Arthur - 03x01 - Buster's Back; The Ballad of Buster Baxter
Arthur - 03x01 - Buster's Back; The Ballad of Buster Baxter
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00:00Every day when you're walking down the street Everybody that you meet Has an original point of view
00:11And I say, hey, hey, what a wonderful kind of day If you could learn to work and play And get along with each other
00:23You got to listen to your heart, listen to the beat Listen to the rhythm, rhythm of the street
00:28Open up your eyes, open up your ears Get together and make things better by working together
00:35It's a simple message, and it comes from the heart Oh, believe in yourself, for that's the place to start
00:44And I say, hey, hey, what a wonderful kind of day If you could learn to work and play And get along with each other
00:54Hey! What a wonderful kind of day Hey! What a wonderful kind of day Hey!
01:00Hey, D.W.!
01:03Hey!
01:04Whoa!
01:13Mission Control to Explorer 17. Mission Control to Explorer 17.
01:19This is Explorer 17. Hi, Arthur.
01:22Hi, Buster. How was Jupiter?
01:24It was gaseous. Wait till you see my pictures.
01:27Let's get together later and look at them at the Sugar Bowl. It'll be just like old times.
01:34Whoa!
01:55Hey, Buster! Welcome back. I have our bikes here ready to go.
01:59Ah, it's great to come home to my little town.
02:05Wow, this town's changed.
02:12No, it's the same. You've changed.
02:16Gee, you think it's those cosmic rays I went through?
02:20I don't think this is going to be just like old times.
02:26Buster's back!
02:35Come on, Kate. Eat your breakfast.
02:44I had the worst nightmare. Buster went into outer space and came back completely changed.
02:50Who's Bumster?
02:52Mom, make her stop. She knows who Buster is.
02:55More eating and less arguing, please. I'm trying to crack the secret of fried liver paste.
03:01Yuck!
03:05I got it!
03:07Hello?
03:09Yeah?
03:11Yeah?
03:13Yeah!
03:16Arthur? Are you okay?
03:19Arthur? Hello? Hello?
03:23Buster's coming home! That was his mom. He's coming home today!
03:27I've never seen him so happy.
03:30Buster must be bringing dessert.
03:33Oh, my God!
03:36Woo-hoo!
03:39Buster's... coming... home!
03:49Buster's coming home!
03:51What?
03:53Strike three!
03:55What?
04:04Buster? Pointing at a building?
04:08Buster's... coming... home!
04:13Hello? Arthur? Hello? Are you there?
04:17Buster's coming home!
04:24Make sure there's plenty of food because Buster eats a lot.
04:28I know, I know.
04:34Buster's going to love this cake. How many kids get to eat their own face?
04:43What are you hiding from now?
04:46I'm looking for Buster's favorite exciting, cool game so he can play as soon as he gets here.
04:55Got it!
04:57Checkers? Checkers is your most exciting, cool game?
05:00I don't even hear you.
05:03You don't even know if he likes checkers anymore or if he'll even want to be your friend anymore.
05:09I mean, he's been all around the world and you've been in your room.
05:20Do you think Buster might not want to be friends anymore because I'm not as exciting as Wisconsin?
05:25It's possible. My cousin went to Kentucky for a summer and came back with an accent.
05:30It's like she came back a different person.
05:38Pip-pip, tally-ho, crumpets!
05:43People change when they add to their knowledge. Would you want to go back to playing with baby toys?
05:48No.
05:51Buongiorno, Arturo.
05:54Arrivederci, Arturo.
06:01Hi. Uh, bye.
06:07You must look at this logically. We'll check your horoscope.
06:11You will change jobs.
06:14I don't have a job.
06:17Okay, how about Buster's, then?
06:20Big change is in store.
06:22You feel like a new person.
06:25Oh, no!
06:37Howdy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!
06:43Howdy, howdy, howdy!
06:56No time for checkers. We're training for the Grand Nationals.
07:01Whoa!
07:06This can't happen, can it? Can Buster have changed that much?
07:10Sure, he did a lot of new, exciting things, but I did stuff that was just as good.
07:22The origin of bionic bunny. Now I've seen it an even hundred times.
07:28Wow!
07:41What if Buster thinks I'm boring?
07:44I called the airport. Buster's plane will arrive in two hours.
07:49Two hours? I only have a few minutes.
07:52Buster's plane will arrive in two hours.
07:55Two hours? I only have two hours to get ready for the new Buster.
07:59And a book on mountain climbing, and Rome, and China, and Wisconsin.
08:05I forgot the Sahara Desert.
08:08Thank you, Miss Turner.
08:11China...
08:15The Alps...
08:18Antarctic penguins...
08:23Oh, no! Time's up! Buster will be home right now!
08:28Look at that clock. Could be another world's record for the champ.
08:32And don't forget, in the All-Canada Knitting Finals,
08:35Kurkurillo knit an entire flag and a dozen tube socks in under 50 minutes.
08:40Uh-oh. Looks like trouble. The champ has just jabbed himself.
08:44I see blood. If the garment is stained, he loses big points.
08:50Mom, did Buster call?
08:53No, honey.
09:00I hope I know enough stuff now. I'm too nervous to read anymore.
09:09He's not going to call. DW is right. He doesn't want to talk to me anymore.
09:20I'm sure Buster will call you as soon as he can.
09:24Yeah, right. Sure, whatever.
09:33Let's play checkers!
09:36Checkers? I will not fritter away valuable time on such triviality.
09:42If checkers is your idea of an exciting game, perhaps you need a new friend.
09:48I went around the whole wide world, you know.
09:55Aren't you going to play an exciting game of checkers with Buster?
09:59Buster! And I have other friends, you know.
10:03If he doesn't want to come over, fine. I don't need him to have fun.
10:07There's Brain and Francine and Muffy.
10:10Like flying in a plane makes you a big man or something.
10:13How interesting can some old ruins be anyway?
10:16It was really interesting.
10:18Hi.
10:19Hi!
10:20Hi, Buster!
10:22Hi, P.W.
10:23You're silly.
10:25I was just organizing your photos.
10:28Are you organizing these tissues and old gum, too?
10:33Go away!
10:34I brought some stuff for you guys. It's downstairs.
10:37Presents!
10:39Did you see the famous white cliffs of Dover in England?
10:42Yeah, sure. They were white, all right.
10:46Wow! Is this what doctors give shots with in another country?
10:50No, that's...
10:51That's the famous Eiffel Tower. It's in Paris, France.
10:54It's 980 feet tall, right?
10:56I guess. I rode on the top of a double-decker in London.
11:00In England, a truck is called a lorry, and the trunk of your car is the boot, right?
11:04I think so.
11:06There was one really exciting thing I wanted to do the whole time I was away.
11:10To climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, located in the Himalayas, 8,846 meters tall?
11:15No. Something exciting.
11:17To walk on the Great Wall of China, located in... China!
11:20No, I...
11:21To ride a mule down the Grand Canyon, a gorge in northwestern Arizona,
11:24cut by the Colorado River over a period of two million years?
11:27No, no, no, no. Something exciting.
11:31I wanted to play checkers with you, just like old times.
11:35Really?
11:37I would have come over hours ago, but I fell asleep on the ride home and my mom didn't wake me up.
11:43Oh, I thought maybe you didn't feel like coming over.
11:46What? And miss this?
11:50Did you read all those?
11:52I just started.
11:54I can't believe you think checkers is exciting!
11:57Yeah.
11:58Are you sure you went all around the whole wide world?
12:01I thought it was exciting before I went around the world.
12:05Yeah, would you think, D.W., he was going to be all different now?
12:09You know, it was worth coming back just for this.
12:14Yay!
12:15I'm glad you still like checkers.
12:18I was afraid you might have changed while I was gone.
12:21After this game, want some cake? My dad made it!
12:24Yeah, but only if we can play another game of checkers after that.
12:27Sure!
12:35This is the story about the face on the cake
12:41It belongs to Buster Baxter
12:45Baby boy, bunny Buster Baxter was born eight years ago
12:50At first all he did was cry and eat and eat and eat and grow, eat and grow
12:55That's all he did
12:57He met Arthur, they became friends
13:01It was an historic day
13:03They always had lots of fun, they liked to read and play
13:08Hey!
13:09Then one day Buster found out he was gonna go
13:13Gonna go bye-bye
13:16Goodbye, Arthur!
13:17He went around the world a couple of times
13:22We thought he'd left the show
13:26Buster Baxter went away, then he came back
13:31Buster Baxter, this is what he found
13:39It looks just like I never left!
13:44The Ballad of Buster Baxter
13:47Hey!
13:49Mmm, great cake!
13:51I'm the only kid I know who got to eat his own face
13:54That's exactly what I said!
13:56Ah, it sure feels good to be back
13:59I was afraid things would have changed around here while I was gone
14:02Hey Buster, glad you're back
14:04I brought the scoreboard, Arthur
14:06Huh?
14:07While you were gone we started a checker championship
14:09Best of 5,000 games
14:11So far it's a tie
14:12We're scheduled to finish today
14:14Oh, I forgot
14:15Go ahead, I'll watch
14:17There's only 70 games left
14:20But you just came home
14:22There must be a way we can all play
14:24Arthur didn't want to leave Buster out of that
14:27He can be proud
14:29But when you're playing checkers
14:31It frees a crowd
14:33You can't move that black piece
14:35That's my black piece
14:36No, it's my black piece
14:38No, that one is mine and that one is yours
14:41You're jumping your own piece with my piece
14:43It's easy
14:45Brain is red and his pieces go this way
14:48I'm black and I go that way
14:50Buster, you have some red pieces and some black
14:53A penny, a stamp, and the Monopoly shoot
14:56You go across the board that way
14:58Wait, that's...
15:00Oh, my brain hurts
15:02Maybe I should just watch
15:04Thanks, Buster
15:05It's only because this is for the championship
15:08It's okay
15:09It's just nice to be back with my friends again
15:12What'd you say?
15:14This is the next day
15:16That's all I have to say
15:18Hey!
15:19Hey, Arthur
15:20Want to come over and see my travel slides?
15:22Oh, hi Brain
15:24What are you guys doing?
15:25Writing a thrilling adventure book
15:27Like our book?
15:28Sort of the same book
15:30But not exactly like our book
15:32You and the brain are writing our book?
15:37After them!
15:39We're a perfect team, Friar Brain
15:42I was able to rescue you using a simple mathematical formula
15:46Allow me to explain
15:48This is a right triangle
15:50Therefore, the angle of inclination and velocity
15:52of the rescue rope's swing were easy to determine
15:55I'll get you yet!
16:00You changed everything
16:02Because some of your situations were a tad unbelievable
16:05But it was exciting
16:07Now it's logical and exciting
16:09Buster, you weren't around
16:11You can help now
16:13We'll all do it
16:14I'll do a scene where pirates ride an Apatosaurus to town
16:18and crush buildings
16:20Um, no
16:21Dinosaurs and pirates never coexisted
16:24Now they ride horses
16:28Horses don't crush buildings
16:30They can crush flowers
16:44Carpet of Doom!
16:46Wow, I want to see that
16:48I'll call Arthur
16:49Hey, it's Buster
16:50You guys went to see Carpet of Doom without me?
16:53We didn't go to
16:54We forgot to call you
16:56Sorry
16:57I was about to say
16:59We didn't go to Carpet of Doom
17:02Come on
17:03I know Arthur wouldn't go to a Cresplane
17:06The Merry Magician movie
17:10You always said you hated Cresplane
17:13He's so bleh
17:15I used to kind of not like Cresplane
17:17but Francine loaned me all the tapes
17:19and I caught Cresplamania
17:24Cresplamania, it's insania
17:26How could Arthur catch Cresplamania?
17:30We have to go, honey
17:32Bye
17:34Cresplamania, it's insania
17:37How could Buster not catch Cresplamania?
17:40Did you hear that?
17:42He thinks he's so above Cresplane
17:45I think going away turned Buster into an S.N.O.B.
17:49No
17:50You don't think
17:51No
17:54Really?
17:56He thinks he's better than us
17:58because he went to other countries
18:00where they eat snails and stuff
18:02Who wants to trade for a peanut butter
18:04and, uh, more peanut butter?
18:06You wouldn't like it
18:08No snails
18:11Life can be tough as nails
18:14when your friends think you're a guy
18:17who likes to eat snails
18:24The kids forgot they learned to dance
18:27when Buster wasn't around
18:29But boy, did Buster know it
18:31He couldn't do-si-do
18:33He decided to get out
18:35before he knocked everybody down
18:37Change partners!
18:39Promenade!
18:41Quack like a duck
18:43Look, he thinks he's too good for square dancing, too
18:51Buster was feeling more left out
18:55with every passing day
18:58even when he found something cool
19:02Arthur, I found a weird key
19:04Maybe it's the key to the city
19:06or a sports car
19:08When we find out, we can split it 50-50
19:10That belongs to Mr. Morris
19:12You better put it back
19:14Someone else had found it first
19:17when he was away
19:24Crush Blaine Club meeting at Muffy's house
19:26Don't be late!
19:27You want to come to the Crush Blaine Club?
19:30No thanks
19:32Go ahead
19:34Well, see ya
19:37Hmph!
19:43When my family used to travel a lot
19:46I always felt out of place when I came home
19:49Yeah? That's exactly how I feel
19:51Kids think you're weird
19:53if you accidentally use French words
19:55like, c'est la vie
19:57I was only in France a week
20:00A week? I was only there a day
20:02You must be an expert
20:04I didn't learn many words
20:06and I didn't eat any snails
20:08But I watched TV
20:10Voici le Lapin Bionic
20:12création combinée des techniques scientifiques de pointe
20:15et d'un élevage d'une grande rigueur
20:17They're the same shows, but in French
20:20You know how Bionic Bunny always says
20:23I don't know much about TV
20:25Oh, you want to play checkers?
20:27I don't like checkers
20:29See ya!
20:34I wish Buster were here
20:36Why?
20:37The things we do aren't exciting enough for him
20:39He's changed
20:40He didn't even want to write a book with me and Arthur
20:43Because it had no snails in it
20:45Face it, we have nothing in common with Buster anymore
20:48Maybe we do
20:50We're still his friends
20:51If he likes new stuff, maybe we'd like it too
20:54I never thought of that
20:56Why don't we throw a party and watch his travel slides?
20:59Then we'll see what he saw
21:01and at least we'll have that in common
21:03Yeah!
21:06Whoa!
21:08Great idea, Arthur! This is fun!
21:10Didn't you notice, Francine?
21:12Didn't I notice what?
21:14Buster isn't here!
21:19No
21:20Well, that's it
21:21He obviously doesn't want to be our friend anymore
21:24She must be right
21:26Why else wouldn't he come to the party?
21:28He's a sad, sad bunny
21:31A sad, sad bunny
21:33TV isn't funny when you're a sad, sad bunny
21:38Hey! That's not very sad music
21:43He's a sad, sad bunny
21:47A sad, sad, sad, sad bunny
21:59I can't believe he didn't come
22:01What did he say when you invited him?
22:03I didn't invite him, Francine invited him
22:05I didn't invite him, Muffy invited him
22:07I thought Brain invited him
22:09Weighing the facts using elementary deduction,
22:12I conclude that no one invited Buster to this party
22:16You think that's why he's not here?
22:26Buster Baxter and his friends got a brand new start
22:30It was just like they'd never been apart
22:41That looks so cool
22:46Buster, pass the popcorn
22:51I thought it was for me
22:53You ate all that popcorn?
22:55I'm glad we're having fun again
22:57I was starting to think aliens had replaced you all
23:00with cyborg twins programmed to make me miserable
23:03He's the same old Buster
23:07That's how it happened, you can see
23:10To Buster and the kids in Elwood City
23:15Now they know when you're close friends
23:18You can always get back together again
23:25So how long has the singing guy been around?
23:28What? I thought he came here with you
23:44That was weird
23:46Yeah
23:47Mom, there's a singing moose in front of the house
23:55And I say, hey!
23:58What a wonderful kind of day
24:00If you learn to work and play
24:03And get along with each other
24:06You got to listen to your heart
24:08Listen to the beat
24:10Listen to the rhythm
24:11The rhythm of the street
24:13It's a simple message
24:15And it comes from the heart
24:18Believe in yourself
24:20For that's the place to start
24:23And I say, hey!
24:25What a wonderful kind of day
24:27If you learn to work and play
24:30And get along with each other
24:33What a wonderful kind of day
24:35What a wonderful kind of day