Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival

Who is Dewey?

Summary
Arthur and Buster have an imaginary music festival featuring the whole cast in songs based on their lives, themselves, and the library.

Plot
At the beginning of the episode, D.W. hears a strange noise, and tries to figure out where it's coming from. She asks Jane, who doesn't know the source of the noise, either. D.W. thinks it might be Pal's stomach, but finds out it isn't. Eventually, she tracks the sound to the basement: Arthur is filming Buster, who is standing behind a large cardboard box made to look like a TV and is beatboxing- hence the strange noise she heard. The boys are pretending to make music videos. D.W. doesn't think much of this, saying Buster's noises weren't music, the box they have doesn't really look like a TV, and the camera Arthur's using isn't even on. She questions why they're doing something that isn't real. Arthur tells her that even pretend things can be enjoyable, and that if D.W. closes her eyes, she'll be able to "see cool videos." After Arthur promises that they aren't tricking her, D.W. agrees to "watch", and the videos start.

Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival

The episode consists of five songs (including a reprise of "Library Card"):
 * Library Card (sung by kids and Ms. Turner)

The kids sing about the various books the library offers.


 * Jekyll and Hyde (sung by Brain)

Brain sings about reading  and then having a dream in which he creates a potion that turns him into an evil copy of himself. During a test at school, he drinks the potion and commits acts of vandalism. Then he finds that he transforms even without the potion. He tries to return the book to the library, but he turns into his evil self, who renews the book instead.


 * Leftovers Goulash (sung by Arthur, D.W. and David)

Arthur sings about wanting his dad to make chocolate cake and ice-cream instead of crazy experiments. David sings about new strange foods he wants to create. Then D.W. sings about what food she does not want and David finishes with more odd recipes. The song is accompanied by food-related snippets from previous episodes.


 * Homework (sung by Mr. Ratburn and Buster)

Mr. Ratburn sings about the homework he wants to give to his class, causing Buster to despair.


 * Library Card (reprise) (sung by kids and Ms. Turner)

The kids sing about more books as well as story time and puppet shows (and Ms. Turner refers to something called the Dewey Decimal System).

The episode finishes with D.W. remarking that the videos were okay for the Reads’ basement, but they would never work on real TV (also, "who's Dewey?")

Characters

 * Alan Powers
 * Arthur Read
 * Binky Barnes
 * Buster Baxter
 * D.W. Read
 * Fern Walters
 * Francine Frensky
 * George Lundgren
 * Francis Haney
 * Nigel Ratburn
 * Paige Turner
 * Muffy Crosswire
 * Prunella Deegan
 * Alex (cameo)
 * Amanda Hulser (cameo)
 * Billy (cameo)
 * Billy and Bobby (cameo)
 * Bionic Bunny (cameo)
 * Brian (cameo)
 * Buffy (cameo)
 * Catherine Frensky (cameo)
 * Chester (cameo)
 * Colleen (cameo)
 * David Read
 * Edwin (cameo)
 * Emily (cameo)
 * Thora Read (cameo)
 * Helen
 * I.Q. (cameo)
 * Jack Weasel (cameo)
 * James MacDonald (cameo)
 * Jane Read (cameo)
 * Jenna Morgan
 * John (cameo)
 * Kenny (cameo)
 * Kiefer (cameo)
 * Liam (cameo)
 * Lucy (cameo)
 * Lisa (cameo)
 * Luke (cameo)
 * Maria Pappas (cameo)
 * Mary (cameo)
 * Maryann (cameo)
 * Ms. Morgan (cameo)
 * Miss Sweetwater (cameo)
 * Ms. Tingley (cameo)
 * Molly MacDonald (cameo)
 * Leah MacGrady (cameo)
 * Mr. Marco (cameo)
 * Ms. Bryan (cameo)
 * Ms. Krasny (cameo)
 * Nancy (cameo)
 * Grandpa Dave (cameo)
 * Mary Moo Cow (cameo)
 * Nadine Flumberghast
 * Liam(cameo)
 * Wally(cameo)
 * Bailey (cameo)
 * Mrs. Tibble (cameo)
 * Norman Hedgehog
 * Rattles (cameo)
 * Ricky (cameo)
 * Rusty (cameo)
 * Sarah (cameo)
 * Steve (cameo)
 * Sue Ellen Armstrong
 * Unknown Female Aardvark (Number 3) (cameo)
 * Unknown Male Monkey (cameo)
 * Winky (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Female Aardvark (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Female Aardvark (Number 2) (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Female Aardvark (Number 8) (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Female Bear (Number 2) (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Female Cat (Number 2) (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Female Dog (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Female Dog (Number 2) (cameo)
 * George's sister (cameo)
 * Jessica (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Male Cat (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Male Dog (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 3) (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Male Goat (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Male Rabbit (cameo)
 * 3rd Grade Male Rat (cameo)
 * 4th Grade Female Aardvark (cameo)
 * Fletcher (cameo)
 * 4th Grade Male Dog (cameo)
 * 4th Grade Male Rabbit (cameo)

Songs

 * Library Card
 * Jekyll and Hyde
 * Leftovers Goulash
 * Homework
 * Library Card (Reprise)

Trivia

 * Several of the Glenbrook students make a cameo appearance in Library Card.
 * The Homework song is not shown on some PBS stations during its Pledge Drive/Syndication. The And Now A Word From Us Kids segment is edited out too.
 * The songs that were sung in this episode are featured on the Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD (or Tape) CD.
 * Stock footage from many previous episodes of Season 1, 2, and 3 is used during Homework and Leftovers Goulash.
 * This is one of the episodes focusing on music (with the others being Arthur vs. the Piano, My Music Rules, Arthur Plays the Blues, Brother, Can You Spare a Clarinet?, Big Horns George, Tipping the Scales, Lights, Camera... Opera!, Binky's Music Madness).
 * Crazy Bus, Go to Sleep, Lucky Pencil, and The UFO Song are not featured in this episode.
 * This has the most cast of characters.

Episode connections

 * When D.W. and Arthur are singing Leftovers Goulash, several different previous episodes are featured such as D.W.'s Imaginary Friend, D.W. Gets Lost, Arthur Makes a Movie, Buster's Dino Dilemma, Arthur Accused!, Arthur's Cousin Catastrophe, Arthur's Family Vacation, The Half-Baked Sale, D.W.'s Snow Mystery, Arthur's Lucky Pencil, D.W., the Picky Eater, Arthur's Baby, Arthur's Faraway Friend, D.W. Blows the Whistle, Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest, How the Cookie Crumbles, Dad's Dessert Dilemma, Poor Muffy, Buster Baxter, Cat Saver, So Long, Spanky, D.W. Thinks Big, My Dad, the Garbage Man, Buster's Back, Arthur Cleans Up, D.W.'s Perfect Wish, The Big Blow-Up, Arthur's Mystery Envelope, Meet Binky, D.W.'s Deer Friend, Arthur's Substitute Teacher Trouble, Attack of the Turbo Tibbles, Arthur's Spelling Trubble, Arthur's Chicken Pox.

Cultural references

 * "Library Card" contains many references to real life authors, books, and painters:
 * Fern mentions two real life books, ' and '.
 * The Tibbles sing "'! '!", which are both books by.
 * Arthur mentions three authors:, , and.
 * Prunella says that the library has paintings by, , and.
 * Mr. Haney "confidentially" reads 
 * Buster mentions three children's books: "There's ', and ', and !"
 * The is how libraries organize and arrange books. It is named after.
 * The song Jekyll and Hyde is loosely based on  by.
 * True to its name, Leftovers Goulash combines melodies from various old pieces of music.
 * – ' from '
 * –Infernal Galop (Cancan) from 
 * , Allegro con brio
 * , 4th movement
 * – , Allegro
 * Homework mentions 's journey.
 * – , Allegro
 * Homework mentions 's journey.

Home Video
DVD
 * Arthur: The Complete Series 4

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