Arthur -04x03 - Buster's Breathless; The Fright Stuff
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00:00Every day when you're walking down the street,
00:05Everybody that you meet has an original point of view.
00:11And I say, hey, hey, what a wonderful kind of day
00:16If you can learn to work and play and get along with each other.
00:22You've got to listen to your heart, listen to the beat,
00:25Listen to the rhythm, rhythm of the street.
00:28Open up your eyes, open up your ears,
00:30Get together and make things better by working together.
00:34It's a simple message and it comes from the heart.
00:38Oh, believe in yourself, for that's the place to start.
00:43And I say, hey, hey, what a wonderful kind of day
00:48If you can learn to work and play and get along with each other.
00:53Hey! What a wonderful kind of day.
00:56Hey! What a wonderful kind of day.
00:58Hey!
00:59Hey, T.W.!
01:03Hey!
01:16Shh! We're hunting the dangerous snake.
01:20It has big horns and it makes a terrifying sound like this.
01:25Aroo!
01:27And it's really hard to find because it blends in with the trees.
01:31Aroo! Aroo!
01:34I hear it! I hear it! This way!
01:37Aroo! Aroo!
01:40Aroo! Aroo!
01:43Aroo!
01:45T.W.! You're not camouflaged at all!
01:48It's supposed to be hard to see you.
01:50And the Aroo has to be much scarier like this.
01:54Aroo!
01:57Okay, okay.
02:00Why do I always have to be the snake?
02:03Why can't one of them be the snake for a change?
02:08There! That should do it.
02:14Once again, we're hunting the dangerous snake.
02:17It has big horns and...
02:19They know that, Buster.
02:21Aroo!
02:22I hear it! Let's go!
02:27Oh, no!
02:28T.W.! You're wearing...
02:31Poison Ivy!
02:33Poison Ivy? I thought we were playing dangerous snake!
02:37Arthur! You can't keep changing games! Wait up!
02:43Buster's breathless.
02:48It itches, Mommy! It itches!
02:51This calamine lotion will help, honey.
02:56Look at me! Everyone's going to run away from me!
02:59No, they won't, T.W.!
03:01You and Buster did!
03:03It'll go away, T.W.
03:05The important thing is not to scratch.
03:08Arthur will help distract you.
03:10I will?
03:13T.W., do you have to wear my hockey mask?
03:16If people can't see me, they won't run away.
03:22Hi, Arthur! Hi, T.W.!
03:24I'm not T.W. I'm...
03:27Otis!
03:28Why do you have a hockey mask on, uh, Otis?
03:32I don't want to get hit in the face with a puck.
03:35You got a problem with that?
03:37She's got Poison Ivy, and she thinks people will run away from her.
03:41I'm supposed to make her feel better.
03:43Oh!
03:44Hey, Arthur, remember back in the fall when I had that really bad cough?
03:49What cough?
03:50You know, the cough that started everything?
03:58Check out these old joke books I found in the basement.
04:04Hey, what did the banana say to the hippo?
04:07What?
04:08Nothing. Bananas don't talk.
04:15Buster! Are you okay?
04:18Having trouble breathing.
04:22I didn't know what was wrong with me.
04:24It felt like I was trying to breathe through a straw.
04:28So? I can breathe through a straw.
04:31A straw that's clogged. Allow me to demonstrate.
04:36See? You can imagine how hard it is to breathe through a straw full of milkshake.
04:41No, I can't. I don't have any milkshake left.
04:46I remember that day. Your mom came and took you to the doctor's right away.
04:57This is all my fault.
04:59It's not your fault.
05:02This is all my fault.
05:04How could it be your fault?
05:06It's because I showed him those dirty books. That's what made him sick.
05:09I just know it.
05:12The dust and mold from the old joke book made it hard for you to breathe because you have asthma.
05:17Asthma? Does this mean I can't read books anymore? Or tell jokes? Or laugh?
05:22Don't worry, Buster. If you take your medicine, you can do all the things you like.
05:29It didn't seem like such a big deal to me.
05:33If he gets even one little bit of dust up his nose, he can't breathe. It could happen any time.
05:39Is asthma contagious?
05:41Shh! There he is.
05:43Hi, guys.
05:44Hi, Buster. Here, let me take those for you.
05:48There you go, buddy. All clean now.
05:51Thanks.
05:54Has anyone seen my penicillin? I mean, pencil and pen?
06:00So, Buster, if your asthma goes off, do you get to leave class?
06:05Maybe. Just to get my medicine.
06:08Just to get your medicine? I bet that could take a long time.
06:15I'll see you guys in the cafeteria. I have to go to the nurse's office.
06:20Why does he have to go there?
06:22Maybe they're going to move him to a special school for sick kids.
06:25He's probably faking it to go home early.
06:29See? I knew he was faking it. He's just playing the kazoo.
06:33That's his inhaler. He's taking medicine to help him breathe.
06:39What are you guys doing here?
06:42You found my glasses! We were just looking for them.
06:46Now we can all go to lunch.
06:52Watch out, Buster.
06:55Here you go. It's safe now.
07:02I can't breathe. Tell the nurse I think I have plasma.
07:07Don't you mean asthma, Binky?
07:10Stupid word. Too many consonants.
07:14Stupid word. Too many consonants all smushed together.
07:24Why did you do that? You had me out.
07:27It was an accident.
07:29No, it wasn't. I saw you drop the ball on purpose.
07:33What's wrong, Francine? Are you okay?
07:36Stay away! Stay away!
07:44Ow!
07:45Gotcha!
07:51Guess what? I'm cured.
07:53Really? Are you sure?
07:55Sure I'm sure. Could I do this if I had asthma?
08:01Ah, math.
08:03But that's not an old book.
08:05Yeah, but it must have some dust in it. I've never opened it.
08:08So you don't have to use that kazoo anymore?
08:11Nope.
08:12Well, I'm glad that's over. Now I don't have to worry about catching asthma.
08:19What is it, Buster?
08:21It's Boston Cream Pie today. If we don't hurry, it'll all be gone.
08:26Yeah, pie. Let's get that pie.
08:36Look out! Buster! Over here!
08:39Buster, I'm open!
08:45Hooray!
08:48That's one to nothing, Binky.
08:52Are you okay, Buster? Maybe I should go get the nurse.
08:57I'm fine. Just need a glass of water. That's all.
09:06That's much better.
09:08It's important to take your medicine, Buster. Why'd you skip your appointment?
09:13I don't know. I didn't want my friends to know about it.
09:16They've been treating me really weird.
09:18Do you think maybe they just don't understand?
09:21Maybe. Maybe that's it.
09:28And that's an example of static electricity. Thank you.
09:34My science report is about asthma.
09:37But first, I need you to imagine that you're very, very small.
09:43You're not imagining it. I really want you to imagine it.
09:57Very good. Now I want you all up my nose on the double.
10:03Hooray!
10:14Watch your step. No flash photography, please.
10:17I don't think I've ever been in anyone's lungs before.
10:21Help! I'm stuck in some pie!
10:24Oh, no! George went down the wrong way! He's in my stomach!
10:34Yeah! Custard pie!
10:37Stick with the group, George. You could get lost in here.
10:43Is this where the asthma is? Is it a giant bug that'll attack us?
10:47No, no. Asthma's just a word for what happens to my lungs when I breathe in dust or mold.
10:53Like this.
10:55See? The walls are getting smaller.
10:58This is when I usually start to cough.
11:01Hold on!
11:15Boy, he sure is a good storyteller. That felt so real.
11:22And asthma is not contagious.
11:26Any questions?
11:29Are you trying to tell us something?
11:32Yeah. I'm still the same old buster. I just have asthma.
11:36Like I have big ears.
11:38Same old buster, big ears?
11:41I'm gonna ace this test.
11:46Once they understood it, it wasn't such a big deal anymore.
11:50Hey, I bet if someone's afraid of my poison ivy, I should just explain it.
11:56Hey, you're not Otis. You're D.W.
12:00Sorry I had to fool you.
12:02Look, Tommy. D.W.'s got the chicken boxes.
12:06No, I don't. It's just poison ivy. It's no big deal.
12:09Don't come any closer. We'll catch it.
12:12No, you won't. I'll tell you all about it. Then you'll understand.
12:16No!
12:18Come back here and let me make you smarter.
12:21I got it from a friend, and it'll be gone in a couple of days.
12:24And the white stuff's called calcline lotion.
12:27Hey, wait up! There's more!
12:41Gotcha! Didn't I?
12:44I love practical jokes.
12:46You never know when one's going to sneak up on you.
12:50Who might be behind it?
13:06See what I mean?
13:12The fright stuff.
13:21Mm-mm. Spaghetti.
13:25Mom! Worms! Yuck!
13:30They aren't real, Brain. They're jelly worms.
13:40Oops! I forgot my science book.
13:44That's funny. Something's stuck to it.
13:47Get it off! Get it off!
13:50Why? It's just a toy.
13:53What's this?
14:01Hey!
14:06Who are you?
14:12So someone's scaring you guys with a few practical jokes. So what?
14:16So what?
14:18So it's working, that's what.
14:20And the mystery joker left these notes telling us to meet him here.
14:24What makes you think it's a hymn? Maybe it's an it.
14:27F-F-F-Francine!
14:29Buster, calm down. You're acting like you just saw a...
14:33Monster!
14:40Wow! You guys should have seen the looks on your faces!
14:44What's this all about?
14:46It's about my party, silly.
14:48What party?
14:50The scary costume party I'm having in honor of the new Scare Your Pants Off book.
14:54House of the Jack-O-Lantern? Cool!
14:57And the author, E.A. Depeaux, is going to come and read it to us.
15:01After all, she was Daddy's favorite teacher, Miss McWord.
15:05And he likes her books as much as we do.
15:07And after what you did to me on April Fool's Day...
15:11You guys are going to be my extra-special guests.
15:20Shhh!
15:22But, but, but...
15:24She sounds like a motorboat.
15:32Extra-special guests, huh? Cool!
15:35So where is this party?
15:37Castle Manor. Daddy bought it to make it into an antique car museum.
15:41Castle Manor?
15:43Hasn't that place been empty for over 50 years?
15:46Yeah. Isn't it supposed to be, um, you know...
15:50Haunted? That's why it's perfect for a Scare Your Pants Off party.
15:55Well, you don't have to come if you're so afraid.
15:59Really? I mean, we're not afraid of anything, right guys?
16:04Oh, come on! We get talked into.
16:07We're guys.
16:09We'll see about that.
16:16The older I get, the more I think that there's nothing scarier than girls.
16:26If the girls could scare us that bad at school, how are we going to make it through their party?
16:30We won't. Unless we beat them to the scare.
16:34How?
16:36Easy. We know those books better than anyone.
16:39We can come up with something ten times scarier than they can.
16:42Yeah, like in The Thing at the Head of the Class.
16:46Or It Came from Under the Soap Dish.
16:49How about something really scary, like Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart?
17:01Oh!
17:08No candy!
17:15Nah, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is scarier.
17:21Ah!
17:24Greetings, friends.
17:27Friends? Darn pleased to meet you.
17:30Ah!
17:37It's perfect. All we need is a real UFO, two real aliens, and...
17:43Oh, yeah. I'm sure we'll make it.
17:48Oh, yeah. On second thought...
17:51What about a headless horse guy, like in The Legend of Creepy Hollow?
17:56You mean Sleepy Hollow.
17:58Whatever.
18:00It's the headless horse guy! Run!
18:10Ah!
18:12Ow!
18:15Where did you learn to be a horse guy?
18:18Me? I'm headless. I'm not supposed to see.
18:23No, no, no. This is what we do.
18:32Man, that is good.
18:35Yeah. Maybe this party won't be so bad after all.
18:43Okay. Turn off the lights.
18:54How'd you do that?
18:56They're balloons, painted with glow-in-the-dark colors.
18:59Just like the ghost rain in the book. Cool, huh?
19:03Are we gonna scare their pants off?
19:07Hey, don't do that.
19:09I didn't.
19:12Come on. I better tell Daddy that the lights in here need fixing.
19:28Guys, I think we're gonna scare their pants off.
19:32Man, I'm gonna be part of the best practical joke in history.
19:43Sorry, thank you.
19:48When are we gonna scare them?
19:51Later, after Ms. McWord's reading.
19:58Everyone, please take your seats.
20:02And may I introduce our ghost of a host, Ms. McWord.
20:08Thanks for coming, Ms. McWord. I know it's going to be fun.
20:12Muffy, I think so, too.
20:15It's too crowded. We can't find any place to set up the scare.
20:19I found the perfect spot. The upstairs library. Go on up.
20:24Yeah!
20:26Wait, where's Binky?
20:28We thought he was with you.
20:32Binky, where have you been? The guys are upstairs in the library.
20:37You can get a drink later. Get going.
20:43Arthur, you're going to miss the story.
20:47I was looking for you.
20:50What for?
20:52I heard a weird noise upstairs.
20:54You did? Where?
20:56In the library. Come on, I'll show you.
21:00He's gonna walk right into our prank. It's too perfect.
21:15I'm sure it was in here.
21:20Muffy, what are you waiting for?
21:23I can't find it.
21:25Like I said, I'm sure it was in here.
21:39Pretty cool prank, huh?
21:41That was mean.
21:43Yeah, and worse than that, you stole our prank.
21:46What? No, I didn't.
21:49Guys, did you steal their prank?
21:53Binky? Brain? Buster?
21:57Here we are.
21:59We have to get them to go in the playroom.
22:02Yeah, the library was locked. We set up in the playroom.
22:06What are you talking about? It's not locked. It worked perfectly.
22:10We didn't do it.
22:12There's a bunch of cool balloons in there. A neat old tape recorder, too.
22:17Did you put them in there?
22:20Okay, Binky, what's going on?
22:24Sorry I'm late, but I walked into the refrigerator and broke my pumpkin.
22:28Can I be a Cyclops instead?
22:31Binky, if you just got here, then who is...
22:44A real-life ghost! Upstairs!
22:47Muffy, this isn't the time or place for your silly pranks.
22:51It's not a prank, sir.
22:53No, we were upstairs pulling a prank on the girls.
22:56And we were pulling a prank on the boys.
22:58Muffy, what have I told you about playing pranks on people?
23:03That it's mean-spirited and always comes back to haunt you.
23:07Because when pranks get out of hand, someone could get hurt.
23:11And their feelings are sure to get hurt.
23:14The boy asked me to help them. I just wanted to go to the party.
23:18There are better ways to have fun.
23:21We're sorry, but there really was a...
23:23No more! Go have fun!
23:27Boy, am I ever done with pranks. I don't care how much you prank me.
23:32I'm not pranking anyone. Ever.
23:36Hey, cool costume.
23:39Thanks. Yours is cool, too.
23:44Oops!