Ears get together and make things better by working together its a simple message and it comes from the heart believe in yourself for thats 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 crash Arthur Albert einstein was a famous scientist but before he was famous he was just a kid with a lot of questions. I have a question. D. W. , cant you see im busy . clears throat when einstein was just three years old he wanted to know things. Like when his baby sister was born. It is nice but where are its wheels . wailing as he got older, he asked questions that nobody could answer. Could i ever catch up to a beam of light . As an adult, he kept on asking questions that changed the way we think about the universe. Oh, and. D. W. can i ask my question now . What, d. W. . whats so important that you have to interrupt me . Whens the show going to start . Youve been talking forever. groans tadah teacher all right, everyone, lets line up to go outside. I go first im the line leader. D. W. , why dont we give emily a chance to be line leader. You were line leader at lunch. Remember, class, only a few more days till career day. You should be thinking about your presentation on what you want to be when you grow up. I already know what i want to be a ballerina. Ive wanted to be one all my life. Tommy and i want to be cowboys when we grow up. No, we dont. We want to be policemen. Cowboys policemen both grunting how about you, d. W. . What are you going to be . First d. W. mary moo cow i called it d. W. its my tv time tv narrator launched in 1990 from the Space Shuttle discovery. Dad im watching a fascinating program on space exploration. Tv narrator . 700,000 photos of the cosmos. The images have astounded and even confounded astronomers. groans its just news. Look its footage of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. I was arthurs age when this was shown live on tv. Everyone i knew wanted to be an astronaut. Imagine what it felt like to be the first person to set foot on the moon. Neil armstrong its one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Who knows . Maybe one day, you kids will get to see someone walk on mars. You mean that no one has ever done that . Not yet. Good then ill be the first. laughs laughing d. W. . An astronaut . Now, theres a crazy idea. Whats so crazy about it . Im only four and i can already count to ten. D. W. Is right, arthur theres no reason why she couldnt be the first person on mars. See . So there. Now, if youll excuse me i have to start preparing. Lets see. Juice, cookies. What else should i bring . Oh, yeah a copilot. Where to, captain . Mars. Oh, goody. Are we spending the night . I didnt bring my toothbrush. Nah, this is just a test mission to see what it might be like. I wont really be going till im a little older. Now, lets see there must be a light switch in here somewhere. Load the pinkulator. Set the gigatron to ten. Start the caliopilops. Check, check check. Ready for blastoff. deep rumbling we did it. Were the first people ever to land on mars. I couldnt have done it without you, nadine. Now for the best part. This is one small step for me, and one big leap for everyone else. Whoa grunts that wasnt such a small step. Its beautiful. Do you think anybody lives on mars . I dont know but if someone is here they should be throwing us a parade. Its not every day that someone from earth comes to visit them. heavy footfalls whats that sound . The. The welcoming committee . Wheres it coming from . I dont know. both scream pal growling let go of my space hatch, you dumb dog. grunts great now i have to build a whole new spaceship. growling whimpers tommy nice job, timmy. Read him his rights. Stinky pete, youre under arrest for not wearing a hat. You have the right to sit in this wagon. What are you doing . Practicing for career day. Weve decided to be cowboy policemen when we grow up. Hey, shes not wearing a hat. Youre under arrest. groaning fine, im under arrest. Do you have something i could use as a spaceship like a big box . Ive decided to be the first person to go to mars. both gasp dont do it, d. W. You dont want to go to mars. Martians live there. We saw a science show on tv all about it. Really . Well, what are martians like . Theyre big lizards. Timmy some are as big as skyscrapers. Tommy they never sleep but they have to eat all the time. Timmy sometimes they even try to eat each other. roaring tommy and you know why mars is called the red planet . No. Because martian blood glows red in the dark. Wait here ill go get you that box. Uh, actually i dont need it. Thanks. squeaks gasps dad d. W. , were going to do some star gazing. Its a beautiful night. Who knows . We may even be able to see mars. Come on. Uh. Okay. Whoa the moon looks so big. Isnt it beautiful . Here, let me see if i can find mars for you. It must be tiny if you need a telescope to see it better. Its actually a lot bigger than the moon. Its just a lot farther away. There it is. Take a look. Ill go in and get us something to munch on. Where is it . All i can see is a small dot thats sort of. gasps it really is red. Of course it is. Thats why they call it the red planet. The tibbles were right. I can see the martian blood. Martian blood . From the big lizards who are as tall as skyscrapers and. And. And never sleep, right . But they have to eat all the time and sometimes they attack each other . Right. How come everyone knows about this but me . D. W. , thats from a silly movie called attack of the sleepless martian dinosaurs. Buster made me watch it. Tibbles i shouldve known better. But wait if there are no martian dinosaurs then who lives. Up there . Arthur no one knows for sure if anything lives on mars. But even if there is life, it wouldnt be something as big as a skyscraper. Hello anybody home . Ow chittering grunts so, you still want to go to mars . You know, youre not the first person to be afraid of mars and martians. Im not . Look at this. Its called war of the worlds, and it was written by h. G. Wells. In the story aliens take over our planet. But. But its not true, right . Nope. But in 1938, a man named orson welles did a radio broadcast of the story. A lot of people heard it and thought it was really happening. Theyre here were being attacked by aliens screams were they scared . You bet. But the more you know about something, the less scary it is. Heres a picture of the real mars. It looks like a big rusty desert. How can anything live there . Good question. And i know just where we can do a little research. D. W. okay, so i know that itll take me over two years to get to mars and that id weigh almost nothing there but i still dont know whether theres any life on it. Dad scientists havent answered that question yet. D. W. well, someone has to do it. It might as well be me. Okay, children, its time for our career day presentations. Who would like to go first . Okay, d. W. You can start. When i grow up, im going to be the first person to set foot on mars. And the first person to be eaten by a giant martian lizard. Timmy, shh. Mars is called the red planet because. The martian blood glows red in the dark. Giant lizards . Blood . I dont want to hear this. Children, please settle down. Are they coming here . Are they going to get us . whistle blows do you want to hear about the real mars or just a madeup story . As i was saying, mars is called the red planet because the rocks there have lots of iron in them. When the iron gets rusty it turns red. children ooh pretty now, people used to think this was a big face, but if you look closely, you can see that its just a bunch of holes. D. W. finally, theres one thing Everyone Wants to know is there any life on mars . Well, im sorry to say but we just dont know. All aw but the good news is im going to find out for you all and ill be the first to do it. Thank you. cheering that was a wonderful presentation, d. W. Absolutely fascinating. So tommy and timmy would you like to go next . Um, i think we need more time, ms. Morgan. Were changing what we want to be. Yeah. We want to be astronauts, too. And now, a word from us kids. with students mercury, venus earth, mars. Francescas mom came and told us about planets. Jupiter, saturn, uranus neptune and pluto. Francescas mom is an astronomer someone who studies stars and planets. And shes talking to us about the new planet. Which i dont really know the name of. Okay, well, in 2003, astronomers found an object that is bigger than pluto and farther away from the sun. If we should call it a planet, what name should we give it . Casey two. Ubdee bubdee. Zix one. Boy today were making imaginary planets. Astronomer you are going to make up your own planet. What would it be like if you could go to these planets . My planet is called cupsqprezbm. And it has bananashaped creatures. My planets name is chrykuoarasim. It is very icy. Theres a legend about this planet, but nobody really knows it. And this is my planet, and its called truckabyupu. And its a carnival, and it has a workout place. And thats it. The name of my planet is purple 123. This is the queen right here. Theyre taking a ballet class. And they roast green marshmallows. children oohing and now, back to arthur. piano playing dramatically thunder i suppose youre wondering why weve called you all here. You said there was cake, old boy. Mmm. And its delicious. Yes, i suppose it is. But thats not the main reason. Oh, right. The main reason is we know who done it. Arthur could it be the professor . Or maybe the heiress . gasps whimpers or perhaps the neerdowell gadabout. The what . He means you old bean. Oh. gasps and the culprit is. buster screams what happened . Who screamed . Oh, sorry. That was me. I dropped my cake. Oh. Hey all im saying is, a rocketpowered baseball bat would be cool. mr. Read screams what happened . Ms. Perske just delivered this cake plate an hour ago and now it has a huge chip in it, and the johnson wedding is this weekend. Cant you just use another one . No, they specifically requested this one. D. W. well, it wasnt me. I was never near that table. Mr. Read arthur, do you have any idea how this happened . Uh, we were just outside playing baseball. Arthurs not telling you everything. What. What do you mean . Ive got it all on tape with my secret spy cam. Whered you get that . Oh, thats mine. I told d. W. She could use it while i was here. Tv announcer youre really dancing now. We sure are. Who knew competitive dancing could be so much fun . d. W. Giggles doorbell rings, door opens mrs. Read oh, thank you. This should be safe here. Arthur buster, ive had enough. Lets play outside. Uhoh. barks pal pal, shoo arthur hey, buster, lets play some ball. Here, catch. glass breaks arthur, im very disappointed in you. Why didnt you tell me youd been in the living room . We were playing outside, but i guess we were in the living room first. But we didnt break it. Thats not what it sounds like on the tape. I have to get back to work now but tonight, i want you to tell me what really happened. I cant believe you videotaped us. Well, im glad i did since it proves i didnt do it. Which reminds me. You boys dance divinely. Have fun with your talk tonight. My dad doesnt believe us. Weve got to prove were telling the truth. But how . By finding out who did break that plate. Hmm. Whos the most likely person to have broken something . What would i be doing in your house . Besides, i had a clarinet lesson this morning. Aha if you werent there then how did you know the plate was broken in the morning . Arthur buster we told him that when we came in. Oh, yeah. Aw. That always works on tv. Ha you two need detective lessons. Now, if youll excuse me. Detective lessons would be helpful. Where do you get detective lessons . This book, the complete Sherlock Holmes will teach you everything i know. groans oh i cant read this now. Im having a talk with my dad tonight. As holmes once said, the world is full of obvious things which nobody by chance ever observes. Youre best bet is to go back to the scene of the crime and examine the evidence. Mom, you have to believe me. We didnt break the plate. I want to believe you, but your dad showed me the tape. groans oh mrs. Read, are you sure the plate wasnt broken when you put it on the piano . Yes, buster. I checked it when ms. Perske delivered it. It was fine. Weve got two pieces of evidence the plate and the videotape. We need to examine them as thoroughly as possible, but how . Hmm, the way they do it in those crime labs on tv. I think youll want to see this. Ive studied the plate chip under a magnifying glass and compared it to the break patterns as found in the authoritative work on the subject, dr. Grants crystal breaks chips and shards. Here take a look for yourself. Heres your chipped plate, and heres a picture of standard damage caused by a baseball. Theyre totally different. Thats correct. Id say your dads plate was broken by something metallic about the size of a coin. That means it couldnt have been us. Brain but wait. Theres more. I ran the audio from your tape through some soundenhancing software. Lets listen to the regular tape first. Arthur on tape hey, buster, lets play some ball. Here, catch. glass breaks aw, that doesnt help. It still sounds like we broke it. Ah, this time through my software. Listen, just before the smash. tape rewinds arthur on tape hey, buster, lets play some ball. Here, catch. metallic clattering, glass breaks but. What was that sound . metallic clattering find that sound, and id say youll find what broke that plate. So there has to be something in this room that made that sound and could break a plate. Like this driedup jelly bean . Could this break a plate . No the brain said something small and metallic like a coin or a bolt, or maybe a. A watch. Yeah, i guess it could be a watch. No. I found a watch. Hmm. Ive never seen this before. Hey, look at this. To ms. Perske, a great boss. Isnt perske the name of the shop where your dad got the cake plate . Thats right. Mom said ms. Perske delivered it to our house. But how could she have broken the plate with her watch . But i told you boys i never set foot in your house. I must have lost my watch outside. But we found it in my living room. And now my watch is broken. It must have broken when it hit the cake plate. Thats a pretty unlikely explanation. Are you sure you didnt break it . Just because we cant prove it doesnt mean it isnt true. Ms. Perske doesnt believe me. My own dad doesnt believe me. Even im starting not to believe me. We need more help. So, the question is, how could the watch have gotten on the inside . Oh, we have no idea. Holmes says that there is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you. Maybe it flew through the window. Thats impossible. I suggest you check to see if the window was open. According to holmes, when every possibility is explored, whatever remains, no matter how unlikely must be the truth. See . Something could have flown through this window. Ms. Perske said she pulled out of our driveway and headed that way. She said she had her arm out of her car window, and the watch slipped off and landed on the street. But when she stopped to look for it it was gone. metallic clattering ouch that was it that was the sound no, it wasnt. That was just me saying ouch. Something just hit me in the arm. metallic clattering get your video camera, buster. Sherlock holmes may believe in impossible things, but my dad is going to need proof. video static thank you all for coming. What are you talking about . Im here all the time. Mom d. W. , quiet. Your brother is solving a mystery. Anyway this should clear up the mystery of who broke the cake plate. Buster . Arthur at first, all signs pointed to buster and me. barking arthur hey, buster, lets play some ball. Here, catch. glass breaks but the brain showed us that it wasnt a baseball that broke the plate. And then there was that sound. metallic clattering that led us to ms. Perskes watch, which led us outside to the biggest clue of all. When this manhole cover is run over, it shifts, causing the sound and launching anything on the cover like, say, a stone or a watch, into the air. static buster seemingly impossible and yet true. I tested all the trajectories, mr. Read. It was ms. Perskes watch, launched from that street, which flew through this living room window and broke your cake plate, which was sitting right here. I guess i owe arthur and buster an apology. Thats okay, dad. Im sorry, too. I should have admitted i was playing catch inside. Unfortunately, im still short one expensive cake plate. Ms. Perske actually youre not. Ms. Perske . I hope you dont mind. I invited ms. Perske to join us. I apologize for my dramatic entrance, but the chance to lurk in the wings until the big moment was just too good to pass up. I do so love a good mystery. Yeah, if youre not the prime suspect. I must say though i had no idea the trouble my watch had caused. Well, it was no trouble exactly. Nonsense. Of course it was. And seeing as your son found my watch which has great sentimental value, im replacing your plate for free. Mr. Read wow. Thats very kind of you. Now, we just have to call the city to fix the manhole cover. metallic rattling kids oh, no adults oh, no metallic clattering hi, everyone, its me, buster. If you love the great food we get to eat in elwood city you wont believe all the great food im trying on my trip with my dad. Mmm. Dont you just want to eat some . Im tasting everything and im sending it all back to my friends in elwood city on my very own video postcards. Theyre postcards from buster. Visit us online at pbskidsgo. Org. You can find arthur books and lots of other books, too at your local library. Now its t and everybody that you meet has an original point of view 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. 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