Background Blues

Summary
A class project gets the kids tracing their family trees. Will they turn out to be descended from royalty—or just from "plain folks"?

Major characters

 * Arthur Read
 * Buster Baxter
 * Francine Frensky
 * Muffy Crosswire

Minor characters

 * Mr. Ratburn
 * Paige Turner
 * Mr. Crosswire
 * Mrs. Crosswire
 * Wolf Blitzen

Background Characters

 * Arthur's third uncle, seen in a photograph
 * Bailey
 * Muffy's Aunt
 * Francine's Grandfather
 * Brain
 * Fern
 * Maria
 * Sue Ellen
 * Binky
 * George

Trivia

 * Arthur's future descendents, R4 and 3W are shown in the prologue and epilogue of this episode. It also takes place 100 years in the future.

Cultural references

 * In Muffy's fantasy, her great aunt asks, "Is that you, Anastasia?". This is a reference to Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, who was rumored to have survived her family's execution in 1918.

Errors

 * At the beginning of the episode, when R4 and 3W were watching Background Blues, when it showed the title card, the title "Background Blues" was in blue, but when it showed the title card to us, the words were red instead of blue.

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