Arthur's Treasure Hunt 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!

Did you ever wonder what would happen

if scientists and explorers had to do what their parents told them?

Like Galileo.

Father, it's only eight o'clock.

Can't I discover one more moon of Jupiter? Please!

One more moon of Jupiter and then it's the Milky Way!

You've got the entire Renaissance to do it. It's past your bedtime.

-Get into your jammies!

-Aw!

'Or what about Sir Isaac Newton?'

-Ow!

-Stop moping around! Do you expect ideas to fall from the sky?

If everyone did everything their parents said,

-that might stop the whole course of discovery.

-Nice try.

But Newton never tried to make a bacon flavoured shake

with his father's good cooking equipment. Now get this cleaned up!

Watch this!

My turn!

Wow, good one, Francine!

That's nothin'. Watch this!

-Oops!

-Binky, you just need a smaller rock.

One with a flat surface to deflect the water downward,

thus gaining a net upward force.

Thanks, Buster. Watch this!

-Agh!

-What's the matter?

-I just found it.

-What is it?

-A chipped rock?

-It's an arrow head.

-Wow!

-Really? Where did you get it?

It was buried in my mom's garden behind my building.

- I wonder who buried it. - Prehistoric tribes lived here.

Floods washed dirt over the tools the tribe used.

-There could be arrow heads buried in our own yards?

-Almost certainly.

All you have to do is dig.

Cool, a helmet!

Wow! Wow!

I'm not worried about ancient ruins. It's modern ones I don't wanna see.

Everybody else is digging in their yard, then we show what we found.

I'll be careful. Really. Please?

All right. I have to go do some errands now.

You can dig behind the garage, but I don't want an excavation site!

All right, thanks, Mom!

What are you burying, Arthur? Your report card?

-I'm digging for treasure.

-What treasure? Pennies?

-Arrow heads and civilisations.

-Look at that!

-It's alive!

-Watch it! Careful, DW!

It's a root.

Even the Tibbles are too old for that gag!

-I knew you were faking.

-Sure.

You wanna trade some of your tiny dimes for a big, shiny penny?

Wait till everyone hears how you thought that root was a snake!

What's this?

Digestive biscuits?

-What's digestive?

-Like Reader's Digest.

-What a dumb flavour!

-There's got to be something decent down there.

I've found something!

It might belong to a sabre-toothed tiger

-or a T-Rex or...

-Pal. This bone belongs to Pal, Arthur.

-Huh?

-SQUEAKS

BARKS

I bet everyone else has found lots of stuff by now.

Too small.

Duh!

Drat!

-There's nothing here!

-< BARKING

Hey!

Arthur Read! You know you're not supposed to dig in the yard.

I'm just gonna watch Pal.

It's not very big and not very neat either. Maybe I could just fix it.

You're not fixing it. You're making it bigger!

I'm just digging a little until I find the stuff buried back here.

-Like what stuff?

-Like...

I don't know!

-Like...

-CLANK

Wow! Cool!

Looks like nobody's been down here for a while, Pal.

It's huge!

This is it. It might be an ancient temple or it might be a trap.

Only one way to find out.

Oh, gosh!

What were you doing in my closet?

You wanna have a sandwich?

You think there's secret passages?

There's probably old tunnels that go everywhere. It's worth a try.

And it's not just for me.

-Oh, no!

-What is it, honey?

-I forgot to get charcoal.

-The stores are all closed.

-We'll just have to cancel the barbecue.

No, we don't. I'll be right back.

With tax, that's... Let's see.

There!

Honey, I think these are the best hot dogs you've ever cooked.

Thanks to Arthur's secret passage.

It's a good thing you didn't listen to me!

It's a good thing you didn't listen to me?

You believe Mom's gonna say that?

She might. We'll not find a secret passage if we don't look for it.

-But Mom said...

-OK, you're right.

If you wanna be a barbecue wrecker, we'll just play behind the garage!

Let's find more tin cans. That's better than a secret passageway(!)

Well, maybe you could dig just a little.

BARKS

Nothing. We must have the most boring back yard in history!

-Maybe we're looking in the wrong places.

-But I looked every...

Wait a second! Who says we have to stay in the BACK yard?

- No, Arthur... - There he is! Hi, Arthur!

-We were waiting for you.

-You must have found something big.

-Not yet.

-Really? We all found great stuff.

-What? A metal detector?

-No, these.

-Pennies?

-Not in mint condition, but over 30 years old.

-They had coins then?

-The first ones were made thousands of years ago.

I found something much cooler. I think it looks like an iguana.

-I'm calling it Angwon.

-You gave a name to a root?

-I name all my roots.

-Look what I found! It's been lost for years.

- It's not as good as this. - It still has a price tag on it.

- You didn't find that in your yard. - No, I bought it.

-But jewels do come out of the ground.

-What did you find, Arthur?

-Roots and rocks mostly.

-And this!

-Cool! Cool!

-You think that's cool?

It's old. That's for sure. I estimate it's over 40 years old.

That's how old my mom is. That's ancient!

-Wow! Look at this!

-Did I find something else cool?

-You're lucky. Your mom let you dig up the whole yard.

-Did I do that?

-Yes, I told you!

-What am I gonna do?

-You're gonna be in big trouble!

Maybe we can get everything back the way it was.

We did it!

-Arthur, what happened?

-There were these giant earthworms, Mrs Read.

-They went crazy. We tried to stop them.

-It was an army of chipmunks.

-Moles have been known to make really big...

-Thanks, guys.

But it was my fault.

I guess I got carried away. I'm sorry, Mom.

After I specifically told you not to! I'm disappointed in you, Arthur.

Very disappointed!

-Wanna go to the pond after school?

-I've something much cooler to do.

Look what I found yesterday!

-A harmonica. Where did you find it?

-The garage. It has many cool things.

What a treasure is depends on how you look at it.

-You're grounded and have to clean the garage all week?

-Yeah.

-You can come to the pond next week.

-Better make it the week AFTER next!

Subtitles by Subtext for BBC Broadcast 2003