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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[1] December 1, 1997[2] January 31, 2002[3] |
| Credits | |
| Written by: | Joe Fallon |
| Storyboard by: | Harry Rasmussen |
| Episodes | |
| Previous "Buster Baxter, Cat Saver" |
Next "Arthur's TV-Free Week" |
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Summary
D.W. suspects Arthur as the perpetrator when her favorite kid CD, which she plays relentlessly, disappears.
Plot
During the prologue, Arthur says it's no big surprise when D.W. does something annoying. There was one time when she beat him at checkers and spent the whole year telling everyone. But nothing ever in the entire history of Arthur's whole life has ever been as bad as D.W. playing "Crazy Bus" over and over again.
Title Card
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 the song and playing with its merchandise.
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 elephant trunk disguise under the alias "Steve" to avoid being seen. He then finds Buster enjoying the show, much to his horror. Arthur later imagines that he is trapped in the Crazy Bus with all of his friends and family who are happily singing the song nonstop.
One night while Arthur is doing his homework, D.W. plays the song yet again and at full volume. Arthur is so frustrated that he threatens to wreck the "Crazy Bus" CD, scaring D.W. and prompting her to tell on Arthur while their parents are searching for music to listen to at a high school reunion.
Arthur gets in trouble for threatening to smash D.W.'s CD and is banned from watching TV. But then, a little later, D.W. screams bloody murder when she discovers that her CD is missing. She accuses Arthur of taking it. Arthur tells D.W. and his parents that he didn't take D.W.'s Crazy Bus CD.
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.The squid people who live at the bottom wonder if they have the CD and are singing 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. D.W. spies on Arthur, trying to catch him with the CD. She even goes so far as to destroy Arthur's room in an attempt to find it. Arthur loses his patience, forcing Catherine to improvise. She puts a line of 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 they end up arguing over it. 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 the Crazy Bus CD. Their mom calls the house and tells the kids that they took the CD by accident, not Arthur.
D.W. stops fighting and takes off the tape, but does not apologize to Arthur for accusing him of stealing. Arthur is furious that D.W. is not giving him the apology she clearly owes him, but D.W. only smiles sheepishly at her mistake. Later that night, they give the CD back to her, and tell her that it's okay to listen to her song, but not to the point that it annoys everyone. Surprisingly, D.W. says she doesn't want to listen to it anymore.
Instead, she watches a Crazy Bus videotape that she received from Grandma Thora. Arthur then realizes that he spoke too soon. He runs off in frustration once again, shouting "Mom!"
Part 2: Demented Debbie
The Start Of the show starts with Amy feeling really sick with no fever. Amy calls Bliss on her phone telling her she is going to watch Play It Againg D.W With the Happienes Charge Pretty Cure. Bliss does a laugh that Amy does not like then she hanga Bliss up and starts screaming telling her friends it was the worst day ever for Amy. The Girls need to find out and why.
Due to sighting at Lacey's house they find unexpected consequences saying that in Cast Away all the campers start singing Mary Moo Cow while dancing the night away and finding out it was bad for Amy. At Fern's House they find out the problems with Mary Moo Cow and Crazy Bus. Fern Turns to page 47 to find out what is wrong with Amy, Her nervous system is changing colors. Tails and Finn thought it was strange. Back at Amy's room it was time to go to the night gala Amy put on her attire from Sonic CD. She put in on but had to go to Natile's house first.
At Natiles house she is a fan of scuence and Cars 2 as Amy does. They listen to Three tapes but the first one did not help, it still sounded like Bliss. They listen to the 2 tapes and this time it sounded like Jet (Bliss Villian) Amy and the Flaw And Order got dressed for the gala. At the Gala they saw the red, white, and twinkle blue leave to go home.
D.W. Plays the show but as the show plays D.W. On T.V. Plays Crazy Bus and Amys Nerves Change Purple to Blue and all of a sudden she starts to scream the Tails and Inez Came up to her and Inez Need to know whats up to her. Daisy, Finn, Blaze, Holley, Tails, and Inez will protect her. Daisy and Blaze are ready to watch the second half but on T.V. everyone was singing the song and Arthur couldnt get off Amys eyes started to circle and then she starts to scream again. Then Finn and Inez were arguing as Daisy and Blaze went to protect her.
And as the episode finshined everyone needs to cover their ears. Amy did the loudest scream she ever could and then she started to weep and sob her heart out. Finn and Holley gave Amy a big hug that they're saying to let Amy cry for as long as she need to. Everyone went out and they were very disappointed included Amy.
Finn and Holley started to go back to Ferns house where they will answer the question. After the question they went back where they played the commercial once again. Blaze, Bliss And Amy Went to the gala again to defeat Jet solved the mystery. They fininshed another mission and Bliss apoligized for watching the show.
Characters
Major
Minor
Cameo
- Muffy Crosswire (fantasy)
- Binky Barnes (fantasy)
- The Brain (fantasy)
- Dr. Iris
Mentioned
Trivia
- This is one of the episodes where the quote, "Life is so unfair" is used. D.W. says that quote while crying in this episode. It was used again in The Lousy Week, where Muffy Crosswire says that quote also while crying.
- Vexation doesn't mean "trouble," it actually means "something that causes annoyance" or "the state of being annoyed."
Cultural References
- At the dance party, everyone is dancing the macarena to Crazy Bus.
- The title is a play on the quote "Play it again, Sam" from the film "Casablanca"
Episode Connections
- The snowball incident is brought up again in this episode.
- D.W. first played Crazy Bus during the previous episode, Buster Baxter, Cat Saver. Arthur gave her headphones so she could play the song without bothering him, but by this episode they had broken.
Goofs
- While Catherine is doing homework, she was first seen writing with her left hand, even though she is normally right-handed like her sister Francine; but in the next few seconds, she switches to her right hand. This could mean she's ambidextrous.
Gallery
Videos
Screenshots
- Crazy Bus.png
References
