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That's a Baby Show appeared, in subtle ways, to be about Teletubbies, but there was more. The regular show which Arthur and his friends watch is Bionic Bunny. In this episode there was a Dark Knight spin-off version, a darker/scarier version: Dark Bunny. (They are good about trends with this show. For instance the kids were hooked on Scare Your Pants Off club books at the same time Goosebumps was popular. Then when Animorphs took over they decided Vegemorphs make Scare Your Pants Off books look like baby stuff. Of course you're about to read how they really feel about baby stuff, though!) After hearing Buster and Francine talking about it, Arthur decides he needs to see it.

For those who prefer more adult humour in their animated shows, there was also a little South Park spoof in one of the episodes. It was the one about the kids entering a contest for coming up with a story which would be used in a show they were watching. And it used actual contest entrants for the varying story-lines (the primary contest winner wrote a story about the kids entering a similar contest). The first one was South Park, out of Buster's head obviously (he thinks aliens are behind everything). Aliens squish him after he calls for them to land right where he is, and Francine exclaims "Hey, they squished Buster!". Arthur is abducted but isn't eaten due to being too high in cholesterol, and develops a complex about it after Buster finishes telling the story. "I'm just as edible as anyone!" Other segments in this story are based on Beavis and Butthead (Muffy's story wherein Arthur and Buster as Beavis and Butthead ridicule her fashion show get-up by calling her the fifth Teletubby. She gets even with a stink bomb),Dexter's Laboratory (The Brain portrays himself as his Mad Scientist Dexter-esque self, go figure, to explain the practical origins of legends like Bigfoot), etc. I rather enjoyed the segment wherein Binky was listing several professional fighters whom Arthur would be going up against (or actually the star of the other show, but they portray him as Arthur) and gets a bit carried away to the point where he also lists him as fighting the Associated Press (copied it from the caption with the other names). What a brawl that would be!