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Play it Again, D.W.
| "Play it Again, D.W." | |
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| Season/Series: | 2 |
| Number in season: | 6B |
| Original Airdate: | October 27, 1997 |
| Credits | |
| Written by: | Joe Fallon |
| Storyboard by: | Harry Rasmussen |
| Episodes | |
| Previous "Buster Baxter, Cat Saver" |
Next "Arthur's TV-Free Week" |
| Read transcript | |
Play it Again, D.W. is the second half of the 6th episode of Season 2 of Arthur. Together with "Buster Baxter, Cat Saver", it first aired on October 27th, 1997.
Summary
D.W. is still playing her "Crazy Bus" CD (since "Buster Baxter, Cat Saver") and Arthur is already annoyed by it. When the CD goes missing, D.W. and the others pin the blame on Arthur.
Plot
D.W. is still playing her "Crazy Bus" CD (since the previous episode) and Arthur is getting annoyed by it. She plays her CD constantly and brings the Radio with her, everywhere she goes, and when she's not listening to it she's humming it and playing with its merchandise.
At one point, Arthur recorded D.W. as having played the song a whopping 532 times in a single week! Unfortunately, neither his friends nor his parents seem to find it as being too much, annoying him even more. D.W. then surprises Arthur with four tickets to "Crazy Bus Live".
Which he has to attend against his will. Arthur is embarrassed to be there and wears a silly disguise under the alias "Steve" to avoid being seen. He then finds Buster enjoying the show, much to his horror. Arthur has a nightmare where all of his friends and family are riding and singing Crazy Bus, and he desperately tries to find a way off.
One night while Arthur is doing his homework, D.W. plays the song yet again and at full volume. Arthur was so frustrated, that he threatens to wreck the "Crazy Bus" CD, scaring D.W. and prompting her to tell on Arthur while her parents are searching for music to listen to at a high school reunion.
They send Arthur to his room as a punishment and he got banned from watching TV until he finally got a break. But then, a little later, D.W. has a panic attack and flips out when she discovers that her CD is missing.
She accuses Arthur of stealing it and imagines that David blames Arthur and says What if DW listens to May Moo Cow you going to take it from her? Jane beats Arthur up and throws him out and throws his stuff at him and says I hope you're happy for crying out loud why do you hate DW? DW says to the police take him away and the cops arrest him arthur said no stop but the paddy wagon drives off Jane and David laugh evily and the judge blames Arthur and he is put in striped jail clothes and in a cell and picture is taken Jane calls him and says she loves Kate more. , but he denies it. D.W. goes so far to bring up the snowball incident again, which he immediately shoots down. D.W. begins to harass Arthur endlessly as she is convinced he is the thief, and Arthur is unable to prove his innocence.
The next afternoon, Arthur goes on a rowboat with Buster and Francine at the Mill Creek River while his family is out on a picnic. Arthur discusses the "Crazy Bus" CD incident with his two friends, and says he doesn't have the CD, but Francine doesn't believe him.
Buster claims that an ancient race of squids took it to their hidden grotto beneath the sea. Arthur imagines squids (who actually live in the ocean) at the bottom of the river to whether or not they have the CD, and sing the "Crazy Bus" song.
Later that week, Francine's sister Catherine is asked to babysit for the kids while their parents go to their reunion, and all the while D.W. spies on Arthur, trying to catch him with the CD even accidentally mistaking a computer game that Arthur borrowed from the Brain for her CD.
She goes so far as to destroy Arthur's room in an attempt to find it. Arthur loses his patience, forcing Catherine to improvise. She ties tape down in the den and forces the two kids to opposite sides of the room.
When Arthur tries to retrieve his jacket from D.W.'s side, she says her CD is in the jacket and she tries to take it, and end up arguing over. After Arthur calls D.W.'s CD "Stupid Bus", D.W. retaliates by saying that "Stupid Bus" is a lame puppet show.
At the reunion, Mr. Read puts on the music for his friends, only to discover that he accidentally took Crazy Bus! Their mom calls the house and reveals that they took the CD by accident, not Arthur.
D.W. stops fighting and takes off the tape, but Arthur is furious that the CD was found the whole time! That night, they give the CD back to her, but she doesn't want to listen to it anymore, much to Arthur's surprise.
Instead, she watches a Crazy Bus tape Grandma Thora gave her! Arthur then realizes that he spoke too soon. He runs off in frustration once again, shouting "Mom!"
Characters
| Major Roles | Minor Roles | Cameos | Mentioned |
Trivia
- D.W. first played "Crazy Bus" during Buster Baxter, Cat Saver. Arthur gave her headphones so she could play it without bothering Arthur, but by this episode she ended up breaking them.
- The snowball incident is brought up again in this episode.
- When it aired on UncoTV, there is a video problem where it freezes for ten seconds, then switched to where it was for unknown reasons.
- David and Jane's graduating class is said to be 1978 as seen on the cover of the jewel case featuring songs they danced to in high school. However, the series has no specific timeline.
- In DW's dream David sounds like Mr. Potato Head from Toy story and Jane sounds like Cinderella's wicked stepmother and is similar to the fifth season episodes Nerves of steal, Arthur's family feud and The election.
Goofs
- While Catherine is doing homework, she was first seen writing with her left hand; but in the next few seconds, she switches to her right hand, although she is normally right-handed like her sister Francine. This could mean she's ambidextrous.
