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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
The episode begins on the last day of [[Lakewood Elementary School|school]]. Arthur shows his list of stuff he has planned to do over the summer, and thinks about it. | The episode begins on the last day of [[Lakewood Elementary School|school]]. While [[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]] does one more math problem and [[Mrs. Fink|Mrs. Fink]]’s class sings a song, [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] shows his list of stuff he has planned to do over the summer, and thinks about it, like playing with [[Buster Baxter|Buster]], going to the beach and looking at clouds. Finally, the bell rings, and Arthur runs out, excited about summer. | ||
<center>'''The Short, Quick Summer'''</center> | <center>'''The Short, Quick Summer'''</center> | ||
Two months later, Arthur is devastated to hear that school will begin next week. He goes to find his list, while hearing what his friends did this | Two months later, Arthur is devastated to hear that school will begin next week. He goes to find his list, while hearing what his friends did this summer. | ||
When Arthur gets home, he finds his list (which was taped to the back of his bedroom door), but realizes it's too late. Summer is already over. When | When Arthur complains to Buster about not having done anything all summer, Buster reminds him that both of them saved the carousel at the park. After learning from the operator that [[Ed Crosswire|Mr. Crosswire]] had bought the carousel and wanted to rip it down, Buster organized a protest. [[Grandma Thora|Grandma Thora]] showed Mr. Crosswire an old photo of him riding the carousel as a toddler, and Mr. Crosswire decided to keep the carousel running. Arthur feels that this was something Buster did- not him. | ||
[[Binky Barnes|Binky]] tells Arthur how he took his bike apart to clean it, though he did not manage to put it back together. He also invented the "[[mud sled]]", which did not quite work, but he enjoyed the mud. | |||
At home, [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] reminds Arthur that [[Kate Read|Kate]] said her first word that summer. D.W. called for the excited parents, only to tell them that the word was “bloodge agwa”. | |||
Arthur meets his friends at the [[Sugar Bowl|Sugar Bowl]]. [[Fern Walters|Fern]] went to poetry camp and is now unable to stop rhyming. [[Sue Ellen Armstrong|Sue Ellen]] spent the summer learning a difficult card trick from Mr. Ratburn, who was at [[Jack's Joke Shop]]. | |||
On the way home, Arthur meets [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] and [[Prunella Deegan|Prunella]], who have been digging a hole all summer to look for minerals that can tell the future. | |||
Arthur talks to [[Alan Powers|The Brain]] who spent the summer teaching science and soccer at summer school, and was also launching a rocket in his yard. | |||
When Arthur passes [[Prunella's House|Prunella’s house]] again, the girls have filled up the hole, but still feel they had a lot of fun. Arthur thinks that everybody had a great time except him. | |||
When Arthur gets home, he finds his list (which was taped to the back of his bedroom door), but realizes it's too late. Summer is already over. When D.W. asks Arthur to read the list to her, Arthur does. He soon realizes that he was all wrong, because he actually did everything he had planned. He "had adventures" by reading adventure books and imagining himself as part of the action. He "explored space" by playing astronauts with Buster. He "learned to fly" by riding his bike over a ramp. Happily, he felt much better and thanks D.W. for asking him to read the list and eventually throws away the list, much to her dismay. She remarks, “''I was trying to make him feel rotten, and he feels great. I’m a '''failure''' as a little sister.''” | |||
On the last night of summer, Arthur, Francine and Buster roast marshmallows on the grill while imagining themselves as cowboys in the Wild West, ending the episode. | On the last night of summer, Arthur, Francine and Buster roast marshmallows on the grill while imagining themselves as cowboys in the Wild West, ending the episode. | ||
