History Arthur / TropesSToZ

** Rattles would gain a {{Joisey}}-like accent after Season 14, when Scott Beaudin started voicing him.

* VegetarianForADay: In "Sue Ellen Vegges Out", Sue Ellen becomes a vegetarian, a decision she’s been considering long before the episode started. When she announces her new lifestyle choice to her friends, Muffy and Francine join in, but the former is doing it because a celebrity she likes is doing a vegetarian diet and the latter is doing it to prove she can not eat meat longer than Muffy can. At the end, Muffy and Francine decide to go back to eating meat because they decide that vegetarianism isn’t for them but they show their support for Sue Ellen’s vegetarianism by creating Meatless Mondays in the cafeteria.

* SoapWithinAShow: A few times, various characters are seen watching a soap opera on TV.

* WidgetSeries: In universe, the show [[ShowWithinAShow Love Ducks]] is basically four ducks flying through psychedelic, pop-art, WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine[=/=]Peter Max[[BuffySpeak -esque]] backgrounds, all with duck versions of classical music.

** Double subverted in "Staycation," where Jane and David plan to go on vacation until Thora's plane flight gets canceled. Feeling bad that they couldn't have some time to relax, Arthur and D.W. give them a [[TitleDrop staycation]] in the backyard.

* WaxOnWaxOff: Subverted in S13's "Kung Fool." While doing mundane chores, like putting away dishes, Fern thinks she's learning kung fu techniques. She isn't.

%% ** Mr. Pryce-Jones, Ratburn's mentor and former teacher from "[[Recap/ArthurS3E9ArthursTreasureHuntTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]," is more of an example. (Explain how he is an example.)

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It is unknown exactly where Elwood City is supposed to be set. There are so many theories, but it appears to be an EverytownAmerica by pure prospect.

* TestingTheLoveInterest: A purely platonic version happens on when best friends [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Francine and Muffy]] have a fight and break up. Muffy auditions a long list of her other friends and acquaintances for the role of "best friend", but when she finally settles on a candidate, she keeps suggesting things she would do with Francine, only for Binky to be completely uninterested.

* UncoolUndies: In "Fernkenstein's Monster," when everyone is challenged by Fern to tell a scary story, Arthur's story revolves around a boy (a doppelganger for Arthur himself) who receives a pair of briefs with clown faces all over them as a birthday present. Despite the boy's attempts to bury the undies and forget all about them, his pants fall down the next day in front of his whole class, revealing that he is wearing the clown-face briefs despite the fact that he had not put them on that morning or taken them out of his drawer. An evil laugh from one of the clown faces indicates that the undies have supernatural powers that enable them to embarrass the boy for not wearing them. The boy's embarrassment over the underwear is likely due to the silliness and childish nature of the clown faces and also potentially due to the fact that they are briefs rather than the more popular boxers or boxer briefs.

** There was also that one high female StockScream used frequently during the first season, most famously involving [[http://youtu.be/LGbIWk8suns?t=3m32s a nightmare Prunella's sister Rubella has]] about the Tibble Twins, though it was first used in "Arthur's Eyes" during the scene where Arthur accidentally enters the girls' bathroom.