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| {{Episode infobox | | {{Episode infobox |
| |ep. name = Fern's Slumber Party | | |ep. name = Fern's Slumber Party |
| |image = Walters Living Room S2.png | | |image = Fern's Slumber Party.jpg |
| |season = [[Season 2|2]] | | |season = [[Arthur (season 2)|2]] |
| |can = September 11, 1998<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130719100407/http://ww3.tvo.org/program/157024/arthur/#1997</ref> | | |airdate = March 9, 1998 |
| | |prod. code = 21502 |
| |prev. episode = [[Grandma Thora Appreciation Day]] | | |prev. episode = [[Grandma Thora Appreciation Day]] |
| |next episode = [[Love Notes for Muffy]]|writers = [[Sandra Willard]] | | |next episode = [[Love Notes for Muffy]]|writers = [[Sandra Willard]] |
| |storyboarders = [[Nelson Dewey]]|titlecard = Fern's Slumber Party Title Card.png|number = 15B|us = April 10, 1998<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010316024903/http://www.ket.org/visions/apr98/VL980410.html</ref>|ger = February 13, 2002<ref>https://www.fernsehserien.de/erdferkel-arthur-und-seine-freunde/episodenguide/staffel-2/3906/2</ref>}}{{EpisodeHeader|2|15|2}} | | |storyboarders = [[Nelson Dewey]]|titlecard = Fern's Slumber Party Title Card.png|number = 15B}}'''Fern's Slumber Party''' is the second-half of the 15th episode of [[Season 2]] of ''[[Arthur (series)|Arthur]]''. It first aired on March 9, 1998 with "[[Grandma Thora Appreciation Day]]." |
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| ==Summary== | | ==Summary== |
| At her mother's urging, normally shy [[Fern]] tries hosting a slumber party.
| | [[Doria Walters|Fern's mother]] makes her host a slumber party. [[Francine Frensky|Francine]]'s bracelet is stolen and [[Fern Walters|Fern]] must use her detective skills to find it. |
| ==Plot== | | ==Plot== |
| Fern is playing Detective with her dolls when her mother tries to make her introduce the show, like Arthur usually does. Fern suggests just going to the title card.
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| Title Card
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| Fern accompanies her mother to a copy shop where Mrs. Walters boasts about her daughter's creativity. She has a fantasy of Fern introducing a talking computer she invented. In Fern's fantasy the same computer steals her show.
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| Mrs. Walters brings signatures she collected to the office of an environmental protection group. She says that Fern will be helping soon. She has a fantasy of Fern having solved some major environmental problems. Fern sees herself giving a talk on protecting the ocean which puts all listeners (including fish) to sleep.
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| At the school open house the other kids notice Francine's new bracelet. Francine hands out cookies that suit the kids' personalities. Fern gets a nondescript cookie.
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| When Fern is playing Detective again at home, her mother tells her that she needs to have a slumber party to develop her social skills. Fern reluctantly agrees.
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| Fern has made invitation cards in code because she thinks the other girls would not want to come anyway since she is boring.
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| On the school playground some of the invited girls are less than pleased. They decide to bring their own toys to the party. Fern overhears them and is relieved.
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| Fern asks her mother to leave her alone with the guests. Muffy, Francine, Sue Ellen, Jenna and Prunella arrive. Fern makes an attempt to suggest a game but is overruled by Francine.
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| Later there is some discord because Francine seems to suggest only games that she is good at. The girls can not decide what to do, but Fern does not make another attempt to suggest something.
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| Eventually everyone is bored. Suddenly Francine misses her bracelet. Fern says she knows where it is and retells the events of the party in the style of a classic detective story. She remembers Francine taking off the bracelet, Muffy putting it on a table, and Jenna dropping a bag of chips on it. She also remembers Prunella cleaning up after Jenna. She finally reveals that the bracelet is in the waste paper bin. Prunella accidentally threw it in there with Jenna's chips bag. The girls are impressed.
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| When Mrs. Walters brings in the dinner, Fern is reading Sherlock Holmes to the others. Mrs. Walters remarks that she knew the party was a good idea.
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| ==Characters== | | ==Characters== |
| ===Major=== | | {| class="wikitable" |
| *[[Fern Walters]] | | | valign="top" width="33%"|'''Major characters''' |
| *[[Doria Walters]] | | *'''[[Fern Walters|Fern]]''' |
| *[[Francine Frensky]] | | *'''[[Doria Walters|Doria]]''' |
| *[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]]
| | *[[Francine Frensky|Francine]] |
| *[[Jenna Morgan]] | | *[[Jenna Morgan|Jenna]] |
| *[[Prunella Deegan]] | | *[[Prunella Deegan|Prunella]] |
| *[[Muffy Crosswire]] | | *[[Muffy Crosswire|Muffy]] |
| ===Minor=== | | | valign="top" width="33%"|'''Minor characters''' |
| *[[Arthur Read]] | | *[[Buster Baxter|Buster]] |
| ===Cameo===
| | *[[Arthur Read|Arthur]] |
| *[[Alex]] | | | valign="top" width="33%"|'''Background characters''' |
| *[[Bailey]] | | *[[Bailey]] |
| *[[Binky Barnes]]
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| *[[Bitzi Baxter]]
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| *[[Alan Powers|The Brain]]
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| *[[Ed Crosswire]]
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| *[[Laverne Frensky]]
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| *[[Maria Pappas]]
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| *[[Mary (3rd grader)|Mary]]
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| *[[Mr. Armstrong]]
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| *[[Francis Haney]]
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| *[[Mr. Marco]]
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| *[[Nigel Ratburn]]
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| *[[Mrs. Armstrong]]
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| *[[Mrs. Barnes]]
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| *[[Mrs. Fink]]
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| *[[Unknown Adult Male Rat]]
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| ===Mentioned===
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| *[[Mr. Walters]]
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *This is the first appearance of Fern's mother. | | *Fern's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Dancing_Men Dancing Man] code message is gibberish, with none of the symbols being ones from the book. She may have planned that for extra confusion. |
| *This is one of the few episodes in which [[Jenna Morgan|Jenna]] has a major speaking role.
| | ==Goofs== |
| *This is the first episode written by Sandra Willard.
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| *[[Arthur]] is the only male character to have a speaking role.
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| *'''Forshadowing/4th Wall Break:''' When Fern suggests that they should move on to the title card, she says, "Maybe that swimming one."
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| *'''Timeline:'''
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| **In "[[Jenna's Bedtime Blues]]", [[Jenna]] has problems wetting the bed, but she has no problems in this episode. This could place after said episode.
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| **Fern goes to a Open House; the Open House appears again in "Kids are from Earth, Parents are from Pluto."
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| *'''Moral:'''
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| **Just because someone is shy or isn't social doesn't mean you have to force them to talk to other people.
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| ** It's very rude to bring your own toys and games to a party, without asking the host for permission. Ask them ahead of time, and don't assume they are "boring" even if they are quiet.
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| === Cultural References ===
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| * Fern mentions a "Bora Borean peanut". {{W|Bora Bora}} is a group of islands that are part of French Polynesia. Poisons from exotic places feature in several Sherlock holmes stories, e.g. {{w|The Adventure of the Devil's Foot}}.
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| * {{w|The Hound of the Baskervilles}} (1902) is a Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle. Fern reads from it at the end of the episode.
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| * {{w|The Adventure of the Dancing Men}} (1905) is a Sherlock Holmes story that does feature a code where stick figures stand for letters. However, the figures used by Fern are not from the story and make no sense.
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| * Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown is the young hero of a series of detective books by Donald J. Sobol published between 1963 and 2012.
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| ===Episode Connections=== | |
| * [[Fern Walters|Fern]] mentions to the viewer to just move over to the title card in the intro, similar to [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] mentioning to move to the title card during the intro of [[The Last of Mary Moo Cow]].
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| ===Errors===
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| *During the open house, [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] and [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] are seen in their normal clothes at first, but are dressed up a few seconds later. | | *During the open house, [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] and [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] are seen in their normal clothes at first, but are dressed up a few seconds later. |
| *'''There are multiple goofs involving the cookies at the open house:''' | | *There are multiple goofs involving the cookies at the open house: |
| **At the start, there are eight cookies on the plate, but when the plate is set on the table, the green bush-shaped cookie is not present. The missing cookie then reappears when Francine picks up the plate. | | **At the start, there are eight cookies on the plate, but when the plate is set on the table, the green bush-shaped cookie is not present. The missing cookie then reappears when Francine picks up the plate. |
| **Francine gives Arthur a pink cookie, but that same cookie appears on the plate while the other third graders after Arthur are getting their cookies. | | **Francine gives Arthur a pink cookie, but that same cookie appears on the plate while the other third graders after Arthur are getting their cookies. |
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| **A yellow star cookie originally appears on the plate, but disappears, even though it was not passed out to anyone. | | **A yellow star cookie originally appears on the plate, but disappears, even though it was not passed out to anyone. |
| **A white square cookie with an X on it originally appears on the plate, but later on it appears as a white triangle. | | **A white square cookie with an X on it originally appears on the plate, but later on it appears as a white triangle. |
| **The [[Eiffel Tower]] cookie changes appearance throughout the short sequence, varying in length and its size. | | **The [[Eiffel Tower]] cookie changes appearance throughout the short sequence, varying in length and exact shape. |
| * The first sentence from "The Hound of the Baskervilles“ that Fern reads is the last sentence of chapter two. The following sentence is found earlier in the same chapter.
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| == Home Video ==
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| '''DVD:'''
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| * [[Arthur: The Complete Series 3]]
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| ==Gallery==
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| Walters Dining Room S2.png
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| Walters Living Room S2.png
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| Six Girls.jpg
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| Fern's Slumber Party.jpg
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| ==References==
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