Arthur

Since Binky's repeating third grade, he's dreading Mr. Ratburn's annual class sleepover at the Science Museum. After all, he remembers how boring it was last year.

During a field trip to Amish country, Buster becomes enamoured with the simple lifestyle and vows to forgo all modern conveniences back home.

D.W. is sick and tired of being bossed around all the time and demands to know why she couldn't have been born before Arthur.

An invitation to Muffy's exclusive slumber party terrifies Jenna, an occasional bed-wetter.

When the Read family car breaks down, Arthur is heartbroken. He wants to save the vehicle before his parents replace it.

Mr. Ratburn' s class is chosen to stage a musical tribute to Elwood City for its centennial celebration.

After Binky accidentally breaks Brain's new watch during a soccer game, the two get into several arguments while waiting for their parents to pick them up.

When the Tibble twins' constant lying lands them in constant trouble, they promise to tell only the truth.

Arthur builds an ant farm for Mr. Rathburn's science class, but all the ants spill out and he must find a way to attract them back in.

Muffy happily accepts Sue Ellen's invitation to spend the weekend in Crown City, a nearby metropolis.

When Francine's bowling tournament and her cousin's bar mitzvah take place at the same time, her friends help her attend both events at once.

One of D.W.'s socks goes missing, so Pal and Kate try to find it.

Arthur is thrilled when Dad invites him to go fly fishing for the weekend.

D.W. lost her voice and their mother asks Arthur to take care of her.

While struggling to write a poem for his mom, Binky falls asleep and gets trapped in Verseberg, where it's a crime not to rhyme.

D.W. is thrilled to be getting an allowance. When she learns that Emily and the Tibbles have been already getting one and have more money, D.W. is devastated.

George has dyslexia and and wants Binky to teach him to be more hard-headed, so none will bully him.

D.W. accidentally grabs the wrong backpack at the pool. Arthur and D.W. must try to find out who it belongs to since most of the letters on the name tag rubbed off.

After visiting The Elwood City Times, Francine decides to start her own paper. The tabloid, complete with embarrassing photos and sensationalized headlines, is a smashing success until all her friends stop speaking to her.

Mr. Sipple from next door is moving away and Arthur wonders-who will be the new neighbours. When Alberto Molina and his family settle in, Arthur makes a new friend and learns about a different culture.

Buster is convinced that he's seen real UFOs, and he uses Muffy's fancy new telescope to get the proof.

The try-outs for the Young Person's Orchestra are coming to Lakewood Elementary. Everyone agrees that Binky is a shoe-in since he's the best musician in school.

Muffy's proud that her dad is the new soccer coach until he exhausts the team with demanding drills.

Every kid in town is lining up to get the latest book about Harry Skreever except Prunella. She ordered a monogrammed, limited edition, coming all the way from England.

When Buster signs up to sell candy for the band, he figures it's easy money. Buster soon wishes that somebody loved chocolate more than he does, because he eats it all himself.

Arthur's beloved piano teacher is retiring, but she assures him that the new teacher is outstanding. When he meets Dr. Fugue, who's as strict as he is odd, Arthur begins to doubt his own abilities.

Now that the gang has beaten Virtual Goose, they move onto Best of the Nest, where five geese fight to survive in the virtual woods. As the competition escalates, Brain becomes inspired to initiate a camping trip in the real woods.

Sue Ellen is the champion of the popular Internet game Virtual Goose. She becomes so obsessed, however, that she starts imagining her friends as geese to be conquered.

Buster's mom announces she has a new boyfriend, and Buster thinks his mom won't have time for him with her new boyfriend.

When D.W.'s favorite TV show is cancelled, she makes a petition to bring it back.

Binky volunteers to look after Francine's cat Nemo for the weekend.

Buster's destiny was to have a Pizza Paula's all-you-can-eat contest. The only problem is that he is too excited so he could not go to sleep.

When there is a new neighbour in Francine's apartment, Francine and Muffy try everything to get rid of her.

Mr. Ratburn's class has a mock election. Muffy and Arthur are taking it really seriously until Binky is nominated.

D.W. and Tibbles help Arthur train for a 3K race against Brain.

An army of lice has been unleashed on the heads of Lakewood Elementary. Now, the whole school must get rid of them before they all go insane.

The kids of Lakewood Elementary go to the Clark Caves, and Francine and D.W. starts to bother Arthur of being afraid of bats and the dark.

Arthur tells his friends about the World Records that have been broken, and they try to break some of the records. Buster, walking backwards, Francine trying to kick a soccer ball in the air the most times, Muffy not talking, and Binky building the largest popsicle stick bridge. All these were very hard tasks, so Arthur decides to make the largest pizza in the world by getting help from the whole city.

Arthur and D.W. are obsessed with going to Aqualand. They beg their father to go with them, but David tells them that going to Ocean Zone would be more fun.

After a loss in the rehearsal math-a-thon against Buster, Brain decides to work on his new life as a Comedian. Now Brain wants to hand everything down to Buster so Buster could be the new brain.

Buster can't cope with being the only kid in Elwood City who doesn't have a Cybertoy.

Lakewood Elementary is having an open house. Sue Ellen is excited to introduce her parents until she hears her friends tell stories about their parents being embarrassing.

Arthur, Francine, and The Brain dare each other to skip school for a day

Arthur is chosen to appear on the popular game show Riddle Quest.

Flashpants were all that Prunella wanted for her birthday. When she gets a hint from her sister, she gets excited about getting them, but the gift was not what she expected.

Arthur believes that Buster is sad because Buster could not bring his dad to the Father's Day Picnic to have a fun time because his dad is divorced. So Arthur tries to help him by borrowing a father for Buster just for that day.

The kids try to stop Francine from playing the drums and singing at the same time for the Talent Show.

Binky Barnes has a favourite pastime when Bug Week comes along: Butterflies. He worked very hard to collect these bugs for his report especially a hard blue-coloured kind.

Prunella receives a Polly Locket for her birthday from her sister. But she also gets one from Francine and Prunella did not like the gift. making Francine unhappy. Then Ghosts visit Prunella to tell her about how Francine worked so hard to get the doll.

Grandma Thora tells D.W. a myth. This makes her show Arthur that she would make a better story than the Veggiemorphs using mythologies in her own version.

Mr. Ratburn stays at the Read's house because the roof collapsed from the snow. Surprisingly, Arthur begins to like Mr. Ratburn.

A blizzard strikes Elwood City and all the kids have to return home. But before they do, they have to hand in their reports. Francine does not finish so she has to write a longer report over the snowstorm days while the adults are scrambling all over the city, losing electricity and supplies.

When D.W. makes up a fake science museum, she makes up science to go with it.

Arthur and his friends enter a contest that they have to wait five years to find out the winner.

The girls prank the boys by inviting them to Muffy's celebration for the new Scare Your Pants Off Club Books.

D.W. obtains poison ivy while playing a game. Buster recaps his problem with asthma and how everyone was afraid of him being injured or getting themselves injured.

Tired of playing with Muffy because she never played soccer, Francine starts to hang out with Jenna. So Muffy searches for a new friend.

While the kids played hide and seek, a snake shows up and Arthur brings it home.

After Arthur worked hard to build a model airplane, D.W. throws it out the window to see if it flies and the model exploded. Arthur gets extremely mad and strikes her.

D.W. discovers that she can get her own library card and feel the power as Arthur has, but she can not write her own name. When she does and waits a week for a book to come in, she borrows it but never reads it because she thought she might destroy it.

Francine never had a pet until Nemo comes along.

When George brings his dummy Wally to school, everyone loves him. But after awhile, they get tired of Wally.

Grandma Thora lends her doll Clarissa to D.W. for a week. She has a lot of fun with her until Clarissa breaks.

After everyone has told scary stories, everything scares Sue Ellen.

Arthur and Buster show D.W. that you don't need cameras, lights, etc. to make a music video.

Tommy Tibble gets sick and Timmy Tibble gets sad so D.W. and Emily pretend to be Tibbles to make Timmy feel better until Tommy is well.

D.W. wants money to buy a toy, so she plans to trick the tooth fairy so she can earn enough money for it.

The Tibble's watch a dangerous superhero show and imitate it. Things get out of hand when they pretend that D.W. is a bad guy.

When Mr. Ratburn's class goes to a medieval style fair, his old teacher Mr. Pryce-Jones comes with his new class. Mr. Pryce-Jones' class wins all the games.

When Buster finds an arrowhead in his yard; everyone wants to know if there are treasures in their yards.

When Binky steals Buster's joke for his report, Buster has a grudge against him.

After Fern and Sue Ellen take a quiz in a teen magazine, they change the way they act. Fern turns loud and aggressive, while Sue Ellen falls back in everything.

After one of Mr. Read's scrumptious desserts makes Arthur the most popular kid in class, Arthur can't stop asking his dad to cook. Despite his dad's busy catering schedule, Arthur promises delectable desserts to anyone and everyone.

Everyone has a Woogle, the popular new toy... everyone except Arthur. He think that they're dweeby, until everyone else has one.

Everyone gets tickets for a concert starring the new group Binky.

Someone has been writing "Binky Rules" all over Lakewood Elementary and Mr. Morris thinks it is Binky. Binky says he didn't do it, so Fern and Buster are trying to find out.

D.W's mom tells the newspapers and everyone in town that story about D.W. and the green chip embarrassing her ultimately.

D.W. eats a big green potato chip and to get her off his back Arthur tells her that it's fatal and she could die. So D.W. spends this day as her last day until she finds out the truth.

Arthur's class gets picked to be on a television show in which the Brain does not want to go on.

Mr. Ratburn assigns a project that involves family ancestors. Muffy and Francine turn this project into a competition to see who has the best ancestors.

Sue Ellen gets partnered with Brain in another project by Mr. Ratburn. Soon he starts to be a report hog and gets on Sue Ellen's nerves.

Mr. Ratburn assigns partners for a project and Arthur gets teamed up with Muffy. After spending a lot of time with her, he starts to act just like her.

The Tibble Twins can do everything better than D.W. So she tells them that she is able to read before them. They challenge her and she picks up a book and makes up a story, but when the Tibble's bring the book home for their Grandma to read to them her trick is revealed.

D.W. loves school and wants to go everyday, but when Ms. Morgan starts doing fire drills she fears for her safety and doesn't want to go anymore.

Buster feels left out having missed all the adventures since he was away. He feels that everyone has changed and they feel the same about him, so Arthur plans a party so they can rekindle their friendship with Buster.

Buster returns after a extremely long trip to bond with his father and a nervous Arthur wonders if Buster's trip made him change.

On the way home from school, Arthur and the Brain meet a crossing guard who wants $10.00 from them to cross the street.

When Francine and Katherine get sick of each other Katherine moves out to have her own room in the living room.

Deputized as a Junior Safety Officer, D.W. sees it as a license to tattle.

When Muffy annoys Francine and Brain, they decide to get even with her by sending her fake love notes for an anonymous person to make her look goofy.

Arthur and D.W. sleepover at Grandma Thora's house and find out that she gets lonely when they're not there. So Arthur and D.W. throw her a party to help her.

Arthur does not want to tell his mother he hurt his knee, because then she will know he was playing down at the dump—where he is not supposed to go.

When Sue Ellen drops her diary at the library, she is worried that someone has found it and is going to read it.

Arthur and his friends are all invited by Muffy to go to Waterworld, but the Brain doesn't want to go. When he and Binky find out that the Brain is afraid of water, they try to cure this fear so they can all go together.

Arthur and Buster are on the urge of finishing their story for the sequel of Robin Hood. Everything is well until Arthur discovers that Buster has decided to go on a long trip to bond with his dad. Arthur fears that it's the end of their story and their friendship!

Buster needs to write a book report, but he has never finished a book. His friends try to find one he can finish.

It's the second family trip and D.W. gets to choose. She chooses camping and D.W. gets attached to a deer she met and wants to bring home.

Mr. Haney gives Arthur an envelope to give to his mom. He is worried about its contents, thinking that it's about him, so he comes up with a way of giving it to her without her opening it. It turns out to contain Mr. Haney's tax documents.

It's the first family trip and Arthur gets to choose. He chooses going to Washington, D.C. and D.W. thinks that she's going to be bored until she accidentally runs into the American president.

Arthur has a to-do list for the summer, but he can't find it and summer's nearly over. He finds out everyone else had a great summer. He finds his list and D.W. accidentally helps him realize that he did all the things on it and had a great time too.

Arthur gets on the wrong bus to his swimming lessons and gets lost.

Everyone has all pledged not to watch TV for one whole week.

Buster saves a cat from up a tree and now he is known as a local hero because of an article in the newspaper.

Arthur has an embarrassing dream about being seen in his underwear and it gets even worse when it happens for real.

D.W. does not get along well with Kate, whom she claims keeps trying to take her toys, when they are supposed to be sharing them. When Kate will not give D.W. one of her toys back, D.W. tries to take the toy away from Kate by force and threatens to pinch her. For doing this, Jane sends D.W. upstairs to her room as punishment.

Arthur wants to see a movie, but he is too young, so he and his friends make a parody of the movie.

Arthur and Buster want Toby and Slink to teach them some skating tricks, but Toby and Slink say that they have to do some dares first. Arthur quits before the first dare, but Buster keeps on fulfilling dare after dare.

D.W. is not invited to Grandma Thora's upcoming birthday dinner because she is a very picky eater.

Arthur uses a pencil that seems to be lucky and then lends it to his friends. But it gets shorter and shorter, so Arthur decides to use it for emergencies only.

Binky gets teamed up with Arthur and Buster for an art class assignment. They go to an art museum and Binky discovers a mistake with a certain drawing-

After Francine makes fun of Fern for liking Mr. Ratburn's puppet shows, Fern gets revenge by drawing an unflattering comic strip making fun of Francine, and pretty soon, everyone else tries it too.

Mr. Rogers from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood comes to the Read family for a visit.

Fern dares everyone to write a good poem for a contest. If the loser backs out they have to join art club for a year.

D.W. loses her blankie and she and Arthur search all over town just to find it.

Every kid at school's parents has cool jobs except for Francine's dad. He's a garbage man and Francine is embarrassed by it so to make him look cool she tells the kids at school that he's a CIA agent.

D.W. finds Aunt Lucy's wedding ring after she lost it at her wedding.

When Arthur is teased by Francine and the others because he hasn't lost all of his baby teeth yet, he becomes determined to lose his tooth and fit in with the others.

Binky is the toughest kid in school and everyone is afraid of him.

Arthur and D.W. spend a week at their grandfather's farm, which isn't quite as Arthur remembers it.

Arthur breaks his mom's computer. Can he fix it before she finds out?

Arthur is lonely when Buster starts spending time with a new super-cool friend named Mike.

D.W. suffers through the death of her beloved bird, then has to decide whether to risk her heart again by adopting a lonely toad.

When Pal runs away at a street fair, even Arthur starts to doubt his dog's intelligence.

Mr. Ratburn gives the class an assignment --- to write a story about anything they want. It seems like a simple assignment and it doesn't even have to be bound and sent to a publisher as Muffy suggests. Arthur, however, finds it a hard task when he starts trying to write to please everyone's tastes. He starts out with the simple story of how he got his dog Pal, but after following the advice of each of his friends, it morphs into a bizarre country tune about baby elephants being born in outer space.

D.W. was excited to have a new little sister, but when she doesn't get to help much and the baby moves into her room, things don't seem so great. Kate stinks and makes a lot of noise. D.W. hatches a plan to get rid of her, but finds that maybe being a big sister isn't so bad after all.

Viewers are taken back, as Arthur and D.W. recollect what happened when Baby Kate was first-born. D.W. is excited with anticipation, but Arthur is very worried. His worries are only made worse when his friends tell him about all the awful stuff that's going to happen when the baby comes. Still, Arthur, is determined to be a good big brother, but ends up thinking that the baby hates him!

Francine has always gotten the worst roles in school plays, so everyone in the Ratburn class asks Mr. Ratburn to give her a good part in the next one. The play is about Thomas Edison, and Francine is given the role of Edison himself. She takes her role very seriously, to the point where she starts to trying to run everything her way and insults her friends. After the hurt and the anger, they set out to show her that she can't just forget their needs

Arthur is excited about his birthday. After shopping for party supplies, he makes invitations and passes them out at school. He then finds out that Muffy is having her party on the same day, at the same time. This starts a huge battle between the boys and the girls in the Ratburn class. Fortunately, Francine and Arthur devise a great solution to the problem.

The Read Family is having a big reunion, with aardvark relatives from all over coming. Arthur normally enjoys the festivities, such as sack-racing and swapping stories, but finds himself hiding because he's worried that his cousin Mo has a big practical joke planned for him. He remembers her being awful to him in the past and is sure that she has something big planned. However, his worries might just be unfounded.

Arthur has plenty of gripes about his past babysitters, but soon finds himself trying his hand at some babysitting of his own. He ends up having the Tibble Twins' Grandma ask him to babysit the infamous Tibble Twins and he agrees to the job. Despite the warnings from both his friends and D.W., he takes on the task and quickly finds himself overwhelmed. After some quick thinking, and a willingness to keep at things, he comes up with a plan.

Arthur's dream is to have Moon shoes, but he does not have the ten dollars to get them. When he begins working chores to receive money, he got too desperate and does something he will regret.

Arthur has a new puppy is exactly what he wanted. But the only problem is that he destroys everything in sight, so can Arthur teach Pal to behave, before his parents do something with Pal because of all the disasters he is causing.

Buster's grades aren't as good as his jokes, and now he is on the verge of repeating his third grade year. If he does not receive at least a B on his next test, he fails...

Arthur and his friends go to summer camp and Binky brings up the issue that it's boys vs. girls. The other team participating always won because of this problem, so now the kids of Elwood must work together to defeat them this year.

Arthur had a job to collect coins for Mrs. McGrady to raise money for a new dog for the Elwood City firemen, and when he left the bag of quarters where Mrs. McGrady was working, she said she never received them. While this was happening, Buster opened his detective agency, he has no idea his first job will involve Arthur. Now, it is up to Buster to solve this mystery, was Arthur the real thief?....

After Arthur called Francine a marshmallow, Francine and her friends get really mad and it looks like they are going to fight. But when they both get locked inside the Elwood City Library they either have to make up, or prepare for a long and scary weekend, because it's the weekend and the library closes until Monday.

When D.W. gets told she doesn't like any interesting stuff, she decides to copy Arthur.

When Arthur desperately wants a dog, he starts a pet business. When he gets too many he decides to just take care of one pet.

When Arthur checks out a library book and loses it a week later; he thinks he is banned from the library. So he and Binky team up to find it.

D.W. has an imaginary friend, Nadine, says she has to come everywhere, but Arthur is sick of it.

When the class goes on a field trip to a dinosaur museum, Buster finds a fossil on the ground - and wants to keep it for himself.

Whew, boy is it HOT today. The Reads decide to head to the beach in order to cool off, but D.W. refuses to go along (she thinks there is an octopus in the water).

Arthur does some heavy-duty studying, in order to compete in the school's upcoming spelling bee.

Arthur and Buster fear that their new teacher, Mr. Ratburn, is some kind of evil maniac who collects children's heads - until they discover the truth about him, of course.

Francine tries to get through picture day, without messing up her meticulously-crafted hairdo.

Arthur is embarrassed because he now has to wear glasses.

In this all-new Arthur movie event, D.W.’s fifth birthday doesn’t go the way she had always imagined it would and she chose to escape to the magical island of Ukubonga. Meanwhile, Arthur has skipped her birthday party to go on a school trip to the planetarium – but instead of transporting him into outer space, it transports him four years in the future!

The first-ever Arthur movie. In Arthur's Missing Pal, Arthur's dog, Pal, goes missing. Arthur and Buster are certain that D.W. did it, but D.W. denies any involvement. Arthur and his friends mount a search throughout Elwood City for the missing dog.

Aired on PBS on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2005, this two-hour special featured several Arthur stories and two complete episodes of Postcards from Buster. This special featured interstitial postcard segments from Buster, segments with kids from the show Zoom (Taylor and Kyle) and a small additional factoid regarding Arthur and Buster. At the end of the special, a secret password for The Tibble Super Action Challenge, a new game at the official PBS Kids Arthur website was revealed. The Arthur stories shown were: "Buster's Green Thumb" "Dad's Dessert Dilemma" "Thanks a Lot, Binky" "The Ballad of Buster Baxter" The Postcards from Buster episodes shown were: "Best Friends" "Among the Hmong"

The Backstreet Boys are coming to Elwood City! While Muffy fantasizes about meeting her idol, Nick Carter, Francine gripes about everyone's infatuation with a bunch of sellouts. Fed up with the hype, Francine forms her own anti-sellout band, U Stink. But when U Stink becomes an overnight sensation, the band suffers from an identity crisis and Francine quits in a huff. Will U Stink rise to stardom without Francine? Will the Backstreet Boys make Muffy their manager?

Plans are under way in Elwood City for the best holidays ever! Arthur, D.W., their friends and family make preparations for perfect gifts, perfect parties, and perfect family traditions for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. But, just as in real life, perfection cannot last and things begin to fall apart. Arthur learns that the joy in Christmas isn't found in an artificial vision of the perfect holiday season, but in the wonderfully messy, imperfect world he lives in.