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|season = [[Season 7|7]] | |season = [[Season 7|7]] | ||
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==Summary== | ==Summary== | ||
[[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]] offers extra credit for science projects. [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] and Buster start an ant farm, but the ants end up everywhere | [[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]] offers extra credit for science projects. [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] and Buster start an ant farm, but the ants end up everywhere. In order to get them back, Arthur shows he has PANTS (e.g. he is patient, attentive, nosy, thoughtful, and systematic) and ends up combing his project with Francine's. | ||
==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
Buster and Francine are watching ants in the park and remark that they look like people. Buster asks if Francine ever has the feeling that they’re being watched. From a hill Arthur and D.W. watch them through a telescope and remark that everybody looks like ants. Earth meanwhile is being watched by ant-like aliens. One asks if there are ant-people down there, but the other answers that they are just earthlings. | Buster and Francine are watching ants in the park and remark that they look like people. Buster asks if Francine ever has the feeling that they’re being watched. From a hill Arthur and D.W. watch them through a telescope and remark that everybody looks like ants. Earth meanwhile is being watched by ant-like aliens. One asks if there are ant-people down there, but the other answers that they are just earthlings. | ||
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Mr. Ratburn shows an educational film in class that teaches that scientists are patient, attentive, nosy, thoughtful and systematic: PANTS for short. He offers extra credit to anyone who can design a project using those five virtues. | |||
On the way home Arthur’s friends discuss their projects. Francine wants to make rock candy to observe the crystals. Brain wants to cultivate parameciums in pond scum. Arthur and Buster find that boring, but notice ant farms in a store window. They have a fantasy in which ants dressed as farmers sing about being the easiest assignment for extra credit. | On the way home Arthur’s friends discuss their projects. Francine wants to make rock candy to observe the crystals. Brain wants to cultivate parameciums in pond scum. Arthur and Buster find that boring, but notice ant farms in a store window. They have a fantasy in which ants dressed as farmers sing about being the easiest assignment for extra credit. | ||
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==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
===Major=== | |||
*[[Nigel Ratburn]] | *[[Nigel Ratburn]] | ||
*[[Arthur Read]] | *[[Arthur Read]] | ||
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*[[D.W. Read]] | *[[D.W. Read]] | ||
*[[Alan Powers|The Brain]] | *[[Alan Powers|The Brain]] | ||
===Minor=== | |||
*[[David Read]] | *[[David Read]] | ||
*[[Jane Read]] | *[[Jane Read]] | ||
*[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]] | ===Cameo=== | ||
*[[George Lundgren]] | *[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]] | ||
*[[Maria Pappas]] | *[[George Lundgren]] | ||
*[[Fern Walters]] | *[[Maria Pappas]] | ||
*[[Binky Barnes]] | *[[Fern Walters]] | ||
*[[Bonnie (aunt)|Bonnie]] | *[[Binky Barnes]] | ||
*[[Ruthie]] | |||
*[[Hilary]] | ===Mentioned=== | ||
*[[Claudia]] | *[[Bonnie (aunt)|Bonnie]] | ||
*[[Ruthie]] | |||
*[[Hilary]] | |||
*[[Claudia]] | |||
== Song == | == Song == | ||
"[[Ants (song)|Ants]]" | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
=== Cultural References === | === Cultural References === | ||
* The PANTS | * The PANTS film shows [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei Galileo Galilei]’s leaning tower of Pisa experiment. Most historians believe, that this was merely a thought experiment and did not actually happen. Galileo did however predict, that objects of different mass would fall at the same speed, but only if there was no air resistance. | ||
* The PANTS film also shows | * The PANTS film also shows [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel Gregor Mendel] who established several rules of heredity while studying pea plants. One trait he studied was indeed whether the seeds were round or shrivelled. | ||
===Episode Connections=== | |||
*Buster says the moldy sandwich in his jacket is from "that bowling tournament we won last September". This may be a reference to "[[Francine's Split Decision]]". | |||
*Buster hastily mentions his asthma, as established in ''[[Buster's Breathless]]''. | |||
*[[D.W. Read|D.W.]] mentions [[Lucy]] from [[D.W. Thinks Big (episode)|D.W. Thinks Big]]. | |||
== Home Video == | == Home Video == | ||
'''DVD:''' | |||
=== '''DVD:''' === | |||
* [[Sleepovers, Sports and More|Arthur: Sleepovers, Sports and More]] | * [[Sleepovers, Sports and More|Arthur: Sleepovers, Sports and More]] | ||
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