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|ep. name = Buster and the Daredevils
|ep. name = Buster and the Daredevils
|image = 2x03b.png
|image = 2x03b.png
|titlecard = Buster and the Daredevils Title Card.png
|season = [[Season 2|2]]
|season = [[Season 2|2]]
|us= October 22, 1997<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19980130120412/http://www.ket.org/Visions/Oct97/VL971022.html</ref>
|us= October 22, 1997<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19980130120412/http://www.ket.org/Visions/Oct97/VL971022.html</ref>
|ger = January 28, 2002<ref>https://www.fernsehserien.de/erdferkel-arthur-und-seine-freunde/episodenguide/staffel-2/3906</ref>
|prod. code = 203b
|prod. code = 203b
|prev. episode = [[D.W., the Picky Eater (episode)|D.W., the Picky Eater]]
|prev. episode = [[D.W., the Picky Eater (episode)|D.W., the Picky Eater]]
|next episode = [[Arthur Makes a Movie]]
|next episode = [[Arthur Makes a Movie]]
|writers = [[Peter K. Hirsch]]
|writers = [[Peter K. Hirsch]]
|storyboarders = [[Grace Lam]]|number = 3B|titlecard = Buster and the Daredevils Title Card.png|reader = Binky}}{{EpisodeHeader|2|3|2}}
|storyboarders = [[Grace Lam]]
|number = 3B}}{{EpisodeHeader|2|3|2}}
 
==Summary==
==Summary==
Buster begins keeping bad company in his eagerness to learn his new "friends'" skating tricks. Arthur realizes that they are just having Buster make a fool of himself for their own amusement.
[[Buster Baxter|Buster]] begins keeping bad company in his eagerness to learn his new "friends" skating tricks. [[Arthur]] realizes that they are just having Buster make a fool of himself for their own amusement.
 
==Plot==
==Plot==
Buster is in the park with his two new friends [[Toby]] and [[Slink]], who announce to the kids that ''Buster the Brave ''is about to do something amazing right in front of them. Arthur stops the episode (Apparently stopping everyone around him as if they were statues too) and says that this is all wrong.
Buster is in the park with his two new friends, [[Toby]] and [[Slink]], who announce to the kids that "Buster the Brave" is about to do something amazing right in front of them. Arthur stops the episode (Apparently stopping everyone around him as if they were statues too) and says that this is all wrong.


He remarks that Buster is not brave, and recalls how on Halloween Buster couldn't distinguish costumes from real pirates, aliens, etc., and kept getting freaked out by them. Arthur then remarks how Buster looks nervous, and finds something terrible in the paper bag Slink is holding.
He remarks that Buster is not brave, and recalls how on Halloween Buster couldn't distinguish costumes from real pirates, aliens, etc., and kept getting freaked out by them. Arthur then remarks how Buster looks nervous, and finds something terrible in the paper bag Slink is holding.
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Arthur and Buster are found playing in the park with Cyber Toy action figures. They battle each other as their action figures transform into starfighters. They then see two boys, Toby and Slink performing skate tricks around the park, which leaves them in awe.
Arthur and Buster are running around in the park, playing with their robot action figures. They soon notice two older boys, Toby and Slink, doing tricks on their roller skates and skateboard, respectively. Impressed by their moves, Arthur and Busters ask Toby and Slink to teach them some moves. Toby and Slink decline, saying that they're a bit too young to learn them.
 
Thy ask if they can learn them, but Toby and Slink say they're too young, since they just happened to be playing in the sandbox. Arthur pretends that he was finding something, but Toby and Slink run off. The boys later come back to the park with their skateboards and strap-on skates.
 
They try to imitate the tricks Toby and Slink did, but fail miserably. Toby and Slink come back and make fun of them, but soon run off to go to Comic-mania. Buster decides to go to Comic-mania, and Arthur tags along.


There, they find the first issue of Bionic Bunny vs. Techno Turtle, but Toby and Slink say it's a baby comic, and recommend ''Peabrain and Nuthead'' instead. Arthur and Buster don't get the comic, but pretend to like it.
Soon, Arthur and Buster get their own roller skates and skateboard and try to recreate Toby and Slink's moves, but to no avail. Later on, Arthur and Buster are at the comic book store and they want to read the latest Bionic Bunny comic. They run into Toby and Slink, who show them the latest "Peabrain and Nuthead" comic instead. Arthur and Buster don't get the comic, but pretend to like it.


Buster and Arthur later track Toby and Slink to a local restaurant, where they attempt to dress and talk like cool kids. They then ask the boys if they'd be willing to teach them skate tricks, but are turned down flat.
Later, Arthur and Buster show up at Billy's Burger Barn, dressed in other outfits that make them look cool. Buster is still in his outfit and Arthur wears a red cap, black shirt, belt and his father's shorts, white socks and black sneakers with white laces. They ask Toby and Slink if they can hang out with them. Toby and Slink decline, and Arthur and Buster both leave dejectedly..


Just as they turn to leave, Slink comes up with an idea and says the boys can hang out with them, but Toby remarks that they have to do a little dare first. The two boys are dared to sing in public out on the street, but Arthur realizes that Toby and Slink may be merely making fun of them.
That is, until Toby and Slink seemingly have a change of heart. They agree to let Arthur and Buster hang out with them, in exchange for them doing one small dare.


He then sees his mom and D.W. shopping and goes with them instead, just in time to watch Buster sing ''Mary Had a Little Lamb'' in front of the entire town. Everyone is shocked at this humiliating move. Later, the gang goes to the Sugar Bowl, but Buster is still hanging out with Toby and Slink.
Soon, Arthur and Buster are standing on a sidewalk, and it appears as if they are about to sing. However, Arthur spots his mother and D.W. heading their way, and he hurriedly leaves Buster by himself. Buster soon after starts singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb," much to Arthur's embarrassment.


He is dared to go to Binky and send him a little message. He tells Binky that his mother eats gym shorts, which outrages Binky. He throws his strawberry sundae at Buster's face, but Buster doesn't mind. Later, Arthur's baseball team faces off against Mighty Mountain, which happens to be Toby and Slink's team too.
Later on at the Sugar Bowl, Toby and Slink give Buster another dare. This time, he tells Binky that his mother eats gym shorts, which angers Binky, who responds by dumping his strawberry milkshake on him.


When Buster is out on base, Slink dares Buster once more. Buster asks Francine out for advice, and then kisses her! Enraged, Francine chases Buster out of the ballpark, costing Lakewood a potential run. Arthur is fed up with this nonsense and goes to talk to Buster.
After seeing Buster getting dared once more at the baseball field (Slink dared him to kiss Francine, and when he does, she angrily chases him), Arthur decides to talk to Buster the next day, only to find out that Buster was dared once again---this time, he was dared not to talk for a day. Arthur tells Buster to not have Toby and Slink give him anymore dares because if they really wanted Buster to be their friend, they wouldn't make him do these stupid dares.


This time, Buster has been dared not to talk for the entire day. Arthur points out that if Toby and Slink wanted to be his friends, they wouldn't do these things to him.
Buster takes Arthur's advice and tries to tell the older boys not to dare him, but this time, they offer to teach Buster some skateboarding moves if he does one more dare.


Buster agrees and tells Toby and Slink he has had enough, but they coax him in again by telling him they would share with him their sacred knowledge on skate tricks, and that he could join the secret "Brotherhood of Daredevils".
The next day at the park, a small crowd of kids form as Toby and Slink announce their latest dare: To make Buster eat a bug! After a few seconds, Buster refuses and dares Slink to eat the bug. Slink refuses and Buster soon leaves to hang out with his real friends, learning that he doesn't have to do something because he was dared to.
 
However, he had to do one more dare before he could join. At the park, Arthur and the Brain are playing with their Cyber Toys when Buster shows up with Toby and Slink. They announce that ''Buster the Brave'' will do something shocking for them...Slink pulls a jar out of a paper bag, and declares Buster will eat a bug!
 
Buster takes it, but cannot bring himself to do it, and after Arthur says for him not to do it, Buster tells Slink to eat it! Toby says Slink isn't dumb enough to do that, and Buster realizes that it's stupid to do something just because he was dared.
 
At that, he ditches Toby and Slink and runs off. Slink blames Toby for ruining everything and the two of them begin fighting over who should eat the bug. Buster goes back to playing with his real friends, and no longer wants to accept anymore dares.


==Characters==
==Characters==
'''Main'''
*[[Arthur Read]]
*[[Arthur Read]]
*[[Buster Baxter]]
*[[Buster Baxter]]
*[[Toby]]
*[[Toby]]
*[[Slink]]
*[[Slink]]
'''Minor'''
*[[Francine Frensky]]
*[[Francine Frensky]]
*[[Binky Barnes]]
*[[Binky Barnes]]
*[[Alan Powers]]
*[[Techno Turtle]]
*[[Alan Powers|The Brain]]
*[[Jane Read]]
*[[Jane Read]]
*[[D.W. Read]]
*[[D.W. Read]]
'''Background'''
*[[Otis]] (cameo)
*[[Otis]]
*[[3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 2)]] (cameo)
*[[3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 2)]]
*[[3rd Grade Male Dog]] (cameo)
*[[3rd Grade Male Dog]]
*[[3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 3)]] (cameo)
*[[3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 3)]]
*[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]] (cameo)
*[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]]
*[[Muffy Crosswire]] (cameo)
*[[Muffy Crosswire]]
*[[3rd Grade Male Rat]] (cameo)
*[[3rd Grade Male Rat]]
*[[Alex]] (cameo)
*[[Alex]]
*[[George Lundgren]] (cameo)
*[[George Lundgren]]


==Songs==
==Songs==
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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*The issue of accepting dares arises again in the later episode "[[Double Dare]]".
*The issue of accepting dares arises again in the later episode "[[Double Dare]]".
===Cultural references===
*'''Running Gag:''' Buster doing dares.
*The Peabrain and Nuthead Comic is a parody of the MTV series. ''[[wikipedia:Beavis and Butthead|Beavis and Butthead]]''.
*'''Innunedo:'''  One kid refers to Arthur's skates as "strap-ons."
*'''Timeline:''' D.W. mentions that Arthur hates clothes shopping. This is seen in “Arthur Bounces Back”.
*'''Moral:'''
**Dont make other people look bad for your own personal benefit.
**Just because someone dares you to do something doesn't mean you actually have to act on it.
===Errors===
===Errors===
*Buster says he found Arthur's penny in the sand box, yet pennies are copper, not silver, like the one he is holding.
*Buster says he found Arthur's penny in the sand box, yet pennies are copper, not silver, like the one he is holding.
*When Toby says Nuthead is a pecan, the background behind him is of the playground instead of comic mania.
*When Toby says Nuthead is a pecan, the background behind him is of the playground instead of comic mania.
*At the baseball game Arthur's hat is tan but a few shots later when he says "I think I need to talk to Buster" it's red.
*At the baseball game Arthur's hat is tan but a few shots later when he says "I think I need to talk to Buster" it's red.
===Cultural references===
*The Peabrain and Nuthead Comic is a parody of the MTV series ''[[wikipedia:Beavis and Butthead|Beavis and Butthead]]''.
*The action figures that Arthur, Buster and Brain are playing with in the sandbox resemble the ''Transformers'' toys.


==Home video==
==Home Video==
'''DVD:'''
'''DVD:'''
*[[Hooray for Health!]]
*[[Hooray for Health!]]
 
*[[Arthur: The Complete Series 2]]
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
{{Main|Buster and the Daredevils/Gallery}}
{{Main|Buster and the Daredevils/Gallery}}
==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 13:20, 27 October 2023

"Buster and the Daredevils"
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Season/Series: 2
Number in season: 3B
Original Airdate: United States October 22, 1997[1]
Germany January 28, 2002[2]
Credits
Written by: Peter K. Hirsch
Storyboard by: Grace Lam
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"Buster and the Daredevils" is the second half of the third episode in the second season of Arthur.

Summary[edit]

Buster begins keeping bad company in his eagerness to learn his new "friends" skating tricks. Arthur realizes that they are just having Buster make a fool of himself for their own amusement.

Plot[edit]

Buster is in the park with his two new friends, Toby and Slink, who announce to the kids that "Buster the Brave" is about to do something amazing right in front of them. Arthur stops the episode (Apparently stopping everyone around him as if they were statues too) and says that this is all wrong.

He remarks that Buster is not brave, and recalls how on Halloween Buster couldn't distinguish costumes from real pirates, aliens, etc., and kept getting freaked out by them. Arthur then remarks how Buster looks nervous, and finds something terrible in the paper bag Slink is holding.

Buster and the Daredevils

Arthur and Buster are running around in the park, playing with their robot action figures. They soon notice two older boys, Toby and Slink, doing tricks on their roller skates and skateboard, respectively. Impressed by their moves, Arthur and Busters ask Toby and Slink to teach them some moves. Toby and Slink decline, saying that they're a bit too young to learn them.

Soon, Arthur and Buster get their own roller skates and skateboard and try to recreate Toby and Slink's moves, but to no avail. Later on, Arthur and Buster are at the comic book store and they want to read the latest Bionic Bunny comic. They run into Toby and Slink, who show them the latest "Peabrain and Nuthead" comic instead. Arthur and Buster don't get the comic, but pretend to like it.

Later, Arthur and Buster show up at Billy's Burger Barn, dressed in other outfits that make them look cool. Buster is still in his outfit and Arthur wears a red cap, black shirt, belt and his father's shorts, white socks and black sneakers with white laces. They ask Toby and Slink if they can hang out with them. Toby and Slink decline, and Arthur and Buster both leave dejectedly..

That is, until Toby and Slink seemingly have a change of heart. They agree to let Arthur and Buster hang out with them, in exchange for them doing one small dare.

Soon, Arthur and Buster are standing on a sidewalk, and it appears as if they are about to sing. However, Arthur spots his mother and D.W. heading their way, and he hurriedly leaves Buster by himself. Buster soon after starts singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb," much to Arthur's embarrassment.

Later on at the Sugar Bowl, Toby and Slink give Buster another dare. This time, he tells Binky that his mother eats gym shorts, which angers Binky, who responds by dumping his strawberry milkshake on him.

After seeing Buster getting dared once more at the baseball field (Slink dared him to kiss Francine, and when he does, she angrily chases him), Arthur decides to talk to Buster the next day, only to find out that Buster was dared once again---this time, he was dared not to talk for a day. Arthur tells Buster to not have Toby and Slink give him anymore dares because if they really wanted Buster to be their friend, they wouldn't make him do these stupid dares.

Buster takes Arthur's advice and tries to tell the older boys not to dare him, but this time, they offer to teach Buster some skateboarding moves if he does one more dare.

The next day at the park, a small crowd of kids form as Toby and Slink announce their latest dare: To make Buster eat a bug! After a few seconds, Buster refuses and dares Slink to eat the bug. Slink refuses and Buster soon leaves to hang out with his real friends, learning that he doesn't have to do something because he was dared to.

Characters[edit]

Songs[edit]

Trivia[edit]

  • The issue of accepting dares arises again in the later episode "Double Dare".
  • Running Gag: Buster doing dares.
  • Innunedo: One kid refers to Arthur's skates as "strap-ons."
  • Timeline: D.W. mentions that Arthur hates clothes shopping. This is seen in “Arthur Bounces Back”.
  • Moral:
    • Dont make other people look bad for your own personal benefit.
    • Just because someone dares you to do something doesn't mean you actually have to act on it.

Errors[edit]

  • Buster says he found Arthur's penny in the sand box, yet pennies are copper, not silver, like the one he is holding.
  • When Toby says Nuthead is a pecan, the background behind him is of the playground instead of comic mania.
  • At the baseball game Arthur's hat is tan but a few shots later when he says "I think I need to talk to Buster" it's red.

Cultural references[edit]

  • The Peabrain and Nuthead Comic is a parody of the MTV series Beavis and Butthead.
  • The action figures that Arthur, Buster and Brain are playing with in the sandbox resemble the Transformers toys.

Home Video[edit]

DVD:

Gallery[edit]

:Main article: Buster and the Daredevils/Gallery

References[edit]