Arthur and Buster have an imaginary music festival featuring the whole cast in songs based on their lives, themselves, and the library.
Plot[]
At the beginning of the episode, D.W. hears a strange noise, and tries to figure out where it's coming from. She asks Jane, who doesn't know the source of the noise, either. D.W. thinks it might be Pal's stomach, but finds out it isn't. Eventually, she tracks the sound to the basement: Arthur is filming Buster, who is standing behind a large cardboard box made to look like a TV and is beatboxing- hence the strange noise she heard. The boys are pretending to make music videos. D.W. doesn't think much of this, saying Buster's noises weren't music, the box they have doesn't really look like a TV, and the camera Arthur's using isn't even on. She questions why they're doing something that isn't real. Arthur tells her that even pretend things can be enjoyable, and that if D.W. closes her eyes, she'll be able to "see cool videos." After Arthur promises that they aren't tricking her, D.W. agrees to "watch", and the videos start.
Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival
The episode consists of five songs (including a reprise of "Library Card"):
Brain sings about reading Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and then having a dream in which he creates a potion that turns him into an evil copy of himself. During a test at school, he drinks the potion and commits acts of vandalism. Then he finds that he transforms even without the potion. He tries to return the book to the library, but he turns into his evil self, who renews the book instead.
Arthur sings about wanting his dad to make chocolate cake and ice-cream instead of crazy experiments. David sings about new strange foods he wants to create. Then D.W. sings about what food she does not want and David finishes with more odd recipes. The song is accompanied by food-related snippets from previous episodes.
The kids sing about more books as well as story time and puppet shows (and Ms. Turner refers to something called the Dewey Decimal System).
When the song is over, D.W. remarks that the videos were okay for the Reads' basement, but they would never work on real TV. She then finishes the episode with a question: "Who's Dewey?".
The shot where all the Arthur characters raise their hands and exclaim "Having fun!" at the end of the first half of the "Library Card" music video was reportedly hard to animate, per Peter Huggan. He claimed that the animators at AKOM were infuriated that they had to animate it under the same salary.[2]
The "Homework" song is not shown on some PBS stations during its Pledge Drive.
In April 2024, PBS Kids rereleased this episode and 18 other titles with the addition of an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter on screen, allowing individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to fully immerse themselves in the program. For more information about all of the ASL-interpreted episodes, see American Sign Language.
December 28, 1998
February 8, 1999
March 7, 2002[1]
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