Just Desserts/The Big Dig 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

# 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!

Look at that monster! I wonder if he's going to...

Oh, he did! He ate that kid!

Bones and all! That's so gross!

I bet you thought I was reading a scare-your-pants-off book.

Well, I wasn't. It's fairy tales!

Some of the scariest, most exciting stories ever! Talking pigs..

And I was doing this hundreds of years before Babe!

-..Two-headed trolls.

-I say we bake him in a pie.

-I say we put him in the soup.

-I say we let him go.

I didn't always like fairy tales. I used to think they were babyish.

Until one day... I should begin at the beginning.

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Arthur

whose dad was an amazing cook.

-What kind of cake is THAT?!

-Chocolate fudge brownie

with a vanilla custard filling topped with butterscotch icing

-and peanut butter toffees.

-Could I try...?

-No!

It's for a wedding. But maybe Grandma will make you chocolate-chip cookies.

Owww!

Terrific(!)

'Many sea creatures live on the ocean floor...'

LOUD SNORING

'..such as the sea cucumber and the wedding cake.'

Peanut butter toffees!

I don't know about you, but I thought it was a piece of cake.

-You've got cake?!

-I'm talking about the history quiz.

-I thought it was easy.

-Sorry. My dad made this incredible cake

-and I've been thinking about it all day.

-Lucky you!

-UNLUCKY me!

It's for a wedding. And Grandma's making dinner tonight.

Y-You mean... that cheesy-tuna-noodle thing?!

-Probably.

-Then you might want to stock up on some REAL food.

Chocolate, nougat, caramel...

peanut brittle...and gummy eels.

All the major food groups!

Oh!

-But where's the cheesy-tuna-noodle thing?

-Sorry to disappoint you.

-Your father left dinner for us.

-He did? Hooray!

I mean...how nice. You don't have to do any work, Grandma.

Thank you, dear. If you clean your plates, I have a surprise for you.

Whew! Now, what's the surprise?

-We get to watch really scary movies?

-Are we going to a toy store?

You're gonna buy us toys?

No. Your father left us some of the wedding cake!

-ARTHUR'S STOMACH GURGLES

-I really shouldn't.

I already feel like I'm going to burst. Maybe one tiny bite...

HE GROANS

Serves you right for eating TWO slices!

Would you like me to read to you?

-That's what I used to do when you had an upset stomach.

-Yes! Read to us.

Oh, not fairy tales! They're so boring!

-Why not read Bloodsucking Beavers Of Bavaria?

-No!

I bet these fairy tales are just as exciting and frightening!

-If you're a baby!

-I think Arthur wants to go to bed early.

Settle down, you two.

Now, let's see... Ah, here's a good one.

Once upon a time, there lived a poor woodcutter

who had two children, a boy named Hansel and girl named Gretel.

One year, a great famine fell upon the land.

Huh? Where am I?

Oh, dear brother! We are stranded in the middle of a dark forest

-with only a crust of bread!

-Have my half. I'm stuffed.

It's not for eating! It's for marking a trail so we can get home.

Oh! An animal has been eating the crumbs.

Now we're lost!

Mm! Bread!

Let's walk a little further into the forest.

I'm tired of these leather shorts. They may be cute, but I'm freezing.

Me, too! All I get is a dress with lace trim!

It's like wearing a tablecloth. I'm freezing!

Great(!) Now we're even more lost.

We'll be eaten by bloodsucking beavers!

-Any more bright ideas(?)

-DW, I think we're in luck. Look!

There are chocolate chips in the walls.

And the windows are made of fruit rolls!

Hey, look what's in the mailbox - junk food mail!

Mmm! Spicy nacho flavour. Must be a letter from Mexico.

Well!

What have we here? Two scrumptious little children!

We were just admiring your house.

It's...eh... very tastefully decorated.

This is nothing!

Wait till I take you to the mall!

Semi-sweet chocolate cookware!

It's a cinch to clean!

The sight of all this candy is making me sick.

-Can we go home?

-After I buy a new oven!

Let's see...

You look like you're a medium.

-Let us out!

-Let us out!

-I will. As soon as the oven heats up.

Where did I put those cloves?

Arthur, the bars on the cell are candy!

We can lick our way out!

I can't. I'm too full.

We're ready!

Aaaagh! I'm melting!

Tommy and Timmy!

-You saved us!

-I'm not Tommy. I'm Pesky.

And these are my brothers -

Whiney, Grouchy, Angry, Noisy, Creepy and Stinky.

-ALL: And you're our princess - Doe White!

-I'm not Doe White! I'm DW!

The D is for Dora and the W is for Winifred!

-Come with us, Princess! It's nap time!

-No! Put me down!

Arthur! Go to Grandma's! Get help!

PANTING

Nice pants, Arthur! Where's the flood?

Got to find something else to wear.

A cape. This will do.

LAUGHTER

That's even better! Who are you - Super Dufus?!

Come in! You'll have to excuse my appearance.

-I've been a little under the weather.

-Grandma, what creamy skin you have!

It's my new moisturiser.

And what frosty hair you have and what dark, chocolaty eyes!

Better to be eaten by YOU!

Ohhhhhhh!

Arthur Reid! Did you eat Grandma?

-It wasn't Grandma. It was that wedding cake.

-Heard that one before!

I spend my day cleaning for the Tibbles and THIS is what I find!

-I'm telling Mom and Dad.

-Uhhhh!

NO!

Are you all right? Did you have a nightmare?

It's probably from all those fairy tales you were reading. See?!

-They ARE scary!

-My stomach really hurts.

Chew these, and, in a little while, you'll feel better.

First you get us really lost in the woods, then you eat Grandma.

Now you've sold my cow for some beans!

But...but they're magic beans!

That's what I think of your magic beans!

You'd better hope there's a toy for me at the top!

Why couldn't I have dreamed an elevator for this thing?

WOW!

Boy! This place is bigger than Home Hardware Heaven. ..Oh!

Watch it, you silly goose. ..Hey! DW will love this.

Fee-fi-fo-fum!

Who are YOU?

I am everything you've ever eaten! Eight-and-a-half years of food!

And that's MY goose!

I hope this is one of those dreams where I can fly! Whoooooooooooooo!

-What a cute little goose!

-We've got to get out of here.

-The giant's coming.

-Stand back. I'm not just a woodcutter.

I'm also a licensed beanstalk cutter!

Timber!

BURP!

I feel much better. I guess that last fairy tale really the trick.

"From then on, Arthur never ate too much candy,

"and he lived happily every after.

"The end."

Well, maybe the happily ever after part will come true!

I have the coolest grandpa in the whole world

and he's finally coming to visit me!

Arthur! What do you wanna do first?

Explore the forbidden caves or wrestle alligators?

Think we can get outta here without DW?

He's not coming to visit YOU, he's coming to visit ME!

I could do this for hours, DW!

As I was saying, Grandpa Dave hardly ever gets to visit us...

because he lives so far away.

-But now he's coming for a long time.

-I'm talking!

-He'll play with me...

-and take me to Ponyland.

-He's taking ME to Wonderworld!

-He'll buy me lots of presents.

-Aaagh!

I just LOVE Grandpa Dave!

SNORING

When is Grandpa Dave going home? It's been a week already.

-Why? What's the matter?

-All he wants to do is sleep...

-..and watch TV.

Kids! I know that Grandpa isn't as active as he used to be.

-You can say THAT again!

-And I know you've had to give up a lot of TV.

-But he's still the same old Grandpa.

-No, he's not.

He's a different Grandpa and I don't like it!

How are my favourite grandkids?

-Fine.

-Fine.

-Any great adventures brewing?

-Uh-uh.

-No.

Well, how about a game of chequers when you get home?

-Eh...kids?

-I'll be late for school!

-Me, too. I have to go...play!

See you later, alligators.

-Wanna come over to my house?

-I have to go home. My grandpa's visiting.

-I thought you liked him.

-I used to.

But he's boring now. He just wants to sleep and play chequers.

-Chequers isn't bad.

-You haven't played with Grandpa!

Grandpa?

Grandpa!

-Uh...? What?

-I moved. It's your turn.

Oh, so you did!

Well, I move...here.

SNORING

Oh, brother!

Wow. Sounds fun.

Yeah. It's a blast(!) See ya.

Quick! Think of something.

Grandpa just woke up and he wants to play chequers.

< Is that you, Arthur? Ready for a game?

Sure. But I have to...do something first.

-Don't you need help with your homework?

-I'm in pre-school!

I'm waiting! Nothing like a nice game of chequers.

Here you are. How about if DW goes first, and Arthur, you keep score?

King me.

Grandpa! King me.

What d'you say?

Hey!

You won!

-Another game?

-We've played eight games.

Only eight? When I was your age, I'd play 30 games in an afternoon!

One time... STIFLES A SNEEZE

-What's this?

-Oh, nothing for little children to worry about.

-I am NOT little! I'm eight.

-Well, that's true. But this...

This is for grown-ups, really.

-I'm a grown-up in spirit. Mom says so.

-Hmm!

Well, maybe it IS time for you to hear the story

of your great-great-great-great- great-great-GREAT Uncle Blacktooth.

Aaargh! The meanest pirate to roam the seven seas - that's me!

Actually, there are eleven seas, sir.

-and that doesn't include oceans...

-Haaaa!

SPLASH!

'Besides being mean and never brushing his teeth,

'Blacktooth was very, VERY rich.

'He'd been robbing ships for a long time.'

10 million diamonds and 6,000 pounds of candy! Woo-ee! I'm rich!

'In fact, he had SO much treasure,

'it was sinking his ship. He had to find a place to hide it.

'By coincidence, the nearest port was Elwood City.

'Late at night, the treasure was unloaded and buried.

'Blacktooth drew a map of where the treasure was buried,

'but it was 20 years before he came back for it.

-It's around here someplace.

-Read the map!

Or ask somebody. ..Hey, you! Seen any treasure around here?

Blacktooth never found his treasure.

It's still buried here in Elwood City.

-Wo-ow-ow!

-What happened to the map?

For a long time, the map was lost.

But it was recently rediscovered,

and I tell ya, I intend to go looking for that treasure when I feel better.

You interested in joining me?

Could somebody help set the table?

-We're having fun!

-Grandpa is telling a story.

Go on, kids. We can finish after supper.

That's more like it! Grandpa is back in business!

Arthur?

-Are you awake?

-I am NOW!

I can't sleep. I keep thinking about the treasure.

Me, too. What if we found it?!

Mine! All MINE! ..Uhhhh!

# You know you've always dreamed it

# And with money, dreams come true

# You've dreamed Your plastic unicorn would grow

# Just as big as you! #

-We have to find that treasure!

-But we don't have the map.

At least, not YET.

Grandpa, we were just wondering

-what the treasure map looked like.

-It's old and yellow,

with lots of X's and dotted lines.

Just what a treasure map SHOULD look like.

-Chequers this afternoon?

-Yeah!

-Sure!

-It was a white shirt with red buttons.

-With BLUE buttons!

It's not here!

How can anybody sleep that much?

Sssh!

It's gotta be here somewhere.

-Maybe we should just ask him.

-No. He wanted to wait

until he felt better. That could take forever!

I mean, it would be nice to find the treasure FOR him.

-I've got it!

-Uh? What?

Let's go!

I, DW, solemnly swear...

-I, DW, solemnly swear...

-..to never reveal the contents of this map...

..to never reveal the contents of this map...

Not even if someone tortures me and makes me eat worms!

-AND to obey the commands of my brother, Arthur...

-And...

Forget it! Open the map.

Know what?

-No. What?

-Oh, wow!

What?

I think the treasure's buried by the tree house!

See you later! Have fun at the doctor's!

-Take your time. Don't hurry back.

-Quit it!

Now!

-So, we need to go 20 paces towards the creek.

-What's a pace?

It's...

Like that. 20 of those.

THEY BOTH COUNT

-..19...

-20!

And now we have to go 20 paces east.

Stupid pirate!

This is it! X marks the spot!

Diamonds, rubies, candy, here I come!

-Arthur? Where are you?

-Down here!

-I don't get it. We're right where the map said.

-What are you doing?

-We've been looking for you.

-We're finding Blacktooth's treasure.

We found the map. The diamonds and candy are supposed to be here.

-Only they're not.

-Oh, gee. You see, it was just a story.

I thought you knew that. I didn't realise you'd take it so seriously.

The map's not real? It's not a pirate's map?

Well...no.

I drew it up myself. I was gonna hide candy and let you dig it up.

But you got ahead of me.

You lied, Grandpa. You LIED!

I don't care if this is Grandpa's room - I'm watching Bionic Bunny!

-Me, too! And I don't even like it!

-I know you kids are mad at me,

but there's something I've been meaning to give you...

-What is it?

-It's a REAL treasure, Arthur.

-Your great-great-great uncle's gold compass.

-Sure(!) Blacktooth, right(?)

No. Matthew. He sailed all around the world.

I've treasured this compass my whole life.

Now I want you both to have it.

-Is it worth a lot of money?

-I don't really know about that.

But I know it saved Matthew's life.

He and his crew were caught in the storm of '88.

They drifted for days in a lifeboat.

All they had was water and this compass...and a chequerboard.

-Is this for real?

-Cross my heart and spit in your eye!

Matthew was a fiend for chequers. They played to pass the time.

-How small was the lifeboat?

-Tiny. Fit for a couple of mice.

Seven men had to cram aboard in the middle of the night

and watch as their ship was swallowed by the waves. But with the compass...

they were able to keep track...

Subtitles by Janice Hamilton BBC Scotland, 2001

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