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| [[Arthur Read]]: It's the last day of school. When that bell rings, summer starts!
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| [[Mrs. Fink]]'s class: (singing) Summer is fun / It's just begun / There's lots of sun / We'll play and run / Summer is number one / La la la la la...
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| [[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]]: Only two minutes left in the school year, there's time for one last math problem.
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| (Arthur takes a paper labeled "SUMMER STUFF" out of a book.)
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| Arthur: This is my list of all the great things I plan to do this summer.
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| (Fade to a calendar. The month shown on it is June. The top image shows flowers, which are zoomed in and revealed to be in Arthur's yard, where he and [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] are playing badminton. Arthur hits Buster in the head with the shuttlecock.)
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| Buster: Ow! Hey, watch the birdie!
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| Arthur: Sorry, Buster.
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| (The calendar switches to July and shows a beach. Arthur and Buster are playing volleyball. [[Sue Ellen Armstrong|Sue Ellen]] is playing the saxophone and [[Binky Barnes|Binky]] is singing on a stage.)
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| Binky: Rocking at the beach! Rocking at the beach!
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| (The calendar switches to August. Arthur, Buster, and [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] are watching the clouds.)
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| Arthur: I see a hippo.
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| Buster: I see a train racing an octopus.
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| Francine: That is the most ridiculous- Hey! He's right!
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| (There is, in fact, a train-shaped cloud chasing an octopus-shaped cloud. Fade back to school.)
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| Mr. Ratburn: The answer is seventeen and a half. Have a good summer!
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| (The kids run out of school.)
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| Arthur: Summer is '''here'''!
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| THE SHORT, QUICK SUMMER
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| Written by: [[Joe Fallon]]—Storyboard by: [[Denis Banville]]
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| (Bird singing, thunder crashing)
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| [[Binky Barnes]]: (V.O.) The Short, Quick Summer.
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| Arthur: (yawns) It's another perfect summer day, [[Pal]]. What should we do? We could go to the park, or go swimming, or play—
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| [[Jane Read]]: How about shopping for back-to-school clothes?
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| Arthur: Yuck! Why would I want to do that?
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| Jane: Because you start school next week!
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| Arthur: (gasps) It's the last week of summer already?! It can't be! It is impossible! It feels like summer just started and it's already over!
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| (In the living room)
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| [[D.W. Read]]: Are we playing cave?
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| Arthur: We're not playing anything. I'm looking for my list.
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| D.W.: What list?
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| Arthur: The list I made when summer started of all the things I wanted to do! And I don't think I did any of them yet!
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| D.W.: Was losing the list on the list? You did that.
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| (In Arthur's room)
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| Arthur: I only have one week left to do all the things on my list!
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| D.W.: (screaming) A ghost! A hairy ghost! Aw, it's just your dopey dog.
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| (Outside)
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| D.W.: (playing in the sprinkler and laughing)
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| [[Kate Read]]: (giggles)
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| Jane: Where's Arthur? He's missing all the fun.
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| Arthur: (searches for his list in a trash can) If I were a list, where would I be? (grunts, falls inside and rolls down the driveway)
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| [[David Read]]: Arthur, you could get hurt playing like that.
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| Arthur: Who's playing? I'm not having any fun at all!
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| (In [[The Tree House|the tree house]])
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| [[Buster Baxter]]: Come on, Arthur. Let's play [[Kangaroo Court]]. Sue the kangaroo cohorts in a quazy courtroom! And it's just fun, not educational. Can't beat that!
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| Arthur: I've gotta find it! Summer's almost over and I hadn't done anything!
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| Buster: Sure you did. What about the carousel?
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| (A flashback starts)
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| Buster: What are you doing, [[Gunky]]?
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| Gunky: This old carousel's done its last go-round, boys. I'm outta business.
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| Buster: Why? Everybody loves the carousel!
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| Gunky: [[Ed Crosswire|Mr. Crosswire]] has bought it and I hear he's a-rippin' it down.
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| (Arthur and Buster gasp. Cut to Mr. Crosswire in his office, showing off a drawing of a carousel with a cent sign over it, and crossing it out. There is a drawing of Crosswire Motors with a dollar sign above it.)
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| EdW Crosswire: This is where I want the new grease pits.
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| Crosswire Motors Worker: We'll have the designs ready by next week, Mr. Crosswire.
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| (Arthur and Buster gasp. Fade to [[The Sugar Bowl]].)
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| Binky: Grease pits could be fun, too.
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| Buster: We wouldn't get to play in them. They're for his car business!
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| Binky: Oh, that rots! We've gotta do something!
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| Buster: We need to band together!
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| (Everyone cheers. Cut to a bulldozer at the carousel site, where people are protesting the grease pits.)
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| Ed Crosswire: What is going on here?
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| Buster: I banded together the band to save the carousel! We don't want grease pits!
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| Binky: Not unless we can play in 'em!
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| [[Thora Read|Grandma Thora]]: (holding a photo album) Everyone grew up on this ride, including this young boy.
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| Ed Crosswire: Why, that's me! And Daddy! I'm so cute! Okay, okay, it's staying.
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| (Cheering.)
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| Gunky: Your idea worked, Buster! You saved the carousel!
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| (End of flashback.)
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| Arthur: That was something you did, not me.
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| Buster: Yeah... Boy, I had a great summer!
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| === #{{TitleSort}} ===
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| ''Arthur is at the Sugar Bowl with Buster, Fern and Sue Ellen.''
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| '''Fern:''' What could be dumber than wasting an entire summer?
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| I went to poetry camp. I was the poetry champ.
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| This ribbon on my chest means that I’m the best
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| And now it’s hard to stop making rhymes. I must have tried a thousand times.
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| === # ===
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| '''Arthur: '''Only two days left! I flunked summer! When school starts, I'll probably flunk recess too!
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| === # ===
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| ''Arthur has found his “to do”-list.''
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| '''Arthur: '''I did ''everything'' on this list. Thanks for asking me to read it, D.W..
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| '''D.W.: '''I was trying to make him feel rotten and he feels great. I’m a failure as a little sister.
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| ''Arthur, Buster and Francine are sitting in the Reads’ garden roasting marshmallows over a barbeque.''
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| '''Arthur: '''It’s the last night of summer.
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| '''Buster''': Yup.
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| ''In their imagination they are cowboys sitting around a campfire at sundown.''
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| '''Francine''': There’s a lot of places I’d like to see, and they’re all just beyond that horizon.
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| '''Buster''': But there’s no more time. School starts tomorrow.
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| '''Arthur: '''Yup. School’s going to be relaxing after all the adventures I had this summer.
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| '''Francine''': Yup.
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| '''Arthur:''' Another marshmallow anyone?
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| '''Buster''': Yup. ''A coyote howls.''[[Category:Season 2 transcripts]]
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