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 episode to ever get a TV-Y7 rating, and also 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). It's 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.

Plot
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 and punches D.W. on the arm. D.W. bawls loud enough for their parents to hear. Mom calls him for his punishment while Dad heals D.W. with ice, but bawls when he puts it on her wound. Mom tells Arthur to apologize to D.W., but he refuses from after she wrecked Arthur's plane, which took him a week to build. For his actions, Dad told Arthur that he is banned from watching T.V. for a 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 absoutely unfair from what she did to him.



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 a few days. 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 Dad heals Arthur the way he did with D.W., but unlike D.W., Arthur does not bawl. 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.