Editing The Chips are Down

On a rainy day at the Read house, as part of the Potato Chip Club, Arthur and Buster sort out a bag of potato chips based on their traits, such as size, burnt ones, ones that look like ducks, and ones that look like familiar people. D.W. sneaks in on them to get a potato chip, but they refuse to give her any until they're done. As D.W. goes to tell [[Jane Read|their mom]] that they won't share, Arthur and Buster find a big green potato chip in the bag. They put it down on the board they are organizing all the potato chips on before Mom calls them to ask them to share with D.W. While they are talking with Mom, D.W. sneaks into the dining room where their potato chips are. She is amazed to see the big green potato chip, eats it, and rushes upstairs before Arthur and Buster see her. Shocked, and assuming that D.W. ate the big green chip, they try to scare her into coming down by faking that green potato chips are poisoned, and that there is no cure. Believing as well that green potato chips are poisoned, [[Nadine]] advises D.W. to tell Mom about what she did. D.W. refuses since she was told not to eat any of Arthur and Buster's potato chips, and instead, decides to find out for sure if green potato chips really are poisoned. At the playground, D.W. ask the [[Tibble Twins]], and surprisingly, they mention green potato chips being poisoned. Binky, at the swings trying to ride up over the bar, is also shocked to hear this, declaring that he ate a green chip two days before. D.W. convinces Binky, who refers to her as "Arthur's sister", to start living out the last days of their lives before they die from eating a green potato chip. Binky and D.W. start doing a series of activities within one day: fly a kite using five rolls of string, sail toy boats on a pond, go swimming in a lake, watch a fireworks show, make jack-o'-lanterns, play and jump in a pile of leaves, and make a unicorn and castle entirely out of snow.

Even on their own, D.W. and Binky start making a big deal out of the activities they do over the next few days. Despite it being May, D.W. watches Christmas videos, hoping to see all of them before her life is over. At school, Binky asks [[Alan Powers|The Brain]] about completing a short bucket list he made of his three biggest goals in life. When [[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]] asks Binky for his homework, Binky blatantly questions Mr. Ratburn on the point of doing homework, shocking everybody in the class as well as Mr. Ratburn. At kindergarten, [[Ms. Morgan]] talks to her class about careers they can have when they grow up. D.W. asks if there is a career that she can have "by my next birthday", mentioning that she does not want to just sit around and watch the Tibbles eat paper paste. Binky is turned in to [[Mr. Haney]] about refusing to do homework, but motivates him to not let the gift of a beautiful life pass them by. Shockingly to Mr. Ratburn, Mr. Haney thanks Binky, showing his support on such ideas of life. He then goes off, inspired to climb Mount Everest. At lunch, the Brain discusses Binky's life goals with him: Binky's first goal is to "take a bite out of the Sun", but Brain tells him not to do it since it is simply way too hot to handle; he also advises against Binky's second goal - to drink a whole ocean, saying that saltwater makes people sick. Left with one last goal, Binky goes off nervously, but proudly into a ballet school.

At the treehouse, Arthur brings a board game to play with Buster and Francine. He tells them that D.W. had the game last, and neatly put everything back, and even kissed him good-night last night. Buster brings up his invitation to Binky's upcoming ballet recital, to which Arthur and Francine were also invited to. They all acknowledge these two events as "eerie". They also spot D.W. and Binky discussing how amazing it is to closely examine leaves. Binky personally invites D.W. to his ballet recital to thank her for inspiring him to follow his dreams. Arthur, Buster and Francine are left stunned about D.W. inspiring Binky. Back at the Read house, D.W. shows Mom her outfit to Binky's recital, disappointed that she may not wear it again. Meanwhile, Arthur is about to eat another green potato chip, and surely enough out of caution, D.W. swipes the chip from Arthur's hands. Arthur laughs and finally tells D.W. that it is simply not true. It's from D.W.'s efforts to save his life that Arthur finds out D.W. did eat the first big green potato, and that D.W. was only being nice to Arthur, because she spent all that time thinking she will die from poison. This leaves D.W. embarrassed, and Nadine to tells D.W. that she should've told Mom right away when she thought she was poisoned.

At Binky's ballet recital, Arthur and his friends watch him dance. Off stage, D.W. whispers to Binky that green potato chips really aren't poisoned. Shocked, and nervous to be performing ballet without a sure reason anymore, Binky runs off stage and sits down with the audience. Arthur and his friends, as well as Binky's friends, the Tough Customers, admit that they enjoyed his performance, calling him "the best part". Encouraged, Binky quickly gets back on stage to finish the recital, catching fellow ballerina Rubella at the end of her grand jeté. After the recital, Mom tells D.W. that she "does not have to worry alone." Binky also thanks D.W. for inspiring him to do ballet, saying that he really likes it, and that he would not have gotten into it otherwise. D.W. proudly says that it was all thanks to green potato chips. Binky and D.W. give each other formal introductions, telling each other their real names, and walk off with Binky hoping to start working on his own ballet. Arthur, Buster and Francine are still left surprised that all of this has happened, as well as Binky and D.W. becoming friends, while Buster whispers to Francine that it's because of space aliens. The episode ends while to nobody's attention, a UFO appears outside a window, where two [[aliens]] claim to be "ballet fans".