History WMG / Arthur

* An adult in the kid's life could be out as gay or [[BiTheWay bi]], and bring in another character of the same gender to show. Seven/eight is a little young for kids to really know about the complexity of sexuality, but having a parent come out will allow the writers to show that it is all right and there is nothing to worry about if a person in their life is gay.

[[WMG: At one point, the show will have an expy of DonaldTrump]]

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I'd Rather Read it Myself shows how good D.W. is at story telling. She starts writing down story ideas in her late teens and gets her first book published in her 20's (she also uses D.W. Read as her name because it already sounds like a name for an author). Her first book is an action adventure book about 2 best friends, Nadine and Bonnie Wilma (or B.W.!)

Seriously, she fits the symptoms of one perfectly. LackOfEmpathy, ManipulativeBitch, a grandiose sense of self-worth, a NeverMyFault mentality, selfishness, and chronic lying. This also opens up some FridgeHorror at how she will turn out as an adult.

If the show keeps being as progressive as it is, we might just get some kids who are LGBTQ+ ... but likely, not touching on sexuality, because, after all, they are pre-pubescent. However, most kids have a decent grasp on gender. If this does end up happening, Alabama won't like it, and do what it did with the Mr. Ratburn episode from season 22.

In "The Great Lint Rush," a group of toads invade the Read home and look for lint. During this time, Mr. Toad opened the freezer and stole the snowball, mistaking it for a ball of lint. Cue "D.W.'s Snow Mystery."

[[WMG: The Ghost girl from The Fright Stuff is Wednesday Adams]]

[[WMG: this show shifts between parallel realities.]]

Sort of like they did with the Mr. Hooper episode of Sesame Street possible candidates include
* Grandma Thora: It's already been done as a creepypasta
* Grandpa Dave: The episode Grandpa Dave's memory album reveals that [[spoiler: He is in the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease.]] This disease is progressive which means eventually this is inevitable
* Mr Haney: His voice actor passed away recently which was the justification for [[spoiler: Him leaving to build the school]]

* Francine's Grandmother. She was voiced by Joan Rivers who is dead.

[[WMG: The reads are Latino/Hispanic]]

[[WMG: Nadine is a ghost]]
[[WMG: The ghosts in Castle manor died when a prank that got out of hand]]

[[WMG: Buster eventually becomes a teacher at Lakewood Elementary School.]]
[[WMG: Mr. Ratburn eventually becomes the principal of Lakewood Elementary School.]]
[[WMG: Let me tell you a story]]

[[WMG: On the Arthur show if someone has 'seen' a spirit in another episode. They can "see* other people's dream spirits.]]
I say this because in Arthur Changes Gears-he and Binky (as "the ghost of bicycles never ridden") go to Pruellena's house and Pruellena can *see" the GOBNR ghost but mistakes him for "The ghost of lunch tomorrow" one.

[[WMG: At some point, a Franchise/WonderWoman {{Expy}} will be introduced to go with Bionic Bunny and Dark Bunny]]

* I disagree with your "not-so-honest parents" theory. Her parents are foster parents. She's the Batman. *cue Dark Knight theme.

He is similar to Tigger.

[[WMG: DW is the EldritchAbomination feeding off Arthur]]

* They've done a bunch of other tough topics, from cancer to cursing.

* Arthur does episodes that the average 7-year old can relate to. A seven year old can relate to bullying, having hard teachers, knowing people with diseases (asthma, allergies, cancer), etc. No seven year old is going to be having sex! Therefore Arthur isn't going to go there!!!

* There's a simple reason why this won't happen, Parental groups would kill it. Look what happened to the episode of Buster's spinoff series about gay parenting.
** The episode wasn't even about gay parenting. It was about making syrup in Vermont. One of the characters just happened to have "two moms", it was only mentioned once, but people still went crazy and most stations won't air the episode. So yeah, unlikely that there will be a full-on episode about it, seeing as how the mere MENTION of gay people existing in a children's show is enough to piss people off.
* An adult in the kid's life could be out as gay or bi, and bring in another character of the same gender to show. Seven/eight is a little young for kids to really know about the complexity of sexuality, but having a parent come out will allow the writers to show that it is all right and there is nothing to worry about if a person in their life is gay.

For once, could we get an episode from Catherine's Point-of View, or Molly's? We have had views from the main cast (Arthur, Fraince, Binky, Brain, Muffy, Sue Ellen), we've had episodes from D.W.'s, Kate and Pal's point of views, and from a Pen Pal of Arthur's point of view. So why not have an episode= from the "older" side? Eight-year-olds aren't the only one who watch it; older kids watch it too (besides, we could at least get a glimpse of the high school).
* [[spoiler: In season 21's "The Master Builders," Catherine explains that she attends a Career and Technical Education high school; we get a look at the school's interior and its 3D printer. An episode called Take a Hike, Molly!" is forthcoming.]]

*** Canonically he's been held back.

[[WMG: Doug Funnie was once a resident of Elwood City]]

[[WMG:Arthur takes place after TheSingularity]]

[[WMG:The entire series is being told by an UnreliableNarrator]]

Many years from now, he has written an autobiography detailing his childhood and his friends. All of the episodes were in fact at different points in their lives, before and after the year of third grade (when the series seems to take place). Most of the stories are told from his perspective. Hence D.W being more bratty in some episodes or Mr.Ratburn giving homework that normally be a part of the high school curriculum. Why be unreliable? It would be dull to write what actually happened, so he embellishs it, or maybe he doesn't remember everything.
* ''Cousin Catastrophe'' seems to support this. He warps Molly into a bully as a child, when she was simply playing around.
* I think that the show was set up like that to connect more with the target audience. I mean, when you were a kid, there was no way in hell that you would say that you were getting, "just the right amount" of homework. In your mind, your younger siblings were always a pain in the butt, you were always given a mountain of homework, and just about everything was over exaggerated/a big deal in your mind. It's just simply telling it from a kid's perspective.
* I agree. I mean the kids are just exaggerated character traits of kids in regular classes. That's why Brain is portrayed to be so smart even though he's only 8 years old. Because Arthur considers Brain to be someone that's so smart, Brain is portrayed as someone that has an alleged evil robot, can calculate math at a college level, etc.

[[WMG: Francine is not Jewish in the books]]

However he forgets his true identity. Arthur's Big Hit is his original personality breaking through.

[[WMG: All the humans are extinct]]

[[WMG: A future episode will bring back the show's Harry Potter analogy]]
Ever since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out, the show stopped having Prunella/Marina episodes focusing on their relationship linked by the HP analogy, Henry Screever. However, with the movies now done, and Pottermore on the Internet, the writers might bring it back.

[[WMG: Nadine is like Hanyuu from ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'']]

[[WMG: Fern's family is suppose to represent a interracial family]]

* D.W.'s friend Emily's family maybe as well. Her dad's an ape, her mom's a rabbit, and she has characteristics of both

Look at it this way: The only reason that W.D. was referred to as a "she" was because it gets old/complicated trying to refer to xir without pronouns, and most adults don't know what Spivak pronouns are, much less children. Xie was referred to as female a total of 4 times throughout the episode, where they never hesitate to refer to any other character with a gender.

Canonically, xir parents wanted a girl, so they're raising xir as a girl. However, xie wants to be a boy, and does boy things. Xir parents, holding the IdiotBall, just treat xir as a tomboy. D.W. is just as much of a tomboy as W.D. (just in different areas), yet D.W. is always referred to as "she" and always has been. W.D's parents only THINK they're letting xir be xirself, when actually, they're holding xir back quite a bit by referring to xir as a girl. In xir teen years, this will lead to a massive power/sexual struggle between W.D. and xir parents when xie finally realizes xie wants to be a real boy. If W.D. doesn't already know that xie's intersexual, it will just make it that much more difficult in xir later years.

[[WMG: The show takes place in Canada]]
The show hints this as Ratburn in one episode assigns the class something about the beaver in Canadian history. Emily's babysitter maybe a Francophone Québécoise. Also during a cold opening David saw that his weight was 185, that almost 400lb!. All of the fact point out that the show takes place there!

[[WMG: The show takes place in New England]]

[[WMG: The reason Buster lives with his father for three seasons is because it is believed his mother molested him]]

[[WMG: Arthur gained an unhealthy obsession with cosmetic surgery at some point]]

[[WMG: Bi-species characters can have a mix of traits from their parents]]

[[WMG: Carl grows up to be Series/TheBigBangTheory Sheldon Cooper]]

[[WMG:"Crazy Bus" is about a literal crazy bus]]

* The person that made up the song in the shower probably experienced the fate of riding a crazy bus to the mental hospital as a kid (perhaps as a kid he was locked up in the [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum Asylum]] from Series/AmericanHorrorStory. After years of trauma and even more years of therapy he made a song about it the only way he could and thus the song about a "Crazy Bus" was born. He probably didn't expect the money it would bring him or the musical based off the song.

[[WMG: D.W. is a Time Lord]]

[[WMG: Mr. Toad is a con artist]]
Always thought it was weird that they had an episode dedicated to D.W. bonding with a Toad, only for him to disappear. Then I realized, Mr. Toad never wanted to be D.W.'s pet. He just wanted access to her socks so he could steal them and use them in the sock market. He knew Spanky had died and wanted to catch D.W. on the rebound. He probably does this to kids all over the neighborhood.

Not much evidence exists, but since Arthur's Perfect Christmas explicitly mentions Jesus and church, it's a possibility. Also, it's a stretch, but many Christian parents do not like for their children to watch shows such as Power Rangers, of which the violent cartoon the Tibble twins like is an Expy. Jane Read's response to them wanting to watch it at her house could be because of this. Then again, Arthur does read and enjoy Henry Skreever, so make of that what you will.

** Arthur's Perfect Christmas also depicts the Reads walking out of a church, so they are at least mildly observant Christians.

In "What's in a Name," we find out that [[spoiler: Binky's real name is Shelley. He was called that until age two, when he became very attached to his pacifier, to the point that his parents nicknamed him Binky.]] It's possible that Binky's parents are or were friends with Rattles' parents, and that Rattles also acquired his nickname from a baby toy--a rattle.
* In "Take A Hike, Molly", it's revealed that Rattles really is a nickname, but an EmbarrassingNickname: He's actually terrified of snakes and when he was younger, would freak out by saying "Ah! A Rattler!" whenever he thought he saw a snake. Why he goes by it and what his real name actually is isn't known.

* What really convinces me is all the DisproportionateRetribution she does: her two pranks went on to the point of being spiteful, and in ''I'm a Poet'' she gets annoyed at everyone following her and yapping until she shrieks loud enough to set off a ''car alarm''. Most of my childhood problems were bottling up too much anger and annoyance until I ''just blew up''.

[[WMG: Nobody ages because there was no green flash.]]

Because of the Chaos, nobody ages, and everyone is forced to simply keep accumulating experiences without actually growing. This explains why so many of the characters have lost a lot of their childlike innocence compared with the earliest episodes of the show. Eventually, they will just keep becoming more and more jaded and cynical, with the exception of those that have been saved. (D.W. perhaps? She still seems to be fairly innocent.)

[[WMG: Fern Knew It Was George Who Destroyed The Ferris Wheel]]

* It could explain why Rattles is a bully, too. He likes knitting and sewing in "Arthur Unravels", is a very skilled chess player in "Brain's Chess Mess", dances ballet on occasion (like "D.W., Dancing Queen), and frequently speaks words that are way above his school grade. But since boys having giftedness invites ridicule, Rattles chooses to act like a tough bully so no one would suspect a thing.

[[WMG: Ms. Sweetwater is actually the closet thing the school has to a special ed. Program]]

Jenna is a great athlete which presents a challenge in helping her balance all her activities, but also shy. (And bedwets, but I don't think that's as relevant here.) Maria stutters and also seems to be shy. And then there's whatever Alex's deal is.

[[WMG: The Toad who occupied the can of flowers for D.W.'s dead pet Bird Spanky is Spanky reincarnated.]]

[[WMG: Mr. Toad stole the snowball]]

[[WMG: The Toad who occupied the can of flowers for D.W.'s dead pet Bird Spanky is Spanky reincarnated.]]

[[WMG: The toad who occupied the can of flowers for D.W.'s dead pet Bird Spanky is Spanky reincarnated.]]