Arthur's Big Hit

Arthur's Big Hit is the 66th episode of Arthur succeeded by D.W.'s Library Card. This is an epic Arthur episode. This was the first episode to ever get a TV-Y7 rating, and also the first controversal episode, because Arthur punches D.W.. However, it's not as controversal as Bleep, and this episode still airs today (Check your Lakeland Public Television listings). It's education value is somewhat misleading, but it was followed by various parody videos on YouTube. On the right is the controversal picture of Arthur punching D.W.

In this episode Arthur hits D.W. for breaking his model airplane,but ends up feeling what D.W. feels when Binky hits him on a dare.

Plot
The episode starts in a boxing arena with Francine Frensky as the referee. It is Arthur vs. D.W. in the ring. Buster helps Arthur and Nadine helps D.W. Arthur and D.W. have their mouthpieces in. Then Arthur sees D.W. on a seat and in the ring, and finds out it is actually Binky Barnes in a D.W. costume! Binky says that he had figured Arthur would rather fight someone his own size. D.W. laughs while Binky chases Arthur.



After the episode title card, Arthur is about to build a scale model of the Bell-X1 rocket plane; which broke the sound barrier. D.W. thinks it's a game and was smashed up. Arthur kicks D.W. out of his room. The next day, he is in the middle of building the plane, but all of a sudden, D.W. spills one of his paint bottles and ran out of his sight. After a few days, D.W. gets caught playing with his plane while the paint is drying up. The next day, Arthur completes his project and is thinking about receiving a blue ribbon for his model plane and flying the real one. Arthur and Pal celebrate his completion of his model plane. After being told multiple times not to touch his plane, D.W. disobeys him. She flies it (while holding it), then the plane falls out the window, with D.W. thinking that it flies. Arthur becomes furious at D.W. when he sees the plane broken; which took him a week to build. D.W. keeps telling him that he made the plane wrong. Meanwhile, Arthur becomes even more furious where he gets to the highest point from his frustration and punches D.W. on the arm. D.W. bawls loud enough for their parents to hear. Mom calls him for his punishment while Dad heals D.W. with ice, but bawls when he puts it on her wound.

Mom tells Arthur to apologize to D.W., but he refuses from after she wrecked Arthur's plane, which took him a week to build. For his actions, they go into the living room, Arthur sits in the time-out chair, and while his parents sit on the sofa, Dad told Arthur that he is grounded from watching T.V. for a whole week. He thinks that his parents don't even care what D.W. did to him and his plane model. Which Arthur found this to be absolutely unfair from what she did to him. Mom tells him that they will deal with what D.W. did, but that what he did was very mean.

The next day, the Tough Customers hear about the case and dare Binky to hit him for that. Binky refuses to hit Arthur, so he avoids Arthur for the rest of the school day. Arthur discusses it with his friends, and Francine asks him why he wouldn't apologize. After second recess, he discusses it with Fern, and she tells him that D.W. is just a little girl, and doesn't always know it's wrong to do something since she doesn't know how to read or write; but he compares what she's saying to a "tornado being just a little wind".

After school, right by the Sugar Bowl, Arthur runs towards Binky and the Tough Customers and tells Binky that he dropped his pen when he ran out of school. So Binky is told to hit Arthur, which he does, making Arthur feel embarrassed for punching D.W. Then Dad heals Arthur the way he did with D.W., but unlike D.W., Arthur does not bawl. Arthur then learns that when Binky did him a favor, it was very mean for him to hit D.W. And so, Arthur apologizes to D.W. for hitting her and she apologizes to him for wrecking his plane. She asks him what kind of a plane does not fly. Now she has learned her lesson. The next day, Binky apologizes to Arthur, and Arthur thanks him after he's learned his lesson. Then Molly invites Arthur to join the Tough Customers, but Binky "declares bankruptcy" and tells the gang that daring someone to do this/that and they do not want to is wrong. So Binky forms a new club with no violence, and will clobber someone who breaks that new rule.

Trivia

 * This episode was parodied as a Youtube Poop (edits,parodies),many times on the video website, YouTube for making Arthur do a Falcon Punch from the F-Zero anime or from Super Smash Bros Brawl.
 * Many fans consider this to be one of the two most violent episodes, the other being Attack of the Turbo Tibbles.
 * Arthur saying that Binky is huge is a reference to Bully for Binky.
 * When Arthur says that a "tornado is just a little wind", he means that he doesn't believe in what they're saying. That idiom was made up for this episode instead of actual slang.

Goofs

 * After Arthur punches D.W. on her arm, she landed in a sitting position; although most people who get punched in the arm would usually land flat on their backs. The same happened to Arthur when he was punched by Binky.
 * Arthur said "Maybe" about how D.W. felt when he punched her, but their father was right.