"Buenas Noches, Vicita"
The episode proper begins with Vicita reciting a Spanish counting-out rhyme titled "Pata Sucia"Translation to pick which one of her stuffed animals to bring to bed with her, and ends up with her stuffed llama, Raulito. In bed, Vicita's papa realizes that her favorite bedtime storybook, The Very Magic Mango Tree, is missing. Vicita and her parents search the house and the family car for the book, but are unable to find it. Vicita's parents stay up all night reading to her several other storybooks, but none of them help her fall asleep. Come sunrise, Vicita's parents have fallen asleep.
At preschool that day, Vicita is too tired to play with D.W. due to Sleep Deprivation and tells her about the missing storybook and how she can't sleep without it. D.W. says she knows someone who can help, and the two girls go to Brain's house, where he shows them a pie chart depicting the sleep cycle. Vicita thinks that a "sleep cycle" is a bicycle you ride while asleep and points out how dangerous that sounds. D.W. calls out Brain for frightening Vicita, telling him he was supposed to bore her to sleep instead, and shoves him out of the room. On the preschool playground, the Tibbles tell Vicita that to fall asleep, she should do what they do: Timmy sings Tommy a lullaby while Tommy jumps on his bed, after which Timmy chases him all around their house. When D.W. points out that lullabies are supposed to make one fall asleep, Tommy responds that he and Timmy do fall asleep... once they've ran out of energy from the jumping and running.
Having dismissed the Tibbles' advice, D.W. and Vicita go to Buster for help next, who tries to hypnotize Vicita into falling asleep, but ends up accidentally doing so to himself instead. When Vicita again laments the loss of The Very Magic Mango Tree, D.W. asks her what the book looked like. She starts describing the book's pictures and story, making D.W. realize that Vicita knows the book by heart and giving her the idea to create a "do-it-yourself" replica of the book for Vicita. Arthur, D.W., and Vicita immediately start working on the book.
That night, Vicita's papa reads the finished replacement book to her, which tells the story of a young boy named Uaica who runs into the jungle to escape from a Gang of Bullies and falls asleep in a tree after eating a mango, having a dream about a creature named Jaguarman who teaches him the ways of the jaguar, causing him to no longer be teased by the bullies when he wakes up. After the story is finished, Vicita appears to fall asleep, but after her father leaves her bedroom, Vicita wakes up when she realizes she remembered the story wrong, as it was supposed to end with Uaica climbing down the tree and falling asleep underneath it instead of in it, and worries that he may fall if left up there. Bringing Raulito with her, she goes to her parents' bedroom to ask her papa for help but sees that he and mama are already asleep. Not wanting to wake them up, Vicita goes back to bed and decides that she and Raulito will have to find a way to get Uaica down from the tree by themselves, after which she falls asleep.
Vicita and dreams that she, now wearing an Adventurer Outfit, and Raulito (who is a live Talking Animal in the dream, although still the size of a toy) are in the jungle from The Very Magic Mango Tree. The two immediately set out to search for the mango tree that Uaica is in, and ask a sloth for directions. Unfortunately, due to the sloth's slowness, Vicita and Raulito think that the sloth is pointing to the left when in fact he was in the process of moving his arm to point to the right, causing them to take the wrong turn and end up at another magic mango tree that keeps people awake, where they come across D.W. dressed like a dancer and dancing with a caiman, a monkey, a snake, and a macaw. When D.W. sees Vicita, she offers her a mango and tells her that the place is "kid heaven", as no one ever sleeps there, but Vicita declines the mango and tells D.W. that she and Raulito have to get to the sleeping mango tree before Uaica falls from it. In response to this, the macaw offers to take them to it. Although Raulito is reluctant since, according to him, llamas don't like to fly, Vicita forces him to get on anyway, as they are running out of time to save Uaica. The macaw flies the two across the jungle and lands by a river, telling her passengers that the sleep tree is near where the river forks.
Shortly after Vicita and Raulito get off the macaw's back, Raulito is taken and nearly eaten by a caiman that emerges from the river, but Vicita chases after it and manages to save Raulito in the nick of time, also finding a mango in the process. The two then hear a voice calling for help from above, which turns out to belong to Uaica; they've found the sleep tree. Vicita tells Uaica to climb down and eat the mango, as if he doesn't, she may never be able to sleep again. However, Uaica admits that he can't because he's afraid of heights. When Vicita questions how he got up in the tree in the first place if that's the case, he responds that he doesn't know, but guesses that he didn't look down on his way up. Raulito encourages Uaica by pointing out that he's afraid of heights too, along with all non-stuffed animals, but that he faced both of those fears simultaneously by flying on a macaw to reach Uaica, successfully giving Uaica the courage to climb down. When Vicita offers Uaica the mango, he reveals he doesn't actually like mangos and asks her if she's got any magic papayas instead, but Raulito yells at him to eat the mango, which he reluctantly does. Uaica falls asleep along with the animals D.W. was dancing with earlier. Vicita rejoices at the successful mission, but then realizes that Raulito is missing and yells out his name, waking everyone up.
Vicita wakes up from her dream and it's now morning. She panics over the loss of Raulito and calls for her papa. Mr. Molina comes to ask her what's wrong, to which Vicita explains she's lost Raulito. Mr. Molina then looks behind her pillow, where he finds not only Raulito, but also the original copy of The Very Magic Mango Tree. He offers to read it to Vicita that night, but she happily declines the offer, saying that the story is already in her head, "right, Raulito?". After Vicita and Mr. Molina leave, Raulito winks at the camera.
Tropes:
- Adventurer Outfit: In Vicita's Dream Sequence, she is clad in a full explorer's outfit as she traverses the jungle in search of Uaica and the sleep tree.
- Animals Not to Scale: In Vicita's Dream Sequence, her stuffed llama Raulito becomes a fully animate Talking Animal, but still remains the size of a plush toy.
- Are We There Yet?: When Raulito and Vicita are flying on a macaw's back, Raulito fearfully asks, "Are we there yet?" due to his fear of heights.
- Aside Glance: The episode ends with Vicita's stuffed llama Raulito winking at the camera, revealing that he is alive even outside of Vicita's dream.
- Distressed Dude: In Vicita's Dream Sequence, the young boy Uaica is stuck in a tree, and her and her stuffed llama, Raulito, must get him down before he falls and hurts himself.
- Does Not Like Spam: When Vicita offers Uaica the sleep mango, he reveals that he doesn't actually like mangos, and asks Vicita if she's got any magic papayas. Raulito is having none of it, and yells at him to eat the mango anyway.
- Dream Sequence: The latter half of the episode consists entirely of one until the very end, with Vicita dreaming of herself and Raulito (who becomes a fully animate Talking Animal in the dream) searching for Uaica and the sleep tree in the jungle.
- Face Your Fears: Raulito is afraid of both heights and all non-stuffed animals, but in Vicita's Dream Sequence, he ends up facing both of those fears simultaneously when he and Vicita fly on a macaw to reach Uaica. Raulito uses his own experience to encourage Uaica to face his own fear of heights and climb down the sleep tree.
- Hypno Pendulum: Buster tries to hypnotize Vicita into falling asleep by swinging a pendulum in front of her face, but ends up making himself fall asleep instead.
- Insomnia Episode: The episode's premise is that Vicita can't sleep without her favorite storybook The Very Magic Mango Tree, which has gone missing. It is implied that her parents suffer from Sleep Deprivation as well due to staying up all night reading her a bunch of other storybooks in an unsuccessful attempt to make her fall asleep; Mrs. Molina is later seen taking a nap on a bench on the Elwood Community Preschool playground.
- Living Toys: In Vicita's Dream Sequence, Vicita's stuffed llama, Raulito, becomes a fully animate Talking Animal, although he still remains the size of a toy. Bizarrely, at the end of the episode, he is revealed to be alive for real as well when he gives the audience an Aside Glance after Vicita wakes up from her dream.
- Loyal Animal Companion: In Vicita's Dream Sequence, her stuffed llama Raulito comes to life and accompanies her on her quest to find Uaica and the sleep tree.
- Magic Realism: Despite Arthur being a show that's mostly grounded in reality, the episode ends with Raulito the stuffed llama revealing himself to be a Living Toy with an Aside Glance.
- Say My Name: At the end of her Dream Sequence, Vicita yells out Raulito's name when she realizes he's gone missing.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode begins with Vicita reciting "Pata Sucia"Translation, a Spanish counting-out rhyme, to pick which one of her stuffed animals to bring to bed.
- Uaica is the protagonist of Vicita's favorite bedtime story, The Very Magic Mango Tree. The story itself is also based on The Sleep Tree, a legend told by Amazonian Indians, and features the sleep tree itself.
- Goldilocks is one of the bedtime stories Vicita's papa reads to her when The Very Magic Mango Tree goes missing.
- The episode has a Dream Sequence where a little Hispanic girl (Vicita) goes on an adventure in the jungle with a Talking Animal companion and no adult supervision, and another animal steals from her at one point (a caiman who takes and almost eats Raulito). Sound familiar?
- Show Within a Show: Or Book Within a Show, in this case. The Very Magic Mango Tree is a fictional storybook that is Vicita's favorite bedtime story.
- Sluggish Sloths: Vicita asks a sloth for directions to the sleep tree. Unfortunately, the sloth is so slow in his movements that Vicita mistakes the motion of it moving its arm to point to the right as it pointing to the left, resulting in her going in the wrong direction.
- Talking Animal: In Vicita' Dream Sequence, her stuffed llama Raulito is fully animate and can speak. The same dream also features a talking sloth and macaw.
- Tempting Fate: When Vicita and Raulito flight on a macaw's back ends, Raulito (who is afraid of heights and non-stuffed animals) assumes that the worst part of their quest must be over. Right after, he is captured and almost eaten by a caiman.
- Uncertain Doom: Vicita's Dream Sequence ends with her realizing that Raulito is missing. While it's never revealed where he went or what happened to him in the dream, the implication is that he was eaten by one of the wild animals in the jungle.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Raulito is afraid of both heights and non-stuffed animals, but ends up facing both of these fears to help Uaica.
"Prunella Packs It In"
Prunella becomes worried about not being able to get into a good college when she's older and takes up several extracurricular activities to prevent that from happening.
