Buster the Lounge Lizard Arthur

# Every day when you're walkin' 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 The rhythm of the street

# Open up your eyes! Open up your ears!

# Get together and 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!

-Woah!

# When trouble strikes both night and day

# Never fear, he's on the way

# Our fearless hero, Dark Bunny

# In his brand new Dark Buggy

BUGGY REVS LOUDLY

HE LAUGHS WICKEDLY

# In a flash he'll catch the crook

# With the Buggy's grappling hook

# Reeling in crooks is such a cinch

# When you use the automatic winch

# It can drive up walls

# It can float on the sea

# It comes with 15 attachments

# But batteries are sold separately... #

Must have...now.

Wow, it's amazing!

Wait, wait, here's the best part - the grappling hook.

-Hey!

-Uh!

Aagh!

Aah!

A kid could get in a heap of trouble with this thing.

I'm sorry. Here, have some celery.

Please don't tie me into a pretzel.

Not with me. With Mr Ratburn.

Remember my ultra-bouncy ball?

He confiscated it Monday and I'm still waiting to get it back.

Binky's right. If Mr Ratburn sees you with it in class,

he'll lock it up for at least a week.

Relax, I'm not going to play with it in class.

I'm just going to keep it in my desk,

where it can be near me.

Huh?!

Erm, I think you dropped this.

Thanks.

-CHILDREN GASP

-Oh, dear!

Erm, it wasn't me.

I swear, Mr Ratburn, I wasn't playing with it.

It went off accidentally.

The Dark Buggy is really, really sensitive.

You know the rules, Buster. You'll get it back at the end of the week.

Oh!

MUSIC PLAYS

Erm, I see what you mean. Seems to have hair-trigger reflexes.

Here, just take it away, please.

But if I catch you playing with it in class again,

I shall keep it for...

-The whole school year?

-Yep, that's what he said.

Wow, harsh.

I know. That's why I'm not taking any chances.

It's staying in my locker until I go...

-CAR MAKES WHIRRING NOISE

-What did you do?

I don't know. I don't think I touched anything.

All I said was, "It's staying in my locker until I go..."

ENGINE STARTS

I think it was that word.

Which word? Huh?

Quick, follow that buggy!

'Dark Buggy is in hot pursuit. Activating stealth mode.'

So I said, "Neurosurgery? Try teaching third grade for a week!"

HE LAUGHS

Oh, look-ee. Papa Bear needs more coffee.

Have you tried the new hazelnut creamer?

The teachers' lounge! Oh, I'm doomed.

HE HICCUPS

That's it. I'm never seeing that toy again.

Oh, and I never even got to use the pedotronic transforminator.

What's that?

Beats me. It was all the way in the back of the instruction manual.

I only got up to page 20.

Why don't you just tell Mr Ratburn the truth?

Oh, there's an idea(!)

"Sorry, Mr Ratburn, the buggy just drove off on its own,

"right into the teachers' lounge." Would you believe that?

Good point. Yeah, it's gone for ever.

Think of all the confiscated toys that must be in there.

I wonder what they do with them all.

Mr Marco, you derailed my caboose.

HE BLOWS RASPBERRY

I'm telling you, the Earth orbits the Sun.

-IN GIRL'S VOICE:

-Heresy, Signor Galileo, heresy I say.

SHE LAUGHS

They play with the toys? Oh, please!

It's a lounge. The teachers go there to relax.

'It's like a super-fancy salon.

'With massage chairs and pedicures.

'And even a Jacuzzi.'

That's where all our tax dollars go.

No way. I'll tell you what really goes on in there.

'The teachers spend all their free time working on ways

'to make tests and homework harder.'

We have a new question from the Stumper 2000 -

"If someone says they always lie,

"are they lying or telling the truth?"

Hmm, what's the answer?

There isn't one. It's a paradox.

THEY ALL LAUGH

Excellent. We'll put it on the next maths test.

And make it worth half their grade for the semester.

Ha-ha-ha-ha!

Now then, who wants a slug?

'Then, when no-one's looking,

'they take off their teacher disguises

'and reveal their true alien forms.'

Mmm, nice slug!

Uh!

You really think they're aliens?

Of course not. But I knew you would, so I added it in.

Aw!

Well, speaking of homework, I've got a ton of it.

-I'll say.

-Me too.

You guys go without me.

I want to sit and think about all the fun I won't be having this year.

I know what I would do if my toy was stuck in the teachers' lounge.

Oh, hey, Binky.

Were you sitting there the whole time?

Maybe I was, maybe I wasn't.

The point is, I know of a way you can get that buggy back.

You do? How?

Shh, not here.

This is better. There was so much glare in that booth.

If you ever want to see your buggy again,

you'll have to break into the teachers' lounge.

What? You're joking, right?

Maybe I am, maybe I'm not.

But if I wasn't joking, I'd tell you

I have a foolproof plan to get that Dark Buggy back.

And then, I'd tell you to meet me at the Tower of Pain at sundown.

Of course, if I WAS joking I'd say, "Ha-ha, you fell for it!"

But I didn't say that...or did I?

Erm... Oh!

Hello, Nigel, what you doing there?

Hmm? Oh, it's Buster's history homework.

Thought I'd do something useful with it.

Well, well, well. What do we have here?

HE TUTS A toy.

-That's not very educational.

-I should say not.

But...if we took it apart, we could use it in science class.

THEY LAUGH

Aaagh!

OK, what's the plan?

My sources tell me the teachers' lounge

has a highly sophisticated security system.

Computerised surveillance, motion detectors, guards round the clock.

Really? What are your sources?

Erm, action movies and comic books.

We're going to dig a hole in the playground,

tunnel our way beneath the school and then...

-bam!

-Why not just go through the window?

You know, I worked really hard on this plan.

It just seems kind of complicated.

Well, so is Mozart, bucko!

But that doesn't mean it isn't genius.

Fine, fine, we'll tunnel under the school.

Who's going to dig?

You know, maybe the window isn't such a bad idea.

We'll meet half an hour before school starts.

ALARM RINGS

-Well?

-Erm, I'm not sure if I want to...

Come on, we don't have all day.

And I'm getting a grass stain on my knee.

Oh...

Oh, by the way, when you're in there,

could you get my ultra-bouncy ball too? Thanks.

OK, here we go.

-Stop!

-What's wrong?

I can't do it. The teachers' lounge is private.

If they wanted students to see what's inside,

it would just be called "lounge".

Buster! Hold it right there.

Oh!

Somehow this infernal contraption

found its way into the teachers' lounge.

Please keep it as far away from me as possible.

I will, Mr Ratburn, I promise. You'll never see it again.

Phew, that was close.

Hey, did you get to see inside the room?

No, we still have no idea what really goes on in there.

Why did you give it back?

I didn't have a chance to play with it at all.

Now, now. Relax, Francis.

We still have...this.

# Every day when you're walkin' down the street

# Everybody that you meet

# Has an original point of view

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

-# What a wonderful kind of day What a wonderful kind of day.

-Hey!

-#