Meek for a Week

Summary
Muffy dares Francine to be nice to everyone for a whole week and she can not tell anyone why she is being nice. Arthur and his friends are worried when Francine starts acting nice for no apparent reason and are worried she may "pop" if she continues bottling up her anger. They try fruitlessly to diffuse her.

Plot
Francine gets very angry when they lose the hockey game. She is walking with Muffy then gets in the car with her. She says if she can be nice for long enough she will give her a Princess Peach watch. Then she starts trying to be nice as possible. Everyone notices how unlike Francine that is and says she will get so much pressure will make her "pop". They start up hockey again and Francine gets the watch. They are playing hockey when Binky breaks her watch. she gets super angry then scores on the rival team over and over. then their team wins. Francine ends the episode being mean, back to normal.

Episode Connections

 * Arthur mentions this episode in the later episode Francine Goes to War.
 * During the quick montage of Francine getting angry after Binky breaks her watch, a clip of the building being demolished from D.W.'s Baby can be seen.

Cultural references

 * "They very soon came upon a gryphon..." is a line from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Chapter IX: The Mock Turtle's Story by Lewis Carroll.
 * Muffy and Francine bet on a Princess Peach watch. Princess Peach is the name of a character from the Super Mario Bros. video games, but it is unknown if this was an intentional reference.

Errors

 * When Francine approaches to Muffy and screeches her bike to a stop, the tires on her bike are shown white in that scene, although her bike has gray to black tires in its other appearances.
 * When the Brain is wearing his helmet, his ears are not shown; although the helmet has openings for the ears to be shown for top-eared species like aardvarks, bears, cats, rabbits, and etc.
 * Arthur and Buster were not wearing their baseball caps during the second baseball game.
 * Right before Muffy tells Francine she's "So rude" the helmet hole showing her hair flashes yellow, the same color as the helmet for a second.
 * At the Sugar Bowl, when Francine sits next to Arthur and is offered a cherry soda which she rejects but tries it anyway, she is sitting next to the outside, and Arthur is sitting next to the wall; but after Francine finishes off the soda, she and Arthur are sitting on the opposite side of the booth, and Arthur is sitting next to the outside while Francine is sitting next to the wall.

Production notes

 * In an earlier version of the title card for this episode, the name of the episode is not read by an Arthur character, and Arthur does not yelp when Francine hits the gong. In a later version of this, however, Binky says the name of the episode, and Arthur DOES yelp when Francine hits the gong.
 * There was also a song based on this episode, which can be found on Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD (or Tape).

Home video
VHS:
 * Arthur Makes The Team

DVD:
 * Arthur Makes The Team
 * Arthur: The Complete Series One

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