The Best Day Ever 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 If 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

# Oh, believe in yourself For that's the place to start

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

-What a wonderful kind of day

# If 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!

CRASH!

This'll do the trick.

Mayonnaise? You're going to put mayonnaise on my head?!

Sure.

It's what your grandma used on me when I was a kid.

Uh! That was when I had head lice. Not a good day.

You ever noticed how it's easier to remember bad days than good days?

Here are my top-five worst days ever.

Number five, the day I was fired by my piano teacher for not practising.

-Did you practise?

-But I did practise. Kind of. A little.

-Not really.

-Goodbye, Arthur. You're fired.

-Huh?!

Number four, the time I ripped my pants in school

and everyone saw my underwear.

THEY LAUGH

OK, we don't have to see any more of that one.

Number three, the time Buster left for his trip around the world.

He was gone for a whole year.

I bet I'll never find another tree house that can fly to outer space

and go back in time and become invisible like that one.

-It'll still be here when you get back.

-Yeah.

-Goodbye!

-Goodbye, Arthur!

Number two is actually a whole load of days put together.

Huh?!

You took my snowball! I know you did!

Where did you hide it, snowball thief?

I want a confession. Confess! Confess! Confess!

But the number one all-time worst day ever was when... God! What?!

That's not supposed to be on there!

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Isn't little Arthur cute(?)

I think I may have just found a new worst day.

HE SIGHS

I think this might be one of the best days ever.

I'll say. It IS pretty great.

Although it might not make my list. We'll have to wait and see.

You have a list?!

Yeah, it's my list of top-ten best days ever. Don't you have one?

-No.

-I don't have a list. But I do have the best day ever.

Let me guess.

-When you joined the Tough Customers?

-Of course not.

It was after we got my baby sister from China.

BABY CRIES

'She cried a lot but there was one thing that could get her to stop.

'The monkey face. It never failed.'

TRADITIONAL CHINESE DANCE MUSIC

SHE CRIES

See, monkey? Like this.

SHE GURGLES

'I could have even had my own show!'

'Ladies and gentlemen, Binky, the human pacifier.'

BABY CRIES

Ga-ga-ga-ga.

It was like a super power and only I had it. And then she met Arthur.

All of a sudden, the face didn't work any more.

And only he could get it to stop crying.

-It was like he had stolen my powers.

-Arthur, how could you?

-What?!

That's ridiculous! I didn't steal anything.

I'm not finished yet!

'Then one night we were in a Chinese restaurant.'

Well, all the Reads are here. Oh, no, she's awake. Don't cry.

Please, I can't take it!

When Arthur's around, it's like I'm invisible.

You'd probably rather have him from brother.

Hey, what did you do that for?!

SHE GURGLES

HE BLOWS A RASPBERRY

SHE BLOWS A RASPBERRY

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Hey, Mei-Lin, do it again.

HE BLOWS A RASPBERRY

SHE BLOWS A RASPBERRY

THEY LAUGH

I taught her how to do that.

So even though I couldn't always get her to stop crying,

I realised I could teach her things.

It was the first time I really felt like a big brother.

Joining the Tough Customers was my SECOND-best day ever.

What about you, Arthur?

Me? Well, erm... It would have to be... Huh.

-I'm not sure. I have to think about it. You go.

-OK.

It actually started out as one of the worst days of my life.

It was when Fern invited me to read at that poetry reading.

I was so nervous, but as long as I had Wally with me, I felt OK.

Next will be a poem called The Bowl Of Fruit, read by George.

'Then the unthinkable happened.'

Huh?!

Huh?! 'I didn't know what to do!

'There was no way I'd be able to fix them in time.'

It's all the comedy, kid. It takes a toll.

Just leave me here in the woodworking section.

But I can't read my poem in front of those kids without you!

You're going to have to. Look at me!

Could I have a little furniture polish, please?

Thanks, kid.

Good night, world. Farewell, adieu. Sayonara.

I had worked so hard on that poem

but now I just didn't have the courage to read it.

Then you showed up, Arthur.

We'd all like to get to know him...uh...you better.

But how can we hear if you... he...Wally is always in the way?

What if you ALL forget about me when I put him...

-..I mean me, away? I don't know, Arthur.

-Just try it, George.

-What's the worst that could happen?

-'So I took your advice.'

An orange, an apple and a banana.

This bowl of fruit doesn't come from a can, ah.

It's real, it's fresh, it's good to eat, the stuff from the can

is much too sweet. Thank you.

APPLAUSE

I did it. I really did it! Yahoo!

From that moment on, I knew I didn't need Wally.

You guys liked me for just being me.

-So why do you still carry him around?

-Because I'm so much fun!

Hey, why do bees hum? Cos they don't know the words! Get it?

How about this one? Why did the king go to his dentist?

To get his teeth crowned! Oh, I got a million of them.

Hey, know what happened when...?

What IS my best day? Maybe it was that time I pulled

the sword out of a stone at the medieval fair.

Later Mr Ratburn gave us a quiz on medieval history

and I only got a B-.

Hm, this is harder than I thought it would be. Huh?

Didn't you hear us calling you?

Wally has...taken a break.

HE SQUIRMS

It's your turn. What's YOUR best day ever?

Oh, that's easy, it's... Um...

HE COUGHS

You go. Throw it to G.

OK, mine was when you found my diary.

-Really?! That's your best day ever?

-Uh-huh.

That diary is really important to me.

I've written about almost everything that's happened to me

since I came to Elwood City.

Hey, have any of you seen Sue Ellen? I think I found her diary.

You didn't write about that time I almost ate a bug, did you?

Or when I couldn't stop rhyming?

-When I kept getting a bloody nose?

-Hey, you'll never know.

Because Arthur never even opened the diary.

-I bet he took a little peek.

-I didn't, I swear.

I just thought it was private.

Here you go, Sue Ellen. It's still private.

From then on, I knew I had friends I could really trust.

But I promise you'll find out what I wrote when I publish my memoirs.

ALL: Huh?!

OK, no more stallings. Spit it out! What's your best day ever?

Well...

I've been thinking really hard about it and the truth is, I just don't...

Wait, hold that thought! I just remembered a brand-new one.

-One that tops all the others.

-This is going to be good.

Well, I was in my bed one night and I couldn't get to sleep.

'I was counting puffins, cos sheep never work for me for some reason.'

45...46...47...

'When all of a sudden, this strange light appeared in my window.'

'It was a giant, glowing doughnut-shaped object.

'Right there, outside my bedroom.

'I was afraid, but I felt it was calling to me. So I ran downstairs.

'Then I realised it wasn't just shaped like a doughnut,

'it WAS a doughnut!'

'Then the strawberry people came out.

'They were a highly developed fruit-based life form...

'who needed a new king. And they had chosen me.'

Me! To rule over the planet Fruitopia for ever and all time.

-Buster, are you sure this wasn't a dream?

-Oh, those don't count?

Well, then I guess I only have one best day.

What is it?

-When you and I played chequers.

-That's it?!

After I came back from my trip around the world.

Oh. Oh, yeah!

I really missed you.

And I also won.

Well, you're the last one, Arthur.

Let's hear it.

-I don't have one.

-What?! You don't have a best day?!

No way! I've had a lot of really good days

but there just isn't one that stands out from the rest.

I mean, is it so important to have a best one?

-No.

-You'll probably have one some day.

Want to join the Tough Customers?

-It's very exciting!

-No, thanks.

Hey! You know what's strange? Arthur was in all of OUR best days.

That's true!

In fact, without him, none of them would have happened!

So, even if you don't have your own best day,

you have a piece of all of ours.

Huh. That is pretty cool.

You know what? I think I just found my best day.

Today, just hanging out with you guys. It's perfect.

THUNDER RUMBLES

THUNDERCLAP

Oh, man!

Anybody bring an umbrella?

Come on, Wally, back in the bag.

Sorry, Arthur. I guess this kind of ruins your best day.

-THUNDER RUMBLES

-Nah, it's still great.

Hey! Who wants to come to my house?

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