| "Buster the Lounge Lizard" | |
| Season/Series: | 15 |
|---|---|
| Number in season: | 4b |
| Original Airdate: |  October 13, 2011[1] February 16, 2012[3] January 18, 2011[2] [citation needed] February 14, 2012[citation needed] December 6, 2012[citation needed] 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[]
Buster's new toy accidentally ends up in the teacher's lounge.
Plot[]
Buster sees a TV commercial for a Dark Buggy model with lots of gadgets and wants to have it.
Buster the Lounge Lizard
Buster shows Arthur the buggy at school and accidentally shoots the buggy's grappling hook at Binky. Binky warns him that Mr. Ratburn might confiscate the buggy, like he did with Binky's bouncy ball. Buster tells him to relax and that he is not going to play with it, but rather put it in his desk.
Buster tries to smuggle the buggy into his desk drawer. He accidentally presses a button that makes the buggy jump up and float down on a parachute. Mr. Ratburn does not notice, but then the grappling hook pulls Mr. Ratburn's belt out of his pants. His pants slip, exposing his underwear and embarrassing the teacher.
Following the mishap, Mr. Ratburn wants to confiscate the buggy, but when it attaches itself to the ceiling, starts playing disco music, and then accidentally tears a hole in the ceiling, he tells Buster to just take it away, seeing it as too much of hassle. However, if Buster plays with it in class again, it will be confiscated for the whole school year.
Buster puts the buggy in his locker, but when he says “go”, it jumps out and drives into the teachers’ lounge.
Buster and his friends talk it over in The Sugar Bowl. Francine suggests telling the truth, but it is too unbelievable. Arthur has a fantasy of the teachers playing with all the confiscated toys. Muffy instead imagines the teachers’ lounge as a spa. Francine imagines the teachers using computers to come up with difficult questions for students. To please Buster, she also makes the teachers reveal themselves to be aliens.
When the others have gone, Binky offers to help Buster break into the teacher's lounge. After having a fantasy of Mr. Ratburn destroying his buggy, Buster meets Binky at the jungle gym. Binky wants to tunnel under the school, but Buster convinces him to go through the window instead.
The next morning before school, Binky gives Buster a leg-up to reach the teachers’ lounge window. He also, like an afterthought, asks Buster to retrieve his bouncy ball. Buster cannot go through with it, because the lounge is private. However, Mr. Ratburn sees the boys and gives Buster his “infernal contraption” back. Mr. Haney is disappointed because he did not get to play with it, but the teachers play with Binky's ball instead, showing how Arthur's theory was right all along.
Characters[]
Major[]
Minor[]
Cameo[]
- Brian
- Brain
- Jenna Morgan
- George Lundgren
- Maria Pappas
- Alex Davidson
- Fern Walters
- Slam Wilson (as an action figure)
- Pretty Pioneers unnamed doll #1
Mentioned[]
Songs[]
Trivia[]
Cultural References[]
- Dark Bunny's millionaire alter ego and his underground hideout refer to Batman.
- This episode has a similar plot to the Recess episode "Teacher's Lounge", as it also involves T.J. and his gang fantasizing about what the teacher's lounge is really like and then try to sneak inside.
- "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".
Errors[]
- Some sites incorrectly title this episode "The Lounge Lizards."
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