The Buster Report

"The Buster Report"
Season/Series:	14
Number in season:	1b
Original Airdate:	October 11, 2010 October 20, 2010 January 7, 2011 October 8, 2010
Credits
Written by:	Ken Scarborough
Storyboard by:	Zhigang Wang Lisa Whittick
Episodes
Previous "The Wheel Deal"	Next "The Agent of Change"

"The Buster Report" is the second half of the first episode in the thirteenth season of Arthur.

Summary

George plans a homework report on Buster.

Plot

In class Mr. Ratburn tells the class they will be doing a report on someone they admire. At lunch the gang is discussing who they are doing. Buster, however can't think of who he's going to do.

George then says that he had chosen the perfect person for his report and he chooses Buster much to the surprise of Buster. At first Buster is excited about it and shows George the inside of his room, then they go to the Sugar Bowl where they see their friends at one of the tables discussing their reports.

The next day, George goes to Buster's Condominium and finds out Buster is not there, so Bitzi invites him in until Buster got back. By the time Buster gets back George had already left.

He also finds out that his mom gave George information for his report including a DVD with pictures of him, much to the dismay of Buster himself. While sleeping that night Buster has a dream that during class George is telling the report and after hearing the report everyone laughs at Buster.

The next morning at school, Buster meets George again and wants to give him an alternate report he made, which took him the rest of the night to complete, but George declines to use it.

Right after Binky is done with his report George does his next and Buster places his head on the desk expecting everyone to laugh at him. However, the report was well done and everyone applauds George for it.

Ratburn then ask Buster if he's ready to present his report, but Buster didn't make one and said he will do his report on George.

Characters

Major Roles

• George
• Buster
• Binky
• Arthur
• Sue Ellen

Minor Roles

• Mr. Ratburn
• Muffy
• Francine

Cameos

• Brain
• Jenna
• Fern
• Alex
• Maria
• Otis

Trivia

• It is revealed that Mr. Ratburn was in a rock band known as "The Ratburn Rats".
• The Australian Air Date was October 8, 2010.

Cultural references

• The episode title is a parody of "The Colbert Report".

Episode connections

• George mentions Buster's asthma in his presentation, which links back to "Buster's Breathless".
  • George also brings up Buster's involvement in the community garden, which started in "Buster's Green Thumb".
  • Arthur Accused!

Errors

• In this episode, Buster didn't know that Bionic Bunny is not real. However, in "Buster Gets Real", he did know that Bionic Bunny wasn't real.(However this episode may be set before "Buster Gets Real)

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