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 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). Its 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 Outline
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. Jane immediately calls him for his punishment while David heals D.W. with ice, but bawls when he puts it on her wound.

Jane tells Arthur to apologize to D.W., but he refuses from after she wrecked Arthur's plane, which took him a week to build. Then they go into the living room, Arthur sits in the time-out chair, and his parents sit on the sofa. For his actions, David told Arthur that he is now 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. Jane tells him that they will deal with what D.W. did, but that what he did was wrong too and 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 that most kids her age don't know how to compare models with actual things; 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, At home, David heals Arthur the way he did with D.W., but unlike D.W., Arthur does not bawl when that happened to him. 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.

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.
 * When D.W. throws Arthur's model plane outside his room window (in which she mistakes the model plane for a real one) which then breaks as it lands to the ground a story below, the sky was clear and it was windy outside. When Arthur goes outside to see it ruined, the sky has a gray cloud ceiling and then it rains. Yet when Arthur's parents tell him he's grounded from watching TV for a week, there is no more rain when looking at the windows.

Quotes

 * [D.W.] [after Arthur realizes that D.W. has accidentally broken his plane] If it could break the sound barrier, falling out of a window shouldn't be able to break it.


 * [Arthur] I told you not to touch it!


 * [D.W.] You built it all wrong! Did you even read the directions? [Arthur furiously gets on his feet and grits his teeth, and gets his fist ready while D.W. is too busy talking to be afraid] It didn't fly for one second! It's not my fault if you made a plane that can't fly......


 * [Arthur] [lividly] I TOLD YOU... NOT TO TOUCH IT!!!!!! [He punches D.W., and she hits the ground; D.W. wails in agony as she heads back inside]


 * [Mrs. Read] [angrily] ARTHUR TIMOTHY READ, COME HERE!


 * [Arthur] [shocked] Uh-oh- Middle name!


 * [Mr. Read] [after Arthur punched D.W.] Arthur, this means no TV for a week.


 * [Arthur] What?! That is so unfair! You don't even care what she did to me!


 * [Mrs. Read] We'll deal with what she did. But what you did is wrong, too.


 * [Arthur] Hmpf! [when going to school the next day as he talks to Buster] So I missed Bionic Bunny, and I can't watch TV all week. Can you believe that?
 * [Buster] No, I don't believe it. You hit your sister? That's terrible.


 * Francine: Arthur, why didn't you just apologize?


 * Arthur: Oh, come on! She wrecked my plane! Why can't anybody see my side of this?


 * Muffy: Ah, because you're wrong.


 * Francine: Hey, Binky, did you hear that Arthur hit his little sister?


 * Binky: Well, I haven't seen Arthur. As far as I know Arthur isn't even here.


 * Francine: Binky's so upset about for what Arthur did and won't even look at him.


 * Arthur: (To Fern about D.W.) She broke my plane.


 * Fern: But she's just a little girl.


 * Arthur: Saying that D.W. is just a little girl is like saying a tornado is just a little wind.


 * Arthur: (Back home explaining what happened after Binky punched him) And the next thing I knew, I was on the ground. And it hurt, and was embarrassing.
 * Mr. Read: Well, maybe that's how D.W. felt when you punched her.
 * Arthur: Maybe, But what's that got to do with this? Binky Barnes is HUGE! (Realizes) Yeah, I guess I get it. (In the dining room with D.W. alone) I'm sorry I hit you.