What Happened to Arthur?

[@1000guy1]

Arthur was never the same again after the original 2d animation was gone it didn’t feel the same as what I had with the first 15 seasons I felt like the magic and the charm and excitement had gone

[@Multi1163]

Duke

[@1appletree]

To be fair, while season 16 is clunky, each following season improved a bit, and by season 19 it was great again.

[@lamydora457]

Yup after the original animation was gone this show went to crap. I never even knew they kept going with this show until recently i thought this show died when i stopped watching it when i was a kid to my surprise they kept milking this show and its even worst now.

[@paulbell3682]

​@@lamydora457 The show ended with the season 25 episode "All Grown Up" on February 21st, 2022.
Was a great finale as well.

[@BigRedAltoids]

One thing I want to note about April 9th is that it wasn't JUST about the fire. It's about ALL serious events, especially the then recent 9/11 terrorist attacks. It uses the fire to present a smaller scale event that is much more personal to a child. Most children watching Arthur won't understand the gravity of an event like that, but most children have been through a fire drill at school and know that fire is no joke. The characters go through similar reactions a real child may go through following the news of a tragedy, be it a fire breaking out at school or a terrorist attack.
Arthur was smart in that it didn't use real events in its story, as it could've weighed down the plot, confused and upset children watching, and poked at wounds that really needed time to heal. A fire can get all of the messages across without bringing in that baggage.
Personally, 9/11 affected me greatly, even though I wasn't even born when it happened. My mother showed me a video about the topic when I was in Kindergarten and I think it was the first time I realized that really bad things could happen. The horror of such an event stuck with me and loomed over my head. When the anniversary of a shooting in my hometown I was very alive for was coming up, a realized that I have really bad anxiety around tragic events, the main three being the shooting, 9/11, and Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, though I feel it around Memorial Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day.
April 9th is a very important episode to me, not just because it's about a fire, but because when I saw it, I was better able to understand my complex feelings surrounding these dates. No Arthur episode could compare.

[@TuscanWonder]

I was very much a sixth grader when 9/11 happened, living in the south US. Saw the replay of the planes crashing into the towers. It gave me nightmares, up to the point I saw the high jackers in my dream take me and my grandma hostage at her home. I was truly an anxious child when it f came to ✈️.

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

That doesn’t make any sense

[@hunterolaughlin]

Makes me glad Arthur did not end at Season 5, otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten a great special like April 9th.

[@thunderking8925]

😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂

[@eatatjoes6751]

The problem I had with the New Arthur episodes is that Elwood's technology seemed half planted in 1996 *and* jarringly modernized at the same time and it's like, "Pick a time period - either you're a town frozen in the mid-90s tech wise or you're desperately trying to stay relevant to then-current trends. You can't have both."

[@Felamine]

There's also a weird timewarp thing going on because in the early episodes, Arthur's and other kids' parents grew up in the 70s disco era. Then in a newer episode, Muffy's parents were teenagers in 1993 (which tracks with Muffy saying in an early season that her mom is 40 years old).

[@TomIannucci22]

Same with the Reads having wifi in the one episode

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

Sounds japanese

[@Frazier16]

Most long runninh episodes do that. South park, family guy, the simpsons

[@petmomLJPDPG7460]

The thing I've noticed is with classic Arthur dw behaves like she should as a 4 year old with her normal kinda Beaty loveable self where in modern day she behaves alot more like she's 8 rather then 4 and I mean ya she's smart by they have made her use words that I didn't even know let alone understand when I was 4

[@matthewhenningervonada9914]

No offense. She represented brats too well.

[@M.lizz1]

Isn't she 6?

[@petmomLJPDPG7460]

@@M.lizz1 no she's 4 for most of the show and 5 when the show ended they gave her to 5th bdays episodes for some reason an old one and a new one and so she be six but they kept her at five for some reason

[@Maw0]

I know I am two years late on this video, but I honestly related to Binky in the April 9th episode because when I was 4, my oven caught on fire and I was right next to the oven when it happened. I developed a fear of ovens and seeing fire scared the living bajeezus out of me. I actually had a dream about fire last night, so fire is still persistent in my dreams. I don't think it's the same reason, maybe something else, but nonetheless, it's probably my favourite episode.

[@misspinkpunkykat]

Same after my apartment building was arsoned...when I was 30

[@Maw0]

@@misspinkpunkykat I hope things got sorted out after that.

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

smh, if anything deserves to be seen and critiqued on a public forum, it's a cartoon from the *Public* Broadcasting Station.

[@dimitriwarchief301]

.... didn’t think id see you here
But.... yeah seriously why isn’t this allowed pbs

[@jackieec]

Agreed master kenobi, damn you pbs! Why is this not allowed, why?!

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

We're in a post criticism age

[@nicwinsteadart5330]

I remember reading somewhere that April 9th was an allegory for 9/11, Which was still fresh in a lot of people's minds, and using a school fire was a great way to convey that without being too heavy-handed, especially Buster's "survivor's guilt" Which a lot of people probably felt at the time and still do

[@RogueRail]

I really didn’t how the animation looked when Arthur switched to flash. Cyberchase had the same treatment

[@whocares9171]

Shame that this video was taken down, it seems like you put a lot of work into it.

[@0calliestar0]

Yeah and I was really proud that the longest video essay on my channel was about Arthur lol

[@maxspeakstruth9988]

Lol I remember when they changed the animation I personally wrote a letter to Marc brown to changing it back .Good video btw

[@elijahe6111]

Arthur was a big part of my childhood, I'm 28 and I still watch the old episodes. The older episodes were funnier emotional and with lots of lessons to be taught. Modern Arthur fails in that category

[@TheDanimatorsChannel]

Glad your kids can still enjoy the enormous amount of old episodes!

[@Gustavo_Perez_]

I think it's weird to say that PBD Kids tought me more than my parents
Holy shit I also remembered April 9th giving me my first feeling of melancholy or existential crisis or some shit like that

[@kickstart3974]

Season 15 was the last good season of Arthur. The animation style changes and the writing becomes a lot more toddler like in my opinion.

[@iminyourkitchen6191]

I guess talking about deadly storms is toddler like

[@iminyourkitchen6191]

And talking about racism

[@jp73987]

@@iminyourkitchen6191The issues were handled in a basic manner. They do not hold the same charm of the older episodes.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

Ashamed to admit but me and my cousins made fun of 9/11 when it happened because we didn't know what was going on.

[@OrthodoxAlexis]

Im 18 rn and as a younger boy I must say Arthur was my all time fav

[@angusking1593]

I'd say the worst episode, it's a newer one, not sure which early episode you'd compare it to(Although the one it was back to back to had similarities to April 9th.)
The Longest 11 Minutes. Where everyone had brought electricals to Arthur's house to go on the internet(which they'd never done before) They weren't all even playing the same game. The internet goes down, they panic. They don't recognise an old camera... what was that thing Arthur has in every intro?
Just I get the impression it was written by somebody who has never seen an episode of Arthur before.... Will say I liked that hey came up with a way to rescue the bird, but other than that, worst episode.
Dishonourable mention to Great Lint Rush, and other Kate talking to Pal episodes.

[@nomeatbags8286]

First they make it harder for you to watch Arthur and now they strike you for your Arthur video. PBS probably has you on a hit list on you or something.

[@0calliestar0]

The moment my parents got cable and I started watching Disney channel for the first time, PBS decided they would make me rue the day for the rest of my life

[@jasonrandom372]

Arthur R.I.P 1996 to 2022

[@mathieuleader8601]

Ladonna is an odd bad combo of Buster and Sandy Cheeks of Spongebob and a really highlight of how poor the latter series can be.

[@M.lizz1]

Right, I never liked her. It's like they're trying to make a "relateable" goofy character

[@angrynoodletwentyfive6463]

Modern Arthur isn't "bad" it just isn't as good as it was because they kind of ran out of storylines to do at a certain point.

[@jp73987]

Don't kid yourself, it's bad. There's only a few episodes that are actually decent.

[@miguelangelquintanillaapar5361]

Hey there, after your tangled video i check out this one because i watched Arthur as a kid. You are doing very well and I hope you make it weell someday because your channel is awesome. I hope one day i can make a channel as good as yours. If only I knew where to get clips lol. Anyways have a wonderful day!

[@miguelangelquintanillaapar5361]

@Cree Fox because why not

[@miguelangelquintanillaapar5361]

@Cree Fox do I know you?

[@CJColvin]

I used to watch Arthur when I was a kid. Also fun fact that 1996 is definitely the same year I was born.

[@TuscanWonder]

I had to stop mid video, because it’s always about the voice. When voices change for characters, I’m immediately put off. Something inauthentic it feels. Nostalgia biases me implicitly.

[@jp73987]

Make sense. That seems like an easy cope out, but can be a valid argument. For example, DW's old voice actors have always been boys, but since the switch to flash, it became very obvious that she was being voiced by a boy. Not to mention that the VA doesn't do a decent job at voice acting.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

What's the name of the song you used in Artbur accused?

[@tgs219]

Very good explanation and analysis.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

I almost died a tear at the beginning of the intro to April 9th but then the lame flash era image

[@Fairygoblet]

The problem with comparing episode of similar plot line is that Arthur had a huge trend of reworking storylines To Mediocre effect in the later Seasons. You would be better off analyzing episodes that had a similar tone or something more abstract.

[@erikastone9183]

I think the show's creators were already starting to run out of episode ideas when the new seasons were releasing. 🤔 For the episode "So Funny I Forgot to Laugh" I feel they shouldn't have chosen Arthur to be the bully in that episode cuz it's really out of character for him to tease and bully others, they should have used Muffy, Francine, the Tibble twins, or Binky for that episode. Also another episode I didn't like was "Sue Ellen veggies out" cuz Sue Ellen in my opinion acts like a liberal douchebag acting like it's better to be vegan 😤

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

No she doesn't. She does actually like one during her two protest episodes

[@michaelmoss9198]

Well the show has gotten worse in recent years and yeah I'm happy its ending. At least I liked the show as a kid from the early seasons but now its bad. Just like Spongebob

[@dominicgoulbourne6525]

Not nearly as bad as 2008-2012 SpongeBob, more like modern Simpsons.

[@michaelmoss9198]

@@dominicgoulbourne6525 or like how Johnny Test aged liked milk with flash animation

[@derekpayneszubliminals7723]

Well, at least PBS recently ended Arthur so at least they knew that if they kept the show going, it would have end up like SpongeBob or Simpsons in term of quality.

[@michaelmoss9198]

@@derekpayneszubliminals7723 THats exactly what i wanted it to end and now for spongebob

[@m.k.b.3880]

Why do they have pet cats and dogs when Cats and Dogs are people in this universe

[@colinroberts2060]

I strangely never saw "Shelter from the Storm" somehow...

[@dwarasamudra8889]

Very good analysis 👍

[@ramonsanchez6903]

Great video and review

[@shadralewis5433]

I watch Arthur every day bc I missed it before. Still, our station repeats a lot of the episodes. It’s the only kiss’s show with real background artwork. Everything else is ugly cartoonish and won’t let the kiddo watch them.

[@shadralewis5433]

kids’ not kiss’s

[@iminyourkitchen6191]

"The modern episodes"
Picked ones from 2012 and 2015
Bruh 😂

[@Khaly-xk9sn]

exactly

[@fivefriendlyfanatics2686]

She did say she considered new episodes from when they started using flash animation and I agree after that Arthur went downhill

[@iminyourkitchen6191]

@@fivefriendlyfanatics2686 not really
There's still some good new ones

[@IlluminatiWarrior-by2mz]

PBS p*sses me off nowadays honestly

[@cheeto1353]

jesus, the new animation is terrible.

[@gablit-gt8kk]

Season 15 oughta be the last

[@gablit-gt8kk]

Season 15 should've been the last

[@dimitriwarchief301]

Uuuuuh
You could just show the older episodes to your future kids
Just stop after season 14

[@iminyourkitchen6191]

Naw the new episodes still good

[@gablit-gt8kk]

After season 15

[@damianreyesavila3402]

.Amazing Childhood Memories Channel Movie in Year Friday March 24,2023.😐.

[@nicholasreemer3541]

you picked some very mediocre "new" arthur episodes (even though they are from 2012) to compare against great episodes. And you compared "Shelter From the Storm" which is a great episode against quite possible the greatest episode in the series. Not a fair comparison at all. The new episodes are very good, and you could have picked much stronger ones to compare them with.

[@michaelmoss9198]

Well in 2012 when season 16 came out, thats when the show got worse and easy to dislike. As a kid I lost interest

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

some good comedy is exaggerated.

[@RealDonaldDrumpf]

Why were you trashing on Arthur? I love Arthur…

[@TheStormBolt-gf8qi]

The animation got ugly

[@weatherplayzz2182]

Then they talking about racism🙄

[@piretiris8223]

While ignoring the fact that they're ALL ANIMALS!

[@rpghorrorfan879]

@@piretiris8223 Brain is literally black, he celebrates Kwanza.

[@rpghorrorfan879]

While I can understand using animal characters can have unfortunate implications, people saying race doesn’t exist in this universe just isn’t true.@@piretiris8223

[@piretiris8223]

@@rpghorrorfan879 well they can't have both. They need to be one thing at a time. Either different species of animals or different races of humans. Then this show wouldn't be so fucking confusing all the time with it's world laws.

[@eatatjoes6751]

@@piretiris8223 That's why I had a problem with that PSA. Right there, took the words out of my mouth.
Like, they're animals, right? They should have been using the fact that none of them look like it to their advantage by metaphorically following what 100-99% of all Talking Animal media does rather than do the Beastars thing and pretend they're all human, forcing us to question how the logic works.

[@faithsupport4023]

🐶hi 0CallieStar0, (you don't have to do a Q&A video but) do you think you're a good person? also i'm not better than anybody else.

[@Khaly-xk9sn]

Not fair comparisons. And very strange video, as you are taking down Arthur as a show while glorifying at the same time. Also the whole part where you said that you "Trashed" their show at the beginning was very uncalled for and actually makes no sense in regards to the rest of your video. Of I were you I would remove this video and reupload without that

[@commieslayer6740]

Who was your favorite character (s) ?

[@Alfenium]

Arthur's cousin