Memes / Arthur

Arthur's Memes. D.W. not allowed.

"That sign can't stop me because I can't read!"

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• The Memetic Badassery of Arthur punching DW for destroying a model plane he was working on in "Arthur's Big Hit" has gathered a decent batch of memes made from it.
  • I told YOU... NOT! TO! TOUCH IT!! ^ExplanationThat line became a meme because people found it Narmy due to the hammy delivery of it.
  • *punch, Beat* "....AHEHEEEEH."
  • The popularly-dubbed "Arthur's Fist", wherein an image of Arthur initially making the fist^note He does so when D.W. tells him it's his fault his model plane cannot fly, just before the moment he punches her. is often presented out of context such as with "When X does Y for Z".
  • FALCON! PAWNCH!
  • FARUKON...PAAAAAAANCH!!
• Also, if it counts, using the Arthur Comic Creator game on the PBS website and making completely innocent stories with it has become popular with 4chan users and other forums.
• Oh, are you having cake? ^ExplanationMr. Ratburn loving cake and showing up just to ask if people are serving it is a Running Gag, which has become a meme due to its humour.
• This is spinach...and I! HATE! SPINACH!!!!!!^ExplanationFrom "D.W. the Picky Eater" — D.W. pounds the table at a restaurant while declaring she hates spinach, which is often used as a prime example of her being a Bratty Half-Pint.
• Buster: "You really think someone would do that — just go on the Internet and tell lies?"^ExplanationBuster being informed from Arthur on how some things online are not true. This lead to an Aesop about Internet facts and lies. Commonly used as a reaction gif or forum weapon when someone is blatantly lying to them.
• The Ass Was Fat.^ExplanationA picture of Arthur staring agog, which is used to react to people's butts.
• "He does it for free"^ExplanationPictures of Mr. Morris, the school's janitor from the earlier seasons, are used alongside this quote to mock mods (colloquially known as janitors) on 4chan.
• WWE fans have noticed the resemblance of hairstyles between AJ Styles and Molly MacDonald. This has led to fans bringing in signs like these.
• In mid-2016, Arthur screenshots became a popular source of memes, many of which are NSFW like this one. Arthur was even declared the meme of the year by top ten list-YouTube channel Watch Mojo.
  • The Arthur's angry fist clench reaction image, as mentioned above, was the most widespread Arthur meme of the craze. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like.
• This scene from the Season 17 episode "Binky's Music Madness", where Binky listens to a band called Bang On A Can All Stars and has an... unusual reaction to it has seen several remixes where Binky listens to other music/songs and has the same reaction, similar to a previous Peppa Pig trend.
  • Arthur wearing a set of headphones in a manner that they completely fail to cover his actual ears just before that scene.
• "Dear Sue Ellen: I'm sorry I upset you, I didn't mean to. It was really just a joke. I thought you could take a joke. But I guess I was wrong. I've been teased before about wearing glasses but I never felt I had to tell the teacher about it and get someone else in trouble. Maybe you're just over-reacting? I don't understand why you're so upset about such a small thing. I thought we were friends."^ExplanationA screenshot of the "apology" letter from Arthur in "So Funny I Forgot To Laugh" is used whenever someone makes a Backhanded Apology, as seen◊ here◊.
• Matt Damon's Ink-Suit Actor character from "The Making of Arthur" has become something of a Memetic Badass/Recurring Extra gag character in YouTube Poop, especially those made by Schaffrillas Productions in which Damon will show up almost Once an Episode.
  "You tell Arthur Read that he'll never eat lunch in this town again!"
• "Having fun isn't hard, when you've got a library card!" ^Explanation The beginning and ending song from "Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival" about how fun libraries are.
• "I was Jekyll Jekyll Hyde Jekyll Hyde Hyde Jekyll"^ExplanationBrain's catchy song from the episode "Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival". It's about him having nightmares after reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
• "That sign can't stop me because I can't read!" ^Explanation Comes from second season episode of Arthur, "D.W.'s Name Game." Used to mock people ignoring obvious demands or requests.
• "I HATE Martin Spivak!"^Explanation At one point in "Bitzi's Break-Up", Buster imagines his mother getting a new boyfriend - a boring person named Martin Spivak with a boring job. After the Imagine Spot, Buster exclaims this - to which Arthur says, "Who?"
• "Mom! There's a singing moose in front of the house!" ^Explanation A line from the episode "The Ballad of Buster Baxter" that Arthur says when he realizes that Buster didn't bring said singing moose (an Ink-Suit Actor version of Art Garfunkel) back with him after traveling. This line is quoted often when fans discuss childhood memories of the show.
• This exchange:
  "I can't believe I'd say this about my best friend, but you're a richist!"
  "A what?"
  "A richist! Someone who's prejudiced against rich people!" ^Explanation A line from the episode "Spoiled Rotten!", where Muffy accuses Francine of being "richist." Used when someone unironically complains about being "discriminated against" for their wealth, as done here◊.
• "I WANTED TINA THE TALKING TABBY!"^ExplanationD.W. throws a huge tantrum in "Arthur's Perfect Christmas" because she didn't get the toy she wanted. This scene has become popular in YouTube Poops.
  • From the same special, the scene where DW thinks she sees Santa in the bathroom but sees Arthur peeing instead, causing him to scream.^note  This is mainly due to the fact that Toilet Humor is rare in PBS Kids shows. PeanutButterGamer also gave this scene some considerable notoriety in his review of the special.
• A bear and chicken kissing each other with D.W. staring at them. ^Explanation As Arthur reads the poem "My Sister's A Sissy" at the beginning of "I'm A Poet", this visual is shown during the line "She's afraid of things with feathers, she's afraid of things with fur".
• "I said banana! Banana was MY idea! Without me, THERE IS NO BANANA!"^Explanation In "How the Cookie Crumbles", Muffy takes the credit for a cookie recipe that Arthur, Francine, the Brain, and Binky came up with. Binky is the one that suggested adding bananas, and when he finds out that Muffy took all the credit, he says this multiple times.
• "Arthur says the n word" ^Explanation:On the official Arthur Twitter, a teaser for the episode "The Feud" asks what would happen after angry words fly during friendly gaming. The internet being the internet, jokes ran wild about the episode having Arthur saying the N-word while gaming.
  • In a similar vein, "He's a knitter!" ^Explanation:In the episode "Arthur Unravels", Arthur has an Imagine Spot where he's forced to wear a "K badge" and is repeatedly referred to as a "knitter", which quickly became popular due to its accidental similarity to... another word.
• Gay rat wedding ^ExplanationA news article documenting Alabama banning the episode "Mr. Ratburn And The Special Someone" refers to the signature moment in the episode (Ratburn and his partner getting married) as this. While the situation is rather controversial, the way the moment was worded was considered strangely hilarious. This evolved to people claiming that rats/mice from various franchises showed up at the wedding, most popularly Remy from Ratatouille catering the wedding and Stuart Little being homophobic (for whatever reason).
  • Ratburn only got married for the cake ^Explanation Referring to Ratburn's Never Live It Down love for cake, and the fact that his husband is a caterer
  • Alabama banned the episode because Ratburn didn't marry his sister.^ExplanationThe crux of the episode is Arthur and company trying to figure out who Mr. Ratburn was marrying. They come to the wrong conclusion that a woman rat that he was meeting was his fiancé; though who was in actuality, his sister. Due to Alabama's ban as seen above, many people joked that Alabama banned the episode simply because Mr. Ratburn didn't marry his sister, owing to the Alabama's Deep South stereotype.
  • I SUPPORT GAY RATS ^ExplanationIn 2022, a guy posted to Reddit asking if he was wrong because he and his girlfriend were going to a wedding with two grooms and he didn't like her idea of showing up wearing a dress covered in stuffed rats, pride flags, and emblazoned with the words "I SUPPORT GAY RATS." The story became a meme for how ridiculous it was. (She ended up finding the post and got mad at him, they broke up, and he went to the wedding single. His friend who was getting married thought the situation was hilarious, but maintained that if she showed up in the gay rat dress, they would be kicked to the curb.)
• "Hey Arthur, want my camel?"^Explanation Said by Grandpa Dave in an Imagine Spot in "Arthur's Perfect Christmas." This line has become popular due to how bizarre it sounds.
• A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K^Explanation A Spelling Song that Arthur uses to memorize how to spell "aardvark" in "Arthur's Spelling Trubble." It's quite catchy, and even Arthur's dad thinks so. The song was also mixed into a remix of the theme song featured on the album Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix.
• "How do you get square balloons?" "Blow square breaths!"^Explanation An exchange between D.W. and a store clerk from "Arthur's Birthday". Made funnier by D.W.'s blank stare and finger pointing, as if she's about to say something but doesn't know how to respond.
• "In my Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" ^ExplanationA song from the episode "In My Africa" about all the countries in the continent that is often used to teach about the continent
• "Maybe a rich family will adopt me. I'm cute."^ExplanationWhen Arthur appears to have wrecked Jane's computer in "Arthur the Wrecker," D.W. believes that she'll lose her job and they'll become poor. She then says this as her plan if they can't fix it. This is usually a response to extreme financial anxiety.
• D.W. at the fence. ^ExplanationAn image of D.W. holding her hand up to a fence, frequently used as a reaction image to represent exclusion from something.
• D.W. smiling ^ExplanationAn edited image of D.W. smiling in a strange way.
• "There's a mushroom on your shirt." "Oh. I'm a failure." ^ExplanationIn the episode "Is That Kosher?", Francine struggles fasting through Yom Kippur and unintentionally takes a bite of pizza at Arthur’s party. Although Francine tries to hide what she did, her grandmother figures out that she ate pizza by noticing the little mushroom on her shirt. This makes Francine feel as if she failed at fasting, even though her grandmother comforts her for trying. This line gained attention on the internet for just how bizarre it sounds out of context.
• "Now I know what true power feels like." ^ExplanationD.W.'s response to getting her library card, from the episode "D.W.'s Library Card".
• This image of Arthur laughing maniacally, waist-high in quarters.
• Arthur and Buster trying to look cool in "Buster and the Daredevils".
• AOK Ruins Your Childhood's Adult Arthur is the Bad Future counterpart of the Time Skip in the finale "All Grown Up".
• The iconic sound cue signaling a flashback, Imagine Spot, or Dream Sequence has become near-synonymous with said tropes, and it is often used in YouTube videos (such as videos/memes about Arthur as a whole or in YouTube Poops) to transition to such scenes like in the original show.
• Arthur Robs a Bank/"Canadian Robbery"^ExplanationThis scene of Arthur conducting a "polite bank robbery" in an Imagine Spot in the episode "Water and the Brain" went viral for how strange it appeared out of context, with many people subsequently joking that this is how actual robberies are conducted in Canada.
• The Stock Sound Effect of Kate crying has been known as the "Baby Kate cry" even though it was a stock sound effect before the show was made.

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