History WesternAnimation / ArthursMissingPal

* NoFlowInCGI: Due to the movie using low budget early 2000s 3D animation, some corners had to be cut when translating Arthur into a different medium.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When D.W. is about to say where she saw Pal, she trails off. Arthur and Buster head over to confront her, but she soon changes the subject. [[spoiler:This is a hint that she is the one who let Pal outside and go missing.]]

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: During the water balloon fight, Brain alerts Buster and Arthur that the “pizza boy” arriving to Arthur’s house is Francine, who has joined the fight in disguise. Buster thinks Francine got a job.
* ContinuityNod: The teenage boy who almost mows over Pal is the [[SwearWordPlot same boy D.W. saw curse at his mother in the episode “Bleep”.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: Two dogs at Mr. Kone’s ice cream factory chase and antagonize Pal for a bit. It is later revealed by Mr. Kone that their names are Sugar and Spice.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: A teenage boy mows a field while wearing earbuds and doesn’t notice Pal until he is seconds away from him. Thankfully, the boy notices him in time and Pal gets out of the way.

** Jane Read noticeably has much shorter hair than in the tv series probably because animating characters with long hair would be difficult.
** Arthur is also conspicuously sleeping on top of his bed in the movie’s opening. This is probably so the animators would not have to spend time animating Arthur in his bedsheets.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: During the water balloon fight, Brain alerts Buster and Arthur that the “pizza boy” arriving to Arthur’s house is Francine has joined the fight in disguise. Buster thinks Francine got a job.

* BlackComedyBurst: Mr. Kone makes a joke about his two dogs eating Pal, which is a morbid joke for the lighthearted series.

* TropeyComeHome

** [[spoiler:DW letting Pal out into the garden to use the bathroom allows him to run off. In her defense, Arthur had been neglecting Pal after the water balloon incident.]]

* ContinuityNod: The teenage boy who almost mows over Pal is the [[SwearWordPlot same boy D.W. Saw curse at his mother in the episode “Bleep”.]]

The plot starts with Arthur and his friends playing water balloon fights until his dog Pal spoils his hiding spot and gets mad at him for ruining the game. Because of this and the fact he never fed his dog breakfast, he runs away and Arthur feels guilty about what he did to Pal and tries his best to find him.

* BroadStrokes: It's never stated where in the timeline the movie takes in the series as neither of them make any refernces to each other.
* SkewedPriorities: Arthur immediately foregoes feeding Pal his breakfast to go play water balloon fight with his friends.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Baxter interrupting Arthur to remind him of the big water balloon fight triggers the chain of events that causes Pal to disappear.

Unlike the show which is done in 2D, the movie was done in CGI, produced by Creator/MainframeEntertainment with animation by Creator/CrestAnimationStudio.

Unlike the show which is done in 2D, the movie was done in CGI, produced by Creator/MainframeEntertainment with animation by Creator/CrestAnimationStudios.

Unlike the show which is done in 2D, the movie was done in CGI.

* TropeyComeHome

Unlike the show where it's done in 2D, the movie was done in CGI.

''Arthur's Missing Pal'' is a 2006 CGI animated movie from the PBS Kids show "Arthur" and was released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the show.

* BroadStrokes: It's never stated where in the timeline the movie takes in the series as neither of them makes any refernces to each other.