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Fountain Abbey (episode)
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"Fountain Abbey (episode)" | |
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Season/Series: | 18 |
Number in season: | 5a |
Original Airdate: | January 26, 2015[1][2] |
Credits | |
Written by: | Kathy Waugh |
Storyboard by: | Gerry Capelle |
Episodes | |
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"Fountain Abbey" is the first half of the fifth episode in the eighteenth season of Arthur.
Summary
- Muffy's devastated when she learns her great, great grandmother Mary Alice wasn't royalty, but a common maid. The indignity! However, Mary Alice's old diary reveals a more interesting story.[2]
Plot
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Characters
Present day
Flashback
Trivia
- Many of the costumes from this episode were available in Muffy's Costume Game, in Arthur's Big App, before the episode's release.
Cultural references
- This episode was inspired by the British costume drama television series Downton Abbey,[5] another PBS show.
- A portrait in the dining hall looks like Henry VIII of England.
Episode connections
- Muffy had previously learned about her family's humble past in "Background Blues" and "Family Fortune".
- Sue Ellen learned about the past by reading a diary in "Strangers on a Train".
- Mary Alice broke the arms off of the Venus de Milo like Arthurius did in "Arthur the Wrecker".
- Binkford wants to join a circus, as Shelley Barnes, another of Binky's ancestors, would do in "What's in a Name?".
- Muffy wears the same crown she did in "Framed".
Home video
DVD:
Gallery
References
- ↑ http://www.ket.org/tvschedules/episode.php?nola=ARUR++001805
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.klru.org/schedule/episode/259225/
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/PBSArthur/photos/a.501573345202.387485.43562115202/10155062700915203/?type=1&permPage=1
- ↑ http://www.zap2it.com/photos/zap-arthur-goes-downton-abbey-20150112
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/PBSArthur/photos/a.501573345202.387485.43562115202/10155043195980203/?type=1&permPage=1