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Transcript: Arthur
Green Squad
Descriptive Text
CHILD: Wheee!
[Child giggles, pop, playful music plays]
[Logo] T.V.O. Kids Original.
[Rock music plays]
DESCRIPTION: On a screen with a play bar at the bottom, Arthur appears in a playroom, wearing a red cape and a golden foil crown.
ARTHUR: Hey, squad, I'm Arthur, and I'm nine years old.
DESCRIPTION: In the Green Squad headquarters, Shakira, Eric, Lisa, and Kyle sit around a small table with a tablet propped up on it.
GREEN SQUAD: Hi, Arthur!
[Pops]
DESCRIPTION: In his bedroom, Arthur sits on his bed and reads a book. A graphic of two books appears. He sits at a dining room table, drawing. A pencil graphic and a stack-of-blocks graphic appear. Arthur builds with construction blocks.
ARTHUR: I like to read, draw, play with my building blocks.
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a king wearing a crown appears. Graphics of a bear, a rabbit, and a fox appear.
ARTHUR: One of my heroes is King Arthur, who protected his land and his people from evil. I want to also protect the animals and the land.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, LISA: That explains the crown.
ERIC: I love it.
[Drawer scrapes, pop]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur opens a drawer containing a plastic monster truck. A wind-up penguin walks across a shelf. In a corner, two scoops and a ball lie on the floor. A graphic of two penguins with a heart above them appears.
ARTHUR: I have some toys that I don't play with anymore, and some that are broken. And most of them are made out of plastic. I don't want throw them out because I know that would affect a lot of animals in a harmful way. And I really love animals, so I don't really know what to do.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, KYLE: Well, I've got a majestic idea for all the toys he doesn't use anymore.
SHAKIRA: And for all the broken ones, I see a future…
[Smooch]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira kisses her fingers.
SHAKIRA: Art masterpiece.
DESCRIPTION: In the playroom, Arthur lifts a toy sword.
[Text Reads] Squad, help me out!
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: The Green Squad smiles.
[Text reads] Lisa.
DESCRIPTION: Lisa wears a red blouse and has her long brown hair tightly braided. She holds a reusable shopping bag and smiles. Graphics of food, a light bulb with a plug, and a shopping bag fly out of her bag.
[Text reads] Kyle.
DESCRIPTION: Kyle holds a red backpack. His dark brown hair reaches beneath his ears. Graphics of a bicycle, a skateboard, shoes, and a truck appear.
[Text reads] Shakira.
DESCRIPTION: Shakira, a girl with long black hair, turns. She wears a sleeveless black shirt and a white skirt. Graphics of a sewing machine, scissors, and safety pins appear.
[Text reads] Eric.
DESCRIPTION: Eric holds a long work bag and smiles. His short black hair is straight, and he wears a blue t-shirt and brown overalls. Graphics of a fence, gardening tools, a wheelbarrow, and a watering can appear. The Green Squad dances.
[Text reads] T.V.O. Kids presents. An Apartment 11 Production.
[Title] Green Squad.
DESCRIPTION: The Green Squad poses together.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Green Squad.
[Upbeat music plays, Shakira knocks]
DESCRIPTION: Outside, Shakira and Kyla arrive, each carrying a bag. Shakira knocks on Arthur’s red front door, and he opens it. Behind him, his parents smile. His mom has shoulder-length brown hair and wears a sleeveless white blouse. His dad has short brown hair, a moustache and a beard. His dad wears a black T-shirt and blue jeans, and he holds a small brown dog.
SHAKIRA: Hi, I'm Shakira.
KYLE: And I'm Kyle.
ARTHUR: I'm Arthur. This is my mom, my dad, and my dog, Barley.
SHAKIRA: Nice to meet you all.
ARTHUR’S MOM: Hi, why don't you guys come on in?
SHAKIRA: Thank you.
ARTHUR: Here's my room.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur leads Shakira and Kyle to his room, where a bookshelf is full of books. They sit on the floor, and Arthur plays with a stuffed toy.
SHAKIRA: It's so cool.
KYLE: I notice that you have a ton of books on the shelf over here. You read a lot?
ARTHUR: Yes.
SHAKIRA: Oooh. What types of books?
ARTHUR: Graphic novels, novels, comic books.
SHAKIRA: So, we hear you're pretty passionate about the environment as well. Is there anything your family does already to be, like, more eco-friendly?
[Pop, chimes]
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a yogurt container appears. The lid opens, and a wedge of cheese pokes out.
ARTHUR: We recycle everything that we can recycle. Not like yogurt or not yogurt, but like, yeah, those big containers. Yeah, we reuse those a lot. Like, you could just see those, like, I open it up, and it's like cheese in it.
KYLE: So sometimes you upcycle or reuse stuff. I see you got a lot of building blocks here. Do you have any other toys?
ARTHUR: Yeah, they're all downstairs. Let me show you.
[Whoosh, footsteps patter, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur throws his stuffed toy on his bed and leads Shakira and Kyle to the basement playroom.
ARTHUR: Here's some of my castles.
SHAKIRA: That's really cool.
ARTHUR: My blocks table.
KYLE: Oh, cool. It's a robot. It's an evil robot.
[Menacing music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur waves the robot, and Shakira and Kyle hold up their hands.
SHAKIRA AND KYLE: Ahhhhh...
[Footsteps patter]
DESCRIPTION: Everyone sits down on small chairs at the blocks table.
SHAKIRA: So, do you play with all the toys in this room?
ARTHUR: Yeah, mostly.
KYLE: So a lot of these things that you have, these cool toys, they're all made of plastic, right?
SHAKIRA: So are there any toys in here that you don't play with? And what do you do with them?
ARTHUR: Maybe some of those toys.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur points to a bin of toy cars and trains.
SHAKIRA: And then just kind of leave them there, right?
KYLE: Do you have any broken toys?
ARTHUR: Yeah, I think they're in a box up there.
SHAKIRA: And do you know what you're going to do with the broken toys?
ARTHUR: Yeah. I don't know how to recycle those things.
[Blocks clatter]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur puts together construction blocks. Kyle picks up a yogurt container.
KYLE: And that's okay. I mean, it's actually really hard to figure out what you can recycle and what you can't recycle. But here's a good tip for you. You notice how these building blocks are actually, like, super tough and solid. And then also you've also got some building blocks in this, right? It's a yogurt container. And this is pretty easy to, you know, flex around. This is soft plastic. And that's the whole thing. A lot of your community recycling programs will not take hard plastic.
[Buzzer blares]
[Text Beside An X Reads] Hard Plastic.
[Ding]
[Text Beside A Checkmark Reads] Soft Plastic.
KYLE: But will definitely take food containers like soft plastic. Another alternative is actually wooden toys.
SHAKIRA: Wooden toys are great because they're biodegradable. However, they're not always the best option for specific types of toys, like you wouldn't want a wooden, stuffy or...
[Pops]
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a fence slat with stuffed bear ears, arms, and legs appears.
ARTHUR: Ow.
SHAKIRA: Yeah, ow. Definitely not super comfy to hug.
KYLE: It seems like you got a bunch of cool toys here, but is there anything that you're willing to give away?
[Toys clatter, Kyle and Shakira exclaim]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur picks up a bin full of plastic vehicles.
ARTHUR: Yeah. Like this.
KYLE: Ooh, perfect. Do you have any idea what a toy drive is?
ARTHUR: Ah, it's like a food drive, right?
[Blocks snap]
KYLE: Exactly, but what is it, instead of food?
ARTHUR: Toys.
SHAKIRA: Basically, if there's any toys that you don't want anymore, and you can give them a second life by gifting them to other people through the toy drive.
KYLE: And I have the perfect name for this toy drive. You want to hear what it's called?
ARTHUR: What?
[Kyle clears his throat, majestic music plays, chimes]
DESCRIPTION: Kyle holds up the toy sword, and Arthur smiles.
KYLE: The Royal King Arthur's Glorious Toy Drive. Arthur, you must call all of your bravest friends and loyal subjects. Tell them to bring all of the toys that they do not want or need, and bring it so that we can give them new life.
SHAKIRA: And tell them to bring all their broken toys, because I have an idea what we could do with them.
KYLE: All righty then. Onward to battle!
DESCRIPTION: Everyone stands, and Arthur carries the bin of vehicles.
ARTHUR: And charge!
KYLE: Charge!
[Hoofbeats clomp]
DESCRIPTION: In animation, an armoured knight holding a lance charges on their horse.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In his living room, Arthur lies upside down on the couch. Shakira and Kyle walk over and bend, with their hair dangling towards the floor.
[Pop]
[Text Reads] Hello.
[Regal music plays]
DESCRIPTION: At Arthur’s house, Kyle and Shakira walk to a door. Shakira holds a toy shield, and Kyle wears a cape and carries the toy sword.
SHAKIRA: Hello. Welcome to the toy drive.
DESCRIPTION: A girl with her black hair in a ponytail carries two bags.
BLACK-HAIRED GIRL: Hi.
SHAKIRA: Just this way.
[Chimes]
DESCRIPTION: The black-haired girl, a boy with short hair, and a brown-haired boy stand in the living room with bags at their feet.
KYLE: Welcome to Arthur's Royal Toy Drive.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur lifts a second toy sword.
ARTHUR: Yeah!
KYLE: We are going to be doing one very important task today. Sorting all of these lovely toys you gathered into two piles. The first, for all of our donated toys and the second for our broken toys. And we are going to use them…
SHAKIRA: In a creative way.
KYLE: Are we ready, folks?
CHILDREN: Yeah!
KYLE: Battle cry, yeah!
[Everyone shouts, chatter, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Everyone kneels in a circle on a carpet as they sort the toys, with Barley lying near one of the bins. The short-haired boy holds a broken boy bus.
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: I don't think this is worthy. I feel like this is not.
[Text Beside An X Reads] Unworthy.
KYLE: I judge thee unworthy. Do we think that this plane can fly with one wing?
DESCRIPTION: Kyle flies the plane towards the carpet.
KYLE: Wooooo.
CHILDREN: No!
[Text Beside An X Reads] Unworthy.
CHILD: It's gonna go...
KYLE: Half-chewed bat wing?
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: Unworthy.
[Text Beside An X Reads] Unworthy.
SHAKIRA: I say that pile.
KYLE: Toss it in the pit.
[Toys clatter, rustle]
SHAKIRA: I think those are 3-D glasses from a movie theatre.
DESCRIPTION: The black-haired girl puts on the glasses.
SHAKIRA: Probably can't be used.
BLACK-HAIRED GIRL: Can't be used, but certainly cool.
[Camera shutter snaps]
DESCRIPTION: In a graphic, the black-haired girl poses on the cover of “Cool Magazine.”
ARTHUR: I declare this worthy!
[Text Beside A Checkmark Reads] Worthy.
KYLE: Does anybody notice something about all this stuff?
CHILDREN: Yeah.
KYLE: All these toys. What are they made of?
CHILDREN: Plastic.
[Chatter, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: They pour another bag of toys in the centre of the carpet and sort them into two piles.
KYLE NARRATES: The toy drive brought in tons of toys. We're separating out the working ones, which are still in good shape and can have a second life, from the broken ones, or those that are missing pieces, which we're going to use in a special project later.
KYLE: And just like that, everybody at the Royal Toy Drive is complete.
[Applause]
ARTHUR: Yay!
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: Good job.
ARTHUR: So, what are we going to do with all these toys?
KYLE: See, our worthy pile, we can bring to a toy library, and we can let other kids, you know, pick it out and use it. And for our unworthy toys, well, they're not actually unworthy.
SHAKIRA: When you come back from the toy library, I'll show you my creative projects idea.
ARTHUR: Nice.
[Some applause]
SHAKIRA: Nice. Okay.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Later, Kyle and Arthur carry bags of toys on a sidewalk.
KYLE NARRATES: A toy library is a place where you can borrow toys instead of books. So you don't have to buy new.
KYLE: We sure collected a lot of toys, huh?
ARTHUR: Yes. They're very heavy.
KYLE: Very heavy. Well, think about how many toys we're going to put to good use in your community.
[Footsteps rustle]
DESCRIPTION: Kyle and Arthur enter the toy library. Marcia, the toy librarian, has long brown hair. She wears a black sweater over a purple shirt.
KYLE: This is my friend Marcia, and she helps out at the toy library.
ARTHUR: Cool!
KYLE: We got a whole bunch of toys, and we did a little bit of a quality control. Isn't that right, Arthur?
ARTHUR: Yes.
MARCIA: Wow, thank you so much.
ARTHUR: These are the worthy toys.
ERIC: The worthy toys indeed. So you said that there was a whole bunch of people who can come to the toy library, right? Does that mean just anybody can show up and play?
MARCIA: Everybody can come.
DESCRIPTION: Shelves around the room are filled with games and toy bins.
ARTHUR: So, these toys could have been like thrown in the garbage, but I think it's better to give them a new life as somebody else's toys than just say, throw them out.
[Toys rattle, bang, pop]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur plays with a puzzle cube. He and Kyle take things out of the bags. Graphics of a car, a ball, and a doll appear.
ARTHUR: So we got tons of stuff in here.
KYLE: We got cars, we got... balls.
ARTHUR: Dolls. We got a whoopee cushion.
[Flatulence toots]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur squeezes the cushion and, in animation, green vapour blows out.
MARCIA: Oh!
[She laughs]
MARCIA: So, thank you so much for bringing all these toys for us.
KYLE: It feels amazing to know that all this plastic's going to be going to use.
ARTHUR: Yep.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira, Eric, Lisa, and Kyle bob up and down.
[Text Reads] Green Beat.
[Upbeat music plays, chimes]
DESCRIPTION: In animation, two people hold a bin of toys between them. A cut-out photograph of Kyle stands open-mouthed by a plastic toy bear and a toy giraffe with a recycling symbol between them.
KYLE NARRATES: Some toy companies are starting takeback programs where you send your old plastic toys in, and they reuse or recycle them.
DESCRIPTION: A cut-out photograph of Shakira smiles.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: That's so cool.
KYLE NARRATES: Yeah. But there's other tricky plastics that can't be easily recycled.
[Lightbulb zaps, fingers snap]
DESCRIPTION: A girl holding foam take-out containers points to a plastic bowl on her head. A bearded man stands in front of a chalkboard, wearing a metal hat with a lightbulb on top. His mouth falls open, and he holds up one finger as the bulb lights up. A cut-out photograph of Shakira snaps her fingers, and plastic containers and a laundry basket turn into a yellow duck floatie.
KYLE NARRATES: Luckily, many companies are inventing new technologies so we can turn those tough old plastics into new things.
[Water bubbles, pop, fire hisses, beep, whoosh]
DESCRIPTION: A bucket of clear water bottles appears and, in animation, bubbles float up. In an animation, a drop of oil falls from a bottle into a bowl that is over a flame. In a factory, a conveyor belt carries tiny clear plastic pellets.
KYLE NARRATES: They clean the plastics really well and melt them down using a special kind of oil that comes from plants. The recycled plastic is turned into tiny pellets, which can then be used to make something new.
[Whoosh, water bubbles]
DESCRIPTION: A toy robot waves. A cut-out photograph of Kyle wearing a scuba mask, snorkel, and a cape. He has a yellow duck floatie around his waist. A cut-out photograph of Shakira wears a bathing cap with goggles pulled up. In an animation behind them, fish swim in the ocean.
KYLE NARRATES: This helps keep plastic waste out of the ocean and cuts pollution.
[Whoosh, trumpet flourish plays]
DESCRIPTION: In animation, a green pellet flexes its muscles.
SHAKIRA: Those are tiny pellets with big possibilities.
DESCRIPTION: In an animation, people water the Earth and put an adhesive bandage on it. A cut-out photograph of Kyle gives the thumbs-up. A cut-out photograph of Shakira gives an okay sign.
KYLE: Yup. Including the possibility of not having to make any more new plastic. Major win for the planet.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In front of a fence, Shakira, Arthur, and Kyle wave. They all wear gloves and winter coats. Kyle throws a ball up and jumps in the air.
[Title] Green Squad.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Green Squad.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: The broken toys and small pieces have been sorted by colour.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: The working plastic toys have been donated. But what can we do with these broken ones and leftover bits? Make art, of course.
DESCRIPTION: In Arthur’s house, Shakira sits on the floor. Arthur and Kyle enter the room and kneel on the carpet by the colourful plastic toys. Shakira shows them a cup of plastic bottle caps.
SHAKIRA: Come check this out! I organized all the plastic bits by colour. And then I also got some of these from your recycling bin. Some little caps.
[Text Reads] Nice!
[Safety pins rattle, toy clicks]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira pours safety pins into her hand. Arthur picks up toys and examines them.
SHAKIRA: I also have some of these ones. We're going to give all these bits of plastic a second life by creating a piece of art. I know that one of your concerns is how plastic is bad for the turtles and other sea creatures. So, what do you think about an ocean-themed mural?
ARTHUR: Good idea.
[Water bubbles, upbeat music continues]
DESCRIPTION: In animation, fish swim past Arthur. Later, at a table, everyone paints in different directions on paper with shades of blue.
KYLE: I've already got a lot of blue on here. It's quite the commotion in the ocean.
ARTHUR: Cross currents.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur rolls a small paint roller over the paper, adding more blue.
SHAKIRA: Yep. Look how nice all the blending is looking. Good job. And done! Time for the sand. So, we're going to combine some yellows and gold.
DESCRIPTION: They paint yellow across the bottom of the picture.
ARTHUR: Lots and lots and lots of yell, yell, yell, yell, yellow.
SHAKIRA: A bunch of yellow pieces of toys and plastic.
[Toys clatter]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira and Kyle carry yellow toys to the table.
ARTHUR: Yellow!
SHAKIRA: That we can use as the sand.
DESCRIPTION: They glue yellow toys and plastic pieces over the yellow paint.
ARTHUR: I'm going to go and do everything that I can reach.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur and Shakira use a glue gun and attach the plastic to the paper.
SHAKIRA: Just make sure that when you're using a hot glue gun, you're with an adult.
ARTHUR AND SHAKIRA SHOUT: Kyle, we need the seaweed!
KYLE: At your service, my liege.
DESCRIPTION: Kyle puts green plastic pieces on the picture.
SHAKIRA: Thank you.
ARTHUR SINGS: It's seaweed time.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur puts a pink toy on the painting.
ARTHUR: This one, it's like coral, see?
SHAKIRA: Yeah, love that.
DESCRIPTION: They glue the green pieces to the painting.
KYLE: You mentioned you wanted to save the sea life, of course, but what happens when plastic ends up in the ocean?
ARTHUR: Animals can get trapped in it.
[Pop]
DESCRIPTION: In an animation, a sea turtle swims with a plastic can holder around their neck.
KYLE: Absolutely, so it's very important that we try to minimize the amount of plastic that ends up in our bodies of water.
KYLE: Here we go. Some green stuff for the turtle.
DESCRIPTION: Kyle puts a round green lid on the painting. Arthur takes green leaves and positions them as the turtle's back legs.
ARTHUR: I got a good idea. Instead of being those, they should be the back.
SHAKIRA: Yeah, that's good. I like that.
[Pieces clatter]
ARTHUR: This is the tail.
SHAKIRA: His tail?
[Kyle and Shakira laugh, pop, beeps]
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a kitchen scale appears, weighing plastic bags. Text reads: “9 million tonnes.” Graphics of whales appear.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: Every year, about nine million tons of plastic end up in the ocean. That's about as heavy as 90,000 blue whales.
SHAKIRA: What next?
ARTHUR: A starfish.
DESCRIPTION: Shakira, Arthur, and Kyle put purple circles around a purple disc.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: But if we all do our part, like trying to use less plastic, and repurposing it when possible, we can help make a big difference.
SHAKIRA: Look, look. Okay. Nice, nice.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur and Kyle place pink and purple pieces extending from the starfish. Kyle puts a container of red and orange plastic on the picture.
KYLE: Reds and orange. Let's make that fish.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur makes an orange fish.
ARTHUR: Here, I made a fish.
SHAKIRA: Cool.
[Water bubbles]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur moves the tail of the fish.
ARTHUR: Wait, here's a fish. Look, it's a fish.
KYLE: Well, this school of fish can teach your school about how to save the fish.
[Emojis giggle]
DESCRIPTION: Smiling emojis wear eyeglasses.
SHAKIRA: Every good piece of art has a title because it helps get the message across even further. Do you have any ideas for a good title?
[Water splashes]
ARTHUR: The Current of Reuseal.
SHAKIRA: The Current of Reuseal, cool!
KYLE: Awesome.
SHAKIRA: Nice idea. Do you want to show it to your friends at school?
ARTHUR: Yeah, we should probably bring it there.
SHAKIRA: Maybe they can add stuff to it? Make it like a community project?
[Kyle chuckles]
SHAKIRA: Well, what collects garbage in the sea?
[Pop]
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a net appears.
ARTHUR: A net.
[Chimes]
SHAKIRA: Yeah. A net. Maybe you guys can work on that at school. This looks amazing.
ARTHUR: I love the manta ray.
KYLE: And this art has an amazing message.
[Hands clap]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira claps her hands.
SHAKIRA: High-five!
[Arthur shouts, Shakira laughs]
DESCRIPTION: Everyone clumsily high-fives.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira, Eric, Lisa, and Kyle bob up and down.
[Text Reads] Green Beat.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In a flashback, everyone uses the orange and red pieces to make fish on the picture. A cut-out photograph of Shakira smiles.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: Repurposing plastic to make art is super fun, but recycled plastic is being used to make all sorts of useful things. Like bridges.
DESCRIPTION: A photograph of a bridge appears. A cut-out photograph of Shakira has her mouth wide open and her eyes wide.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: There's a bridge in Scotland, and it's the longest one in the world made from recycled plastic.
[Bloop, tires screech, horn beeps, engines rumble]
DESCRIPTION: In an animation, three school buses park on the bridge. Text reads, “30 metres.” “44 tonnes!”
SHAKIRA NARRATES: It's over 30 metres long, about as long as three big school buses parked end to end, and it can hold up to 44 tonnes.
[Elephants trumpet, bumps]
DESCRIPTION: In the animation, seven elephants stand on the bridge.
KYLE NARRATES: That’s like seven big elephants trying to squeeze onto it.
DESCRIPTION: The graphic shows the kitchen scale weighing plastic bags. Text reads, “50 tonnes.”
SHAKIRA NARRATES: It was built using 50 tonnes of plastic waste, about the weight of 500 refrigerators.
[Doors click, air hisses, Kyle chuckles, ice cracks]
DESCRIPTION: The doors of a refrigerator open and, in animation, snowflakes fall. A cut-out photograph of Kyle wears a winter coat, while a cut-out photograph of Shakira rolls her eyes.
[Whoosh]
DESCRIPTION: The recycling symbol appears.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: And it's 100 percent recyclable. So, if it needs to come down, the plastic can be reused.
[Pop, bowling pins clatter]
DESCRIPTION: In an animation, water bottles form a skyscraper as Kyle floats beside them. The bottles fall.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur and Kyle jump on a trampoline. They pose with Shakira at the edge.
[Title] Green Squad.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Green Squad.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In Arthur’s living room, he, Shakira and Kyle sit on the floor in front of the couch.
SHAKIRA: So, was it fun getting all your friends over and sharing all the different toys, sorting through all the bits that are broken and that were good?
ARTHUR: Yeah.
SHAKIRA: Yeah!
[Kyle chuckles]
SHAKIRA: And what about the mural? Was that fun too?
ARTHUR: Yeah.
SHAKIRA: Well, I'm really excited to see what you're going to add with your classmates.
KYLE: Super excited to check in with you in a couple of weeks to see how the mural goes. Sir Arthur, this is goodbye.
[Regal music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Everyone stands.
SHAKIRA: It's been a pleasure. Goodbye, good sir.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur and Kyle bow.
ARTHUR: Goodbye.
[Upbeat music plays]
[Text Reads] Check-In.
DESCRIPTION: The Green Squad dances.
DESCRIPTION: In the Green Squad headquarters, Shakira, Eric, Lisa, and Kyle sit by the table with a tablet.
KYLE: Let's see how the mural turned out.
DESCRIPTION: In his living room, Arthur sits on the couch.
ARTHUR: Hey, Squad! Come and check out our finished mural, it's awesome.
DESCRIPTION: In a classroom, Arthur and a teacher hold the edge of a tarp while Arthur’s classmates stand facing the mural.
ARTHUR: Are you ready for the big reveal?
CLASS: Yeah!
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, SHAKIRA: Oh, I'm excited.
[Tarp rustles, applause]
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, Arthur and the teacher lift the tarp, revealing the mural. A pink net has been added near the top.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, SHAKIRA: It turned out well.
LISA: Wow, it turned out really good!
IN THE CLASSROOM, ARTHUR: Ta da!
IN HIS LIVING ROOM, ARTHUR: My friends love the mural.
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, the students kneel and look at the mural.
ARTHUR: I think they really like the all of the like, animals in the submarine. Although they were laughing cause there's little toy cheeses in the sand.
GIRL: There's cheese!
[Green Squad chuckles]
ARTHUR: I love the net.
[Children shout]
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, Arthur throws a construction block into the net. Nearby, a girl throws another piece.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, LISA: Oh, that's so cool.
ARTHUR: It's totally something that me and my friends can play with at school.
DESCRIPTION: In the Green Squad headquarters, Shakira smiles.
LISA: That is so amazing that all of that is made out of toys. This is a great way to repurpose them.
SHAKIRA: Yeah, and we use all the weird little bits and bobs and broken pieces that you just throw away or have lying around.
[Chimes]
KYLE: It's so cool that they managed to make an art piece that is now also a new toy that's made out of old toys. It's so creative.
LISA: It also spreads a really important and powerful message.
SHAKIRA: Exactly.
IN HIS LIVING ROOM, ARTHUR: Yeah, I also really loved going to the toy library and donating all those toys.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, LISA: Sounds like a really great resource.
KYLE: It really is. It's like instead of handing it down to one person, you're handing it down to every kid in your neighbourhood.
SHAKIRA Yeah.
LISA: It's like the fun never ends. But it's also so eco-friendly.
IN HIS LIVING ROOM, ARTHUR: I think I could probably do a toy drive with tons of people. All my neighbours, all my friends. Then there'd be a lot more toys that won't be going into the sea.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, ERIC: He has a great attitude.
IN THE CLASSROOM, ARTHUR: So, the title of my mural is The Current of Reuseal.
SHAKIRA: That's such a creative title, and I love how he incorporated something that he's passionate about, which is saving aquatic animals. And then the idea of like the current and the recycling symbol. It's just all very creative, and I love that he did that.
ERIC: I love it, I love seeing it.
IN THE CLASSROOM, ARTHUR: Thank you, Green Squad, for helping me make this beautiful mural.
CLASS: Thank you, Green Squad!
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, KYLE: Aww, thank you, Arthur.
LISA: That was so cute.
KYLE: That was so special and so amazing to see what they got up to and how great that mural turned out. Arthur, we proclaim you…
GREEN SQUAD: Worthy.
[Text Reads] Go, Arthur!
[Upbeat music plays]
[End credits] The Squad: Eric Arsenault, Shakira Botticelli, Kyle Meagher, Lisa Pryce. Creator and Executive Producer: Jonathan Finklestein. Producer: Stephanie Blanshay. Director: Eric Blouin. Writer: Claire Cappelletti. Executive Producer, T.V.O. Kids: Kirsten Hurd. Production Executive, T.V.O. Kids: Aaron Bala.
An Apartment 11 Production.
CHILD: Whee!
[Logo] T.V.O. Kids.
[Child giggles, squeak]
DESCRIPTION: A blue eye peers out of the Apartment Eleven Productions logo.
[Logo] Apartment Eleven Productions.
Descriptive Text
CHILD: Wheee!
[Child giggles, pop, playful music plays]
[Logo] T.V.O. Kids Original.
[Rock music plays]
DESCRIPTION: On a screen with a play bar at the bottom, Arthur appears in a playroom, wearing a red cape and a golden foil crown.
ARTHUR: Hey, squad, I'm Arthur, and I'm nine years old.
DESCRIPTION: In the Green Squad headquarters, Shakira, Eric, Lisa, and Kyle sit around a small table with a tablet propped up on it.
GREEN SQUAD: Hi, Arthur!
[Pops]
DESCRIPTION: In his bedroom, Arthur sits on his bed and reads a book. A graphic of two books appears. He sits at a dining room table, drawing. A pencil graphic and a stack-of-blocks graphic appear. Arthur builds with construction blocks.
ARTHUR: I like to read, draw, play with my building blocks.
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a king wearing a crown appears. Graphics of a bear, a rabbit, and a fox appear.
ARTHUR: One of my heroes is King Arthur, who protected his land and his people from evil. I want to also protect the animals and the land.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, LISA: That explains the crown.
ERIC: I love it.
[Drawer scrapes, pop]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur opens a drawer containing a plastic monster truck. A wind-up penguin walks across a shelf. In a corner, two scoops and a ball lie on the floor. A graphic of two penguins with a heart above them appears.
ARTHUR: I have some toys that I don't play with anymore, and some that are broken. And most of them are made out of plastic. I don't want throw them out because I know that would affect a lot of animals in a harmful way. And I really love animals, so I don't really know what to do.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, KYLE: Well, I've got a majestic idea for all the toys he doesn't use anymore.
SHAKIRA: And for all the broken ones, I see a future…
[Smooch]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira kisses her fingers.
SHAKIRA: Art masterpiece.
DESCRIPTION: In the playroom, Arthur lifts a toy sword.
[Text Reads] Squad, help me out!
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: The Green Squad smiles.
[Text reads] Lisa.
DESCRIPTION: Lisa wears a red blouse and has her long brown hair tightly braided. She holds a reusable shopping bag and smiles. Graphics of food, a light bulb with a plug, and a shopping bag fly out of her bag.
[Text reads] Kyle.
DESCRIPTION: Kyle holds a red backpack. His dark brown hair reaches beneath his ears. Graphics of a bicycle, a skateboard, shoes, and a truck appear.
[Text reads] Shakira.
DESCRIPTION: Shakira, a girl with long black hair, turns. She wears a sleeveless black shirt and a white skirt. Graphics of a sewing machine, scissors, and safety pins appear.
[Text reads] Eric.
DESCRIPTION: Eric holds a long work bag and smiles. His short black hair is straight, and he wears a blue t-shirt and brown overalls. Graphics of a fence, gardening tools, a wheelbarrow, and a watering can appear. The Green Squad dances.
[Text reads] T.V.O. Kids presents. An Apartment 11 Production.
[Title] Green Squad.
DESCRIPTION: The Green Squad poses together.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Green Squad.
[Upbeat music plays, Shakira knocks]
DESCRIPTION: Outside, Shakira and Kyla arrive, each carrying a bag. Shakira knocks on Arthur’s red front door, and he opens it. Behind him, his parents smile. His mom has shoulder-length brown hair and wears a sleeveless white blouse. His dad has short brown hair, a moustache and a beard. His dad wears a black T-shirt and blue jeans, and he holds a small brown dog.
SHAKIRA: Hi, I'm Shakira.
KYLE: And I'm Kyle.
ARTHUR: I'm Arthur. This is my mom, my dad, and my dog, Barley.
SHAKIRA: Nice to meet you all.
ARTHUR’S MOM: Hi, why don't you guys come on in?
SHAKIRA: Thank you.
ARTHUR: Here's my room.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur leads Shakira and Kyle to his room, where a bookshelf is full of books. They sit on the floor, and Arthur plays with a stuffed toy.
SHAKIRA: It's so cool.
KYLE: I notice that you have a ton of books on the shelf over here. You read a lot?
ARTHUR: Yes.
SHAKIRA: Oooh. What types of books?
ARTHUR: Graphic novels, novels, comic books.
SHAKIRA: So, we hear you're pretty passionate about the environment as well. Is there anything your family does already to be, like, more eco-friendly?
[Pop, chimes]
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a yogurt container appears. The lid opens, and a wedge of cheese pokes out.
ARTHUR: We recycle everything that we can recycle. Not like yogurt or not yogurt, but like, yeah, those big containers. Yeah, we reuse those a lot. Like, you could just see those, like, I open it up, and it's like cheese in it.
KYLE: So sometimes you upcycle or reuse stuff. I see you got a lot of building blocks here. Do you have any other toys?
ARTHUR: Yeah, they're all downstairs. Let me show you.
[Whoosh, footsteps patter, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur throws his stuffed toy on his bed and leads Shakira and Kyle to the basement playroom.
ARTHUR: Here's some of my castles.
SHAKIRA: That's really cool.
ARTHUR: My blocks table.
KYLE: Oh, cool. It's a robot. It's an evil robot.
[Menacing music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur waves the robot, and Shakira and Kyle hold up their hands.
SHAKIRA AND KYLE: Ahhhhh...
[Footsteps patter]
DESCRIPTION: Everyone sits down on small chairs at the blocks table.
SHAKIRA: So, do you play with all the toys in this room?
ARTHUR: Yeah, mostly.
KYLE: So a lot of these things that you have, these cool toys, they're all made of plastic, right?
SHAKIRA: So are there any toys in here that you don't play with? And what do you do with them?
ARTHUR: Maybe some of those toys.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur points to a bin of toy cars and trains.
SHAKIRA: And then just kind of leave them there, right?
KYLE: Do you have any broken toys?
ARTHUR: Yeah, I think they're in a box up there.
SHAKIRA: And do you know what you're going to do with the broken toys?
ARTHUR: Yeah. I don't know how to recycle those things.
[Blocks clatter]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur puts together construction blocks. Kyle picks up a yogurt container.
KYLE: And that's okay. I mean, it's actually really hard to figure out what you can recycle and what you can't recycle. But here's a good tip for you. You notice how these building blocks are actually, like, super tough and solid. And then also you've also got some building blocks in this, right? It's a yogurt container. And this is pretty easy to, you know, flex around. This is soft plastic. And that's the whole thing. A lot of your community recycling programs will not take hard plastic.
[Buzzer blares]
[Text Beside An X Reads] Hard Plastic.
[Ding]
[Text Beside A Checkmark Reads] Soft Plastic.
KYLE: But will definitely take food containers like soft plastic. Another alternative is actually wooden toys.
SHAKIRA: Wooden toys are great because they're biodegradable. However, they're not always the best option for specific types of toys, like you wouldn't want a wooden, stuffy or...
[Pops]
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a fence slat with stuffed bear ears, arms, and legs appears.
ARTHUR: Ow.
SHAKIRA: Yeah, ow. Definitely not super comfy to hug.
KYLE: It seems like you got a bunch of cool toys here, but is there anything that you're willing to give away?
[Toys clatter, Kyle and Shakira exclaim]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur picks up a bin full of plastic vehicles.
ARTHUR: Yeah. Like this.
KYLE: Ooh, perfect. Do you have any idea what a toy drive is?
ARTHUR: Ah, it's like a food drive, right?
[Blocks snap]
KYLE: Exactly, but what is it, instead of food?
ARTHUR: Toys.
SHAKIRA: Basically, if there's any toys that you don't want anymore, and you can give them a second life by gifting them to other people through the toy drive.
KYLE: And I have the perfect name for this toy drive. You want to hear what it's called?
ARTHUR: What?
[Kyle clears his throat, majestic music plays, chimes]
DESCRIPTION: Kyle holds up the toy sword, and Arthur smiles.
KYLE: The Royal King Arthur's Glorious Toy Drive. Arthur, you must call all of your bravest friends and loyal subjects. Tell them to bring all of the toys that they do not want or need, and bring it so that we can give them new life.
SHAKIRA: And tell them to bring all their broken toys, because I have an idea what we could do with them.
KYLE: All righty then. Onward to battle!
DESCRIPTION: Everyone stands, and Arthur carries the bin of vehicles.
ARTHUR: And charge!
KYLE: Charge!
[Hoofbeats clomp]
DESCRIPTION: In animation, an armoured knight holding a lance charges on their horse.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In his living room, Arthur lies upside down on the couch. Shakira and Kyle walk over and bend, with their hair dangling towards the floor.
[Pop]
[Text Reads] Hello.
[Regal music plays]
DESCRIPTION: At Arthur’s house, Kyle and Shakira walk to a door. Shakira holds a toy shield, and Kyle wears a cape and carries the toy sword.
SHAKIRA: Hello. Welcome to the toy drive.
DESCRIPTION: A girl with her black hair in a ponytail carries two bags.
BLACK-HAIRED GIRL: Hi.
SHAKIRA: Just this way.
[Chimes]
DESCRIPTION: The black-haired girl, a boy with short hair, and a brown-haired boy stand in the living room with bags at their feet.
KYLE: Welcome to Arthur's Royal Toy Drive.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur lifts a second toy sword.
ARTHUR: Yeah!
KYLE: We are going to be doing one very important task today. Sorting all of these lovely toys you gathered into two piles. The first, for all of our donated toys and the second for our broken toys. And we are going to use them…
SHAKIRA: In a creative way.
KYLE: Are we ready, folks?
CHILDREN: Yeah!
KYLE: Battle cry, yeah!
[Everyone shouts, chatter, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Everyone kneels in a circle on a carpet as they sort the toys, with Barley lying near one of the bins. The short-haired boy holds a broken boy bus.
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: I don't think this is worthy. I feel like this is not.
[Text Beside An X Reads] Unworthy.
KYLE: I judge thee unworthy. Do we think that this plane can fly with one wing?
DESCRIPTION: Kyle flies the plane towards the carpet.
KYLE: Wooooo.
CHILDREN: No!
[Text Beside An X Reads] Unworthy.
CHILD: It's gonna go...
KYLE: Half-chewed bat wing?
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: Unworthy.
[Text Beside An X Reads] Unworthy.
SHAKIRA: I say that pile.
KYLE: Toss it in the pit.
[Toys clatter, rustle]
SHAKIRA: I think those are 3-D glasses from a movie theatre.
DESCRIPTION: The black-haired girl puts on the glasses.
SHAKIRA: Probably can't be used.
BLACK-HAIRED GIRL: Can't be used, but certainly cool.
[Camera shutter snaps]
DESCRIPTION: In a graphic, the black-haired girl poses on the cover of “Cool Magazine.”
ARTHUR: I declare this worthy!
[Text Beside A Checkmark Reads] Worthy.
KYLE: Does anybody notice something about all this stuff?
CHILDREN: Yeah.
KYLE: All these toys. What are they made of?
CHILDREN: Plastic.
[Chatter, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: They pour another bag of toys in the centre of the carpet and sort them into two piles.
KYLE NARRATES: The toy drive brought in tons of toys. We're separating out the working ones, which are still in good shape and can have a second life, from the broken ones, or those that are missing pieces, which we're going to use in a special project later.
KYLE: And just like that, everybody at the Royal Toy Drive is complete.
[Applause]
ARTHUR: Yay!
SHORT-HAIRED BOY: Good job.
ARTHUR: So, what are we going to do with all these toys?
KYLE: See, our worthy pile, we can bring to a toy library, and we can let other kids, you know, pick it out and use it. And for our unworthy toys, well, they're not actually unworthy.
SHAKIRA: When you come back from the toy library, I'll show you my creative projects idea.
ARTHUR: Nice.
[Some applause]
SHAKIRA: Nice. Okay.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Later, Kyle and Arthur carry bags of toys on a sidewalk.
KYLE NARRATES: A toy library is a place where you can borrow toys instead of books. So you don't have to buy new.
KYLE: We sure collected a lot of toys, huh?
ARTHUR: Yes. They're very heavy.
KYLE: Very heavy. Well, think about how many toys we're going to put to good use in your community.
[Footsteps rustle]
DESCRIPTION: Kyle and Arthur enter the toy library. Marcia, the toy librarian, has long brown hair. She wears a black sweater over a purple shirt.
KYLE: This is my friend Marcia, and she helps out at the toy library.
ARTHUR: Cool!
KYLE: We got a whole bunch of toys, and we did a little bit of a quality control. Isn't that right, Arthur?
ARTHUR: Yes.
MARCIA: Wow, thank you so much.
ARTHUR: These are the worthy toys.
ERIC: The worthy toys indeed. So you said that there was a whole bunch of people who can come to the toy library, right? Does that mean just anybody can show up and play?
MARCIA: Everybody can come.
DESCRIPTION: Shelves around the room are filled with games and toy bins.
ARTHUR: So, these toys could have been like thrown in the garbage, but I think it's better to give them a new life as somebody else's toys than just say, throw them out.
[Toys rattle, bang, pop]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur plays with a puzzle cube. He and Kyle take things out of the bags. Graphics of a car, a ball, and a doll appear.
ARTHUR: So we got tons of stuff in here.
KYLE: We got cars, we got... balls.
ARTHUR: Dolls. We got a whoopee cushion.
[Flatulence toots]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur squeezes the cushion and, in animation, green vapour blows out.
MARCIA: Oh!
[She laughs]
MARCIA: So, thank you so much for bringing all these toys for us.
KYLE: It feels amazing to know that all this plastic's going to be going to use.
ARTHUR: Yep.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira, Eric, Lisa, and Kyle bob up and down.
[Text Reads] Green Beat.
[Upbeat music plays, chimes]
DESCRIPTION: In animation, two people hold a bin of toys between them. A cut-out photograph of Kyle stands open-mouthed by a plastic toy bear and a toy giraffe with a recycling symbol between them.
KYLE NARRATES: Some toy companies are starting takeback programs where you send your old plastic toys in, and they reuse or recycle them.
DESCRIPTION: A cut-out photograph of Shakira smiles.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: That's so cool.
KYLE NARRATES: Yeah. But there's other tricky plastics that can't be easily recycled.
[Lightbulb zaps, fingers snap]
DESCRIPTION: A girl holding foam take-out containers points to a plastic bowl on her head. A bearded man stands in front of a chalkboard, wearing a metal hat with a lightbulb on top. His mouth falls open, and he holds up one finger as the bulb lights up. A cut-out photograph of Shakira snaps her fingers, and plastic containers and a laundry basket turn into a yellow duck floatie.
KYLE NARRATES: Luckily, many companies are inventing new technologies so we can turn those tough old plastics into new things.
[Water bubbles, pop, fire hisses, beep, whoosh]
DESCRIPTION: A bucket of clear water bottles appears and, in animation, bubbles float up. In an animation, a drop of oil falls from a bottle into a bowl that is over a flame. In a factory, a conveyor belt carries tiny clear plastic pellets.
KYLE NARRATES: They clean the plastics really well and melt them down using a special kind of oil that comes from plants. The recycled plastic is turned into tiny pellets, which can then be used to make something new.
[Whoosh, water bubbles]
DESCRIPTION: A toy robot waves. A cut-out photograph of Kyle wearing a scuba mask, snorkel, and a cape. He has a yellow duck floatie around his waist. A cut-out photograph of Shakira wears a bathing cap with goggles pulled up. In an animation behind them, fish swim in the ocean.
KYLE NARRATES: This helps keep plastic waste out of the ocean and cuts pollution.
[Whoosh, trumpet flourish plays]
DESCRIPTION: In animation, a green pellet flexes its muscles.
SHAKIRA: Those are tiny pellets with big possibilities.
DESCRIPTION: In an animation, people water the Earth and put an adhesive bandage on it. A cut-out photograph of Kyle gives the thumbs-up. A cut-out photograph of Shakira gives an okay sign.
KYLE: Yup. Including the possibility of not having to make any more new plastic. Major win for the planet.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In front of a fence, Shakira, Arthur, and Kyle wave. They all wear gloves and winter coats. Kyle throws a ball up and jumps in the air.
[Title] Green Squad.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Green Squad.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: The broken toys and small pieces have been sorted by colour.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: The working plastic toys have been donated. But what can we do with these broken ones and leftover bits? Make art, of course.
DESCRIPTION: In Arthur’s house, Shakira sits on the floor. Arthur and Kyle enter the room and kneel on the carpet by the colourful plastic toys. Shakira shows them a cup of plastic bottle caps.
SHAKIRA: Come check this out! I organized all the plastic bits by colour. And then I also got some of these from your recycling bin. Some little caps.
[Text Reads] Nice!
[Safety pins rattle, toy clicks]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira pours safety pins into her hand. Arthur picks up toys and examines them.
SHAKIRA: I also have some of these ones. We're going to give all these bits of plastic a second life by creating a piece of art. I know that one of your concerns is how plastic is bad for the turtles and other sea creatures. So, what do you think about an ocean-themed mural?
ARTHUR: Good idea.
[Water bubbles, upbeat music continues]
DESCRIPTION: In animation, fish swim past Arthur. Later, at a table, everyone paints in different directions on paper with shades of blue.
KYLE: I've already got a lot of blue on here. It's quite the commotion in the ocean.
ARTHUR: Cross currents.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur rolls a small paint roller over the paper, adding more blue.
SHAKIRA: Yep. Look how nice all the blending is looking. Good job. And done! Time for the sand. So, we're going to combine some yellows and gold.
DESCRIPTION: They paint yellow across the bottom of the picture.
ARTHUR: Lots and lots and lots of yell, yell, yell, yell, yellow.
SHAKIRA: A bunch of yellow pieces of toys and plastic.
[Toys clatter]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira and Kyle carry yellow toys to the table.
ARTHUR: Yellow!
SHAKIRA: That we can use as the sand.
DESCRIPTION: They glue yellow toys and plastic pieces over the yellow paint.
ARTHUR: I'm going to go and do everything that I can reach.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur and Shakira use a glue gun and attach the plastic to the paper.
SHAKIRA: Just make sure that when you're using a hot glue gun, you're with an adult.
ARTHUR AND SHAKIRA SHOUT: Kyle, we need the seaweed!
KYLE: At your service, my liege.
DESCRIPTION: Kyle puts green plastic pieces on the picture.
SHAKIRA: Thank you.
ARTHUR SINGS: It's seaweed time.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur puts a pink toy on the painting.
ARTHUR: This one, it's like coral, see?
SHAKIRA: Yeah, love that.
DESCRIPTION: They glue the green pieces to the painting.
KYLE: You mentioned you wanted to save the sea life, of course, but what happens when plastic ends up in the ocean?
ARTHUR: Animals can get trapped in it.
[Pop]
DESCRIPTION: In an animation, a sea turtle swims with a plastic can holder around their neck.
KYLE: Absolutely, so it's very important that we try to minimize the amount of plastic that ends up in our bodies of water.
KYLE: Here we go. Some green stuff for the turtle.
DESCRIPTION: Kyle puts a round green lid on the painting. Arthur takes green leaves and positions them as the turtle's back legs.
ARTHUR: I got a good idea. Instead of being those, they should be the back.
SHAKIRA: Yeah, that's good. I like that.
[Pieces clatter]
ARTHUR: This is the tail.
SHAKIRA: His tail?
[Kyle and Shakira laugh, pop, beeps]
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a kitchen scale appears, weighing plastic bags. Text reads: “9 million tonnes.” Graphics of whales appear.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: Every year, about nine million tons of plastic end up in the ocean. That's about as heavy as 90,000 blue whales.
SHAKIRA: What next?
ARTHUR: A starfish.
DESCRIPTION: Shakira, Arthur, and Kyle put purple circles around a purple disc.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: But if we all do our part, like trying to use less plastic, and repurposing it when possible, we can help make a big difference.
SHAKIRA: Look, look. Okay. Nice, nice.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur and Kyle place pink and purple pieces extending from the starfish. Kyle puts a container of red and orange plastic on the picture.
KYLE: Reds and orange. Let's make that fish.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur makes an orange fish.
ARTHUR: Here, I made a fish.
SHAKIRA: Cool.
[Water bubbles]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur moves the tail of the fish.
ARTHUR: Wait, here's a fish. Look, it's a fish.
KYLE: Well, this school of fish can teach your school about how to save the fish.
[Emojis giggle]
DESCRIPTION: Smiling emojis wear eyeglasses.
SHAKIRA: Every good piece of art has a title because it helps get the message across even further. Do you have any ideas for a good title?
[Water splashes]
ARTHUR: The Current of Reuseal.
SHAKIRA: The Current of Reuseal, cool!
KYLE: Awesome.
SHAKIRA: Nice idea. Do you want to show it to your friends at school?
ARTHUR: Yeah, we should probably bring it there.
SHAKIRA: Maybe they can add stuff to it? Make it like a community project?
[Kyle chuckles]
SHAKIRA: Well, what collects garbage in the sea?
[Pop]
DESCRIPTION: A graphic of a net appears.
ARTHUR: A net.
[Chimes]
SHAKIRA: Yeah. A net. Maybe you guys can work on that at school. This looks amazing.
ARTHUR: I love the manta ray.
KYLE: And this art has an amazing message.
[Hands clap]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira claps her hands.
SHAKIRA: High-five!
[Arthur shouts, Shakira laughs]
DESCRIPTION: Everyone clumsily high-fives.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Shakira, Eric, Lisa, and Kyle bob up and down.
[Text Reads] Green Beat.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In a flashback, everyone uses the orange and red pieces to make fish on the picture. A cut-out photograph of Shakira smiles.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: Repurposing plastic to make art is super fun, but recycled plastic is being used to make all sorts of useful things. Like bridges.
DESCRIPTION: A photograph of a bridge appears. A cut-out photograph of Shakira has her mouth wide open and her eyes wide.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: There's a bridge in Scotland, and it's the longest one in the world made from recycled plastic.
[Bloop, tires screech, horn beeps, engines rumble]
DESCRIPTION: In an animation, three school buses park on the bridge. Text reads, “30 metres.” “44 tonnes!”
SHAKIRA NARRATES: It's over 30 metres long, about as long as three big school buses parked end to end, and it can hold up to 44 tonnes.
[Elephants trumpet, bumps]
DESCRIPTION: In the animation, seven elephants stand on the bridge.
KYLE NARRATES: That’s like seven big elephants trying to squeeze onto it.
DESCRIPTION: The graphic shows the kitchen scale weighing plastic bags. Text reads, “50 tonnes.”
SHAKIRA NARRATES: It was built using 50 tonnes of plastic waste, about the weight of 500 refrigerators.
[Doors click, air hisses, Kyle chuckles, ice cracks]
DESCRIPTION: The doors of a refrigerator open and, in animation, snowflakes fall. A cut-out photograph of Kyle wears a winter coat, while a cut-out photograph of Shakira rolls her eyes.
[Whoosh]
DESCRIPTION: The recycling symbol appears.
SHAKIRA NARRATES: And it's 100 percent recyclable. So, if it needs to come down, the plastic can be reused.
[Pop, bowling pins clatter]
DESCRIPTION: In an animation, water bottles form a skyscraper as Kyle floats beside them. The bottles fall.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Arthur and Kyle jump on a trampoline. They pose with Shakira at the edge.
[Title] Green Squad.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Green Squad.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In Arthur’s living room, he, Shakira and Kyle sit on the floor in front of the couch.
SHAKIRA: So, was it fun getting all your friends over and sharing all the different toys, sorting through all the bits that are broken and that were good?
ARTHUR: Yeah.
SHAKIRA: Yeah!
[Kyle chuckles]
SHAKIRA: And what about the mural? Was that fun too?
ARTHUR: Yeah.
SHAKIRA: Well, I'm really excited to see what you're going to add with your classmates.
KYLE: Super excited to check in with you in a couple of weeks to see how the mural goes. Sir Arthur, this is goodbye.
[Regal music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Everyone stands.
SHAKIRA: It's been a pleasure. Goodbye, good sir.
DESCRIPTION: Arthur and Kyle bow.
ARTHUR: Goodbye.
[Upbeat music plays]
[Text Reads] Check-In.
DESCRIPTION: The Green Squad dances.
DESCRIPTION: In the Green Squad headquarters, Shakira, Eric, Lisa, and Kyle sit by the table with a tablet.
KYLE: Let's see how the mural turned out.
DESCRIPTION: In his living room, Arthur sits on the couch.
ARTHUR: Hey, Squad! Come and check out our finished mural, it's awesome.
DESCRIPTION: In a classroom, Arthur and a teacher hold the edge of a tarp while Arthur’s classmates stand facing the mural.
ARTHUR: Are you ready for the big reveal?
CLASS: Yeah!
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, SHAKIRA: Oh, I'm excited.
[Tarp rustles, applause]
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, Arthur and the teacher lift the tarp, revealing the mural. A pink net has been added near the top.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, SHAKIRA: It turned out well.
LISA: Wow, it turned out really good!
IN THE CLASSROOM, ARTHUR: Ta da!
IN HIS LIVING ROOM, ARTHUR: My friends love the mural.
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, the students kneel and look at the mural.
ARTHUR: I think they really like the all of the like, animals in the submarine. Although they were laughing cause there's little toy cheeses in the sand.
GIRL: There's cheese!
[Green Squad chuckles]
ARTHUR: I love the net.
[Children shout]
DESCRIPTION: In the classroom, Arthur throws a construction block into the net. Nearby, a girl throws another piece.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, LISA: Oh, that's so cool.
ARTHUR: It's totally something that me and my friends can play with at school.
DESCRIPTION: In the Green Squad headquarters, Shakira smiles.
LISA: That is so amazing that all of that is made out of toys. This is a great way to repurpose them.
SHAKIRA: Yeah, and we use all the weird little bits and bobs and broken pieces that you just throw away or have lying around.
[Chimes]
KYLE: It's so cool that they managed to make an art piece that is now also a new toy that's made out of old toys. It's so creative.
LISA: It also spreads a really important and powerful message.
SHAKIRA: Exactly.
IN HIS LIVING ROOM, ARTHUR: Yeah, I also really loved going to the toy library and donating all those toys.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, LISA: Sounds like a really great resource.
KYLE: It really is. It's like instead of handing it down to one person, you're handing it down to every kid in your neighbourhood.
SHAKIRA Yeah.
LISA: It's like the fun never ends. But it's also so eco-friendly.
IN HIS LIVING ROOM, ARTHUR: I think I could probably do a toy drive with tons of people. All my neighbours, all my friends. Then there'd be a lot more toys that won't be going into the sea.
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, ERIC: He has a great attitude.
IN THE CLASSROOM, ARTHUR: So, the title of my mural is The Current of Reuseal.
SHAKIRA: That's such a creative title, and I love how he incorporated something that he's passionate about, which is saving aquatic animals. And then the idea of like the current and the recycling symbol. It's just all very creative, and I love that he did that.
ERIC: I love it, I love seeing it.
IN THE CLASSROOM, ARTHUR: Thank you, Green Squad, for helping me make this beautiful mural.
CLASS: Thank you, Green Squad!
IN GREEN SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, KYLE: Aww, thank you, Arthur.
LISA: That was so cute.
KYLE: That was so special and so amazing to see what they got up to and how great that mural turned out. Arthur, we proclaim you…
GREEN SQUAD: Worthy.
[Text Reads] Go, Arthur!
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[End credits] The Squad: Eric Arsenault, Shakira Botticelli, Kyle Meagher, Lisa Pryce. Creator and Executive Producer: Jonathan Finklestein. Producer: Stephanie Blanshay. Director: Eric Blouin. Writer: Claire Cappelletti. Executive Producer, T.V.O. Kids: Kirsten Hurd. Production Executive, T.V.O. Kids: Aaron Bala.
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