What a wonderful kind of day!
Original title
Arthur
Released
10/7/1996
Origin country
CA, US
Genre
Animation, Comedy, Family, Kids
Production companies
Cookie Jar Entertainment, DHX Media, GBH, CINAR, 9 Story Media Group, Oasis Animation, WildBrain Studios
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
25
Number of episodes
493
The show revolves around the lives of 8-year-old Arthur Read, an anthropomorphic aardvark, his friends and family, and their daily interactions with each other.
Plans are under way in Elwood City for the best holidays ever! Arthur, D.W., their friends and family make preparations for perfect gifts, perfect parties, and perfect family traditions for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. But, just as in real life, perfection cannot last and things begin to fall apart. Arthur learns that the joy in Christmas isn't found in an artificial vision of the perfect holiday season, but in the wonderfully messy, imperfect world he lives in.
The Backstreet Boys are coming to Elwood City! While Muffy fantasizes about meeting her idol, Nick Carter, Francine gripes about everyone's infatuation with a bunch of sellouts. Fed up with the hype, Francine forms her own anti-sellout band, U Stink. But when U Stink becomes an overnight sensation, the band suffers from an identity crisis and Francine quits in a huff. Will U Stink rise to stardom without Francine? Will the Backstreet Boys make Muffy their manager?
Aired on PBS on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2005, this two-hour special featured several Arthur stories and two complete episodes of Postcards from Buster. This special featured interstitial postcard segments from Buster, segments with kids from the show Zoom (Taylor and Kyle) and a small additional factoid regarding Arthur and Buster. At the end of the special, a secret password for The Tibble Super Action Challenge, a new game at the official PBS Kids Arthur website was revealed. The Arthur stories shown were: "Buster's Green Thumb" "Dad's Dessert Dilemma" "Thanks a Lot, Binky" "The Ballad of Buster Baxter" The Postcards from Buster episodes shown were: "Best Friends" "Among the Hmong"
The first-ever Arthur movie. In Arthur's Missing Pal, Arthur's dog, Pal, goes missing. Arthur and Buster are certain that D.W. did it, but D.W. denies any involvement. Arthur and his friends mount a search throughout Elwood City for the missing dog.
In this all-new Arthur movie event, D.W.’s fifth birthday doesn’t go the way she had always imagined it would and she chose to escape to the magical island of Ukubonga. Meanwhile, Arthur has skipped her birthday party to go on a school trip to the planetarium – but instead of transporting him into outer space, it transports him four years in the future!
Pack your bags, buckle your seatbelts, and get ready for an ARTHUR road trip to the family farm! Arthur's Great-Grand Uncle Theo is celebrating his 85th birthday, so the Reads (and Buster) are off to Ohio to join in the festivities. While D.W. and Arthur learn that farm life is a little different than life in Elwood City, Buster worries he may be getting in the way at this family reunion. With the help of Cousin Miles, some llamas, and a little bit of music, they all discover what it truly means to be family.
Arthur and his family are getting ready for Thanksgiving! But when Pal disappears to go on his own adventure, family, friends and the rest of Elwood City try to get Pal home. Will they be able to celebrate the best Thanksgiving yet?
It's finally the first day of fourth grade and Arthur couldn't be more excited -until he learns Buster is in another class! Meanwhile, D.W. is nervous for her first day of kindergarten. Will Arthur and D.W. be able to make new friends?
Arthur is embarrassed because he now has to wear glasses.
Francine tries to get through picture day, without messing up her meticulously-crafted hairdo.
Arthur and Buster fear that their new teacher, Mr. Ratburn, is some kind of evil maniac who collects children's heads - until they discover the truth about him, of course.
Arthur does some heavy-duty studying, in order to compete in the school's upcoming spelling bee.
Whew, boy is it HOT today. The Reads decide to head to the beach in order to cool off, but D.W. refuses to go along (she thinks there is an octopus in the water).
When the class goes on a field trip to a dinosaur museum, Buster finds a fossil on the ground - and wants to keep it for himself.
D.W. has an imaginary friend, Nadine, says she has to come everywhere, but Arthur is sick of it.
When Arthur checks out a library book and loses it a week later; he thinks he is banned from the library. So he and Binky team up to find it.
When Arthur desperately wants a dog, he starts a pet business. When he gets too many he decides to just take care of one pet.
When D.W. gets told she doesn't like any interesting stuff, she decides to copy Arthur.
After Arthur called Francine a marshmallow, Francine and her friends get really mad and it looks like they are going to fight. But when they both get locked inside the Elwood City Library they either have to make up, or prepare for a long and scary weekend, because it's the weekend and the library closes until Monday.
Arthur had a job to collect coins for Mrs. McGrady to raise money for a new dog for the Elwood City firemen, and when he left the bag of quarters where Mrs. McGrady was working, she said she never received them. While this was happening, Buster opened his detective agency, he has no idea his first job will involve Arthur. Now, it is up to Buster to solve this mystery, was Arthur the real thief?....
Arthur and his friends go to summer camp and Binky brings up the issue that it's boys vs. girls. The other team participating always won because of this problem, so now the kids of Elwood must work together to defeat them this year.
Buster's grades aren't as good as his jokes, and now he is on the verge of repeating his third grade year. If he does not receive at least a B on his next test, he fails...
Arthur has a new puppy is exactly what he wanted. But the only problem is that he destroys everything in sight, so can Arthur teach Pal to behave, before his parents do something with Pal because of all the disasters he is causing.
Arthur's dream is to have Moon shoes, but he does not have the ten dollars to get them. When he begins working chores to receive money, he got too desperate and does something he will regret.
Arthur has plenty of gripes about his past babysitters, but soon finds himself trying his hand at some babysitting of his own. He ends up having the Tibble Twins' Grandma ask him to babysit the infamous Tibble Twins and he agrees to the job. Despite the warnings from both his friends and D.W., he takes on the task and quickly finds himself overwhelmed. After some quick thinking, and a willingness to keep at things, he comes up with a plan.
The Read Family is having a big reunion, with aardvark relatives from all over coming. Arthur normally enjoys the festivities, such as sack-racing and swapping stories, but finds himself hiding because he's worried that his cousin Mo has a big practical joke planned for him. He remembers her being awful to him in the past and is sure that she has something big planned. However, his worries might just be unfounded.
Arthur is excited about his birthday. After shopping for party supplies, he makes invitations and passes them out at school. He then finds out that Muffy is having her party on the same day, at the same time. This starts a huge battle between the boys and the girls in the Ratburn class. Fortunately, Francine and Arthur devise a great solution to the problem.
Francine has always gotten the worst roles in school plays, so everyone in the Ratburn class asks Mr. Ratburn to give her a good part in the next one. The play is about Thomas Edison, and Francine is given the role of Edison himself. She takes her role very seriously, to the point where she starts to trying to run everything her way and insults her friends. After the hurt and the anger, they set out to show her that she can't just forget their needs
Viewers are taken back, as Arthur and D.W. recollect what happened when Baby Kate was first-born. D.W. is excited with anticipation, but Arthur is very worried. His worries are only made worse when his friends tell him about all the awful stuff that's going to happen when the baby comes. Still, Arthur, is determined to be a good big brother, but ends up thinking that the baby hates him!
D.W. was excited to have a new little sister, but when she doesn't get to help much and the baby moves into her room, things don't seem so great. Kate stinks and makes a lot of noise. D.W. hatches a plan to get rid of her, but finds that maybe being a big sister isn't so bad after all.
Mr. Ratburn gives the class an assignment --- to write a story about anything they want. It seems like a simple assignment and it doesn't even have to be bound and sent to a publisher as Muffy suggests. Arthur, however, finds it a hard task when he starts trying to write to please everyone's tastes. He starts out with the simple story of how he got his dog Pal, but after following the advice of each of his friends, it morphs into a bizarre country tune about baby elephants being born in outer space.
When Pal runs away at a street fair, even Arthur starts to doubt his dog's intelligence.
D.W. suffers through the death of her beloved bird, then has to decide whether to risk her heart again by adopting a lonely toad.
Arthur is lonely when Buster starts spending time with a new super-cool friend named Mike.
Binky is the toughest kid in school and everyone is afraid of him.
When Arthur is teased by Francine and the others because he hasn't lost all of his baby teeth yet, he becomes determined to lose his tooth and fit in with the others.
D.W. finds Aunt Lucy's wedding ring after she lost it at her wedding.
Every kid at school's parents has cool jobs except for Francine's dad. He's a garbage man and Francine is embarrassed by it so to make him look cool she tells the kids at school that he's a CIA agent.
D.W. loses her blankie and she and Arthur search all over town just to find it.
Fern dares everyone to write a good poem for a contest. If the loser backs out they have to join art club for a year.
The Strawberry Festival is coming to town and Arthur and his friends all band together and form a club to create the perfect float, but when everyone gets their own ideas on what the float should be they all form their own clubs.
Francine is so determined to get a shiny new bike that she finally decides to let her old one get "stolen."
Arthur throws a sleepover and invites Brain and Buster. He doesen't invite D.W. so she decides to ruin the sleepover.
For the past few years, Arthur kept on trying to stay up until midnight for the new year, but he always fell asleep. This year he decides to not stay up at all, until his friends tell him what happens every year. But they all have different stories.
Mr. Rogers from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood comes to the Read family for a visit.
Binky gets teamed up with Arthur and Buster for an art class assignment. They go to an art museum and Binky discovers a mistake with a certain drawing-
D.W. is not invited to Grandma Thora's upcoming birthday dinner because she is a very picky eater.
Arthur wants to see a movie, but he is too young, so he and his friends make a parody of the movie.
Arthur has an embarrassing dream about being seen in his underwear and it gets even worse when it happens for real.
Buster saves a cat from up a tree and now he is known as a local hero because of an article in the newspaper.
Everyone has all pledged not to watch TV for one whole week.
Arthur gets on the wrong bus to his swimming lessons and gets lost.
It's the first family trip and Arthur gets to choose. He chooses going to Washington, D.C. and D.W. thinks that she's going to be bored until she accidentally runs into the American president.
It's the second family trip and D.W. gets to choose. She chooses camping and D.W. gets attached to a deer she met and wants to bring home.
Arthur and Buster are on the urge of finishing their story for the sequel of Robin Hood. Everything is well until Arthur discovers that Buster has decided to go on a long trip to bond with his dad. Arthur fears that it's the end of their story and their friendship!
Arthur and his friends are all invited by Muffy to go to Waterworld, but the Brain doesn't want to go. When he and Binky find out that the Brain is afraid of water, they try to cure this fear so they can all go together.
When Sue Ellen drops her diary at the library, she is worried that someone has found it and is going to read it.
Arthur does not want to tell his mother he hurt his knee, because then she will know he was playing down at the dump—where he is not supposed to go.
Arthur and D.W. sleepover at Grandma Thora's house and find out that she gets lonely when they're not there. So Arthur and D.W. throw her a party to help her.
When Muffy annoys Francine and Brain, they decide to get even with her by sending her fake love notes for an anonymous person to make her look goofy.
When Francine and Katherine get sick of each other Katherine moves out to have her own room in the living room.
On the way home from school, Arthur and the Brain meet a crossing guard who wants $10.00 from them to cross the street.
D.W. gets praise from the Tibbles at being the best at name-calling, so she tries it on Arthur but it fails because he's older and knows more words so with the help of Katherine she looks up words in the Thesaurus that Arthur doesen't know and uses them against him.
Muffy won last year's Strawberry baking contest in The Strawberry Festival because her father was the judge but this year when her friends help her bake strawberry cookies she takes the credit and wins the contest. Soon the cookies become so good that Muffy decides to run a business and sell them but not before she lets Arthur and friends get their share.
Buster returns after a extremely long trip to bond with his father and a nervous Arthur wonders if Buster's trip made him change.
Buster feels left out having missed all the adventures since he was away. He feels that everyone has changed and they feel the same about him, so Arthur plans a party so they can rekindle their friendship with Buster.
D.W. loves school and wants to go everyday, but when Ms. Morgan starts doing fire drills she fears for her safety and doesn't want to go anymore.
The Tibble Twins can do everything better than D.W. So she tells them that she is able to read before them. They challenge her and she picks up a book and makes up a story, but when the Tibble's bring the book home for their Grandma to read to them her trick is revealed.
Mr. Ratburn assigns partners for a project and Arthur gets teamed up with Muffy. After spending a lot of time with her, he starts to act just like her.
Sue Ellen gets partnered with Brain in another project by Mr. Ratburn. Soon he starts to be a report hog and gets on Sue Ellen's nerves.
Mr. Ratburn assigns a project that involves family ancestors. Muffy and Francine turn this project into a competition to see who has the best ancestors.
Arthur's class gets picked to be on a television show in which the Brain does not want to go on.
D.W. eats a big green potato chip and to get her off his back Arthur tells her that it's fatal and she could die. So D.W. spends this day as her last day until she finds out the truth.
D.W's mom tells the newspapers and everyone in town that story about D.W. and the green chip embarrassing her ultimately.
Someone has been writing "Binky Rules" all over Lakewood Elementary and Mr. Morris thinks it is Binky. Binky says he didn't do it, so Fern and Buster are trying to find out.
Everyone gets tickets for a concert starring the new group Binky.
Everyone has a Woogle, the popular new toy... everyone except Arthur. He think that they're dweeby, until everyone else has one.
After one of Mr. Read's scrumptious desserts makes Arthur the most popular kid in class, Arthur can't stop asking his dad to cook. Despite his dad's busy catering schedule, Arthur promises delectable desserts to anyone and everyone.
After Fern and Sue Ellen take a quiz in a teen magazine, they change the way they act. Fern turns loud and aggressive, while Sue Ellen falls back in everything.
When Binky steals Buster's joke for his report, Buster has a grudge against him.
When Buster finds an arrowhead in his yard; everyone wants to know if there are treasures in their yards.
When Mr. Ratburn's class goes to a medieval style fair, his old teacher Mr. Pryce-Jones comes with his new class. Mr. Pryce-Jones' class wins all the games.
The Tibble's watch a dangerous superhero show and imitate it. Things get out of hand when they pretend that D.W. is a bad guy.
D.W. wants money to buy a toy, so she plans to trick the tooth fairy so she can earn enough money for it.
Tommy Tibble gets sick and Timmy Tibble gets sad so D.W. and Emily pretend to be Tibbles to make Timmy feel better until Tommy is well.
Arthur and Buster show D.W. that you don't need cameras, lights, etc. to make a music video.
After everyone has told scary stories, everything scares Sue Ellen.
Grandma Thora lends her doll Clarissa to D.W. for a week. She has a lot of fun with her until Clarissa breaks.
When George brings his dummy Wally to school, everyone loves him. But after awhile, they get tired of Wally.
Francine never had a pet until Nemo comes along.
When Mom and Dad begin to fight over spilled milk, D.W. is worried that they might be getting a divorce.
Arthur notices that D.W. is not excited about her birthday. So he tells her about her memories throughout her year as a four-year-old.
Arthur is devastated that he has to clean up his room, and D.W.'s too.
The gang decides to make up another holiday for the wintertime.
D.W. discovers that she can get her own library card and feel the power as Arthur has, but she can not write her own name. When she does and waits a week for a book to come in, she borrows it but never reads it because she thought she might destroy it.
After Arthur worked hard to build a model airplane, D.W. throws it out the window to see if it flies and the model exploded. Arthur gets extremely mad and strikes her.
While the kids played hide and seek, a snake shows up and Arthur brings it home.
Tired of playing with Muffy because she never played soccer, Francine starts to hang out with Jenna. So Muffy searches for a new friend.
D.W. obtains poison ivy while playing a game. Buster recaps his problem with asthma and how everyone was afraid of him being injured or getting themselves injured.
The girls prank the boys by inviting them to Muffy's celebration for the new Scare Your Pants Off Club Books.
Arthur and his friends enter a contest that they have to wait five years to find out the winner.
When D.W. makes up a fake science museum, she makes up science to go with it.
A blizzard strikes Elwood City and all the kids have to return home. But before they do, they have to hand in their reports. Francine does not finish so she has to write a longer report over the snowstorm days while the adults are scrambling all over the city, losing electricity and supplies.
Mr. Ratburn stays at the Read's house because the roof collapsed from the snow. Surprisingly, Arthur begins to like Mr. Ratburn.
Grandma Thora tells D.W. a myth. This makes her show Arthur that she would make a better story than the Veggiemorphs using mythologies in her own version.
Prunella receives a Polly Locket for her birthday from her sister. But she also gets one from Francine and Prunella did not like the gift. making Francine unhappy. Then Ghosts visit Prunella to tell her about how Francine worked so hard to get the doll.
Binky Barnes has a favourite pastime when Bug Week comes along: Butterflies. He worked very hard to collect these bugs for his report especially a hard blue-coloured kind.
The kids try to stop Francine from playing the drums and singing at the same time for the Talent Show.
Arthur believes that Buster is sad because Buster could not bring his dad to the Father's Day Picnic to have a fun time because his dad is divorced. So Arthur tries to help him by borrowing a father for Buster just for that day.
Flashpants were all that Prunella wanted for her birthday. When she gets a hint from her sister, she gets excited about getting them, but the gift was not what she expected.
Arthur and his friends are facing impossible tasks, and they encounter a device that could help them fix all those problems, but they do not know what it is.
Buster and Arthur feel like that they are boring and they think they are not good at anything, so they try to imitate each others' lifestyle.
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Saxophonist Joshua Redman were invited by Grandma Thora and D.W. They battle over what kind of music is better than the rest-Classical or Jazz.
Arthur enjoys a show meant for younger kids and his friends tease him for being a baby.
Arthur is chosen to appear on the popular game show Riddle Quest.
Arthur, Francine, and The Brain dare each other to skip school for a day
Lakewood Elementary is having an open house. Sue Ellen is excited to introduce her parents until she hears her friends tell stories about their parents being embarrassing.
Buster can't cope with being the only kid in Elwood City who doesn't have a Cybertoy.
After a loss in the rehearsal math-a-thon against Buster, Brain decides to work on his new life as a Comedian. Now Brain wants to hand everything down to Buster so Buster could be the new brain.
Arthur and D.W. are obsessed with going to Aqualand. They beg their father to go with them, but David tells them that going to Ocean Zone would be more fun.
Arthur tells his friends about the World Records that have been broken, and they try to break some of the records. Buster, walking backwards, Francine trying to kick a soccer ball in the air the most times, Muffy not talking, and Binky building the largest popsicle stick bridge. All these were very hard tasks, so Arthur decides to make the largest pizza in the world by getting help from the whole city.
The kids of Lakewood Elementary go to the Clark Caves, and Francine and D.W. starts to bother Arthur of being afraid of bats and the dark.
An army of lice has been unleashed on the heads of Lakewood Elementary. Now, the whole school must get rid of them before they all go insane.
D.W. and Tibbles help Arthur train for a 3K race against Brain.
Mr. Ratburn's class has a mock election. Muffy and Arthur are taking it really seriously until Binky is nominated.
When there is a new neighbour in Francine's apartment, Francine and Muffy try everything to get rid of her.
Buster's destiny was to have a Pizza Paula's all-you-can-eat contest. The only problem is that he is too excited so he could not go to sleep.
Binky volunteers to look after Francine's cat Nemo for the weekend.
When D.W.'s favorite TV show is cancelled, she makes a petition to bring it back.
Buster's mom announces she has a new boyfriend, and Buster thinks his mom won't have time for him with her new boyfriend.
After eating too much sweets and desserts, Arthur has dreams involving Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
Arthur and D.W. don't want to go to Grandpa Dave because he only want to sleep and play checkers. One day Grandpa Dave shares a secret map, and Arthur and D.W. hunt for the buried treasure.
When their father's perfect soufflé is destroyed, Arthur and D.W. both tell their version of what happened.
Muffy began to read Mature Miss magazines. She began to act more mature and thinks all her friends are too juvenile.
Sue Ellen is the champion of the popular Internet game Virtual Goose. She becomes so obsessed, however, that she starts imagining her friends as geese to be conquered.
Now that the gang has beaten Virtual Goose, they move onto Best of the Nest, where five geese fight to survive in the virtual woods. As the competition escalates, Brain becomes inspired to initiate a camping trip in the real woods.
Arthur's beloved piano teacher is retiring, but she assures him that the new teacher is outstanding. When he meets Dr. Fugue, who's as strict as he is odd, Arthur begins to doubt his own abilities.
When Buster signs up to sell candy for the band, he figures it's easy money. Buster soon wishes that somebody loved chocolate more than he does, because he eats it all himself.
Every kid in town is lining up to get the latest book about Harry Skreever except Prunella. She ordered a monogrammed, limited edition, coming all the way from England.
Muffy's proud that her dad is the new soccer coach until he exhausts the team with demanding drills.
The try-outs for the Young Person's Orchestra are coming to Lakewood Elementary. Everyone agrees that Binky is a shoe-in since he's the best musician in school.
Buster is convinced that he's seen real UFOs, and he uses Muffy's fancy new telescope to get the proof.
Mr. Sipple from next door is moving away and Arthur wonders-who will be the new neighbours. When Alberto Molina and his family settle in, Arthur makes a new friend and learns about a different culture.
After visiting The Elwood City Times, Francine decides to start her own paper. The tabloid, complete with embarrassing photos and sensationalized headlines, is a smashing success until all her friends stop speaking to her.
D.W. accidentally grabs the wrong backpack at the pool. Arthur and D.W. must try to find out who it belongs to since most of the letters on the name tag rubbed off.
George has dyslexia and and wants Binky to teach him to be more hard-headed, so none will bully him.
D.W. is thrilled to be getting an allowance. When she learns that Emily and the Tibbles have been already getting one and have more money, D.W. is devastated.
While struggling to write a poem for his mom, Binky falls asleep and gets trapped in Verseberg, where it's a crime not to rhyme.
D.W. lost her voice and their mother asks Arthur to take care of her.
When the Athlete of the Year Award doesn't go to Francine, she makes no effort to hide her hurt feelings from winner Jenna.
Arthur has a crush on his new babysitter Sally, whose favourite hobbies are eating ice cream and playing videogames.
When Arthur discovers that Grandma Thora is a marbles champion, he trains with her so he can beat all his friends. And though Thora teaches Arthur everything he knows, she doesn't teach him everything she knows.
Brain doesn't believe in superstitions. When Brain's defiance leads to a string of bad luck, he's stunned.
Arthur is thrilled when Dad invites him to go fly fishing for the weekend.
One of D.W.'s socks goes missing, so Pal and Kate try to find it.
When Francine's bowling tournament and her cousin's bar mitzvah take place at the same time, her friends help her attend both events at once.
Muffy happily accepts Sue Ellen's invitation to spend the weekend in Crown City, a nearby metropolis.
Arthur builds an ant farm for Mr. Rathburn's science class, but all the ants spill out and he must find a way to attract them back in.
When the Tibble twins' constant lying lands them in constant trouble, they promise to tell only the truth.
After Binky accidentally breaks Brain's new watch during a soccer game, the two get into several arguments while waiting for their parents to pick them up.
Mr. Ratburn' s class is chosen to stage a musical tribute to Elwood City for its centennial celebration.
When the Read family car breaks down, Arthur is heartbroken. He wants to save the vehicle before his parents replace it.
An invitation to Muffy's exclusive slumber party terrifies Jenna, an occasional bed-wetter.
D.W. is sick and tired of being bossed around all the time and demands to know why she couldn't have been born before Arthur.
During a field trip to Amish country, Buster becomes enamoured with the simple lifestyle and vows to forgo all modern conveniences back home.
Since Binky's repeating third grade, he's dreading Mr. Ratburn's annual class sleepover at the Science Museum. After all, he remembers how boring it was last year.
Arthur and D.W. try to help out around the house when their parents catch a cold.
When Marina comes over for a sleepover, Prunella is worried that Marina may get injured because she is blind.
D.W. finds that her missing snowball has re-appeared in the freezer and tries to prevent it from being stolen again.
After a huge fire in the teacher's lounge during the middle of the day Elwood Elementary School gets closed down.
Arthur is excited to have a new pen pal named Adil and fantasizes about what life would be like in Turkey.
When Bitzi and Harry break up, Buster is sad to lose his favorite baseball buddy.
The Elwood city kids are thrilled to go hiking, but when pro Francine is assigned to be novice Fern's partner, squabbling ensues.
When Binky is deprived of a simple thank you, he resolves to quit doing good things for other people.
Both Arthur and Buster start their own snow-removal businesses, eager to rake in the big bucks.
When Francine insults the Brain, he wakes up to find out he has a bug's body,
When Fern composes a truly terrifying tale, the rest of her classmates begin to fear her. Determined to win them back, she tries her hand at a being a fun author rather than a scary one.
When Binky and D.W. are paired up for a school project, they discover a mutual love for dancing, and decide to perform for the class.
When Francine gets sick in school one day, she is reluctant to return.
Chickin Lickin, a fast food restaurant wants to replace the gang's beloved Sugar Bowl and Sue Ellen is outraged.
Buster, his father, and the Reads travel to New York City.
Arthur and his friends are trying to get the best desk.
Arthur sells his bear Stanly, after he thinks the Brain thinks he needs to get rid of the bear, and move on.
Muffy thinks that art is pointless and she has the sudden idea to put on her own Art Show.
When Vicita is upset that she has to give up her crib, D.W. tells her how she grew out of her crib and gave it to Kate.
Pal and Kate meet a flea who's a circus performer.
Emily got kissed by a boy in France. Now D.W tries to find someone to kiss her.
George's bad day gets worse when he comes over to Mrs. McGrady's house to sing for Koko Taylor and his friends insult his quiet voice.
At a glass shop, D.W. overhears a word she doesn't know. D.W. is afraid to ask anyone what the word means, because she thinks that it causes people to break stuff. Arthur and the Tibbles warn her not to say it in front of grownups, or they will become zombie slaves (or at least the Tibbles say...). D.W. and Nadine put it to the test by having the neighborhood kid Vecita say it to her parents. D.W. accidentally says it to her mother while spying, and after apologizing to the neighbors, Mother tells her what the cuss word means. But the next day at school, all DW's friends are saying it. Here we go again...
The gang is devastated after their tree house collapses.
Everyone in Arthur's chorus group is excited about their upcoming performance in Crown City. But when Ms. Krasny gets sick, she is replaced by Arthur's strict piano teacher Dr. Fugue.
Francine goes to circus camp thinking she would as good as her sister Catherine. But when Francine does badly, she thinks that when it is time for the circus show she won't have anything to do.
Buster takes advantage of generous George, asking him for so many things. But George is shy and is afraid to tell Buster no.
Having landed a role for a class play, Arthur finds that he can't fit into his outfit. He and his friends team up to get him in shape.
When Muffy wants to take photos from the jungle gym with her new camera, she gets into into an argument with the Tough Customers, the school bullies.
Buster learns to care for plants.
Fed up with getting punished for Timmy's behaviour, Tommy asks D.W. to teach him good manners.
Mr. Crosswire brings Muffy to an opera.
Arthur's good grade streak slips when his mother takes a client and he fears she won't be around enough.
James invited D.W. and Arthur to swim at his house. Arthur is shocked to learn that Molly is James's older sister.
Grandma Thora takes in a stray dog that is extremely mean.
Prunella gets jealous when Marina joins yoga lessons with her and her mother.
Arthur's friends take his game against Brain in an interscholastic checkers tournament too seriously and he is frustrated with their unwanted support.
When a better soccer team comes to town, Francine and the Brain quit their old team to join them.
Emily makes up an excuse to keep the ball D.W. has found, but starts telling bigger lies to cover up the first one.
The Tibbles receive a new set of drums and want to perform in the Summer Serenade Festival, leaving D.W. to moan over not having her own instrument.
Arthur and Buster go to the park to investigate a rumor that tigers are loose there.
Binky discovers that he's allergic to peanuts.
Much to his horror, Brain gets a B Minus on a test.
#1001"Happy Anniversary"Mr. Ratburn shows a film about perspective and then assigns the class an essay about it. Arthur and Buster are disappointed to have homework on the weekend of the big Bionic Bunny / Dark Bunny special (in which everything will be revealed), but vow to complete it before the start of the special. Arthur, however, struggles with the assignment. Mr. and Mrs. Read are celebrating their tenth anniversary at a fancy restaurant. They're dropping Arthur off for Buster's sleepover and D.W. at Grandma Thora's. But car troubles leave everyone stranded. Things seemingly go from bad to worse when Arthur and D.W. get locked in a storage room in an old diner. They're disappointed, and a bit scared, but find inspiration in an old radio drama called "Kid Carter and his Sidekick Mistral.
Arthur, Buster and D.W. enjoy summer vacation at the beach. When it becomes unsafe to swim, Grandma Thora suggests building a sandcastle and they quickly become immersed in this pastime. When the tide threatens to sweep away their castle, Arthur isn't ready to let it go.
Arthur is excited about the release of the new video game Dark Bunny: Return of the Moomies, but doesn't have the money to buy it. When his attempt at online sales through the school newspaper falls flat, Buster recommends getting advice from Muffy. Muffy's sales tactics soon result in great sales, but border on dishonesty and leave Arthur facing an important moral decision.
When Vicita loses her favorite storybook, it looks like she may never get to sleep again. Nothing else seems to help her sleep, but then D.W. helps her to see that she knows the story by heart. Worried, however, that she got one of the details wrong, she sets out to correct her error in a dream.
Fern is offended by everyone's constant use of cell phones, until she surprisingly becomes addicted to the one her parents got her for "emergency use only." After being shown its cool features by Muffy, they become cell phone pals and are soon chatting constantly.
When Nadine misses an appointment for tea with Vicita's imaginary friend, Tweenie, Baby Kate and Pal grow concerned. They launch an investigation, worried that she may have been kidnapped by the Tibbles. Along the way, Francine's cat Nemo is pulled into the investigation.
When Matt Damon announces a new series called Postcards from You, Arthur and his friends are excited by the opportunity to create videos about their daily lives. Everyone has a great idea for a video except Arthur, who isn't sure what to do. He keeps bouncing between ideas, but can't settle on anything, and finds himself hindered by D.W.'s insistence on participating. He also has to contend with having been chosen as Buster's project.
As Arthur tries to prepare his costume for Halloween, he finds himself distracted by D.W.'s persistent case of hiccups. She's been hiccuping for two days straight it seems like they just won't go away. On Brain's advice, he tries scaring her, but it doesn't seem to work. He discovers that D.W. is frightened by some very unusual things.
When Mr. Ratburn assigns everyone in his class an individual topic about Thanksgiving to write a five-page report on, Francine feels that she's "doomed." She has no idea how she's going to come up with five pages on the Pilgrims' eating habits, until Brain shows her how to use a search engine to find information about the subject on the Internet. She copies the contents of an entire article and hands it in as her report, looking forward to a relaxing holiday. She then learns from her sister that what she's done is plagiarism and could get her suspended from school.
When Emily announces a skating party to celebrate mid-winter, D.W. brags about being a great skater. She feels she's so good that she even offers lessons to James, who is worried about his skating skills. D.W., however, is overconfident, having only gone ice-skating three times in her life. She begins to learn that sometimes it takes practice to be good at something.
When Binky's parents tell him that they're adopting from China, he isn't sure what to make of it at first. He learns that "adopting" means that he's going to become an actual big brother to a baby girl and will be heading to China to meet his new sister. Binky eagerly assists with preparations for the big trip and the new arrival, but begins to become concerned that his parents will no longer have any time for him. After his worries are eased, the big moment finally comes. At first, Binky is ill at ease around his new sister, who seems to cry a lot, but then discovers a special talent. Back at home, he's eager to show off his new talent to his friends, but finds that he seems to have lost it.
Francine's convinced that she can fast on Yom Kippur just like her older sister. But then Arthur wins a free pizza party for all his friends for that very same day! Will Francine be able to resist?
When D.W's extra toys fall into the hands of the destructive Tibble twins, she worries that no one loves her anymore - until Arthur comes to the rescue and proves that giving gifts isn't the only way of showing you care.
Binky really enjoys riding his bike, both for fun and as a means of getting to school and back. Binky is devastated when his mother forbids him from riding on the potholed streets after he comes home injured.
D.W. enjoys taking care of her Netkitten, but finds herself cut off when the Read family computer suffers from not one, but two computer viruses.
Brain is delighted when he learns that the green-tailed grebe, a bird previously believed to be extinct, has been sighted in the forests of Elwood City. He's determined to be the first to take photographic evidence of it, but becomes worried when Mr. Ratburn starts a bird-watching club.
Buster is enthralled by the new Collector's Edition of The Chronicles of Amayzzia, so much so that it seems like it's all that he can talk about.
When Fern lands a role in the Elwood City community production of It Began With a Whistle, she fears that she is not talented enough to be a star actress.
The final volume of the Henry Screever series is released at last. Prunella and Marina compete to see who will be first to finish the book.
George wonders whether anyone would notice if he just disappeared, and so vows not to speak until someone notices him. Of course, his friends do notice, and they decide to cheer him up with a surprise party.
While volunteering to help an elderly neighbour with his household chores, Fern discovers his past life as a kung fu celebrity.
When Arthur and the gang suspect they are being ranked at school, they become obsessed with what the numbers mean.
Brain gets hooked on the latest tween reality show, Junior Island. He knows he has a problem when he starts to ignore his friends and his schoolwork. But what can he do to break the addiction?
When Francine and the Brain are locked in a stiff competition to win Student of the Month, Muffy talks Francine into 'borrowing' Buster's toy and letting Brain take the blame for it. As the lies grow and the prize gets closer, however, Francine's guilt increases.
As Emily's new babysitter, Binky introduces his charge to the world of pro-wrestling, and teaches her some fierce moves. But when Emily starts ruffling the feathers of other pre-schoolers on the playground, Binky worries that he has not been the best role model.
When Lakewood Elementary's beloved lunch lady Mrs. MacGrady is diagnosed with cancer, Arthur and his friends all react differently to the news.
George is excited about spending time with his new friend Carl, who seems to know all kind of cool facts about trains and about... well lots of things! Then George learns that Carl has Asperger's Syndrome - a form of autism that makes Carl see the world differently than most people.
The Tibbles sell their art works to raise money for a toy by using pity.
Fern and Muffy start a greeting card business. Muffy paints the covers and Fern writes the poems. All the work makes Fern lose interest in writing, so she tries to figure out how to get make it interesting again.
Baby Kate begins to learn to talk, but starts to not be able to understand Pal anymore. They go to the Dolly Llama for an answer.
Famous rock musician Dean Lomax visits Elwood City and calls on George's dad to fix his equally famous guitar named Bonnie.
Brain learns how to play basketball while in a wheelchair from a girl named Lydia.
Annoyed by gender stereotypes in the media, Francine, Muffy and Molly make their own little animated movie with girls as the main characters.
Sue Ellen writes a graphic novel about circles and triangles. However her friends think it's unusual.
Arthur, Buster and Fern buy one Grotesquely Grim Bunny comic after the local comic store goes under new management. Arthur is afraid to admit the new comics scare him.
When Alberto and Francine accidentally exchange soccer balls in the park, Alberto's ball travels with Francine throughout Elwood City and, eventually, the world.
In an attempt to discover just how big the world is, Pal, Kate, Mei-Lin, and Amigo take an imaginary trip around the world.
Arthur's Grandmother teaches him how to knit. However, embarrassed by his new skill, he tries to hide it from everyone else.
When D.W. gets her hair cut too short by a clown barber, the Tibbles begin to tease her about it, prompting her to seek advice on comebacks.
Buster decides to build a model rocket ship.
Arthur has fifteen minutes to get back home get his report and get back to school before class starts.
George sees Binky hold his mother's hand. Binky doesn't want anyone else to know.
Buster receives chocolates in the mail from a "secret admirer" and tries to uncover who it was sent by.
Mr. Ratburn decides to have his students learn a lesson about handling money. Telling them that they can't spend any money for the weekend and have to barter for what they want.
A new candy bar that Buster wants to try is making anyone who eats the candy bar act strange.
Prunella receives help from her friends to clean out her closet. She has kept everything since she was a baby, making her closet very full.
Muffy starts a book club. Things don't go over so well when she starts picking out all the books for the club members to read.
Fritz asks Buster to take care of the community garden for him while he recovers from his ankle injury. Buster has to stop short when he finds out he's going on a camping trip with his mother. So, he asks Muffy, Francine and Arthur to care for the garden for him.
Bailey disappears, and Muffy tries to find him. In doing so she discovers that she doesn't really know much about her Butler.
Grandpa Dave moves closer to the family. The problem is he can't remember much about anything anymore due to his Alzheimer's Disease, so Arthur and D.W. assemble a memory album for Dave.
A new girl named Ladonna moves to Elwood City from Louisiana with her family. In order to make friends, she tells the Lakewood students stories about her life. As she continues with her tales, the stories begin to repeat, and the kids are noticing. Ladonna begins to fabricate her stories and is caught by the Brain when she makes an actual mistake.
Muffy videotapes Francine attempting a soccer stunt that goes horribly wrong, and uploads it online, where it becomes increasingly popular. Francine is initially embarrassed, but when she sees how popular she is, she begins to let the fame go to her head.
D.W. get jealous when Emily gets to be Little Red Riding hood and D.W. has to be tree number two.
Mr. Ratburn must prove that his answers are correct and that a 100% accurate computer's answers are wrong.
The Tibble twins are having their first sleepover and invite James over.
The Tough Customers have to change their ways. Molly might not be able to do so.
In order to improve his game for a competition Brain forms a chess club.
George can't wait to play baseball.
Brain teaches Buster arithmetic.
Buster starts reading books in order to earn points to win prizes.
Buster and Brain disagree over movie reviews.
Suffering from a case of writers' block, Fern begins to copy some of Ladonna's stories.
Sue Ellen makes a change in her diet, prompting Muffy and Francine to try and imitate her vegetarianism.
Arthur's teasing of Sue Ellen's new sweater makes her feel bad.
Everyone remembers their best days.
It's the Elwood City Dog Show and Killer is facing off against Sebastian Winkleplotz, the snobby, championship-winning poodle.
Arthur agrees to watch his neighbor's dog Amigo while Alberto is away. However, when Arthur is looking after Amigo, Pal feels he is losing his rank as top dog of the house.
D.W. and Bud embark on an epic wilderness adventure! Dense jungles, mystic ruins, the backyard has never been so exciting!
Apple picking, bake sales, craft classes... there's so much to do in Elwood City in the fall! And Ladonna's determined to do it all. But when you're juggling so much at once, you're bound to drop a ball... or five.
Alberto discovers that he has a natural talent for golf and begins competing at the local country club. But will his dad's over-enthusiastic and embarrassing cheers cause him to give up the sport altogether?
Buster has lost his flair for funny, and the harder he tries to make people laugh, the worse it gets.
Arthur and Buster have always been best friends. But when a leaky roof forces Arthur to study in Buster's room, they discover they make better friends then roommates.
Arthur's ecstatic when he wins free concert tickets on the radio. The problem is, he can only take one friend.
When Arthur catches Buster sucking his thumb, Buster worries that Arthur will tell the entire school.
Tired of doing chores, Arthur and the gang decide to invent their own country: Kidonia.
The local creek is polluted! Francine is determined to get the word out at the annual Earth Day rally, but she can't seem to speak up, so Ladonna attempts to help.
Ladonna can't wait to experience her first blizzard. Skiing, sledding, snow days! If only the weather would cooperate. Arthur and Buster attempt to help her. Meanwhile, D.W teaches Bud how to make snowballs.
When a mouse is discovered in the Read house, Arthur uses Nemo to try get rid of it, making Pal worried. Then, Ladonna shows up and shows Arthur, D.W., and Bud that mice can be friends as well as foes.
Muffy, Binky, and Ladonna find Carl's lost kite and they argue over who should take possession of it.
After meeting his hero, George is inspired to make a movie of his own, but he doesn't seem to be getting his own way in it.
When George accidentally breaks the class's prize woodworking project, Binky gets unfairly blamed.
Muffy is thrilled when mega producer J3 chooses her family for his latest reality TV project.
Buster has just won the best young artist award at the Elwood City Arts Festival. Sensing his work might be worth something someday, Muffy hires Buster to paint her portrait.
Everyone loves the Bang on a Can All-Stars, a funky experimental music group that's touring around Elwood City. Everyone that is, except Binky. A musical purist, Binky thinks their nontraditional sound is just a bunch of noise and sets out to prove it.
A new ice cream shop has just opened up across the block. With whimsical flavor names, futuristic furniture, and a cute mascot named Puk Puk, Yumbobo is threatening to put Brain's shop out of business.
After she hears D.W. talking to her imaginary friend, Muffy tries to find her own.
When she is un-invited to Catherine's sixteenth birthday party, Francine tries to to make it the worst party ever.
George is concerned about Fern when she falls into a state of sadness, but doesn't know why. Wanting to get to the bottom of the mystery, he enlists Buster Baxter to investigate.
Buster has to find someone else to hang out with while Arthur is on a weekend trip.
Bud Compson continuously wins against D.W., so she suggests a game called Throw the Hat, in which she accidentally breaks Dad's Froggy.
When D.W. and Bud are too short to go on a roller coaster, they try to trick the ticket taker into letting them get on.
After wishes for snow and cupcakes come true, Buster, Francine, and Binky are convinced that George has Wish Mojo, and put him under incredible pressure to use his new Wish Mojo to wish for even more snow.
Muffy is sad to discover that one of her ancestors worked as a maid for one of Binky's ancestors - a lord. Upon further investigation, Muffy finds out how that maid got promoted to a business manager.
Arthur is umpiring a baseball game against Mighty Mountain and he has to decide whether Buster properly scored a home run.
Timmy is outraged when he discovers Tommy was born two minutes before he was, leading to Tommy acting like a superior to Timmy.
Ladonna is cast an important role in an upcoming school musical, and Muffy lends her a dress for the rehearsal.
When Rattles and his mother are invited to stay at her boyfriend's house for a weekend, Rattles must learn to get along with his two kids.
D.W camps out in the backyard and learns that doing such a thing can be an adventure in its own right.
A powerful hurricane hits Elwood City. Ladonna's dad is called up by the Army Corps of Engineers. Muffy relocates to a shelter, while Arthur struggles to reunite lost pets and owners. And Brain seeks the help of a therapist to help him manage his anxiety.
After hearing a slideshow on the Great Depression, Arthur begins to worry about the amount of money his family seems to be wasting through usage of water, electricity and lawn mowers.
D.W saves Tommy and Timmy from a fall, and they decide to repay her, much to D.W's annoyance.
Arthur is embarrassed about having to go see D.W's spring pageant, which he believes to be a waste of time.
D.W is waiting for her new playground to be built, and all she has to play with is the box that it came in.
Brain, D.W and Bud venture into Brain's brain after neither can remember where they can find the last Easter Egg in the Easter Egg Hunt.
Brain plans on seeing a meteor shower. He thinks he is cursed since every year something goes wrong and cannot see it.
Sue Ellen is dismissive about maths until she runs into a problem her artistic vision cannot solve.
Sue Ellen meets her pen pal but he is more interested in fashion than world culture.
Arthur gets a Mutant Muck Monster as a gift, which he later learns is worth two million dollars unboxed, but it has fallen into the D.W.'s hands.
After Binky wrecks the 18th hole at a miniature golf course, Muffy, Buster and Binky attempt to create a new 18th hole.
Carl agrees to play the accordion for George's puppet show reenactment of Goldilocks and the Three Bears for the local preschool class.
Buster enlists Binky's help as a method to prevent him from gorging cookies at a constant rate.
Arthur and his friends are moving into the fourth grade, which Muffy and Francine are concerned about. Meanwhile, Arthur and Buster have their sights set on being in the fourth-grade class taught by the 'cool' new teacher.
Aria, a silent girl in Mr. Ratburn's class, finally gets a chance to speak when she is appointed a school news anchor.
Binky's grandparents miss his big soccer game, and so he attempts a reenactment of the event making video postcards just as Buster did when he left with his dad.
Arthur and his friends believe that Mr. Ratburn has a secret identity.
When Buster and Ladonna bond, Arthur feels left out.
Pal's cousin Dr. Yowl whisks Pal, Kate and Mei Lin away on an adventure through the solar system in his kennel.
When George's giraffe puppet Wally goes missing, Fern and Binky war over who can find him.
After believing a false science show, Buster decides to never believe in anything without proof again.
One Ornery Critter - Buster is tasked with taking care of his aunt's dog Carrotcake, but she dislikes Arthur, which concerns him, as he believes that it will sabotage his position as being universally loved by dogs.
Francine needs money to buy some new cleats, so she takes a job as Muffy's personal assistant.
Muffy and Lydia join forces to topple a snobbish and unpleasant beauty queen.
After Brain wins a science fair, Buster begins to wonder how different his life would be if he was smarter.
While Arthur is practicing for a piano recital, he learns that Buster has been telling him white lies just to not hurt his feelings. Arthur and Buster agree to not tell any more white lies.
Fern decides to enter a writer's contest.
After a box of D.W.'s favorite cereal goes missing, Arthur is accused of taking it.
Arthur, Buster, and George are excited to watch a special Bionic Bunny episode, but the TV blacks out. Meanwhile, D.W. and Bud are building a huge Tower of Cows, which Carl also starts doing.
It's D.W.'s turn to watch the preschool class bunny.
Bud learns to tie his shoes after seeing a pair of boots that he wants.
When Grandma Thora becomes the most popular babysitter in Elwood City, D.W. becomes upset.
Mr. Ratburn has a complete change in attitude, much to Arthur, Buster, and Brain's concern.
Mr. Crosswire gets a robot butler, but Muffy fears Bailey may be replaced.
Prunella claims she can see the future, but Marina doubts it.
Francine decides to leave her soccer position to Buster when the Lakewood Elementary soccer team claims she is too bossy.
George becomes the Lakewood Elementary hallway monitor.
Ladonna begins a list to see how many people like her.
Binky gets an A on a test and Muffy and Francine think he cheated.
Brain creates a time capsule but soon he gets frustrated when everyone wants to put something in.
Buster keeps failing at creating a birdhouse to keep the community safe while Muffy and Francine come up with a new company named "Skywire" and attempt to create a cat toy.
Ladonna befriends a member of the Mighty Mountain soccer team.
The City Council votes to close down the Elwood City Library and Sue Ellen attempts to save it.
Muffy goes to an opera but is also worrying that the members of Mrs. McGrady's bake sale will need her help.
Arthur discovers that Mrs. McGrady manages the cafeteria without any help and tries to hire her an assistant.
Slink thinks that his special talent is being a newspaper boy.
The Tough Customers go on a hiking trail.
Bud loses his imaginary friend Rapty, a dinosaur, and becomes worried what he'll do without him.
D.W. and Emily tell a student the story of a princess and have a substitute teacher for PE.
D.W., Arthur, Vicita, Mr. Read, Grandma Thora, and Vicita's father watch a soccer game on TV and Baby Kate becomes addicted to it.
When Pal goes into a trash can and rolls in the garbage, he gets an itch.
The gang is surprised that Mr. Ratburn is getting married.
Just about the entire third grade class chooses sides when Arthur and Buster argue over a video game.
Muffy is terrified when peregrine falcons build a nest outside her bedroom window.
Binky must choose between starring in a television commercial or performing in a talent show.
Francine helps Lakewood Elementary protect the environment; Binky is convinced Mr. Ratburn's latest math test was too hard.
D.W. meets 13-year-old Hana, who is much older and totally cool.
George volunteers to create a piece of art for the county-wide art show and can't decide what to make.
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