Oskar for being illiterate. Ernie makes a bet of twenty bucks that Oskar can’t learn to read at the end of the month, and Mr. Hyunh makes a bet of fifty bucks.
Arnold teachers Oskar to read. Oskar asks his wife to fill out the spelling worksheet for him. Oskar gives some chocolate to coerce Chocolate Boy to read A Tale of Two Cities for him until he can memorize it. Oskar reads A Tale of Two Cities in front of the boarders. Ernie switches the books to War and Peace and demands Oskar to read it. Oskar recites the same passage he memorized, exposing his cheating ways. Arnold and his neighbors are disgusted with Oskar's lies. A kid asks Oskar to read the map for him but Oskar can’t do it. Oskar walks on the street sadly and remembers how everybody was disgusted at him for cheating and inability to read.
Oskar asks Arnold to teach him to read. At first, Arnold wasn’t sure at first since Oskar didn’t take it seriously last time, but Oskar plead on how if he learn to read he can actually help people and not make excuses, Arnold agreed to help him. Over time, Oskar actually makes effort to learn how to read, and since Arnold have to go school, he sent Oskar to the library for his lessons. At the library, Oskar had trouble reading some books until he reads a children's book called Pet the Kitty for the kids at the library. Arnold gives Oskar a map and challenges him to use the map to get back to the boarding house. Oskar gets lost in the subway and he sits down and sees a kitty resembling the one from the book he just read and takes it with him. Oskar recalls that since he can read that children's book, then he has the ability to find his way home. Oskar returns home and surprises the other boarders that he can now read well. The episode then ends with all the boarders shouting at Oskar as he pets the kitty so they can get some sleep.
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