funding for arthur is provided by: ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] fun together is the best fun of all. ♪ ♪ chuck e cheese's proudly supports pbs kids. and by contributions to your pbs station from: ♪ every day when you're walking down the street ♪ ♪ everybody that you meet has an original point of view. ♪ ( laughs ) ♪ and i say hey! ♪ hey! ♪ what a wonderful kind of day ♪ ♪ if we could learn to work and play ♪ ♪ and get along with each other ♪ ♪ you got to listen to your heart ♪ ♪ listen to the beat ♪ ♪ listen to the rhythm, the rhythm of the street ♪

♪ open up your eyes open up your ears ♪ ♪ get together and make things better by working together ♪ ♪ it's a simple message and it comes from the heart ♪ ♪ believe in yourself ♪ ♪ for that's the place to start ♪ ♪ and i say hey! ♪ hey! ♪ what a wonderful kind of day ♪ ♪ if we could learn to work and play ♪ ♪ and get along with each other. ♪ hey! ♪ what a wonderful kind of day ♪ ♪ hey! what a wonderful kind of day. ♪ hey! arthur: hey, d.w. hey! whoa! ( crashing ) hey, you guys, i'm doing a poll. that's her new thing poll doing. she saw it on tv. children should seek out the opinions of elders they respect. come on, d.w. you're bothering them. if she respects us the least we can do is help, arthur. ( groans ) name something you always wanted to do.

i want to play a real piano concert, okay? d.w.: that's it? that's not so exciting. arthur: it is if you skydive at the same time. francine: i'd like to orbit saturn so i could practice my drive to the net without friction or gravity. what about you, big-head kid? i'm taking a poll. is there anything you've always wanted to do? um... yeah. hey, look out there! ( slurping ) ahh. i always wanted to do that. aah! oops. d.w.! ( thunder ) arthur: duck!

i found another duck! buster: wow! look at this one! it kind of looks like francine. so which pile? that pile is big ones, then small ones ones that look like a duck and ones that look like people we know. d.w.! you can have a chip when we're done. but i want one now! wait just five minutes. please? no! mom! arthur won't share and it's my house, too because i live here and i have rights! ( both gasp ) there's no category for this. put it down carefully. mom: arthur, would you please come here? ( computer beeping ) can't you let d.w. have one potato chip? we will. i already told her. we're the potato chip club. we must organize the chips all by official categories. but we'll share with her when we're done. ( d.w. gasps ) this is the most beautiful, greeny thing.

i want to keep it always. mom: d.w., the boys will give you a chip in five minutes. buster: let's call it "big green-- the eighth wonder of the world." big green is gone! d.w. d.w. i know how to get her to confess. i am so much smarter than arthur. buster: i almost ate a green potato chip once. arthur: you're lucky to be alive. green chips are poison and there's no cure. i know, after you eat a green one it's only a matter of time. ( both snickering ) ( gulps hard ) ( gasps ) i can't believe you ate a green chip. there were others to choose from. ( shakily ): it was pretty. your shoes are pretty but you don't eat them. they're not salty and crunchy.

i was sure d.w. would go screaming to mom. she probably knew you made up that green potato chips are poison. or maybe she didn't eat it. yeah, i guess pal ate it. ( whines ) you'd better tell your mom. i can't-- she told me not to do it. if these are my last days of life i don't want mommy mad at me. maybe arthur was fooling-- do you know if the green ones are really poison? i don't know anything you don't know. i've got to find out. i've got to ask someone who'd know. hi, d.w. that kid is trying to swing over the bar. he's cool. yeah, what do you know about green potato chips? you mean the poison ones? ( gasps ) hey, arthur's sister what about green potato chips? they're poison. what?! i ate a green one two days ago. then you have even less time left than i do.

hey, who are you pushing? oh. you're spending your last moments just swinging? not just swinging. i'm trying to ride over the bar. but your life is almost over. soon this will be you. ( laughs ) that's what my dad looks like sleeping. big-head kid, this is like a tragedy. you've heard of death? from now on, i'll act like every day is my last day-- because it might be. hey, this is serious, huh? how much string is that? five rolls. d.w.: i can't see it. are you sure it's still up there? i don't know. something's holding the string up. oh, yeah-- then we did it. this has to be the highest any kite ever flew. well, there's a lot of other things i want to do.

( giggling ) ( firecrackers whistling ) ( crowd oohing ) ( binky laughing ) boy, it's amazing what you can do in one day if you try real hard. chorus: ♪ magic christmas magic christmas ♪ ♪ it's a big, bright magic christmas... ♪ d.w., you're watching christmas videos in may? ( sleepily ): i want to make sure i get to see them. you're lucky you don't have a sister, pal. they're all goofy. i made a list of my three biggest goals in life. can you help me figure out how to do them? binky barnes, why don't you read us your homework essay? mr. ratburn, i started to do my homework. then i got to thinking: what's the point?

will doing all this homework really help me? these are some of the careers you can have when you grow up. what's a career i can succeed in say, by my next birthday? i don't want to spend the rest of my life watching the tibbles eat paste. ( with full mouth ): i didn't eat any paste. me, neither. so... mr. ratburn says you refuse to do homework, binky. mr. haney, sir every minute of life is a precious gift. we live in a world surrounded by beauty. should we fritter away our lives and allow the wonders of this amazing gift to just pass us by? come with me, young man. haney: mr. ratburn this boy has the soul of a poet and i for one do not appreciate you trying to crush

his soaring spirit and natural talents. binky? binky barnes? this budding walt whitman has inspired me to follow my lifelong dream-- to climb mount everest. i won't be a life fritter-er away-erer. thank you, my boy. see you, herb. i realize they're your goals but you can't take a bite out of the sun. it's hotter than pizza that's been cooked inside a baked potato. and you can't drink a whole ocean. salt water would make you sick. that only leaves me one goal. ( classical music playing ) there's something very strange going on. d.w. had this game last and she put everything back where it belongs. and last night... she kissed me good

night. eerie. not as eerie as this-- an invitation to a ballet recital... all: starring binky barnes. do you think it's... don't say space aliens. francine: look. have you ever really looked at a leaf? yeah, i did it yesterday for five hours. binky: nature sure is amazing. i want to invite you to my recital because you inspired me to follow my dream. d.w. inspired binky? arthur, i'm afraid. this is just weird. this is what i'm wearing to the big-head kid's recital. very nice, d.w. i may never get to wear it again. arthur! no! hey! mom! d.w. swiped my chip. i saved his life. it was a green chip.

the green ones are poison. ( laughing ) they're not poison. that's just what everyone says for fun. they're not poison? you did eat my big green chip and you thought you were poisoned. that's why you were acting so weird-- so... nice. i told you you should have told your mom. oh, you did not. ( classical music playing ) this is for real. he's really doing it. ( panting ): you should watch from the audience. it'd look better from there. i have something to tell you about green potato chips. huh?! why aren't you on stage? i'm done. it was a big joke. didn't you get it? i mean, me, ballet? too bad-- you were the best part.

really? all: yeah! excuse me. i have to catch a swan. ooh. ( audience cheers ) i'm glad this all worked out but remember, d.w. you don't have to worry alone. i know, mommy. nadine told me. hey, arthur's sister. if not for you i never would have done this and i really liked it-- thanks. don't thank me, big-head kid thank green potato chips. my name is binky. mine's d.w. next, i'm going to make up my own ballet called robot man in the junkyard. i will never figure out how those two became friends. space aliens. alien: hey, don't blame us. we're just ballet fans.

kids: and now... here's how i think potato chips are made: they bring the potatoes into a factory. boy: a chef cuts up the potatoes. boy: they go down a conveyor belt. girl: they cook them and they go in a bag. boy: then they ship them out. we're at cape cod potato chip factory. this is where all our chips are made. this truck right here is carrying 50,000 pounds of potatoes right now. and we operate 24 hours a day. this gentleman's job is to inspect all the potatoes which are accepted into our factory. that woman's job is to cook the chips. and she'll hand-rake the chips with a rake. then they're put into these centrifuge spinners. it spins real fast

and it spins off all the excess oil. then-- now, watch this-- they're going to dump the chips into the cooling conveyor. this is where all of our chips are taken from the scales and then they go down where they're packed into bags and shipped off to the stores. ( crunching ) why are some potato chips green? a green potato is sunburned. this potato somehow was exposed to sunlight during the growing process. is it okay to eat green potato chips? you'd have to eat about 1,000 green potato chips before you'd even get a bellyache. ( crunching ) and now... host ( laughing ): so you bit the sandwich and then saw half a worm in the part you hadn't eaten? uh-huh. and then what did you do? all: spit it out! go to the hospital.

get de-wormed. ate the rest. ( laughter ) ( groaning ) boys sure do the most embarrassing things don't they? let's watch a re-enactment. it's weird how we hate being embarrassed but it doesn't bug us much if it happens to someone else... sort of. if i were him, i'd wear a bag over my head forever. how can he tell everybody he did that-- on tv?! i wonder what the sandwich was. francine: turn it off! but there's still ten more embarrassing minutes to come. arthur? shh... so, you do the most embarrassing things is going to do a live show at wonderworld next week and we wrote in for tickets. oh, boy, i've never seen tv before it's tv before.

come on, d.w., every time i take you to something you act like such a little kid. and it's so embarrassing. d.w.: uh-uh. name just one time. hmm... ( munching and slurping noisily ) arthur: shh. d.w., just watch the movie. d.w.: hmph! hey! arthur: d.w.! no! ( yelling ) uh... sorry, sir. d.w.: that was last winter-- i was only a little kid. name something that happened recently. you thought you were dying from eating a green potato chip. you promised you wouldn't talk about that. dad: arthur don't tease d.w. i don't do embarrassing kid stuff

anymore. if i prove i'm more grown-up now, i can go, right? yeah, sure... but i know there's no way you can prove that. just watch me. ( wheels squeaking ) well, you're failing so far. that's what you think. hmm... kind of fat... very thin... medium... whoa! that's definitely not for little kids! arthur: getting that book doesn't prove you're grown-up. mom can read it to me for a bedtime story. i'm interested in the subject. what is it again? arthur: macroeconomics. i love that. what is it again? mint chocolate chip, please. i want rocky road with extra cookie pieces. i mean, i'll have something vegetarian. okay, sweetie. oh, i heard the cutest thing about you, d.w.

i sure hope you're feeling better these days. i don't get it: do adults say weird things to you when you become grown-up? ( straining ) only when you're trying to act like something you're not. woman: hey, d.w.! sure hope you're feeling better these days. you take care, we'd hate to lose you. they're doing it again! wha.... ( boys laughing ) ooh, i ate a green potato chip. i'm dying, i'm dying. you better take care of yourself, d.w. we wouldn't want to lose you. ( laughing ) you! you did this! you told everybody about the potato chip so they'll think i'm a baby and you wouldn't have to take me anywhere. i didn't say anything to these people. then you told your friends and they

told everybody. no way! go ask them and see. they don't even know about it. francine: oh, hi, d.w., would you like a chip? don't worry, we threw out all the poison ones. ( laughing ) i swear i didn't tell them. i know you did this, and i'm going to get proof and then you'll have to take me to the show. announcer: the bionic bunny show! d.w.: hmm, suspicious... they're using the tv to drown out their voices. buster: hello, d.w. ( gasps ) very suspicious. hello, d.w.! very, very suspicious.

d.w.: very, very, very suspicious. they're keeping their faces turned away so i can't read their lips. wait, here it comes! ( very slowly ): hello, d.w. i need more sophisticated equipment. i need the number of the nearest lie detector store. arthur: hey, d.w., you're famous. you're in buster's mom's "let a smile be your umbrella" column. i can't read. what's it say? "a story that's put a smile "on my face for the past few days involves a little girl "who thought that green potato chips were fatal. "five-year-old dora winifred read... "eagerly gobbled up a green chip one afternoon "only to be informed by her practical-joker brother, arthur that green chips were deadly." woman: president d.w.?

you have ended poverty and war and outlawed older brothers who break promises. ( cheering ) ms. president, i have one question: would you like a potato chip? i checked for green ones! ( laughing ) ( camera shutters clicking ) you've got to help me stop this, or i'll never live it down. d.w., i have things to do. i won't help you. ( d.w. screaming ) okay, i'll help you. ( screaming continues ) okay, d.w., i'll help you. that was the last trip, right? please say that was the last trip.

hey! hey! what are you doing? got a bunch of calls for a redelivery-- guess some dog ate everybody's paper. it's hopeless. i can never show my face again. and you won't even admit you did it. it's like when you stole my crazy bus c.d. and my snowball. you know mom and dad took that c.d. so you finally admit you stole my snowball? mom: she was convinced a green chip would to kill her. you know how dramatic d.w. can be. i wouldn't be surprised if she drew up a will. when bitzi asked if she could put it in her column i couldn't say no. of course i'm sending it to all the relatives: grandma thora, lucy aunt jessica and great-aunt susan cousin hortense and hortense's stepbrother tyler and my college roommate...

mom?! what, honey? you're the one who told everybody about the green chip! my own mom is trying to ruin me. oh, i'm sorry. i didn't realize it embarrassed you. i'll never repeat that story again. promise? i promise. arthur i'm sorry i blamed you. i'm just so miserable. everybody's laughing at me. would it make you feel better to come to the show? well... i guess. that worked out happily for everyone. arthur, would you mind taking these to recycling? oh... arthur: come on, d.w. you promised you wouldn't embarrass me. i have to lay low until college. everybody's mom embarrasses them once in a while. yeah, my mom used to call me "boo-boo." everybody at school teased me about it. but then they forgot.

hi, boo-boo. oh... mom ( over loudspeaker ): yes, it's true-- she thought green potato chips were fatal. do you hear that? tell me i'm dreaming. what am i going to do? run away. join the circus. my mom knows a good plastic surgeon. please don't mention it. you promised! d.w., wait. wait! ( crying ) binky: you okay, sir? oh, binky! d.w.! i thought you were a real football player in a dress. binky, you've been as close to death as me. what do you do when someone does something you don't like? i always just stare at people and they stop doing whatever they're doing. mom: d.w.! oh, d.w., i'm sorry. you think because i'm a little kid you don't have to keep a promise. that's not true. mrs. macgrady asked me about the

newspaper... so when somebody asks, the promise is off? no way. no, you're right. but people are going to ask. can we figure out something i can say? "the newspaper lied"? what if i just say "i can't talk about it because i want to respect my daughter's feelings"? um... okay. at least now i can relax and enjoy the show. host: welcome, folks, to you do the most embarrassing things. for our first guest-- a kid who ate a green potato chip and thought it was deadly! ( gasps ) binky barnes! i thought i would die. ( laughter ) ( laughter stops suddenly ) host: and now the members of the bully ballet are going to dance our re-enactment of binky's embarrassing experience in their new ballet don't eat the

green ones." which arthur character are you? she's dw because she's funny. dw: i'm giving you half a star. one star is usually the lowest you can get but i made an exception. and she's arthur because she's smart. isn't it great to be appreciated? we don't argue like dw and arthur do. yes we do! this is all your fault! no we don't! see, you're just like arthur and dw! oh, not again! i guess we are just like arthur and dw. all: which arthur character are you? announcer: pbs kids has feet that grab noses that blow, and even hairy toes. so when you want fins, wings and a couple of things you want "the cat in the hat knows a lot about that," weekdays on pbs kids or anytime at pbskids.org.

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