And Now Let's Talk to Some Kids

"And Now Let's Talk to Some Kids"
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Season/Series:	3
Number in season:	4B
Original Airdate:	October 12, 1998
Credits
Written by:	Joe Fallon
Storyboard by:	Stefanie Gignac
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"And Now Let's Talk to Some Kids" is the second half of the fourth episode in the third season of Arthur.

Summary

The Magic Toolbox comes to Mr. Ratburn's class to put some of the kids on TV.

Plot

Arthur asked if you ever noticed that peoples personalities fit them perfectly. Then Mr Ratburn says that they needed more homework and quizzes. Then Buster is laughing at a joke from a book he was reading. Then Francine tells Muffy she wasn't going to the mall and that she was going to play soccer and that Muffy was going to play with her. Muffy says that she is so rude. Then Arthur was curious about what it would be like if they had other personalities. It would be weird. In. Busters voice: For tonights homework, find a funny joke. And if they make him laugh, they get an A. Francine says what she said. Then Binky ( in Muffy's voice.) I'm going to the mall besides they have the cutest sneakers. Arthur's house : Arthur sleeping on his desk until Pal in Mr. Ratburn's voice. Arthur! What are you doing math or daydreaming? Seven times 3 is not 28 its 21! Starts naming times tables. See how weird that would be.

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Characters

Trivia

• On the TV show, Let's Talk to Some Kids that Arthur, Buster, and D.W. were watching, there is an aardvark girl with a hairstyle similar to Francine's and with barrettes, but shorter.
• During the intro, Pal can be heard talking like Mr. Ratburn, but wasn't officially given the ability to speak until in The Secret Life of Dogs and Babies.
• There are two parodies of the Arthur intro in this episode: One is when Buster is imagining himself on TV, and the other is when Francine is imagining the Brain having his own TV show. The latter parody also includes a parody of "Arthur's New Puppy" titled "Brain's New Puppy".
• This episode implies that Arthur and Francine marry in the future and have not seen Buster in a long time.
• The name of the episode is a play on the phrase, "And now, a word from us kids," referential of the segment featuring actual children shown as interstitial content between stories on most Arthur episodes, save those which featured "Postcards from You."
• Buster hoping to get his own show is foreshadowing Postcards From Buster (although almost all the kids imagined having their own show).

Cultural references

• The Magic Toolbox show's title is a parody of that of The Magic School Bus.

Errors

• Francine mentions that she didn't get a puppy last Christmas, despite the fact that she and her family are Jewish. In the book Arthur's Christmas that was first published fourteen years before this episode went on the air, Francine was seen sitting on Santa Claus's lap, but never revealed which holiday she celebrates with her family.
• When the kids watch the completed episode of the show in school, Francine's interview comes last. When the elderly Arthur and Francine watch the tape again in the future, Francine appears before Muffy and Buster. (But this could have been editing done after recording the tape)

Home Video

DVD:

• Arthur Goes To Hollywood

VHS:

• Arthur Goes To Hollywood

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  Unknown Male Monkey with 4th Grade Female Cat.

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  TV2 News Reporter is seen.

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  Muffy talking to the cameraman.

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  Binky is being interviewed.

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  Binky's on t.v.

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  Arthur and Francine on t.v.

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  George on t.v.

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  Fern on T.V.

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  Buster being interviewed

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  Magic toolbox

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