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|storyboarders = [[Gerry Capelle]]|titlecard = Phony Fern Card.png}}'''Phony Fern''' is the first half of the 4th episode of [[Arthur (season 11)|Season 11]]. It first aired on June 28, 2007 with "[[Brain's Shocking Secret]]." | |storyboarders = [[Gerry Capelle]]|titlecard = Phony Fern Card.png|number = 4A}}'''Phony Fern''' is the first half of the 4th episode of [[Arthur (season 11)|Season 11]]. It first aired on June 28, 2007 with "[[Brain's Shocking Secret]]." | ||
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[[Fern Walters|Fern]] receives the latest phone for simple communication, but becomes addicted to the appliance. | [[Fern Walters|Fern]] receives the latest phone for simple communication, but becomes addicted to the appliance. | ||
Revision as of 14:08, 12 January 2013
Phony Fern has a gallery at the Elwood City Art Museum.
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| "Phony Fern" | |
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| Season/Series: | 11 |
| Number in season: | 4A |
| Original Airdate: | June 28, 2007 |
| Credits | |
| Written by: | Peter K. Hirsch |
| Storyboard by: | Gerry Capelle |
| Episodes | |
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Phony Fern is the first half of the 4th episode of Season 11. It first aired on June 28, 2007 with "Brain's Shocking Secret."
Summary
Fern receives the latest phone for simple communication, but becomes addicted to the appliance.
Plot
The episode begins in the cinema. Muffy, Fern and others are watching a film when Chip, Muffy's brother, calls. Muffy answers the phone during the movie, which causes everyone else to leave. They are later seen eating in Chicken Lickin', where Muffy is texting Bailey (who is just outside the restaurant) which ends in Fern getting annoyed and leaving. Muffy shows Fern her new phone, the Portilex 360. Despite initially voicing contempt for the phone, the consumerism it generates and the fact that seemingly everyone has one, thus limiting social opportunities, Fern receives a Portilex from her parents, a happen-stance that she initially bemoans.
In light of this, Fern eventually becomes glued to the phone after being lulled by its extensive panoply of features. She uses the Portilex almost constantly, and even lands herself in trouble with Mr. Ratburn when she uses the phone in class.
When the battery begins to run low during a heated talk with Muffy, Fern frantically attempts to recharge it, but the phone is destroyed when she trips and loses it under the drum of a road roller. Fern's parents are disappointed that Fern did not stick to the phone's bare mandatory purpose, and so Fern decides upon a simple, no-frills model, deciding that she would be happier with that. The episode ends.
Trivia
- In Fern's opening Fantasy sequence, She and George's alter egos: Detectives Watto and Vastings, are a parody of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. With Fern as Holmes and George as Watson
- Arthur makes a cameo in this episode, but does not speak at all or interact with the main characters throughout the episode.
Goofs
- When the book cart is pushed out of the library in Fern's song, the background outside the doors is the school hallway.
- When Fern goes to School, she has a backpack but after school when she is running home, she doesn't have it.
Home Video
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