D.W. Beats All

"D.W. Beats All"
Season/Series:	9
Number in season:	9A
Original Airdate:	April 7, 2005
Credits
Written by:	Raye Lankford
Storyboard by:	Jeremy O'Neill
Episodes
Previous "Emily Swallows a Horse"	Next "Buster the Myth Maker"
Read transcript

"D.W. Beats All" is the first half of the ninth episode in the ninth season of Arthur.

Summary

When the Tibble Twins get a set of drums and decide to perform the Summer Serenade Festival, D.W. wishes that she has an instrument of her own to play, and ultimately creates her own instrument.

Plot

D.W. discovers that the Tibble Twins got a set of drums for the Summer Serenade D.W. wants to try it out, but Tommy will not let her. After that, D.W. dreams of her getting her own drum set set and messing up all of Elwood City. However, Jane says no, then D.W. dreams about everybody booing at her at the Summer Serenade. So she decides to come up with her own type of instrument. She gathers all of the things she needs, some of them being:

• Kitchen Timer
• A Metronome
• Pogo Stick
• Sand Paper
• Spoons
• Hammer
• Cheese Grater
• Fan

• Rubber Ducky

• Newton's cradle

• A Toy ferris wheel

• Princess Sneeze-and-Wet

• A Bicycle Bell

• Glass Bottles

• Kate's Rattle

• A can of soda 
• Moo cans 
• Prunella's old See 'n Say 

And then she combines them into one thing and is prepared to go to Summer Serenade. However, due to the Tibble Twins playing randomly, many people are leaving, but when D.W. starts the audience likes it. At the end of the song D.W. shakes the soda can and the soda sprays everywhere and the timer ends. Everybody is amazed and applauds her, wanting her to take another bow. The Tibble Twins then want D.W. to teach them how to play her instrument. D.W. offers to give them her bottles since she plans to make a bigger creation next time.

Characters

Major characters

• D.W. Read
• Arthur Read
• Buster Baxter
• Tibble Twins

Minor characters

• Jane Read
• David Read
• Kate Read
• Mrs. Tibble
• Mr. Haney
• Fern Walters
• Francine Frensky

Background characters

• Binky Barnes
• Molly MacDonald
• Rattles
• Slink
• Unknown Male Adult Rabbit (Number 3)
• Unknown Female Adult Rabbit (Number 4)
• Nigel Ratburn
• Steve
• Otis

Trivia

• The drums the Tibble Twins are playing are the same two colors as their neckerchiefs.

Episode connections

• When David Read asks Arthur what the name of his band is, Arthur replies, "Well, we already used U Stink and We Stink..." in a reference to "Arthur, It's Only Rock and Roll".

Gallery

References