The Contest

"The Contest" is the first half of the 4th episode of season 4 of the animated children's series Arthur. It originally aired on September 27th, 1999.

Plot
Buster is entering the TV Schedule Magazine's contest for writing an episode for the Andy and Company Show. His friends decide to enter in the contest too with their stories styled like South Park, Beavis and Butt-head, and Dexter's Laboratory amongst other things. Five years later, they are 13, and watch for the winning episode to find out a girl from Canadian, Oklahoma named Holly Holland has won the contest.

Entries
The people who entered the contest. The characters are all in the authors imagination, seen in thought bubbles.

The Day The Earth Was Saved (Buster, South Park Reference)
Buster is waiting for aliens to come down to earth. The aliens don't come at first, and Buster gets frustrated. Francine, Arthur and the Brain leave, thinking that Buster is just telling a lie. The aliens come after they leave, and the UFO crushes Buster. Francine comes back and says "Hey, you squished Buster!" which is a reference to "Oh my god, you killed Kenny!" The aliens come out of the UFO, and 2 of them carry Arthur into their UFO. They take of his clothes. The aliens did not want to eat Arthur, so they through him out of the UFO. The UFO flies away and then Arthur says "What the!" And Brain replies It appears you have high cholesteroal formin Arthur. These Aliens Must Be Help Conchis. Arthur, Brain, and Francine then scream THE EARTH IS SAVED! Buster then wakes up from being knocked out and asks his friends What happened?

THE END.

MY LIFE AS A T.V. SHOW (MUFFY, BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD REFERENCE)

At a fashion show Muffy comes out on stage dressed as the green teletubbie Dipsy and in the Audience Buster (who is just like Butthead) and Arthur (who is just like Beavis) make a comment about her and laugh just like Beavis and Butthead to which Muffy hears this and goes back stage upset. Then D.W. appears on stage with a white and purple dress on and a purple hat on to which Buster and Arthur find her to be attractive and behind stage Muffy reveals that she knew that D.W. would be better than her and decides to switch to plan B which is stinkball.

THE END.

HAIR GROWTH FORMULA (THE BRAIN, DEXTER'S LABORTORY REFERENCE)

In his labortory scientist Brain (who is just like Dexter) shows his friends Francine, Muffy, and Binky his new invention which his hair growth formulla which he discovered when he was inventing a new cherry soda. He turns a bowling ball into a hairy bowling ball and a carrot into a hairy carrot to which Binky asks Why would anyone want hairy carrots? To which Brain replies To go with hairy fish. And he shows his friends a hairy friends which makes them feel sick and they leave. Brain then reveals to the audience that his new invention is really unappreciated. Later on Arthur (who is just like Dexter's sister Dee Dee) shows up and asks Brain if the formulla is his new invention. To which Brain replies Yes. It's some kind of Deodorant. To which Arthur replies Good. Because I ran all the way here and I stink. And before Brain can stop him Arthur uses the formulla and gets turned intto a hairy couch with glasses. When Arthur sees his reflecation in a mirror he runs into the woods to hide and meets Bigfoot who looks like a big hairy couch himself. Arthur asks Bigfoot if he used Brain's hair growth formulla invention too to which Bigfoot nods in agreement.

THE END.

THE AMAZING FIGHT (BINKY AND FRANCINE, PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING REFERENCE)

In a wrestling match Arthur faces off with the famous wrestler Hulk Hogan and Arthur manages to win the fight by just kicking his right foot on the mat which causes Hulk to scream like a girl and run away scared. The announcer then announces that Arthur will fight John L. Sullivan, Floyd Patterson, Barney Rose, and the United Press International.

THE END.

THE TROUBLED SISTER (ARTHUR, DR. KATZ, PROFESSIONAL THERAPIST REFERENCE)

10 years into the future Arthur (who is know 18 years old) vists his psycologist (who is just like Dr. Katz) and tells him that his sister D.W. has been troubling him. He then tells the psycologist a story of how last week Arthur had D.W. go and get his car while he went to get his new house. When D.W. gets to Arthur's new house Arthur asks Where's My Car? And D.W. replies You're car was just blah! I traded it in for something much nicer. And the new car that D.W. bought for Arthur is a girl car with a pony in it to which Arthur lets out a horrifed scream.

THE END.

TRIVIA

In Arthur's story he didn't include any of his friends in the story and in Binky and Francine's story they only included Arthur and not themselves so it would of been unlikely that neither won of them would of had a shot of winning the contest because the contest was to write a story about you and your friend.

In Arthur's story he is supposed to be 18 and has D.W. go and pick up his car but D.W. is only 4 years younger than Arthur and would of been 14 at the time the story takes place and it would of been illegal for her to drive his car because in America the law states that people must be 16 or older to drive vehicles.

Characters

It also parodies Beavis and Butthead, Dexter's Labratory, and Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.