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| {{Episode infobox | | {{Arthur Episode |
| |ep. name = Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper | | |name = Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper |
| |season = [[Season 1|1]] | | |image = [[File:1x17b.png|300px]] |
| |number = 17B | | |season = {{season|1}} |
| |image = 1x17b.png | | |episode = 38 |
| |titlecard = Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper Title Card.png | | |written = [[Matt Steinglass]] |
| |prod. code = 11702 | | |storyboard = [[Myron Born]] |
| |can=January 28, 1997<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120413104003/http://ww3.tvo.org/program/157024/arthur</ref> | | |date = January 13th, 1997 |
| |writers = [[Matt Steinglass]] | | |central = {{focal|Arthur}} |
| |storyboarders = [[Myron Born]] | | |intertitle = [[Arthur's Umbrella]] |
| |prev. episode = [[Meek for a Week]] | | |midpoint = See [[Meek for a Week|Linked episode]] |
| |next episode = [[Arthur's Chicken Pox (episode)|Arthur's Chicken Pox]] | | |previous = ''[[Meek for a Week]]'' |
| |us = October 29, 1996<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19970723021343/http://www.ket.org/Visions/Oct96/VL961029.html</ref>
| | |next = ''[[Arthur's Chicken Pox]]'' |
| |ger = January 4, 2002<ref>https://www.fernsehserien.de/erdferkel-arthur-und-seine-freunde/episodenguide/staffel-1/3906/2</ref>
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| }} | | }} |
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| | '''"Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper"''', is the second half of the seventeenth episode of season 1 of the animated children's series ''[[Arthur]]''. It originally aired on January 13th, 1997. |
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| ==Summary==
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| Arthur thinks it would be cool to be a Gleeper—until he finds out what "gleeping" really means. | |
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| ==Plot== | | ==Plot== |
| Before the title card, Molly in the hallway tells a boy that Arthur gleeps stuff, which spreads to Francine in the gym, but she mishears it as "Arthur keeps beans," which she repeats in music class. Somehow, this leads to the Tough Customers believing Arthur to have a crush on Francine and Prunella, Muffy, and Fern, who are playing jump-rope, to mockingly sing that he "eats fancy spam". A boy comments on how tough Arthur is for allegedly gleeping spam, to which his friend accidentally says, "Arthur gleeps stuff!" to Arthur, who claims that while it's often hard to tell how rumors start, he knows that one started with him.
| | Arthur and Buster sit at the only available lunch table with the Tough Customers. Buster claims that Arthur is the world's greatest "gleeper" to stop the teasing, only to find out later that "gleep" means "steal." Arthur lets the lie grow into a schoolwide rumor. The Tough Customers had to talk with Arthur at resses and make him part of their group. After resses Arthur was walks around everyone is treating him different.Francine is mad at Arthur cause Binky told Francine that Arthur is the world greatest gleeper. During Lunch the tough customers talk to Arthur what he steal later on Arthur tired to tell Molly that he not a world greatest gleeper. After Mr Haney warn him if he didn't have nothing to do with he won't him to stop right now and he'll get caught and he'll be in big trouble after the resses bell ring he let Arthur go back to class. After Arthur was going to class, he saw the Tough Customers, they ask him what Mr Haney do to him,Arthur said he warn him,they was so excited, Arthur was get ready to tell him the truth,Binky thinks Arthur sold out on them and bet Arthur told on them other wise how come Mr Haney didn't punish him, and The tough customers got mad Arthur and Binky told Arthur if he a gleeper then prove it and Arthur said how and Binky whisper:( Gleep all the ice cream bar for the cafeteria). While Arthur tired to do that he said to himself he can't believe he doing that, then Mr McGrady suprise him while sitting one of the lunch tray and Arthur told her to turn him in to Mr Haney, they both talk and Arthur worries The Tough Customers and Mrs McGrady told him to tell them like he told her they will understand. After that Rattles is on Arthur and hitting in the head with a ball and calling him a big liar and Binky told Arthur is never too lie.Francine came to Arthur and she glad that he tell the truth and Arthur and Francine are friends again |
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| '''Title card'''
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| Arthur and Buster sit at the only available lunch table with the Tough Customers, who tease Arthur and say that they bet he's "never even gleeped anything". Buster claims that Arthur "has gleeped lots of stuff" to stop the teasing, only to find out later that "gleep" means "steal." Arthur lets the lie grow into a school wide rumor. | |
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| The Tough Customers confront Arthur at recess and make him part of their group. After recess, Arthur is walking around and notices that everyone is treating him differently. [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] is mad at Arthur because [[Binky Barnes]] told her that Arthur was the world's greatest gleeper. She doesn't really believe him, but it still makes her mad | |
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| During lunch the Tough Customers talk to Arthur, asking what he has stolen lately and wondered if he has stolen Mr. Ratburn's socks and if they have holes in them. Arthur attempts to tell [[Molly MacDonald|Molly]] that he is not a gleeper but she thinks he is just being secretive. Everyone leaves except for Arthur, who Mrs. MacGrady notices and she thinks he's meditating. He asks her what would happen if somebody claimed they did something they'd never heard of to sound cool but later found out it was bad, but that just confuses her. Just then, Muffy comes in with Mr. Haney, telling him to arrest Arthur because he allegedly stole her cell phone. [[Francis Haney|Mr. Haney]], who doesn't know what gleeping is, warns him that if he had nothing to do with the phone, he won't get in trouble, but if he did he would be. | |
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| After the recess bell rings he lets Arthur go back to class. On his way to his class, Arthur sees the Tough Customers, and they are curious what punishment Arthur got from Mr. Haney. Arthur says that Mr. Haney just gave him a warning. He is going to tell them he is not a "gleeper" but Binky thinks that Arthur sold out on them.
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| The Tough Customers then get mad at Arthur and they demand him to prove that he is a gleeper by stealing ice cream bars from the school cafeteria. Arthur decides that he has no other option. When Arthur tries to do it he sees [[Sarah MacGrady|Mrs. MacGrady]], which surprises him as she was meditating and being very quiet. She is surprised that he would be stealing. Arthur told her to turn him in to Mr. Haney for stealing. | |
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| Arthur begins to get worried that the Tough Customers will beat him up. After that Rattles is on Arthur and hitting him in the head with a ball and calling him a big liar and Binky tells Arthur that he should never have lied. Francine comes to Arthur, and states that she is glad that he told the truth. Arthur and Francine then make up. | |
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| ==Characters==
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| ===Major===
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| *[[Arthur Read]]
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| *[[Binky Barnes]]
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| *[[Molly MacDonald]] (speaking debut)
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| *[[Rattles]] (speaking debut)
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| *[[Kiefer]]
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| ===Minor===
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| *[[Leah MacGrady]]
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| *[[Buster Baxter]]
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| *[[Francine Frensky]]
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| *[[Francis Haney]]
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| *[[Muffy Crosswire]]
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| *[[Alan Powers|The Brain]]
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| *[[3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 2)]]
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| *[[Otis]] (speaking debut)
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| ===Cameo===
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| *[[Prunella Deegan]]
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| *[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]]
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| *[[Fern Walters]]
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| *[[George Lundgren]]
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| *[[3rd Grade Male Cat]]
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| *[[Kenny]]
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| *[[Beulah McInnerny]]
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| *[[3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 3)]]
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| *[[Jessica Simmons|Jessica]]
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| *[[Maria Pappas]]
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| *[[3rd Grade Female Cat (Number 2)]]
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| *[[3rd Grade Male Rat]]
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| *[[3rd Grade Male Dog]]
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| *[[3rd Grade Female Aardvark]]
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| *[[Luke]]
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| *[[Brian (4th grader)|Brian]]
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| *[[Helen]]
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| *[[Alex]]
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| *[[4th Grade Female Aardvark]]
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| *[[Mary (3rd grader)|Mary]]
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| *[[4th Grade Male Dog]]
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| *[[Jenna Morgan]]
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| *[[Cecilia Tingley|Ms. Tingley]]
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| ===Mentioned===
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| *[[Millicent Crosswire]]
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *At the beginning, 3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 2) gasps using one of Arthur's stock gasps.
| | ===Notes=== |
| *Muffy tells Mr. Haney to shave Arthur's head, referencing how he appears to have no hair.
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| *This is Kiefer's first major role.
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| *Muffy is more negative towards Arthur than usual in this episode. Most of the time she considers him a close friend, but in this episode, she immediately accuses Arthur of stealing her cell phone because she falsely believed he was the "world's greatest gleeper."
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| *Molly's right eye is visible as she arm wrestles Binky.
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| **When Molly says she picks the toughest kid in the whole school (Arthur) part of her bangs are standing off, revealing her left eye. This is one of, if not the, first episodes to show Molly's eyes.
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| ===Cultural references=== | |
| *Mrs. MacGrady quotes {{W|Lao Tsu}}.
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| *The word "gleep" is not a real word in the English language, and thus was likely only conceived for the purposes of this episode.
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| **The word "goofus" is a portmanteau of "goofy doofus", even though the word only exists in this episode.
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| **Skipped a louie means "Ditching class" and Pulled a Fizzler means "Pulled the Fire Alarm".
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| **It is possible that "gleeper" originates from the Icelandic term "glæpur," which translates as "crime."
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| **"Gleep" was also the name given to [https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Proto-Grover an early version] of the ''{{W|Sesame Street}}'' character {{W|Grover}}, during his first appearance on a Christmas Eve skit in a 1967 episode of ''{{W|The Ed Sullivan Show}}''.
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| ===Errors===
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| *During the intro, Francine can be seen playing the violin with Muffy, despite the fact that she normally plays the drums.
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| *Arthur's sweater is a brighter color than in other episodes.
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| *Right before Arthur opens the cafeteria freezer, the entire screen is purple.
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| *During the intro, when she is playing kickball, Fern is bizarrely miscolored for a few frames. She is basically wearing Thora's shirt with solid red pants, matching red shoes, and with a dark pink bow instead of dark red. Her face is sludge green.
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| *Also, George has bright yellow antlers.
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| ===Episode connections===
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| *Just like in "[[Arthur Accused! (episode)|Arthur Accused!]]", if Buster hadn't spoken up for him, Arthur wouldn't have gotten into trouble.
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| *This subject of stealing would again come into focus in "[[Nerves of Steal]]", in which case there is a real theft, Buster is the one who steals, and Arthur ultimately does get in trouble because of his actions.
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| ==Home video==
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| '''DVD:'''
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| *[[Arthur: The Complete Series One]]
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| ==Gallery==
| | * This episode was originally titled as ''The World's Greatest Dinker'' before going on the air. It was renamed, since the word "dinker" was considered too rude. |
| {{Main|Arthur, World's Greatest Gleeper/Gallery}}
| | * The word "goofus" is a portmanteau of "goofy doofus", even though the word only exists in this story. |
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| ==References== | | ===Goofs=== |
| {{Reflist}} {{EpisodeNav|1}}
| | * In the scene where Muffy accuses Arthur for "gleeping", she can be heard telling Mr. Haney to shave Arthur's head, despite that Arthur has always been depicted bald in which he keeps his head shaved. |
| | * During the intro, Francine can be seen playing the violin with Muffy, despite that she normally plays the drums. |
| | * Arthur's sweater is a brighter color than in other episodes. |
| | * Right before Arthur opens the cafeteria freezer, the entire screen is purple. |
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