History Awesome / Arthur

-->'''Mrs. Read:''' [[SarcasmMode What a]] ''[[SarcasmMode miraculous]]'' [[SarcasmMode recovery, young lady.]]

** Similarly in "Draw!", Fern gets tired of Francine being a JerkAss to her for no reason and draws a comic making fun of her, everyone is so sick of Francine being a sore winner that it proves very popular causing everyone else to do their own comics about Francine as well.

* In "For Whom the Bell Tolls", Arthur finds out that D.W. has been faking losing her voice (after temporarily losing it earlier) so she can keep making him do stuff for her, but his parents don't believe him. So Arthur, Buster and Francine all come up with a plan to expose D.W.'s lies. How do they do it? Make D.W. think she's losing her hearing as well by muting the T.V., unplugging the phone and opening their mouths without saying anything, leading to D.W. running to her mom in panic and revealing her lie.

** D.W. volunteers to crawl inside a dirty pipe organ to retrieve the wedding ring, showing up her [[ SpoiledBrat spoiled]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe show-offy]] Cousin Cora. Aunt Lucy gets in on the action by stealthily reminding [[DialogueReversal Cora not to ruin the wedding]] by throwing a tantrum with just saying her name.

** Cora [[ LaserGuidedKarma getting what she deserves]] will make the audience cheer for D.W. even more. After spending the entire episode acting like an obnoxious jerk to her cousins and causing the ring fiasco in the first place, she ultimately loses her flower girl position to D.W.. When she tries to protest, Aunt Lucy silences her warningly just so she won’t spoil the wedding even further. Knowing that she has no other choice, Cora begrudgingly accepts.

** D.W. volunteers to crawl inside a dirty pipe organ to retrieve the wedding ring, showing up her spoiled and show-offy Cousin Cora. Aunt Lucy gets in on the action by stealthily reminding [[DialogueReversal Cora not to ruin the wedding]] by throwing a tantrum with just saying her name.

* "Is There A Doctor in the House?" - after messing up the first time and somehow having a ''joint'' fantasy sequence in which they imagine what things will be like if their parents remain ill and they don't step up, Arthur and D.W. get on the ball. Working together without bickering, whining or complaining, they change Baby Kate's diaper, do the laundry, clean and vacuum the living room, and wash and dry a couple day's worth of dirty dishes by hand. And all of it done so well that when Grandma Thora arrives, she not only has nothing to complain about (or chores left to do), but is singing praises of the both of them to Mr. and Mrs. Read. A truly admirable effort, though it does show that Mr. and Mrs. Read have really been a bit too light on them if they were capable of this.

** As for [[SoreLoser Francine]] she's hit with LaserGuidedKarma. After pestering Arthur for the entire episode and when everyone agrees with his decision at the softball game, Francine ''still'' refuses to agree with the decision that was made and tells Muffy to replay the tape to see if Buster was out or not...only to find out that Muffy filmed a blimp during the game ''after'' Buster hit the ball.

* In "Binky Barnes, Art Expert", Binky ''insists'' that a bizarre modernist painting he's found was hung up the wrong way at the art museum, and wants to do that for a report he's doing with Arthur and Buster. The entire time, the boys are dreading that Binky will utterly humiliate them with his outlandish claims, and then we see at the end the great lengths Binky went through to prove his theory; turns out Binky is much more savvy than he looks, and he proves that indeed he was ''right'' the entire time.

* "D.W. Rides Again." Love or hate D.W., when she taught herself to ride a two-wheeled bicycle at the end, nearly turning herself into one giant scab in the end, catching up with Arthur and his friends, and showing up the Tibble twins all in one, it was pretty impressive.
* "D.W. Thinks Big"

* "Flaw and Order." ''How'' did Alan get his hands on sound enhancement software? [[RuleOfAwesome Let's not question it]], because it saved Arthur and Buster.

* In "Arthur Rides the Bandwagon," Arthur proves that juice caps are more fun than Woogles and starts a fad himself in the process.

* Season 18 has provided a couple of rare ones for D.W. In "The Tattletale Frog," Bud inadvertently gets blamed for a big mess in the Read house that he and D.W. made together and that was essentially D.W.'s idea. Later, Jane threatens to call Bud's mother about this, and D.W. breaks down sobbing, after which she confesses. It's one of the rare times D.W. has been disciplined onscreen or more importantly, [[KarmicNod shown remorse]] for anything she's done.
* In "Prove It", D.W. manages to pull one over on Arthur--she wants to go to the Exploratorium with Brain and Arthur after she gets a new interest in science and when Arthur naturally does not want her tagging along, D.W. tells him that one day he will be begging to take her. D.W. then starts charging kids money to showcase science, only her claims are inaccurate (I.E. claiming that trees make wind and the sun goes down because it's out of gas) and Arthur is concerned about other kids being taught false information by D.W.. He and Brain try to counteract her false claims but can't prove her wrong, so Arthur indeed ends up begging his parents to take D.W. to the Exploratorium so he can prove her claims wrong. D.W. then reveals this was all part of her plan to get Arthur to take her to the museum.

* Kids shows would rarely ever tackle homosexuality. But that mostly changed when [[Recap/ArthurS22E1MrRatburnAndTheSpecialSomeoneTheFeud Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone]] was aired. You gotta give the creators of the episode props and respect for showcasing a serious topic like homosexuality to kids.