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| {{Episode infobox | | {{Episode infobox |
| |ep. name = Arthur the Unfunny | | |ep. name = Arthur the Unfunny |
| |image = Comedian Arthur.PNG | | |image = Arthur the Unfunny.png |
| |titlecard = Arthur the Unfunny Title Card.png
| | |season = [[Arthur (season 2)|2]] |
| |season = [[Season 2|2]] | | |airdate = February 7, 1998 |
| |number = 13B | |
| |can=September 9, 1998<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120413104003/http://ww3.tvo.org/program/157024/arthur</ref>
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| |us = April 8, 1998<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010316024917/http://www.ket.org/visions/apr98/VL980408.html</ref>
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| |writers = [[Joe Fallon]]
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| |storyboarders = [[Stéphanie Gignac]]
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| |prev. episode = [[Water and the Brain]] | | |prev. episode = [[Water and the Brain]] |
| |next episode = [[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]] | | |next episode = [[Sue Ellen's Lost Diary]] |
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| | |prod. code = 21302 |
| {{EpisodeHeader|2|13|2}}
| | |writers = [[Joe Fallon]] |
| | | |storyboarders = [[Stefanie Gignac]]|titlecard = Arthur the Unfunny Title Card.png|number = 13B}}'''Arthur the Unfunny''' is the second half of the 13th episode of season 2 of the animated children's series ''[[Arthur]]''. Together with [[Water and the Brain]], it first aired on February 7th, 1998. |
| ==Summary== | | ==Summary== |
| [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] decides to learn how to make people laugh.<ref>http://www.ket.org/episode/ARUR%20%20000213/</ref> | | In a letter to [[Buster Baxter|Buster]], [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] tells him about how he was determined to be too hopelessly unfunny to be a clown and how he discovered he can be funny using his piano. |
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| ==Plot== | | ==Plot== |
| Arthur starts the show by trying to tell a joke. He messes up the setup, and accidentally spoils the punchline, then walks off in shame. | | Arthur starts the show by trying to make a funny joke, but he fail heavily. The episode starts with Arthur writing a letter to Buster about The Elwood City Library fundraiser and what everyone is trying to do to raise money for the library. One day, the gang decided to be clowns so Arthur tried to tell the joke Buster told him, but everyone thought that Arthur wasn't funny and that he couldn't be a clown even though he made the idea. So then his friends and even Pickles the clown tried to find ways to make Arthur funny but they couldn't do it. The next day, Arthur accepted the fact that he isn't funny by giving a speech that he is helping people by not being funny. On the day on the carnival, when Arthur was playing with Kate he accidently became funny and Pickles congratulated him by saying that there is more than one day to be funny. After Buster read the letter he laughed. |
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| <center>'''Arthur the Unfunny'''</center>
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| Arthur starts writing a letter to [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] about how the [[Elwood City Public Library]] is having a fundraiser. [[Leah MacGrady|Mrs. MacGrady]] is having a bake sale, [[Ed Crosswire|Mr. Crosswire]] is raffling off a car, and [[Muffy Crosswire|Muffy]] is setting up a backyard carnival. Arthur and his friends choose to be clowns at the carnival, so they practice doing funny things. Arthur tells a joke Buster told him, but nobody finds it funny. [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] and Muffy fear that Arthur will ruin the carnival.
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| Arthur practices his piano, and [[Kate Read|Kate]] starts laughing. Arthur continues to amuse Kate by making silly faces. Meanwhile, in [[The Sugar Bowl]], Muffy decides that Arthur can't be a clown until he can learn to be funny.
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| [[Sue Ellen Armstrong|Sue Ellen]] comes over to Arthur's house to teach him how to juggle, but he struggles with it. [[Alan Powers|Brain]] teaches him jokes, but Arthur doesn't understand them. [[Binky Barnes|Binky]] shows Arthur how to make funny faces, but he is unable to do that as well. Even after Muffy hires [[Pickles]] to teach Arthur, he is still not funny.
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| Arthur admits that he is not funny. On the day of the carnival, he is the piano player. He starts to play the piano off-key and make silly faces, like he did with Kate, causing everyone to laugh.
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| Pickles tells Arthur that he found his own style of humor, and congratulates him. The episode finishes with Buster reading Arthur's letter and laughing.
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| ==Characters==
| | THE END |
| *[[Arthur Read]]
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| *[[Buster Baxter]]
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| *[[Francine Frensky]]
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| *[[Muffy Crosswire]]
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| *[[Alan Powers|The Brain]]
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| *[[Kate Read]]
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| *[[Binky Barnes]]
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| *[[Fern Walters]]
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| *[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]]
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| *[[David Read]]
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| *[[D.W. Read]]
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| *[[Jane Read]]
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| *[[Pickles]]
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| *[[Catherine Frensky]] (cameo)
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| *[[Oliver Frensky]] (cameo)
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| *[[Laverne Frensky]] (cameo)
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| *[[Cecilia Tingley]] (cameo)
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| *[[George Lundgren]] (cameo)
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| *[[Mr. Powers]] (cameo)
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| *[[Mrs. Powers]] (cameo)
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| *[[Mr. Barnes]] (cameo)
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| *[[Mrs. Barnes]] (cameo)
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| *[[Leah MacGrady]] (cameo)
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| *[[Ed Crosswire]] (cameo)
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| *[[Millicent Crosswire]] (cameo)
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| *[[Nigel Ratburn]] (transformed and mentioned)
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *"Thick shake" is a term used outside the United States for a milkshake made with ice cream. | | *This makes the 2nd cameo of Buster Baxter, first time was [[Arthur the Loser]] . |
| *More sound is audible from the Reads' computer than usual. In particular, one can hear a startup chime followed shortly by the hard disk drive motor spinning up. A few seconds before the scene change, one can also hear the hard disk drive heads in action.
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| **The chime sound reveals that the computer is most likely a Macintosh computer, although the case is more typical of the PCs from that era.
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| *[[Sue Ellen Armstrong|Sue Ellen]] is a clown, but on the day of the carnival, she is not present.
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| *The location that Buster and his father are in when Buster receives the letter from Arthur is Venice, Italy.
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| *When [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] is telling jokes to his friends which they do not find funny, his laugh is used from the [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] Makes Sounds title card.
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| *'''Timeline:''' Pickles recognizes Pal as the dog that stole his balloons back in season one while teaching Arthur how to mime, and quits the job on the spot. Ironically, Arthur has no idea about their previous enmity and says that Pickles had to leave for health reasons.
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| *'''Moral:'''
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| **Don't judge other people for your own personal benefit.
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| **Dont make goofy/silly faces for your own personal benifit.
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| ===Cultural references===
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| *The beginning of the episode before the title card is a reference to ''Seinfeld''.
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| *While [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] does his speech of apology, the girls hum along to "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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| *The front license plate on the car being raffled off is "EMC2," a reference to [[Albert Einstein]]'s equation for special relativity, "E = mc2."
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| ==Home Video== | | ==Home Video== |
| '''DVD:''' | | '''DVD:''' |
| *[[Arthur Makes a Movie (2005 DVD)]] | | *[[Arthur Makes a Movie (Video)]] |
| *[[Arthur: The Complete Series 3]]
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| '''VHS:''' | | '''VHS:''' |
| *[[Arthur Makes a Movie (VHS)]] | | *[[Arthur Makes a Movie (Video)]] |
| | | [[Category:Episodes]] |
| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| Comedian Arthur.PNG
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| Arthur and DW argue.PNG
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| DW is speechless.PNG
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| Arthur + Francine = Discussion.PNG
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| Arthur the Unfunny.png
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| Pickles.png
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| </gallery>
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{EpisodeNav|2}}
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| [[Category:Season 2 episodes]] | | [[Category:Season 2 episodes]] |
| [[Category:A to Z]] | | [[Category:Pages needing attention]] |
| [[Category:Arthur episodes]] | | [[Category:Paragraph Needs Improvements]] |
| [[Category:1997]]
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