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| |ep. name = The Contest | | |ep. name = The Contest |
| |image = The Contest.png | | |image = The Contest.png |
| |season = [[Season 4|4]] | | |season = 4|airdate = September 27, 1999|prod. code = 40401 |
| |airdate = | | |prev. episode = The Fright Stuff |
| |prev. episode = [[The Fright Stuff]] | | |next episode = Prove It!}}'''The Contest''' is the first half of the 4th episode [[Arthur (season 4)|Season 4]]. It first aired on September 27, 1999 with [[Prove It!]] . |
| |next episode = [[Prove It]] | |
| |writers = [[Ken Scarborough]]
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| |storyboarders = [[Robert Yap]]|number = 4A|titlecard = The Contest Title Card.png|us = October 8, 1999<ref>http://www.ket.org/episode/ARUR%20%20000404/ ([https://web.archive.org/web/20161002012852/http://www.ket.org/episode/ARUR%20%20000404/ archived page])</ref> | |
| |can = January 20, 2000<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120413104003/http://ww3.tvo.org/program/157024/arthur</ref>}}{{EpisodeHeader|1|4|4}}
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| ==Summary== | | ==Summary== |
| The kids think about entering a contest to write story ideas for their favorite TV show.
| | Buster is entering the TV Schedule Magazine's contest for writing an episode for the Andy and Company Show. His friends decide to enter in the contest too with their stories styled like South Park, Beavis and Butt-head, and Dexter's Laboratory amongst other things. Five years later, they are 13, and watch for the winning episode to find out a girl from Canadian, Oklahoma named Holly Holland has won the contest. |
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| ==Plot== | | ==Plot== |
| It all started when Arthur and his friends were outside in the park when they saw Buster writing something down, and it turns out it was the story that he writing for the [[Andy and Company]] contest.
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| | | ==Entries== |
| After the title card, Arthur and his friends are watching Andy and Company when Buster presents his story.
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| <p style="text-align: center;">'''The Day The Earth Was Saved (South Park)'''</p> | | <p style="text-align: center;">'''The Day The Earth Was Saved (South Park)'''</p> |
| Buster is waiting for aliens to come down to earth. The aliens don't come at first, and [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] gets frustrated. [[Francine Frensky|Francine]], [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] and the [[Alan Powers|Brain]] leave, thinking that Buster is just telling a lie. The aliens come after they leave, and the UFO crushes Buster. Francine comes back and says "Hey, you squished Buster!" The aliens come out of the UFO, and 2 of them carry Arthur into their UFO. They take of his clothes. The aliens did not want to eat Arthur, so they through him out of the UFO. The UFO flies away and then Arthur says "What the!" And Brain replies "It appears you have high cholesterol forming Arthur. These aliens must be health conscious!" Arthur, Brain, and Francine then scream "THE EARTH IS SAVED!" Buster then wakes up from being knocked out and asks his friends "What happened?" | | Buster is waiting for aliens to come down to earth. The aliens don't come at first, and [[Buster]] gets frustrated. [[Francine]], [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] and the [[Brain]] leave, thinking that Buster is just telling a lie. The aliens come after they leave, and the UFO crushes Buster. Francine comes back and says "Hey, you squished Buster!" which is a reference to "Oh my god, you killed Kenny!" The aliens come out of the UFO, and 2 of them carry Arthur into their UFO. They take of his clothes. The aliens did not want to eat Arthur, so they through him out of the UFO. The UFO flies away and then Arthur says "What the!" And Brain replies It appears you have high cholesterol forming Arthur. These Aliens Must Be Help Conchis. Arthur, Brain, and Francine then scream THE EARTH IS SAVED! Buster then wakes up from being knocked out and asks his friends What happened? |
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| <p style="text-align: center;">'''THE END.'''</p> | | THE END. |
| | <p style="text-align: center;">'''My Life As a TV Show (Beavis & Butthead)'''</p> |
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| After Buster's story, Arthur questions it. Everyone wants to write a story. In the kitchen, Arthur is writing a story when D.W. appears to get a cookie, bothering Arthur. He begins to call for his mom, but then, he looks at the camera, smiles, and continues his story. At the Sugar Bowl, Muffy presents her story.
| | At a fashion show Muffy comes out on stage dressed as the green teletubbie Dipsy and in the Audience Buster (who is just like Butthead) and Arthur (who is just like Beavis) make a comment about her and laugh just like Beavis and Butthead to which Muffy hears this and goes back stage upset. Then D.W. appears on stage with a white and purple dress on and a purple hat on to which Buster and Arthur find her to be attractive and behind stage Muffy reveals that she knew that D.W. would be better than her and decides to switch to plan B which is stinkball. |
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| <p style="text-align: center;">'''My Life As a TV Show (Beavis & Butthead/{{W|MLAATR}})'''</p>
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| At a fashion show Muffy comes out on stage dressed as the green Teletubby Dipsy and in the audience Buster and Arthur make a comment about her and laugh to which Muffy hears this and goes back stage upset. Then D.W. appears on stage with a white and purple dress on and a purple hat on to which Buster and Arthur find her to be attractive and behind stage Muffy reveals that she knew that D.W. would be better than her and decides to switch to plan B, which is stink ball.
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| <p style="text-align: center;">'''THE END.'''</p>
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| .After Muffy's story, everyone argues until Brain interrupts with his story.
| | <p style="text-align: center;">'''Hair Growth Formula (Dexter's Labratory)'''</p> |
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| <p style="text-align: center;">'''Hair Growth Formula (Dexter's Laboratory)'''</p>
| | In his laboratory scientist Brain (who is just like Dexter) shows his friends Francine, Muffy, and Binky his new invention which his hair growth formula which he discovered when he was inventing a new cherry soda. He turns a bowling ball into a hairy bowling ball and a carrot into a hairy carrot to which Binky asks Why would anyone want hairy carrots? To which Brain replies To go with hairy fish. And he shows his friends a hairy friends which makes them feel sick and they leave. Brain then reveals to the audience that his new invention is really unappreciated. Later on Arthur (who is just like Dexter's sister Dee Dee) shows up and asks Brain if the formula is his new invention. To which Brain replies Yes. It's some kind of Deodorant. To which Arthur replies Good. Because I ran all the way here and I stink. And before Brain can stop him Arthur uses the formula and gets turned into a hairy couch with glasses. When Arthur sees his reflection in a mirror he runs into the woods to hide and meets Bigfoot who looks like a big hairy couch himself. Arthur asks Bigfoot if he used Brain's hair growth formula invention too to which Bigfoot nods in agreement. |
| In his laboratory scientist Brain shows his friends Francine, Muffy, and Binky his new invention which his hair growth formula which he discovered when he was inventing a new cherry soda. He turns a bowling ball into a hairy bowling ball and a carrot into a hairy carrot to which Binky asks "Why would anyone want hairy carrots?" To which Brain replies "To go with hairy fish." And he shows his friends a hairy friends which makes them feel sick and they leave. Brain then reveals to the viewers that his new invention is really unappreciated. Later on Arthur shows up and asks Brain if the formula is his new invention. To which Brain replies "Yes. It's some kind of Deodorant." Arthur replies "Good. Because I ran all the way here and I stink." And before Brain can stop him Arthur uses the formula and gets turned into a hairy couch with glasses. When Arthur sees his reflection in a mirror he runs into the woods to hide and meets Bigfoot who looks like a big hairy couch himself. Arthur asks Bigfoot if he used Brain's hair growth formula invention too to which Bigfoot nods in agreement. | |
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| After Brain's story, Francine and Binky present their story.
| | <p style="text-align: center;">'''The Amazing Fight (WWE)'''</p> |
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| <p style="text-align: center;">'''The Amazing Fight (WWE)'''</p>
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| In a wrestling match Arthur faces off with the famous wrestler Hulk Hogan and Arthur manages to win the fight by just kicking his right foot on the mat which causes Hulk to scream like a girl and run away scared. The announcer then announces that Arthur will fight John L. Sullivan, Floyd Patterson, Barney Rose, and the United Press International. | | In a wrestling match Arthur faces off with the famous wrestler Hulk Hogan and Arthur manages to win the fight by just kicking his right foot on the mat which causes Hulk to scream like a girl and run away scared. The announcer then announces that Arthur will fight John L. Sullivan, Floyd Patterson, Barney Rose, and the United Press International. |
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| <p style="text-align: center;">'''THE END.'''</p>
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| After Francine and Binky's story, Francine questions why Arthur fights the United Press International, to which Binky admits he copied that from under the picture, then Arthur presents his.
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| <p style="text-align: center;">'''The Troubled Sister (Dr. Katz)'''</p> | | <p style="text-align: center;">'''The Troubled Sister (Dr. Katz)'''</p> |
| 10 years into the future, Arthur (who is now 18 years old) visits his psychologist, and tells him that his sister D.W. has been troubling him. He then tells the psychologist a story of how last week Arthur had D.W. go and get his car while he went to get his new house. When D.W. gets to Arthur's new house Arthur asks "Where's my car?" And D.W. replies "Your car was just blah! I traded it in for something much nicer." The new car that D.W. bought for Arthur is a girl car with a pony on it, to which Arthur lets out a horrified scream.
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| | 10 years into the future Arthur (who is know 18 years old) vists his psychologist (who is just like Dr. Katz) and tells him that his sister D.W. has been troubling him. He then tells the psychologist a story of how last week Arthur had D.W. go and get his car while he went to get his new house. When D.W. gets to Arthur's new house Arthur asks Where's My Car? And D.W. replies You're car was just blah! I traded it in for something much nicer. And the new car that D.W. bought for Arthur is a girl car with a pony in it to which Arthur lets out a horrified scream. |
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| After Arthur's story, everyone mails their story. Five years later, they heard the winner was [[Holly Holland]]. While they're in the park, Arthur says they could come up with more stories, and Binky replies, "Without a contest?" Arthur then asks if they remember how much fun they had, and Buster says that Arthur's right: "Who ''cares'' who won?"
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| | | ==Trivia== |
| Muffy then suggests that they can write about things that really happened to them; Francine replies that there is just one thing wrong with that: "''Nothing's'' ever happened to us."
| | *In Arthur's story he didn't include any of his friends in the story and in Binky and Francine's story they only included Arthur and not themselves so it would of been unlikely that either one of them would've had a shot at winning the contest because the contest was to write a story about you and your friend. |
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| Arthur replies with "Are you kidding? What about when we first had Mr. Ratburn? We thought he was a ''monster''."
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| Buster adds, "Right, or when I moved away."
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| Francine says, "I guess you ''could'' do something about when I taught Arthur to play baseball."
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| The episode then ends with the characters thanking the people who came up with the stories throughout the episode.
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| ==Characters==
| | *In Arthur's story he is supposed to be 18 and has D.W. go and pick up his car but D.W. is only 4 years younger than Arthur and would of been 14 at the time the story takes place. Therefore, it would of been illegal for her to drive his car because in America the law states that people must be 16 or older to drive vehicles. |
| *[[Arthur Read]] | | *In ''My Life as a TV Show, ''Arthur and Buster call Muffy the ''5th Teletubby'' (true because her dress resemble Dipsy). |
| *[[Francine Frensky]]
| | *In ''The Amazing Fight, everyone (except A''<span style="font-style: italic;">rthur </span>) are cartoon humans. |
| *[[Binky Barnes]]
| | *Arthur and his friends did not actually write the stories for the contest. Five kids from across the country wrote them for the show - and one kid, named Holly Holland, had an idea for an episode about a contest. |
| *[[Muffy Crosswire]]
| | *The show Arthur and his friends watch (Andy) is clearly a parody of the show itself. |
| *[[Alan Powers|The Brain]]
| | <span style="font-weight: bold;">Characters</span> |
| *[[Buster Baxter]]
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| *[[D.W. Read]]
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| *[[Dr. Katz]] | |
| *[[Holly Holland]] (mentioned) | |
| *[[Hulk Hogan]] | |
| *John L. Sullivan | |
| *Floyd Patterson
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| *Barney Ross
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| ==Trivia== | | <gallery captionalign="left"> |
| *As revealed at the conclusion of the episode, the idea for "The Contest" was by [[Holly Holland]]. She won TV Guide's "Create Your Own Arthur Episode!" contest in 1998.<ref>https://oklahoman.com/article/2669801/oklahoma-girls-arthur-tale-set</ref> Her entry was one of over 10,300 submitted story ideas. Five other entries, while not winning entries, were included in "The Contest" as the stories that Arthur and his friends send in to the [[Andy and Company]] contest. Holland is featured in the ''[[And Now a Word from Us Kids]]'' segment following the episode.
| | Francine South Park.PNG |
| *The way [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] says that Andy is a mouse (Arthur correcting her of him being something else) may refer to the fact how people mistake Arthur as a bear or a mouse instead of an aardvark.
| | Buster South Park.PNG |
| *[[Jodie Resther]], the voice of Francine, provided the uncredited screaming voice of Hulk Hogan.
| | Brain South Park.PNG |
| === Episode connections ===
| | Arthur South Park.PNG |
| * Beavis and Butthead were also parodied in "[[Buster and the Daredevils]]" as "[[Peabrain and Nuthead]]".
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| * During the scene from five years later, the teenagers mention the events of "[[Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn]]," "[[Arthur's Faraway Friend]]" and "[[Arthur Makes the Team|Arthur Makes the Team]]."
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| ===Errors===
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| *In the scene from five years later, Arthur's skin tone is momentarily a lighter color.
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| ===Cultural references===
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| *[[Andy and Company]] is a parody of ''Arthur'' itself. The art style is similar to {{W|The_Little_Lulu_Show|''The Little Lulu Show''}} which was also produced by Cookie Jar. (then called Cinar)
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| *'''Each of the kids' stories reference other shows that were popular at the time:'''
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| **Buster's story "The Day the Earth was Saved" parodies {{W|South_Park|''South Park''}}
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| *** The flying saucer falling on Buster and Francine yelling "Hey! You squished Buster!" is a family-friendly version of ''South Parks'' running gag of Kenny McCormick dying.
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| *** The aliens resemble the most common type of aliens found in ''South Park''.
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| ** Muffy's story "My Life as a TV Show"'' ''parodies {{W|Beavis_and_Butt-Head|''Beavis and Butt-Head''}} with Arthur as Beavis and Buster as Butt-Head.
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| *** Buster calls Muffy the fifth Teletubby, as her dress resembles Dipsy from {{W|Teletubbies|''Teletubbies''}}
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| *** Arthur's AB/CD T-shirt parodies the {{w|AC/DC}} logo.
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| ***The name ''My life as a TV show'' parody's ''{{W|My_Life_As_A_Teenage_Robot|My life as a Teenage Robot}}'' even though this episode was made in 1999 and the show was made in 2003.
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| ****However the pilot was made in 1999.
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| ** Brain's story parodies {{W|Dexter%27s_Laboratory|''Dexter's Laboratory''}} with Brain as Dexter and Muffy as Dee Dee.
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| *** The story briefly features the legendary Bigfoot.
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| ** Francine and Binky's story "The Amazing Fight" is based on the real {{w|WWE}}. (then known as WWF) Except for Arthur, everybody is a fairly realistically drawn human.
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| *** {{w|Hulk Hogan}} is a professional wrestler and sometimes actor.
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| *** {{w|John L. Sullivan}}, {{W|Floyd Patterson}} and {{w|Barney Ross}} were famous boxers from various decades.
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| *** {{W|United Press International}} is a news agency that provides newswires, photos and films. It is usually cited as UPI.
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| ** Arthur's story parodies {{W|Dr._Katz,_Professional_Therapist|''Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist''}}
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| ***The original was computer animated using a method called squigglevision, The ''Arthur'' segment uses normal animation, but imitates the wiggling lines.
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| ==Home Video== | | ==Home Video== |
| '''VHS:'''
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| *[[Arthur Goes to Hollywood (VHS)]]
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| '''DVD:''' | | '''DVD:''' |
| *[[Arthur Goes to Hollywood (DVD)]] | | *[[Arthur Goes To Hollywood]] |
| ==Gallery==
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| {{Main|The Contest/Gallery}}
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| ==References==
| | '''VHS:''' |
| {{Reflist}}
| | *[[Arthur Goes To Hollywood]] |
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