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Buster the Lounge Lizard
| "Buster the Lounge Lizard" | |
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| Season/Series: | 15 |
| Number in season: | 4b |
| Original Airdate: |  October 13, 2011[1] February 16, 2012[3] January 18, 2011[2] October 13, 2010 February 14, 2012 December 6, 2012 January 2, 2013[4] |
| Credits | |
| Written by: | Raye Lankford |
| Storyboard by: | Rob Clark |
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"Buster the Lounge Lizard" is the second half of the fourth episode in the fifteenth season of Arthur.
Summary[edit]
Buster's new toy accidentally ends up in the teacher's lounge.
Plot[edit]
The episode starts with a TV commercial for a new Dark Bunny toy called the Dark Buggy. After seeing the commercial, Buster immediately wants one, and walks out of his living room, saying, "Must. Have. Now!".
After Buster gets the Dark Buggy, he then brings it to school, proceeding to show Arthur the toy, but it accidentally hurts Binky, who is across the hallway, with a grip hook that latches itself onto Binky's shirt. Binky then confronts Buster to be careful, as his bouncy super ball was taken away by Mr. Ratburn the prior Monday, as he brought a toy to school.
Buster brings the Dark Buggy into the classroom, and tries to put it into his desk. It doesn't work, and the grip hook latches itself onto Mr. Ratburn's belt, proceeding for his pants to fall down and show the class his underwear. Seeing Buster's toy, Mr. Ratburn confiscates it until after class, after which he gives it back to Buster, as the toy is highly sensitive (to all five senses). Mr. Ratburn then says to Buster that if he catches him playing with his toy in class again, he will keep it for the whole school year.
Buster proceeds to put his Dark Buggy in his locker, but the toy escapes. Buster then tries to get into the teacher's lounge, as his highly sensitive new toy went in by accident, but fails.
He meets with Francine, Muffy, and Arthur at The Sugar Bowl, where they discuss what maybe happens at the Teacher's Lounge. Arthur believes that the teachers play with all the confiscated toys in there, Muffy believes that it's like a fancy spa, and Francine believes that inside, the teachers work on ways to make school harder (she also says they are aliens because she knew Buster would).
After Arthur, Francine, and Muffy leave, Binky confronts Buster about meeting at the playground. He goes with Binky as they devise a plan to sneak into the teacher's lounge. Buster plans to sneak in through the window, but then declines over moral value about the lounge being a place of privacy the next morning.
When this happens, Mr. Ratburn appears through the window, and gives Buster his Dark Buggy back. After doing so, Mr. Ratburn and Mr. Haney start playing with Binky's toy, as Binky only wanted to help Buster so that he could also retrieve his toy. The episode then finishes.
Characters[edit]
- Arthur Read
- Buster Baxter
- Binky Barnes
- Nigel Ratburn
- Dark Bunny
- Clown Face
- Ms. Tingley
- Francis Haney
- Mr. Marco
- Francine Frensky
- Muffy Crosswire
- Brian (cameo)
- The Brain (cameo)
- Jenna Morgan (cameo)
- George Lundgren (cameo)
- Maria Pappas (cameo)
- Alex (cameo)
- Fern Walters (cameo)
- Slam Wilson (cameo as an action figure)
- Pretty Pioneers unnamed doll #1 (cameo)
- Galileo (mentioned)
Songs[edit]
Trivia[edit]
- "If someone says they always lie, are they lying or telling the truth?" is a variation of the liar paradox. In this form, it actually has an answer: He is lying, since if he never told the truth before, the statement would be true, so he does not always lie. A true paradox would be "This sentence is a lie".
- Dark Bunny's millionaire alter ego and his underground hideout refer to Batman.
- This episode has a very similar premise to the Recess episode "Teacher's Lounge" as both episodes involve the main characters trying to get into the Teacher's Lounge and them having a dream of what the lounge is like, both episodes even have a fantasy of the teachers making more difficult homework.
- This episode has been renamed on some sites as "The Lounge Lizards."
- Moral: Dont overreact over a toy in school for your own benefits.
Gallery[edit]
Mr. Ratburn Pants
Sources[edit]
