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| - [PHONE RINGS] Arthur: Do you ever feel like you're the only one in the world who never wins anything? I'm going to the park now, Mum! Jane: OK. But come home by lunchtime. And...and can you get the phone Arthur: Ah! 'But then one day, just when you feel like you'll never win anything in your entire life, you do? Hello? Disc Jockey: Congratulations! This is QRAD... Arthur: Our parents say we can't take sales calls. Disc Jockey: ..To receive this awesome prize. You've just won eight tickets to next weekend's Static Airwaves concert sponsored by QRAD. Arthur: Wait! Did you say I just won? Well, be grateful for your bad luck. Because the only thing worse than never winning anything is winning. Buster: No! That can't be true! You actually won eight front row tickets for Static Airwaves?! Binky: That's, like, a miracle! Muffy: What are you going to do with them? Arthur: Well, there are eight tickets and eight of us. [ALL TALK AT ONCE] Arthur: Hey! You want to come home and wait for the tickets with me? QRAD Radio said they're going to deliver them this afternoon [CONSTANT TICKING] [DOORBELL] Francine: Open it already! Come on, come on! Arthur: Huh? Francine: Math has never been my best subject, but that doesn't look like eight tickets to me! Arthur: QRAD says the DJ got the number wrong. But the concert is sold out and I should count myself lucky to even get two tickets. So... Muffy: So, who are you going to take? All: Yeah! Arthur: Um...Heh-heh! Well...now, that's, um .. Let's see, I, er... Buster: You know what, guys, we should leave Arthur alone and not pressure him. It's not that big a deal, really. It's just a concert. All: Yeah. Francine: Let's leave Arthur alone. Arthur: Thanks, buddy. Buster: No sweat. I knew they'd all go nuts when you said who you were really taking. Front row seats! I can't wait! [PHONE RINGS] Jane: Arthur, can you get that? Arthur: Francine? How did you get home so fast? Francine: I know you're probably taking Buster, but I just want to say I was the first one in school to like Static Airwaves. You remember that day in kindergarten when I played their first single for Show and Tell? Arthur: Muffy, too? Francine, can we maybe talk about this later? Francine: Oh! OK, fine! Arthur: Don't be mad, it's just that.. [DIALLING TONE] [PHONE RINGS] Jane: Arthur? Arthur: Yeah, Mum, I'm getting it. Phew! [PHONE RINGS] Jane: Arthur? Arthur: Please could we not answer the phone for a while? Buster: 'Hey, Arthur, it's Buster. Just wanted to make sure you got that last message. OK. Um...yeah ' [BEEP!] Arthur: Could you pass the peas? [PHONE RINGS] Jane: What, honey? Arthur: The peas! Sue Ellen: 'Hey, Arthur, Sue Ellen here. Listen, about those last 20 messages, I had another thought ..' [CONSTANT BEEPING] Arthur: OK, Mum, I'm leaving now for.. Jane: For where, honey? The park? Arthur: Hey, guys! All: Tickets! Tickets! Arthur: No! The library! Francine: I wonder where Arthur is? [PHONE RINGS] Muffy: Good work, Bailey. Oh, dear me! I just forgot, I have an appointment at the salon. Well, have a great practice! Muffy: Oh! Hi, Arthur! What are you doing here? Arthur: Er...wrong book. Muffy: Oops! Hey, as long as you're here, I... Sue Ellen: Oh, hi, Arthur. I'm just doing some research on Africa... [BOTH TALK AT ONCE] Arthur: Oh, sure, yeah. All: Arthur! Arthur! Arthur! Arthur! Arthur! Arthur: Argh! All: Arthur! Arthur: Oh! Binky: Arthur! Are you OK? Let me help you! Arthur: No! Please don't! Here, just take the second ticket. Take it! Binky: Really? You're inviting me? Thanks! You know, I knew I shouldn't go in there and chase you around. Just wait patiently and you shall receive, that's our motto. What's wrong? Arthur: The tickets, I lost them! All: What?! George: Whoa! Francine: Buster, you search Fiction. Muffy, Non-Fiction, Sue Ellen, reading room, Brain, men's room, George, wake up! Arthur: I can't believe I lost them! Wait a minute. Yeah, I lost them! Ha-ha-ha! I lost them! [CONSTANT BEEPING] Telephone machine: 'Messages deleted.' Arthur: And whichever of you finds the tickets is welcome to keep them with my best wishes. Your friend, Arthur. And send to everybody and... [HE GASPS] Arthur: What? Francine: Nothing. Binky: Hi, Arthur. Sue Ellen: Yeah, hi. Arthur: Huh? What's everybody's problem. Buster: Don't get mad at me, I tried to defend you. But it's hard to defend a liar Arthur: A liar?! Buster: You lost the tickets? Come on! Arthur: Hey, George. Thanks for sitting with me. George: It's OK. We all tell white lies sometimes. Arthur: I didn't lie. George: We looked all over the whole library and couldn't find the tickets. Arthur: OK, look, you don't believe me Check my pockets. [GEORGE WHISTLES] George: Binky! Frisk him! Binky: He's clean. Wait a minute! Arthur: You want to go through my books now? Francine: Unless you have something to hide? Arthur: No, I don't. Now you guys see when I don’t have the tickets I hope you…Oh! So that's where I put them. Ha-ha-ha! Arthur: Hey, D.W., you want my concert tickets? D.W.: And have everyone hate me? No, thank you! Arthur: If there's a lesson here, I'm missing it. Arthur: Please take free tickets. Wow! I feel like I have this huge weight off my back. Argh! No! Arthur: Stay there! Stay! Stay! Ah! Whaa...! How did...? This is impossible D.W.: Muffy's butler dropped them off Arthur: Muffy's butler? D.W.: Yeah. He said that... [DOORBELL] Arthur: No! Don't! I left them on a tree stump, I swear! Francine: Arthur, we know. Muffy: Bailey called me. Binky: Then Muffy called us and... Arthur: Wait! Back up. Bailey called you? Muffy: The important thing is we've all been talking and we realised we've been unfair. George: You won those tickets, we didn't. Buster: And the very first thing you did was invite all of us. And yet we never even thanked you. Francine: We think you should just go by yourself and enjoy the concert. Arthur: Wait! I don't want to go alone. What fun is winning something if a friend can't enjoy it with you? Won't one of you come with me? D.W.: I can't believe it takes a four-year-old girl to suggest picking straws. Arthur: Wow! Look at... George: A big wall! We can't see a thing! Arthur: Well, like I always said, I never really win anything. Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, Static Airwaves! [CHEERING] Arthur and George: Whoo-hoo! All right!
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