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|ep. name = Arthur's Family Feud
|ep. name = Arthur's Family Feud
|image = Arthur's Family Feud.png
|image = Arthur's Family Feud.png
|season = [[Arthur (season 5)|5]]
|season = [[Season 5|5]]
|airdate = November 6, 2000
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|can=January 12, 2001<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120413104003/http://ww3.tvo.org/program/157024/arthur</ref>
|uk=August 24, 2001<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0078mpy/arthur-series-6-10-arthurs-family-feudmuffy-gets-mature {{C|[https://web.archive.org/web/20140605081228/http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0078mpy/arthur-series-6-10-arthurs-family-feudmuffy-gets-mature archived page]}}</ref>
|prev. episode = [[The Big Dig]]
|prev. episode = [[The Big Dig]]
|next episode = [[Muffy Gets Mature]]
|next episode = [[Muffy Gets Mature]]
|prod. code = 51001
|prod. code = 510a
|writers = [[Peter K. Hirsch]]
|writers = [[Peter K. Hirsch]]
|storyboarders = [[Stephanie Gignac]]<br>[[Robert Yap]]|number = 10A
|storyboarders = [[Stéphanie Gignac]]<br>[[Robert Yap]]
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==Summary==
==Summary==
[[Arthur Read|Arthur]] and [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] tell conflicting and imaginative versions of what exactly happened to [[David Read|Dad]]'s perfect soufflé as [[Jane Read|Mom]] and Dad try to sort things out.
Arthur and D.W. tell conflicting and imaginative versions of what exactly happened to Dad's perfect soufflé, and Mom and Dad try to sort things out.<ref>http://www.ket.org/episode/ARUR%20%20000510</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
At the beginning of the episode, Dave is hard at work, sweating over his cooking, and looking worried. The timer finally goes off, and Dave feels excited. He hasteningly and proudly escorts Jane into the kitchen proclaiming that at she's about to see the most beautiful, most glorious creation ever cooked, the David L. Read Super Soufflé. He opens the kitchen door and screams in horror while seeing Pal licking the soufflé off the floor.  Arthur and D.W.; startled over their parents arrival immediately start pointing fingers and begin accusing each other of knocking the soufflé off the table. Jane angrily orders Arthur and D.W into the living room so they can try to explain what happened.
Dad finished making his special soufflé and invited Mom to see it. However, when the couple walks into the kitchen, the soufflé was toppled onto the floor and messed up, with Arthur and D.W. standing over it, while Pal was licking up the mess.


Arthur and D.W still refuse to cooperate, continuing to pin the blame on each other. Finally, Dave interrupts and decides to punish them both by restricting them from TV for two months. When the argument over who did it and that one side should be punished and not the other flares up again, Dave interrupts and increases the punishment time to three months. The kids find this unfair and Jane tries to get Dave to calm down, but he increases the punishment again to four months until he gives up. D.W angrily accuses Arthur of making Dad upset.
D.W. and Arthur blame each other for causing the accident and get sent to their rooms. Whilst upstairs, Arthur daydreams that he would have to take the blame for everything D.W. did; in this case, he would get arrested by the police as D.W. had stolen a supply of Crazy Bus merchandise. While Arthur is biding his time in jail, D.W. brings him a yellow radio with a Crazy Bus CD for him to listen to; however, Arthur feels terrible. In the next room, D.W. dreams that in the future when they are in a retirement home where they will be continuing the argument of who ruined their father's soufflé.


Jane then decides that until they can cool down and are ready to discuss this problem properly, she sends the kids off to their rooms. Arthur and D.W. wonder if this will supersede their previous plans of D.W. going to the petting zoo with the Tibbles and Arthur going to the new Bionic Bunny Arcade. Jane replies with "We'll just have to wait and see".
The Tibbles come over and ask if D.W. is still going out with them, and when she says that she is unable to do that, the Tibbles begin to fight about who gets blamed most for the other's trouble.


In Arthur's room, Arthur grumbles about his predicament. Of course he still knows it's all D.W.'s fault -- he'll probably be blamed for everything she does for the rest of his life. He has a fantasy where he is standing in a bedroom with D.W. surrounded by Crazy Bus paraphernalia.
On finishing their dreams, Arthur and D.W. choose to go downstairs to sort the problem out, but passing each other in the hallway, they continue bickering once more.


He asks D.W. where she got so much Crazy Bus stuff.
Mom and Dad agree to settle this dispute by getting each of them to tell their story of what happened. Arthur does this by drawing and suggests that he was trying to complete his homework when D.W. kept bothering him to play; when Arthur wouldn't play with her, she plans to throw the bacon toy at Pal. D.W. was doing this in the wrong way and Arthur planned to show her how to actually throw it. Going into the corridor, Arthur throws it to D.W., who misses the throw. D.W. runs for the bacon toy and Arthur tries to warn her about Dad's soufflé, but he was too late, and D.W. knocks into it.


Suddenly, Dad tells Arthur to open up the door and the door bursts open and police swarm in. Finally, D.W. was a "Crazy Bus" theif and Arthur's innocent. They grab hold of and under arrest Arthur and drag him away. Apparently D.W. had set everything up in his room to make it appear as if he were the culprit.
D.W. then tells her version of the story using toy animals. She agrees with Arthur saying that she was asking him a question, but only for the time being. Arthur gets offended and throws the bacon toy to Pal. D.W. then begins to throw the bacon toy to Pal, and everything was fine until Arthur threw the bacon toy, which went too far. D.W. ran into the kitchen to get the bacon toy, and not destroy Dad's soufflé, but Arthur pushes her into the table.


The horror isn't over yet, however. Arthur further imagines himself in jail as a result of this bust. He's sitting on a bench playing the harmonica. D.W. comes in to visit him, informing him Mom and Dad wouldn't come, they were too ashamed. Arthur proclaims his innocence, but D.W. ignores him. Since he's in for 15 years, she thought he might like a little music to help pass the time. She pushes a cassette player over to him, switching it on to play the Crazy Bus song. Arthur screams and D.W. leaves laughing.
After both stories were finished, Mom blows on her whistle when Arthur and D.W. call each other liars, causing both of them to stop and look at her. After Mom asks D.W. if she actually saw the soufflé fall, D.W. says no; Dad says that they were both in the kitchen when it happened. Mom then looks under the kitchen table. She tells Arthur and D.W. that neither of them are wearing shoes, and says that the kitchen floor is pretty slippery in just socks. Arthur and D.W. think back to what happened, and Arthur says that maybe they both kind of made the soufflé fall onto the floor. They apologize to their father, so D.W. can go to the petting zoo with the Tibbles, and Arthur can go to the arcade.


Meanwhile, D.W. is lying on her bed wailing. Suddenly, something clatters on her window and she goes to look. It's the Tibbles wanting to know if she is going to the petting zoo with them later. She doesn't know, at the moment she's being punished for something Arthur did. Tommy and Timmy can understand that, they frequently get blamed for each others wrongdoings. Predictably they begin to argue over who gets the blame most often. They end up rolling around on the ground wrestling. D.W. wonders if this is the way she and Arthur will be forever. She has a fantasy imagining them both as elderly folk in wheelchairs residing in a nursing home. Arthur throws something with a crash and stomping his feet and they're arguing loudly and crashing their wheelchairs into each other.
Dressed to go out, D.W. and Arthur saw Dad eating ice cream in the den. They notice that he is glum and plan to make a soufflé on their own. However, Arthur and D.W. begin to tussle in their skill of trying to make the soufflé and in hearing the noise, Dad walks in. When he realizes what the kids were trying to do, he smiles and helps them make another soufflé.


D.W. and Arthur go into the hallway at the same time. Arthur says he's been thinking and he's decided it's time to do the right thing. D.W. agrees -- he should admit he's guilty. Arthur yells that no, she's the one that needs to confess.
The soufflé looks just as good as the previous one was, and Mom observes how good it is. However, he corrects her and smiles while saying it was a team effort. Then the family begins to eat the soufflé, and mention about how good it tastes.
 
Jane, working on the computer hears them and mutters they'll just have to get to the bottom of this. The family gathers at the table. Jane and Dave decide that Arthur and D.W will get to do the things they want to do if they can discuss this problem out and reach some sort of agreement. Mom and Dad will listen to each side in turn. If Arthur and D.W wanted, they could draw illustrations to help explain what they want to express and they were not going to interrupt each other whole they told their stories of what happened.
 
After the inevitable argument over who will go first, they flip a coin (D.W.'s idea) and Arthur wins. He starts drawing. As Arthur explains what happened, We see the usual stick figure drawings playing out Arthur's story.
{| border="2" width="80%"
|
Arthur's Version: Arthur was sitting on the couch doing his homework. D.W. wouldn't leave him alone, wanting to play. He tried to get her to play with Pal, but she was doing it all wrong and went to show her how to do it right. He tried to stop her in the kitchen, but to no avail.
|}
Now it's D.W.'s turn. She exclaims that she is surprised they aren't all asleep as that's what usually happens when people listen to fairy tales! D.W. worries that her drawing ability will impede the credibility of her explanation. It's decreed she may use props instead, and she scurries off to her room to get them.
 
It takes a while (Arthur even claims that the arcade would be closed by the time she was ready), but she had to get the perfect items to represent everyone involved. She plunks down a hideous troll doll as Arthur, D.W. herself is represented by a Princess Bunny doll and Pal is represented by Mary Moo Cow, which Arthur objects too, because it's not even the correct gender. Things get underway objections aside. The figures come to life and act out D.W.'s description of events.
{| border="2" width="80%"
|D.W's version: Princess Bunny/D.W. had politely asked "brother dear" what the time is. Troll/Arthur snapped "Leave me alone! I'm pretending to do my homework!" MooCow/Pal trots in with a rubber bacon toy wanting to play. D.W. played with Pal. Everything is fine until Arthur butted in and started throwing the bacon toy too hard.
D.W. had to go into the kitchen to retrieve it, knowing she must be careful around the "sloo-fay", but Arthur pushed her into the table knocking the work of culinary art to the floor.
|}
Arthur immediately begins to object to the story, Mom pulls out a referee whistle and blows it, silencing the pair of them.
 
Jane and Dave each question the kids further. They were both in the kitchen when the souffle fell off the table but no one actually saw the souffle fall off the table. Jane decides to look under the table and sees that both D.W. and Arthur are wearing socks. She explains that it's slippery in the kitchen in only socks. Both kids think about this fact.
 
They then realize maybe no one is to blame; yet they could both have some responsibility in this situation. A fantasy reveals that they were indeed running, and that in the process D.W was running and did slide into the table (like Arthur said) and that since Arthur was right behind her he pushed her into the table (like D.W said)  the force of the impact knocked the soufflé off the table and onto the floor. D.W. then says that maybe they both made the soufflé fall.
 
They both apologize hastily, and rush off hoping they aren't too late for their previous engagements. Mom looks at Dad, but he just shrugs.
 
Arthur and D.W. come downstairs to tell their parents they're headed out. Dad's sitting on the couch eating ice cream and watching cooking on TV. Both kids note how depressed Dad is. Maybe there is something they could do to help...
 
Arthur and D.W. go to the kitchen and decide to start to work trying to cook a soufflé to replace the one they destroyed. D.W. is in charge of separating egg whites which she concludes to mean the shells. They begin to argue about that and the correct pronunciation of "soufflé". Dad hears them fighting again and wanders in to see what's going on now. D.W. tries to explain that they are making him a "Shoe-fay". It doesn't sink in at first, but then he realizes what they're saying. He gets very excited and suggests that they get started. Then, he starts bustling around the kitchen, while confiding that nutmeg is his secret ingredient.
 
Later, the family is seated around the table with a puffy little soufflé set in the middle. Mom is impressed, it's the most beautiful thing he's ever cooked. "No, it isn't", he corrects, sounding a little fatalistic, before smiling and saying, "It's the most beautiful thing THEY'VE ever made".
 
With that, they all stab the soufflé with their forks to deflate it, and the episode ends.


==Characters==
==Characters==
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*[[David Read]]
*[[David Read]]
*[[Jane Read]]
*[[Jane Read]]
*[[The Tibbles]]
*[[Timmy and Tommy Tibble]]
*[[Pal]]
*[[Pal]]
*[[Cheryl Featherfoffer]]
==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*If the introduction from this episode's sister episode is omitted, this is the last episode where Arthur is voiced by Michael Yarmush, not counting the special Arthur's Perfect Christmas, although he did return in All Grown Up to voice the character's adult counterpart.
*This episode has the Rashomon effect; something that occurred is witnessed by a small group of people, and they tell varying accounts of what took place.
* This is the last episode where [[Ricky Mabe]] voices Timmy Tibble.
*[[Arthur Read|Arthur]] has a flashback of himself getting blamed by the police all because of [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] stealing [[Crazy Bus]] merchandise when she is not supposed to, and the song plays instrumental, instead of someone singing it.
*This episode is made into a song on the album ''[[Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix]]'' (called "[[Two Sides of the Story]]").
*The And Now A Word from Us Kids segment seems to have been filmed in May 2000.
*'''Timeline:''' In D.W.'s imagination of her and Arthur as old people living in [[Shady Pines Retirement Home]] and still arguing, Arthur's side of the room has a ''[[Love Ducks]]'' poster. Arthur becomes a fan of the show in "[[That's a Baby Show!]]"
*'''Moral:'''
**If something someone worked on is destroyed, help them out.
**Don't blame others for your own benefits.
===Cultural references===
===Cultural references===
* The policeman says "Book em, Charlie" that might be a parody of Steve McGarret's famous line "Book em, Dano."
* [[The Freddy Sprangler Show]] is a parody of the ''Jerry Springer Show'' and ''{{w|The Maury Show}}''.
===Production notes===
* The policeman says "Book ’em, Charlie". This might be a reference to Steve McGarret's famous line "Book ’em, Danno" from the TV series ''Hawaii Five-O''.
*This is the last episode where Arthur is voiced by [[Michael Yarmush]], not counting ''[[Arthur's Perfect Christmas]]''.
*The ending where Arthur and D.W. help their [[Mr. Read|Dad]] make another soufflé is simliar to [https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Project_Loud_House?oldid=652760 Project Loud House where Lincoln's sisters help their brother fix his project]
*This episode is made into a song on the album ''[[Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix]]'' (called "[[Two Sides of the Story]]")
*The title is similar to ''Family Feud''.
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==See also==
==See also==
*[[Two Sides of the Story]]
*[[Two Sides of the Story]]
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.pbs.org/parents/arthur/resources/parentguides/siblings.story.html?cat=index.en Read Aloud Story based on the episode]
*[http://www.pbs.org/parents/arthur/resources/parentguides/siblings.story.html?cat=index.en Read Aloud Story based on the episode]
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Latest revision as of 14:53, 4 May 2024

"Arthur's Family Feud"
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Season/Series: 5
Number in season: 10a
Original Airdate: United States November 27, 2000[1][2]
Canada January 12, 2001[4]
United Kingdom August 24, 2001[3]
Credits
Written by: Peter K. Hirsch
Storyboard by: Stéphanie Gignac
Robert Yap
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"Arthur's Family Feud" is the first half of the tenth episode in the fifth season of Arthur.

Summary[edit]

Arthur and D.W. tell conflicting and imaginative versions of what exactly happened to Dad's perfect soufflé, and Mom and Dad try to sort things out.[5]

Plot[edit]

Dad finished making his special soufflé and invited Mom to see it. However, when the couple walks into the kitchen, the soufflé was toppled onto the floor and messed up, with Arthur and D.W. standing over it, while Pal was licking up the mess.

D.W. and Arthur blame each other for causing the accident and get sent to their rooms. Whilst upstairs, Arthur daydreams that he would have to take the blame for everything D.W. did; in this case, he would get arrested by the police as D.W. had stolen a supply of Crazy Bus merchandise. While Arthur is biding his time in jail, D.W. brings him a yellow radio with a Crazy Bus CD for him to listen to; however, Arthur feels terrible. In the next room, D.W. dreams that in the future when they are in a retirement home where they will be continuing the argument of who ruined their father's soufflé.

The Tibbles come over and ask if D.W. is still going out with them, and when she says that she is unable to do that, the Tibbles begin to fight about who gets blamed most for the other's trouble.

On finishing their dreams, Arthur and D.W. choose to go downstairs to sort the problem out, but passing each other in the hallway, they continue bickering once more.

Mom and Dad agree to settle this dispute by getting each of them to tell their story of what happened. Arthur does this by drawing and suggests that he was trying to complete his homework when D.W. kept bothering him to play; when Arthur wouldn't play with her, she plans to throw the bacon toy at Pal. D.W. was doing this in the wrong way and Arthur planned to show her how to actually throw it. Going into the corridor, Arthur throws it to D.W., who misses the throw. D.W. runs for the bacon toy and Arthur tries to warn her about Dad's soufflé, but he was too late, and D.W. knocks into it.

D.W. then tells her version of the story using toy animals. She agrees with Arthur saying that she was asking him a question, but only for the time being. Arthur gets offended and throws the bacon toy to Pal. D.W. then begins to throw the bacon toy to Pal, and everything was fine until Arthur threw the bacon toy, which went too far. D.W. ran into the kitchen to get the bacon toy, and not destroy Dad's soufflé, but Arthur pushes her into the table.

After both stories were finished, Mom blows on her whistle when Arthur and D.W. call each other liars, causing both of them to stop and look at her. After Mom asks D.W. if she actually saw the soufflé fall, D.W. says no; Dad says that they were both in the kitchen when it happened. Mom then looks under the kitchen table. She tells Arthur and D.W. that neither of them are wearing shoes, and says that the kitchen floor is pretty slippery in just socks. Arthur and D.W. think back to what happened, and Arthur says that maybe they both kind of made the soufflé fall onto the floor. They apologize to their father, so D.W. can go to the petting zoo with the Tibbles, and Arthur can go to the arcade.

Dressed to go out, D.W. and Arthur saw Dad eating ice cream in the den. They notice that he is glum and plan to make a soufflé on their own. However, Arthur and D.W. begin to tussle in their skill of trying to make the soufflé and in hearing the noise, Dad walks in. When he realizes what the kids were trying to do, he smiles and helps them make another soufflé.

The soufflé looks just as good as the previous one was, and Mom observes how good it is. However, he corrects her and smiles while saying it was a team effort. Then the family begins to eat the soufflé, and mention about how good it tastes.

Characters[edit]

Trivia[edit]

  • If the introduction from this episode's sister episode is omitted, this is the last episode where Arthur is voiced by Michael Yarmush, not counting the special Arthur's Perfect Christmas, although he did return in All Grown Up to voice the character's adult counterpart.
  • This episode has the Rashomon effect; something that occurred is witnessed by a small group of people, and they tell varying accounts of what took place.
  • This is the last episode where Ricky Mabe voices Timmy Tibble.
  • Arthur has a flashback of himself getting blamed by the police all because of D.W. stealing Crazy Bus merchandise when she is not supposed to, and the song plays instrumental, instead of someone singing it.
  • This episode is made into a song on the album Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix (called "Two Sides of the Story").
  • The And Now A Word from Us Kids segment seems to have been filmed in May 2000.
  • Timeline: In D.W.'s imagination of her and Arthur as old people living in Shady Pines Retirement Home and still arguing, Arthur's side of the room has a Love Ducks poster. Arthur becomes a fan of the show in "That's a Baby Show!"
  • Moral:
    • If something someone worked on is destroyed, help them out.
    • Don't blame others for your own benefits.

Cultural references[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20001210160300/http://www.pbs.org:80/wgbh/arthur/tv/2000-11.html#510
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170616021450/https://www.ket.org/episode/ARUR%20%20000510/
  3. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0078mpy/arthur-series-6-10-arthurs-family-feudmuffy-gets-mature (archived page)
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120413104003/http://ww3.tvo.org/program/157024/arthur
  5. ↑ http://www.ket.org/episode/ARUR%20%20000510



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