♪ Every day when you're walking down the street ♪ ♪ Everybody that you meet has an original point of view ♪ (laughing) ♪ 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!

Hey, D.W.!

Hey!

Whoa... (crash) Lights, please.

The rivalry between Mighty Mountain and Lakewood Elementary stretches back decades.

Ever since Biff Biffington beat us in the hoop championship, our drive to defeat them has only intensified.

Sports; spelling bees; quilting bees; competitive beekeeping.

Whatever the activity, our schools have duked it out for glory.

But the most highly charged contest of them all has been... the Elwood City Science Fair.

The trophy has switched hands dozens of times, but this year, our archenemy won't prevail.

They may have the best quilts and honey, but science fair glory will be ours!

MUFFY: "When Rivals Came to Roost."

♪ ♪ I wish our science fair project wasn't quite so... (shuddering): wormy.

Muffy, worms play an important role in keeping soil healthy.

Yeah.

And they're funny.

(chuckling): Especially Mr. Wiggles!

He doesn't seem funny to me.

I guess not everybody gets worm humor.

MR. RATBURN: Class, may I have your attention, please?

A burst pipe flooded the third-grade classroom at Mighty Mountain this weekend.

So they'll be here until the damage is repaired.

Will their classroom be nearby?

Oh, by "here," I meant in this room.

They're arriving after lunch.

Here?!

What?

Here?

It'll be a little crowded, but I'm sure we'll make them feel as welcome as we would wish to feel if we were in their shoes.

But they'll see our worms.

Our top-secret worms!

Yes.

And we'll get to learn about their project, because a janitor rescued it.

Mr. Ratburn said they lost a lot of their school supplies in the flood.

We should make them welcome kits.

I have a lot of extra scrunchies we could give them.

And I have some ketchup-flavored jellybeans.

Or, jellybeans I accidentally got ketchup on.

I was thinking notebook paper.

Yeah, we should think about things we would appreciate having if we were them.

LADONNA: And what if we all wore these ribbons?

They're in Mighty Mountain's school colors.

Why would we wear these?

Solidarity.

To show we're all on the same team.

But we're not on the same team.

We're rivals!

Brain, just because Los Dedos beat you at chess a few months ago...

It'll be fun to have Mighty Mountain here.

The more, the merrier.

(bell ringing) On behalf of the third-grade class, welcome!

Please know that anything of ours is yours.

Except that pencil!

That's my pencil.

Any questions?

♪ ♪ Brain.

Los Dedos.

Let's make the upcoming science fair about good science, not competition.

Agreed?

Of course.

Measuring worm-digging?

That's your whole project?

Worms eat their weight in dirt every day.

That kind of data will impress the judges.

(sarcastically): Oh, I'm sure.

A bunch of ants in a pickle jar?

I'm sorry, Los Dedos, I expected more from you.

We had an incredible display.

It was almost complete, but the flooding destroyed it.

Oh, I'm sure.

(fizzing) (Brain gasps) Ah!

My measurements!

(Buster gasps) Mr. Wiggles!

ARTHUR: It felt weird having Mighty Mountain kids in our class.

I'm sure it felt weirder for them.

Imagine having a different desk, a different teacher... Debbie, my desk-mate, kept asking if she could borrow an eraser.

Probably because she didn't have one.

They're all just trying to fit in.

How does sabotaging our worm graph with juice help them fit in?

That was an accident.

Or was it?

Did you know, in the natural world, ants and worms are mortal enemies?

(gasps) I've never heard that before.

Then you've never read "Bionic Bunny" Issue 312, "Dr. Antic versus Squirm: Doom in the Dirt."

The super-villain Dr. Antic retired, (roaring) but with Squirm on a rampage... (gasps) (grunting) BUSTER: ...Bionic Bunny needed backup.

(groaning) ♪ ♪ Squirm's auntie was anti-worm, so he bribed Antic's auntie, upping the ante with antiques in her Antarctic antechamber... ...to antagonize Antic into standing firm against Squirm!

(phone ringing) (Auntie talking in ant language on phone) ♪ ♪ And what happened next was horrible!

What happened?

My mom made me leave the store before I could finish the issue.

Well, "Bionic Bunny" isn't based on science.

And the ants and worms are in separate containers.

But maybe we should keep a closer eye on our worms.

And on the Mighty Mountain kids.

♪ ♪ I can't believe how long we've been waiting in this line.

I know!

Soon it'll be dinner.

Well, maybe if some people didn't insist on the Mighty Mountain kids going to lunch first.

It was to make them feel more welcome.

Besides, after working with worms all morning, I've kind of lost my appetite.

(groans) But it's pizza day!

I've been dreaming of pepperoni all week.

Sorry, kids.

Just ran out.

But I turned yesterday's spaghetti into "Pasta a la Yum."

♪ ♪ I can't escape the worms.

But what about my pepperoni?

Oh!

Mighty Mountain is really starting to wear out their welcome.

Yeah.

♪ ♪ BUSTER (voiceover): I have to wait longer to sharpen my pencils.

♪ ♪ ARTHUR (voiceover): We couldn't use the four-square court, 'cause Mighty Mountain kids were using it.

MUFFY (voiceover): Are we making them feel too welcome?

What if they don't want to go back?

I don't think we have to worry about that.

Hey, where did Danny and Los Dedos go?

(gasps): The worms!

♪ ♪ (Brain gasping) ♪ ♪ BRAIN: What's going on!?

It was an accident.

We left lunch early... ...to check on the temperature of our ants' soil...

The table was crowded.

It slipped!

What do you think you're doing?!

Just trying to help pick the worms up.

No, don't pick them up like that, you have to be very careful.

Okay, okay.

But where will you put them?

You can't use that soil now, it could be contaminated with floor soap.

She's right.

Hmm.

They could live in here.

BUSTER: With your ants?

Just temporarily.

Do we have a choice?

Mr. Wiggles may have something to say about all this.

I think.

♪ ♪ (sighs) ♪ ♪ I've drawn up some designs for a small but sturdy wall to keep our two science projects separated.

Is that really necessary?

BRAIN: I believe it'll ensure the safety of both the ants and the worms, while... Hmm.

If I didn't know better, I'd say they're plotting something.

Quick, hide!

Huh?

MUFFY: Whoa!

(sighs): Now the whole Lakewood class is angry at our class.

I miss Mighty Mountain.

It feels like everything we do here is treated with mistrust.

Hmm, maybe if we helped them...

Yes, let's do something to help them with their worm project.

I know the perfect thing to move the worms.

Let's see if it's still in our classroom back at Mighty Mountain.

(gasps): Did you hear that?

They're taking our worms.

If we can prove they're trying to sabotage our project, they'll be disqualified.

Come on!

♪ ♪ MUFFY: There they are!

Don't deny it!

You're here to retrieve your "Worm Mover" so you can take our worms.

Yes, we didn't want to harm your worms while we transferred them to a new worm-home we wanted to build.

So we came here to retrieve those.

LOS DEDOS: Soft tongs.

To move the worms gently.

Oh.

But I'm afraid our classroom is still too damaged to enter.

♪ ♪ Wow.

It's really bad.

LOS DEDOS: That was my desk.

All my schoolwork.

(gasps): I had no idea so many things got ruined.

And that was our ant farm.

BRAIN: It's so elaborate.

We couldn't rebuild it at Lakewood, because we didn't know where to find the materials.

Well, we could have been more help.

♪ ♪ BRAIN: You were right, your project was better than ours.

I'm sorry, Los Dedos.

Los Dedos is just my nickname for chess.

Please, my name is Isabella.

(catching breath): There you are!

Come quickly!

The ants are attacking the worms, just as Bionic Bunny predicted!

BRAIN: The ants do seem to be engaging with the worms.

But I don't think they're attacking each other.

Fascinating.

The ants and worms... ...are working together...

BOTH: ...to distribute nutrients throughout the colony.

Isabella, do you know what this means?

♪ ♪ (machine humming, squeaking) BRAIN: And that's when we realized that we would have a stronger entry... ...if we combined the projects of our two schools.

♪ ♪ Well, Brain, you and your classmates turned out to be worthy opponents.

But I think we all turned out to be worthier partners.

♪ ♪ (camera clicking) KIDS: And now, a word from us kids!

My name is Maya, and this is my second-grade class.

Mighty Mountain's classroom flooded, so they had to go to a different school, and Arthur and his friends tried to make them feel welcome.

Something actually happened in our community.

We have had a gas emergency.

What happened was, like, a pipe, like, wasn't working, and gas got out, and houses got burned.

TEACHER: We have had a lot of families displaced, which means they are living somewhere else.

All the kids in my class had to leave their homes.

They would go to their relatives' house, hotels, or live in trailers.

I had to leave my home, 'cause I had no electricity or gas.

Can some friends share how the community helped?

STUDENT: They donated food and clothes for us, because we didn't have them anymore.

TEACHER: How do you think those donations made the families feel?

Awesome.

♪ ♪ We are making pictures of what to bring...

So that it feels like you're at home.

My advice is that you bring certain things, like, I bring my bed.

My favorite toy and a blanket and my suitcase.

Some of my clothes and my favorite stuffed animal, because it helps me sleep at night.

I would bring my football, because I always play football.

There was people who worked, and they were working to fix the gas, and they're still fixing it.

TEACHER: And they're digging in the street.

What are they doing?

ALL: Helping us!

If there's an emergency where you live, just keep calm, and, like, just do something you like, and, like, just take a deep breath.

And, like, it's going to be okay.

KIDS: And now, back to "Arthur"!

Throughout history, there have been many inventions that people have come to rely on.

Imagine what life was like before the invention of the wheel.

(screaming) (roaring, screaming continues) Go, Arthur!

Go!

(breathing heavily) (growling) This will not end well.

ARTHUR: Or the invention of the printing press.

(German accent): We need 10,000 copies by tomorrow für das Elwood City Book Fair.

Schnell, schnell!

(gasps): No!

♪ ♪ ARTHUR: Or even the telephone.

(Arthur panting, doorbell rings) (catching breath) I'm going to be late.

Oh, okay.

Thanks.

You ran all the way down here just to tell me that?

The telephone was never invented.

I wonder what invention of today we won't be able to live without.

BINKY: "The Longest Eleven Minutes."

(birds chirping) ♪ ♪ (video game music and quacking on speakers) Not today, Takashi.

Hmm, now what's the best angle for my selfie?

(birds chirping) Aw.

Whoa.

Hey, you guys!

Huh!

Whatcha doing?

Ah!

Not now, D.W.

I'm bored.

Go play with Mom.

Mom took baby Kate to the store.

Dad, then.

Dad's in the garage.

He's got a big catering job.

He said to play with you.

All right... Then I guess I'll just sing to myself.

♪ Crazy bus ♪ No!

Fine.

ALL: No!

I said fine!

My new profile pic won't post.

Look!

I don't like that spinning wheel.

I lost Takashi.

My video says it's buffering.

But, but it's not buffering.

It's not buffering at all.

Relax.

Hit refresh.

♪ ♪ Guys, I think the internet is... gone!

That can't happen.

Can it?

I must have been getting too close to the truth, and at exactly... 1:00, they... shut down the internet!

Who are "they"?

Exactly!

I thought you were working on your great inventions report.

I am.

The invention of aluminum foil.

I typed A and L into Boogle, and boom, "aliens" popped up.

It's like Boogle knew.

(gasps): That's it.

Let's ask Boogle how to fix the internet.

Yeah.

(both gasping) There is no Boogle.

What do we do?

Just unplug that blinking box.

BUSTER: Of course!

The router!

How do you know about the router?

It's what Mom does.

Wait!

What?

You have to wait three seconds.

Everybody knows that.

What do we do for all that time?

We count.

One... Stop.

You have to count with Mississippis.

One Mississippi... Two Mississippi... Three Mississippi!

(all sighing) Oh, no.

Now what?

Let's be unicorns!

(neighing) We just need to use our brains.

Did you run system diagnostics, checking for connectivity?

Uh, what?

(barking) (neighing) I also suggest you temporarily disable any firewalls to ensure that's not the root cause.

This is an emergency!

Can you just give us a quick fix, using simple words?

Did you unplug the router?

ALL: Yes!

BRAIN (on phone): Did you wait three seconds?

ALL: Yes!

Sorry, guys.

That's all I've got.

Might be an internet outage on your block.

(D.W. neighing, Pal barking) (door closes) Hola, Arthur.

Hi, Alberto.

Is your internet out too?

Afraid so.

What are you going to do?

Um, I'm just going to walk my dog.

How will I update my video blog?

I have fans!

Stay calm.

If we stay calm, we can get to the bottom of this.

How did people get to the bottom of things before the internet?

(music playing on speakers) That sound...

Someone is streaming music.

(music playing on speakers) Dad!

The internet is gone.

Because of the aliens.

ALL: It's not aliens!

Hello to all of you too.

Mr. Read, are you streaming music?

Please tell us you found the internet.

It's the radio.

(all sighing) Why don't you play outside?

We can't play outside at a time like this.

Can you fix it, Mr. Read?

The internet?

Did you try unplugging the blinking box and waiting for... ALL: Three seconds, yes.

Oh.

A long, long time ago, people used radios to broadcast emergency information.

You don't say.

It's true.

I did my great inventions report on the radio.

Maybe it can help us.

We know the internet is out.

Maybe we can find out why and for how long.

Dad, we need to borrow your radio.

HOST (on radio): The bestselling book, "100 New Uses for Spatulas"... (camera clicking) MUFFY: Ooh!

(camera whirring) What's that?

I don't know.

It's blank.

Maybe it's some kind of paper machine.

It gives us paper, and we write on it.

Whatever it is, it must be broken.

That's probably why I found it in that box over there.

(camera clicking, whirring) Yep, this one's a dud too.

LADONNA: Wow, cool.

Look at all these old books.

ARTHUR: Books!

Of course.

Maybe there's something written about the internet that can help us.

(groans): We need more light.

Books don't have screens we can brighten.

Let's take the box to the backyard.

♪ ♪ You guys want to play with us?

(struggling): We're a bit busy.

(struggling): Saving the internet.

What's it say?

(slowly): En-cyc-lo-pedia.

♪ ♪ MUFFY: Hmm.

This book is just about anything that starts with an A.

If only it was a book about I.

That's a little selfish.

"I" for internet, not "I" for me.

Oh.

That would be good.

Here's the one with I. Internet's not here.

They took it out.

I think this book might be from before the internet.

Whoa.

♪ ♪ (bird chirping) BUSTER: Hey, guys.

Something very strange is happening-- look!

MUFFY: That is not a flattering angle.

(gasps, camera clicking and whirring) What kind of sorcery is this?

(Frisbee whirring, Ladonna gasps) Look!

"Instant camera."

D.W., you did it!

I did?

"This type of camera uses self-developing film."

This book is like Wikipedia, but you don't need the internet!

I can do my school report on this camera.

Now this one has good angles.

And it already comes with its own cool retro filter.

Whoa.

Mine's of the tree.

Shouldn't that little bird be in the tree?

(bird chirping, Buster gasps) Huh?

(barking, bird chirping) Here it is.

Aw.

It must have fallen from its nest.

MUFFY: Oh.

What should we do?

BUSTER: The internet would be really useful right about now.

Wait!

Don't.

Maybe we shouldn't touch it.

Isn't that bad?

That's just a myth.

I know what to do.

I was watching a science video on baby birds.

We need to return it to its nest.

It's like "Best of the Nest" IRL.

IRL?

In real life.

(barking) ARTHUR: Buster, hold onto Pal.

Ladonna, you'll need to get on my shoulders.

Muffy, you get the bird.

Huh?

I need to document this for my blog.

It will get so many likes.

D.W., you'll need to pick up the baby bird and carefully hand it to Ladonna.

Everyone got it?

ALL: Got it.

(Pal barking) (chirping) ♪ ♪ (baby bird chirping) It's no good.

I can't reach.

(sighs): We'll have to go to Plan B.

ALL: There's a Plan B?

(camera clicking, whirring) ♪ ♪ Plan B is a strawberry basket?

To make a nest.

Will that work?

Mother birds are very good about looking after their young.

If we make a new nest and put it as high as we can, the mama will fly down to feed it.

♪ ♪ I think this means I only have three photos left.

ARTHUR: You'll just have to be selective.

Ugh, limited photos?

How barbaric!

(bird chirping) ARTHUR: Ready?

Ready.

♪ ♪ (birds chirping) ARTHUR (gasps): Yay!

ALL: We did it!

I win!

Uh, I mean, we win.

And the best part is that we did it without the internet.

(whispering): So they will never know.

(music playing on radio, Pal barking) There's a good chance aliens wrote this book.

(gasps) This will be a perfect profile pic.

(phone camera clicking) #NoFilterNeeded.

MR. READ: Hey, kids.

The internet's back on!

It feels like forever ago that we lost the internet.

How long has it been?

It's 1:11.

It was 1:00 when it went out.

That means...

The internet was only out for 11 minutes.

I don't know about you guys, but I wasn't worried.

ALL (laughing): Yeah, right!

BUSTER: To watch more "Arthur" and play games with all the Elwood City friends, visit pbskids.org.

You can find "Arthur" books and lots of other books, too, at your local library.

♪ ♪