Editing Arthur's Dummy Disaster

|season = [[Season 3|3]]

|airdate =

|can=April 26, 1999

|storyboarders = [[Mario Cabrera]]

|number = 13A

|titlecard = Arthur's Dummy Disaster Title Card.png

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In art class, Arthur's class is showing off their individual art projects to each other and [[Ms. Brian]]. Most of them prove unimpressive and copycats of each other's work, until George hesitantly reveals his puppet he's been working on, a wooden giraffe named Wally whom his dad had built for him. He proceeds to voice it, causing the others to compliment it and instantly take an interest in George. George proceeds to make some jokes before smiling to his dummy.

At the end of the school day, George is still making jokes with everybody before he mentions having to leave. As he does, he hears them discussing himself and Buster asks why they never hung out with him. Muffy recalls George from Kindergarten when he shared his juice with her, and Francine thinks she recalls hugging him before when he won a soccer game for the team. But otherwise they don't really know him too well. Arthur calls it weird and they all begin to question the story with George, with Buster once again citing possible alien involvement.

Later on, everybody asks how they can be ventriloquists also. And so later on, everybody is trying to control their puppets/dummies also. Muffy reveals hers is actually a special recording doll while Buster's is a stinky old sock. Arthur's is his bear Arty, and Binky's is a car, using the hood as a mouth.

At home, Arthur is trying to practice and ends up annoying everybody in home until they decide to put away Arty. In bed, Pal steals Arty away from Arthur and he assumes D.W. stole it from him overnight that following morning. D.W. denies this and then Arthur suddenly sees Pal walk in caked with mud...

===Major===

===Minor===

===Cameo===

*[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]]

*[[Jessica Simmons|Jessica]]

*[[Maria Pappas]]

*At the end of the 2000 rerun intro on PBS Kids before this episode, Arthur’s crashing sound changes to the Season 5 version.

*This episodes marks first appearance of [[Wally]], [[George Lundgren|George]]'s dummy.

*[[Buster Baxter|Buster]] says he wonders why he never hangs out with [[George Lundgren|George]], but in previous episodes like "[[Buster Makes the Grade]]," he appears to be great friends with him.

*In this episode, it is revealed that George sometimes gets his head stuck in his locker and knocks coats off the coat rack, due to his antlers being too big.

*'''4th Wall Break:'''

**This episode marks the first main appearance of [[George Lundgren]], who, prior to this episode, existed only as a background/minor character, and was never referred to by name. There are many references to George "never being noticed before."

**When Wally says "You know, that Mr. Ratburn's one to talk. He's got about a hundred marionettes...", this refers to Mr. Ratburn's hobby of being a puppeteer.

**Despite being given to D.W., Wally again appears in George's possession in all of his subsequent appearances. How this occurred is unknown, but Wally references his experience with D.W. as being a bad one in "[[The Silent Treatment]]."

*[[D.W. Read|D.W.]] once again mentions her [[snowball]] from "[[D.W.'s Snow Mystery]]."

=== Errors ===

* Muffy's flashback shows her receiving a juice box from George; this shouldn't have happened since Muffy arrived in Elwood City when they were in the second grade.

** The juice box changes color a tiny bit when George gives it to her.

* Strangely [[Lisa]] appeared at Lakewood again along with the 3rd graders. Lisa is supposed to be at [[Elwood City Preschool|Preschool]].

*Wally's feet joke ("they're long fellows") references American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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