History WhatAnIdiot / Arthur

* "Arthur's Pet Business": To prove that he can handle the responsibility of owning a puppy, Arthur starts a pet business. His first customer is Mrs. Wood, whose dog Perky is in a grumpy mood. We learn it's because she's pregnant, with at least four puppies. In a later appearance, Perky is much nicer when she has to be rescued in the woods.\\

'''The Result''': Arthur does a stellar job taking care of Perky but feels wracked with guilt when it seems no matter what he does, he can't please her. Perky happens to vanish on the day Mrs. Wood is going to pick her up because she went into labor. Fortunately, EarnYourHappyEnding is in full effect; Mrs. Wood thanks Arthur for taking good care of the young mother, paying him as promised, and offering him one of Perky's puppies. This dog ends up being Pal.\\
'''To Be Fair''': Perky had a tense relationship with the local mailman, who, according to Arthur's father, had nicknamed her "Jaws". It may be that Perky was not just in a bad mood because of her pregnancy, but is instead a picky dog.

'''Instead''': Arthur apparently doesn't, and Francine then says through threatening notes and a phone call to D.W. that she's not speaking to him even though they have to work on a project together.\\
'''The Result''': They decide to research two different women based on what the librarian tells them, and Arthur is still befuddled at Francine's hypocrisy since she has called him worse things.

'''Instead''': No one notices Arthur napping for several hours while he's reading a book. No one tells Francine as well.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Francine and Arthur would put aside their fight and keep trying to work together.\\

'''Instead''': Buster shoots his mouth off and suggests they were stolen. Okay, not bad yet...then he says Arthur got the high score at pinball. ''[[TooDumbToLive While bringing up the fact that pinball requires quarters to play, and a truckload of them if you want the high score.]]'' Buster may be naive, but even ''he'' should know better than this.\\

'''Instead''': She somehow completely misses the fact, over multiple occasions, that the brownie mix and finished brownies contain the quarters that everyone is looking for.\\

* "Francine Frensky, Superstar": Francine is given the lead of Thomas Edison in the classroom's school play. She's determined to do her best since she never gets a good part. Her determination makes everyone else miserable, however, with how she micromanages everyone and yells at them for not being perfect.

'''You'd Expect''': They would both go to Mr. Ratburn and ask him to overrule Francine. Brain should also report her for screaming at Brain over a costume design disagreement. Mr. Ratburn is stern but fair, as we see at the end of the episode. He would remind Francine that artistic license is acceptable when accounting for actors and students' well-being.\\
'''You'd Also Expect''': Brain would tell Francine bluntly that if they design an "incandescent lamp" the way she wants, without air holes, it will kill Buster via suffocation. He's not afraid to drop hard truths when the science supports him.\\

'''To Makes Matters Worse''': A season 4 episode reveals that Buster has asthma, which would put him at greater risk if something should ever make him suffocate.\\

'''Instead''': Francine, bolstered by her ego and perfectionist attitude, scoffs and says everyone is jealous because they don't have her potential. The whole class is listening in to Arthur's futile attempts and getting angrier. Binky, Brain, and Muffy vow to teach her a lesson.\\
'''The Result''': The cast mutinies during the dress rehearsal: Arthur as a phonograph pretends to be a telephone, Buster squirts her with water, and Binky in a reenactment of the Great Train Robbery fights with the robbers Muffy and Jenna. Rather than go along with the improv, since technically it's keeping the kindergartners entertained, Francine feels humiliated and breaks down in tears afterward. Mr. Ratburn has to mediate to get her to apologize in time for opening night.
* "D.W.'s Baby": After the bit where Arthur burps Kate and starts getting along with her, D.W. gets jealous that he's being allowed to take care of Kate. Meanwhile, several months have passed and Arthur's parents want to break her of the habit of waking up at night since she no longer needs round-the-clock feeding. They decide to move her crib into D.W.'s room.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They'd wait until the habit is broken completely before moving Kate, and help D.W. in babyproofing the room. Or that D.W. would get some earplugs or means of sleeping through the night.\\

'''The Result''': After several nights of being unable to sleep due to Kate's constant crying, D.W. is understandably grumpy and resentful. She tries to blame several pranks on Kate so that her parents will get rid of the baby, tries to sell Kate at a garage sale, and finally decides to run away. Fortunately, she goes to Grandma Thora, who while humoring her attempt convinces her to turn around and stay to take care of Kate.

'''You'd Expect''': David and Jane at this point would tell Arthur and D.W. that if they can't play together quietly, they can go to separate parts of the house and play alone. Arthur has plenty of books to read, and D.W. is shown to play Confuse the Goose with Nadine sometimes. It's harsh, but necessary at this point. Arthur's boredom is preventing him from being civil, and D.W. is too bratty to get along.\\

** It's the first family trip out to the beach. Dave wants to make good time while driving so they can reach check-in time for the Family Fun Suite. \\
'''You'd Expect''': He would stash the car with snacks for the kids, and make sure everyone uses the bathroom before leaving. Driving with a four-year-old, a newborn, and an eight-year-old is no picnic. Changing Kate's diaper is one thing, as is traffic, but kids needing food and all is another.\\

'''Instead''': Muffy, boastful to a fault, claims that she's a math expert and blows off studying. Then on the big test day, she copies off Francine's test. Their teacher, Mr. Marco, sees two identical tests.
** Mr. Marco then sees the test and finds out that one of the girls copied from each other. Muffy immediately puts on an "I didn't cheat" act while Francine gasps and is in shock. \\
'''You'd Expect''': Mr. Marco would remember that Francine is an ace student, who has consistently gotten good grades. Fern says as much when the others are talking about it at the Sugar Bowl. Muffy also was disrupting the class with her introductory video about her family.\\

* "Poor Muffy": The carpets in Muffy's house make her sneeze all the time. When the Crosswires argue about where to live while the carpet is getting replaced, Francine offers to let Muffy stay at her house while Mr. and Mrs. Crosswire stay at the mansion. Mrs. Crosswire says it should be fine as long as Francine's family agrees.\\

** Arthur gets chickenpox, and D.W. is being a giant brat about it. She at first assumes Arthur is PlayingSick, and then wants to play nurse to him after he develops spots. Grandma Thora comes to help and gives Arthur a break while treating his chickenpox. D.W. doesn't get the memo that she's not in charge, Grandma Thora is.\\

** Aunt Lucy is getting married. D.W. is excited, but due to being four years old, she's too little to help with any duties. David in another episode found out D.W. can't carry cakes without making a big mess. She still wants to help and have a role, however. Cousin Cora has been designated flower girl, and Arthur is the ring-bearer.\\

'''You'd Expect''': The Reads to do a wedding rehearsal the day before; they're saving on many costs by having David do the cake, and it would allow Cora and Arthur to practice to get technical difficulties out of the way. They are only kids.\\

* In the episode "Arthur's Lost Dog" while visiting a street carnival Arthur's dog Pal gets lost trying to retrieve a balloon for Kate, who had thrown a temper tantrum when she wasn't able to get one as the man selling them passed by. Pal eventually does get one, and brings it to Kate, even after Arthur fell under the impression that Pal ran away from him intentionally.\\

'''Instead:''' It completely blows past them when Kate stops crying the moment she gets her balloon, cluelessly stating "I guess we'll never know what was bothering her"; even worse, they let her keep playing with it despite the risks involved. Even Pal is dumbfounded.
* "The Scare Your Pants Off Club": Mr. and Mrs. Crosswire overreact badly when they think Muffy got a nightmare from reading a Scare Your Pants Off Book. They then launch the campaign Parents Against Weird Stories, or PAWS, to ban the books from libraries and bookstores. [[spoiler: Muffy got the nightmares from eating her dad's ice cream and happens to have read all the books, owning all of them.]]\\

** Mr. Rogers is a family friend of the Reads, and he's staying with them before visiting Arthur's school the next day. Arthur gets mortified when he tells his friends about the second part, and they say that Mr. Rogers is "for babies".\\

'''The Result''': Due to Brain, Prunella, and Rubella trying to sneak a look into Arthur's living room, suspecting that he's become a "zombie", Mrs. Tibble mistakes them for burglars in the dark and calls the cops. It comes out on the evening news that Mr. Rogers is staying with the family, meaning that Arthur caused the events due to his paranoia. And it turns out his friends are more awed than mocking when they learn Mr. Rogers stayed at Arthur's house, and are asking questions.

'''The Result''': Adult Fear for Dave and Jane ensue when they get a phone call saying Arthur never showed up at his swimming lesson. They call the police and the bus company, while a frantic D.W. is left to wait with Pal. Arthur had fallen asleep on the bus and only woke up for the last stop at the edge of town. He doesn't want to bother the bus driver because he doesn't have enough money for another fare, and the nice chef at the diner has to convince him to ask for help since she knows the driver is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.

'''You'd Expect''': By this point, Arthur and Buster would either get the entire team or their coach to intervene. They're not the only ones suffering; Francine and Brain are letting their entire team suffer from a ridiculous grudge. Also, having an adult may cause the pair to have a JerkassRealization.\\

'''The Result''': Francine and Brain figure out that the letters were faked, especially since Buster can't spell "soccer", and while they make up, they say they're mad at Arthur and Buster.

** Buster tries a new fish stick ice cream that Brain's parents have made. It ends up luring a CatUpATree down and into his arms. The cat owner thanks him and takes him to his mother, who's a journalist, to call Buster a hero.\\

* In the episode "Play It Again, D.W." Arthur is driven crazy when D.W. constantly plays her "Crazy Bus" CD single. At one point (when he's trying to concentrate to do his homework), he yells at D.W., saying that he'll wreck the CD if she continues playing it. She tattles to her parents.\\

'''Instead:''' They side with D.W. and ground Arthur.\\

'''The Result''': Buster goes to confess to Mr. Ratburn in private, who decides to give Buster an extension till Friday since Buster did technically write a report, just not one on a book. Arthur thinks this is great news, only for Buster to confess he's never finished an entire book, not even the Scare Your Pants Off Books.
** Buster needs to read a book in three to four days for his report. Francine suggests he start with something easy, and Arthur believes Buster should read something that he will enjoy. Arthur lends him Curse of the Jumping Peanut, the latest Scare Your Pants Off Book, only for Buster to admit he could only read to page two. Francine and Arthur then agree to find an easy book, at a younger reading level, at the library.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Jane and David would warn D.W. that reporting a false emergency is CryingWolf and they'll have to confiscate the whistle if she keeps being a "tattletale" rather than using her brain to spot real danger.\\

'''Instead:''' Arthur takes D.W. to the city dump with him to steal a wheel off an abandoned bike, even though they are forbidden to go and know it's a dangerous place.\\

* "Water and the Brain": Muffy feels hurt when Brain turns down an invitation to her pool party at a water park. He keeps giving various excuses to her and everyone else why he doesn't participate in water-based activities. Eventually, Arthur figures out that Brain has a phobia of water and swimming. Binky finds out right when he's about to pelt Brain with water balloons and starts crying TearsOfRemorse. They resolve to help him attend Muffy's party.\\

'''Instead:''' While they do call her out for being a brat, they do not punish her in any meaningful way, forcing Arthur to enlist Francine's help in finding out what's wrong with her. And even then, she faces no consequences for her violent behavior, instead getting rewarded with an ''invitation to Francine's party''. Francine did manage to talk some sense back into her, but D.W. still faced nothing for her actions.

** After they already get frustrated and nearly cut all ties with her (rightfully so), she realizes she never wrote down the recipe. When she can't piece it back together by memory, she goes back to Arthur, Binky, and Francine asking for it. Of course, they just happen to have it in their hand when she drops by. She gives a BackhandedApology in an attempt to be contrite.\\

* "Sue Ellen And The Brainosaurus": It's time for group projects on animals, and Sue Ellen is paired with Brain. After they agree to host a presentation on the T.Rex, Brain starts shutting her out of the actual work and insists on doing everything. While Sue Ellen at first worries that Brain is overworking himself, she gets insulted on realizing that he's being condescending.\\

'''The Result''': Sue Ellen hits her RageBreakingPoint, calls him a "report-hog" and lets him fall in the mud when he's carrying the model to school. Brain goes to vent to Francine, who laughs and points out that he's being a condescending ass that doesn't trust anyone else. Only then do he and Sue Ellen apologize to each other, and Sue Ellen uses their report to talk about archaeological digs, with the model being in pieces in the mud. Everyone is impressed, and they get an A together.

'''The Result''': The graffiti team accidentally frames Binky the kid by spraying "BINKY RULES" all over the school, and not noticing when the graffiti is washed away the next day. When Buster and Fern, who were investigating to clear Binky's name, alert the manager after seeing the team in action near the hardware store, he's very apologetic, admitting this was his fault. The manager gives them a ride to the school, confirms that this was a band promotion to Mr. Morris and Mr. Ratburn, and asks the crew to clean up the graffiti.\\

* "Attack of the Turbo Tibbles": The Tibble Twins start getting obsessed with a violent animated cartoon after a series of events leads to them seeing it at the Read family house. They are so obsessed that they dress up as the two main characters from it and act out scenes from the show, picking fights with Emily and D.W by pretending they are the various mooks. Ms. Morgan repeatedly tells them off during school because the boys are being disruptive, are hurting themselves, and harassing the other students. They listen to her, but she can't stop the boys from doing the same thing outside of school. D.W. for her part is getting fed up about the Turbo obsession and blames Arthur since if he hadn't complained about the Tibbles and D.W. playing loudly outside, they wouldn't have seen the show in the first place. Arthur tries to give advice, based on his limited experience babysitting the twins.\\

'''The Result''': D.W. tries her best to stand her ground, but the boys refuse to stop playing. She then gets hurt when Timmy pushes a swing into her face; the force of the blow splits her lip. She curls into a ball crying and bleeding while Emily runs to Mrs. Tibble for help. Only ''then'' do the boys have a JerkassRealization and run off thinking they might have killed D.W., and Mrs. Tibble puts her foot down. She doesn't punish them, but she tells them they need to go visit D.W. at the ER, where she's getting stitches, and apologize to her. The boys readily agree because they're relieved D.W. is alive and are genuinely sorry. It's fortunate that the Reeds and Mrs. Tibble get along well, that D.W. forgives the boys for making her go to the hospital, that all the Reads know that Tommy and Timmy for all their brattiness wouldn't want to hurt anyone and that the ValuesDissonance of the 90s means that no one will be filing a civil suit against the boys for assault.

'''Instead:''' [[NoSympathy They view it]] [[BrokenAesop as justified karma.]]

'''You'd Expect''': Brain would step in and remind people that you don't remove a wild animal from its habitat. They should let the snake go. It will be fine.\\

* "That's A Baby Show!": Arthur got a recommendation from Buster to watch a spinoff of Bionic Bunny called Dark Bunny. It comes on after D.W.'s show, so he sits in the chair waiting for Mary Moo Cow to end. D.W. saw Dark Bunny once and the visuals terrified her.\\
'''You'd Expect''': D.W. would just get up and leave when the show is on, the way Arthur does when she's watching Mary Moo Cow.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Francine would know some basics about preventing a head lice spread. Don't wear the hat, especially given the "head" part of "head lice".\\

'''To Make Matters Worse''': When bringing it to the nurse's assembly the next day, Sue Ellen tries out the hat. Other kids grab it and wear it, just as the nurse orders them not to share articles of clothing\\

'''Instead''': She not only pulls out all the full stops but also goes so far as bribing Mr. Ratburn with muffins as part of her campaigning. The last time she did food bribery, during the science fair, Francine and Brain sent her a fake love letter as a form of "revenge".\\
'''The Result''': While Arthur still thinks that the election is just for fun, he becomes motivated to work hard at his campaign, with handmade flyers, campaign promises he could honor, and a big smile. He recruits D.W. for help, and Buster pitches in 110 percent, which is unusual for Buster. [[spoiler: When a CrackDefeat ensues, thanks to Ratburn entering in Binky last-minute when he suggests impractical campaign promises, Muffy is crushed in a HeroicBSOD. She's a sore loser, and Buster says to Arthur that they warned her. As Arthur lightheartedly says he hopes she won't lose a real election, Mr. Ratburn puts the kibosh on Binky demanding no-homework nights]].

* In "Double Dare", Arthur and his friends have so much homework that they might miss out on watching a new episode of Dark Bunny. Arthur is so frustrated at all the homework he and his friends have that he says one day he's just not going to do it, and just skip school to do the things he wants to do. When Francine challenges him, he sticks to his guns until she finally dares him to go through with it.\\

'''Instead:''' Everybody, including ''Brain'', tells Arthur that he has to go through with it, and so with no further questions they start drawing up a plan to skip school the next day. This is especially out of character for Brain, who is normally intelligent enough not to be talked into things he doesn't want to do.\\

* In "Nerve of Steal", Buster wants a Cyber Toy that almost everybody else owns one of, but can't get until his birthday; and later at a Drug Store, he looks at a shelf of Cyber Toys and wants one badly.\\

'''The Result:''' Buster is immediately hit with guilt at his actions and is forced to confront Arthur on his deed, who now is faced with the dilemma of how to return it.\\

* "Just Desserts": Arthur is disappointed when his father has to go cater a wedding and asks Grandma Thora to make dinner for him and D.W. He's especially disappointed since the wedding cake looks delicious. For context, Thora is a LethalChef who thinks that tomatoes go into cookies, among other things, and Arthur and D.W. had to break it to her gently in season one that no one likes her cooking after they get busted buying all her cookies for a bake sale to spare her feelings. To get through dinner, Arthur buys candy, It turns out, however, that Arthur's dad left a delicious dinner and extra wedding cake for his children.\\

* In "Buster's Sweet Success", Buster unsurprisingly ends up eating all of the chocolates he had volunteered to sell to raise money for new instruments at school. So he and Arthur elect to make all new boxes of homemade chocolate to make up for it.\\

* In "For Whom the Bell Tolls", D.W. contracts laryngitis, and Arthur believes he will finally have a period of relief from D.W.'s obnoxious loudness. However, with far more work for her accounting job at present than usual, Jane places most of the responsibility of taking care of D.W. on Arthur. After about a week of heavily catering to his sister, he eventually catches D.W. talking in her bedroom, revealing her entire illness to be a ruse and he immediately goes to tell his Mom about her lies.\\

'''Instead''': She doesn't bother to confront D.W. at all, and Arthur is forced to keep putting up with her until she gets better. It takes Arthur and his friends to finally expose the truth, and even then we don't see how she gets punished for it.\\
'''Compounding It''': The episode implies that D.W. may never have been sick in the first place, meaning that even the doctor who diagnosed her was duped into believing the whole thing!

** In the VerySpecialEpisode Lakewood Elementary falls victim to a school fire. Sue Ellen is forced to leave her bag behind, which among her school work, also holds her journal she's been keeping since she was a little girl. After everyone is evacuated from the building, her bag is seen somewhat charred and bruised due to the fire but is otherwise safely brought out of the building.\\

'''The Result''': Arthur starts having nightmares about his dad dying at various catering gigs, while Binky pulls the fire alarm at Mighty Mountain to time how fast the firefighters come and has to do community service as punishment. Muffy notes how upset Sue Ellen is, and in her usual Muffy way, buys her new journals. Sue Ellen is gracious about the second one since it's personalized and thanks Muffy, but she finds herself blocked. She comes up with a mural project to unblock her mind and help everyone feel better.\\

** Mr. Ratburn's class is somewhat problematic as the students are a bit quick to get at each other due to the heat. Brain and Muffy get start to disagree when [[GadgeteerGenius he demonstrates the solar-powered "supplies dispenser"]] he built in his desk to provide pencils and erasers instantaneously, mainly because he ruins her "feng shui" by repeatedly sliding his papers onto her desk whilst working.\\

'''Compounding It''': ''After'' Mr. Haney gives his warning, the kids begin to argue amongst themselves blaming each other for the mess. Worst of all, Brain says [[NeverMyFault "I didn't do anything"]] even though most of the feud was spurred on by ''his'' selfish behavior.\\

'''Instead:''' D.W. nervously tries to see if her mother has become a zombie slave by asking "Can I have a soda?" which doesn't work.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' For Francine to, by intuition alone realize that taking an entire document and presenting it as her report with almost no work required would almost certainly be wrong and that it would be suspect for her to express limited knowledge of her paper after having used a document she barely read when presenting it.\\

* In "The Buster Report", Buster is delighted that George is doing a report about him, and gets so into it that he worries too much about what it will be like and doesn't focus on his own report at all. '''You'd Expect:''' Buster would remember how funny he is and how he makes people laugh, and so he wouldn't be too worried about the report. \\

'''The Result:''' Buster never gets to doing his own report on somebody. \\

* In "Nicked By A Name", Brain is coming up with nicknames for his friends, like naming Binky "Tall Order", and Buster "Bust-A-Gut Baxter". Arthur wants a nickname too, but Brain is too busy to get to Arthur.
'''You'd Expect:''' Brian to give Arthur a nickname, seeing as how he has time to give everyone else a nickname.
'''Instead:''' Brain keeps on saying he's busy, or that he'll think of a nickname for Arthur, but he never does.
'''The Result:''' Arthur is still desperate to have a nickname, and keeps pestering the Brain about it.
'''Now You'd Expect:''' Brain to give Arthur a nickname to get Arthur off his back, as he clearly does not appreciate it when Arthur asking him for a nickname ends up taking away the Brain's attention which ends up losing them the soccer game.
'''Instead:'''Brain keeps on ignoring Arthur and doesn't do anything about it.

* In "To Eat Or Not To Eat", Rabid Dog creates a candy bar called a "Big Boss Bar" that is highly addictive due to its drug-like ingredients with many of them being dangerous ingredients causing those that eat it to have withdrawal symptoms.\\

* In "Staycation", Grandma Thora's plane home from Cancun gets delayed, forcing David and Jane, who are unable to find a replacement babysitter, to cancel their camping vacation. Feeling bad for them, Arthur and D.W. come up with the idea for them to have a staycation by going camping in their backyard. Jane leaves Arthur in charge and makes D.W. the communications officer, telling her only to call her and David if there is a genuine emergency. During the first hour, Arthur and D.W. must change Kate's diaper. While Arthur puts a clean diaper on Kate, D.W. is left to dispose of the dirty one.\\

'''Instead:''' D.W. flushes the diaper down the toilet, clogging it up and creating a flood that leaks onto the bathroom floor. Arthur finds out about this later in the episode.\\

'''The Result''': Arthur is nearly late to meet his mother because of the crowds; the tool that he wants to get for his dad is sold out, so he goes with an olive de-pitter. It's implied that Tina the Talking Tabby sold out with three days to go before Christmas; Jane mentions to Arthur with worry that she couldn't get one item on her shopping list. She then tries to break it gently to D.W., to explain that sometimes Santa runs out of toys with how many kids that he has to deliver presents to in one night. D.W. believes that Arthur wrote her wishlist wrong and rewrites it before dropping it off in the mailbox. Cue a tantrum on Christmas morning when D.W. gets a talking duck instead, though she quickly quiets down.\\

* Every year, Bitsy gets frantic over Christmas; she wants to make it the best time possible for her son while hoping he doesn't resent her for the divorce. Buster wouldn't mind, except she wakes him up early every day in a row the week of Christmas to make him pancakes and give him presents, because she keeps getting the date wrong. It's a surprise when on Christmas morning itself he wakes her up and reassures her it's the right time. She goes to make pancakes for him and give him his presents.\\

* It's the eighth night of Hanukkah, and Francine's family hosts a small party to light the menorah candles. Muffy is holding a Princess of Christmas Night at the same time and has been urging Francine to come. Every time Francine tells Muffy that she has plans, Muffy tunes her out. Francine has tried telling her 28 times; yes, she kept score.\\

'''The Result''': Muffy wants to give the first presentation of the night to Francine, and calls angrily on realizing that Francine never showed up. She throws a tantrum over the phone as Francine tries to tell Muffy that she already had plans and that she made it clear over the past week. In a very InnocentlyInsensitive moment, Muffy haughtily says that Hanukkah is not as important as her Christmas party, causing Francine to hang up the phone angrily. Muffy apologizes on Christmas morning as Francine explains to her why that was very Anti-Semitic to say.

'''Instead''': Buster shoots his mouth off and suggests they were stolen. Okay, not bad yet...then he continues to shoot his mouth off and say Arthur got the high score at pinball. ''[[TooDumbToLive While bringing up the fact that pinball requires quarters to play, and a truckload of them if you want the high score.]]'' Buster may be naive, but even ''he'' should know better than this.\\
'''The Result''': Arthur is wrongly convicted of stealing quarters he never stole, and is under the threat of missing the annual 3rd Grade Picnic all because his best friend couldn't learn to keep his mouth shut. Thankfully the problem is solved in the nick of time, and even if it hadn't it would have eventually been figured out when everyone inevitably bit into the quarter-filled brownies, but still.

'''The Result''': Jane has to be the one to suggest that he could clean out the garage and earn a few dollars. During this cleanup, Mrs. Tibble mistakes it for a garage sale and offers to buy a necklace. Arthur can't resist the temptation to sell it, only to find out later that it was a gift from his father to his mother. He then helps Mrs. Tibble with her leaves to earn back the necklace, using the Moon Boots that he purchased. 

'''You'd Expect''': Long before the wedding stress starts, that Jane and David would have given D.W. either a role as co-flower girl since tossing flowers is something she can't mess up -- whereas Cora manages to hit someone on the head with a flower-- or a tiny task that if she fudges it won't mess up the whole wedding.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Mom and Dad to come up with a compromise for Arthur and D.W: Arthur should not touch D.W.'s things and D.W. should give Crazy Bus a rest once in a while. Or, given that Arthur is trying to focus on his schoolwork, Jane and David might even side with Arthur and take away D.W.'s CD for a few days. They could also ask D.W. to only play the cd in a separate are from Arthur at a low enough volume, so that Arthur won't be disturbed. Heck, considering the parents have used ear plugs during the episode, because even they got tired of Crazy Bus, they could've offered Arthur ear plugs as well.\\

'''You'd Expect''': That he would tell Arthur, at the absolute least, [[spoiler: that it's important information for his parents and that it doesn't concern him, and at least reassure that he isn't in trouble or anything. Even if he didn't want to give out all the details, he should at least know that it's very important information and that it could be hugely problematic if it doesn't reach the receiver, and that Arthur could easily take it the wrong way considering being called to the principal's is always seen as bad news for a student.]]\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Oh, wait, [[FreeRangedChildren they walked home in several episodes without adult supervision, safe and sound]], so why can't they do so in this episode?\\

'''The Result''': Arthur does a stellar job taking care of Perky but feels wracked with guilt when it seems no matter what he does, he can't please her. Perky happens to vanish on the day Mrs. Wood is going to pick her up because she went into labor. Fortunately, EarnYourHappyEnding is in full effect; Mrs. Wood thanks Arthur for taking good care of the young mother, paying him as promised, and offering him one of Perky's puppies. This dog becomes Arthur's Pal.\\

'''Instead:''' They break into the dump through a hole in the fence.\\

'''Or For That Matter:''' Arthur would ask Oliver Frensky who is a sanitation worker and ''works'' at the dump to see if he can locate an old bicycle tire for him.\\
'''Instead:''' Arthur goes to the city dump to steal a wheel off an abandoned bike, even though he is forbidden to go and knows it's a dangerous place.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Mom and Dad to come up with a compromise for Arthur and D.W: Arthur should not touch D.W.'s things and D.W. should give Crazy Bus a rest once in a while. Or, given that Arthur is trying to focus on his schoolwork, Jane and David might even side with Arthur and take away D.W.'s CD for a few days.\\

* In “The Buster Report”, Buster is delighted that George is doing a report about him, and gets so into it that he worries too much about what it will be like and doesn’t focus on his own report at all. '''You’d Expect:''' Buster would remember how funny he is and how he makes people laugh, and so he wouldn’t be too worried about the report. \\

* In “The Buster Report”, Buster is delighted that George is doing a report about him, and gets so into it that he worries too much about what it will be like and doesn’t focus on his own report at all. '''You’d Expect:''' Buster would remember how funny he is and how he makes people laugh, and so he wouldn’t be too worried about the report. \\

* In “The Buster Report”, Buster is delighted that George is doing a report about him, and gets so into it that he worries too much about what it will be like and doesn’t focus on his own report at all.'''You’d Expect:''' Buster would remember how funny he is and how he makes people laugh, and so he wouldn’t be too worried about the report. \\

* In “The Buster Report”, Buster is delighted that George is doing a report about him, and gets so into it that he worries too much about what it will be like and doesn’t focus on his own report at all.
'''You’d Expect:''' Buster would remember how funny he is and how he makes people laugh, and so he wouldn’t be too worried about the report. \\