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==Summary==
==Summary==
Tryouts for the Young Person's Orchestra are coming to town, and everyone thinks [[Binky]] is a shoo-in. So why is he suddenly refusing to play his clarinet in band practice?
Tryouts for the Young Person's Orchestra are coming to town, and everyone thinks Binky is a shoo-in. So why is he suddenly refusing to play his clarinet in band practice?


==Plot==
==Plot==
In the introduction Binky brinks Arthur a present. Arthur remarks how Binky has two different personalities: bully and nice guy. Just then the present throws a pie in Arthur’s face.
Binky drops off a present at Arthur’s house–hand decorated wrapping paper and everything–just because Arthur has been such a good friend. When Binky leaves, Arthur tells the audience that he can’t figure Binky out. “It seems like there’s two Binkys: Bully Binky and…The Other Guy,” he says. One minute Binky is the guy who puts spiders in your hair and the next, he’s the guy freeing a fly from a spider web.


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He’s like a strange Reverse Hulk. No, not that one. Binky’s just a guy who can’t seem to decide if he wants to be nice or an asshole so he’s both. At the same time, which is very confusing.


Miss Krasny announces that the Young Persons Orchestra will hold tryouts the following week. Most students are enthusiastic about the tryouts, but Binky is in a bad mood, because his clarinet is old and squeaky. He decides that "music stinks".
In music class, Ms. Krasny announces that the Young Person’s Orchestra will be having try outs and one lucky student will get a spot in the youth orchestra. After school, everyone discusses what piece they’re going to audition with: Francine will do a Sousa march and Buster will adapt 76 Trombones into 76 Tubas. The only person not interested (even though he totally should be) is Binky!


Muffy brings a Stradivarius violin to the next rehearsal (along with two security guards), but Binky did not bring his clarinet despite the piece being a clarinet concert.
Ms. Krasny begins class with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto except Binky is refusing to play! “Binky, it’s not a clarinet concerto if there’s no one to play during the clarinet passages,” says Ms. Krasny. “Guess you better find someone else to do that then lady,” sasses Binky.


Binky ends up in Mr. Haney’s office. He is rebellious, because since he tuned down his bullying he is “just another wimp who plays a clarinet”. He gets detention, but arranges the flowers on Mr. Haney’s desk first.
This kind of backtalk is not tolerated in Elwood City’s 1950s time warp so Binky is sent to the office. This is a very funny scene as Principal Haney tries to remember who Binky exactly is as Binky monologues that he’s lost his way and now it’s time to be bad again. “It’s time to say goodbye wimp and hello Binky,” says Binky ominously. “There you go! You’re Binky!” replies Mr. Haney obliviously.


On the school playground Binky reunites with the Tough Customers and announces he has a great plan. The Tough Customers take everybody’s instruments away and sabotage them (e.g. wrapping Francine’s drums in bubble wrap and putting flowers in Buster’s tuba). Because of her guards Muffy’s violin is left untouched, but Muffy plays terrible anyway. Binky feigns innocence and the others are too scared to talk.
Binky rejoins the Tough Customers, who are eager to cause mischief again. “Let’s just say ‘Silence is golden’,” says Binky.


On the way home from school Arthur, Buster and Brain discuss Binky’s evil scheme. Suddenly they hear clarinet music. Binky is trying out a new clarinet in a music store, but his parent’s can not afford it. On the way out Binky throws his clarinet in the trash. The others realize what is wrong with him.
The Tough Customers begin their campaign the next day. They confiscate the kids’ instruments and “refinish” them aka sabotaging them. The other kids are afraid to tattle on Binky so they keep quiet.


Later, Binky watches a Bionic Bunny episode in which the villains weaken Bionic Bunny by sending waves through his apartment’s ventilation shaft. Binky takes notes. The kids knock on his door and present him with his repaired clarinet. Unfortunately, Brain has repaired it with paper clips and chewing gum so it quickly squeaks again.
As they walk home from school, Buster tells Arthur and Brain about Binky’s evil plan to stop music all over the world. “It’s scientifically impossible for a nine year old to end music all over the world,” says Brain. “Yeah, but Binky’s got three other nine year olds with him!” counters Buster.


On the day of the tryouts, the Tough Customers have built an “Anti-Music Machine” out of Binky’s old clarinet and a megaphone, which produces a horrible loud noise. First they try to use one of the ventilation shafts in the auditorium, but one of the judges closes the grille. They try using the machine from the boys’ bathroom next, but Mr. Morris, the custodian, is in there. Meanwhile the tryouts proceed normally. The Tough Customers finally try the gym right next to the auditorium, just as Muffy is trying out. She plays so badly that Binky angrily grabs his clarinet and storms into the auditorium where he plays for the judges to show them real music. Just as he wants to go back to finish his evil scheme, the judges tell him that anyone able to make such a bad instrument sound so good is a true musician.
They’re lucky that’s all he has. Binky would have another nine year old if the animators didn’t get tired of drawing that yellow cat from season 1.


Binky is the only Lakewood student to be accepted into the Young Persons Orchestra and the judges promise to lend him a proper clarinet. On his way home Binky trips up George, showing his other personality.
 
The boys hear someone playing clarinet music beautifully and realize it’s Binky! He is at the music shop with his parents, trying to convince them to buy him a new clarinet. Unfortunately, the shop is too expensive and Binky throws away his old instrument in disgust.
 
The kids realize Binky is acting out because his clarinet is in bad shape for the orchestra auditions. As Binky gets ideas from from a more two dimensional cartoon villain, the boys attempt to fix his clarinet. They bring it over but it’s stil in bad shape. Binky orders them to get out so he can focus on his evil scheme.
 
The day of the try outs arrive and Binky prepares to carry out his evil scheme: he will sabotage everyone’s tryouts by blasting his anti-music machine through the vents. Unfortunately for them, the places they picked to blast through the vents don’t work: the first one is closed on the outside by the judges, the second one is in the boy’s bathroom where Mr. Morris is blow drying his ears (don’t ask), and by the time they find an open vent in the gym, Muffy’s try out is going on and let’s just say she puts the anti-Music machine to shame.
 
Binky barges into the auditions and proclaims that Muffy’s music is not music. He takes out his own clarinet and plays a short piece on his faulty clarinet. The judges tell him that Binky can still make the piece sound good even on his warped clarinet which makes him a true musician!
 
Binky wins the coveted spot and the orchestra promises to pay for a new clarinet. The Tough Customers are confused why their leader has bucked the whole plan but Binky informs that “silence is golden is stupid”. “There goes a true musical hero,” says Buster. As Binky trips George before walking off into the sunset, Arthur corrects him. “There goes Binky.”


==Characters==
==Characters==
===Major===
*[[Arthur Read]]
*[[Binky Barnes]]
*[[Binky Barnes]]
*[[Francine Frensky]]
*[[Francine Frensky]]
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*[[Ms. Krasny]]
*[[Ms. Krasny]]
*[[Rattles]]
*[[Rattles]]
*[[Arthur Read]]
*[[Molly MacDonald]]
*[[Molly MacDonald]]
===Minor===
*[[Francis Haney]]
*[[Francis Haney]]
*[[Slink]] (cameo)
*[[Slink]] (doesn't speak)
*[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]] (cameo)
*[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]] (doesn't speak)
*[[Fern Walters]] (cameo)
*[[Fern Walters]] (doesn't speak)
*[[Mr. Barnes]]
*[[Mr. Barnes]]
*[[Mrs. Barnes]] (cameo)
*[[Mrs. Barnes]] (doesn't speak)
*[[George Lundgren]]
*[[George Lundgren]]
*[[Jenna Morgan]] (cameo)
===Cameo===
*[[3rd Grade Male Rat]] (cameo)
*[[Jenna Morgan]]
*[[3rd Grade Female Cat (Number 2)]] (cameo)
*[[3rd Grade Male Rat]]
*[[Maria Pappas]] (cameo)
*[[3rd Grade Female Cat (Number 2)]]
*[[Alex]] (Cameo)
*[[Maria Pappas]]
*[[3rd Grade Female Aardvark]] (cameo)
*[[Alex]]
*[[3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 3)]] (cameo)
*[[3rd Grade Female Aardvark]]
*[[Ed Crosswire]] (mentioned)
*[[3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 3)]]
 
===Mentioned===
*[[Ed Crosswire]]


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*As with all [[Season 6|season six]] episodes, the end credits originally featured a remixed version of [[Believe in Yourself]]. Beginning in 2015, the credits were reformatted for reruns and now include the standard version of the song.
*This is Rattles’ last speaking role until "[[Thanks a Lot, Binky]]". It is also the last episode to feature his original voice actor
===Cultural references===
===Cultural references===
*The episode's title is a reference to the Great Depression-era song "{{W|Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?}}"
*The episode's title is a reference to the Great Depression-era song "{{W|Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?}}"
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*[[Francine Frensky|Francine]] mentioned {{W|Seventy-Six Trombones}}.
*[[Francine Frensky|Francine]] mentioned {{W|Seventy-Six Trombones}}.
*Binky tries to play the aria ''"''La donna è mobile" from the opera ''Rigoletto ''by Giuseppe Verdi in his room on his broken clarinet.
*Binky tries to play the aria ''"''La donna è mobile" from the opera ''Rigoletto ''by Giuseppe Verdi in his room on his broken clarinet.
*The band class plays the Mozart Clarinet Concerto.
===Episode connections===
===Episode connections===
*[[Bionic Bunny]] was watching ''[[The Love Ducks]]'' (from "That's a Baby Show") on the television in his apartment.
*[[Bionic Bunny]] was watching ''[[The Love Ducks]]'' on the television in his apartment.
===Errors===
===Errors===
[[File:Molly_colored_slink_clarinet_brother_can_you_spare.jpg|thumb|200px|Slink coloring error]]
[[File:Molly_colored_slink_clarinet_brother_can_you_spare.jpg|thumb|200px|Slink coloring error]]
*At the end when Binky walks into the "sunset," [[Slink]] is colored like [[Molly MacDonald|Molly]].
*At the end when Binky walks into the "sunset," [[Slink]] is colored like [[Molly MacDonald|Molly]].
**It possible that is Molly.


==Home Video==
==Home Video==
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