Ants in Arthur's Pants 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 you learn to work and play

# And get along with each other

# Gotta listen to your heart Listen to the beat

# Listen to the rhythm of the street Open up your eyes, open up your ears

# 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, get along with each other!

-Hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day! Hey! What a wonderful kind of day! HEY! #

-Hey, DW!

-HEY!

Hey, is it getting hot or is it just me?

I am feeling a little toasty.

Close up, these ants seem a lot like people.

Yeah, it really looks like a city.

Do you ever get the feeling that we're being watched?

Oh, Buster, you're being paranoid!

-Cool! Everyone looks like ants!

-Let me see, let me see!

-Sorry, my quarter ran out.

-But I didn't see the ant people!

There's no such thing, DW.

-They SEEM like ants cos we are high up.

-There ARE ant people!

There's Aunt Bonnie, Aunt Ruthie, Aunt Hilary, Aunt Claudia...

-Are those Zantopods?

-They just look like just Zantopods from up here.

They're just Earthlings. Wanna see my collection?

DRILLING

-Arthur!

-Shhh!

'Great scientists have five characteristics in common.

'They are:

'The first letter of each word - what does it spell?'

ALL: PANTS. 'That's right.'

'PANTS - a helpful way to remember what all great scientists possess.

'Take Galileo - from the Leaning Tower of Pisa,

'he dropped hundreds of lead balls.'

Hmm, different sizes, but they land at the same time.

Could it be true for ALL lead balls? Bring up 100 more!

Si, signore, as you wish.

HE GRUNTS WITH EFFORT

'Or take Gregor Mendel - father of modern genetics -

'who studied thousands of pea plants to see how traits are passed down.'

After 20 years and 7,053 pea plants, it all comes down to this.

Does plant number 7,054 have smooth or shrivelled peas?

Er...it was smooth, I mean shrivelled. No, I mean...

Mmmm! Peas!

That film is 30 years old. It's as inspiring as when I first saw it.

I'll give extra credit to anyone who can design a project using the five virtues of science.

You have four weeks.

Wanna go to the hardware store? I'm gonna make rock candy.

Why are you gonna MAKE rock candy? Just buy some.

-I want to observe crystals forming.

-I'm going to cultivate pond scum.

-It's full of Paramecium.

-Watching pond scum would put me to sleep.

Me, too. I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

Brain, these two just don't have any PANTS. Come on.

-We have plenty of PANTS!

-Yeah!

We're patient, attentive... Ooh, look at the monkey!

Buster, check it out. An ant farm.

"In no time, ants will build an exciting metropolis.

-"Makes science fun."

-We'd show them who has PANTS!

We wouldn't have to do a lot of work! The ants would do it all!

ANTS: # You must confess

# Ants may be P-A-N-T-S!

# Ants - the easiest assignment to get extra credit! Yes, you said it

An A-N-T F-A-R-M! An ant farm! #

Yahoooo!

-Where are the ants?

-Maybe they're in there already.

Hello, ants! Anyone in there?

"Ants must be ordered separately. Allow one week for delivery."

-That only gives us three weeks for our project!

-Relax!

Ants lift 10 times their weight. They'll build a farm in no time.

-It's been two weeks and the ants haven't arrived.

-Spring is here.

-Look what I found in my pocket this morning.

-Ugh! What is it?

A ham sandwich - my lunch when we won at bowling in September.

It's good luck.

Coupons, bills, sweepstakes...

..ants!

JOLLY MUSIC PLAYS ON TV

-No! It's still my TV time!

-We just want to put our ants in the farm.

-There are ants in that envelope?! How do they breathe?

-They just do.

Are they all related?! How do you get the ants from there to there?

You should get Mom.

Would you quit pestering us! Look, you just pour them in.

Oops.

"Have adult construct funnel out of paper

"and pour ants through opening very slowly."

You are so much trouble!

-I gotta go practise my asthma... I-I mean, tuba!

-MO...!

-Please don't tell Mom and Dad. I'll do anything!

-Anything?

You're the only one that made it into the farm

so you have to do something.

-Make a tunnel, anything!

-Here, Arthur.

Waffles the rabbit. Books 1 to 24.

Read to me now. I wanna finish them by Sunday.

She's cute! What's her name?

-"It" doesn't have a name.

-She looks like a Penelope.

-It looks like every other ant.

-No, she doesn't! She's special!

Do you like Waffles the rabbit? Let's find out.

Ahem! We're waiting!

Not one stupid crystal! I've checked this jar every hour for two weeks!

Maybe you don't have PANTS.

At least I'm DOING a project. Just wait till we get our report cards!

Buster and I ARE doing a project. It's more exciting than that jar!

Actually, Arthur, I've decided to team up with someone else.

What?! Why?

I need the extra credit. It didn't look too good with the ant farm.

Well...you're wrong! The ants are in one place now!

They've done all sorts of interesting things.

Huh?!

Ohh!

-You should have told us. We have to call an exterminator.

-What's that?

-Someone who gets rid of bugs.

-You're going to kill the ants?!

But they're Penelope's friends and family!

-Arthur, tell them you'll get them all back.

-How?!

I don't know. If you do, you don't have to read me any more Waffles.

Let me try, Dad! Please!

You have till the end of the week. That's it.

Oh, what a lovely day for a picnic!

I'll say! But I hope we don't have any ants come along to spoil it.

-(See any of them?

-No. Maybe we just have to give it some time.)

-ARTHUR GROANS

-I'm stuffed!

-Where are they?

I thought ants loved picnic food.

Me, too. This is gonna be trickier than I thought.

Let's find out what THEIR favourite food is.

No ants in the soup... nothing on the waffles.

The pickles are clean and the chilli... Hey!

Note to self. Keep Pal outside during experiments.

PAL BARKS

A clay ant! Big deal!

-How's that gonna help us?

-It's not just a clay ant, it's a queen ant!

All the worker ants bring back food to the queen.

If she's a queen, you forgot the most important part.

There!

I'm sorry, Penelope. I've tried everything, but it's no use.

Time to let you go. Maybe you'll be adopted by some other ant colony.

So you don't think I have PANTS!

Well, feast your eyes on this!

-I've already seen your jar.

-No! Look, it's a crystal!

I'm positive this time!

I upped the concentration of sugar and it worked. Wow!

-Is all this for your ant farm.

-No! It's an idea I was trying for DW.

It was a failure.

No-o-o-o-o!

I-I'm so sorry! I'll get some glue! Maybe we can fix it!

Get some bug spray. This puddle is crawling with ants.

That's it! Sugar water's what they like to eat! Thank you, Francine!

I'm glad we saved them, though I won't get the extra credit.

-But you have plenty of stuff for a report.

-You're right!

I've been patient, attentive and nosy, thoughtful and systematic.

-Hey, I've got PANTS!

-I wish I could prove I have pants.

You can! Your PANTS helped me get my PANTS!

What's the big deal about pants?! Everyone wears them!

8-year-olds care about the weirdest things!

The pond scum was taking so long to cultivate

so we've included moulds from Buster's collection of foods.

-I believe this is Myxomycetes or slime mould.

-It used to be ham.

Er...very good. Both of you get extra credit.

All right! See? I told you it was good luck!

Subtitles by TFL Ltd BBC Broadcast - 2003