"Arthur" Season One Part One Trivia Quiz

Answer: Four Eyes

The first episode of Arthur begins with D.W. sneaking downstairs to find a photo album. Some of those photos show a boy that she does not recognize. She wakes Arthur up to show him these photos and she thinks that her parents sold the boy in the photo. Arthur says that the boy is him. D.W. insists that it is not him because he wears glasses and the boy in the photo does not wear glasses. Arthur says that the photo is from before he wore glasses and he tells her the story of when he got them.

In second grade, he could not read the blackboard at school. He kept getting headaches in school and asking Francine to read the problems for him. Later on, everybody in school got an eye test and they all passed except him. He had to go to the eye doctor. She prescribes glasses. These work so well that he can see the gray hairs on his mom's head and the bags under his dad's eyes.

The first day at school that he wear them, Francine enthusiastically shouts "Arthur's a four eyes!" Other kids join in on the bullying. When he gets home, he decides not to wear them anymore and he tries multiple times to have them broken. It doesn't work. The next day, he goes to school without his glasses, thinking that's better than being called "Four Eyes." He accidentally goes into the girls' bathroom and terrifies all the girls in there.

When he gets home at watches TV, he discovers that his favorite superhero, Bionic Bunny, wears glasses that are just like his. He then proudly wears his glasses. When people tease him this time, it does not bother him anymore.

Answer: Puppeteer

Before the title card, Arthur tells the audience about the third grade teachers. He says that he is hoping to get Ms. Sweetwater or Ms. Fink and he really does not want Mr. Ratburn. He and all of his friends are in Mr. Ratburn's class, which causes them to all scream. From that point on until the first day of school, they all remain so traumatized that they cannot seem to notice anything around them. They all keep mumbling "Ratburn! Ratburn! Ratburn!" They ask Prunella about him because she had him last year. She lies and says that he eats nails for breakfast and kills anyone who gets a problem wrong, so that makes them fear him even more.

When the first day of school starts, we see that Mr. Ratburn is actually a nice man. He is nothing like Prunella described him or how they envisioned him. However, he assigns a lot of classwork and homework. During class, Arthur looks out the window and sees that the other third grade classes are having fun. When the bell rings, the kids in the other classes run out with joy, but Mr. Ratburn instructs his class to leave in a single file line.

At a baseball game after school, Arthur complains about getting homework on the first day. He and Buster overhear Mr. Ratburn on the phone saying that he needs boy heads. They run away to the Sugar Bowl and find Francine there. They tell her that Mr. Ratburn wants boy heads. They decide to follow him around town to see what he is up to.

They see that he does a lot of different things such as work for the school newspaper and coach basketball, but nothing evil. Francine gives up and goes home. Right after she leaves, Arthur and Buster see him carrying a case. When the case falls down the stairs, they see an arm dangling out of it. So, they continue to follow him.

They find him at a carnival, doing a puppet version of "Jack and the Beanstalk". At first, they come onstage and try to warn the kids about Mr. Ratburn. The kids laugh, thinking it's part of the act and thinking that they are warning Jack about the giant. Mr. Ratburn tells them to get off the stage. They got backstage to find some puppets. During the performance, the Jack puppet's head falls off and Mr. Ratburn goes backstage to replace it. Arthur and Buster hear him talking about boy heads again, but now they know that he meant puppet heads.

They praise him for doing so many things in one day and say that they could not do nearly as many things in one day. He tells them that they need to learn how to organize their time and they will teach him how to do that. He admits that his reputation for assigning a lot of homework is correct (though Arthur and Buster say that they never heard that), but if the kids organize their time properly, they can do all the homework and still have time to do everything that they love to do. He tells them that self-discipline is as important as homework. After they leave, they admit they were wrong about him. He comes out of the tent and says that he looks forward to seeing their geography projects the next day. The episode ends with them screaming.

Answer: Preparation

Arthur earned the right to compete in the school spelling bee by winning the class spelling bee, albeit he only won the latter by luck (he knew how to spell just one word and that was the word he was asked to spell). He had tried studying, but then he went to the arcade with Buster because he felt like studying wasn't working. His father told him that sometimes it can feel like you are not learning anything when you really are and that he needs to keep studying. Arthur takes his father's advice, continues studying, and becomes better. He ends up being able to spell every word that comes to his mind at home, including "Absolutely" (he thinks of that word when his father asks if he wants ice cream), "Toothpaste" (D.W. asks him to spell it), and even "Glooba" (Kate says it).

At the spelling bee, it comes down to Arthur and defending champion Prunella. The deciding word is "Preparation." Prunella spells it wrong by replacing the first "a" with an "e." Arthur spells it right and wins. He says that the best part of winning is that it's over. Mr. Ratburn says "I knew you could do it," to which D.W. replies "Yes, but now HE knows he can do it."

In the episode title, the word "Trouble" is intentionally misspelled to drive home the point that Arthur was having trouble with his spelling.

Answer: Octopus

D.W.'s class goes to the local aquarium on a field trip. There, she sees an octopus and gets terrified. At home, she brags that she beat the octopus in a fight. Arthur tells her she was scared. She denies it, but she proves him right when she screams when Pal licks her leg. While she's taking a bath, Arthur breaks into the bathroom and hangs a spider over the shower curtain in front of D.W. and he says "OCTOPUS!" D.W. runs out screaming for help and Arthur's parents tell him to go to his room.

The next day, the air conditioner breaks and Mr. Read decides to take his family to the lake to cool off. D.W. really does not want to go to the lake, no matter how much her family tries to convince her that there are no octopi in the lake. They grab her, kicking and screaming, and take her to the lake. At first, she refuses to go in the water. Then, she overhears Arthur and his friends playing around with Buster's bathing cap, which looks like an octopus according to Muffy. While throwing it around, Arthur screams "Help! I'm being attacked by an octopus!" The lifeguard holds D.W.'s legs as she swims out to rescue him. She discovers that Arthur is unharmed. The lifeguard tells Arthur and his friends to never fool around like that again, saying it's dangerous to yell for help if you don't mean it. At this point, D.W. has conquered her fear and she swims in the lake (she believed the lifeguard about the lack of octopi, but she didn't believe her own family) until it's almost dark and the family goes home.

Answer: Arthur

Buster is obsessed with dinosaurs, so he is thrilled when the class goes on a field trip to a state park to hunt for dinosaur fossils. The kids are instructed to hunt in the stream. When the rest of the class stops searching and has lunch, Buster continues searching. Arthur stays with him urging him to stop. At one point Arthur asks "What do you think you're going to find in ten more minutes, you think you are going to reach into the water and pick one up?" Ironically, while saying that, Arthur reaches into the water and picks one up. This drives Buster crazy and he comes at Arthur trying to get the fossil. Arthur nervously drops it back in the lake, but Buster gets it.

Arthur thinks it's a leaf fossil, but Buster rebukes him and tells him that it's a footprint. Shortly before they go, the ranger asks the kids if they found any fossils. Brain shows her a fossil that she found, and she puts it in a bag. Buster asks why they do not get to keep them, and the ranger explains that they put the fossils in the museum so other people can see them. Buster is not okay with that and he hides the fossil in his hat. He then lies to the ranger and says that he and Arthur didn't find any fossils. Arthur whispers to Buster that this is wrong, but Buster does not relent and Arthur stands by his friend instead of telling the truth.

Buster hides the fossil in his closet. For most of the rest of the episode, he feels increasingly guilty. He lies to his mom. He falls out of his chair when Mr. Ratburn says that dinosaur footprints are the rarest fossils in the world. He has a nightmare about the "fossil police" coming to his home looking for the fossil. He comes to Arthur's house at night to give him the fossil. Arthur does not want it. They decide to put it in the museum. The end of the episode shows the fossil in the museum with a plaque that says "Dinosaur footprint discovered by Buster Baxter and Arthur Read" and they share a high five.

Answer: Perky

When Arthur wants a dog, his parents decide that he has to first prove that he is responsible enough to take care of one. When Francine suggests that he do something he loves, he decides to start a business where he takes care of other people's pets. The pets that he ends up taking care of include a snake, a cat, a bird, a turtle, a rabbit, a fish, and a mouse. The pet that bothered him the most was Perky.

No matter what Arthur does, he cannot seem to make Perky happy. The mailman says that Perky is even more unhappy with Arthur than with her owner. On the day that her owner picks her up, Perky goes missing. The owner is horrified to hear about this, but then Arthur find her. Perky has puppies. After giving birth, Perky is now cozy. Perky's owner offers one of the puppies to Arthur as a reward and his parents allow it because he has earned it.

Answer: Buster

Buster Baxter Private Eye is an ongoing thing throughout the series. It's introduced in "Arthur Accused," when Buster narrates the story of his first case.

Arthur is in charge of a school fundraiser. The school is raising money to buy a puppy for the fire department. Meanwhile, Buster got a new detective kit and looks around for mysteries to solve. After giving a quarter to the fundraiser, Buster convinces Arthur to go to the arcade with him. Arthur agrees, but first decides to give the quarter to Ms. McGrady. When he goes to the cafeteria, she is on the phone and he is unable to get her attention, so he just leaves the quarters on the counter.

The next day, Buster tells everybody that Arthur got the high school at pinball. Mr. Haney and the staff get in front of them and remind Arthur to give the quarters to Ms. McGrady. He says that he did. Mr. Haney says that she said she never got them. When he asks if Arthur took them home by mistake, Buster intervenes and says that Arthur came to the arcade with him and got the high score at pinball. Buster brags that he has wasted a lot of quarters at the arcade, which causes the staff to think that Arthur stole the quarters and used them at the arcade or gave them to Buster to do so.

In the principal's office, Mr. Haney reminds Arthur that he was responsible for the quarters and tells him that if they don't turn up, he will get a week of detention after school and not get to go to the picnic. In the cafeteria, Arthur is upset about being accused of something he didn't do. Buster decides to put his detective kit to good use and do whatever he can to clear Arthur's name.

After school, Buster goes to the cafeteria to talk to Mrs. McGrady. She tells him that she was in the cafeteria making brownies for the picnic, and her brownie mix overflowed and Mr. Morris cleaned it up. Buster then goes outside the building and talks to Mr. Morris. Mr. Morris tells Buster that he used a mop to clean up the mess that Ms. McGrady made, and that Ms. McGrady doesn't normally make messes. When Mr. Morris walks away, Buster hears jingling and tells him that it sounds like quarters. Mr. Morris shows him that it's just his keys.

The next day, Buster still has not solved the mystery. Arthur gets detention and is about to miss the picnic. Buster apologizes to Arthur for being a bad detective, and Arthur is okay with that because Buster is still a good friend. Just before boarding the bus, Buster tells Brain that he could not solve the mystery. Brain says that he often feels the same way and that his brain is often overflowing with data. When Brain says "Overflowing," Buster solves it.

Buster takes Mr. Haney to the cafeteria and tells Ms. McGrady why the brownie mix was overflowing and why there was too much. It's because there was one extra ingredient: quarters. Buster breaks open a brownie and there are quarters inside of it. When Arthur left the bag of quarters on the counter while she was on the phone, she had no idea what was inside that bag. She thought it was flour, so she dumped the contents of that bag into the brownie mix. As a result, she made brownies with quarters. Arthur is set free from detention and he goes to the picnic with everyone else.

Answer: Brain

At Camp Meadowcroak, the boys and girls constantly fight with each other. That changes one night when they discover Camp Horsewater pulling a prank on them. Arthur tells his Meadowcroak friends that they can bring Horsewater to justice at the scavenger hunt if they work together. They eventually agree.

At first, Horsewater dominates the scavenger hunt. After they get all the items, they hear a noise in the woods. They think it's a bear so they go up a tree. Someone with no visible head appears and roars. Arthur tells the Horsewater kids to scare the bear away by throwing something at him. They throw everything in their bag at him and the frog jumps at him. He goes to the finish line with all his items. He then partially unzips his coat and we see his head. This is when we see that the "bear" was really Brain. This is how Meadowcroak wins the scavenger hunt and ends Horsewater's 3-year win streak.

Answer: No

Buster's grades are so low, he has to go to the principal's office where his mother waits while crying. After school, Buster tells his friends that he has to get a B on his next test or he will have to repeat third grade. His friends decide to help him. Binky, who had to repeat third grade, recommends that Buster get a tutor (a private teacher) because that's what helped him improve his grades. They enthusiastically decide that they can all be Buster's tutors. Their enthusiasm wanes when they put their plan into action. Buster has no interest in studying, so their efforts to help him fail. All that happens is he becomes better at cheating.

One night, he has a nightmare that he is an adult who has been repeating 3rd grade for 33 years, Arthur is now the principal, and Arthur sends him to pre school. In his nightmare, Buster begs Arthur not to do this, saying "I can do better than that. I know I can!" Buster wakes up and then the real Buster says "I know I can." He buckles down and studies, trying every studying method he can think of. When Mr. Ratburn hands back the tests, he is impressed with Buster's test and tells him that he got a B+. Buster and his friends celebrate. Arthur failed the test and Mr. Ratburn suggests that Buster can tutor him.

Answer: Pal

"Arthur's Pet Business" ended with him getting a puppy, but we didn't see much of him for the next few episodes. Then we got "Arthur's New Puppy". Before the title card, Arthur comes up with some possible names for the dog. The first thing we see after the title card is Arthur writing the dog's name on his water dish. The name is "Pal."

At first, the family decides to have Pal sleep in the garage. Pal is afraid to sleep there because there are sharp tools there (a lawn mower, shears, etc.) and he doesn't know what they are but they scare him. So, Arthur convinces his parents to let Pal sleep in a room next to the kitchen.

Pal does a lot of things that the other people do not like. He pees on the rug in the living room. He bites a hole in a tire on Francine's bike. He steals D.W.'s shoe, throws it at a lamp, and breaks it. Arthur's love for his dog is unchanged, but the rest of the family isn't happy. Francine tells Arthur that her cousin had a dog that couldn't be trained and the dog was sent to a farm. Arthur is afraid the same thing will happen to Pal.

The next night, they put a gate in Pal's room. At 3 AM, he wakes everyone up with his howling. It becomes clear that he is lonely without Arthur, so Arthur decides to stay with him until he falls asleep. His mother says that's okay as long as he locks the gate. Everyone else goes back to bed. Arthur goes into Pal's room and Arthur falls asleep and forgets to lock the gate. Pal gets loose in the house. He does his business in the kitchen, chews on everything in the living room, and eats a bar of soap.

The next day, Arthur's parents tell him that Pal has to live in the garage until he is trained. The father leaves the garage key on the table. As Arthur tries to move Pal's bed to the garage, he notices that the garage key is missing. As Arthur asks his father where the key is, we see a smile on Pal's face (suggesting he took the key and hid it). In the kitchen, Pal ruins the father's party platter. The father suggests that Pal is untrainable and threatens to get rid of Pal.

That night, Arthur tapes a picture of a small house on top of a narrow hill in a dark, cloudy storm. Arthur tells Pal that's where he is going if he's not good. This makes Pal turn over a new leaf. Arthur teaches Pal several commands (speak, stay, come, roll over, fetch), Pal obeys them all, and Arthur shows this off to his family. They decide that he does not have to go away or even live in the garage anymore. Upon hearing that, Pal returns the garage key (Arthur's father thinks that Pal found it, not knowing that Pal was the one who hid it in the first place). Arthur tries to get D.W. to admit that Pal is smarter than she thought. She only admits that he is "above average." Pal knocks her to the ground at the end of the episode.

Answer: He tells them a scary story

"Arthur Babysits" begins with him babysitting Kate by talking her for a walk in her stroller. He comes across to D.W. and sees that she has paint all over herself. She says that the Tibble twins did it. Artur and D.W. end up walking past the Tibble house where they see a screaming babysitter running out of the house and a few seconds later, they see the Tibbles laughing. Mrs. Tibble comes out, saying that she needs a new babysitter. D.W. volunteers Arthur and he agrees.

When Arthur tells his friends at the Sugar Bowl that he is going to babysit the Tibble twins, they are all horrified. Prunella tells him that her sister Rubella is still traumatized to this day about her experience babysitting them. Prunella warns Arthur, "Be tough on them, or you're dead," and the other kids agree.

When Arthur returns to the Tibble house, Mrs. Tibble tells him that their nap time is coming soon. When she leaves, they certainly do not want to take a nap. They are full of energy and they draw on the walls, knock over a suit of armor, and terrify the cat. D.W. calls to ask how things are going. When Arthur says that they will not take a nap, she suggests playing a game with them to tire them out.

Arthur tries to take her advice, but they have no interest in playing the games he wants to play. They want to play hide and seek. Eventually he agrees. Just as D.W. calls again, he notices them hiding behind a curtain. This is when he mentions "The swamp thing" and they come running to him.

Now that he has their attention, he tells them that the swamp thing goes from house to house, looking for twins to eat. Twins are hard to find, so he's always hungry and that makes him very angry. Just as the cat walks behind the twins, Arthur says "You can hear him sneaking up... BEHIND YOU!" and then they scream. They see that it's just the cat, but then Arthur sees Ms. Tibble outside carrying a bucket of liquid and he concludes his story by saying that the swamp thing always carries a bucket of swamp water. The twins look outside, see what Arthur saw, and say "SWAMP THING!"

Mrs. Tibble had bought ice cream for the babysitter that ran away and it started to melt. She then paid Arthur and told her that he was the first babysitter that didn't run away. When he gets home, D.W. asks him how it went. He tells her that it went very well, that he's invited back to babysit for them again, and that they want her to go with him. The episode concludes with her pretending to be sick.

Answer: She learned to play piano

At the family reunion, Arthur hears that his cousin Mo has a surprise for him. He spends the whole time trying to avoid Mo because her surprises for him at previous family reunions weren't so great. One year, she put him on a sprinkler. The next year, she showed off her karate moves by kicking him really far.

The next year, she dressed him up like a baby and everyone laughed at him. This year, her surprise is that she learned how to play piano because she saw him playing it at previous family reunions.

She wanted to show him how much she learned. They end up playing an upbeat fun tune together which gets everybody to dance. Mo's father says that this was the best family reunion ever.

Answer: Muffy

In "Arthur's Birthday", Arthur and Muffy make invitations for all their friends for their birthday party. They soon discover that their parties will be on the same day, so all their friends will have to choose which party to go to. All the boys choose Arthur and all the girls choose Muffy. This causes a "boys vs. girls" feud that lasts for most of the episode.

Francine is torn. She chose Muffy because she is her best friend, but Francine does not think a party will be fun without boys. She asks Arthur how she can go to both parties. This gives him an idea, which he whispers in her ear. She agrees to the idea and she agrees to keep it a secret. The plan is that Francine will write letters to the girls and copy Muffy's handwriting and sign Muffy's name (so it looks like Muffy wrote them). Arthur will then write a letter to Muffy, inviting her to his house for a huge present that he cannot carry alone. He explains the plan to his parents and they agree to it.

They put their plan into action. All of Arthur's friends end up at his house before noon except Muffy. When noon comes, he tells them to hide. When Muffy arrives, they come out of hiding and yell "SURPRISE!" They have one big party for both kids. They have a great time at the party and Mrs. Read says to Muffy "next year, we'll do it at your house."

Answer: Thomas Edison

Francine has gotten some bad parts in previous class plays. Her classmates feel sorry for her and all of them, one by one, tell Mr. Ratburn to give her a good part in the next play. He gives her the lead, which is Thomas Edison because the play is about him. This gives her a huge ego.

She calls the library "crummy" because it doesn't have a section just for Thomas Edison. She constantly flips the light switch at home while her sister is trying to read, saying she needs experience with lights because he invented them. She goes to a store with a camera and upsets the shopkeeper by opening it. She goes to a music store and finds a phonograph and then blasts loud music in the shopkeeper's face. She goes to a hardware store looking at light bulbs and sees Muffy and Prunella. They invite her to the mall. She refuses because she wants to study light bulbs and she invites them to study with her. Muffy calls that boring. Francine gets angry and says "Without lights, you'd have to shop in the dark." Francine then takes one look at Muffy's clothes and says "Oh, sorry. I guess you already do." This makes Francine's best friend turn against her.

At rehearsal, she yells at everybody. The worst thing she does is make Brain patch up the air holes in Buster's costume because real light bulbs do not have air holes, and then Buster cannot breathe while wearing the costume. At the Sugar Bowl after rehearsal, the other kids blame themselves for telling Mr. Ratburn to give her a good part and not realizing that Francine was going to act this way. Arthur tells the kids that he will try to calmly reason with her and they're okay with that at first. He calls her, but she does not come to the phone. Right before the show, the other kids see him making one last attempt to reason with her, and they hear her say that they are just jealous because she got the main part and they didn't. This is when the other kids agree to sabotage the play to teach her a lesson.

When the play begins, Muffy introduces Thomas Edison by calling her "The wizard of Mental Park" (instead of Menlo Park). When Francine flips the switch on Arthur's phonograph costume, he speaks like a telephone answering machine instead of playing music. Buster's light bulb costume now has a grid, and when she flips the switch, he brings out a water gun and squirts water in her face. She then tries to use her kinetoscope (Sue Ellen) to film the great train robbery. The train (Binky) comes along, but when the robbers (Muffy and Jenna) try to rob him, he tells them to "put 'em up" (He was supposed to be pretending to be a regular train, not a sentient train that can talk and foil robbers). The play ends with everyone dancing except Francine, who realizes that all of these "mistakes" were on purpose.

After the play, Francine sits in her dressing room, crying with her face down. Mr. Ratburn is disappointed with the kids. They tell him that the night show with the parents will not be any different unless Francine apologizes and promises to behave better. She initially blames them for ruining "her" show. Arthur explains that the show was never just her show. Everybody worked hard and the show belonged to everyone. Francine then apologizes and promises to be better for the night show.

The night show goes the way it was supposed to go and everybody is happy. Francine thanks everybody else, but as the curtain closes, she says "They couldn't have done it without me, either" to show that her changed behavior will not last into later episodes.

Answer: Arthur

When Arthur and D.W. learn that they will have a baby sister, the latter is thrilled and the former is terrified. When Kate comes home, she seems to cry every time Arthur gets near her, but she does not cry around D.W. Soon, that changes. Kate drops her pacifier. Arthur picks it up for her, but D.W. screams at him and tells him that it needs to be cleaned. While D.W. cleans the pacifier, Kate cries. Nadine convinces D.W. to ask her mom for help. While that is going on, Arthur picks up Kate and pats her on the back until she burps. This calms Kate and she falls asleep in Arthur's arms.

D.W. gets jealous that Arthur was the one who burped her. Her tone briefly changes when her mother tells her that Kate's crib will be in D.W.'s room. D.W. thinks this is great and she tries to use this to make Arthur jealous. She soon discovers how hard it is to sleep in a room with a crying baby. She tries to sell Kate to Ms.Tibble at the garage sale. Later, she tries to blame Kate for a building being demolished and for her father's shoes being in the dishwasher. These things get her in even more trouble. She then decides to run away. As her grandmother takes her to the island, she convinces D.W. that Kate will be lonely without an older sister. D.W. is horrified at the thought of Arthur having to teach Kate things, so she tells her grandmother to take her home. When she gets home, she holds Kate in her arms and tells her she will always be there for her. The episode ends with her calling for her mother to change the diaper.