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Buster Baxter (born January 20th, 1988) is the best friend of Arthur Read and is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Francine Frensky) of Arthur, as well as the titular main protagonist of its spinoff TV series, Postcards from Buster.
He is voiced by Daniel Brochu.
Physical appearance
Buster wears a cyan polo shirt with a pink collar, blue jeans, orange boxer shorts with a UFO design (white briefs in the books), and red and white sneakers on his feet.
Personality
Buster is easygoing, fun-loving, and somewhat odd.
Biography
Heroic Acts
- To eat or Not to Eat, Buster fantasizes himself of being a detective trying it solve the case of the mysterious “Candyman” giving away rabid bars which are full of unknown ingredients to make his classmates “sparkle” eventually he finally confronts the culprit alongside his mother for an interview with the CEO of the rabid dog company known as Supreme Dog over rumours from his highly-addictive product. eventually he urges himself not to eat the bar after realising it’s affects around his friends throughout the episode, he and his other arranges for an interview and then attempts to force Supreme Dog to eat a Rabid Dog bar but he cowardly refuses and flees which happens to be the last straw to shut down his company, allowing him to be arrested for his crimes for health code violations.
Relationships
Family
- Bitzi Baxter: Buster and his mother get along well, and his mother cares dearly for him (for example, in "Arthur Makes the Team", she asks Oliver Frensky if the baseball is hard, and if the cap is made of wool because he's allergic to it.
- Bo Baxter: Even though Bitzi and Bo are divorced, Buster sees his dad often. Buster and Bo travel together throughout the world.
- Grandmother-She is Buster's grandmother and the mother of Bitzi and Stu. She lives in the same apartment as her daughter and grandson. She loves her grandson very much.
Friends
Buster tends to stick with people in his class to be his friends, but he did make friends with Irwin and Sanjeev in "Home Sweet Home" while they shared a bunk at Camp Meadowcroak.
- Arthur Read: He is the best friend of Arthur and they share some interests, like Bionic Bunny, but Arthur thinks his food collection is nasty and UFO's do not exist.
- The Brain: He is another one of Buster's friends, despite the fact that whenever he thinks something was caused by aliens he attempts to try to prove him wrong (which has always been successful.)
- Francine Frensky: Despite Francine being mean sometimes, they have been friends for a long time and still are today.
- George Lundgren: During "George Blows His Top" Buster is shown to constantly ask George to borrow something of his. After borrowing George's tape recorder Buster comes across a recording of George explaining how he feels about being taken advantage of and then Buster comes and returns George's stuff and apologizes and explains if he knew he was hurting George's feelings he wouldn't have been doing what he was doing asking to borrow his stuff all the time. Buster then explains to George to try to be more honest with him because it'll save both of them a lot of trouble.
- Binky Barnes: Even though there weren't friends in early episodes in later ones they are good friends. One time Buster was even afraid of Binky.
Trivia
- His Magic School Bus' counterpart is Ralphie Tennelli.
- Buster's star sign is Aquarius.
- Buster has asthma.
- Buster is nicknamed the "Sandwich King".
- Buster types 10 words per minute.
- His favorite color is Blue.
- His favorite citrus fruit is clementine.
- Even though Buster sometimes gets annoyed by D.W., he doesn't mind her hanging out with him and Arthur. There are sometimes that he enjoys her interest like Crazy Bus and a Mary Moo cow board game.
- His room has a bunk bed.
- Buster has a food collection.
- Buster is a forward of the Lakewood Elementary School Soccer Team.
- Buster didn't like Bionic Bunny after he watched Top Supermarket Clerk. But in the later seasons, he was shown to like Bionic Bunny again.
- His favorite foods are jellybeans and jalapenos.
- His favorite type of pie is either Boston cream or boysenberry.
- Buster is a fan of Elwood City Grebes.
- In the books, Buster's parents are married. But in the TVeries, they are in a divorce.
- He is the Baxter counterpart of Milhouse Van Houten.
- Buster has many similarities to Jughead Jones from the Archie franchise.
- They both have alliteration names.
- They both love food.
- They both love playing video games.
- They both wear blue shirts.
- They are both close to their red-shirted female friends (Buster: Francine; Jughead: Betty)
- They both aggravate their rich friend (Buster: Muffy; Jughead: Veronica).
- Buster is the only member of the gang to not have siblings.
- Arthur has two younger sisters named D.W and Kate.
- Francine has an older sister named Catherine.
- Binky has an adopted younger sister named Mei-Lin.
- Muffy has an older brother named Chip.
