The Cave

"The Cave"
Season/Series:	5
Number in season:	4B
Original Airdate:	September 25, 2000
Credits
Written by:	Joseph Purdy
Storyboard by:	Nick Vallinakis Zoran Vanjaka
Episodes
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"The Cave" is the second half of the 4th episode of season 5. It originally aired on September 25th, 2000. It was written by Joseph Purdy and the storyboards were done by Nick Vallinakis and Zoran Vanjaka.

Summary

Arthur and his classmates take a field trip to some caves in Palisades Park. Arthur's afraid of going into the caves, but once inside, he's not the one that's spooked the most. He uses what his dad told him before at home and he gets everyone out of the cave calmly.

Plot

Opening

The opening begins with an armadillo in a cave as Arthur comes by and begins to talk of how people dealt with being submitted to the darkness over the course of years.

In the 19th century, someone came up with a light bulb. Arthur suggests a name, to which the man then quickly leaves. Arthur then begins to discuss how useful it is, then yells when D.W. turns out the lights.

Episode

Arthur and his classmates are preparing for a field trip to some caves in Palisades Park after making replicas of caves for homework. Discussing mostly bats, and other creatures that live in there. He reminds them of the replicas and that they are due tomorrow.

During class, Francine teases Arthur of being scared of going inside a cave, which annoys him. Mr. Ratburn explains what Spelunking is, to which most of the students are looking forward to and he claims the caves will seem less frightening the more they study them. He then reminds them of their homework before class ends.

Upon learning this from him at home, D.W. tries to make Arthur admit to being scared going into the caves, even going so far by trying to pull scary tricks on him, though Arthur isn't actually moved by them at all, much to D.W.'s anger.

s helpful 'whistling' tip.

Francine, on the other hand, refuses to admit that she was that scared, though Binky proves this wrong by having taken two pictures of Francine and Mr. Ratburn being scared while seeing the bats, as well as pulling a trick on Francine to make her believe that she's getting attacked by a bat, leaving Arthur and the others to laugh at her for falling suck a silly trick. Annoyed, Francine chases after Binky, swearing that he'll be sorry for taking those pictures.

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