Arthur's Family Feud

Official summary
Arthur and D.W. tell conflicting and imaginative versions of what exactly happened to Dad's perfect soufflé, and Mom and Dad try to sort things out.

Plot
Dad finished making his special souffle and invited Mom to see it. However, when the couple walked into the kitchen, the soufflé was on the floor; with Arthur and DW standing over it while Pal was licking up the mess.

DW and Arthur blame each other for causing the accident and get sent to their rooms. Whilst upstairs; Arthur daydreams that he would have to take the blame for DW's mischief and in this case gets arrested as DW had gained possesion of Crazy Bus merchandise. While Arthur is biding his time in jail, DW brings her brother a Crazy Bus CD for listening to, and Arthur feels terrible. In her room, DW imagines that in the future when they are in a retirement home they will be continuing the argument of who ruined their father's souffle.

The Tibbles come over and ask if DW is still going to a petting zoo with them and when she says that she is unable to do that the Tibbles begin to fight about who gets blamed most for the others' trouble.

On finishing their dreams, Arthur and DW choose to go downstairs to clear the problem out, but approaching each other in the hallway, they continue bickering once more.

Mom and Dad agree to settle this dispute by getting each of them to tell their story of what happened. Arthur does this by drawing and suggests that he was trying to complete his homework when DW kept bothering him to play; when Arthur wouldn't play with her she plans to throw the bacon toy at Pal. DW was doing this the wrong way and Arthur planned to show her how to actually throw it. Going into the corridor, Arthur throws it to DW, who misses the throw. DW runs for the bacon toy and Arthur tries to warn her about the souffle but Arthur proclaims that it was too late and DW knocks into it.

DW then tells her version of the story using her stuffed animals. She agrees with Arthur saying that she was asking him a question, but only for the time being. Arthur gets offended and throws the bacon toy to Pal. DW then begins to throw the bacon toy to Pal until Arthur threw the bacon toy which went too far. DW ran into the kitchen to get the bacon toy, and not to damage the souffle, but Arthur pushes her into the table.

After the stories were finished, Mom looks under the kitchen table. She tells Arthur and DW that neither of them are wearing shoes, and mentions that the kitchen floor is positively slippery in just socks. Arthur and DW think back to what happened, and DW says that maybe they both made the souffle fall onto the floor. They apologize to their father, so DW can go to the petting zoo with the Tibbles, and Arthur can go to the arcade.

Dressed to go out, DW and Arthur witnessed Dad eating ice cream in the den. They notice how glum he is and plan to make a souffle of their own. However, Arthur and DW begin to tussle in their skill of trying to make the souffle and in hearing the noise, their father walks in. When he realizes what the kids were trying to do, he smiles and helps them make another souffle.

The souffle looks just as good as the previous one was, and Mom observes how good Dad's new souffle is. However, he corrects her, saying it was a team effort. Then the family begins to eat the souffle, and mentions about how good it tastes.

Major

 * Arthur Read
 * D.W. Read
 * David Read
 * Jane Read

Minor

 * Timmy and Tommy Tibble
 * Pal
 * Cheryl Featherfoffer

Trivia

 * This episode has the Rashomon effect; something that occured is witnessed by a small group of people, and they tell varying accounts of what happened.

Cultural references

 * The policeman says "Book em, Charlie". This might be a parody of Steve McGarret's famous line "Book 'em, Danno" from the TV series Hawaii Five-O.

Production notes

 * This is the last episode where Arthur is voiced by Michael Yarmush, not counting Arthur's Perfect Christmas.
 * This episode is made into a song on the album Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix (called "Two Sides of the Story").