Just the Ticket/Transcript

[PHONE RINGS]

Arthur: Do you ever feel like you're the only one in the world who never wins anything? I'm going to the park now, Mum!

Jane: OK. But come home by lunchtime. And...and can you get the phone

Arthur: Ah! 'But then one day, just when you feel like you'll never win anything in your entire life, you do? Hello?

Disc Jockey: Congratulations! This is QRAD...

Arthur: Our parents say we can't take sales calls.

Disc Jockey: ..To receive this awesome prize. You've just won eight tickets to next weekend's Static Airwaves concert sponsored by QRAD.

Arthur: Wait! Did you say I just won? Well, be grateful for your bad luck. Because the only thing worse than never winning anything is winning.





Buster: No! That can't be true! You actually won eight front row tickets for Static Airwaves?!

Binky: That's, like, a miracle!

Muffy: What are you going to do with them?

Arthur: Well, there are eight tickets and eight of us.

[ALL TALK AT ONCE]

Arthur: Hey! You want to come home and wait for the tickets with me? QRAD Radio said they're going to deliver them this afternoon

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<p class="MsoNormal">[CONSTANT TICKING]

<p class="MsoNormal">[DOORBELL]

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: Open it already! Come on, come on!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Huh?

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: Math has never been my best subject, but that doesn't look like eight tickets to me!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: QRAD says the DJ got the number wrong. But the concert is sold out and I should count myself lucky to even get two tickets. So...

<p class="MsoNormal">Muffy: So, who are you going to take?

<p class="MsoNormal">All: Yeah!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Um...Heh-heh! Well...now, that's, um .. Let's see, I, er...

<p class="MsoNormal">Buster: You know what, guys, we should leave Arthur alone and not pressure him. It's not that big a deal, really. It's just a concert.

<p class="MsoNormal">All: Yeah.

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: Let's leave Arthur alone.

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Thanks, buddy.

<p class="MsoNormal">Buster: No sweat. I knew they'd all go nuts when you said who you were really taking. Front row seats! I can't wait!

<p class="MsoNormal">[PHONE RINGS]

<p class="MsoNormal">Jane: Arthur, can you get that?

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Francine? How did you get home so fast?

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: I know you're probably taking Buster, but I just want to say I was the first one in school to like Static Airwaves. You remember that day in kindergarten when I played their first single for Show and Tell?

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Muffy, too? Francine, can we maybe talk about this later?

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: Oh! OK, fine!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Don't be mad, it's just that..

<p class="MsoNormal">[DIALLING TONE]

<p class="MsoNormal">[PHONE RINGS]

<p class="MsoNormal">Jane: Arthur?

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Yeah, Mum, I'm getting it. Phew!

<p class="MsoNormal">[PHONE RINGS]

<p class="MsoNormal">Jane: Arthur?

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Please could we not answer the phone for a while?

<p class="MsoNormal">Buster: 'Hey, Arthur, it's Buster. Just wanted to make sure you got that last message. OK. Um...yeah '

<p class="MsoNormal">[BEEP!]

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Could you pass the peas?

<p class="MsoNormal">[PHONE RINGS]

<p class="MsoNormal">Jane: What, honey?

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: The peas!

<p class="MsoNormal">Sue Ellen: 'Hey, Arthur, Sue Ellen here. Listen, about those last 20 messages, I had another thought ..'

<p class="MsoNormal">[CONSTANT BEEPING]

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: OK, Mum, I'm leaving now for..

<p class="MsoNormal">Jane: For where, honey? The park?

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<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Hey, guys!

<p class="MsoNormal">All: Tickets! Tickets!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: No! The library!

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: I wonder where Arthur is?

<p class="MsoNormal">[PHONE RINGS]

<p class="MsoNormal">Muffy: Good work, Bailey. Oh, dear me! I just forgot, I have an appointment at the salon. Well, have a great practice!

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<p class="MsoNormal">Muffy: Oh! Hi, Arthur! What are you doing here?

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Er...wrong book.

<p class="MsoNormal">Muffy: Oops! Hey, as long as you're here, I...

<p class="MsoNormal">Sue Ellen: Oh, hi, Arthur. I'm just doing some research on Africa...

<p class="MsoNormal">[BOTH TALK AT ONCE]

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Oh, sure, yeah.

<p class="MsoNormal">All: Arthur! Arthur! Arthur! Arthur! Arthur!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Argh!

<p class="MsoNormal">All: Arthur!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Oh!

<p class="MsoNormal">Binky: Arthur! Are you OK? Let me help you!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: No! Please don't! Here, just take the second ticket. Take it!

<p class="MsoNormal">Binky: Really? You're inviting me? Thanks! You know, I knew I shouldn't go in there and chase you around. Just wait patiently and you shall receive, that's our motto. What's wrong?

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: The tickets, I lost them!

<p class="MsoNormal">All: What?!

<p class="MsoNormal">George: Whoa!

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: Buster, you search Fiction. Muffy, Non-Fiction, Sue Ellen, reading room, Brain, men's room, George, wake up!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: I can't believe I lost them! Wait a minute. Yeah, I lost them! Ha-ha-ha! I lost them!

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<p class="MsoNormal">[CONSTANT BEEPING]

<p class="MsoNormal">Telephone machine: 'Messages deleted.'

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: And whichever of you finds the tickets is welcome to keep them with my best wishes. Your friend, Arthur. And send to everybody and...

<p class="MsoNormal">[HE GASPS]

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<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: What?

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: Nothing.

<p class="MsoNormal">Binky: Hi, Arthur.

<p class="MsoNormal">Sue Ellen: Yeah, hi.

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Huh? What's everybody's problem.

<p class="MsoNormal">Buster: Don't get mad at me, I tried to defend you. But it's hard to defend a liar

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: A liar?!

<p class="MsoNormal">Buster: You lost the tickets? Come on!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Hey, George. Thanks for sitting with me.

<p class="MsoNormal">George: It's OK. We all tell white lies sometimes.

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: I didn't lie.

<p class="MsoNormal">George: We looked all over the whole library and couldn't find the tickets.

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: OK, look, you don't believe me Check my pockets.

<p class="MsoNormal">[GEORGE WHISTLES]

<p class="MsoNormal">George: Binky! Frisk him!

<p class="MsoNormal">Binky: He's clean. Wait a minute!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: You want to go through my books now?

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: Unless you have something to hide?

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: No, I don't. Now you guys see when I don’t have the tickets I hope you…Oh! So that's where I put them. Ha-ha-ha!

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<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Hey, D.W., you want my concert tickets?

<p class="MsoNormal">D.W.: And have everyone hate me? No, thank you!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: If there's a lesson here, I'm missing it.

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Please take free tickets. Wow! I feel like I have this huge weight off my back. Argh! No!

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<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Stay there! Stay! Stay! Ah! Whaa...! How did...? This is impossible

<p class="MsoNormal">D.W.: Muffy's butler dropped them off

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Muffy's butler?

<p class="MsoNormal">D.W.: Yeah. He said that...

<p class="MsoNormal">[DOORBELL]

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: No! Don't! I left them on a tree stump, I swear!

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: Arthur, we know.

<p class="MsoNormal">Muffy: Bailey called me.

<p class="MsoNormal">Binky: Then Muffy called us and...

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Wait! Back up. Bailey called you?

<p class="MsoNormal">Muffy: The important thing is we've all been talking and we realised we've been unfair.

<p class="MsoNormal">George: You won those tickets, we didn't.

<p class="MsoNormal">Buster: And the very first thing you did was invite all of us. And yet we never even thanked you.

<p class="MsoNormal">Francine: We think you should just go by yourself and enjoy the concert.

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Wait! I don't want to go alone. What fun is winning something if a friend can't enjoy it with you? Won't one of you come with me?

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<p class="MsoNormal">D.W.: I can't believe it takes a four-year-old girl to suggest picking straws.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Wow! Look at...

<p class="MsoNormal">George: A big wall! We can't see a thing!

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur: Well, like I always said, I never really win anything.

<p class="MsoNormal">Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, Static Airwaves!

<p class="MsoNormal">[CHEERING]

<p class="MsoNormal">Arthur and George: Whoo-hoo! All right!