Angry Arthur: 40th Anniversary Edition

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Periphery Demographic: Massive and vocal, especially in the older seasons of the program. Even currently, though, the program maintains a large number of fans who theoretically should have "outgrown" the program a long time ago, or who have never been in its target audience in the first place during the time that it's been airing. And then there's those fans... To a lesser extent, "To Eat or Not to Eat", considering how out-of-place for the show it is having the villain con children into actually eating drugs. Not to mention, said drugs work in a very strange way; the addictive effect is caused by "molecules dying", "zorn jelly" is one of the ingredients, and their selling point is that they make sparkles shoot out of your mouth. The idea of Arthur getting a pen pal in "Dear Adil" (2003) seems kind of unspectacular after the rise of social media, where one can speak to anyone anywhere in the world in real time. In Season 1's " Arthur Cleans Up", Arthur complains about the state of a city park by claiming "the oceans are full of oil." Fast forward to April 2010...

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Arthur showed the finished drawing to his teacher and told her how Thomas had made him mad. “THOMAS!” called the teacher. Mention Arthur to the average person and the first thing that comes to their mind is almost always the TV show instead of the original line of picture books it was based on. Though the show also mentions at the end that Arthur books can be found at your local library, at least.The Squirrels" has Arthur renting videos from a video rental store, which is a business that had gone extinct by the time the show ended in 2022 thanks to the rise of streaming services. Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest" is this in the United States. Laws introduced in the early 2000s prohibit forcing the consumer to buy a product to be eligible to participate in a contest. Arthur and his friends, in third or fourth grade, are allowed to walk or bike around the neighborhood with no adult supervision; Buster says that his mother asked him to carry a cellphone for the bikeathon so she could monitor his progress. Owing to them knowing everyone, and having the town map memorized, this isn't seen as an issue and they actually save Perky's life when finding out she was the one making strange noises in the woods. Free-Range Children is more of a concern in the 2020s, and at the least adults would advise the kids to use the buddy system all the time. The song that plays throughout "Binky Rules" and "Meet Binky" was not created by the show, nor is it even by a band called Binky. It's " Matalii Ja Mustii " by Finnish band Värttinä. After 15 long years of being in the hands of Cinar/ Cookie Jar Entertainment, the license was passed on to 9 Story Entertainment, who proceeded to switch from traditional to Flash animation. Many longtime fans haven't been too happy about the results so far. Never mind that several pre-9 Story episodes were already done in Toon Boom Harmony as tests.

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Nice Guy Arthur and The Bully Molly are shipped together in light of "Arthur Makes Waves", where their friends assume that they must be in love upon seeing them hanging out together.In " Sue Ellen's Little Sister", Sue Ellen spends time around D.W. to see what having a sister would be like, and even shows off an origami crane she spent a lot of time on. D.W. tosses it out a window because she thinks it can fly. And no, she wasn't punished this time either. Another example is " Arthur vs. the Very Mean Crossing Guard". The ending has D.W. ridiculing Arthur and Brain for believing and worrying about the crossing guard's claims that he'll charge them to cross the street and that he'll send goons after them. She (and the guard himself) may see it as obvious joking, but he certainly doesn't seem like he was kidding. Mind you, it gets lampshaded when the guard sincerely apologizes for scaring them.