Arthur

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Hey, D.W.

Hey!

Whoa!

Mission control to Explorer 17.

BUSTER ( over radio ): This is Explorer 17.

Hi, Arthur.

Hi-- how was Jupiter?

Gaseous-- wait till you see my pictures.

Let's get together later.

It'll be like old times.

Buster, welcome back!

I have our bikes ready to go.

It's great to come home

to my little town.

Wow, this town's changed.

Huh?

No, it's the same.

You've changed.

: You think it's the cosmic rays?

I don't think this is going to be like old times.

Hi, guys.

Come on, Kate.

Eat your breakfast.

I had the worst nightmare.

Buster came back completely changed.

Who's Bumpster?

Mom! make her stop.

She knows who Buster is.

More eating and less arguing.

I'm trying to make fried liver paste.

Ew! Yuck!

I got it.

Hello?

Yeah.

Yeah?

Yeah!

Arthur? Are you okay?

WOMAN ( on phone ): Arthur? Hello? Hello?

Buster's coming home!

He's coming home today!

He's so happy.

Buster must be bringing dessert.

What?

Whoo-hoo!

ARTHUR ( outside ): Buster's...

coming...

home!

Buster's coming home!

What?

Strike three!

What?!

: Buster's pointing at a building?

Buster's... coming... home!

Hello? Arthur? Hello?

Are you there?

Buster's coming home!

( door squeaks open, slams shut )

Make sure there's plenty of food.

Buster eats a lot.

I know, I know.

Buster will love this.

How many kids get to eat their own face?

What are you hiding from now?

: I'm looking for buster's favorite, exciting, cool game

so we can play when he gets here.

Hmm.

Got it!

Checkers is your most exciting

cool game?

I don't even hear you.

Maybe he doesn't like checkers anymore.

Maybe he won't be your friend anymore.

He's been all around the world and you've been in your room.

( Arthur humming loudly to block out D.W. )

Buster won't want to be friends

because I'm not as exciting as Wisconsin?

Maybe-- my cousin went to Kentucky and came back

with an accent.

She came back

a different person.

: Pip-pip, tallyho, crumpets.

People change when they learn.

Would you play with baby toys now?

No.

Buon giorno, Arturo!

Arrivederci, Arturo!

Hi... uh, bye.

You must look at this logically.

We'll check

your horoscope.

"You will change jobs."

I don't have a job.

Okay, how about Buster's?

"Big changes in store."

"You feel like a new person."

Oh, no!

Howdy.

Howdy, howdy, howdy!

: No time for checkers.

We're training for the nationals.

Whoa!

This can't happen, can it?

Can Buster have changed that much?

Sure, he did a lot of new, exciting things...

But I did stuff that was just as good.

( camera shutter clicking furiously )

The origin of Bionic Bunny.

Now I've seen it an even hundred times.

( eagle calling, wind whistling )

Wow.

What if Buster thinks I'm boring?

I called the airport.

Buster's plane will arrive in two hours.

I only have two hours

to get ready for the new Buster!

A book on mountain climbing

and China and Wisconsin.

I forgot the Sahara Desert!

Thank you, Miss Turner.

China... ( reading to himself )

The Alps...

Antarctic penguins...

Oh, no!

Time's up! Buster will be home right now!

MAN ( on TV ): Could be another record for the champ.

WOMAN ( on TV ): In the all-Canada knitting finals

Curcurillo knit an entire flag and a dozen tube socks.

Uh-oh, the champ has jabbed himself.

I see blood.

If the garment is stained, he loses big points.

Did Buster call?

No, honey.

: Oh...

I hope I know enough stuff now.

I'm too nervous to read anymore.

: He's not going to call.

D.W. was right.

He doesn't want to talk to me anymore.

Arthur?

I'm sure buster will call you soon.

Yeah, right... sure, whatever.

Let's play checkers.

Checkers?!

I will not fritter away valuable time

on such triviality.

If checkers is

your idea of exciting

perhaps you need a new friend.

I went around the whole wide world, you know.

Aren't you going to play checkers

with bus stop?

Buster-- and I have other friends, you know.

If he doesn't want to come over, fine.

There's Brain and Francine and Muffy.

Like flying in a plane

makes you a big man.

How interesting can old ruins be?

Really interesting.

Hi.

Hi!

Hi, Bus Stop.

Hi, P.W.