As someone who frequents amusement parks and carnivals, the ticket base system is a carnival thing. They don't do that at amusement parks, meaning this is a CARNIVAL with Cedar Point style rides. If this show was realistic, it would end with Buster and Arthur getting injured on the Hurl-la Wirl
I was gonna add this. Any carnival style fun fair you go to usually charges a certain amount of tickets per person to ride, and you usually buy your tickets in packs when you enter the park
@@madokami03 Exactly, the issue is the ride itself. The Hurl-la wirl is an independently controlled tilt and swirl ride on a large base. The carnivals I've gone to have had carrousels where if you put your foot down while riding your leg will get torn right off! So a ride like this operating at a ticket carnival would result in Arthur and Buster getting launched faster than D.W launching responsibility away from her.
I got more episodes you could do FU DW on I haven't seen yet. Keep up the great work sir. If you remember that episode where DW wouldn't shut the hell up about vanilla sauce and Sue Ellen was addicted to playing Virtual Goose, I think that would be a perfect one to do at some point. That episode where DW learns that James split his pants and has a hard time keeping a secret from what i remember. Any episode with DW and the Vecino family. She's always using the little sister of Alberto's as a scapegoat constantly and they are insufferable together imo. She even got so passive aggressive towards Vecita that she told her that what she was doing wasn't flips and then had the nerve to walk out on her and go home. Basically rage quitting because someone could do everything DW couldn't and much better. Dear Adil wasn't as DW heavy, but damn, that ending with DW singing the Mary Moo Cow theme song in Turkish never left my mind. Adil's equivalent of DW was in that episode too. Just to name a few.
The episode with Vanilla Ice cream with Vanilla Sprinkles and Vanilla Sauce was an episode about Sue Ellen, and she does act as a friend to DW. This would be more like the Law and Order Episode Matt covered.
In a later season, there’s episode that Pal and Kate can somehow see and speak to DW’s Imaginary Friend Nadine. Nadine introduces Pal and Kate to 2 other imaginary friends belonging to the neighbor Vacita and the Tibbles. Nadine states the world of Imaginary Friends is in trouble and they seek the help of a Baby and a Dog. They end up knocking something over and save the world of Imaginary friends. Not lying it’s a real episode. I can’t remember what episode it was but the episode also features Arthur running home during school to get a homework assignment.
It's funny, after I got old enough to watch Family Guy I started to wonder: Are Kate & Pal episodes kid friendly parodies of Brian & Stewie adventures? This episode you describe sounds just like one
That reminds of that episode that Arthur and his friends wrote stories and they mimicked other animation styles. Buster’s story looked like South Park and Muffy’s look like Beevis and Butthead. Shows I definitely didn’t watch as a 7 year old.
Wasn’t it the same episode where Nadine admitted D.W. wasn’t talking to her as much as she used to? I remember Kate accepting Nadine as her imaginary friend in the end.
Honestly quick thinking for Mr. Reed come up with bullshit about Nadine being in the backseat, because fuck if I'm going to waste all that gas going to an amusement park only to turn around.
Theme parks used to use that "ticket" system and my local theme park is one of the last ones to still use it until they retired the system in 2012. Now it is a flat rate for park admission rather than paying for individual rides. In the 90s when this show was made, tickets-per-ride were very much a thing.
I just had the sudden realization that Nadine was like a bizarro version of Drop Dead Fred in how she's characterized vs DW. Whereas Fred drives Phoebe Cates and everyone around her to madness over the course of the movie and constantly told her to do bad or stupid things as a kid, Nadine keeps trying to be a voice of reason and STOP DW from doing bad or stupid things, and the little sociopath just won't listen.
I am 100% convinced that Nadine is actually real in one way or another and I believe she is a spirit. Yes, I am being 100% serious and I have more than enough proof that she, as well as all other imaginary friends, are more than imaginary. The show may label them as imaginary friends but anyone following the shows evidence with any amount of critical thinking skills knows better. This is hardly even a theory, the show all but directly tells us.
FUN FACT: this was actually the very first Arthur episode that we made in 1995...it went into production before Arthur's Eyes which is why the kids' voices sound younger than later episodes...Muffy has two front teeth in this episode that the client made us remove going forward because they thought it made her look stupid. I remember I was assigned all the scenes with the rotating carousel to animate, which is like the hardest thing in the world to animate and took me over a month to get it approved! I made almost no money that month but luckily you could eat and rent an apartment in those days for almost no money too so I survived.
@@channel45853probably because the book “Arthur’s Eyes” was the second book ever released and it might as well have been the first. Also lots of tv series air episodes out of production order
The pilot episode for Cyberchase was episode in podelville about number patterns, the animation is extremely different from all other episodes, but it isn’t canonically the first episode of Cyberchase.
Nadine went from a shy creature to someone's who actually smarter than D.W., in _HER IMAGINATION._ I don't know if it's either character development or if she was always like this.
Child psychologist should also give parents advice to never be like Jane and David when raising their kids so they don’t turn into Dora Winifreds, or the Tibble Twats.
Which is pretty rich since child psychology- as a profession- exists principally to give parents someone to shift blame onto. "How were _we_ supposed to know that giving our perfectly healthy child antidepressants was a bad idea?" etc.
This is why my parents used spankings or slaps to the face when we massively messed up. I only ever had that happen once per method but it definitely worked. Again this was done sparingly. Most times I would get lectures or a bar of soap
I'm surprised you haven't done D.W.'a Stray Netkitten yet. She was literally considering making her pet, even if it wasn't real, starve because she didn't want Emily changing it in the slightest bit
@@artemisolympius2708 At this point Nadine should use her magic to make a big fat mess and pin ALL the blame on DW, and leave a message saying "Not so fun when YOU get blammed, is it?".
It's been a while since I've seen the episode, but I don't think DW was that bad in Clarissa Gets Cracked. In fact, I think DW actually felt bad about breaking Clarissa. If anything, that one seems like it would be more of an FU Grandma Thora episode for giving DW an easily breakable antique toy in the first place.
It's funny, because Nadine is actually a far more likable character than D.W. is, especially in later episodes when she teams up with Kate and Pal. Although, it was actually Nadine who stole the snowball... so she's responsible for at least 3 F.U. DWs. Still better than her... owner, I guess?
D.W. Blaming Nadine for her actions reminds me of Manny from Diary of a Wimpy Kid, who did the same thing with one of his imaginary friends, Johnny Cheddar. Now saying that, both Manny and D.W. are very similar, especially their trouble making tendencies and how they rarely, or never, get punished at all.
It is actually kind of funny how this feels like DW felt being a decent human was so hard for her she and forced that part of herself to be a completely separate individual.
It's very common for writers of children's shows to take experiences from their own childhoods and not even realize they need updating because they haven't experienced those things since they were children themselves. Flat-rate gate admissions were less common in earlier times. Disney parks didn't do away with tickets until 1982, so that EPCOT Center never had a ticket system. Given that Arthur aired in 1996, the childhoods of the people involved in this decision were in the 70s at the latest, much more likely to remember amusement parks as ride ticket affairs. Another possible explanation is little experience with amusement parks but lots of experience with rides at midways and boardwalks, which by their nature need to operate on a tickets/points/pay-per-ride system.
Some smaller amusement parks and state fairs up until maybe the 2010's were *def* still going by the ticket system too. I was born in 2000 and I remember the first few times I was at a local park I had to use those paper tickets. Arcades still had them for a long time too.
I feel like Nadine was more like her conscience as she is more morally sound than DWs impulsiveness. I have a theory that Nadine is actually the real child and DW unalived her because usually imaginary friends in cartoons tell the child to do bad things
I thought D.W.’s imaginary friend episode was wonderful. Sure has some moments DW being on likable with showing her friends tours of her brother Arthur’s room his privacy against as well and dumping pasta dinner on his head by her, showing her perspective her imaginary friend is cute and adorable and relatable to everyone who has imaginary friend from their childhood, which inspired many adaptations like the upcoming IFF movie coming out in 2024 May Foster home for imaginary friends, bing bong inside out, and so on. So FU Arthur for for acting like an unlikable jerk and trying to make TW forget the best friend she ever made, and of course, for ruining his dinner, and invade his privacy, and make him the butt monkey of the episode, FU D.W.
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Please do a vid on the secret about secrets. James did nothing wrong to DW and what does she do, she embarrasses him in front of the class with a secret she didn't deserve to know.
She didn't actually reveal the secret to the class; it was only in an imaginary sequence of what she thought might happen if she did. Still, she did tell her mother, when James made it very clear that *no one else,* not just their classmates, was to know.
But wait, wasn’t there one episode where they showed that Nadine was real, but only the baby and the dog could see her?? It definitely seems that way since Nadine always seems more like the more mature/aware of the two. How could an imaginary friend be smarter than you yourself if they’re really imaginary?
Probably because Nadine represents the part of DW's subconscious that she is not emotionally mature enough to act on. If there was any justice in the world, the DW personality would eventually fade away and be replaced with Nadine's.
To be fair though, there are other characters that remain stagnant, despite the fact that the show has been on for about 25 years. Muffy Crosswire anyone? True, there are characters that do show change, like the majority of the bullies like Binky, Molly and Rattles, but Muffy is that one character that somehow manages to maintain her spoiled and self-centered nature, despite the fact that she's said that she's a changed person.
DW blaming Nadine for her shenanigans reminded me of a clip from America's Funniest Home Videos where a little girl was blaming her big brother for her shenanigans. The thing is the girl doesn't have a big brother!
You know whats worse? Nadine stays with DW as she grows to Arthurs age (assuming something like DWs Time Triuble happems), which implies she will continuously blame her problems on her.
Damn! You’re one good friend, D.W.! 🙄 I’ve had imaginary friends myself as a kid, and I never blamed my faults on them all the time. Imagine if it were a real friend, and how hurt they would be in the end.
One thing I didn’t pay attention to as a kid but don't understand as an adult is why are all the kids in the episode so excited about barf bags? Buster even kisses his before throwing it away. Gross! Was that a big thing in the mid-90s? Did kids back then actually like throwing up?
yeah, those barf bags! the 90's were full of gross out humor stemming from Ren and Stimpy which was a huge hit then so we thought that's what the kids wanted to see. I remember I put in a 'barf wipe' once where DW barfs all over the camera! Man, those were the days!
If you ever want to play around with noncanon Arthur stuff, there was one youtuber that did a take on all of them being adults. DW is of course still a bitch, and the themes make sense, even if not perfectly pg. Like your work, just tossing out an idea.
Who do you think has a worse problem with their split personality? D.W. with Nadine or George with Wally? Also, I get the feeling the meatballs were supposed to be the same color as their tongues. Their white, white, early episode tongues. That ALWAYS disturbed me.
George is generally a good kid. Keep in mind that his character wasn't even developed in the first season of Arthur. For the most part, he was just that kid who got bullied by Binky a lot. And for the most part with Wally, he came out of his shell more. Only reason he has Wally is cause he isn't out of his shell entirely.
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Pretty sure that’s dissociative identity disorder, not schizophrenia (no offense to anyone who actually has those conditions). Either way, this is fucking hilarious, as is the whole series.
God the more I look back on this show, the more I really want to smack Arthur's parents for letting DW get away with her bullshit. I get she was only like 4 or 5, but her parents really needed to let her know that the stuff she'd pull wasn't okay. Out of their two kids, it's very clear how they preferred her more over Arthur. I really wouldn't be surprised if they just wanted a girl this whole time and DW ended up being the successful result
Very random but I remember after Arthur and Buster got off the ride, they threw up in their vomit bag. Buster wanted to keep it but his mom wouldn’t allow it. Before throwing the vomit bag away, he kisses it……eewwww!!!!!
2:51 Believe it or not? Residential theme parks - including Disneyland - used to do that. Of course, by the time most of them moved onto the flat admission fees, it was the 80s. (Some even changed in the 70s. I don't even think WDW had tickets
Dw probably stole those tickets just like she did the burgers from those men during their family vacation and her parents being the lousy parents they are didn't stop her
When I was a kid I legit thought DW had like a ghost friend for the longest time. I missed the episode where they explained it was her imaginary friend. Lol
I sometimes forget that the scene where David "steps on Nadine's tail" was also used for the song "Leftovers Ghoulash" near the end of the third season (Season 3 Episode 14B more specifically). It is indeed fascinating how Wonderworld, a fixed-location amusement park uses tickets (or possibly bracelets usually akin to travelling fixtures found in carnival and county/state fair settings), instead of a front gate-admission procedure. In the entire series, it is only ever seen "in person" four other times, as well as on one of Thora's old films reels. But I'm definitely looking forward to next week's episode...
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Nadine is more morally sound than DW, which kind of implies that DW knows what she’s doing is wrong and just doesn’t care.
So true
Agreeed! And DW thinks that Nadine is totally on her side
Proving that she’s a fucking sociopath.
I prefer thinking of it as, Aardvark God sent down a guardian angel to try and prevent DW from becoming a psychopath.
DW is a fucking sociopath.
As someone who frequents amusement parks and carnivals, the ticket base system is a carnival thing. They don't do that at amusement parks, meaning this is a CARNIVAL with Cedar Point style rides. If this show was realistic, it would end with Buster and Arthur getting injured on the Hurl-la Wirl
I was gonna add this. Any carnival style fun fair you go to usually charges a certain amount of tickets per person to ride, and you usually buy your tickets in packs when you enter the park
@@madokami03 Exactly, the issue is the ride itself. The Hurl-la wirl is an independently controlled tilt and swirl ride on a large base. The carnivals I've gone to have had carrousels where if you put your foot down while riding your leg will get torn right off! So a ride like this operating at a ticket carnival would result in Arthur and Buster getting launched faster than D.W launching responsibility away from her.
I got more episodes you could do FU DW on I haven't seen yet. Keep up the great work sir.
If you remember that episode where DW wouldn't shut the hell up about vanilla sauce and Sue Ellen was addicted to playing Virtual Goose, I think that would be a perfect one to do at some point.
That episode where DW learns that James split his pants and has a hard time keeping a secret from what i remember.
Any episode with DW and the Vecino family. She's always using the little sister of Alberto's as a scapegoat constantly and they are insufferable together imo. She even got so passive aggressive towards Vecita that she told her that what she was doing wasn't flips and then had the nerve to walk out on her and go home. Basically rage quitting because someone could do everything DW couldn't and much better.
Dear Adil wasn't as DW heavy, but damn, that ending with DW singing the Mary Moo Cow theme song in Turkish never left my mind. Adil's equivalent of DW was in that episode too.
Just to name a few.
The episode with Vanilla Ice cream with Vanilla Sprinkles and Vanilla Sauce was an episode about Sue Ellen, and she does act as a friend to DW.
This would be more like the Law and Order Episode Matt covered.
If D.W. created Nadine for the sake of having someone to blame things on, then why does she still blame pretty much everything on Arthur?
Because she has 0 respect for him.
It’s because its not as fun as having someone else suffer the consequences of her actions
NEXT TIME On FU D.W.: Clarissa Is Cracked
D.W.: “Here I GO, Disapearing INTO-!”
David: “NO!”
(Clarissa’s Left Eye CRACKS)
D.W.: “Oops…”
Me: ‘OOPS’?!?!
Na na na na na na, na na na na na na!
I can't believe no one else has made a Clarissa Explains It All reference when referring to that episode.
In a later season, there’s episode that Pal and Kate can somehow see and speak to DW’s Imaginary Friend Nadine. Nadine introduces Pal and Kate to 2 other imaginary friends belonging to the neighbor Vacita and the Tibbles. Nadine states the world of Imaginary Friends is in trouble and they seek the help of a Baby and a Dog. They end up knocking something over and save the world of Imaginary friends.
Not lying it’s a real episode. I can’t remember what episode it was but the episode also features Arthur running home during school to get a homework assignment.
It's funny, after I got old enough to watch Family Guy I started to wonder: Are Kate & Pal episodes kid friendly parodies of Brian & Stewie adventures? This episode you describe sounds just like one
That reminds of that episode that Arthur and his friends wrote stories and they mimicked other animation styles. Buster’s story looked like South Park and Muffy’s look like Beevis and Butthead. Shows I definitely didn’t watch as a 7 year old.
Wasn’t it the same episode where Nadine admitted D.W. wasn’t talking to her as much as she used to? I remember Kate accepting Nadine as her imaginary friend in the end.
I would say Nadine is an intrusive thought.
Schizophrenia is much more serious than this.
Honestly quick thinking for Mr. Reed come up with bullshit about Nadine being in the backseat, because fuck if I'm going to waste all that gas going to an amusement park only to turn around.
Dear Matt, have you ever thought of doing a FU Princess Morebucks series?
Theme parks used to use that "ticket" system and my local theme park is one of the last ones to still use it until they retired the system in 2012. Now it is a flat rate for park admission rather than paying for individual rides. In the 90s when this show was made, tickets-per-ride were very much a thing.
I just had the sudden realization that Nadine was like a bizarro version of Drop Dead Fred in how she's characterized vs DW. Whereas Fred drives Phoebe Cates and everyone around her to madness over the course of the movie and constantly told her to do bad or stupid things as a kid, Nadine keeps trying to be a voice of reason and STOP DW from doing bad or stupid things, and the little sociopath just won't listen.
Do you know in the classic Nickelodeon show "Hey Arnold!", there's this character named Nadine who looks a bit similar to DW's imaginary friend.
2:23 THE THX LOGO I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT 😂😂😂😂
Can't DW just conjure Nadine to the theme park instead of wasting gas to drive back to get some figment of your daughter's mind?
Disney was still working on a ticket system at that time, and Nick Park still does today
There's amusement park in Elysburg, PA called Knobles. It's a free admission park but does make its money via tickets for rides
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You need to consider doing one of DW Bossy Boots
Spaghetti with cauliflower balls doesn’t sound bad at all
1:08 did you just call yourself out?
I am 100% convinced that Nadine is actually real in one way or another and I believe she is a spirit. Yes, I am being 100% serious and I have more than enough proof that she, as well as all other imaginary friends, are more than imaginary. The show may label them as imaginary friends but anyone following the shows evidence with any amount of critical thinking skills knows better. This is hardly even a theory, the show all but directly tells us.
Is there a ride like the Hurl A Whurl in real life???
I think that king da Ka was a ride you had to pay for. I can’t say I know for sure, I have a thing about heights. Especially how high that one is.
Nadine is a ghost
Hey, don't you dare look down on bumper cars man. Those will always be cool.
Spaghetti and cauliflower balls gross!
This isn't good, DW might Plead Insanity when she gets convicted...
I always feel bad for Nadine. She tries so hard but she is never appreciated, because the only person who can see or hear her is Dora Winifred Read.
Kate and Pal can also see Nadine for some reason.
@@themushroompocket8504 So is the show implying she actually exists in some way ? Cause.....that makes it even worse.
Nadine is far better off going to Foster's Home for Imaginary
Friends instead.
FUN FACT: this was actually the very first Arthur episode that we made in 1995...it went into production before Arthur's Eyes which is why the kids' voices sound younger than later episodes...Muffy has two front teeth in this episode that the client made us remove going forward because they thought it made her look stupid. I remember I was assigned all the scenes with the rotating carousel to animate, which is like the hardest thing in the world to animate and took me over a month to get it approved! I made almost no money that month but luckily you could eat and rent an apartment in those days for almost no money too so I survived.
that's pretty interesting, but why was this episode not aired first if it was made first? or do you know?
@@channel45853probably because the book “Arthur’s Eyes” was the second book ever released and it might as well have been the first.
Also lots of tv series air episodes out of production order
That is so cool.
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The pilot episode for Cyberchase was episode in podelville about number patterns, the animation is extremely different from all other episodes, but it isn’t canonically the first episode of Cyberchase.
Nadine went from a shy creature to someone's who actually smarter than D.W., in _HER IMAGINATION._
I don't know if it's either character development or if she was always like this.
There’s a later season episode that proves Nadine is real. In the episode Pal and Kate can see and speak to Nadine.
That has confused me. How can the baby and the dog also see Nadine?@@vectinator7605
@@vectinator7605 so basically she's like Mr Snuffleupagus right?
@@vectinator7605 So wait, that means Nadine was sent to become DW's Jiminy Cricket?
@@vectinator7605so it’s Happy rules
Child psychologists always say to never let the child project blame onto an imaginary friend since it gives the kid power to avoid discipline
Child psychologist should also give parents advice to never be like Jane and David when raising their kids so they don’t turn into Dora Winifreds, or the Tibble Twats.
@@poohbear4515 They should play episodes in psychology classes to show people how not to raise kids
Which is pretty rich since child psychology- as a profession- exists principally to give parents someone to shift blame onto.
"How were _we_ supposed to know that giving our perfectly healthy child antidepressants was a bad idea?" etc.
I mostly just talked about adventures with my imaginary friends
This is why my parents used spankings or slaps to the face when we massively messed up. I only ever had that happen once per method but it definitely worked. Again this was done sparingly. Most times I would get lectures or a bar of soap
I'm surprised you haven't done D.W.'a Stray Netkitten yet. She was literally considering making her pet, even if it wasn't real, starve because she didn't want Emily changing it in the slightest bit
Hey be glad that it was a pet that wasn't anything more than an inanimate toy as opposed to trying to starve pal.
DW is so mental that even Nadine has more sanity than her
If I were Nadine, I'd just ditch DW and look for someone else to be imaginary friends with.
Nadine talks to Pal and Kate in a later Episode.
@@vectinator7605 And Pal has a deep British voice.
I would too, if I kept getting blamed over the dumbest or intentional action that D.W. started.
@@artemisolympius2708 At this point Nadine should use her magic to make a big fat mess and pin ALL the blame on DW, and leave a message saying "Not so fun when YOU get blammed, is it?".
@@vectinator7605 And I'm imagining them all secretly plotting against DW.
I like how Arthur was the only one with meatballs. Little king kind of deserves the yummy stuff.
But he only gets a plate while everyone else gets a bowl.
It's been a while since I've seen the episode, but I don't think DW was that bad in Clarissa Gets Cracked. In fact, I think DW actually felt bad about breaking Clarissa. If anything, that one seems like it would be more of an FU Grandma Thora episode for giving DW an easily breakable antique toy in the first place.
True. Any little kid could break a toy like that. Especially when they're not told how to take care of it.
I did really think she showed maturity by admitting she broke the doll when she could have just walked away.
It's funny, because Nadine is actually a far more likable character than D.W. is, especially in later episodes when she teams up with Kate and Pal.
Although, it was actually Nadine who stole the snowball... so she's responsible for at least 3 F.U. DWs. Still better than her... owner, I guess?
Hey, that's a massive spoiler!
@@OzzyNe0n To an episode that came out nearly two years ago?
D.W. Blaming Nadine for her actions reminds me of Manny from Diary of a Wimpy Kid, who did the same thing with one of his imaginary friends, Johnny Cheddar. Now saying that, both Manny and D.W. are very similar, especially their trouble making tendencies and how they rarely, or never, get punished at all.
At least Arthurs parents don't ban him from going on rides cause DW is too short for them.... I know there are parents who do shit like that
They would probably do it in later episodes.
It is actually kind of funny how this feels like DW felt being a decent human was so hard for her she and forced that part of herself to be a completely separate individual.
Nadine does not deserve this. 😅
Do the episode where DW gets jealous of Emily for being the lead in Little Red Riding Hood
All about DW.
It's very common for writers of children's shows to take experiences from their own childhoods and not even realize they need updating because they haven't experienced those things since they were children themselves. Flat-rate gate admissions were less common in earlier times. Disney parks didn't do away with tickets until 1982, so that EPCOT Center never had a ticket system. Given that Arthur aired in 1996, the childhoods of the people involved in this decision were in the 70s at the latest, much more likely to remember amusement parks as ride ticket affairs. Another possible explanation is little experience with amusement parks but lots of experience with rides at midways and boardwalks, which by their nature need to operate on a tickets/points/pay-per-ride system.
Some smaller amusement parks and state fairs up until maybe the 2010's were *def* still going by the ticket system too. I was born in 2000 and I remember the first few times I was at a local park I had to use those paper tickets. Arcades still had them for a long time too.
I feel like Nadine was more like her conscience as she is more morally sound than DWs impulsiveness. I have a theory that Nadine is actually the real child and DW unalived her because usually imaginary friends in cartoons tell the child to do bad things
Dora Winifred does sound like a name a kid would come up with, not an actual child. And DW is a demon spawn... Oh Lord, poor Nadine.
I thought D.W.’s imaginary friend episode was wonderful. Sure has some moments DW being on likable with showing her friends tours of her brother Arthur’s room his privacy against as well and dumping pasta dinner on his head by her, showing her perspective her imaginary friend is cute and adorable and relatable to everyone who has imaginary friend from their childhood, which inspired many adaptations like the upcoming IFF movie coming out in 2024 May Foster home for imaginary friends, bing bong inside out, and so on. So FU Arthur for for acting like an unlikable jerk and trying to make TW forget the best friend she ever made, and of course, for ruining his dinner, and invade his privacy, and make him the butt monkey of the episode, FU D.W.
Funny enough Nadine means No One in Spanish
Plot twist, Maine actually did exist at one point, but didn’t make it due to vanishing twin syndrome. Now her ghost haunts the mind of DW as a way of coping with its own mortality. Trying to connect with the sister it never had.
But that’s just a theory
Please do a vid on the secret about secrets. James did nothing wrong to DW and what does she do, she embarrasses him in front of the class with a secret she didn't deserve to know.
She didn't actually reveal the secret to the class; it was only in an imaginary sequence of what she thought might happen if she did. Still, she did tell her mother, when James made it very clear that *no one else,* not just their classmates, was to know.
@@OzzyNe0nI thought it was real
I like nadine way better than DW
Why does dw sounds like an actual girl her 2:03
Can't wait until we get to the pal and Kate episodes
You know DW is immature when a literal baby is more emotionally mature than she is.
There’s a Pal and Kate Episode that they can see and speak to DW’s Imaginary Friend Nadine.
@@brandonkirkendall1466😂 real sad!
FU DW and FU Mr. READ for not raising her correctly
Amen 🙏
As Matt always makes quite clear, Mr. Read has other, ratty priorities.
Those cursed frames paired with the C# version of the THX deep note will haunt my dreams forever.
Also, speed-running juvenile diabetes 😅🍰
THX at 2:23.
But wait, wasn’t there one episode where they showed that Nadine was real, but only the baby and the dog could see her??
It definitely seems that way since Nadine always seems more like the more mature/aware of the two. How could an imaginary friend be smarter than you yourself if they’re really imaginary?
Probably because Nadine represents the part of DW's subconscious that she is not emotionally mature enough to act on. If there was any justice in the world, the DW personality would eventually fade away and be replaced with Nadine's.
To be fair though, there are other characters that remain stagnant, despite the fact that the show has been on for about 25 years. Muffy Crosswire anyone?
True, there are characters that do show change, like the majority of the bullies like Binky, Molly and Rattles, but Muffy is that one character that somehow manages to maintain her spoiled and self-centered nature, despite the fact that she's said that she's a changed person.
DW blaming Nadine for her shenanigans reminded me of a clip from America's Funniest Home Videos where a little girl was blaming her big brother for her shenanigans. The thing is the girl doesn't have a big brother!
You know whats worse? Nadine stays with DW as she grows to Arthurs age (assuming something like DWs Time Triuble happems), which implies she will continuously blame her problems on her.
Damn! You’re one good friend, D.W.! 🙄 I’ve had imaginary friends myself as a kid, and I never blamed my faults on them all the time. Imagine if it were a real friend, and how hurt they would be in the end.
One thing I didn’t pay attention to as a kid but don't understand as an adult is why are all the kids in the episode so excited about barf bags? Buster even kisses his before throwing it away. Gross! Was that a big thing in the mid-90s? Did kids back then actually like throwing up?
yeah, those barf bags! the 90's were full of gross out humor stemming from Ren and Stimpy which was a huge hit then so we thought that's what the kids wanted to see. I remember I put in a 'barf wipe' once where DW barfs all over the camera! Man, those were the days!
@offmodel That makes a lot of sense, actually. I don't mind it that much, tbh and I actually laugh at that transition you're talking about.
Nadine is the DW that the universe sadly didn't get
Fun fact: Nadine is a squirrel
NOT DINNER!
NOT LENNY
"a lawsuit waiting to happen" "speedrun juvenile diabetes" 🤣🤣
I’m actually surprised David Read doesn’t just scold the air next to D.W.
We NEED an FU DW of the one where she meets a girl called WD
If you ever want to play around with noncanon Arthur stuff, there was one youtuber that did a take on all of them being adults. DW is of course still a bitch, and the themes make sense, even if not perfectly pg. Like your work, just tossing out an idea.
1:19 Did Arthur fly?
"There is nothing wrong with this clip" - the guy who reviewed this before it aired lol
I knew D.W. was crazy but….
One day, Nadine will have enough of DW, with the loss of her conscience DW will fully give in to her sociopathic desires.
I think it may actually have been the other way around given... a certain late-show revelation.
Who do you think has a worse problem with their split personality? D.W. with Nadine or George with Wally? Also, I get the feeling the meatballs were supposed to be the same color as their tongues. Their white, white, early episode tongues. That ALWAYS disturbed me.
George is generally a good kid. Keep in mind that his character wasn't even developed in the first season of Arthur. For the most part, he was just that kid who got bullied by Binky a lot. And for the most part with Wally, he came out of his shell more. Only reason he has Wally is cause he isn't out of his shell entirely.
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Why the hell would Nadine be introduced in this episode, I mean we saw her in the first 4 seasons until this episode.
Wish we could have had a Nadine episode without DW
3:33 That actually is a good theory.
D.W is the kid in the mall that steals coins out of the wishing fountain.
2:24 Jumpscare alert! But seriously tho, I enjoyed the video. FU DW!
Are you referring to the THX Deep Note?
I Agree. I'd rather have Meatballs with Spaghetti and I don't even like Cauliflower
I'd rather go on the Bumper Cars instead of the Hurl-a-Whirl Ride at the Amusement Park because a Ride like that would make You Sick to Your Stomach
Pretty sure that’s dissociative identity disorder, not schizophrenia (no offense to anyone who actually has those conditions). Either way, this is fucking hilarious, as is the whole series.
1:22: I'm surprised you didn't splice in Willy Wonka's Tunnel Scene clips in the hanuted house ride in the imagine spot; that would have been cool!
God the more I look back on this show, the more I really want to smack Arthur's parents for letting DW get away with her bullshit. I get she was only like 4 or 5, but her parents really needed to let her know that the stuff she'd pull wasn't okay. Out of their two kids, it's very clear how they preferred her more over Arthur.
I really wouldn't be surprised if they just wanted a girl this whole time and DW ended up being the successful result
Very random but I remember after Arthur and Buster got off the ride, they threw up in their vomit bag. Buster wanted to keep it but his mom wouldn’t allow it. Before throwing the vomit bag away, he kisses it……eewwww!!!!!
2:51
Believe it or not? Residential theme parks - including Disneyland - used to do that. Of course, by the time most of them moved onto the flat admission fees, it was the 80s. (Some even changed in the 70s. I don't even think WDW had tickets
I've been watching fu dw for a while, and this just made my day that a new video was uploaded today before I headed to sleep.
When I joked about having an imaginary friend, my mom threatened to ban me from watching the show if I didn't stop.
As person who struggles with schizophrenia um I have to say that having a imaginary friend doesn't make her one just saying
i had the same issues as DW but i don't had schizophrenia i had autism and ADHD
Good episode, I’m looking forward to the next one
You should talk about the Tattletale Frog in the future.
Nadine would be the goat of Arthur.
Dw probably stole those tickets just like she did the burgers from those men during their family vacation and her parents being the lousy parents they are didn't stop her
Didn't those men *give* her their burgers?
@@OzzyNe0n yes but it just cut to her eating one in the car so who knows she probably nagged them for it
Nice one! I used to have this on VHS which had the Lost Library Book episode in it also!
I remember renting this tape from the library
@@mattneff Awesome!😁👍
I remember checking this out from the library when I was little...
its called having an imaginary friend
When I was a kid I legit thought DW had like a ghost friend for the longest time. I missed the episode where they explained it was her imaginary friend. Lol
It Awesome and funny video
If Nadine is what schizophrenia is like, then I will gladly swap out my PTSD for a friendly squirrel.
I sometimes forget that the scene where David "steps on Nadine's tail" was also used for the song "Leftovers Ghoulash" near the end of the third season (Season 3 Episode 14B more specifically). It is indeed fascinating how Wonderworld, a fixed-location amusement park uses tickets (or possibly bracelets usually akin to travelling fixtures found in carnival and county/state fair settings), instead of a front gate-admission procedure. In the entire series, it is only ever seen "in person" four other times, as well as on one of Thora's old films reels. But I'm definitely looking forward to next week's episode...
Madine vs. Bendy
Bro the first few seconds 💀
Nadine is a Tulpa, not an imaginary friend, which would be a feat for DW. Creating Tulpas takes time, and focus