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To Eat or Not to Eat
| "To Eat or Not to Eat" | |
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| Season/Series: | 15 |
| Number in season: | 5A |
| Original Airdate: | October 3, 2010 (Australia) October 14, 2011 (North America) |
| Credits | |
| Written by: | Ken Pontac |
| Storyboard by: | Rob Clark Karine Charlebois Guy Lamoureux |
| Episodes | |
| Previous "Buster the Lounge Lizard" |
Next "S.W.E.A.T." |
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To Eat or Not to Eat is the first half of the 5th episode of Season 15. It first aired October 14, 2011 with "S.W.E.A.T.".
Summary
There is a new candy bar out and Buster wants to eat it, but it is causing all of his friends to go crazy. Buster investigates the candy bar and discovers an ingredient that is addictive.
Plot
Buster sees a commercial on TV for a new candy bar called Big Boss bars. He immediately starts seeing all of his friends eating the bars, including Binky who buys large amounts of Big Boss bars from the Sugar Bowl to sell to people and earn money. Buster decides to try the candy bar, but before he eats the candy, he notices that there are several ingredients on the nutrition label that he has not heard of before. Buster also notices that after his friends finish enjoying the candy, they become tired, sluggish, and they begin to have headaches. After going to the library and talking to the Brain to learn more about the ingredients, he finds out that some of the ingredients in the candy bar come from beetles and may be radioactive. When Buster tells his mother, she decides that they should take a tour of the candy factory. When Buster and his mother, they quickly learn that the ingredients in the candy are addictive and making people sick. Buster's mother writes and article in her newspaper, exposing the candy factory's secret and ending sales of Big Boss Bars. While Binky tries unsuccessfully to sell the now unwanted Big Boss bars, Buster admits he is glad he never tried the candy while he eats healthy food.
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Characters
- Arthur
- Buster
- Binky
- Brain
- George
- Muffy
- Fern
- Mr. Ratburn
Controversy
The Big Boss Bars being addictive, causing sluggishness, and including bugs and radioactive ingredients has raised some concern about how graphic the show's writers should go to explain what addicting drugs are.
Trivia
- The title of this episode is a parody of the line "To be or NOT to be", from the famous Shakespeare play, Hamlet.
- This is the second episode whose title is a parody of that line. The first was "To Beat or Not to Beat."
