The show revolves around the lives of 8-year-old Arthur Read, an anthropomorphic aardvark, his friends and family, and their daily interactions with each other.
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- Seasons
- 25
- Episodes aired
- 493
- Latest aired
- S25E08
- Total runtime
- 4d 13h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 October 1996 – November 1996 60 episodes
- Season 2 October 1997 – April 1998 40 episodes
- Season 3 November 1998 – January 1999 30 episodes
- Season 4 October 1999 20 episodes
- Season 5 September 2000 – November 2000 20 episodes
- Season 6 September 2001 – November 2001 20 episodes
- Season 7 October 2002 – November 2002 18 episodes
- Season 8 September 2003 – December 2003 19 episodes
- Season 9 December 2004 – April 2005 20 episodes
- Season 10 May 2006 19 episodes
- Season 11 June 2007 – September 2007 19 episodes
- Season 12 October 2008 – April 2009 20 episodes
- Season 13 October 2009 – April 2010 19 episodes
- Season 14 October 2010 – April 2011 20 episodes
- Season 15 October 2011 – June 2012 19 episodes
- Season 16 October 2012 – May 2013 19 episodes
- Season 17 November 2013 – May 2014 20 episodes
- Season 18 September 2014 – September 2015 19 episodes
- Season 19 June 2015 – May 2016 19 episodes
- Season 20 October 2016 – June 2017 14 episodes
- Season 21 October 2017 – February 2018 13 episodes
- Season 22 May 2019 8 episodes
- Season 23 October 2019 5 episodes
- Season 24 March 2021 5 episodes
- Season 25 February 2022 8 episodes
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S01E01 Arthur's Eyes
October 7 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur is embarrassed because he now has to wear glasses.
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S01E02 Francine's Bad Hair Day
October 7 · 13min find the promo
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Francine tries to get through picture day, without messing up her meticulously-crafted hairdo.
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S01E03 Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn
October 8 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E04 Arthur's Spelling Trubble
October 8 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur does some heavy-duty studying, in order to compete in the school's upcoming spelling bee.
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S01E05 D.W. All Wet
October 9 · 13min find the promo
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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).
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S01E06 Buster's Dino Dilemma
October 9 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E07 D.W.'s Imaginary Friend
October 10 · 13min find the promo
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D.W. has an imaginary friend, Nadine, says she has to come everywhere, but Arthur is sick of it.
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S01E08 Arthur's Lost Library Book
October 10 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E09 Arthur's Pet Business
October 11 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E10 D.W. the Copycat
October 11 · 13min find the promo
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When D.W. gets told she doesn't like any interesting stuff, she decides to copy Arthur.
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S01E11 Locked in the Library!
October 14 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E12 Arthur Accused!
October 14 · 13min find the promo
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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?....
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S01E13 Arthur Goes to Camp
October 15 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E14 Buster Makes the Grade
October 15 · 13min find the promo
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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...
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S01E15 Arthur's New Puppy
October 16 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E16 Arthur Bounces Back
October 16 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E17 Arthur Babysits
October 17 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E18 Arthur's Cousin Catastrophe
October 17 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E19 Arthur's Birthday
October 18 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E20 Francine Frensky, Superstar
October 18 · 13min find the promo
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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
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S01E21 Arthur's Baby
October 21 · 13min find the promo
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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!
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S01E22 D.W.'s Baby
October 21 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E23 Arthur Writes a Story
October 22 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E24 Arthur's Lost Dog
October 22 · 13min find the promo
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When Pal runs away at a street fair, even Arthur starts to doubt his dog's intelligence.
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S01E25 So Long, Spanky
October 23 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E26 Buster's New Friend
October 23 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur is lonely when Buster starts spending time with a new super-cool friend named Mike.
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S01E27 Arthur the Wrecker
October 24 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur breaks his mom's computer. Can he fix it before she finds out?
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S01E28 Arthur and the True Francine
October 24 · 13min find the promo
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Muffy and Francine are absolute best friends. It seems nothing can come between them, until Muffy cheats on a math test and lets Francine take the blame.
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S01E29 Arthur's Family Vacation
October 25 · 13min find the promo
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A rainy family vacation wasn't what Arthur had in mind; Camp Meadowcroak was more like it. As Arthur discovers, however, there are 101 fun things to do in the rain.
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S01E30 Grandpa Dave's Old Country Farm
October 25 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur and D.W. spend a week at their grandfather's farm, which isn't quite as Arthur remembers it.
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S01E31 Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest
October 28 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur's sure he can win a year's supply of Crunch Cereal by entering a jingle in their contest. The only problem is his song seems to be lacking something; words and melody, to be exact.
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S01E32 D.W. Flips
October 28 · 13min find the promo
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It's hard enough for D.W. to do somersaults and cartwheels without having a showoff like Emily in gymnastics class. But D.W. learns about tumbling, and friendship, anyway.
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S01E33 Meek for a Week
October 29 · 13min find the promo
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Muffy challenges Francine to be nice, and not to say insulting things, for one week. The trouble is, the gang begins to worry that Francine isn't herself.
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S01E34 Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper
October 29 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur thinks it would be cool to be a Gleeper and win the admiration of the tough kids at school. Too late he finds out that "gleeping" means stealing!
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S01E35 Arthur's Chicken Pox
October 30 · 13min find the promo
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The circus is in town, and the whole family's excited: Father gets tickets, Mother gets film for the camera and Arthur gets. . . chicken pox! D.W. is jealous of all the attention he gets, but will Arthur make it to the circus?
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S01E36 Sick as a Dog
October 30 · 13min find the promo
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Pal is sick, and Arthur is sure it's D.W.'s fault. After all, it couldn't have anything to do with the hotdogs and Halloween candy Arthur's been feeding him, could it?
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S01E37 D.W. Rides Again
October 31 · 13min find the promo
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The bikeathon is coming and D.W. wants to ride in it. With Arthur's help, D.W. embarks on a crash course to learn the rules of the road.
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S01E38 Arthur Makes the Team
October 31 · 13min find the promo
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It's baseball season, and Arthur and the gang are a team. With some practice, and some coaching from Francine, they may just stand a chance.
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S01E39 Arthur's Almost Boring Day
November 1 · 13min find the promo
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It's a rainy Saturday, and Arthur is stuck with D.W. and nothing to do; to make matters worse, Arthur has to report on Monday about how he spent the day. A foray into Grandma Thora's attic, however, reveals some fascinating stuff about Arthur's parents.
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S01E40 The Half-Baked Sale
November 1 · 13min find the promo
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Grandma Thora has agreed to help on the local bake sale, but Arthur and D.W. worry what people will think when they discover Grandma Thora's terrible cooking. Arthur considers how to keep Grandma Thora's "goodies" out of sight without hurting her feelings.
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S01E41 Sue Ellen Moves In
November 4 · 13min find the promo
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Sue Ellen's family has just moved into the neighborhood, and the gang is convinced they're either spies, criminals, or aliens. Finally, everyone realizes that Sue Ellen isn't all that different-- except for Buster, who needs some extra convincing.
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S01E42 The Perfect Brother
November 4 · 13min find the promo
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It seemed like a great idea to have Brain spend the weekend. But Arthur finds it's very hard being around someone who's almost perfect; or, at least, someone who seems to be.
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S01E43 D.W.'s Snow Mystery
November 5 · 13min find the promo
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Much to her distress, D.W.'s most prized possession--a snowball from last winter--is missing. Arthur and the gang try to piece together an explanation.
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S01E44 Team Trouble
November 5 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur, Francine, and Buster have to do a history report on ancient Rome. Working together as a team presents some serious challenges.
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S01E45 Bully for Binky
November 6 · 13min find the promo
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Binky is the toughest kid in school and everyone is afraid of him.
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S01E46 Misfortune Teller
November 6 · 13min find the promo
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Prunella has a fortune-telling "cootie catcher," and all the kids want to know their futures. Yet, somehow, it seems as if the fortune teller has begun to make everyone's decisions for them.
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S01E47 Arthur's Tooth
November 7 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E48 D.W. Gets Lost
November 7 · 13min find the promo
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Being lost in a humongous, super-giganto department store would scare most four-year-olds....but not D.W. Lost while searching for the earrings of her dreams, D.W. wreaks havoc as she tries to find her way home.
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S01E49 D.W. Thinks Big
November 8 · 13min find the promo
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D.W. finds Aunt Lucy's wedding ring after she lost it at her wedding.
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S01E50 Arthur Cleans Up
November 8 · 13min find the promo
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Elwood City's park is in sad shape. After grumbling about it, the kids find themselves volunteering to clean it up. Even though it's a lot of work, in the end they all decide it feels great to make a difference.
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S01E51 My Dad, the Garbage Man
November 11 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E52 Poor Muffy
November 11 · 13min find the promo
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A new carpet and an attack of sneezing means Muffy must spend the weekend at Francine's. But the Frensky house sure is hard to get used to: no cable TV, no limo, and they even eat leftovers!
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S01E53 D.W.'s Blankie
November 12 · 13min find the promo
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D.W. loses her blankie and she and Arthur search all over town just to find it.
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S01E54 Arthur's Substitute Teacher Trouble
November 12 · 13min find the promo
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Mr. Ratburn is sick, and the class is thrilled to have a substitute until they find out who she is: Ms. Rodentia Ratburn, Mr. Ratburn's younger sister. Suddenly, Mr. Ratburn doesn't seem so bad.
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S01E55 I'm a Poet
November 13 · 13min find the promo
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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.
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S01E56 The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club!
November 13 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur and his friends develop a consuming passion for the Scare-Your-Pants-Off books, a series of hair-raising, spine-tingling ghost stories. When a group called PAWS, "Parent Against Weird Stories," tries to take the books off the library's shelves, Arthur and his friends decide to speak out.
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S01E57 My Club Rules
November 14 · 13min find the promo
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The Strawberry Festival is coming to town and Arthur and his friends all band together and form a club to create the perfect float, but when everyone gets their own ideas on what the float should be they all form their own clubs.
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S01E58 Stolen Bike
November 14 · 13min find the promo
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Francine is so determined to get a shiny new bike that she finally decides to let her old one get "stolen."
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S01E59 Arthur's First Sleepover
November 15 · 13min find the promo
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Arthur throws a sleepover and invites Brain and Buster. He doesen't invite D.W. so she decides to ruin the sleepover.
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S01E60 Arthur's New Year's Eve
November 15 · 13min find the promo
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For the past few years, Arthur kept on trying to stay up until midnight for the new year, but he always fell asleep. This year he decides to not stay up at all, until his friends tell him what happens every year. But they all have different stories.