Buster Spaces Out

Summary
Buster, after seeing footage of the first Moon landing, plans to build a model rocket ship. He recruits Arthur, George, Carl, Francine and Muffy to help him, however, chaos ensues until he receives advice from the guest star astronaut Michael Fincke.

Plot
Buster is watching a show on space and gets interested in it and gathers all of his saved money (and some food).

After the title card, Buster goes to the hobby store and buys a model rocket. He calls Arthur to help him construct it, but putting the rocket together is easier said then done as it turns out to be a lot more difficult then expected.

The next day, Buster recruits Arthur, George, Carl, Francine, and Muffy to help construct the rocket. When they try to construct the rocket chaos takes places and when the parachute rips everyone soon goes to the Sugar Bowl thinking what were they going to do without the parachute.

They then get some motivation from an astronaut and Muffy gets an idea on another parachute and soon construction on the rocket resumes. After the completion the weather starts raining and the gang is forced to go into the house until the rain stopped.

After the rain stopped they plan to launch their rocket and the effort was successful, but it doesn't land back at the house, but in the hands of the astronaut who gives the rocket back to Buster.

Major

 * Arthur Read
 * Buster Baxter
 * Francine Frensky
 * Muffy Crosswire
 * George Lundgren
 * Carl Gould

Minor

 * Michael Fincke
 * Bitzi Baxter

Mentioned

 * The Brain

Trivia

 * This is the second appearance of Carl and likely the first time anyone other than George has seen him before.
 * This episode aired the day before The Royal Wedding of Will & Kate, which preempted Arthur on several PBS Stations that day, including CPTV in Connecticut, which Borders Massachussetts, where WGBH is based. (it aired at 7AM at the time, now occupied by British TV Show Bob The Builder)

Cultural references

 * When Buster watches the TV, the TV uses actual footage of the moon landing from the Apollo 11 flight with Neil Armstrong climbing out and walking on the moon.
 * Brain is in Texas visiting his family.

Episode connections

 * In "When Carl Met George," Carl was interested in trains. In this episode, he is interested in rocket ships.
 * Buster wants to build a model like in "Ungifted."

Errors

 * When the waitress gives the man his food at the Sugar Bowl, he is not wearing glasses. A second later when the camera zooms in, he is wearing glasses.