Fan-Preferred Couple: Some fans prefer Arthur/Sue Ellen as a couple as opposed to the implied Official Couple of Arthur/Francine. Yes, Arthur was wrong for punching D.W. in " Arthur's Big Hit", but she did indeed touch his model plane after he told her not to touch it, broke it, and claimed that it was Arthur's fault for "building it wrong". It's hard to blame him for being angry even though he obviously handled it the wrong way. Buster has eaten a 40-year-old bologna sandwich, half of a cupcake he kept since second grade and ice cream that he's dropped on the floor.

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A couple of early episodes, like "Arthur's New Year's Eve", have characters using the phrase "what a gyp". It's highly unlikely that a children's show written these days could get away with this expression, considering "gyp" is shortened from the now-slur "gypsy" (evoking the Romani's historical reputation as duplicitous scammers). In " Francine Frensky, Superstar", Buster is forced to wear a light bulb costume without air holes and can barely breathe. Fast forward a few seasons and it's revealed that he has asthma.

Other YMMV items:

In "Muffy Gets Mature", Muffy has an Imagine Spot of herself and Buster kissing on the lips. Afterward, Muffy turns into a non-anthropomorphic frog.

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Signature Scene: There are a ton of examples that could qualify, but the ones that are arguably the most memorable are the "Library Card" musical number in " Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival" and Arthur punching D.W. in " Arthur's Big Hit." In " Prove It", did D.W. really lie to her friends so that she'd be taken to the science museum, or did she just claim that it was her plan all along to save face? When Pal and Kate watch a Teletubbies parody in "The Secret Life of Dogs and Babies", they hear the characters quoting Shakespeare's The Tempest. Mighty Mountain in seasons one and two. Arthur and the gang consider them The Dreaded because it's rare to score a victory against them, or even points in baseball or soccer. Francine and the Brain are the only Elwood athletes who stand a chance against them. It's shown that the kids are legitimately good sports players, something even Jerkass Francine admits, and they're not wrong to laugh at Muffy when she holds the bat wrong in " Arthur and the True Francine". This gets fixed after the first two seasons, where Mighty Mountain kids are nice off the court. Prunella's blind friend Marina is even on their soccer team. The introduction of Ladonna and Bud Compson also outraged some fans, who claimed them to be annoying and pointless additions to the show that botched the show's character dynamics in unnecessary ways.

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Flea to Be You and Me" has a more somber and tragic tone than the rest of the series. Pal, Amigo, and Kate meet a new friend, Pepe, who was separated from his brother and traveled around the world in an attempt to find him. The story is told with very few jokes, and even opens with Pepe breaking down crying about "how he has suffered." Pepe is also a flea with an exaggerated Italian accent, which makes it hard to take seriously. Language: English Words: 2,524 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 1 Comments: 24 Kudos: 372 Bookmarks: 57 Hits: 2,620 Sue Ellen, due to being the friendliest and kindest of Arthur's friends. Notably the episode " Sue Ellen's Little Sister" where she feels left out during the brother and sister race and wishes she had a little sister. Every child, and indeed, every one of us, has experienced deep, frustrated rage, nowhere has it been more perfectly depicted. There’s a perfect ending too, peace restored in a way that is both a surprise and inevitable. A must for every child’s bookshelf. Something has to happen, or the six year old Arthur is forced to live through his trauma a second time.

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The Contest" is a pretty blatant example as of the four TV shows spoofed in the episode, only South Park is still airing, which itself is a Long Runner. In "Lights, Camera... Opera!", Muffy imagines herself in a parody of Carmen. She sings, "I am like a rebellious bird. No one can put me in a cage!" The opening lines of Carmen are "Love is like a rebellious bird which nobody can tame." Despite a number of fans' dislike of her, there are times D.W. is this, such as during "Operation: D.W." when she showed legitimate fear over having tubes placed in her ears (after being brave throughout most of the episodes). She also showed this tendency in "D.W.'s Furry Freakout"; she clearly loved and wanted to bond with the kitten she found, who turned out to belong to Arthur's piano teacher, but was too young to understand cat behavior. Several similar examples exist, such as: Take some time out. Go and sit in the story corner until you cooldown Arthur. Then we’ll have a chat,” the teacher said. We appreciate the memes that have been created and shared in good fun,” they said via a network spokesperson. “We are, however, disappointed by the few that are outside of good taste.”

Retroactive Recognition: The second voice of Brain, Steven Crowder, is now best known for being, of all things, a right-wing pundit on YouTube. While it was wrong for Arthur to punch D.W. in " Arthur's Big Hit", the fact that the latter had broken the model plane he'd worked so hard on after he repeatedly told her not to touch it makes it hard to hold it against him, especially considering he is only eight years old. Periphery Demographic: Massive and vocal, especially in the older seasons of the program. Even currently, though, the program maintains a large number of fans who theoretically should have "outgrown" the program a long time ago, or who have never been in its target audience in the first place during the time that it's been airing. And then there's those fans... Arthur's teacher being male - at most Arthur is in third grade. Nobody questions it. Men working in education isn't unheard of, but discrimination against men teaching younger children is very much a real thing. Takes place before the season 3 finale, but Uther is dead, the knights are all here etc. Cuz I said so. Language: English Words: 36,006 Chapters: 11/11 Comments: 76 Kudos: 477 Bookmarks: 86 Hits: 9,046

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In the aftermath of Merlin renouncing magic in front of Arthur, Gwaine confronts him and asks, very politely, to get his head out of his ass. Arthur is concerned. Language: English Words: 864 Chapters: 1/1 Kudos: 170 Bookmarks: 8 Hits: 2,072 Besties" has a song by Buster about how he's best friends with Ladonna instead of Arthur, sung in a very upbeat and catchy tone. When Carl Met George" mentions Carl having Asperger's Syndrome, which is no longer a diagnosis after 2013 and is lumped under autism instead. Later appearances of Carl mention he has autism instead. Arthur wascross. He could feel himself getting hotter and hotter, redder and redder, madder and madder.Any of Arthur's friends can be this (though Francine may be more of an example of a Jerkass Woobie), but especially Buster where he's ostracized by his friends just because he went around the world, and some of Arthur's friends can't stand his eccentricities. Almost every character has their own insecurities that become the focal point of an episode. After ten years in Arthur's service, waiting faithfully for the day where magic would be free again, Merlin's patience finally runs out when Arthur washes his hands of accountability. Running on adrenaline, anger, and spite, Merlin leaves Camelot, taking Kara and Mordred with him, and sets off on a path of his own making. Whether he will walk the path alone or with Arthur at his side, though, is another matter entirely. Only time will tell. Language: English Words: 148,386 Chapters: 16/16 Comments: 336 Kudos: 1,312 Bookmarks: 265 Hits: 30,948 I love how the book uses repetition to speak to the reader. In addition to this, the illustrations work perfectly, you can tell the darkness and emotion behind them, the rough lines and vast size really adds context to the story. The fact that the author wrote the book from the inspiration of many children going though this, from incidents in their life that are very minor, says to me it was a good cause. Arthur and his friends, in third or fourth grade, are allowed to walk or bike around the neighborhood with no adult supervision; Buster says that his mother asked him to carry a cellphone for the bikeathon so she could monitor his progress. Owing to them knowing everyone, and having the town map memorized, this isn't seen as an issue and they actually save Perky's life when finding out she was the one making strange noises in the woods. Free-Range Children is more of a concern in the 2020s, and at the least adults would advise the kids to use the buddy system all the time.