When D.W. sees pictures of Arthur without his glasses, Arthur tells her the story of why he got glasses, and how he dealt with Francine teasing him for them. With school picture day coming, Muffy tries to give Francine a new makeover, and continuously refuses to allow her to participate in activities with her friends.
Arthur and his friends are horrified when they learn that their third grade teacher will be the infamous Mr. Ratburn. After Arthur and Buster follow him outside of class, they learn that while he is a tough teacher, he does have a soft side. Arthur practices for the school spelling bee and competes against Prunella, the previous champion, and Brain, the smartest kid in his class. After some initial fear, Arthur wins the bee.
D.W. develops a fear of octopuses while on a field trip to the aquarium with her class. The next day, the Reads go to the beach, but D.W. refuses to swim because she thinks there are octopuses in the water. However, after Arthur and his friends get in trouble for playing a prank on D.W., she overcomes her fear. Buster and Arthur discover a fossilized dinosaur footprint on a class trip to a state park. Buster takes it home, which is against the park rules, but later feels guilty and decides to give it to the park.
Arthur gets annoyed with D.W. when she blames accidents she causes on her imaginary friend, Nadine. While on a trip to the amusement park after hearing about a new ride, Arthur and Buster fear D.W. will embarrass them with Nadine. Arthur is the first to borrow a new book from the library, but he accidentally drops it on his way home. Arthur recruits Binky to help him find the book by interrogating his friends, but it turns out Binky found it after Arthur dropped it.
Arthur starts his own pet-sitting business to prove he is responsible enough to get a dog of his own, which includes watching over his neighbor, Mrs. Wood's, unfriendly dog, Perky. When Perky goes missing on the day Mrs. Wood is picking her up, Arthur fears that he is not a good pet owner until he finds that Perky has given birth to a litter of puppies. Arthur adopts one of Perky's puppies as payment. D.W. annoys Arthur by acting and dressing like him and following him around. Arthur's friends start excluding him because they do not want D.W. around. But when D.W.'s own friends refuse to play with her, she decides to change back to her old self.
Francine is mad at Arthur for a joke he made at her expense, and Mr. Ratburn assigns them to work together on a project. They go to the library together and lose track of time, getting locked inside when the library closes. As they try to find a way out, Francine and Arthur must put aside their grudges and learn to work together. Arthur is in charge of helping the cafeteria lady, Mrs. MacGrady, with a fundraiser, but when he tries to give the money he raised to her, she is distracted by a phone conversation, so Arthur leaves the money in the kitchen. However, the money disappears and Arthur is falsely accused of stealing it. Buster, acting as a detective, tries to prove Arthur's innocence.
Arthur and his friends go to Camp Meadowcroak, where everything is a competition between girls and boys. The two teams refuse to collaborate, but when a rival camp plays a spooky prank on them, they realize they must work together to beat the rival camp in the annual scavenger hunt. Buster falls behind with his schoolwork, and is threatened with repeating third grade if he does not improve. Arthur, Muffy, and Francine tutor him, but he struggles to pay attention.
Following the events of "Arthur's Pet Business," Arthur is trying to train his new puppy, Pal, to behave, but Pal ends up making huge messes and causing disturbances around the house. Arthur wants Moon Boots and tries to get money to buy them. While Arthur is cleaning the garage, his neighbor, Mrs. Tibble comes by and, mistaking it for a yard sale, offers to buy a necklace for the amount of money he needs for his Moon Boots. Arthur regrets this decision when he learns that the necklace is a present for his mother's birthday, so he tries to earn it back.
Arthur thinks that babysitting is an easy job until D.W. volunteers him to babysit Tommy and Timmy Tibble, twins with a bad reputation of being destructive and mean. After some initial struggles, Arthur gets the twins to behave by telling them a scary story. Arthur's parents are hosting their annual family reunion. Arthur tries to avoid his cousin Mo, who has bullied him during past reunions, while his parents deal with their eccentric relatives. When a thunderstorm forces the Reads to spend the rest of the party indoors, Arthur learns that Mo has been looking for him to ask if he could give her a piano lesson.
Arthur and Muffy have their birthday parties on the same day and neither can postpone. While everyone is frozen with indecision over whose party to attend, Arthur and Francine then work together to merge the two parties into one everyone can enjoy. Feeling sorry for Francine never getting a good part in the class play, the whole class vouches for her to star as Thomas Edison in the next play. However, they regret their decision when Francine tries to take charge and acts very bossy, leading to heated disputes between her and the rest of the cast.
On Kate's first birthday, Arthur remembers when his mother first told him and D.W. that she is pregnant. Arthur is nervous, wondering what it will be like to have a new baby in the house. When Kate is born, Arthur is worried that she hates him, since she cries whenever he is nearby. Following the events of the previous episode, Kate finally displays her affection for Arthur. D.W. feels jealous of the attention Kate is receiving from the rest of the family and tries anything to get rid of her, but nothing works.
When Arthur is assigned to write a story, he writes about how he got Pal (from "Arthur's Pet Business"). Afraid that people will find it boring, Arthur begins fictionalizing the events using advice from different people. Once he realizes how strange the story is, he changes it back and learns that the truth is still interesting. It is Downtown Day in Elwood City and the Reads attend the festival. They pass a clown giving balloons and Kate begins crying because she wants a balloon. Nobody but Pal understands why Kate is crying, so Pal runs off to get a balloon, but Arthur thinks he is running away from him.
When D.W.'s pet bird, Spanky, dies, she leaves a can of flowers on his grave after his funeral, but finds a toad in it. The toad constantly follows D.W., but she is annoyed that it will not leave her alone. But when the toad disappears one morning, D.W. realizes that she misses it. Arthur and Buster work on a project together, but Buster does not have the time for the project or for Arthur, instead talking about his new friend, Mike. When Buster keeps forgetting about him, Arthur decides to end his friendship with Buster, until he learns who Mike really is and Buster apologizes.
Arthur borrows a new computer game from Brain, but his mother, who is very busy, needs to use the computer for work. When Buster visits, he and Arthur accidentally knock the keyboard to the floor, causing the computer to shut down. They try to figure out what is wrong with the computer before Arthur's mother comes home. While playing a game of Truth or Dare with Muffy, Francine recalls the time they first met and became friends. Muffy lies about cheating on a test, causing Francine to be punished with detention for a week. When Francine is needed for a crucial softball game, and Muffy's lies finally catch up to her, she finally comes clean, allowing Francine to return to the game.
Arthur is sad that he cannot go to Camp Meadowcroak with Buster since he is going on a road trip with his family. The Reads face many mishaps such as their hotel reservation getting cancelled and it rains consistently until the last day of their trip. When Arthur gets back, he finds out that Buster had an even worse trip than him. Arthur and D.W. visit their Grandpa Dave, who lives on an old, rundown farm. Grandpa Dave does not want help running it, but Arthur and D.W. are concerned by the state of things and try to help him fix up the farm with the help of his friends.
Arthur is determined to win a year's supply of Crunch cereal by composing a jingle, but he cannot come up with any ideas. He hears D.W. singing a song about Nadine and copies it. Arthur feels guilty, so he mails the song with D.W.'s name instead of his, and it wins the contest, much to D.W.'s confusion. D.W. is jealous of Emily's performance in their gymnastics class and is determined to become better than her, which endangers her when she climbs on a high balance beam and nearly hurts herself. Afterward, D.W. and Emily apologize to one another and become friends.
Annoyed by Francine's attitude, Muffy bets that she cannot be nice for a week. Noticing how straining the bet is on Francine, Arthur, Buster, and the Brain try to get her to lose her temper, but Francine manages to keep it under control until the bet is over. When Arthur and Buster have to eat lunch with Binky's gang, the Tough Customers, they tell Arthur they think he has never "gleeped" anything, but to impress them, he tells them he has, only to find out later that "gleep" is slang for "steal." Rumors spread about Arthur being a thief, while Binky's gang pressures him into their ranks.
Arthur is looking forward to his family's trip to the circus, but he gets chicken pox, and is unsure if he will get better in time for the circus. When Grandma Thora visits to take care of Arthur, D.W. gets jealous of the attention he gets and tries to pretend she has chicken pox, too. Arthur is sad when Pal has to stay at the vet overnight for being sick. He blames D.W. for this, but when the vet tells him that Pal has been eating human food, he has to apologize to D.W. and learn what Pal is and is not supposed to eat.
D.W. gets a two-wheel bike for a bike-riding fundraiser after the Tibble twins tease her for her tricycle. She tries to learn to ride it with Arthur's assistance. After several failed attempts, D.W. gets the hang of riding her bike. Arthur and his friends try out for the baseball team, and Arthur struggles with catching the ball while Francine is unable to throw accurately. When Francine wishes for her father to kick Arthur off the team, thinking he is the reason for the team not doing well, he makes Arthur and Francine coach each other to get better.
Arthur and his friends are assigned to write about what they do over the weekend, but the rain ruins plans. Arthur and D.W. bother each other and are sent to Grandma Thora's, where Thora shows them old home movies and comic books that give Arthur a great idea for his assignment. Grandma Thora is oblivious to the fact that she is a poor cook, and when she bakes cookies for a school bake sale, Arthur and D.W. try to stop her bad cooking from ruining the bake sale without hurting her feelings.
Rumors circulate about Sue Ellen Armstrong and her family, who have just moved into the neighborhood. Buster jumps to the false conclusion that they are aliens and tries to expose them, but everyone else learns about how Sue Ellen traveled the world and change their opinions of her. Brain spends the weekend with the Reads while his parents visit an ice cream convention. Brain is neat, finishes his homework early, and reads to D.W., making Arthur look bad. When Brain invites Arthur over to his house, Arthur learns that Brain is not neat and was just acting polite because he was a guest.
D.W. keeps a snowball in the freezer from "the best day of her life," but it goes missing. Buster and Francine investigate, listening to biased accounts of those present the day the snowball disappeared. After several arguments and accusations, D.W. lets the incident go as the first snowfall of the year appears. Arthur, Buster, and Francine are assigned to do a group project on Ancient Rome. They separately work on a comic book, which ends up being inconsistent and not working due to disagreements. They learn that they have to work together to make a good project.
Binky bullies Sue Ellen, who demands that he apologize. When he does not, she challenges him to a fight to settle it. He gets nervous when he finds out she knows Tae Kwon Do, and tries to beat her in music instead. When Sue Ellen is better than him in that as well, Binky accepts that Sue Ellen is tougher than him. For her half-birthday, Prunella's older 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 advice of the cootie catcher. When the cootie catcher is ruined, they realize that they should not let it control their lives.
Arthur has a loose tooth, but he is the only one in his class that has not lost any of his baby teeth yet. He tries to pull it out to get Francine to stop teasing him. Arthur learns that people lose their baby teeth at different ages and tells Francine, only for her to accidentally hit him with a ball and knock out his loose tooth. D.W. wants earrings because her friend Emily has them. D.W.'s mother takes her shopping for earrings, and while at the superstore, they run into Muffy's father, who needs to speak with D.W.'s mother. Impatient, D.W. wanders off and gets lost in the store. While trying to find her way back to her mother, she runs into Emily and sees her earrings have turned her ears green. Upon returning to her mother, D.W. changes her mind.
D.W. wants to help out at Aunt Lucy's wedding, but she is too little. Arthur is the ringbearer and their rude cousin Cora is the flower girl. During the wedding, Cora distracts Arthur, causing him to accidentally throw the ring into the organ pipes. Arthur is too big to crawl into the organ and Cora does not want to get dirty. D.W. volunteers and successfully retrieves the ring. As a reward, Aunt Lucy allows D.W. to be both the ringbearer and the flower girl. When Arthur complains about the state of the park, his father starts a brigade for Arthur and his friends to clean the park. Arthur's friends get angry at him for starting the brigade, despite him trying to explain that it was his father's idea, not his. As a result, Arthur has to do the job himself with only Francine's father advising him. However, the next day, Arthur stands up to Binky and his gang when they tease him and orders them to help him clean the park. Arthur's friends decide to help him after overhearing the incident with Binky's gang.
Mr. Ratburn's class goes on field trips to several of the students' parents at work to learn about careers. Francine is embarrassed by her father's job as a garbage man and tries to cover it up by informing her friends that he is in a secret organization and just pretends to be a garbage man for cover. However, Francine eventually decides to admit that her father is really a garbage man when everyone sees that he built a playground out of things he found at the dump. Muffy is allergic to the new carpet in her house, so she stays with Francine while the carpeting is being removed. During Muffy's stay, Francine cannot handle Muffy's spoiled attitude and Muffy cannot deal with the less-than-wealthy condition in which Francine's family lives.
D.W. cannot find her blankie and enlists the help of Arthur to search for it, retracing her steps over Elwood City. Mr. Ratburn loses his voice and his sister, Ms. Rodentia Ratburn, substitutes for him. Ms. Ratburn is a kindergarten teacher, and although the class is glad to have some easy work at first, they soon get bored and they realize they miss Mr. Ratburn's tougher classes.
Fern is the only one in class to enter a poetry contest, which is to be judged by famous poet Jack Prelutsky. The others think poetry is uncool, and start making fun of her. Fern bets them if they cannot write and submit their own poems, they must join the poetry club for a year. In doing so, Fern's friends find writing poetry fun. When their favorite series of books is banned from the library by a parental organization who believe scary books are bad for children, Arthur and his friends get together a petition to get them back — all except Muffy that is, as it turns out her parents are the founders of the parental group. Everyone gets a surprise when the books' author arrives to defend her books, and she happens to be Muffy's father's former teacher.
Arthur and his friends create a club to exclude D.W., but they cannot agree on the rules. Everyone starts creating their own clubs with strange rules, alienating those who want to join. Francine's bike is too small for her, so her father finds his old bike, except she is embarrassed by the fact that it is old and rusty. When her friends tease her about the bike, she hides it and pretends it is stolen. The bike then gets thrown out, and when Francine's father finds it, they work together on fixing it up.
Arthur has a sleepover with Buster and Brain, even with all the talk of UFOs. D.W. wants to join them so that she can take a picture of a UFO. The boys refuse to invite her, so D.W. plays a prank on them with a flashlight in retaliation, and they get back at her by scaring her with a fake alien, then tricking her into spotting a fake UFO. Arthur has never stayed up until midnight on New Year's Eve. His friends all have different claims on what happens at midnight, so Arthur tries to stay up until New Year's Eve to find out what occurs. He is disappointed when he sleeps through it, although Grandma Thora reassures him that the following year will be exciting.
Fred Rogers stays at Arthur's house while visiting Elwood City. Arthur is scared of telling anyone that because his friends believe that his TV show is for "babies". His avoiding actions cause Prunella, Rubella, and Brain to jump to the false conclusion that zombies are the reason for his behavior. They try to find out what is happening, and get the police called on them by Mrs. Tibble, who mistakes them for burglars. The next day, Mr. Rogers visits Arthur's school and Arthur works up the courage to explain to his friends why he has been acting strange. When Francine teases Fern for liking Mr. Ratburn's puppet shows, she draws a comic humiliating Francine, which everyone finds amusing. This escalates to everyone in school drawing insulting pictures of Francine, unaware of how much they're hurting her. They go to apologize after they overhear Francine talking to Mrs. MacGrady about how she wants them to stop.
Arthur and Buster have to work with Binky on an art report, but they are worried when Binky claims that a certain abstract picture in the museum is framed the wrong direction. They try to distract Binky and finish the assignment on their own, and are surprised when it turns out that Binky is right. After days of bad luck, Arthur feels he is "cursed" until he finds a pencil. Suddenly, his pencil starts to change his luck: it buys him free soda and better school lunches, and soon his friends all want to use it. With the pencil running low, Arthur hides it to keep his luck safe, but soon cannot remember where it went.
At a restaurant, D.W. throws a fit over having to eat spinach for dinner and is banned from any future restaurant trips with the family. Arthur and his friends try to come up with a way to get her to try new foods before Grandma Thora's birthday dinner at a popular restaurant, which will be relocated to Arthur's house if D.W. does not change her eating habits. Arthur and Buster want to hang out with two daredevils, Toby and Slink, and Buster does their embarrassing "dares" while seeking their approval. Arthur realizes that Toby and Slink are tricking Buster, and convinces him that they are making a fool out of him for their own amusement.
Arthur and his friends are too young to watch a James Hound movie because it is rated PG-13, so they film their own. While the filming goes wrong, they end up enjoying their outtakes. D.W. grows impatient when she must serve a punishment in her room for 10 minutes for being mean to Kate. She recalls her past behavior, and with Nadine's help, she realizes how bad she has treated her sister.
When Binky accidentally splits his pants in class, Arthur thinks it is funny, until he starts having nightmares about losing his pants. Buster tries to help Arthur with different ways to end his nightmares, but none of them work. When Arthur accidentally rips his pants in the cafeteria one day, Binky and Mrs. MacGrady give him advice on how to live with the brief embarrassment, putting an end to Arthur's nightmares. However, Buster starts having nightmares about losing his pants, too. Francine goes for horse riding lessons, and her sister Catherine has to take her there. Catherine decides to take lessons too and quickly becomes better than Francine, as well as getting a crush on Stanley, the riding instructor. Francine gets envious and considers quitting her lessons.
When Buster inadvertently saves a cat, the cat's owner glorifies his "heroics" to Buster's mother, causing the incident to become headline news. Buster builds his fame up, causing him to become a "big-shot". Arthur, Francine, and Brain find out the truth and plan on showing everyone that Buster is not as big a hero as he makes himself to be. However, Buster gets another shot at fame when he saves his friends from a runaway piano. Meanwhile, Arthur is being constantly annoyed by D.W. and her "Crazy Bus" CD. D.W. is still playing her "Crazy Bus" CD (since "Buster Baxter, Cat Saver") and Arthur is annoyed by it, even angrily threatening that he will break it. When the CD goes missing, D.W. blames Arthur for taking it, with no one believing his denials.
Arthur and his friends sign a petition at school to survive one week without television. Everyone tries to resist the temptation of TV while they go through their week, with Arthur and Buster struggling in particular. Binky has a night light and tries to go without it when Arthur has to stay over. Binky goes through another nightmare, and Arthur finds out about it. He believes that Arthur will tell everyone his secret, though Arthur is not particularly interested. Even so, Binky tries to pamper Arthur to keep his secret until Binky finally decides to admit it to avoid Arthur possibly telling everyone.
Arthur's music class has an upcoming recital and everyone except for Arthur is worried and practicing. Arthur is confident that he knows everything well enough, until a nightmare makes him worry that he may miss a note, and he tries to restore his confidence. Meanwhile, D.W. cannot get rid of her hiccups, despite numerous attempted remedies. Francine and Brain have a dispute over soccer practice that carries into class and through the next soccer match. Arthur and Buster resolve things between Francine and Brain with fake apology letters, before the last game of the season that will determine if they make the playoffs or not.
Arthur has to take the bus to the public pool for his swimming lesson, but while reading a book, he falls asleep on the bus, only to miss his stop. Ending up at the edge of town, Arthur tries to find his way home, while D.W. becomes truly scared for Arthur's safety. Arthur stops at a diner for help, where he talks to a friendly bus driver named Sam, who takes him back home. Arthur loses a to-do list he planned for the summer, and the first day of school is quickly approaching. As summer ends, he feels upset that his friends did fun things and he did not. On the last day of summer vacation, Arthur finds his list taped to his bedroom door and realizes that he did everything he wanted to.
The Reads go to Washington, D.C. over a holiday vacation. They tour the popular landmarks, including the White House, but D.W., who wishes to go to "Pony Land", abruptly separates from the tour group and meets the President. Mr. Haney, the principal, gives an envelope to Arthur to give to his mother. Arthur is worried about the contents of the envelope, thinking that he is in big trouble, so he tries to hide it from her. D.W. insists on showing the envelope, so she can see how much Arthur is going to get into trouble. When Arthur finally reveals the envelope, it turns out to be Mr. Haney's tax returns, as Arthur's mother is his accountant.
The Reads spend the weekend camping and D.W. befriends a deer. After naming him Walter, she wants to take him home, but learns that taking away an animal from its habitat is wrong. Buster needs to write a book report, but has never managed to finish a book. His friends try to find a book that is easy for him to read, but Buster cannot pay attention long enough to read one in its entirety, until he finds one that interests him: Robin Hood.
Arthur and Buster finish reading Robin Hood from "Buster Hits the Books", and decide to write their own continuation of the book, but it gets sidetracked when Buster is leaving for a couple of months with his father, who is a pilot. Arthur tries to find a way for Buster to stay, until Sue Ellen points out how it will be hard for him to go away, causing Arthur to become supportive to Buster until he leaves. Buster soon sends Arthur a surprise gift in the mail: chapters of their book based on his travels. Arthur and Francine are made partners for Mrs. MacGrady's square dancing class. Binky thinks that Francine is in love with Arthur and starts a rumor about it. The two avoid each other because they are afraid of getting cooties.
Muffy is throwing a party at a water park, and everyone is invited, but Brain refuses to go. Arthur and Binky discover that the Brain is afraid of water and try to help him get over this fear so he can go to Muffy's party. In a letter to Buster, Arthur tells him that he is struggling with being funny when his friends act as clowns for a carnival. Arthur cannot learn any clown tricks, and his friends fear that he will ruin the carnival. Arthur learns that he has his own style of being funny that works: playing the piano while making faces with Kate.
Sue Ellen loses her diary in the library. Muffy, Francine, Binky, and Arthur find it, and think that it contains her opinions on them and whether to open it or return it unread. Arthur sneaks into the dump to retrieve a wheel for his school project, but accidentally cuts his knee on a sharp can. He hides the injury and makes D.W. promise not to tell anyone because he is not allowed to go to the dump, but D.W tries to convince him, with Brain's help, that he has to confess to his parents before his injury gets worse.
Arthur and D.W. feel sorry for Grandma Thora because she does not have cable television, cannot eat any good snacks, and has to keep her teeth in a glass. They plan a surprise party for her, but struggle to make things work and do not want any help planning the party. Fern's mother wants her to host her own slumber party to help Fern expand her social skills, but Fern is very reluctant. Fern's guests – Francine, Muffy, Jenna, Sue Ellen, and Prunella – get bored quickly, and the party is a disaster, but when Francine's bracelet goes missing, Fern uses her detective skills learned from Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery.
Brain and Francine use fake love notes to get vengeance against Muffy after her science project gets more credit. Their joke has unintended consequences, which means they must fix it before things get worse. When D.W. saves a little boy from getting hit by a car with her whistle, she becomes an overzealous safety control freak. Arthur and his friends try to stop her from ruining the upcoming soapbox race, while D.W. learns the hard way that her obsession with finding everyone else's safety faults causes her to jeopardize her own safety.
Francine and her older sister, Catherine, have had enough of sharing a room with each other. Catherine moves out to the family living room, leaving Francine alone with their old room. They both struggle with adjusting to their new environments and later decide to compromise with each other as Catherine moves back. Arthur has a losing streak when he continues to be dominated in the new No Guessing! board game, so he resorts to cheating to win. His friends are annoyed by his sore winner attitude and use Binky to make Arthur lose. When Arthur sees everyone rooting against him, he has an imaginary conversation with Buster, who makes him see the error of his ways.
Arthur and Brain confront a new crossing guard who charges $10 every time someone crosses the street and threatens to send his "goons" after them. They think of ways to avoid him, until they learn that he is a friend of Grandma Thora's and that he was just teasing them, after overhearing how Arthur constantly teases D.W. the same way. D.W. has been very upset and angry for several days straight. Francine and Arthur spy on D.W. and discover that she is upset over not being invited to a classmate's birthday party. Francine tries to tell D.W. that she cannot have everything that she wants, but when D.W still has not changed her attitude, Francine consoles her by inviting D.W. to her birthday party.
Arthur and D.W. make fun of each other with different insulting nicknames. After Arthur calls by her full first name, Dora Winifred, D.W. has a nightmare and learns that calling people names can hurt them. Arthur, Binky, and Brain find a key in the grass while looking for a baseball they lost. Arthur theorizes that it is the key to the city, Binky hopes it belongs to a sports car, and Brain thinks that it opens an upcoming science museum. They argue over who gets to keep the key, despite none of them knowing what it unlocks. It is later revealed to open the sprinkler control system for the school's baseball field.
Muffy is having difficulty coming up with a recipe for a strawberry-themed contest. Her friends suggest a cookie recipe, which turns out to taste delicious, and she takes all of the credit, much to her friends' anger and disgust. Muffy learns the hard way about taking credit for someone else's work when she tries to bake the cookies herself, but cannot remember the recipe. Sue Ellen feels left out about not having a sibling, so she tries to pretend having her friends as siblings, but they each have their own flaws. During a playdate with D.W., Sue Ellen learns about the dangers of having a younger sibling and gets bullied by D.W. Soon after, Sue Ellen gets a letter from a boy named Tenzin living in Tibet, who becomes her pen pal.
Buster is returning to Elwood City (after leaving in the second season episode "Arthur's Faraway Friend"), and while Arthur is initially excited, he worries that Buster has changed during his travels. Fearing that Buster will find him lame after his exciting travels, Arthur reads books on the places Buster has visited. When Buster arrives, he says that he did not change and was looking forward to hanging out with Arthur, and the two play checkers. Buster feels left out because of the things he did not get to experience while he was away, while rumors about his travels cause his friends to consider him a snob. Arthur throws a surprise party for him, with everyone joining in to help, but when Buster does not show, Muffy thinks this affirms the rumors until they realize that they did not invite him at all. When Buster attends the party, he enjoys it and reunites with his friends. A singing moose narrates Buster's story throughout the episode.
D.W. is scared of the upcoming fire drill in her preschool, so her family names her a fire warden and runs fire drills in their house to ease her fears. During the fire drill, D.W. is able to calm her friends down and lead them outside safely. D.W. wants to prove to the Tibble twins that she can do something they cannot, so she pretends to read them a book, while instead making up a story about a D.W. lookalike named "B.W." Arthur thinks that the Tibbles will find out about D.W.'s trick, while D.W. is glad that she could be better than them for the day. The Tibbles ask to borrow the book, and when their grandmother reads it to them, they learn that it is instead about Leonardo da Vinci, but think it is a "magic book" that changes whenever it is read.
Arthur and Muffy are paired up for a class project about an animal of their choice. They choose to report on a whale and go whale watching as part of it. While at sea, Arthur and Muffy rescue famous actor Wilbur Rabbit, causing Arthur to copy Muffy's uptight behavior. Arthur's friends try to get him to change back to normal by imitating his behavior during a baseball game, and Arthur decides to stop copying Muffy. Set at the same time as the previous episode, Sue Ellen and Brain choose to build a dinosaur model for their animal project. Sue Ellen wants to help, but Brain refuses to let her, paranoid that her model will be inaccurate. When Brain ends up doing the entire project by himself and neglects to use Sue Ellen's model, they argue and end up dropping Brain's model; Sue Ellen turns this into a dig site exhibit, which gets them a good grade. Meanwhile, Francine is paired with Buster, who avoids her so he does not have to work.
The class is asked to research their ancestors for a school project. Muffy and Francine try to best one another with who their ancestors were, with Muffy believing that her family has descended from royalty, while Francine believes her ancestors are famous. Both separately become disappointed that their ancestors were just "plain folks." However, Francine's grandfather teaches her about an ancestor of hers who advised Abraham Lincoln to trim his beard, which Francine presents for the project. A TV show called The Magic Toolbox is coming to Mr. Ratburn's class to put the kids on television. The kids practice their various talents, but Brain is the only one with no interest in appearing on the show. When the rest of the class are interviewed on the show and struggle to answer the science questions they are given, Brain helps them.
Arthur and Buster trick D.W. into thinking that the big, green potato chip she ate was poisonous. Rather than admit to eating it, D.W becomes friends with Binky, who had eaten one as well. Believing he is close to death, Binky is motivated to reveal his private passion of ballet, impressing his friends. When the story of D.W. believing a green potato chip is poison (from the previous episode) becomes a story in the newspaper, she promptly blames Arthur for telling about it. D.W. finds out that her mother is the one telling people about the story, and tells her how upsetting it is. Mrs. Read apologizes and promises not to repeat the story. D.W., in turn, apologizes to Arthur, who invites D.W. to a live show where Binky performs a ballet about his experience with eating a green chip. However, while waiting in line for the show to start, D.W. overhears her mother talking to Mrs. MacGrady about the newspaper article. D.W. runs to a nearby pier, where Binky is warming up for the ballet. Mrs. Read explains to D.W. why she was talking about the story. They reconcile and Mrs. Read agrees to not discuss the green chip article to protect her daughter. Arthur, D.W., and their mother enjoy Binky's ballet.
When graffiti reading "Binky Rules" mysteriously appears on the walls of the school, Binky is blamed for it. Buster and Fern act as detectives to prove Binky's innocence, but when Buster starts teasing Fern about her detective style, it makes matters worse. After listening to a song, they find out that the graffiti was caused by a local radio station promoting a new band called "BINKY." BINKY, the band from the previous episode, becomes a huge hit in Elwood City, and a concert is planned to expose a big secret about the band. Arthur is able to go backstage due to his father catering the concert, and worries that if he invites his friends, it will interfere with him befriending the band. He changes his mind and lets them come, thinking that it would be more fun to go with his friends. However, Arthur learns that BINKY is actually a group of holograms and is not real.
Arthur does not approve of a new fad, cute toys called Woogles, but after seeing how popular they are, he tries to get one. After several failed attempts, he gets a Woogle from Grandma Thora, but then he starts playing with a bottle cap and starts a new fad. Arthur brings a cake his father made to a party in Mr. Ratburn's class celebrating Galileo's birthday. Everyone enjoys the cake, so Arthur brings in even more desserts to build his school popularity, unaware of the work he is imposing on his father until he sees that he made his father fall behind on a crucial order for Muffy's father. Arthur and D.W. then assist their father with his baking. Throughout the episode, Mr. Ratburn keeps using a spring reading list as an excuse to join Arthur's parties and eat his cakes.
Francine inadvertently takes Catherine's backpack to the community center and discovers a magazine called Popular Girl. After taking a personality quiz, Sue Ellen and Fern change their personalities to be more "likable." Sue Ellen goes from being an expert to quiet and not speaking up, while Fern becomes loud and bossy, both causing chaos in their groups. Buster holds a grudge against Binky for telling a joke in class that Buster intended to tell. Arthur tries to console him before the grudge overtakes Buster. In the end, Buster settles his grudge by talking with Binky, who was unaware how upset Buster was.
When Buster finds an ancient arrowhead in his mother's garden, Arthur digs up his backyard to find treasure, but his search quickly spreads to the front yard, where his mother told him not to dig. When she arrives home, she is disappointed and grounds Arthur for two weeks. Mr. Ratburn's class is at a medieval fair, competing for a trophy against a very intelligent class (who bear striking resemblances to Arthur and his classmates) led by Mr. Ratburn's former teacher, Mr. Pryce-Jones. Mr. Ratburn's class loses constantly until Arthur beats the other class in a "sword in the stone" challenge by figuring out the riddle the challenge's caller recites. Arthur is crowned king of the medieval fair, cheered on by both classes and congratulated by Mr. Pryce-Jones and Mr. Ratburn. Mr. Pryce-Jones realizes that Mr. Ratburn taught his class something he himself never did: to think for themselves.
The Tibble twins watch a violent cartoon and start dressing and acting like the protagonists: a duo of superhero crime-fighting robots. They play roughly while pretending to fight crime and throw a swing into D.W.'s face, sending her to the emergency room. They apologize and agree not to watch the show anymore, and D.W. forgives them. D.W. wants a tooth pulled out so that she can get money from the Tooth Fairy to buy a toy barn for her unicorn doll. When her plans do not work, she tries to trick the Tooth Fairy with a fake tooth. Arthur replaces the tooth with his money, worried that the Tooth Fairy could be offended by the fake tooth.
Tommy Tibble is sad and less active because Timmy is sick. Although D.W. and Emily would like to have the Tibbles less hyperactive, they try to help Tommy out by playing like a Tibble, but they are not as hyperactive as the twins. Arthur and Buster have an imaginary music festival, with the entire cast performing music videos of Library Card, Jekyll and Hyde, Leftovers Goulash, Homework, and Library Card: Reprise from the Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD (or Tape) soundtrack record.
Sue Ellen, who dismisses Arthur, Buster, and Binky's scary stories, is frightened by a mysterious howl in the woods, which she thinks is Baba Yaga, a kappa, or a banshee. She enlists the help of Arthur, Buster, and Binky to investigate the ruckus. They find out that the howl is coming from Mrs. Woods' dog, Perky, who got stuck in a tree stump. D.W. borrows Grandma Thora's porcelain doll, Clarissa, and cracks the doll. She tries to fix Clarissa, and Arthur brings the doll to Mr. Ratburn to repair her.
George's new ventriloquist's dummy, Wally, makes him popular and starts a short-lived ventriloquism fad at school. He starts acting less rationally as Wally begins falling apart, and Arthur tries to convince George that he does not need Wally to make friends. Francine's family gets a new cat, who Catherine tries to name "Rose Petal" and pampers him, but the cat grows fond of Francine and she renames him "Nemo". When she tries to show Nemo to her friends, Arthur is shown to hate cats and believes they are evil, which jeopardizes his friendship with Francine, especially when Nemo and Pal become play-pals.
When their parents have an accident with a pitcher of milk and a bowl of batter, D.W. and Arthur overhear them arguing and fear that the incident will split their family for good, fantasizing about what would happen if they were not in love anymore. D.W. is not excited about her fifth birthday when she is told by Emily that her childhood is over due to turning five. Arthur goes over events from previous episodes with D.W. to cheer her up and make her excited about her future. During her party, she cannot figure out what to wish for until she gets advice from Grandma Thora, so D.W. secretly wishes for Arthur to have an accident with her cake, which he does.
Arthur and D.W. need to clean their rooms and work together to get things done quicker. However, each is fussy about what stays and what goes and how it all goes together. Arthur and his friends are feeling different, but can not put a finger on it. They eventually realize that they have not had a holiday in a while, so they attempt to make a new one, but when the others are overcome by the commercial side of holidays, Arthur has to make them realize that holidays mean more than TV specials, candy, or fireworks.
D.W. desperately wants a book at the library, and she has to learn how to write her name to get a library card. After she does get a library card, the book has already been taken out, and she struggles to wait for it to be returned. Having had enough of D.W., Arthur gets mad and hits her for tossing his model airplane out the window and breaking it, but nobody sees his side. 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 in the woods and sneak it into Arthur's room with a shoe box. However, the snake gets loose in Arthur's house and Arthur learns he is not allowed to keep snakes in the house. To make matters worse, the kids cannot remember if it is a venomous coral snake or the similarly-colored, but harmless kingsnake. They try to find and get rid of the snake without Arthur's family noticing. Muffy and Francine are best friends, but Muffy does not like soccer and Francine does not like shopping. After Francine and Jenna discover that both of them like soccer, Muffy searches for a new best friend who likes the same activities as her, but none of them are perfect matches.
D.W. gets poison ivy while playing a game with Arthur and Buster and is worried about being teased by her classmates, so Buster tells a story about how he got asthma. When Buster learns that he has asthma, his friends start treating him differently, with Arthur scared that any dust could affect him, while Francine believes it is a contagious disease. Buster explains that he educated his friends by doing a science project about asthma, which helps D.W. feel better. Muffy and Francine play several pranks on Arthur, Buster, Binky, and Brain and invite them to a Halloween costume party at a haunted house. The boys get revenge on the girls at the party, but their pranks get unknowingly interrupted by real ghosts.
Arthur and his friends participate in a contest about writing for a TV show titled Andy and Company, and each come up with their own stories, believing theirs will win. Five years later, the results are in and the gang is shocked when they find out that a girl from Canadian, Oklahoma named Holly Holland has won. Wanting to prove to Arthur that she is smart, D.W. hangs around with Brain, watching Nova with him, and starts her own science fair that is full of untrue facts that Arthur cannot disprove, even with Brain's help. As a last resort, Arthur brings D.W. with him and Brain to a science museum to show her how things really work, and she then reveals to Arthur that this had been her plan all along.
A blizzard hits Elwood City, and the townspeople lose power, forcing them to stay in the Read household, the only house that has power, but the Reads soon lose their power, too. Each family brings their supplies and food, allowing them to survive together. Meanwhile, Francine has to write a three-page school report on the pioneers, but she is unable to figure out what to write, until she realizes what the townspeople are going through is very similar to the pioneers' struggles. After his roof is damaged by snow, Mr. Ratburn stays at Arthur's house. Arthur is scared that it will be non-stop homework and teaching, only to find out Mr. Ratburn is more fun outside of school than he thought. When Arthur's friends tease him, saying that he has become a "teacher's pet," Mr. Ratburn says he plans on staying at Arthur's friends' homes, too, until his roof gets repaired.
D.W. wants to prove to Arthur that she can tell a good story, and, after getting advice from Grandma Thora, retells the Odyssey in her own way. Prunella gets two dolls for her birthday and dismisses the second one, which is from Francine. Later, Prunella thinks that Francine spoiled the party by not joining in on the festivities. That night, Prunella has a dream where the Ghost of Presents Past takes her through time to clear things up and shows how far Francine went to get the doll for Prunella and makes her realize that Francine's attitude was because of how Prunella did not appreciate the present.
Binky does a project on butterflies and becomes obsessed with catching a rare blue butterfly. After Sue Ellen shows him that butterflies are killed and pinned in museums, Binky lets his butterflies go to the wild instead. When Francine enters a talent show, her friends try to tell her that she sounds 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 are right, and at the talent show, she surprises them without her drum set as she sings very well.
The Father's Day picnic at Elwood City is approaching, and Arthur and his friends try to find a substitute father for Buster while his own father is away. At the picnic, Buster arrives with his father in a hot air balloon, to the surprise of his friends. Prunella wants flash pants and her sister, Rubella, predicts that she is getting them for her birthday, only to be disappointed by a watch instead. and Prunella does not want to be seen without flash pants, since she told Muffy she was going to get them. Meanwhile, Arthur is afraid of being teased when wearing his father's old jacket because he has outgrown his old winter coat. Together, Prunella and Arthur realize that they do not have to hide because of what they wear.
Arthur and his friends separately find the same metal bobbin but do not know its use, even though it helps them in different ways. Muffy retrieves her toy from a sewer, Francine ends her cat Nemo's fear of water, Brain uses the bobbin as a substitute wheel for his model plane, and even Buster gets the idea to write a story for his favorite TV show. They argue over it and find out that it is Mr. Ratburn's bobbin, and learn what it does at his puppet show. Buster is funny but wants to be good at something else, and Arthur wants to be funny like Buster, resulting in them acting like each other. Francine, Muffy, and Brain try to get them back to normal.
The Elwood City Library is looking for a musician to perform for the children's show, and Francine's father suggests that they hire Joshua Redman, who is Francine's uncle and a musician who can play anything. Grandma Thora takes D.W to a concert, and she wants Yo-Yo Ma to play, leading to a conflict of preferred music until both musicians show that music styles do not matter. Arthur enjoys a show meant for kids younger than him, and his friends make fun of him for being a "baby." Arthur convinces them to watch the show as well, in which they all admit to liking it.
Arthur goes on the TV game show Riddle Quest against an intelligent contestant. In the final round, Arthur must decide between winning and staying with his friends. Arthur, Buster, Francine, and Brain resent the large amount of homework they are assigned. When Arthur sarcastically mentions he would skip school and not do his homework, Francine starts a large number of dares issued to skip school. However, the next morning, Arthur and Buster call Francine and Brain out of guilt and attempt to convince them to call off the dare, but Francine fails to receive the message and carries on with the dare. As a result, Arthur and Buster try to help her get in the school, but get caught and all three are given an extra homework assignment, while Francine is given detention for a week.
Lakewood Elementary is having an open house, and Sue Ellen is initially excited to introduce her parents, until she hears her friends tell stories about their parents being embarrassing, causing Sue Ellen to change her parents into more "normal people". However, when she realizes she's not letting her parents be themselves, she lets them go, and they become the life of the open house. Buster wants a Cybertoy, but they are too expensive. While he is at the store, he slips one into Arthur's backpack without him noticing. He feels guilty later, so he and Arthur try to return it with an apology note without getting into trouble. However, they accidentally leave the toy on and the manager calls Buster's mother, who grounds him for a month.
After losing a math contest to Buster when he cannot get over a question that he got wrong, Brain decides to start being funny instead of smart. Although they want to go to Aqualand, an exciting water park, Arthur, Buster, Binky, D.W., Sue Ellen, and Brain are instead brought to the beach, where Arthur's father tells them about Ocean Zone and leaves them to find it. They have fun at the beach and realize that the beach is Ocean Zone.
Arthur and his friends, after reading a world record book, try to set their own records. When they fail individually, they work together to make the world's largest pizza instead. The class is taking a field trip to a cave. Francine and D.W. tease Arthur that he is going to be afraid, even though he is sure he will not. When the class goes to the cave, Francine pays the price for her teasing when it is she and Mr. Ratburn who panic when they encounter bats, and it's up to Arthur, using tactics learned from his father to counter fear, to get the class safely out.
When Muffy gets head lice, it ends up spreading to everyone at school, forcing the students and staff to be checked everyday instead of doing homework. This episode is shown from Arthur's point of view. Arthur is set to compete against Brain in a 3K race, with D.W. and the Tibbles helping him train. In the end, Arthur loses the race to Brain, but has his picture on the front page of the newspaper for helping Muffy up after she falls down.
Mr. Ratburn's class holds a mock class election. Muffy takes the candidacy for class president seriously and a competitive campaign against Arthur ensues, reaching a fever pitch until a dark horse candidate, Binky, joins the election and wins. Annoyed by her new neighbor, Mrs. Pariso, Francine tries to get her to move by making a prank call to her, giving her a fake eviction notice, and scaring her with fake spiders, but nothing works. Eventually, Mrs. Pariso invites Francine over for tea and reveals that she was mean at first because she was lonely. The two soon learn they have a lot in common and become good friends.
Buster believes it is his destiny to win a pizza-eating contest. However, he is too excited about the contest to sleep, until he encounters other contestants who share his excitement and anxiety. In the morning, the contest is postponed until everyone can get a good sleep. Francine hires Binky to look after Nemo for the weekend, but he does not read at her written instructions. When Nemo acts strangely at the mention of Francine, Binky keeps him away from her, thinking she is a bad owner.
When D.W.'s favorite show, Mary Moo Cow, is cancelled, she starts a petition to get the show back on the air. Buster's mother, Bitzi, has a boyfriend, and Buster is nervous to meet him, believing he may be an alien. Buster meets her boyfriend, Harry Mills, and they find out they have a lot in common.
Arthur has a stomachache after eating too much candy and desserts, and has dreams involving fairy tales made famous by the Brothers Grimm. Arthur and D.W. do not want to spend time with Grandpa Dave because all he does is play checkers and sleep. He tells them about a buried family treasure from their pirate ancestor, so Arthur and D.W. take the map and look for the treasure themselves. However, Grandpa Dave reveals the treasure was just made up as a story to entertain the kids.
When their father's soufflé is found destroyed, Arthur and D.W. both explain their sides of the story: Arthur claims that D.W ran too fast into the kitchen and bumped into the table, while D.W claims that Arthur pushed her into the table. Their mother figures out that the truth was a combination of the two stories, and they make amends by helping their father make a new soufflé. Muffy hangs out with Francine's sister, Catherine, because Francine is not mature enough for Muffy's favorite new magazine, meant for teenagers. Catherine's friends ridicule Muffy because of her misguided attempts at acting like a teen, and Catherine convinces Muffy that it's okay to still be a younger kid and to enjoy what she can do while she still can.
Sue Ellen gets obsessed with a video game called Virtual Goose and forbids herself from playing it for a week. She struggles to resist the urge to play it when none of her friends can beat a mysterious challenger named Fourhand451. When Sue Ellen tries, she loses, and the challenger seems unbeatable, until D.W., who knows the game is a virtual version of her favorite board game, "Confuse the Goose", steps in to save the day. While playing a nonsensical Choose Your Own Adventure-esque game, Brain questions the game's knowledge of science and is challenged as to whether or not he could survive out in the wild, so he plans a camping trip. However, his friends and even Mr. Ratburn seem more interested in playing the game.
Arthur's piano teacher is retiring, so he gets a strict new teacher, Dr. Fugue. When Arthur fails to practice sufficiently, Dr. Fugue fires Arthur. Wanting to be rehired, Arthur begins practicing the piece he was supposed to practice. Buster tries selling chocolates for a school fundraiser, but he ends up eating all of them. Since he does not have the money to pay for them, he opts to make and sell his own chocolates to pay off his debt, but they end up tasting awful. Mr. Haney gives Buster another chance by having him work in Jack's Joke Shop for a weekend.
Prunella is excited to get her new monogrammed Henry Skreever book in the mail, but finds that it is in Braille. When she goes to the library to get the book with words, she meets and makes friends with a blind girl named Marina, who is looking for the same book in Braille. Kate and Pal can understand each other, but older people like the rest of the Read family can not. When Mr. Read cannot find the figurine that goes on top of the wedding cake he made for Muffy's cousin's wedding, Kate and Pal work together to get the figurine on top of the cake before the wedding starts.
Muffy's father is the new soccer coach, but the kids, especially Muffy, doubt his coaching methods. Muffy cannot keep up with her father's training drills and fears her team will not win any games with her being goalie. Binky cannot perform well with his malfunctioning clarinet and his family cannot afford to buy a new one, so he starts a scheme with the rest of the Tough Customers to get rid of music by making so-called modifications to his classmates' instruments and using a megaphone and his clarinet to disrupt tryouts for the Young Person's Orchestra.
Buster thinks he has seen UFOs, but Arthur, Fern, and Brain do not believe him. Buster borrows Muffy's telescope and finds a comet headed for Earth. Nobody believes him again, but when Brain confirms it, everyone starts to panic, until Fern notices a piece is missing on the telescope, and it alters the telescope's findings, showing the comet has no chance of hitting Earth. A new family, the Molinas, move in next to the Reads after their neighbor, Mr. Sipple, moves away. The Molinas have two children, Alberto and Vicita. Arthur is worried that Alberto will be mean to him, while D.W. gets frustrated that Vicita wins at every game they play. They both find common ground with their new neighbors when they realize they share many common interests.
Francine creates her own newspaper after shadowing Buster's mother at work and becomes a tabloid writer, taking out-of-context pictures of her friends with insulting captions. When Francine finds an embarrassing picture of her circulating the school, she finds that her sister Catherine is behind it, and understands how her friends felt. D.W. accidentally grabs the wrong backpack at the pool; due to most of the letters on the name tag having rubbed off, they spell out a nonsensical name, "Omble." Arthur and D.W. examine the contents of the backpack, and the mysterious "Omble" is later revealed to be Tommy Tibble.
George has dyslexia and does not want anyone to think he is dumb. He takes Binky to be his mentor to teach him to be more hard-headed so no one will tease him, but realizes he was not meant for being tough. Mr. Ratburn helps him figure out how to get past his dyslexia, and George's confidence improves. D.W. is excited to be getting an allowance, but is upset once she learns that Emily and the Tibbles have already been getting an allowance and have more money. When she fails to get a bigger allowance, she pretends that she gets more money than they do since they do not know how much she gets.
Binky tries to write a poem for his mother's birthday, but he cannot think of the right words. That night, he has a dream where he finds himself in a village where it is against the law to speak in prose. The next morning, he unintentionally starts speaking in rhyme and continues to do so for the next week. Arthur is overjoyed that D.W. lost her voice, but is not so excited when he has to do what she wants him to do, especially when he has to be a translator. When he discovers that D.W. is better but continues faking, he gets his friends to come up with a plan to expose her fib by making her think she is deaf.
Michelle Kwan is presenting the Athlete of the Year Award, and Jenna wins the award, which makes Francine very jealous and upset. With the help of Muffy, Francine tries to prove that she deserves the award by pretending to act like a good sport and giving Jenna special attention, but nothing works. Arthur develops a crush on his new babysitter, Sally, after playing a video game with her. He is devastated when he discovers that she has a boyfriend and refuses to see her again. However, when Buster invites Arthur over for a sleepover, Arthur discovers that Sally is babysitting for Buster. She tells Arthur that she enjoys playing video games more with him as her boyfriend is not good at video games.
Muffy's new marbles prompt Arthur and his friends to start playing in a marbles tournament. Arthur is trained by Grandma Thora, a former professional marbles player herself, but when he discovers that he has to compete against Thora in the marbles tournament, he plays poorly on purpose. Thora forfeits when she finds out what is happening. Brain does not believe in superstitions and tries to prove his hypothesis by doing things superstitiously believed to bring bad luck, like walking under a ladder, stepping on a crack, and destroying a mirror. Counter to his hypothesis, a streak of bad luck strikes. Brain goes to Buster to get lucky charms, but during a baseball game on Friday the 13th, Brain forgets the charms and hits a home run that wins his team the game, proving his hypothesis.
The Backstreet Boys are coming to Elwood City! While Muffy fantasizes about meeting her idol, Nick Carter, Francine gripes about everyone's infatuation with a bunch of sellouts. Fed up with the hype, Francine forms her own anti-sellout band, U Stink. But when U Stink becomes an overnight sensation, the band suffers from an identity crisis and Francine quits in a huff. Will U Stink rise to stardom without Francine? Will the Backstreet Boys make Muffy their manager?
Arthur gets upset when he finds out that D.W. has to tag along on his fishing trip with their father. He then gets jealous of her when she catches more fish than him by using an unusual technique she came up with herself. One of D.W.'s socks goes missing, so Pal and Kate try to find it. The thief is revealed to be the Molinas' dog, Amigo, who tells them about the Sock Market, a parody of the stock market, and Pal tries to auction off socks from the house to get D.W.'s back.
Francine's bowling tournament and her cousin's bar mitzvah are at the same time, so her friends devise a plan allowing her to attend both events at once. However, Francine's friends forget some parts of the plan, and her parents eventually figure out what is going on. As punishment for missing half of the party, Francine's parents give her extra chores. Sue Ellen invites Muffy to spend the weekend with her in Crown City, a nearby metropolis, which Muffy thinks is a glamorous world of class, fashion, shopping, and high culture. However, her first trip is nothing like she imagined it would be as they go to an Ethiopian restaurant and listen to a poetry slam.
For an extra credit science project, Arthur builds an ant farm, but all the ants spill out of the ant farm and he must find a way to attract them back in. When Arthur accidentally destroys Francine's project while trying to catch the ants, they get a new idea and team up to work on the project together. Muffy starts an advice column, but one of the Tough Customers, Molly, turns out to be a better advice giver. Muffy tries to improve her column by copying Molly's appearance and interests.
After causing two incidents involving lying to Alberto, the Tibble twins fear they may end up in jail for lying. They swear to always tell the truth, but end up offending their friends and acquaintances. Alberto advises the twins not to say the first thing that comes to their minds and explains how they can be honest and nice at the same time. After Binky accidentally breaks Brain's new watch during a soccer game, the two get into several arguments while waiting for their parents (who are late) to pick them up.
Arthur and his friends commemorate their 100th episode in show-stopping style! Mr. Ratburn' s class is chosen to stage a musical tribute to Elwood City for its centennial celebration... which quickly becomes a drama of missed cues, inflated egos, and alien invasions. And that's just behind the curtain! Stay tuned to see the real, human Larry King interviewing the animated Elwood City gang between parts I and II.
The Reads' family car starts making funny noises, but they cannot figure out what is wrong with their car. To make matters worse, they cannot afford to repair or replace it. Fortunately, with the help of Buster and the Car Talk guys, Arthur figures out that Kate's rattle is stuck in the exhaust pipe. Jenna is invited to Muffy's annual slumber party, but worried that she will be teased since she still wets the bed and has to wear a pull-up. Jenna tries to hide her secret, but when her pull-up is exposed, Francine tells her that it is nothing to be embarrassed about as she used to have the same problem as Jenna.
After being forced to watch a movie with Arthur and his friends, D.W. wishes she was older than Arthur. She has a dream where she and Nadine alter the timeline so that she is bought first at the baby store before Arthur. After a field trip to an Amish family farm, Buster changes his lifestyle to one of the Amish, but finds the adjustment very hard to do. After learning from Mrs. MacGrady that what he is doing is not fully Amish, since he is feeling lonely and miserable, Buster decides to return to his normal lifestyle.
During a sleepover at the science museum with his class, Binky gets bored until he sees a new unopened exhibit about the future. Interested, he sneaks into the exhibit, only to be trapped inside. He has a dream where he is in the future with robot lookalikes of his friends. Arthur and D.W. try to help out around the house when their mother is sick, but they end up making things worse. When their father catches a cold as well, they try to fix their mistakes, fearing that they will have to learn to take care of things if their parents stay ill. Their worries are cured when Grandma Thora arrives to help out.
Prunella invites Marina over for a sleepover. However, she is worried that Marina may get injured because she is blind. Marina dislikes the special treatment Prunella is giving her, and Prunella learns to treat Marina just like any other friend. D.W. finds that her snowball has returned (from the season 1 episode "D.W.'s Snow Mystery") and tries to prevent it from being stolen again. After an investigation by Brain, Arthur confesses that the snowball is actually an unflavored snow cone and that the real snowball is still lost, and that he got the fake snowball hoping D.W would end being bothered by the real one missing.
After a huge fire in the teacher's lounge during the middle of the day Elwood Elementary School gets closed down. Frustrated with the devastation Arthur and his friends all react differently during the aftermath of the situation.
Arthur becomes pen pals with a Turkish boy named Adil, but he confuses his pen pal with his incorrect knowledge of Turkey, which he got from a comic book he read. When Alberto explains to Arthur that everything in the comic is inaccurate, Arthur apologizes to Adil and they both realize they actually have a lot in common. Bitzi, Buster's mother, announces to Buster that she is breaking up with her boyfriend, Harry. Buster, thinking he will never get to spend time with Harry again, is devastated, so he creates a plan to reunite them, but it backfires. After his mother explains he can still be friends with Harry, Buster feels better.
During a trip to Moose Mountain, Francine is determined to beat her record of three hours to the top, but she gets frustrated when she is paired with Fern, who has no experience with mountain-climbing. Disaster strikes when Francine's impatience leads to her losing the map and Fern getting stuck in a muddy bog. Francine manages to beat her record, but her father gets mad at her for acting inconsiderate towards Fern and grounds her. Binky saves Rattles from getting injured in a dangerous stunt, but Rattles is not grateful and refuses to thank Binky. Soon after, Binky tries doing good deeds to get someone to thank him, but nobody does. That night, he dreams what the world would be like if he was not kind.
Arthur and Buster start a snow-shoveling business, but an argument over splitting the money leads to them separating and competing for customers. After working hard for ridiculously low fees and getting blisters, they give Muffy their jobs and reconcile. Brain annoys his friends by constantly correcting them, and they call him a pest. After he has a dream where he becomes a bug to see how his friends really see him, he decides to never help them again, but soon learns that it might not be the best solution to his problem.
Fern tells Arthur, Buster, and Muffy a scary story, but they find it disturbing. Nobody wants to be near Fern because of her story, so she tries creating one that is fun instead of frightening. Mr. Ratburn's class is doing projects with the preschoolers, and D.W. and Binky are made partners. They decide to do a dance for their project, but teaching D.W. how to dance proves to be a handful for Binky. Things get worse when Molly and Rattles tease him and he twists his ankle. However, D.W. dances successfully in front of everyone, much to Binky's delight.
When Francine and her friends tease George due to his constant nosebleeds, she suddenly vomits in front of everyone, and worries that her friends will make fun of her and constantly avoids them. Francine continues to feel nauseous until she stands up for George when he tells her everyone teases him but not her since she is popular. Mr. Manino, the Sugar Bowl manager, announces that he is retiring and plans to sell the shop to a fast-food chain. Sue Ellen is dismayed by this change and starts a rally for her friends to go on strike and save the Sugar Bowl, but it backfires when everyone except her cannot stay on track. In the end, after recalling the good times he had at the Sugar Bowl with Grandma Thora, Mr. Manino changes his mind and decides to keep the shop open, much to Sue Ellen's delight.
A) Postcards from Buster, Part I: Pack your bags! Buster is going to New York to visit his dad Bo. He won't have to go alone; the Reads will be joining him. B)Postcards from Buster, Part II In this combination of live action and animation, Buster and the Reads enjoy all the wondrous sights of New York, including Central Park and Broadway. With his trusty video camera documenting every move, Buster is having a blast! But what happens when he and his aardvark friend get lost in Chinatown?
On a hot day, Arthur and his friends get into a heated argument over who gets to sit by the fan, which leads to everyone threatening to destroy each other's possessions, and the situation soon escalates into a complete battle. Arthur sells his teddy bear, Stanley, to Vicita at a garage sale. He later regrets his decision and tries to get his teddy bear back.
After attending an art show with her father, Muffy tries to build kinetic sculptures but she cannot come up with any good ideas. Her butler, Bailey, builds some well-done sculptures, and during a showcase, Muffy tries to pass them off as her own. Vicita is upset when she has to give up her crib, so D.W. tells her how she grew out of her crib and gave it to Kate.
A flea named Pepe tells Kate, Pal, and Amigo the story of his journey around the world, and how he became separated from his brother, Sale. Emily tells D.W. how she felt when a boy kissed her on vacation, and D.W. begins to wonder what it feels like. She starts contemplating on asking James to kiss her.
George learns how to sing the blues, with inspiration from his giraffe dummy and Brain's CDs. While on a shopping trip with Grandma Thora, D.W. overhears a teenage boy curse at his mother, causing her to drop a glass and break it. D.W. wants to know the meaning of the word, but she is afraid that if she says it, something will break. She tests this on Vicita, only to get in trouble, but her mother does not punish her because she does not know what the word means.
The tree house collapses due to the weight of snow on it, so Arthur and his friends come up with their own designs to re-build it, while getting help from Frank Gehry. The school choir is excited about performing at a recital in Crown City. However, their regular teacher, Ms. Krasny, gets sick, and Arthur's strict piano teacher, Dr. Fugue, substitutes for her.
Francine signs up for circus camp, and tries to perform better than Catherine. She finds herself unable to perform the same tricks as her sister, until she realizes she is good at clowning. George becomes increasingly annoyed when Buster begins to exploit his kindness. Buster eventually realizes the error of his ways, and he apologizes.
After being unable to fit into his costume during rehearsals for a play, Arthur looks for ways to lose weight. The jungle gym is the Tough Customers' hangout spot, leading to arguments when Muffy gets a new camera and wants to take photos from the jungle gym.
Buster decides to try his own hand at gardening in the community garden after using out home-grown compost on tomatoes and finding out that commercial ones do not taste as good. He also becomes friends with the garden's caretaker, Fritz Langley. Fed up with getting punished for incidents Timmy causes, Tommy asks D.W. to teach him good manners to prepare for Parent-Visiting Day and get a chance to win the Good Behavior Award. D.W. is hesitant at first, but when Emily proposes a bet, D.W. gives in and teaches Tommy good manners.
Muffy is not excited about going to the opera, a performance of Carmen, fearing that it will be boring. Arthur aces five quizzes in a row, but his luck runs out when his mother takes a client and he believes that she will not be around as often.
James invites Arthur and D.W. to swim with him, but Arthur is shocked to find out that Molly is James' older sister. Arthur and Molly have fun together and become friends, but avoid each other in public because their own friend groups will not approve. Grandma Thora finds a stray dog named Killer on her porch. Killer turns out to be a bully, intimidating D.W., Pal, and Amigo. Kate and the other dogs doubt that they like Killer, but reconsider after Killer rescues Nemo from a tree.
Prunella gets jealous when Marina joins yoga lessons with her and her mother, and Marina ends up doing better poses than Prunella. This causes Prunella to think that Marina is "stealing" her mother from her, but her mother assures her that she will never like Marina as much as her daughter. Arthur joins an inter-scholastic checkers tournament, facing off against Brain. However, Arthur's friends take the game too seriously, and he is frustrated with their unwanted support.
Brain and Francine move into a more advanced soccer team, but are immediately overwhelmed by their new team's strict demands. They rejoin their old team after they learn their team is short two players. D.W. finds a ball, drops it, and sees Emily holding it. Emily makes up an excuse to keep the ball, but starts telling bigger lies to cover up the first one, and D.W. eventually forgets why Emily started lying in the first place. Emily eventually decides to tell the truth and D.W. forgives her.
When the Tibble twins get a set of drums and decide to perform the Summer Serenade Festival, D.W. wishes that she has an instrument of her own to play, and, with inspiration from Arthur, Buster, Francine, and Fern, she ultimately creates her own kinetic instrument. Arthur and Buster go to investigate a rumor that tigers are loose in the park. This turns out to be an experiment by Brain, who wanted to see if anyone would believe a seemingly true internet rumor with no leads. Brain's story leads to Arthur and Buster solving a mystery about dogs disappearing from the park.
Binky learns that he is allergic to peanuts and is discouraged when he realizes he may have to give up Chinese food, as it is cooked with peanut oil. Fortunately, with advice from Jenna, who is allergic to milk, Binky discovers that there are many ways to cope with his allergy, and finds a restaurant that serves peanut-free Chinese food. After scoring a B-minus on a test, Brain thinks it may be caused by the Breezy Listening CD playing in his parents' ice cream shop. Despite suggestions from his friends, he is unable to find music for the store that satisfies everyone. Soon after, Brain gets a better grade on his next test, and accepts that the CD did not impact his performance.
This two-hour special featured several Arthur stories and two complete episodes of Postcards from Buster. This special featured interstitial postcard segments from Buster, segments with kids from the show Zoom (Taylor and Kyle) and a small additional factoid regarding Arthur and Buster. At the end of the special, a secret password for The Tibble Super Action Challenge, a new game at the official PBS Kids Arthur website was revealed. The Arthur stories shown were: "Buster's Green Thumb" "Dad's Dessert Dilemma" "Thanks a Lot, Binky" "The Ballad of Buster Baxter" The Postcards from Buster episodes shown were: "Best Friends" "Among the Hmong"
Mr. Ratburn shows a film about perspective and then assigns the class an essay about it. Arthur and Buster are disappointed to have homework on the weekend of the big Bionic Bunny / Dark Bunny special (in which everything will be revealed), but vow to complete it before the start of the special. Arthur, however, struggles with the assignment. Mr. and Mrs. Read are celebrating their tenth anniversary at a fancy restaurant. They're dropping Arthur off for Buster's sleepover and D.W. at Grandma Thora's. But car troubles leave everyone stranded. Things seemingly go from bad to worse when Arthur and D.W. get locked in a storage room in an old diner. They're disappointed, and a bit scared, but find inspiration in an old radio drama called "Kid Carter and his Sidekick Mistral."
Arthur and Buster watch a horror movie called The Squirrels (based on Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds), and immediately become scared of squirrels. They learn that all of their friends (except Binky) have watched the movie, too, and everyone tries to conquer their fear by watching kiddie shows centered on squirrels. They get over their fear after Arthur and Buster rescue an injured squirrel. Fern publishes her story to the school newspaper under a pen name, but is worried when all of her friends dislike it.
Mr. Ratburn's class must find the one ideal food that each of them would choose if stranded on a desert island. Brain researches many food items, and comes to the conclusion that a variety of foods is the best way to survive. D.W. learns that her friend split his pants, but must keep it a secret, even when she is very tempted to tell people.
Francine and Arthur bet to see who can conserve the most water. Arthur, D.W., and Grandma Thora search for something to bring to a television auction show.
D.W. dreams of becoming an astronaut and being the first person to set foot on Mars, but the Tibbles try to scare her with myths about the planet. Buster and Arthur are falsely accused of breaking a cake plate that Mr. Read ordered. With help from their friends, they manage to solve the case and find that it was a rock that got launched from a loose manhole cover that broke the plate.
Buster believes that he brings bad luck to his favorite baseball team. After purchasing a new bike, Arthur is hesitant in riding it for fear that he will get it dirty.
After finding an old novel titled 93 Million Miles in a Balloon, Arthur discovers that the final page of the book has been ripped out. He tries to find out how the story ends. D.W. acts very bossy at Emily's birthday party, until she has a dream that makes her realize her bossiness.
Binky overcomes his fear of athletic competition when he takes up biking, and finds out that winning is not as important as finding the courage to continue. D.W. has an operation on her ears to have tympanostomy tubes inserted, and is initially fearful. Her family supports her and convinces her to go through with the operation.
When everyone at school starts inventing their own languages, George tries to create one that is easy for everyone to use. Muffy, Sue Ellen, and Francine visit a brand new doll superstore called World Girl World. Muffy attempts to complete her collection, Francine tries to find a doll she likes, and Sue Ellen tries to find a replacement accessory for the only doll she owns.
A big cooking competition is coming up, and everyone is making a dish of their choice. Arthur's chocolate cake is ruined when he accidentally uses baking soda instead of baking powder, but then learns that making mistakes in cooking may lead to the creation of a new recipe. Buster becomes the first student mail carrier, but struggles with his job.
Swept Away Arthur, Buster and D.W. enjoy summer vacation at the beach. When it becomes unsafe to swim, Grandma Thora suggests building a sandcastle and they quickly become immersed in this pastime. When the tide threatens to sweep away their castle, Arthur isn't ready to let it go. Germophobia Buster friends are getting tired of his unclean habits --- he plays hide-and-seek in trash cans, eats food that's been on the ground and doesn't always wash his hands. They've decided he needs to clean up, or they're not coming to his pool party. When they teach him about germs, however, he begins to fear them everywhere. Now, he's afraid to touch anything and is seeing swarms of imaginary germs wherever he goes.
Arthur Sells Out Arthur is excited about the release of the new video game Dark Bunny: Return of the Moomies, but doesn't have the money to buy it. When his attempt at online sales through the school newspaper falls flat, Buster recommends getting advice from Muffy. Muffy's sales tactics soon result in great sales, but border on dishonesty and leave Arthur facing an important moral decision. Mind Your Manners After missing Grandparents' Day, Tommy and Timmy Tibble want to do something to nice for their grandma, but their manners aren't up to par. When D.W. refuses to help them, they try practicing on their own with less than stellar results. Then Molly offers some advice that may just be what they need.
Buenas Noches, Vicita When Vicita loses her favorite storybook, "The Magic Mango Tree," it looks like she may never get to sleep again. Nothing else seems to help her sleep, but then D.W. helps her to see that she knows the story by heart. Worried, however, that she got one of the details wrong, she sets out to correct her error in a dream. Prunella Packs it In Prunella's older sister's anxieties about going to college wear off on her. Knowing that she's only an okay student, she aims to become well-rounded by loading up on a bunch of activities. She soon finds herself overscheduled and overwhelmed, not to mention that she's not having any fun.
Phony Fern Fern is offended by everyone's constant use of cell phones, until she surprisingly becomes addicted to the one her parents got her for "emergency use only." After being shown its cool features by Muffy, they become cell phone pals and are soon chatting constantly. Things even get so bad that Fern is busted for cell phone use in Brain's Shocking Secret Until now, only Prunella knew Brain's big secret --- that he was held back in kindergarten. When his classmates find out, he lies about the real reason why, too embarrassed to tell. His fake reason, however, causes Binky to start trying to emulate him, even taking his nickname and leaving as him as "The Esophagus."
Baby Kate and the Imaginary Mystery When Nadine misses an appointment for tea with Vicita's imaginary friend, Tweenie, Baby Kate and Pal grow concerned. They launch an investigation, worried that she may have been kidnapped by the Tibbles. Along the way, Francine's cat Nemo is pulled into the investigation. Strangers on a Train Sue Ellen is excited at the prospect of riding an "old-fashioned" train, but discovers that the train seems to be just "old" instead. It's really run down and with no other kids riding, she's worried the trip isn't going to be any fun. Then, the discovery of a mysterious diary looks to brighten the prospects for adventure on the trip.
The Making of Arthur When Matt Damon announces a new series called Postcards from You, Arthur and his friends are excited by the opportunity to create videos about their daily lives. Everyone has a great idea for a video except Arthur, who isn't sure what to do. He keeps bouncing between ideas, but can't settle on anything, and finds himself hindered by D.W.'s insistence on participating. He also has to contend with having been chosen as Buster's project. Dancing Fools When Muffy finds herself attending a dance class alone, she signs up Francine without her consent. At first, Francine is irritated, but soon warms to the activity when she discovers that she and George are great together at ballroom dancing. The two are so good that they're soon invited to attend a big competition, much to the disdain of both Muffy and Binky.
Hic or Treat As Arthur tries to prepare his costume for Halloween, he finds himself distracted by D.W.'s persistent case of hiccups. She's been hiccuping for two days straight it seems like they just won't go away. On Brain's advice, he tries scaring her, but it doesn't seem to work. He discovers that D.W. is frightened by some very unusual things. Mr. Alwaysright When Buster gets Brain's help in shopping for a hat for his Mom, he chooses to ignore his advice and finds that his Mom doesn't like the hat. Infuriated that Brain always seems to be right about everything, he soon takes to quizzing the Brain everywhere he goes, hoping to trip him up. Brain soon cottons on to what's happening, but also begins to realize what may really be troubling Buster.
Francine's Pilfered Paper When Mr. Ratburn assigns everyone in his class an individual topic about Thanksgiving to write a five-page report on, Francine feels that she's "doomed." She has no idea how she's going to come up with five pages on the Pilgrims' eating habits, until Brain shows her how to use a search engine to find information about the subject on the Internet. She copies the contents of an entire article and hands it in as her report, looking forward to a relaxing holiday. She then learns from her sister that what she's done is plagiarism and could get her suspended from school. Buster Gets Real Arthur is bored by a new reality-TV program his family is obsessed with --- Top Supermarket Chef. When he learns that his best-friend Buster prefers it over The Bionic Bunny Show, he fears their friendship may be at an end. He's determined, though, to maintain that friendship, even if it means taking drastic measures, such as becoming a fan of this supermarket show himself...
D.W. on Ice When Emily announces a skating party to celebrate mid-winter, D.W. brags about being a great skater. She feels she's so good that she even offers lessons to James, who is worried about his skating skills. D.W., however, is overconfident, having only gone ice-skating three times in her life. She begins to learn that sometimes it takes practice to be good at something. Spoiled Rotten! When Francine accuses Muffy of being a spoiled brat, Muffy is determined to prove otherwise. The school's clothing drive seems like the perfect opportunity, but Muffy's ideas of charity don't exactly impress Francine. Muffy wrestles with the idea of being spoiled and tries to learn what it means to be charitable.
Big Brother Binky When Binky's parents tell him that they're adopting from China, he isn't sure what to make of it at first. He learns that "adopting" means that he's going to become an actual big brother to a baby girl and will be heading to China to meet his new sister. Binky eagerly assists with preparations for the big trip and the new arrival, but begins to become concerned that his parents will no longer have any time for him. After his worries are eased, the big moment finally comes. At first, Binky is ill at ease around his new sister, who seems to cry a lot, but then discovers a special talent. Back at home, he's eager to show off his new talent to his friends, but finds that he seems to have lost it.
Is That Kosher? Francine's convinced that she can fast on Yom Kippur just like her older sister. But then Arthur wins a free pizza party for all his friends for that very same day! Will Francine be able to resist? Never Never Never When D.W's extra toys fall into the hands of the destructive Tibble twins, she worries that no one loves her anymore - until Arthur comes to the rescue and proves that giving gifts isn't the only way of showing you care.
Room to Ride Binky really enjoys riding his bike, both for fun and as a means of getting to school and back. Elwood City's potholed roads are not conducive to biking, however, and Binky is devastated when his mother forbids him from riding on the streets after he comes home injured. After hearing that the upcoming election will include an issue on bike lanes, Binky whips himself and his friends into action, but has trouble getting anyone to care. Muffy tries to convince him that he needs "star power," but a visit from an actual star helps him to see what's really important. The Frensky Family Fiasco After watching a nature film about animal families, Francine is convinced that her own family needs to come closer together. She proposes that they have a family night and though the idea is met with resistance at first, everyone soon warms to it. The Frenskys agree that each week a different one of the will set the agenda, but they find themselves arguing instead of becoming
D.W.'s Stray Netkitin D.W. enjoys taking care of her Netkitten, Tickly, but finds herself cut off when the Read family computer suffers from not one, but two computer viruses. Arthur and Buster reluctantly agree to help, but D.W. worries that they're trying to make the pet their own. She turns to Emily for help, but finds herself in much the same situation. Bats in the Belfry Arthur has learned from hard experience that things that seem too good to be true usually are. Nevertheless, he and D.W. are excited when Grandma Thora offers the use of her attic as a clubhouse, but have trouble deciding how to split it. The two struggle with a timeshare agreement, but find themselves facing potentially a bigger problem when a bat is discovered roosting in the attic.
For the Birds Brain is delighted when he learns that the green-tailed grebe, a bird previously believed to be extinct, has been sighted in the forests of Elwood City. He's determined to be the first to take photographic evidence of it, but becomes worried when Mr. Ratburn starts a bird-watching club. He tries to hide his growing obsession, concerned that someone will beat him to the punch. Ungifted When Buster discovers a model kit in his home, he has a lot of fun assembling it. He gives the completed model to Arthur as a present and Arthur later trades it for a signed Dark Bunny poster. When Buster learns what Arthur did, he is upset, wondering just what Arthur's done with the Arthur presents he's given him in the past.
The Chronicles of Buster Buster is enthralled by the new Collector's Edition of The Chronicles of Amayzzia, so much so that it seems like it's all that he can talk about. When Mr. Ratburn starts the on rock-climbing, he soon spots that Buster has a natural talent for it. He pairs Buster with Arthur, but Buster keeps skipping practice to watch the special features on his DVD. Arthur becomes upset, worried that they're going to miss the trip to Mt. Krakauer. On This Spot Arthur is excited when he discovers that the famous Native American, Sitting Bull, once performed in Elwood City. Spurred on by a vision, he begins an effort to have a memorial plaque created. He gets the help of Mr. Ratburn and a local history effort, but finds his friends more interested in the affairs of modern-day celebrities.
The Cherry Tree When her favorite cherry tree is cut down, Muffy rethinks the consequences of having a Dream Bouncy Castle at her party Matchmaker, Matchbreaker Muffy and Francine try to hatch a family romance, hoping to become sisters.
War of the Worms Fern tricks Brain into believing an outrageous tall tale I Owe You One Buster is determined to repay Arthur for all the favors that he ever gave him.
The Blackout The residents of Elwood City suffer a blackout on the town's hottest day Mei Lin Takes a Stand Mei-Lin is resistant when it comes to learning to walk.
Home Sweet Home Buster worries about a trip to summer camp Do You Believe in Magic Arthur becomes competitive with Buster when Buster is hired as a magician at D.W.'s party.
The Perfect Game Francine tries to overcome perfectionism D.W.'s Furry Freakout D.W. brings home and tries to care for a stray kitten.
The Great MacGrady When Lakewood Elementary`s beloved lunch lady Mrs. MacGrady is diagnosed with cancer, Arthur and his friends all react differently to the news—Arthur and D.W. rush to her side with heaps of chicken soup and stuffed animals, Muffy tries to pretend that nothing in her life has changed, and Francine is so upset she can`t even bring herself to visit Mrs. MacGrady. In this moving episode, both parents and kids learn how they can come together to support Mrs. MacGrady and each other—and Lance Armstrong makes a special appearance to show Francine and the Elwood City residents how they can take a stand, or ride a bike, for cancer survivors.
The Silent Treatment George wonders whether anyone would notice if he just disappeared, and so vows not to speak until someone notices him. Of course, his friends do notice, and they decide to cheer him up with a surprise party. Kung Fool Fern volunteers to help an elderly neighbour, Tony Wu, with his household chores, and then discovers his past life as a kung fu celebrity. Suddenly she imagines herself as his student, and she will soon be a kung fu master herself! But will Fern be disappointed to learn that dish cleaning and laundry folding are not really part of some special martial arts training? Or can she learn a valuable lesson in acceptance and friendship?
Arthur's Number Nightmare When Arthur and the gang suspect they are being ranked at school, they become obsessed with what the numbers mean. Is Arthur really smarter than Brain? And is Buster's lucky number eleven? The kids get a surprising lesson in numbers. Brain Gets Hooked Brain gets hooked on the latest tween reality show, Junior Island. He knows he has a problem when he starts to ignore his friends and his schoolwork. But what can he do to break the addiction?
MacFrensky When Francine and the Brain are locked in a stiff competition to win student of the month, Muffy talks Francine into 'borrowing' Buster's toy and letting Brain take the blame for it. As the lies grow and the prize gets closer, however, Francine's guilt increases. Can she come clean and wash her hands of this dastardly deed? The Good, the Bad, and the Binky As Emily's new babysitter, Binky introduces his charge to the world of pro-wrestling, and teaches her some fierce moves. But when Emily starts ruffling the feathers of other pre-schoolers on the playground, Binky worries that he has not been the best role model. Can he restore Emily to her former, tea-party loving, self?
No Acting Please When Fern lands a role in the Elwood City community production of It Began With a Whistle, she fears that she is not talented enough to be a star actress. But director Will Toffman, voiced by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, teaches Fern how to have fun, be herself and truly shine. Prunella Deegan and the Disappointing Ending The final volume of the Henry Screever series, The Knights of the Bouillabaisse, is released at last. Prunella and Marina compete to see who will be first to finish the book, but the two friends soon learn that speed reading does not always pay off.
When Carl met George George is excited about spending time with his new friend, Carl, who seems to know all kind of cool facts about trains and about... well lots of things! Then George learns that Carl has Asperger's Syndrome - a form of autism that makes Carl see the world differently than most people. Can George and Carl remain good friends - and perhaps even learn from each other? D.W. Swims with the Fishes D.W. and James enter the pre-school swim meet and recruit their big siblings to coach them. All goes swimmingly until Arthur and Molly start taking their jobs a little too seriously. Who's this race about, anyway?
The Tibbles sell their art works to raise money for a toy by using pity. Arthur, Binky, and Sue Ellen find a woodland oasis near their homes and vow to keep the area a secret. Soon they start to find evidence of human habitation and wonder if they've discovered an ancient civilization.
Fernlets by Fern Fern and Muffy start a greeting card business. Muffy paints the covers and Fern writes the poems. All the work makes Fern lose interest in writing, so she tries to figure out how to get make it interesting again. Prunella and the Haunted Locker Prunella is assigned a new school locker, which is rumored to be haunted. Prunella learns how to be brave and face her fears.
Paradise Lost Baby Kate begins to learn to talk, but starts to not be able to understand Pal anymore. They go to the Dolly Llama for an answer. The Pride of Lakewood To boost school pride, Arthur and his ates form the Lakewood Pride Committee, which seems to pressure and brainwash students to have pride for their school. Sue Ellen and Brain don't join the group and are accused of not loving their school.
Looking for Bonnie Famous rock musician Dean Lomax visits Elwood City and calls on George's dad to fix his equally famous guitar, named Bonnie. Legend says that Bonnie is magical, and Buster and George are convinced that just one strum will give them special powers. And during one late night sleepover, they sneak into Dad's workshop to find out if it's true... The Secret Origin of Supernova Arthur is dismayed when he learns an energy drink endorsed by his favorite comic book character is full of sugar - it doesn't give you any special energy or magic powers at all! Will Arthur be able to find any superheroes who aren't out to make money - or can he create his own?
Brain is put in a wheelchair after accidentally slipping on Buster's banana peel, and copes with the encouragement of Lydia, a disabled girl who uses a wheelchair. She helps Lakewood Elementary beat Mighty Mountain School in a basketball hoops contest. / George plans on doing a report on Buster. While waiting for Buster to get back to his house, his mother gives George a DVD with pictures of him on it. Buster thinks that George will write an embarrassing report on him, but it is the contrary.
While at the movie theater, Francine and Muffy notice the lack of female roles in movies. With the help of Molly, they make their own movie starring a female character. / After watching a reality show about crazy weddings, D.W. wants to have her own dream wedding with unicorns. She gets help from Emily, who helps her plan the wedding at the Crosswire Estate. She is confused when she finds out that she needs somebody to marry.
Brain starts to give people nicknames, but becomes frustrated when he is always being asked to give one to someone. When Binky starts making fun of Arthur, Brain gives him the nickname "Stinky Binky," which causes a chain reaction of other mean names. He resolves this by giving everyone soccer nicknames. / The kids abandon the playground to look at Muffy's mySmartPhoney. The Tough Customers get angry because there's nobody to pick on. Binky persuades Muffy to get everybody to use the playground again by turning it into a theme park.
Sue Ellen goes to Neil Gaiman's book signing, and he encourages her to write her own graphic novel. She decides to write about a war between circles and triangles. / Pal and Amigo try to get Mr. Toad to like lint after Pal accidentally bets a lot of socks for his house.
Freddie K. gives ownership of Meteor Comix to his cousin, Gerald. He makes it horror-themed, so Fern, Arthur, and Buster combine their money so they can get "Grotesquely Grim Bunny." It scares Arthur and Buster, but Fern likes it. / Arthur, Francine, Buster, and Muffy are making videos about Pal and Nemo, but to the pets' dismay, they aren't liking the results.
After Francine and Alberto get their soccer balls mixed up at the park, his "El Boomerang" ball travels around Elwood City, and eventually the world. Meanwhile, George is setting up a domino line, and is frustrated when Francine accidentally sets it off...twice. / Buster finds a letter in a bottle from a stranded 1960s explorer and believes it is from sea people in the lost city of Atlantis.
Wondering how big the world really is, Pal, Amigo, Kate, and Mei Lin take an imagined trip around the world, and they make a bet with Nemo that they can do it all in eleven minutes. / Muffy becomes addicted to blogging after chronicling her holiday to Costa Rica on her blog. However, after Francine suggests she should spend less time gossiping about everybody, they begin feuding online.
Grandma Thora teaches Arthur how to knit, but he's embarrassed about anyone knowing about it and attempts to hide it from his friends. / Muffy tries to come up with fashion trends after watching fashion icon Capri di Vapida on TV, but her ankle purses, edible scarves, and fluffy armings don't catch on. Instead, Sue Ellen's old hat grabs the attention of everybody.
While at a barber shop, D.W. gets her hair cut too short and the Tibble Twins begin teasing her about it, calling her "Dennis," so she asks for advice on comebacks from Grandma Thora and Mrs. MacGrady. / Chiekh, Brain's cousin from Senegal, moves to Elwood City. After being embarrassed that she doesn't know anything about Africa, D.W. is helped by Brain to remember all the countries in there and something about them by making them into a song.
After seeing footage of the Moon Landing, Buster decides to build a model rocket ship, and recruits Arthur, George, Carl, Francine, and Muffy to help him. However, chaos ensues until he receives advice from guest star Mike Fincke. / Deciding he performed disappointingly in a running race, George decides to walk from Crown City to Elwood City to raise money for autism research. Meanwhile, Arthur's pen pal, Adil, finds Alberto's "El Boomerang" soccer ball, which, after traveling around the world and into space, is returned to him on his birthday.
George is appearing on a game show. Arthur forgets his class report on Michelangelo to help his class get the 15 merit points to get them a No Homework Day. Kate and Pal try to get it to the school.
When picking out a tie for a clarinet recital, Binky holds his mom's hand. George sees it, and Binky tells him not to tell anybody. Meanwhile, the Tough Customers are trying to find out what Binky's secret is. / Timmy Tibble becomes disappointed and frustrated when he discovers that Tommy can really whistle real loud, but he can't.
Buster receives chocolates in the mail from a "secret admirer" and tries to uncover who it was sent by, asking everyone from Arthur to Molly. / James is sent a stuffed toy lamb based on a legend by relatives in Scotland, but his classmates don't like it when the Tibble Twins treat him like a king because of it.
Mr. Ratburn assigns his class to not spend any money for one week. Instead, they have to barter. / After seeing an advertisement for a "Dark Buggy" on TV and bringing it to school, Buster accidentally loses it in the teacher's lounge, so he tries to find a way to get it back with help from Binky.
There is a new candy bar out and Buster wants to eat it. / The third graders at Lakewood Elementary are stressing about their upcoming S.W.E.A.T. aptitude tests.
Grandpa Dave is moving closer to the family and the kids are thrilled. But something isn't quite right; he's forgetting all sorts of things. / Muffy, Arthur, and Buster are carpooling to their cooking class. Buster wants this to be the best carpool ever, but his rolling party on wheels turns into a disaster.
Arthur and Prunella are assigned to work together for the upcoming Earth Day fair at school, but he learns that she has kept several beloved items over the years and they have been piling up in her closet. / After Binky gets Muffy in trouble for using her cell phone in class, she learns that his real name and threatens to use this information as revenge against him.
Muffy starts a book club with Arthur, Francine, and Brain, but she refuses to read any other books they suggest after her own suggestions prove unpopular. / Mrs. Read's new client has a daughter D.W.'s age named W.D.. However, they are complete opposites and don't get along.
Fritz injures his ankle while staying at the Shady Pines Retirement Home and asks Buster to takes over. / Arthur can't find his glasses, so he gets a new pair.
After Bailey goes missing, Muffy realizes that she doesn't know anything about him when she searches for him. / After Fern tells Muffy and George she has no trophies, they come up with a plan to try to get her to win one.
A new student, Ladonna Compson, moves to Elwood City and joins Mr. Ratburn's class. She quickly impresses the gang with a wide variety of interesting stories about her old life back in Louisiana. However, after the facts in one of Ladonna's stories don't seem to hold true, they begin to wonder if she was ever telling the truth to begin with. This is a 2-segment episode
When Muffy posts a goofy video of Francine on the Muffington Post, Francine worries she will become the laughing stock of the entire school. / It's the 1st Annual Lakewood Derby and Muffy is revved up!
When Emily gets the starring role in the preschool play, D.W. is beside herself with jealousy. / D.W. and Emily are upset when they get stuck with the blocks at playtime.
Everyone loves HUGO-the new interactive whiteboard that claims to be 100% accurate. If only Mr. Ratburn knew how to use it. / D.W. enlists the help of the Brain to determine if Kate is above average, below average, or just average-average.
The Tibble twins are having their first sleepover! / A cupcake has been stolen! The primary suspect: Tommy Tibble.
Binky decides that the Tough Customers should quit bullying after noticing it is not effective anymore. Slink and Rattles agree with Binky, but Molly refuses to change. The boys try anything to get her to change her mind, but nothing works. However, after realizing that James is starting to copy her bullying, Molly decides to change her behavior. Brain starts a chess club at school, but Rattles is the only one who takes it seriously.
George is very knowledgeable about baseball, but he learns that he needs to play good as well. Brain tutors Buster at math to win a competition.
Lakewood Elementary has just instituted IRP: a program where kids can earn points (and prizes!) for reading. / Buster and the Brain never agree on movies.
Fern suffers from writer's block and writes a detective series heavily based on some of Ladonna's tales, without her permission. Sue Ellen becomes a vegetarian, which inspires Muffy and Francine to take it up. Muffy sees it as a trend but soon lapses, causing Francine to bet she can stay away from meat. Muffy goes too far when she hosts a meat-themed potluck dinner to trick Francine into eating meat, and Sue Ellen points out they are just looking for an excuse to fight with each other.
When Sue Ellen receives a new sweater from her pen pal, Arthur teases her about it, but is unaware how much his bullying is bothering her. Mr. Ratburn tells Arthur to write an apology letter to Sue Ellen, but his letter is insincere when he tells her she overreacted. He then mistakenly sends her an insulting picture and soon realizes how much of a bully he has been. Arthur and his friends recount their best days ever.
Killer participates in a dog show to put Sebastian Winkleplotz (Alan Cumming), the snobby champion, in his place. While Arthur takes care of Amigo, Pal fears that he has been replaced.
D.W. and Bud camp in the backyard, while Arthur and Ladonna build a diorama about Annie Smith Peck. Ladonna attempts to do many activities at once during her first fall in Elwood City, but is unable to keep up with all the events.
Alberto starts playing golf, while his overenthusiastic father embarrasses him during his games. Buster's jokes are now unable to make anyone laugh, so he tries to be as funny as possible.
When Arthur's room gets a leaky roof, he is forced to study in Buster's house for a while. Buster is annoyed by Arthur's neat tendencies, while Arthur finds it hard to study in Buster's messy room. Arthur wins two tickets to a concert, which his friends compete for.
Arthur catches Buster sucking his thumb, and begins avoiding him while not telling anyone about Buster's secret. Arthur and his friends start their own country to get out of homework and chores, but they realize that a world with no rules is not as good as it seems.
Francine wants to speak about pollution, but she must overcome her problems with speaking to crowds first. Ladonna is disappointed by the lack of snow in the winter, so Arthur and Buster try to make it snow.
Arthur tries using Nemo to catch a mouse in the house. Muffy, Binky, and Ladonna find a lost kite and argue over who gets to keep it.
George is inspired to make a movie, but his friends refuse to cooperate. When George accidentally breaks the class's prize woodworking project, Binky gets unfairly blamed.
Muffy's family is chosen to star in a reality show, but the producers order Muffy to be mean to Bailey. Muffy hires Buster to paint a portrait of her, but she is not pleased when he paints her as an alien.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars visit Elwood City, and everyone loves their music, except Binky. When a new ice cream shop opens up next to Brain's, he must come up with a gimmick to win back customers.
Muffy goes into the basement of the Crosswire mansion to find her imaginary friend. Francine is upset when she is forbidden to attend Catherine's 16th birthday party.
George hires Buster to find out why Fern is feeling sad. While Arthur is on a trip for the weekend, Buster must find someone else to hang out with.
When D.W. accidentally breaks a singing frog figurine while playing a game with Bud, they try to hide the evidence, but end up making a bigger mess. At first, Bud takes the blame for the mess, but D.W. eventually has a crisis of conscience and explains why she made the mess. D.W. and Bud are too short to go on a roller coaster, so they try to trick the ticket taker into letting them get on.
George's friends pressure him into wishing for school-closing snow. Prunella struggles with getting up early for her gymnastics class.
Muffy is sad to discover that one of her ancestors worked as a maid for one of Binky's ancestors - a lord. Upon further investigation, Muffy finds out how that maid got promoted to a business manager. Arthur umpires a baseball game, and he has to decide whether or not Buster properly scored a home run. When he judges in the opposing team's favor, Francine, Muffy, and Buster accuse him of making the wrong choice.
When Rattles and his mom are invited to stay at her boyfriend, Archie Vanderloo's, house for a weekend, Rattles is worried about fitting in with Archie's twin kids, Angie and Ansel. Angie speaks in weird slang that Rattles can almost never understand, while Ansel is overly competitive. The rest of the Tough Customers try to help Rattles prepare for his visit. Arthur and D.W. want to give their parents a vacation, so they suggest that they sit outside and relax. As chaos slowly builds up inside the house, Arthur is determined not to ruin their vacation by calling them for help.
Timmy is outraged when he discovers that Tommy was born two minutes before he was. Timmy, angered by his brother acting superior, calls on D.W. to put Tommy in his place. Ladonna accidentally ruins a fancy dress Muffy lends her.
Arthur tries to cut down on the cost of bills for his parents. D.W. saves Tommy and Timmy from a fall, and they feel the need to repay her, much to D.W.'s annoyance.
Arthur is embarrassed about having to go see D.W.'s spring pageant. D.W. is waiting for her new playground to be built, and all she has to play with is the box that it came in. She, Bud, and Emily see the box as a spacecraft, and they journey to a distant planet, where they encounter strange creatures of many varieties.
When a powerful hurricane hits Elwood City, Arthur and his friends are affected by it in various ways. Arthur starts a campaign to reunite lost pets with their owners. The first floor of the Crosswires' house is flooded, forcing them to stay in a homeless shelter until their house gets cleaned up. With her father being very busy, Ladonna fears that he will not come home in time for her birthday. Meanwhile, Brain gets traumatized after seeing the destruction of his family's ice cream shop and develops a fear of the wind, so he begins seeing a psychiatrist (voiced by Idina Menzel).
Brain, D.W., and Bud venture where no kid has gone before: his brain. / Brain plans to see a meteor shower for the first time.
Sue Ellen is dismissive about math until she runs into a problem her artistic vision can't solve. / Sue Ellen meets her pen pal but he is more interested in fashion than world culture.
Arthur accidentally gives away his chance at two million dollars. / Muffy, Buster, and Binky must agree on an idea for a new 18th hole at the miniature golf course.
Kate and Mei Lin get a chance to tour the solar system with Pal's cousin, Dr. Yowl, but Pal suspects he is up to no good. / Wally is missing and Elwood City's best detective is on the case. And that detective is Binky?! Not if Fern (A.K.A. Detective Virgule Watteau) has anything to say about it!
Buster tries to convince his friends that a megatoad exists amongst them, but as a result he begins to challenge his own beliefs about everything. / Buster's aunt's dog, Carrot Cake, dislikes Arthur.
Maria has always been a silent fixture in Mr. Ratburn's class but her time to speak has finally come. / When Binky's grandparents miss his big soccer game, he decides to film a video reenactment with his friends. Only things didn't quite happen the way he portrays them.
Carl's accordion routines are hindering George's puppet show rehearsals. George must decide whether to keep Carl and risk the show, or replace him and risk his friendship. / Buster enlists Binky's help to keep him from gorging on delicious cookies. Will he manage to keep his self control or crumble?
Francine takes a job as Muffy's personal assistant when she needs money to buy new cleats. / Lydia and Muffy join forces to topple a mean beauty queen in the "Little Miss Crocus" beauty pageant.
The kids suspects Mr. Ratburn is secretly a superhero when he receives mysterious calls and displays apparently superhuman strength. / Buster and Ladonna bond over a memorable trip to the movies, prompting Arthur to suspect she has taken his place as his best friend.
The last day of school approaches, and Arthur and Buster look forward to fourth grade, where they hope to find themselves in the class of the cool new teacher Mr. Cramp.
Buster turns back the clock to see what life would be like if he were a genius. Arthur finds out Buster has been lying to protect his feelings.
Fern considers giving up being a writer after a rejection. Buster relays the story of a missing cereal box on his podcast.
When an episode of Bionic Bunny is interrupted, Carl is the only one who can recall what comes next. Larry, the class bunny, wanders off.
Bud falls in love with his new pair of boots, but must learn to tie his shoes. D.W. is jealous when Grandma Thora becomes the town's most popular babysitter
Arthur, Buster, and Alan are worried when Mr. Ratburn isn't acting like himself. When Mr. Crosswire gets a robot butler for Father's Day, Muffy fears Bailey may be replaced.
At the Elwood City Picnic, Prunella pretends she can see the future at her fortune telling booth. The Lakewood Elementary soccer team has had enough of Francine's bossy behavior.
George becomes the new hall monitor at Lakewood Elementary. Ladonna is friendly, funny, and full of personality. Everyone likes her! At least, that's what she thought...
While trick-or-treating, Francine meets an elderly woman with a very mysterious past; Binky finds himself at Mr. Ratburn's amazing haunted house; and Arthur, Buster and Ladonna fear the tree house may be haunted.
When Binky gets an "A" on a test, Muffy and Francine are convinced he cheated. Alan makes a time capsule and gets overwhelmed by people asking to have their special belongings included.
Buster struggles to build a birdhouse that will save the community garden from pests, while Muffy and Francine design a cat toy.
When Ladonna befriends a new member of the Mighty Mountain Elementary Soccer Team, Francine becomes convinced she is leaking top secret team info. The City Council has voted to close the library!
Muffy worries that her friends don't need her anymore when they plan a bake sale without her. Arthur thinks Mrs. MacGrady is being treated unfairly and seeks guidance from Congressman John Lewis.
When Rattles takes over Slink's paper route, Slink is determined to prove himself and earn it back. When the Tough Customers go on a hike in the woods, Molly makes a few mistakes.
It's pretty hard to lose a dinosaur...but Rapty is missing! D.W. loves the Princess Platoon series until she realizes that it doesn't represent everyone.
In this all-new Arthur movie event, D.W.’s fifth birthday doesn’t go the way she had always imagined it would and she chose to escape to the magical island of Ukubonga. Meanwhile, Arthur has skipped her birthday party to go on a school trip to the planetarium – but instead of transporting him into outer space, it transports him four years in the future!
Kate appears to be hypnotized by the soccer game on the television! When Pal has to wear a cone, he takes advantage of his friends' special treatment.
The gang can't believe that Mr. Ratburn is getting married. Just about the entire third grade class chooses sides when Arthur and Buster argue over a video game.
Lakewood Elementary students must share their school with rival students whose school gets flooded. The gang doesn't know what to do when the Internet goes out.
Muffy is terrified when peregrine falcons build a nest outside her bedroom window. Binky must choose between starring in a television commercial or performing in a talent show.
Muffy worries that a petition to help protect the environment may put Crosswire Motors out of business. Brain suggests that Binky conduct a poll about the latest math test.
Buster's Uncle Bob tells him a spooky bedtime story about an encounter with a mysterious creature called the lycanbunny. Cheikh is worried that if he and his family become American citizens, they will have to abandon their Senegalese culture.
Fern and the others try to make an upset Ladonna feel better after she finds out her family is moving.
Prunella is directing the third grade's production of The Princess and the Pea, but nothing seems to go according to her plan. D.W. is determined to watch a new television show after her parents tell her she's too young to do so.
George volunteers to create a piece of art for the county-wide art show, but can't decide what to make. Arthur gets angry when a smoothie spills all over his new sneakers.
Arthur and friends support Mrs. MacGrady after she is diagnosed with cancer
D.W. meets a cool 13-year-old girl. Buster switches bodies with Mr. Ratburn for a day and learns how hard it is to be a teacher.
Pack your bags, buckle your seatbelts, and get ready for an ARTHUR road trip to the family farm! Arthur's Great-Grand Uncle Theo is celebrating his 85th birthday, so the Reads (and Buster) are off to Ohio to join in the festivities. While D.W. and Arthur learn that farm life is a little different than life in Elwood City, Buster worries he may be getting in the way at this family reunion. With the help of Cousin Miles, some llamas, and a little bit of music, they all discover what it truly means to be family.
Arthur and his family are getting ready for Thanksgiving! But when Pal disappears to go on his own adventure, family, friends and the rest of Elwood City try to get Pal home. Will they be able to celebrate the best Thanksgiving yet?
Binky spends the day with Bitzi Baxter and finds out what it is like being a news reporter. D.W., Bud, and Rapty set out to solve the mystery of what really happened to D.W.'s snowball.
George learns how to talk to adults. Arthur and friends learn that old silent films are just as much fun as the movies they are used to.
Muffy helps Francine deal with the death of her Bubbe. Arthur and Buster try to make the family vacation more exciting.
Buster learns how to keep a secret. The gang finds a fortune telling game and gets a hint of what their futures might hold.
Plans are under way in Elwood City for the best holidays ever! Arthur, D.W., their friends and family make preparations for perfect gifts, perfect parties, and perfect family traditions for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. But, just as in real life, perfection cannot last and things begin to fall apart. Arthur learns that the joy in Christmas isn't found in an artificial vision of the perfect holiday season, but in the wonderfully messy, imperfect world he lives in.
The first-ever Arthur movie. In Arthur's Missing Pal, Arthur's dog, Pal, goes missing. Arthur and Buster are certain that D.W. did it, but D.W. denies any involvement. Arthur and his friends mount a search throughout Elwood City for the missing dog.
Pack your bags, buckle your seatbelts, and get ready for an ARTHUR road trip to the family farm! Arthur's Great-Grand Uncle Theo is celebrating his 85th birthday, so the Reads (and Buster) are off to Ohio to join in the festivities. While D.W. and Arthur learn that farm life is a little different than life in Elwood City, Buster worries he may be getting in the way at this family reunion. With the help of Cousin Miles, some llamas, and a little bit of music, they all discover what it truly means to be family.
Arthur and his family are getting ready for Thanksgiving! But when Pal disappears to go on his own adventure, family, friends and the rest of Elwood City try to get Pal home. Will they be able to celebrate the best Thanksgiving yet?
It's finally the first day of fourth grade and Arthur couldn't be more excited -until he learns Buster is in another class! Meanwhile, D.W. is nervous for her first day of kindergarten. Will Arthur and D.W. be able to make new friends?
