Editing The Short, Quick Summer/Transcript

[[Arthur Read]]: It's the last day of school. When that bell rings, summer starts!

[[Mrs. Fink]]'s class: (singing) Summer is fun / It's just begun / There's lots of sun / We'll play and run / Summer is number one / La la la la la...

[[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]]: Only two minutes left in the school year, there's time for one last math problem.

(Arthur takes a paper labeled "SUMMER STUFF" out of a book.)

Arthur: This is my list of all the great things I plan to do this summer.

(Fade to a calendar. The month shown on it is June. The top image shows flowers, which are zoomed in and revealed to be in Arthur's yard, where he and [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] are playing badminton. Arthur hits Buster in the head with the shuttlecock.)

Buster: Ow! Hey, watch the birdie!

Arthur: Sorry, Buster.

(The calendar switches to July and shows a beach. Arthur and Buster are playing volleyball. [[Sue Ellen Armstrong|Sue Ellen]] is playing the saxophone and [[Binky Barnes|Binky]] is singing on a stage.)

Binky: Rocking at the beach! Rocking at the beach!

(The calendar switches to August. Arthur, Buster, and [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] are watching the clouds.)

Arthur: I see a hippo.

Buster: I see a train racing an octopus.

Francine: That is the most ridiculous- Hey! He's right!

(There is, in fact, a train-shaped cloud chasing an octopus-shaped cloud. Fade back to school.)

Mr. Ratburn: The answer is seventeen and a half. Have a good summer!

(The kids run out of school.)

Arthur: Summer is '''here'''!

(Title card)

THE SHORT, QUICK SUMMER

Written by: [[Joe Fallon]]—Storyboard by: [[Denis Banville]]

(Bird singing, thunder crashing)

[[Binky Barnes]]: (V.O.) The Short, Quick Summer.

Arthur: (yawns) It's another perfect summer day, [[Pal]]. What should we do? We could go to the park, or go swimming, or play—

[[Jane Read]]: How about shopping for back-to-school clothes?

Arthur: Yuck! Why would I want to do that?

Jane: Because you start school next week!

Arthur: (gasps) It's the last week of summer already?! It can't be! It is impossible! It feels like summer just started and it's already over!

(In the living room)

[[D.W. Read]]: Are we playing cave?

Arthur: We're not playing anything. I'm looking for my list.

D.W.: What list?

Arthur: The list I made when summer started of all the things I wanted to do! And I don't think I did any of them yet! 

D.W.: Was losing the list on the list? You did that. 

(In Arthur's room)

Arthur: I only have one week left to do all the things on my list!

D.W.: (screaming) A ghost! A hairy ghost! Aw, it's just your dopey dog.

(Outside) 

D.W.: (playing in the sprinkler and laughing)

[[Kate Read]]: (giggles)

Jane: Where's Arthur? He's missing all the fun.

Arthur: (searches for his list in a trash can) If I were a list, where would I be? (grunts, falls inside and rolls down the driveway) 

[[David Read]]: Arthur, you could get hurt playing like that.

Arthur: Who's playing? I'm not having any fun at all!

(In [[The Tree House|the tree house]])

[[Buster Baxter]]: Come on, Arthur. Let's play [[Kangaroo Court]]. Sue the kangaroo cohorts in a quazy courtroom! And it's just fun, not educational. Can't beat that!

Arthur: I've gotta find it! Summer's almost over and I hadn't done anything!

Buster: Sure you did. What about the carousel?

(A flashback starts)

Buster: What are you doing, [[Gunky]]?

Gunky: This old carousel's done its last go-round, boys. I'm outta business.

Buster: Why? Everybody loves the carousel!

Gunky: [[Ed Crosswire|Mr. Crosswire]] has bought it and I hear he's a-rippin' it down.

(Arthur and Buster gasp. Cut to Mr. Crosswire in his office, showing off a drawing of a carousel with a cent sign over it, and crossing it out. There is a drawing of Crosswire Motors with a dollar sign above it.)

EdW Crosswire: This is where I want the new grease pits.

Crosswire Motors Worker: We'll have the designs ready by next week, Mr. Crosswire.

(Arthur and Buster gasp. Fade to [[The Sugar Bowl]].)

Binky: Grease pits could be fun, too.

Buster: We wouldn't get to play in them. They're for his car business!

Binky: Oh, that rots! We've gotta do something!

Buster: We need to band together!

(Everyone cheers. Cut to a bulldozer at the carousel site, where people are protesting the grease pits.)

Ed Crosswire: What is going on here?

Buster: I banded together the band to save the carousel! We don't want grease pits!

Binky: Not unless we can play in 'em!

[[Thora Read|Grandma Thora]]: (holding a photo album) Everyone grew up on this ride, including this young boy.

Ed Crosswire: Why, that's me! And Daddy! I'm so cute! Okay, okay, it's staying.

(Cheering.)

Gunky: Your idea worked, Buster! You saved the carousel!

(End of flashback.)

Arthur: That was something you did, not me.

Buster: Yeah... Boy, I had a great summer!
{{TitleSort}}
[[Category:Season 2 transcripts]]
[[Category:Unfinished Transcripts]]
[[Category:Transcripts]]
[[Category:A to Z]]
@@ Line 142: / Line 142: @@
 Buster: Yeah... Boy, I had a great summer!
+{{TitleSort}}
-=== #{{TitleSort}} ===
+[[Category:Season 2 transcripts]]
-''Arthur is at the Sugar Bowl with Buster, Fern and Sue Ellen.''
-'''Fern:''' What could be dumber than wasting an entire summer?
-I went to poetry camp. I was the poetry champ.
-This ribbon on my chest means that I’m the best
-And now it’s hard to stop making rhymes. I must have tried a thousand times.
-=== # ===
-'''Arthur: '''Only two days left! I flunked summer! When school starts, I'll probably flunk recess too!
-=== # ===
-''Arthur has found his “to do”-list.''
-'''Arthur: '''I did ''everything'' on this list. Thanks for asking me to read it, D.W..
-'''D.W.: '''I was trying to make him feel rotten and he feels great. I’m a failure as a little sister.
-=== # ===
-''Arthur, Buster and Francine are sitting in the Reads’ garden roasting marshmallows over a barbeque.''
-'''Arthur: '''It’s the last night of summer.
-'''Buster''': Yup.
-''In their imagination they are cowboys sitting around a campfire at sundown.''
-'''Francine''': There’s a lot of places I’d like to see, and they’re all just beyond that horizon.
-'''Buster''': But there’s no more time. School starts tomorrow.
-'''Arthur: '''Yup. School’s going to be relaxing after all the adventures I had this summer.
-'''Francine''': Yup.
-'''Arthur:''' Another marshmallow anyone?
-'''Buster''': Yup.     ''A coyote howls.''[[Category:Season 2 transcripts]]
 [[Category:Unfinished Transcripts]]
 [[Category:Transcripts]]
 [[Category:A to Z]]