The Chips Are Down 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've got to 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 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!

-Whoa-a-a!

Hey, you guys, I'm doing a poll.

-That's her new thing - poll doing. She saw it on TV.

Children should seek out the opinions of elders they respect.

-Come on, DW, you're bothering them.

-Wait, if she respects us,

-the least we can do is help.

-Name something you always wanted to do.

-Arthur first.

-I want to play a real piano concert, OK?

That's it? That's not so exciting.

It is if you skydive at the same time.

-Ooh!

-Sounds good. I'd like to orbit Saturn,

so I could practise my drives to the net without friction or gravity.

And what about you?

Big Head Kid, is there anything you've always wanted to do?

Um... Yeah.

Hey, look out there!

Ah!

I always wanted to do that.

-Agh!

-Oops.

-DW!

Duck!

-I've found another duck.

-Wow! Look at this one.

It kind of looks like Francine.

-Which pile does it go in?

-The first pile is big ones. Then small ones,

burnt ones, ones that look like a duck and ones that look like people.

-DW, have a chip when we're done.

-I want one now!

-Wait just five minutes.

-Please...

-No!

Mom! Arthur won't share and it's my house too

and I have rights! THEY GASP

-There's no category for this.

-Put it down carefully.

Arthur, would you please come here?

Can't you let DW have one potato chip?

We will. I already explained it to her.

We're the Potato Chip Club. Before eating the chips, we organise them

-into categories.

-Mostly, as it's raining.

-We'll share them with her.

This is the most beautiful greeny thing! I want to keep it always.

DW, the boys will give you a chip in five minutes.

Let's call it Big Green, the eighth wonder of the world.

Big Green is gone!

BOTH: DW!

I know how to get her to confess.

I am so much smarter than Arthur.

-I almost ate a green potato chip once.

-You're lucky to be alive.

-Green chips are poison and there's no cure.

-After you eat a green one,

it's only a matter of time.

GULPS

I can't believe you ate a green chip. There are so many others.

-It was pretty.

-Your shoes are pretty but you don't eat them.

-They're not salty and crunchy.

-I was sure DW would go screaming to Mom.

She knew you made it up about it being poison.

-Or maybe she didn't eat it.

-Yeah, I guess Pal ate it.

WHINES

-You better tell your mom.

-I can't. She told me not to do it.

If these are my last days of life, I don't want Mom mad at me.

Maybe Arthur was fooling. Do you know if they're poison?

-I don't know anything you don't know.

-I've got to find out.

I've got to ask someone who'd know.

Hi, DW. That big kid's trying to swing up over the bar. He's cool.

-Right. What do you guys know about green potato chips?

-The poison ones?

Oh-h-h!

-What's that you said about green potato chips?

-They're poison.

What?! I ate a green one two days ago.

-Then you have even less time left than I do.

-Hey, who are you pushing?

-Oh.

-Is that how you want to spend your last moments?

-Just swinging?

-Not just swinging. I'm trying to ride up over the bar.

But your life is almost over. Soon this will be you.

-That's what my dad looks like when he sleeps.

-Big Head Kid,

this is like a tragedy. You've heard of death? From now on,

-I'll act like every day is my last day.

-This is serious, huh?

-How much string is that?

-Five rolls.

-I can't see it. Are you sure it's still up there?

-I don't know.

-Something's holding the string up.

-Yeah, and we did it.

This has to be the highest any kite ever flew.

There's a lot of other things I want to do.

LAUGHTER

ALL: Ah-h-h!

Ha-ha-ha!

Boy! It's amazing what you can do in one day if you try real hard.

# Magic Christmas, Magic Christmas

# It's a big, bright, magic Christmas... #

DW, you're watching Christmas videos in May?

I want to make sure I get to see 'em.

You're lucky you don't have a sister, Pal. They're all goofy.

I made a list of my three biggest goals in life.

Can you help me figure out how to do 'em?

Binky Barnes, why don't you read us your homework essay?

I started to do my homework, then I thought,

"What's the point? Will doing all this homework really help me?"

These are only some of the careers you can have when you grow up.

What's a career I can succeed in by my next birthday?

I don't want to spend my life watching the Tibbles eat paper paste.

I didn't eat any paste.

Me, neither.

So, Mr Ratburn says you refuse to do homework any more, Binky.

Mr Haney, sir, every minute of life is a precious gift.

We live in a world surrounded by beauty.

Should we fritter away our lives and allow the wonders of this gift

to just pass us by?

Come with me, young man.

Mr Ratburn, this boy has the soul of a poet

and I do not appreciate you trying to crush his soaring spirit

-and natural talents.

-Binky?

-This budding Walt Whitman has inspired me

to follow my lifelong dream to climb Mount Everest.

I won't be a life fritterer-awayer. Thank you, my boy!

See you, Herb.

You can't take a bite out of the sun.

It's hotter than pizza cooked inside a baked potato.

-Rats!

-And you can't drink a whole ocean.

Salt water would make you sick.

That only leaves me one goal!

There's something very strange going on. DW had this game last

and she put everything back. And last night she kissed me goodnight.

-Eerie.

-Not as eerie as this.

An invitation to a ballet recital.

ALL: Starring Binky Barnes?!

-Do you think it's...?

-Don't say space aliens.

-Hey, look!

Have you ever really looked at a leaf?

I did it yesterday for five hours.

Nature sure is amazing!

I wanted to personally invite you to my ballet recital as you inspired me

-to follow my dream.

-DW inspired Binky?

-Arthur, I'm afraid.

This is just weird.

I'm wearing this to the Big Head Kid's recital.

-Very nice.

-I may never have another chance to wear it.

Arthur! No-o-o!

Hey! Mom!

-DW swiped my chip.

-I saved his life. It was a green chip.

The green ones are poison. LAUGHTER

They're not poison. That's just what everyone says for fun.

-They're not poison?

-You ate my green chip and thought you were poisoned.

That's why you were acting so weird.

-So...nice.

-I told you you should have told your mom right away.

Oh, you did not!

BALLET MUSIC

-This IS for real.

-He's really doing it.

-OUT OF BREATH:

-You should watch from the audience.

-It'd look better from there.

-I've something to tell you

-about green potato chips.

-Huh?

-Why aren't you on stage?

-I'm done.

It was a big joke. Didn't you get it? I mean...me! Ballet!

-Too bad. You were the best part.

-Really?

-ALL: Yeah!

-Excuse me, I have to catch a swan.

CHEERING

ALL: Hurray!

I'm glad this all worked out. But DW, you don't have to worry alone.

I know, Mommy. Nadine told me.

Hey! Arthur's sister, if not for you, I never would have done this

and I really liked it. Thanks.

Don't thank me, Big Head Kid. Thank green potato chips.

-My name is Binky.

-Mine's DW.

I'm going to make up my own ballet

called Robot Man In The Junkyard.

-I will never figure out how those two became friends.

-(Space aliens.)

Don't blame us.

We're just ballet fans.

# 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've got to listen to your heart

# Listen to the beat, listen to the rhythm, the rhythm of the street

# 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

# Hey! What a wonderful kind of day

# Hey! What a wonderful kind of day

# Hey! #