The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club

The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club! is the second half of the 28th episode of season 1 of the animated children's series Arthur. Together with I'm a Poet, it originally aired on May 19th, 1997. It was written by Terence Taylor and the storyboards were done by Angus Bungay.

Summary
Arthur and his friends get together a petition when they learn that their favorite series of books has been removed from the library. They find out that it's Muffy's parents (that created P.A.W.S) who want the books banned.

Home Video
VHS: Arthur Gets Spooked DVD: Arthur Gets Spooked

Trivia
this episode is a reference to the controversy of the Goosebumps books by R.L. Stine in the 1990's.

the parents of Elwood and real life wanted to ban the books because they were too scary for kids to read and according to P.A.W.S, causes nightmares but in reality Goosebumps weren't actually that scary and got a young generation to read.

Goofs

 * On the awning for the Mrs. Powers's ice cream shop, the letter "I" is shown as a small letter while the rest were all capital letters.
 * In one scene, Francine's #5 jacket has black sleeves like the torso part when its sleeves are actually white.
 * Muffy's buck teeth appear and disappear in different scenes.
 * In a later episode, Buster claims he's never read any books, yet here, Buster talks about all the Scare! books he's read.