Background Blues

Summary
A class project gets the kids tracing their family trees. Will they turn out to be descended from royalty—or just from "plain folks"?

Major characters

 * Arthur Read
 * Buster Baxter
 * Francine Frensky
 * Muffy Crosswire

Minor characters

 * Mr. Ratburn
 * Paige Turner
 * Mr. Crosswire
 * Mrs. Crosswire
 * Wolf Blitzen

Background Characters

 * Arthur's third uncle, seen in a photograph
 * Bailey
 * Muffy's Aunt
 * Francine's Grandfather
 * Brain
 * Fern
 * Maria
 * Sue Ellen
 * Binky
 * George

Trivia

 * Arthur's future descendents, R4 and 3W are shown in the prologue and epilogue of this episode. It also takes place 100 years in the future.

Cultural references

 * In Muffy's fantasy, her great aunt asks, "Is that you, Anastasia?". This is a reference to Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, who was rumored to have survived her family's execution in 1918.

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