Muffy Misses Out

Summary
When Muffy's ideas are ignored when she goes on a trip, she starts to wonder if she really matters.

Major

 * Muffy Crosswire
 * Binky Barnes
 * Ladonna Compson
 * Sue Ellen Armstrong

Minor

 * Buster Baxter
 * Francine Frensky
 * Ed Crosswire

Cameo

 * Millicent Crosswire
 * Prunella Deegan
 * Slink
 * Arthur Read
 * Waldo
 * George Lundgren
 * Molly MacDonald
 * Brain
 * Bailey
 * Rattles
 * Kiefer
 * Francis Haney
 * Nigel Ratburn
 * Jenna Morgan
 * Alex

Mentioned

 * Catherine Frensky
 * Chip Crosswire (indirectly)

Trivia

 * The closing credits for this episode include a cover of Believe in Yourself performed by Chance the Rapper, Peter Cottontale, Nate Fox, Donnie Trumpet and Stix for Social Experiment.
 * In the scene where Muffy pretends to be sick, Waldo is shown physically as a stuffed animal, but in "The Friend Who Wasn't There," he is shown to be imaginary when Muffy talks to him at the end.
 * Moral:Don't overreact for your own benefits.

Episode connections

 * Mr. Haney wears a face mask when he takes a beignet from the bake sale. This is the same mask he wears at the Halloween party in "Arthur and the Haunted Tree House."
 * Muffy previously went on a trip to a foreign country (Costa Rica) in "Muffy and the Big Bad Blog."

Cultural references

 * The scene of Muffy and her dad eating pasta resembles the pasta scene from .
 * In Italy, Muffy visits:
 * the church in Venice
 * the Lion of Venice pillar on in Venice
 * the in Rome
 * in Florence
 * In Arthur's world, David is a sheep. The real world David used to be a shepherd.
 * The David statue is naked, which is why Muffy's head is always blocking its pelvic region. This is apparently a common trend in kid shows and shorts (such as in  where Scrat ends up in front of the sculpture blocking the pelvic region.
 * the
 * Muffy mentions . She claims that no one believed Galileo, but in fact, while the experiment contradicted Aristotle, the idea that objects fall independent of their mass was older than Galileo.
 * Muffy and her dad use some real Italian words like ciao, arriverderci and pronto, but boffo and paisan are in fact colloquial American terms.
 * are a Sicilian dessert, made of fried pastry dough filled with a sweet cream.
 * are a kind of deep-fried choux pastry from New Orleans. Sue Ellen has made masks and Binky plays  jazz.

Errors

 * When Muffy is giving orders in the hallway at Lakewood, the room numbers are backward (i.e., the background is flipped horizontally).