Swept Away/Transcript

Arthur Read: Have you ever noticed how different people have different senses about time? Like D.W. Sometimes she thinks a minute is like an hour.

D.W.; Are we there yet?

Arthur: D.W., that's the eighth time you've asked. You can't ask again for at least ten minutes.

D.W.: Okay. Are the ten minutes up yet?

(Arthur groans; Kate giggles)

Arthur: Then there's Buster time, which is closely linked to his stomach.

Buster: I'll have the Harry Mills Meatball Experience.

Arthur: Buster, it's only 9:00 in the morning. It's breakfast time.

Buster: I already had breakfast. This is lunch.

Arthur: But if you have lunch now, you'll be hungry by dinner.

Buster: Not if I have dinner at lunch, and tonight I'll get a head start on tomorrow's breakfast. I'm just a meal ahead of you. Mmmm! Pickles!

Arthur: Sometimes, it seems like time is going really fast like when you go to an amusement park with all your friends and the day just flies by and everything's over before you know it!

Nigel Ratburn: You have ten minutes to complete this test.

Arthur: Sometimes it goes really slowly like when you take a test and don't know the answers. But there's one thing that never changes about time, and you can't stop it. Or can you? (grunts) Is it working? I don't know how long I've---

(Title card)

Swept Away

Writer: Peter K. Hirsch --- Storyboard Artist: Jean Lacombe

Binky Barnes: (V.O.) Swept Away!

Pal: (barks)

Arthur: Yeah!

(episode begins)

Pal: (barks excitedly)

Arthur wearing yellow and green swim trunks and carrying an orange boogie board with a white stripe runs out of a blue vacation home towards the beach, followed by Buster who is wearing a shower cap and carrying a purple boogie board with a picture of a wave on it, and by D.W. who is carrying a shark pool toy

All: Beach!

lifeguard in lifeguard chair blows whistle and points thumb towards red flag on chair.

Buster: Aw, red flag that means we can't swim because the ocean's too rough

Arthur: I’m sure it’ll change in a little bit.