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"Swept Away"
Season/Series: 11
Number in season: 1a
Original Airdate: United States June 25, 2007[1]
Canada September 5, 2007[3]
United Kingdom December 3, 2007[2]
Credits
Written by: Peter K. Hirsch
Storyboard by: Jean Lacombe
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"Swept Away" is the first half of the first episode in the eleventh season of Arthur.

Summary[]

Arthur, D.W. and Buster build sand castles at the beach.

Plot[]

The intro begins with Arthur on the balcony of a clock tower. He mentions how so many people have different senses of time and proceeds to show instances of this. In the car, D.W. was being impatient, much to Arthur's annoyance. At The Sugar Bowl, Buster wanted to have lunch. Arthur tried to remind Buster it was still breakfast time, and he would be starving by dinner time if he had lunch now, but Buster said he could have dinner at lunch time, and then have his next day's breakfast at dinner time. Back at the clock tower, Arthur explains that time can go fast, like when you are enjoying yourself at an amusement park. Time can also go slow, like when you take a test at school, and do not know the answers. He also explains that you can not stop time (or can you?), and tries to give an example by stopping the hands of the clock, but it is not working.

Swept Away

At the beach, Arthur, Buster, and D.W. are about to go into the water when the lifeguard blows the whistle and points to the red flag. They look to see the ocean tides are rough and they can not go into the water yet. While waiting to go into the water, the trio are busy playing cards. Soon, Arthur, Buster, and D.W. choose to build a sandcastle.

They disagree on the kind of sand castle they would like (D.W. wants a fairy princess castle, and Arthur and Buster think it should be a building from The Dark Bunny Show but can not agree on which one) and they agree to just make a regular sand castle. They spend hours building it, even as the lifeguard blows the whistle, letting everyone know they can go in the water. Soon, they are done completing the castle and Grandma Thora suggests to give it a name. D.W. wants "Princess Misty's Mermaid Mansion", but Buster and Arthur say no. Buster finds a starfish and suggests they call it "Starfish Enterprise", which they all agree on, despite D.W.'s objections over the name. So D.W. said they were going to call it Castle Starfish, which was the right answer and the perfect name for it.

Soon it is time for them to go to sleep at their hotel. When they return to the beach the next day, they find Castle Starfish is partially damaged, but still intact, so they then make a moat and make slight improvements to Castle Starfish. Jane then takes a picture of Castle Starfish along with Arthur, Buster, and D.W. posing for the picture. To make sure the tide does not damage Castle Starfish, they add a huge piece of wood to block the water. The next morning, they see that the board fell over and Castle Starfish is mostly gone. They try to rebuild it, but the sand is too wet to do so. Then, they have to leave the beach.

They come back to the location some time later to find where Castle Starfish had been, but they do not see any remains of it around, although D.W. finds a seashell from Castle Starfish. Jane calls out to the kids and tells them to hurry up, as she does not want them starting school with a cold. The three kids then walk back towards the van. Even though they will not know for certain where their castle, Castle Starfish, had been, they have a record of it: someone published a picture of it in the news.

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Cultural references[]

  • When Arthur and Buster want to call the castle the "Starfish Enterprise", it is a reference to the Star Trek spaceship Enterprise.
  • In the dream sequence, the seahorse Seabiscuit is named after a famous racehorse.

Production notes[]

  • According to Jason Szwimer's podcast Finding D.W., Ryan Ehrenworth read for the voice of D.W. for this episode; however, it is unknown if his read made it to the final broadcast. D.W.'s new voice actor, Robert Naylor, is credited as the voice of D.W. for this episode, after the departure of Jason Szwimer from the previous season. In the podcast conversation, Ehrenworth cannot recall all the details of his experience voicing D.W., but he does remember auditioning and being booked for the role, and emails confirm that he recorded audio on September 11, 2006 at Studio 306.[4] He was no longer considered for the role of D.W. after his voice deepened.
  • A snippet of this episode was reanimated in Flash by Oasis Animation as a test animation for Cookie Jar Entertainment.
  • Beginning with this episode, Postcards From You temporarily replaces A Word from Us Kids on PBS airings. The only other previous episode that did not feature A Word from Us Kids was "Postcards from Buster." A Word from Us Kids would resume later after "The Blackout."

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