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Trailer Arthur: Big Brother Binky. Arthur: D. On Ice. Arthur: Season Arthur: Hic Or Treat. Arthur: Unfinished. Arthur: Desert Island Dish. Photos Top cast Edit. Turner Descriptive Narrator as Descriptive Narrator …. Henderson Ed Crosswire as Ed Crosswire …. Bronwen Mantel Mrs. Sarah MacGrady as Mrs. Sarah MacGrady …. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Bespectacled aardvark Arthur Read demonstrates to kids how to deal with such childhood traumas and challenges as homework, teachers and bullies.
He also has to contend with his sisters, but loves playing with his friends: tomboy Francine, foodie and best pal Buster, super smart Brain, rich girl Muffy and geography expert Sue Ellen. Did you know Edit. Trivia Arthur, who is an aardvark, has bunny slippers, and his best friend Buster, who is a bunny, has aardvark slippers.
He runs off after Pickles to get one, but Arthur thinks he's running away from him. She leaves a can of flowers on his grave after his funeral but finds a toad in there. Arthur takes her to the pet store to buy a new pet to replace Spanky, but they don't find one.
The toad reappears several more times, following her, but she hates it since it won't leave her alone. When it doesn't reappear, she realizes that she misses it. Arthur and Buster are doing a project together, but Buster doesn't seem to have the time for it, Arthur, or anyone else. All he does is talk about his new friend, Mike. Arthur decides to return everything related to Buster. At Buster's house they become friends again and he finds out Mike isn't just another kid to replace him.
Arthur is addicted to a new computer game, Deep, Dark Sea , playing it even when he shouldn't. When he gets to a new area he's excited about, he calls up Buster. When it appears that they have broken the computer, they look for the Brain to help them fix it, but he can't find the problem.
Muffy and Francine were best friends since second grade, when Muffy was a new student. They decide to study together for an upcoming math test, but Muffy continually procrastinates, claiming that she knows her addition and subtraction. When the test day comes, she cheats off of Francine's test and claims that she would never do so, getting Francine into trouble.
Arthur wants to go back to Camp Meadowcroak from "Arthur Goes to Camp" with Buster for the summer and tries to get out of the family vacation to the beach. He changes his mind with the mention of lobster and after several impediments, they finally make it there.
They lose their hotel reservation and stay in a leaky rundown hotel as it rains for days. Things eventually start to get better. Arthur and D. It has been in the family for years and he doesn't want help running it. Arthur finds an entry form for a jingle writing contest for Crunch Cereal and he's determined to win the year's supply of it.
He starts a band with some of his friends, Mrs. McGrady, and Grandma Thora , but he has nothing for them to play. Without a tune, he hears D. He feels guilty as he is about to mail it. Flips ". She gets her way and goes to her first class. Emily is there and D.
Muffy bets Francine she can't be nice to everyone for a whole week and she can't tell anyone about why she's being nice. Arthur and his friends are worried when she starts acting nice for no apparent reason and are worried she may "pop" if she continues bottling up her anger.
They try fruitlessly to diffuse her. Arthur and Buster sit at the only available table with the Tough Customers. Buster claims that Arthur is the world's greatest "gleeper" to stop the teasing, only to find out later that "gleep" means "steal. Arthur gets the chicken pox. While he hopes he recovers in time for a family trip to the circus, D. In an attempt to regain the lost attention she fakes having chicken pox.
In the end she. Arthur feeds Pal things other than dog food, like pancakes and old gummy worms. He gets sick as a result. Arthur thinks D. Then he finds out from the vet that it's the food Pal has eaten. Rides Again ". Arthur teachers her the basics and she learns to ride by herself without training wheels in time for the bikeathon. Arthur and his friends are trying out for the baseball team and everyone wants to be the pitcher.
Arthur makes it but he's the worst player. He and Francine, who can't pitch, work together to improve their skills. Arthur and his friends are assigned to write about what they do over Saturday, but it rains and ruins plans. Without anything better to do, they help her clean out her attic and find some interesting things, including old home movies.
Grandma Thora can't cook. When she decides to bake cookies for the bake sale, Arthur tries to think up ways to stop her bad cooking from ruining it. He decides to buy all of her cookies before anyone else can. When Mr. Morris , the janitor, finds them in his closet, Arthur has to tell the truth.
Rumors are circulating about the new family that has moved to Elwood City and Buster thinks that they may be aliens, even after he met Sue Ellen. When his mom invites them over for dinner, he finds out that Sue Ellen isn't an alien, but just a kid who has lived in various places around the world.
The Brain is spending the weekend with the Reads because his parents are going to an ice cream convention. Arthur thinks this will be like having a brother around, but he is neat, finishes his homework early, and reads to D. However, Arthur discovers that he is not so neat when he invites him over to his own house, and he has to be polite as he is the houseguest.
Buster, as a detective, investigates, listening to biased accounts of those present the day it did so. They argue and accuse each other but everyone, except D. Arthur, Buster, and Francine are assigned to do a group project on Ancient Rome.
They discuss how they're going to do it, each coming up with their own idea and eventually decide to draw a comic book. Each has their own idea of what to draw and after a failure to communicate have a mismatched one. They argue over this and finally realize that they need to work together to finish it. Binky has a reputation for being a bully. When he doesn't, she challenges him to a fight to settle it. He gets nervous when he finds out she knows Tae Kwon Do. He decides to beat her at music but loses, so he apologizes to her so they wouldn't have to fight.
For her half-birthday, Prunella's big sister, Rubella, gives her a cootie catcher. Rubella claims that it can tell the future and the answers it gives do come true. Arthur and his friends begin following the its advice. When it goes missing and turns up ruined by the washing machine, they realize that they don't need it to run their lives.
Arthur has a loose tooth, but he is the only one in his class that hasn't lost any of his baby teeth yet. He unsuccessfully tries various ways to get it out so that Francine will stop calling him a baby. She, later, unintentionally knocks it out. Gets Lost ". She asks her mom and dad , but they claim her ears will turn green.
After her persistence, Mrs. Read takes her shopping for earrings only if she approves of them. While at the All In One Mart , she wanders off when her mom is distracted. Lost, she runs into Emily, whose ears have turned green. Emily proceeds to direct her back to her mom. Thinks Big ".
At Aunt Lucy 's wedding, Arthur is the ring bearer and their dramatic diva cousin, Cora , is the flower girl, but D. However, when the wedding ring gets lost in the pipe organ, D. Arthur and Buster are playing Frisbee in the park when it lands in a polluted fountain. Arthur's dad overhears him and Buster talking about the park and he involuntarily becomes the leader of a cleanup crew of kids. His friends aren't pleased and don't help him. But with the help of Francine's dad and a few volunteers, they manage to clean up the park.
Ratburn's class is going on field trips to several of the students' parents at work to learn about careers. Francine is embarrassed by her dad's job as a garbage man, but her classmates don't seem to think so. Muffy is allergic to the new carpets in her house , so she decides to stay with Francine while it is being removed. She brings some of the things from her room with her including TVs, wardrobes, and sculptures.
During her stay, Francine can't deal with her spoiled attitude and she can't handle the less-than-wealthy condition in which Francine's family lives. Ratburn loses his voice and his sister, Miss Ratburn , substitutes for him.
Initially, the class is excited by the easiness of the lessons, doing things such as reciting the one times table and that yellow and blue make green. They are soon bored and are excited when Mr. Ratburn returns the next day. Fern is the only person who volunteers to enter the Poetry Competition, which is will be judged by Jack Prelutsky.
When the others start making fun of her, she reveals a new side to her quiet character, and challenges them all to write poems for the competition. If they don't succeed, they will be roped into a year's membership of the School Poetry Club. Arthur and his friends start a petition when they learn that the Scare-Your-Pants-Off books have been removed from the library. They find out that it's Muffy's parents who want them banned. Arthur and his friends create a club to stop D.
When they can't agree on its rules it splits. This leads to more disagreements and more clubs created. They eventually come back together, under D. Francine has outgrown her bike so her dad finds his old one for her, except she is embarrassed by it. She hides it and pretends it's stolen when it is accidentally taken way by a garbage truck. They don't agree. She plays a prank on them with fake UFOs in retaliation and vice versa.
Arthur has never stayed up until midnight on New Year's Eve. His friends all have their theories on what occurs when the new year comes. He tries to stay up until New Year's Eve to find out what really happens at midnight.
Mister Rogers is visiting Mr. Ratburn 's class and staying at Arthur's house. Arthur is afraid of telling anyone the latter because he doesn't want to be called a baby. It's not so bad when they find out. When Francine makes fun of Fern , she draws a comic humiliating her, which everyone finds amusing. Other comics about her are drawn. During the school carnival, those teasing her are convinced by Mrs. MacGrady to dump green slime on her. As they prepare to do so, they realize how much they hurt her feelings.
Arthur and Buster have to work with Binky on an art report, but they believe he will make them do all the work. He wants to do it on an abstract painting he believes is hanging sideways.
To avoid embarrassment, Arthur and Buster make an agreement with him to do separate reports. Ironically, he is the only one who does any of the work and turns out to be correct. Arthur's luck begins to change after he finds a pencil right before the stop of a rainstorm. After several lucky breaks, he and his friends are convinced that it is lucky. As it gets shorter, he is more conservative with it. Even with an upcoming history test, he won't let anyone use it, not even himself.
Buster begins keeping bad company in his eagerness to learn his new "friends'" skating tricks. Arthur realizes that they are just having Buster make a fool of himself for their own amusement. Arthur and his friends are too young to watch a James Hound movie. They instead decide to make their own movie. Although it doesn't come out as planned, they have fun filming it. She thinks that her parents only love Arthur and Kate. While she watches Kate for the rest of her punishment, she realizes that she has been a horrible sister.
Binky rips his pants in class, revealing his underwear. Arthur can't stop laughing every time he thinks of it, but he's getting nightmares in which he doesn't have any pants. He tells Buster about this, who tells everyone else, which embarrasses him.
Inevitably, he does rip his pants and has to deal with it. Francine goes for horseback riding lessons and her sister, Catherine , has to bring her there. Catherine is better than Francine! Feeling over shadowed by Catherine, Francine considers quitting but returns and remembers why she wanted to take horseback riding in the first place. Buster gets a cat down from a tree with his ice cream and his mother publishes a story on it. When people start calling him a hero, this goes to his head and he starts acting important and retells the story with embellished details.
Arthur, Francine, and the Brain make a fool out of him to humble him, but he ends up saving Arthur and Francine from a runaway piano. She surprises him with four tickets to " Crazy Bus Live ". He is embarrassed to be there but finds Buster enjoying the show. When the CD goes missing, she accuses him of taking it, but their parents have done so by mistake.
Arthur and his friends are participating in TV-Free Week. His family also goes without TV in support of the idea. Everyone tries to resist the temptation of TV while they go through their week. Binky has a night light. He tries to go without it when Arthur has to spend the night because his parents are stuck out of town. When Arthur finds out about it, he believes Arthur may use this against him, although Arthur isn't particularly interested. Even so, he eventually musters the courage to tell everyone before Arthur does.
The school band has a recital on Friday. Everyone except Arthur is worried and practicing. He is confident that he knows everything well enough until a nightmare makes him worry he may miss a note. In a subplot, D. Francine and the Brain have an argument over soccer practice that carries into class and through the next match.
They may not make it to the playoffs if the argument continues. Arthur uses D. After school, Arthur is supposed to take the bus to the public pool for his swimming lesson, but he falls asleep and misses his stop.
Then he ends up at the edge of town but luckily, the bus driver helps him find his way home. Arthur has a to-do list for the summer, but he can't find it and summer's nearly over. He finds out everyone else had a great summer. He finds his list and D. Goes to Washington ". The Reads go to Washington, D. They tour the popular landmarks and at the White House , D.
Haney gives Arthur an envelope to give to his mom. He is worried about its contents, thinking that it's about him, so he comes up with a way of giving it to her without her opening it. It turns out to contain Mr. Haney's tax documents. When the Reads goes camping, D. She names him Walter and wants to take him home. Buster needs to write a book report, but he has never finished a book. His friends try to find one he can finish.
Arthur and Buster start writing their own adventure book based on Buster's book choice from "Buster Hits the Books", but he is leaving for a couple of months. Arthur's and Francine's friends think that they are in love, leading both of them to think the other is in love. They avoid each other afraid of getting "cooties" and finally solve the problem. Muffy is throwing a party at Waterworld and everyone is excited except the Brain.
Arthur and Binky discover that he is afraid of water and try to help him get over this fear so he can go to the party. In a letter to Buster, Arthur tells him about how he was determined to be too hopelessly unfunny to be a clown and how he discovered he can be funny playing the piano.
Sue Ellen loses her diary in the library. Muffy, Francine, Binky, and Arthur find it, wondering what's inside and whether to open it or return it unread. Arthur accidentally hurts his knee at the dump while retrieving a wheel to fix his school project. He hides the injury and makes D. She unexpectedly shows up early when her car breaks down and they must finish their last minute preparations without her noticing.
Fern's mother wants her to invite some girls over for a slumber party to which she reluctantly agrees. Everyone thinks she is boring and bring their own entertainment, but she later manages to impress them with her detective skills. The Brain and Francine use fake love notes to get revenge against Muffy after she puts them down at the science fair.
Their joke has unintended consequences and they must fix it before things get worse. Blows the Whistle ". Arthur and his friends worry she may ruin the upcoming soapbox derby. During it, she finds herself in an unsafe situation when she is stuck at the top of a large pine tree after she climbs it to get a better view.
Francine and her older sister, Catherine, share a room and can't stand each other's tastes in decor, so Catherine moves out. Francine finds her room to be empty without her sister in it. Arthur keeps losing at the new " No Guessing! His friends are annoyed by his "sore winner" attitude and use Binky to make him lose, because Binky has no qualms about cheating. They try to figure out ways to circumvent crossing the intersection before they realize his true intent.
Arthur and Francine try to find out why D. She later has a strange dream with him, Walter from "D. Arthur, Binky, and the Brain find a key in the grass while looking for a baseball.
They each think it's for something they would like and argue over who gets to keep it before they find out what its real use is. Muffy is having trouble coming up with a recipe so her friends make a joke one, which turns out to taste good and she takes all the credit.
Sue Ellen feels lonely not having a sibling, so she opts for one of her friends, but they each have their flaws. Buster is coming home and Arthur is excited. He is also afraid that Buster will have changed too much, so he reads up on all the places Buster had visited.
His fears worsen when Buster doesn't call back or come over. Buster has returned to Elwood City. He's surprised by how much has changed and feels left out because of the things he didn't get to experience while he was away. Arthur decides to throw a party for him. All Fired Up ". When Arthur and Muffy are assigned to work on a project together, he begins to act more and more like her.
His friends try to turn him back into Arthur before it's too late. Sue Ellen and the Brain are assigned to work on a project together same assignment as "Arthur Goes Crosswire".
Francine and Buster say it will be easy as the Brain does almost all of the work by himself. Sue Ellen wants to help, but he doesn't let her. This turns into a struggle that nearly ruins their project.
Ratburn 's class is asked to research their ancestors. Muffy and Francine try to one-up each other with who theirs were, even after each find nothing interesting. Even though Muffy is eventually caught lying about hers, Francine continues with her lie. The Magic Toolbox is coming to Mr. Ratburn's class to put the kids on TV! The kids prepare for stardom, all practicing their various talents. The Brain is the only one not interested in appearing on the show, but when it turns out that the segment is not what the others expect it to be, they need his help.
Arthur and Buster are sorting potato chips and find a big green one. Binky eats one, too, and they both make the best out the last days of their lives. Throughout the day, all of the kids and adults tease her about the green chip incident. She is furious that this went public, and blames Arthur but finds out it was her mom who told other people. She apologizes, but D.
When graffiti stating "Binky Rules" mysteriously appears on the walls of the school, everyone thinks that Binky wrote it. Buster and Fern , who are well known for being good detectives, attempt to prove that he didn't do it. After more investigating, they realize that it was done by an unknown band called Binky to promote themselves. Binky, the unknown band from "Binky Rules", has their first concert. Arthur gets to visit them backstage and struggles with whether or not he should bring his friends along and decides to do so at the last minute.
They get to meet Binky backstage because Arthur's father is catering for them. When they meet them, they realize that they are actually holograms. Arthur doesn't like the new Woogle fad, but when everyone else has one, he tries to get one. Frustrated after several failed attempts, he starts playing with a bottle cap and starts a new fad. Arthur brings a cake his dad made to a party in his class celebrating Galileo 's birthday.
Everyone likes the cake so he asks his dad to make another one, but this makes him run behind on his other orders. He realizes this after the Brain's mom starts bringing ice cream to the school. A subplot has Mr. Ratburn attempting to get Mr. Read's cake by pretending to try to give anyone who is having one a schedule of Spring Reading, but his final attempt doesn't work when it turns out that Arthur and his dad aren't having cake; they're making ones for other people.
Francine accidentally takes her sister Catherine 's backpack to school and discovers a magazine called " Popular Girl ". Reading it convinces Sue Ellen and Fern to change their personality to become more likable. Buster has never been mad at anyone for long, but he holds a grudge against Binky for telling the joke he was going to tell. This culminates to an onstage rant during a school talent show and Arthur has to set things right. After Buster finds an arrowhead in his backyard, Arthur wants to dig around his house to see what he can find.
When he gets too involved, he starts digging where he's not allowed to do so. Ratburn's class is at a medieval fair competing for a trophy against a class from Glenbrook Academy led by Mr. Ratburn's former teacher, Mr. During the competitions, Arthur is sidetracked by the sword in the stone and his classmates fear that Mr.
Pryce-Jones may replace Mr. Ratburn if they lose. They play roughly while pretending to fight crime and end up hurting D. Tricks the Tooth Fairy ". When her plan doesn't work, she tries to trick the tooth fairy with a fake one. December 28, [1]. Tommy Tibble is sad and less active because Timmy is sick.
Although D. Arthur and Buster have an imaginary music festival featuring the whole cast in songs based on their lives, themselves, and the library. Sue Ellen is hard to scare and is frightened by a mysterious howl in the woods. She enlists the help of Arthur, Buster, and Binky to investigate the noise. Arthur gets the help of Mr. Ratburn to try to fix her. George becomes more popular with his ventriloquist dummy, Wally , and starts a short-lived ventriloquism fad at school.
He starts acting less rationally as Wally starts falling apart, because before Wally, nobody noticed him. Francine's family gets a new cat that Francine renames Nemo after her sister, Catherine, named him Rose Petal.
Arthur is a dog person and doesn't like him, thinking he is trying to kill Pal. He dislikes him so much that it may end his friendship with Francine. Arthur goes over past events from previous episodes with her to cheer her up. This works and she goes on to her birthday party to make a wish.
Clean Up ". However, they each are picky about what stays and goes and how it all goes together. Arthur and his friends are feeling different, but can't put a finger on it. They eventually realize that they haven't had a holiday in a while, so they embark on making a new one.
Arthur refuses to get a book for D. Luckily, she figures out how to get a library card and check it out. But the Tibble Twins make her worried. Having had enough of D. Worse, when the Tough Customers hear about this, they dare Binky to hit him the next time he sees him. Arthur and his friends find a snake and decide to keep it in a box in his room without telling his parents.
It escapes and he and his friends are worried when they can't remember if it was a venomous coral snake Micrurus or the similarly-colored, but harmless king snake Lampropeltis Triangulum. Muffy and Francine are best friends, but Muffy does not like practicing soccer and Francine does not like shopping. Since Francine and Jenna like soccer, Muffy searches for a new best friend who likes what she does.
When D. When he learns he has it, his friends start treating him differently, thinking that he needs special attention. He educates them about it. Muffy and Francine play several pranks on Arthur, Buster, Binky, and the Brain and invite them to a party at a haunted house. The boys decide to retaliate at it and Muffy and Francine are ready with another prank.
They call off all pranks when they discover a real ghost. Five years later, they are 13 and watch for the winning episode only to find out a girl named Holly Holland from Canadian, Oklahoma has won. When Arthur won't take her along to the Exploratorium , she makes her own museum with false explanations of real-life occurrences, such as why the sky is blue or what the formula for water stands for.
She challenges Arthur and the Brain to "prove it" when they say she is wrong, only to have to take her to the Exploratorium. A blizzard hits Elwood City , leaving Mr. Ratburn , Mr. Haney , and Mr. Morris trapped in the school , the Brain at Prunella's house , and several families at the Reads' house. Francine has to write a report on pioneers and bases it on her experience with the people who came over to the Reads' house and pooled their resources.
After his roof caves in from snow, Mr. Ratburn stays at Arthur's house. Arthur is afraid that it will be non-stop homework and teaching, only to find out Mr. Ratburn is more fun than he thought.
However, at school, his friends start calling him a teacher's pet. Tale Spins ". She retells The Odyssey to prove him wrong. Note: "Vegemorphs" is a parody of the Animorphs book series. Also, there is such thing as the Vegemorphs spoof series in the real world; it is published by Troll.
Prunella gets two Polly Locket dolls and dismisses the second one, which was from Francine. Later, she thinks that Francine spoiled the party by not joining in on the festivities. Binky is doing a project on butterflies and becomes obsessed with catching "Big Blue", a rare blue one. He eventually manages to catch it but lets every butterfly go when he is horrified by how they are kept in collections. When Francine enters the talent show, her friends try to tell her she is horrible when she sings and drums at the same time, even though she is a good drummer.
After she hears a recording of herself, she realizes her friends had been right, but at the talent show, she surprises them without her drum set as she sings very well. Father's Day is approaching and Arthur and his friends come up with an idea to find a substitute for Buster's dad who is a pilot and often away.
Prunella wants Flash Pants and thinks she is getting them for her birthday, only to be disappointed by a watch instead. Arthur is afraid of being teased when wearing his dad 's old Mr. Puffy jacket because he has outgrown his old winter coat. Together, they realize that they don't have to hide because of what they wear. Arthur and his friends separately find the same metal bobbin but do not know what it is.
It happens to fit exactly what they need at the moment it appears. They argue over it and find out that it is Mr. Ratburn's and learn what it is at his puppet show. Buster is funny but wants to be good at something else, and Arthur wants to be vice versa. They end up acting like each other. This annoys their friends and they realize that they are fine the way they are. The library is looking for a musician to perform for the children's show later in the week.
Arthur and his friends are immediately annoyed, so they choose to find a musician. Francine's father suggests that they hire Joshua Redman , her uncle and a jazz musician.
But then Grandma Thora takes D. Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Redman guest star as themselves. Arthur is put in an awkward situation, when, after arguing with D. Intrigued, he watches an episode and becomes hooked on it! He tries to hide it from his friends, which isn't easy, because it clashes with Dark Bunny , the show they are all hooked on and always talking about.
When they find out initially, they tease him for it. In the end, however, they all admit they like The Love Ducks. Arthur goes on the game show, Riddle Quest , against a really smart contestant.
In the final round, he must decide between winning and his friends. Alex Trebek guest stars as the host, Alex Lebeck. Arthur, Buster , Francine , and the Brain resent the large amount of homework they are assigned, which culminates in a large number of dares issued to skip school. However, the next morning, everyone agrees to call off the plot due to guilt personified by a giant clam. Francine fails to receive the message and carries on with it. Lakewood Elementary is having an open house and Arthur and his friends are embarrassed by how their parents will act judging from the previous year's open house.
This prompts Sue Ellen to ask her parents to act more "normal". Buster wants the new CyberToy , but they're too expensive, so while he's at the drugstore he slips one into Arthur's backpack without him noticing. He feels guilty later, so he and Arthur try to return it without getting into trouble. Buster beats the Brain at a class Mathathon, so the Brain gives up on his studies and Buster must represent the class.
Buster realizes that he can't do so and comes up with several plans to turn the Brain back to the way he is. Although disappointed that they're brought to the beach, he tells them about Ocean Zone and leaves them to find it. They have fun at the beach and realize that it is Ocean Zone. Arthur and his friends attempt to break a world record by making the world's largest pizza. Ratburn 's class takes a field trip to some caves in Palisades Park.
Arthur is afraid of going into the caves, but inside, he's not the one that's spooked the most. He uses what his dad told him and gets everyone out of there calmly. When Muffy gets lice, she is nervous about how her friends will feel. However, it ends up spreading to everyone at school, forcing them to be checked everyday and instead of doing homework, are forced to stay up late and have their parents take nits out of their hair.
Arthur is training for and running a 3k race. Everything is seen from his point-of-view the whole episode. Ratburn's class holds a class election. Muffy takes the candidacy for class president seriously and a competitive campaign against Arthur ensues. However, they both lose to Binky and learn about elections and campaigning in the process. Being annoyed by her new neighbor, Francine tries to get her to move by setting traps to scare her. This doesn't work and she makes a new friend as she gets to know her.
Buster believes its his destiny to go to Pizza Paula's Pizzaland and win the pizza-eating contest for free pizza for life. While he is there, he goes back to the hotel room to sleep early for the contest, except he can't fall asleep.
Francine pays Binky to look after Nemo for the weekend, but he doesn't take a look at her written instructions. When Nemo acts strangely at the mention of her, Binky keeps him away from her, thinking she is a bad owner. Buster's mom has a boyfriend and he is nervous to meet him. At first he thinks it's Mr. Ratburn but finds out it's not. When he eventually meets her boyfriend, Harry , he finds out he's not so bad. Arthur has a stomachache after eating too many sweets and has dreams involving fairy tales made famous by the Brothers Grimm.
He tells them about a buried family treasure, but they don't want to wait up for him so they take the map and look for it themselves. After Mr. Muffy hangs out with Francine's sister, Catherine , because Francine is not mature enough. Catherine's friends don't receive her well and ridicule her because she uses "Mature Miss" as her guide for acting mature.
Sue Ellen and her friends continuously lose against an anonymous player on an Internet game, " Virtual Goose ". When she finds herself obsessed with winning against that player, she makes a promise not to play for a week.
Arthur and his friends stop playing "Virtual Goose", due to the fact that D. The Brain loses and is challenged as to whether or not he could survive out in the wild, so he starts a camping trip. However, his friends, and even Mr. Ratburn , seem more interested in the internet. Arthur gets a new piano teacher, Dr. Frederique Fugue , who is not only one of the best teachers but also one of the strictest.
When he fails to practice sufficiently, Dr. Fugue "fires" him. Wanting to be rehired, he begins practicing the piece he was supposed to. Buster is fundraising for the school band by selling chocolates, but he ends up eating some of them and giving others away.
Since he does not have the money to pay for them he opts to make some, which he calls Buster Clusters , but they are only worth of being joke ones. Prunella is excited to get her new monogrammed limited edition Henry Skreever book in the mail, but finds that it is in Braille. When she goes to the library to get it with words, she meets a blind girl named Marina , who is looking for it in Braille, and they become friends.
Kate and Pal can understand each other, but older people like the rest of the Reads can't. When David can not find the figurine that goes on top of the wedding cake he made which D.
Muffy's dad is the new soccer coach and has the team do drills named after car parts. Muffy is not enjoying it since he is tougher on her and even makes her the goalie. The team doubts his coaching methodology until they finally tie a game. Everyone in the band thinks Binky is the best.
However, since he can't perform well with his malfunctioning clarinet and can't afford a new one, he starts a scheme with the rest of the Tough Customers to get rid of music. Buster thinks he saw a UFO, but no one believes him because he said that too many times. He borrows Muffy's telescope and finds a comet headed for Earth. No one believes him, but this time he has proof. They discover that the telescope is malfunctioning. A new family is moving in next door to the Reads after their neighbor, Mr.
Sipple , moves away. They get to know the Molinas and discover how similar they are. Francine is head of the new school newspaper after shadowing Buster's mom at work and taking a front-page picture.
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George has trouble reading and does not want anyone to think he is dumb. He takes Binky to be his mentor to teach him to be tough so no one will tease him, but realizes he was not cut out for being tough. He finds out that he has dyslexia and works his way around it. When she fails to get a bigger one, she pretends that she gets more than they do.
Binky is trying to write a rhyming poem for his mom , but he does not think he can. When he falls asleep he finds himself in a dream where it is a crime not to rhyme. Arthur is overjoyed that D. When he discovers that she is better but continues faking, he gets his friends to come up with a plan to expose her lie. She rubs in the fact that she thinks she should deserve it by giving Jenna unwanted attention. Michelle Kwan guest stars as herself. Arthur has a crush on his new babysitter, Sally.
He is devastated when he discovers that she has a boyfriend named Corey. He tries to avoid her by going to Buster's only to find that she is there to babysit him. Muffy's new marbles prompt Arthur and his friends to start playing marbles.
Arthur signs up for a marbles tournament after he gets trained by Grandma Thora. When he discovers that he has to compete against her in the tournament, he plays poorly on purpose, but she loses first when she finds out what is happening. The Brain does not believe in superstitions and goes on to try to prove this by doing things superstitiously believed to bring bad luck, like breaking a mirror. Counter to his hypothesis, a streak of bad luck strikes. Arthur is thrilled when his dad invites him to go fly fishing.
But there is a change of plan, and D. Why does she always have to get her way and not his? Pal investigates and stumbles upon the sock market, which supposedly helps the economy. He and Kate team up to play the sock market to get D. Francine 's bowling tournament and her cousin Seth 's bar mitzvah being held at the same time. Her friends try to help her so that she can attend both at once, but she is eventually caught by her parents.
Muffy goes with Sue Ellen to Crown City , which Muffy thinks is a glamorous metropolis of high culture. However, her trip is nothing like she imagined it would be. It's a dump there! Arthur is doing a science project on ants to prove that he has PANTS by being patient, attentive, nosy, thoughtful, and systematic.
However, all but one make it into the ant farm. After he tries various ways to collect them, he accidentally ruins Francine's project. Muffy is starting an advice column and dreams of becoming famous like Hoprah Linseed but everyone is listening to another advice-giver. After she finds out that it is Molly , Muffy starts acting like her so that she can rival her in giving advice. Molly advises Muffy that she needs to be a better listener in order to be a better advice giver.
When the Tibble Twins ' constant lying lands them in constant trouble, they promise to tell only the truth. But is telling every truth any better? They try to be honest before they lose all their friends—and each other. Binky and the Brain collide on the soccer field, breaking the Brain's new watch and nearly breaking their friendship.
Could things get any worse? Well, yes - the other kids' rides co and go, leaving them behind. Will they spend the next 50 years sitting in the parking lot waiting for theirs? Lakewood Elementary has been chosen to put on a musical tribute for Elwood City 's centennial. However, Francine hasn't arrived and a prop is accidentally destroyed. In the interstitial, Arthur and a few of his friends talk to Larry King about their centennial production. In Part II, the show goes on without Francine.
When she arrives with the destroyed prop, Buster , in a makeshift alien costume, enters onstage unscripted and entertains much of the bored audience. The entire production is deemed ruined as he accidentally tears the backdrop, but it goes on better than expected as they realize that the audience enjoyed his stunt.
The Reads have to replace their car because it would cost too much to fix. Arthur is attached to it and fights to keep it from being sold to the mechanic. He makes a call to Car Talk, hoping they know how to fix it.
Jenna is reluctant to go to Muffy's annual slumber party because she still wets the bed. She goes and has a great time while trying to keep herself from needing to use her diaper when she sleeps. In a dream, she travels through time and changes it so that she is born first and Arthur second. After a time travel mishap, she realizes how much she appreciates having an older sibling. After a field trip to Amish country to see how they live, Buster wants to live like them.
However, his Amish lifestyle clashes with that of the city and he has only himself to help him with that lifestyle. Binky had already failed Mr. Ratburn 's class once and went on the sleepover at the Science Museum.
This year, they're going again and he's just as bored as he was the first time. Interested in a new unopened exhibit, he sneaks in when everyone else is asleep. What if Arthur has to take over his dad's catering business and how would D. And most importantly, how will they raise Kate all by themselves? Prunella is inviting Marina over for a Henry Skreever themed sleepover. However, she worries that Marina may not see the decoration in her room or get injured because she is blind.
She keeps it at bedside to prevent it from being stolen again, but it starts to melt. When Arthur doesn't answer accusations to his snowball theft, D. It's April 9, but the day goes awry when a fire destroys Lakewood Elementary. Buster is devastated that he didn't go through it. The kids are sent to Mighty Mountain School. Binky pulls the fire alarm because of his fear of the flames at the burning school. When Arthur fakes an illness, his dad finds out that he is worried about him because he was trapped in the school during the fire.
He helps him see that it's his job to worry about Arthur. Sue Ellen gets a new diary from Muffy. Soon, the kids return to Lakewood. Arthur decides to write to a Turkish boy named Adil who is looking for a pen pal after reading his dad 's letters from Japan.
He isn't sure what life is like in Turkey , so to give him an idea, he looks at Buster 's comics set there. However, these give him a stereotypical picture of there, and Adil is confused when Arthur asks him about his camel, tent, or the taste of lamb's eyes. Arthur finds Adil's email address and they find out that they are alike in many ways. Bitzi has a confession to make to Buster: she's breaking up with her boyfriend, Harry.
He is dismayed, so with the help of Muffy , he creates a plan to get them back together again. Frensky takes several of the girls on a mountain trail hiking trip at Moose Mountain.
Fern believes that it's where her hero, Zutzut, went to. She and Francine clash personalities on the way up and end up getting separated from the group. They have to learn to work together and end up as the only ones that make it to the top of the mountain.
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