Misfortune Teller

"Misfortune Teller" is the second half of the 23rd episode of season 1 of the animated children's series Arthur. It originally aired on February 24th, 1997.

Plot
For her half-birthday, Prunella's older sister, Rubella, gives her a cootie catcher. Rubella claims that it can tell the future and the answers it gives do come true. Arthur and his friends begin following the advice of the cootie catcher. When the cootie catcher goes missing and turns up ruined by the washing machine, Arthur and his friends realize that they don't need the cootie catcher to run their lives.

Goofs

 * At Prunella's 9 1/2 birthday party, D.W. was shown three times in the crowd; but in other scenes there, she actually wasn't at the party.
 * The cootie catcher's colors are not properly aligned.


 * Giving someone half of a crunch bar once it has been chewed off would transmit bacteria.
 * Francine asked a fortune if she would play professional football in which the cootie catcher responded "Yes!", although no scene was shown to have Francine playing it like the cootie catcher said; but a later scene showed Francine sitting on the bleachers in which Francine tells Buster the cootie catcher said she can't play it.


 * When Arthur, Francine, and Muffy go to Prunella's house for another fortune, Francine knocked on the door and was ahead of the two; but later in that scene, she was standing behind them.


 * Using a cootie catcher once it has been mangled in the washing machine would never be worth using again.


 * Also, the cootie catcher would still never answer anyone's questions or fortunes anymore once it is taken out of the garbage pail.
 * Out of all the people who attended Prunella's 9 1/2 birthday party, Buster was the only one dressed formally besides party host Prunella, while everyone else who attended were dressed casually.
 * In the final scenes, Francine was wearing a blue shirt with the number 2 on it; but after she and the others went inside Arthur's house to watch Turtles, Turtles, Turtles, she was wearing her usual red shirt.