The Fright Stuff

The Fright Stuff is the second half of the 3rd episode Season 4. It first aired on September 20, 1999 with Buster's Breathless.

Summary
Muffy and Francine play several pranks on Arthur, Buster, Binky, and the Brain and they invite them to a party at a haunted house. The boys decide to retaliate at the party and Muffy and Francine are ready with another prank. But they call off all pranks when they discover a real ghost.

Plot
Arthur, Brain, Binky and Buster are all given pranks. Brain mistakes jelly worms in his lunch for real ones, Arthur finds a fake spider in his locker and Binky finds a skull. Each prank comes with an invitation and they are invited to the library, where Muffy wears a fake tentacle and pretends to strangle Francine, which frightens them. Arthur asks what the whole thing is about and Muffy says she's having a costume party for a new book. E A Depoe, the famous writer, will be reading her book aloud at the party but that name is revealed as a pseudonym, alias Ms Mcword, Ed Crosswire's old teacher. Muffy also says the boys will be her "extra special guests (due to a prank on April Fool's Day). The party will be held in Castle Manor, which is supposedly haunted (which is why the party is being held there). The guys decide to get back at the girls and stage a prank whilst Francine and Muffy concot a prank of their own. The kids go to the party in costumes, Arthur Bionic Bunny, Franine a vampire, Muffy a witch, Brain and Buster pirates and Binky a pumpkin-head monster. During the festivities Arthur tells Buster and Brain they can set up in the ustairs library (which is where the girl' prank is). However, Binky is nowhere. A pumpkin-head arrives at the punch bowl and Arthur thinks it's Binky. Arthur tells him to go up to the library. Arthur gets Francine and Muffy to come up to the library but the tape recorder they had is gone. Suddenly, the pumpkin-head appears floating and then vanishes, and the girls run screaming. The girls are upset and accuse Arthur of stealing their prank. Arthur calls for the guys but Brain and Buster emerge from the playroom. because the library was locked. Arthur said it wasn't and the prank went perfectly, but Brain said they didn't to it. Buster points out that the balloons and tape recorder from the girl's prank were in there, but Francine didn't put them there. The pumpkin-head appears and Arthur asks for an explination. Suddenly, Binky enters in a cyclops costume because he broke his pumpkin. Everyone find out the pumpkin-head is really a ghost. They run downstairs and try to tell what happened. Whilst Muffy's father reprimands her about pranks, the ghost girl's dad does the same. Then the friends decide to take a break from pranks. While the ghost and her family come to the party.

Costumes

 * Arthur - Bionic Bunny
 * Francine - Vampire
 * Muffy - Witch
 * Buster and the Brain - Pirates
 * Binky - Cyclops
 * Ed - King
 * Millicent - Queen
 * Fern - Skeleton
 * George - Doctor

Trivia

 * The title is probably a pun on the title of the movie The Right Stuff.
 * Skull transitions are shown with a Jack-O-Lantern laughing sound effect.

Home Video
VHS:
 * Arthur's Scary Stories

DVD:
 * Arthur's Scary Stories