Arthur Season 1 Episode 29

[Lavonda Busing]

Toclarify any confusion, I will not stop recapping Arthur. I will be on my deathbed, writing a recap of Arthur and the nurse will come and beg me to stop because using my comedy powers saps my life force but I will tell her to fuck off because the world needs to know my opinion on Arthur season 234356 Episode 15 Part 2.

This reminds of the time at my school, the Lucas candies became a a thing. Lucas is a Mexican brand of candy that was very popular and at the same time, there was a kid in my class named Lucas that nobody liked because he actually ate the pinto beans served in cafeteria for lunch and usually farted in class.

Oh man, I just realized that Arthur must have been behind this. He hates Crazy Bus so much he engineered a Finnish band to record a song and paid a bunch of DJs to play the song until it knocked out Crazy Bus.

The manager is being interviewed and it is revealed that the actual band has never given an interview or had a concert. At their first concert, they will make a big announcement so everyone should go.

Arthur imagines an elaborate fantasy where he meets the band and is invited to party with them in their limo. They do shots and snorticocaine and listen to the Binky song (which is very narcissistic, if you ask me. What band listens to their own songs?). And then the manager, who is driving, suddenly passes out from too much cocaine. Oh no!

The limo is spiraling out of control and only one man can save them: Arthur. He ties rope to a French horn and throws it out the window as a grappling hook and stops the limo from careening over the edge.

However, Arthur feels guilty when Buster promises that if he does get his mom to interview the band, then he will take Arthur along. He also feels guilty when Binky offers him an extra ticket because the manager sent him free tickets as an apology for the incidents that happened in Binky Rules.

Grade: A- (Damn, was Arthur selfish. This makes no sense since our HBIC has no reason to feel insecure but I suppose this shows that we can all be insecure sometimes so this was a great episode that was educational for young children.)

This second episode was far more effective and action-packed than the first. Guinevere proves herself less hard-hearted than we expected, admitting to Gaius that she will not kill Sefa but use her to lure her father to Camelot since he is the real threat. In this strategy, Guinevere is successful. The father manages to free Sefa but is wounded in the process and although they escape from Camelot, he dies immediately after while Sefa flees. I suspect Sefa will show up in a later episode this season.

This is a continuation of my Season 1 review. As I concluded last time, Season 1 was not exactly the best, so is Season 2 an improvement? With the amount of infamous D.W. episodes, I'd say probably not. But maybe I'll be surprised.

I will rate each episode on a scale from Vomitrocious, Bad, Okay, Good, Great. At the end of my review, I'll count up how many of each rating there are in the season, and give it a rating as a whole, alongside ranking every episode in the season from best to worst.

Hey, this is the first episode where Arthur plays with his glasses when he lies. Anyways, I've never actually watched Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. I've heard a lot of good things about it, but have never seen it myself. So I can't judge if this crossover is entirely accurate to that show. I don't get why Arthur would be embarrassed by Mister Rogers staying in his house. And especially why he thinks his friends will laugh at them if they see Mister Rogers. It doesn't mean that he likes the show or anything. The episode gets completely nonsensical with the ending where Rubella, Brain, and Prunella think Arthur and Buster are zombies and the police get involved... I do like Arthur and Mister Rogers talking on the swings, it's a very nice scene. The part where Binky sings is hilarious, but the rest of the episode isn't nearly as funny. This episode's plot doesn't make sense and it isn't very funny, but it does have a few good things, so I'll rate it okay. "Hey, I just met Mister Rogers!"

Exclamation point title! This is another episode where Francine can't get away with anything, and yet if Arthur or Buster had done it, they would be treated like heroes. Also, this episode re-uses a joke from "I'm a Poet." We get a bunch of random scenes of Ms. Tingley running around the school and interacting with other teachers, which is too weird and distracts from the plot. It's like "Arthur's Cousin Catastrophe." Fern getting the entire school to insult Francine because she called her a mouse is pretty out-of-character and mean. Buster's "The Giant Slime Who Came to School" comic is really funny and I like the animation (which is similar to "Team Trouble"), and it's the highlight of the episode. Since I disliked "Francine Frensky, Superstar" and "Poor Muffy," I'll dislike this episode too, right? Well, surprisingly not. This episode is okay because Arthur and his friends actually realize what they did was wrong. It's not that Francine has to apologize, it's that they feel bad for her after they learn how she feels about the comics. A scene like this was missing in the other two episodes, and the conclusion feels satisfying here.

"What did we do to get stuck with Binky?" Gee, I don't know... I like how Binky is shown to be good at art in this episode, even though this changes to music later in the series. The joke about the school burning down is not very funny now. Also, this episode covers plagiarizing before "Francine's Pilfered Paper." I like the animation when Arthur and Buster look through the pamphlet and imagine themselves in famous paintings, as well as their funny comments. While I do like the ending where Binky is actually write about the painting being framed wrong, the final scene of Arthur and Buster looking at paintings upside down is kind of stupid. I struggled to choose a rating for this episode, but I'll give it a light good for having just enough positives.

I found a lucky pencil and it's been so lucky to me! Can we just stop the Sweetwater/Fink and Ratburn comparisons? We get that Mr. Ratburn is a tough teacher at this point, it was established in his very first episode. Arthur's actions in this episode don't make any sense; why would he think that the pencil being somewhere in his house would bring him good luck everywhere? Every "lucky" action was done using the pencil, so wouldn't he be unlucky again by not using it? Arthur's friends calling him a "luck hog" because he wants to save the pencil is kind of unneeded, and I don't know if I'm supposed to think that Arthur is being mean or that his friends are being mean. I don't like how Arthur accuses D.W. of taking the pencil after he loses it himself. Arthur complaining about how unlucky he is and how he always fails makes him seem more like Charlie Brown. And this is yet another episode that ends with loud, annoying screaming. Even though this review is negative, the episode itself is okay. These problems didn't bother me too much, and the episode isn't outright bad.

"This is spinach! And I! HATE! SPINACH!" Here's the first unpopular D.W. episode of the season. We start with D.W. throwing an embarrassing restaurant tantrum, followed by a stupid joke. Arthur is even more obnoxious and whiny and mean to D.W., particularly near the end. He's only trying to get her to try new foods because he wants to go to the restaurant and for his own selfish reasons, not because he actually wants to help D.W. And the episode ends with D.W. actually liking spinach, which is the exact same ending as "D.W. All Wet." The only good thing about this episode is when Arthur nicely shows D.W. the restaurant, but that doesn't redeem this vomitrocious episode!

This episode has an interesting plot about peer pressure and doing stupid dares, but it takes half the episode to get started. There's a rather long scene of Arthur and Buster trying to rollerskate and getting hurt. Buster doing dares is more cringe comedy and is not very funny. And then after he does stand up for himself and refuse, Toby and Slink get him to do another dare. Buster's "victory" is basically just him saying "no you" and then saying something hypocritical to Brain. I like the scene where Buster imagines doing skating tricks. I don't hate this episode or anything, but it could've been better. It's okay.

I found Arthur whining about the first movie a little unneeded. But other than that, this episode is good. All the filming scenes are funny and creative; my favorite is the "a 1 or a 2" library scene. The ending isn't the best, as everyone arguing is annoying and the outtakes weren't that funny (it's just clips of the characters laughing). Still, I enjoyed the majority of the episode.

Threatening to pinch a baby is worth a 10 minute time out? She doesn't even do anything bad this time. And it did seem like Jane was siding with Kate. This is like "D.W.'s Blankie" all over again. She is kind of overdramatic, but that's justified because she didn't do anything wrong. D.W. running around the house after time stops is random and never really explained; did she actually do everything she did during that sequence? The sequence of D.W. being forced to entertain Arthur when he's sick doesn't seem too imaginary, actually; that'd be totally in character for Season 1-2 Arthur. D.W.'s imaginary sequences after are actually pretty funny and I like them. Arthur is a jerk once again even in the non-imaginary scenes. D.W. actually does feel sorry for what she said and starts playing nicely with Kate, although the ending is insanely predictable and is the same as "D.W., the Picky Eater." In addition, this episode is kind of boring; just like D.W., I was constantly checking to see when it would be over. This episode gets an okay rating from me; I don't understand why everyone complains about it when there are a million worse episodes.

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