Referenced By / Arthur

Comic Strip

• Off the Mark: In this strip◊, Nadine is among the imaginary friends shown.

Literature

• Junie B. Jones: In "Junie B, First Grader: Dumb Bunny", Lucille is hosting an Easter egg hunt and tells her friends that a "famous bunny" (the Easter bunny, obviously) will be there. They all guess the names of other fictional rabbits, including Buster and Bionic Bunny.

Live-Action TV

• Marc Brown appeared in an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and Arthur (a puppet of him, anyway) visited the Land of Make-Believe, with Michael Yarmush, his voice actor at the time, reprising his role for the visit.^note Mister Rogers had previously made a guest appearance in the Arthur episode, "Arthur Meets Mister Rogers", wherein he (depicted as a cartoon aardvark) befriends the title character. This episode was originally meant to promote that appearance, but it aired much later than intended due to Schedule Slip.
• In one episode of Reading Rainbow, Bill Cosby narrated the "Arthur's Eyes" book.

Video Games

• The Living Books adaptation of Stellaluna has an Easter Egg that allows the player to access a gallery of bat-inspired cartoons. One of these is of Arthur hanging upside down from a branch as Stellaluna tells him he's in the wrong book. This should come as no surprise, since Living Books also released five Arthur games.^note Arthur's Teacher Trouble, Arthur's Birthday, Arthur's Reading Race, Arthur's Computer Adventure, and D.W. the Picky Eater.

Web Animation

• The plots of almost every episode of Foxy's Family are direct references to the show.

Web Original

• In his review of Barney's Great Adventure, The Nostalgia Critic plays a clip from "The Great MacGrady," when he compares characters with more emotions, like Arthur Read, to Barney.
• PeanutButterGamer is a huge fan of Arthur, and has reviewed many Arthur PC games, as well as the Arthur's Perfect Christmas and Arthur's Missing Pal animated specials.
• The 1491s: The Native characters in "The Halloween Hell No" are dressed as Arthur and Francine, allowing the Arthur to ball his fist per the meme when he spots a white guy wearing Native clothing as a costume.

Western Animation

• Disney's Doug: In the series' first episode, "Doug's Last Birthday", Judy tells Doug that he cancelled his eleventh birthday because he didn't want to move to Bluffington. She tells him that if he got his way, he would have stayed in Bloatsburg with his old friends, Arthur and Buster, and never met his new friends. To drive the point home, the expies of the characters resembled the real thing very eerily◊.
• In two episodes of Close Enough, Arthur books can be seen.
• FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman: One of the phrases Ruff uses at the end of the Season 4 intro, after Chet the mouse destroys the set for the intro, is "You know, I bet Arthur doesn't have to deal with stuff like this". Both shows air on PBS Kids and are produced by WGBH Boston.
• Mona the Vampire: In "The Bogeyman Cometh", an Arthur doll can be seen in Charley's toy box. Justin Bradley, who voiced Charley at the time, would later voice Arthur for Season 6 before being redubbed by Mark Rendall.
• Robot Chicken: A sketch from "Scoot to the Gute" involves Arthur getting Lasik surgery, only for Buster to mishandle the machine and accidentally slice Arthur's face off.