History WesternAnimation / Arthur

* WeddingDay:

** Mr. Price-Jones, Ratburn's mentor and former teacher from "The Return of the King," is more of a an example.

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%% ** George and Jenna have gotten some of this.
%% ** In D.W.'s group, Emily and James got a little of this, too.

** Mr. Ratburn is often seen by the class as a cruel teacher who has no life outside of making kids miserable. He also [[GeniusSweetTooth goes giddy over cake]], likes the Franchise/ScoobyDoo Expy, "Spooky Poo", and volunteers as a puppeteer for children's puppet shows. He does extra research in his spare time to better educate his students ("Francine's Pilfered Paper"). As seen in "Lend Me Your Ear" and "The Buster Report," he even plays in a band.
*** He has a sister named Rodentia Ratburn who filled in as a substitute teacher, though she treated the class like kindergarteners.
*** The episode "Desk Wars" indicates Mr. Ratburn has a niece or nephew. He had stepped out during that episode to take a phone call and came back to report that it was his sister calling to say he was an uncle.

** George and Jenna have gotten some of this. In D.W.'s group, Emily and James got a little of this, too.

** A major plot point in "D.W., the Picky Eater." D.W. thinks Arthur has stolen her Crazy Bus CD, and even Arthur's friends start to think he did. Arthur actually didn't take the CD; instead, his and D.W.'s parents accidentally brought it to a class reunion.

* BilingualBonus: In an ImagineSpot in "Buster's Back" where Arthur imagines Buster as a ninja, Buster's line in Japanese translates to "Creator/OsamuTezuka is the god of manga."

** The special "Rhythm and Roots of Arthur" has Arthur's family visit Arthur's great uncle Theo for his birthday.

* ThingOMeter: * In the episode "Bossy Boots" Brain designs a machine in the episode intro called the "Boss-O-Meter" to measure how many bosses a child has in the life. D.W. makes the machine break down by overloading it.

* WrongRestaurant: Subverted in "Locked in the Library". Muffy calls the library to inquire with Miss tunrer about a few books but when Francine answers the phone, Muffy assumes that she has called Francine's apartment by mistake and hangs up.

* KabbalicGolem: In the Halloween Episode "Arthur and the Haunted Tree House", the children are pranked with horror scenarios. In Francine's case, she's told the story of the Golem of Mindelplatz (nearby Prague) by Ethel Saperstein, who was a little girl at the time. There was a violin player who could revive dead plants with his amazing music, but who lost his gift when his fingers were broken in a trolley car accident. Embittered, he created a golem by inserting a piece of his violin into a mud form. However, he couldn't control it and it went on a rampage. Ethel implies she was one of the golem's first victims and is, in fact, a ghost. Francine doesn't buy it, but when she returns to the apartment it's not Ethel who opens the door, but her husband, who finalizes the prank by claiming that Ethel was his little sister who disappeared decades ago.

* VegetarianForADay: In "Sue Ellen Vegges Out", Sue Ellen decides to become a vegetarian, a decision she’s been considering for a while. When she announces her new lifestyle choice to her friends, Muffy and Francine join in, but the former is doing it because a celebrity she likes is doing a vegetarian diet and the latter is doing it to prove she can not eat meat longer than Muffy can. At the end, Muffy and Francine go back to eating meat because they decide that vegetarianism isn’t for them but they show their support for Sue Ellen’s vegetarianism by creating Meatless Mondays in the cafeteria.

** "The Blizzard" from Season 4 is about the various citizens of Elwood City struggling to pull through in a power outage caused by a big snow storm.
** "The Blackout" from Season 12 does a similar setup, but this time the catalyst for the blackout is a summer heat wave. Arthur and D.W. have trouble dealing with the power outage, but the Molinas don't have any problems since they're one step ahead (they store their drinks in a garbage can underground to keep them cold, for example).

* AffectionHatingKid: In an episode, Arthur [[ValentinesDayVitriol finds Valentine's Day gross]] because he finds the idea of everyone falling in love too soppy.

* OneMarioLimit: Not so much the main character, but good luck trying to find any Francines or Busters hanging around.

* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In "Is That Kosher?" Francine is trying to avoid food during her first Yom Kippur fast. When she finds that [[YourTelevisionHatesYou everything on TV is about food]] she tries to read a book instead, only to see book titles related to food and then come upon a passage about food in a book she chooses. WHen she goes to attned a pizza party at Arthur's house [[spoiler:she is overcome by her hunger and winds up eating a large number of slices.]]