I Owe You One Arthur

# Every day you walk down the street Everybody that you meet

# Has an original point of view

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day We can learn to work and play

# And get along with each other

# You gotta listen to your heart Listen to the beat

# Listen to the rhythm of the street Open up your eyes! Open up your ears!

# Get together, make things better By working together

# It's a simple message And it comes from the heart

# Believe in yourself For that's the place to start

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

-What a wonderful kind of day

# We can learn to work and play And get along with each other

# What a wonderful kind of day, hey! What a wonderful kind of day, HEY! #

Hey, DW!

-Hey!

-Whoa... Ooh!

'Welcome to Smart Accounting!

'Starring Elwood Elementary's favourite financial advisor,

'Muffy Crosswire!'

Hi, everybody, ready to smarten up on your accounts?

Let's go to the phone.

Hello. You're on the air.

-'Hi, Muffy. I love your show.'

-Thank you.

-'I just earned 25 babysitting,

-'should I buy a new skateboard or put it in the bank?'

-Duh!

Put your money in the bank and save up for something really good,

like designer pumps with bows! Next call.

'Hi, Muffy. I love your show.'

Thank you, so do I!

'I just came back from the movies and I had to borrow money.

-I remember.

-'Do I just owe my friend the 6, or should I give her more?'

No, no, no! Listen up, people, when you borrow money or ask a favour,

you are in their debt - which is where you don't want to be!

-'It was only 6!'

-What about the popcorn she shared with you,

-and the sips of smoothie?

-'OK, OK, so I owe you one.'

-Uh-uh-uh!

The four words you should never say are, "I owe you one,"

because it never ends up being only one.

Let me tell you a true story about someone who found out the hard way.

'I only took one sip of your smoothie.'

Sssh, Francine! I'm about to tell the story!

I owe you one... Hey!

ZAPPING AND BEEPING

Buster, I'm going out for the afternoon.

I want those leaves raked by the time I get home at 5 o'clock.

-GAME NOISES CONTINUE

-Buster! Did you hear me?

Yes!

All right, I win again!

-'Another game?'

-Like you needed to ask.

Oh! 4.15 already?! That can't be right. I've been playing since 12!

Aaaaaargh!

Oh no! I'll never get the raking done. What am I gonna do?

Um, OK, Buster. I can spare half an hour. I'll be there right away.

HE SIGHS

Hey, Arthur.

There's a rake on the deck. We gotta be done by 5.

You know I was in the middle of reading the Bellicose Bathroom.

Sorry, Arthur, I really appreciate it. I owe you one.

So what did you guys do yesterday?

-Raked.

-Raked.

-Watched the gardener rake.

Me too! Our yard had four weeks' worth of leaves and I only had

half an hour to rake them. Good thing Arthur came to help.

-Lucky break. So now what you gonna do for him?

-Do for him?

Uh... I don't know. He didn't ask for anything.

He helped you without asking for anything in return?!

Uh-huh. I said I owe you one but he never collects.

Yep, Arthur's a really great guy.

-What?

-Buster, how many favours has he done for you?

Let's see, yesterday, a couple the day before that, that one on Monday,

about 10 last week so, that's 14, carry the one...

Um...a lot! Why?

-Buster, have you ever heard of interest?

-Sure.

I have lots of interests,

video games, aliens, video games about aliens...

Not that kind of interest! I'll show you.

Let's say you bought a bunch of stuff with a credit card,

this is how much money you've spent.

We'll just call it a lot.

For however long you don't pay that money back, a bit of money is added,

which is called interest.

Then you owe money on the interest.

Then you owe even more money!

And more and more...

And more and more and more...

What are you saying exactly?

Owing favours is like owing money.

And that's how many favours you now owe Arthur.

Huh?

One day he could decide to collect them all, what do you think of that?

PHONE RINGS

-Hello.

-'It's Arthur. I'm in a bind, could you come and help me out?'

WIERD THRUMMING NOISE

-Thanks a bunch, Buster.

-What's that sound?

-Oh, nothing, come on in.

Buster, I'd like you to meet my house guests.

-BUSTER GASPS

-They came to Earth to capture

a human and picked me but I wanted to stay and finish this book.

Then I remembered all those favours you owed me.

Oh... Aaaaaaah!

Aaaargh! Oh...

RUSTLING OUTSIDE

Buster, I already raked the lawn this morning.

Good thing I showed up then, cos you missed some.

Why are you doing this?

Just wanted to return those favours before there's too much interest.

-Huh?

-Anything else you need done?

Buster, I'm really into this book right now, let's talk later, OK?

When are you gonna want me to pay you back?

-What you doing?

-Figuring out how many years till I'm out of debt.

-Binky, have you ever owed favours to anybody?

-Me, owe something?!

-Not if they know what's good for 'em.

-That's what I thought.

If you want to talk about owing favours, talk to Arthur.

I lent him my hockey stick last year, he said, "I owe you one,"

-but...

-He hasn't paid you back?

-Then there was the time I babysat for DW.

Six straight hours of Mary Moo Cow, I still haven't recovered.

Nah, it's no big deal. What are friends for, right?

What are friends for - exactly!

CLARINET PLAYS

RUSTLING NOISES

-What are you doing?

-Paying you back.

For what? You don't owe me anything.

No, but Arthur does and I owe him for a lot of things.

So, if I pay you back, I'm really paying him back, get it?

Not really. But hey, if you want to do stuff for me, that's cool.

-When do you want to start?

-I started! I raked your yard.

-Oh no, my dad always does that but I got other chores for you...

-OK.

You can start by getting the gum off this sneaker.

PHONE RINGS

HE YAWNS Hello?

Hey, Buster, it's Arthur. What are you doing this afternoon?

DOOR BELL RINGS Oh... Hold on.

Buster, Binky said you're doing favours for him to pay back Arthur.

Yeah...

You know, Arthur owed me a favour or two as well.

Arthur? Sorry, looks like I'm busy.

-'Oh, OK, see you later, I guess.'

-Yeah.

DOOR BELL RINGS

DOOR BELL RINGS

DOOR BELL RINGS

PHONE RINGS Excuse me a minute...

-Mm-hm...

-Buster, it's Arthur.

Are you still busy? It's been two weeks since we played together.

I got two hours, movie theatre 4 o'clock. See ya.

This is so great. I thought you were mad at me for saying...

-MOBILE RINGS I gotta go.

-Now?

-Oooh...

-Hey, Buster!

-What's going on?

-I'm paying you back.

So you are mad. Listen, I'm sorry I closed the door the other day

-but it was a really great book and I wanted to finish...

-No!

I'm paying back all the favours I owe you. Only 103 to go.

-103?!

-Because of all the interest and the interest on the interest.

I don't understand it totally but it's a lot of leaves.

How is running away from me paying me back?

Because I'm doing favours for all the people you owe favours.

PHONE RINGS

-Aaaah!

-Arthur!

-Are you OK?

-Yeah, I'm just wet.

Here, take my jacket, it's dry.

Oh, look at your bike.

Here, why don't you take my bike too.

Woohoo! I'm finally paying you back. YES!

Oh... PHONE RINGS

Listen, I'll borrow your jacket and your bike, but then we're even!

You don't owe me any more favours!

-Really?

-Just do your chores on time from now on, OK?

It's a deal.

Oh, wasn't that a touching story.

Well, that's our show.

Until next time, this is Smart Accounting with Muffy.

Hey, what are you doing? This is MY show!

But you owe me for that last time you borrowed Confuse The Goose.

-Says who?

-Don't worry, we're even now.

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# And I say, hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day, hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day HEY! #