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'''"Freaky Tuesday"''' is the second half of the third episode in the [[Season 24|twenty-fourth season]] of ''[[Arthur]]''.
==Summary==
==Summary==
[[Buster Baxter|Buster]] switches bodies with [[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]] for a day and learns how hard it is to be a teacher.
[[Buster Baxter|Buster]] switches bodies with [[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]] for a day and learns how hard it is to be a teacher.
==Plot==
==Plot==
[[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]] hands out a test and goes to the teachers' lounge while the class works on it. [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] remarks that teachers have it easy.
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'''Freaky Tuesday'''
 
Buster’s pencil tip breaks as he starts to work on the test. He tries to use the sharpener in the classroom, but it falls apart.
 
Buster wants to ask Mr. Ratburn’s help so he goes to the teachers' lounge where he finds a lightning-cooked spanakopita on a table, which was part of a science experiment by the new teacher [[Carl Rambacher|Mr. Rambacher]]. Mr. Ratburn allows Buster to use the pencil sharpener in the lounge. When Buster drops pencil shavings on the spanakopita, Mr. Ratburn tries to stop him. Both touch the pie pan and switch bodies, though each of them keeps his usual voice.
 
[[Cecilia Tingley|Miss Tingley]] arrives and Mr. Ratburn takes Buster back to class. He tells Buster to supervise the test while he goes to find Mr. Rambacher. The class finishes the test unusually early, so Buster improvises a lesson on ancient Egypt.
 
Mr. Ratburn finds Mr. Rambacher and learns that the transfer may be reversed with another charge of lightning, or possibly the Light-o-Tronic 9000 in the old science lab.
 
Miss Tingley will not let Mr. Ratburn take the spanakopita, so he runs away with it. She stops him just as he is charging the pie using the machine.
 
Miss Tingley takes Mr. Ratburn to class, where the class is reenacting ancient Egypt using materials from the classroom. Mr. Ratburn is annoyed that Buster keeps mispronouncing “pharaoh”. Miss Tingley tells the real Buster about the wrong Buster’s exploits and also reminds him to get the tests graded. Meanwhile Mr. Ratburn as Buster gives a Ratburn-style lesson.
 
Once Miss Tingley is gone, Mr. Ratburn lets Buster continue and runs to the teachers’ lounge. There he distracts Miss Tingley and gets the spanakopita. Since Miss Tingley knows where to look for him, he leaves the pie pan in the lab and only takes two slices with him.
 
Buster corrects tests while the kids are playing on the playground. Mr. Ratburn brings two pieces of spanakopita. They eat them together, but stay as they are. Mr. Ratburn reasons that the pan is needed to conduct the electricity. He runs away as Miss Tingley approaches. [[Binky Barnes|Binky]] asks Buster how he does the grading. Buster grades penmanship and completeness rather than correctness. Mr. Ratburn returns with the pie pan, but he and Buster just get an electric shock from touching it.
 
Buster is unhappy, because teachers do not have it as easy as he thought. When the wind blows the tests away, he chases after them and wakes up in the classroom. The body switch had been a dream and Mr. Ratburn is still passing out tests. Buster is so happy to be himself that he is actually happy to take the test. As he starts working, his pencil tip breaks and he yells “No!”


==Characters==
==Characters==
===Major===
*[[Buster Baxter]]
*[[Buster Baxter]]
*[[Nigel Ratburn]]
*[[Nigel Ratburn]]
*[[Cecilia Tingley]]
*[[Cecilia Tingley]]
===Minor===
*[[Arthur Read]]
*[[Arthur Read]]
*[[Francine Frensky]]
*[[Francine Frensky]]
*[[Alan Powers|Brain]]
*[[Alan Powers|Brain]]
*[[Binky Barnes]]
*[[Binky Barnes]]
*[[Carl Rambacher]]
*Carl Rambacher
*[[Muffy Crosswire]] (cameo)
 
*[[Ladonna Compson]] (cameo)
===Cameo===
*[[Maria Pappas]] (cameo)
*[[Muffy Crosswire]]
*[[Alex]] (cameo)
*[[Ladonna Compson]]
*[[Jenna Morgan]] (cameo)
*[[Maria Pappas]]
*[[Fern Walters]] (cameo)
*[[Alex]]
*[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]] (cameo)
*[[Jenna Morgan]]
*[[George Lundgren]] (cameo)
*[[Fern Walters]]
*[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]]
*[[George Lundgren]]
 
==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*'''Running Gag:'''  
*'''Running gags:'''
**Binky asking if they can study outside.
**Binky asking if they can study outside.
**People walking/running through the wet cement, with Buster (in Mr. Ratburn's body) warning everyone about it.
**People walking (or running) through the wet cement, with Buster (in Mr. Ratburn's body) warning everyone about it.
*'''Moral:''' Cut students some slack.
 
===Episode connections===
===Episode connections===
*Buster goes inside the teachers' lounge. He and his friends previously wondered what it was like in "[[Buster the Lounge Lizard]]".
*Buster goes inside the teachers' lounge. He and his friends previously wondered what it was like in "[[Buster the Lounge Lizard]]".
===Cultural references===
===Cultural references===
*Spanakopita is a Greek spinach pie.
*The title and main plot of the episode is a parody of the 1972 children's novel ''{{W|Freaky Friday}}''.
*The title and main plot of the episode is a parody of the 1972 children's novel ''{{W|Freaky Friday}}''.
**Instead of being about a mother and her daughter switching bodies, it is about a teacher (Mr. Ratburn) and his student (Buster) switching bodies.
**Instead of being about a mother and her daughter switching bodies, it is about a teacher (Mr. Ratburn) and his student (Buster) switching bodies.

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