Francine Frensky, Superstar

"Francine Frensky, Superstar" is an episode of Arthur from season one. It was written by Joe Fallon and the storyboards were done by Darren Brere. It first aired on November 11, 1996 along with Arthur's Birthday.

Plot Outline
The episode starts off with Arthur speaking to the audience about all the bad parts Francine gets. Her bad parts include, the mighty symbol, Sir Issace Newton, and the Cherry Tree in the play about George Washington and the reasons these were bad parts for her was because she got hurt while playing these parts. Then after Arthur's done speaking Francine walks out on stage wearing a football uniform and falls and gets hurt and we fade out. The title appears on the screen and is read by Binky and we fade out and into Mr. Ratburn's class where Mr. Ratburn is giving his class math problems to do and then he announces that it's time for the class to put on a school play and asks anyone if they have any ideas about what play they should do. Sue Ellen suggests that they should do a spooky story about a monster who gets his arms pulled off and Brain suggests that they should do a play about space and that he could make rocket fuel easily. Mr. Ratburn calls both their ideas good but too complicated for them to do and he suggests that they should do the play about the inventor Thomas Edison who invented the phonograph which played music before CDs were invented. Later that afternoon as Mr. Ratburn is sitting in the autorium assinging the parts Arthur, Muffy, Brain, and Buster approach him asking him to give Francine a good part because she's never had one to which he says that he will. The next day Mr. Ratburn announces the parts and says that Buster will be the first light bulb, Arthur will be the first phonograph, Binky Barnes will be locomotive, and Francine will star as Thomas Edison to which everyone cheers for her and Francine promises she won't let the class down and give a 110% to her part.

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