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Lost!
| "Lost!" | |
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| Season/Series: | 2 |
| Number in season: | 9A |
| Original Airdate: | December 8, 1997 |
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| Written by: | Kathy Waugh |
| Storyboard by: | Gerry Capelle |
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Summary
Arthur falls asleep on a bus and wakes up in a strange — and scary — part of town.
Plot
One day, Arthur's mom, Jane, recieves a call, with someone telling her that Arthur is lost, promting her to say "Lost?" D.W. and Pal, Arthur's sister and dog, both say "Lost?" one after another, with Pal's in words since he can't speak. D.W. and Jane tell Arthur's father, David, and while Jane tells him Arthur never made it to his swimming lesson, D.W. gets emotional. Once D.W. calms down, they all wonder where he is. David drives to the school, and Jane calls the bus company. D.W. tries to help, but Jane forces her to stay at home for now. She dosen't want TWO lost children. D.W. knows Arthur is out there somewhere. She begins to cry before screaming, "OH, ARTHUR! WHERE ARE YOU?!?!?"
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Arthur arrives home to his worried parents, relieved that he arrived home. D.W. then thinks that this was for nothing, when she thinks he was at the bus station. The family then sit down in the living room, asking him to tell everyone what happened, but D.W. thinks her side of the story is much better, saying that she answered the phone and get worried sick! When Jane says that her part will come later, Arthur begins to tell the family.
In a flashback at school, the classes are dismissed, and Buster and Francine ask Arthur if he wants to go bike riding, but turns down the offer because he has to take the bus to the public pool for swimming lessons. His mom couldn't drive him because shes attending D.W's school play, where D.W. plays the mashed potatoes in the pageant of foods. Francine and Buster stare at arthur in horror, but arthur says it'll be fine, after they say stuff about the bus that terrifys Arthur. Buster claims he heard of a story of a man wo got on a bus, but it kept going and going and going. In one of Arthurs daydreams, he thinks he's on the same bus, and everyone turns into squid people, catching arthur! Francine says she heard that story turn into a movie last week, and then she agrees with Arthur, but warns him about a kid who couldn't leave the bus because he didn't have the money, and this happens in another daydream from Arthur, where he's at least 40, and his clothes are wrecked. The bus then arrives, and Buster and Francine give their last goodbyes before it leaves. As Arthur takes a seat, a woman a row of seats down winks at him, and Arthur begins to read a book about Squids. He begins to get exhausted and sleeps, before sleeping to the point he coul;dn't wake up until later, and the bus pulls in at a bus stop, before leaving again. That bus stop was the one that was across the street from the Public Pool, the one that Arthur had to take.
In the present, Arthur states that he couldn't help it. He was up all night doing some reading, which turns out to be a comic, way, WAY past his bedtime, but continues to read. David then states that he was reading and was exhausted, making him fall asleep, and then Arthur claims it got quite scary. Back in the flashback, he wakes up to be in a town he never knew, before realizing he's near the city limits of Elwood City. He asks the same woman on the bus where he is, and she answers that they're near the edge of tow, before asking if he's alright. He says he's fine before it hit him: He missed the pool, and now he's lost! D.W, back in the present, gets awed by this and asks him if he was scared, which he claims he wasn't. David asks why he couldn't say anything, but Arthur said he thought about it, but didn't reach his mind to say anything in time before the bus left the town. He mumbles why he had to take swimming lessons anyway and says he'll walk home, but dosen't know where he's going. He dosen't even have enough money to take the bus back! He begins to cry before, in the present, D.W. asks if he cried, which he cried a little. D.W. then says he should've seen how much she cried, buut Jane stops her before shes getting ahead of herself.
Back in the past, he found a payphone in a Diner, and he knew that, even with Mom and Dad at work, Grandma Thora would pick him up. He has a daydream where she would go through anything to pick him up, like jumping over an open piece of road, astonishing the construction workers. She picks him up, but when he tries to use the payphone, it dosen't work. He asks someone for help, and the same woman n the bus, who works for the diner, notices him. She notice he looks hungry and offers him a drink. He orders milk while he waits. Back in the present, D.W's story comes. The phone rings when D.W. and Jane are busy. D.W. answers the phone, and asks mom if they lost Arthur, but she says they'll need to pick him up soon and asks who it is. It was a man from the pool who says Arthur isn't their, much to the shock, horror, and dismay to Jane. Jane begins to cry, but D.W. says that
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Trivia
- This is one of the few times Arthur is shown to cry.
- Lost! became adapted into a book in the Arthur Adventure series and re-titled as Arthur Lost and Found.
- It is interesting that Arthur's parents says not to accept money from strangers, but Arthur is fine with eating food from a stranger. Then again, it is a restaurant.
Goofs
- The Photographer can be seen sitting next to Arthur on the bus, but when the Manny's Diner worker is shown, he is also seen sitting next to her.
- During the time Arthur is on the bus, the bus goes past the same buildings multiple times. This is likely because backgrounds were reused.
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