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On This Spot
| "On This Spot" | |
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| Season/Series: | 12 |
| Number in season: | 5B |
| Original Airdate: | November 3, 2008 |
| Credits | |
| Written by: | Dietrich Smith |
| Storyboard by: | Daniel Decelles |
| Episodes | |
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Next "The Cherry Tree" |
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Summary
Arthur is dismayed to find that his friends care more about celebrity sightings than local history.
Plot
After a lecture, Arthur prints out some images of the famous Native American Sitting Bull and a tree on the site where Sitting Bull performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Arthur's friends are not interested, and Buster starts making a tour called the "Derek Montaigne Tour" after Arthur asks what historic events have taken place in Elwood City. Arthur and Mr. Ratburn pay a visit to Seymour Turkel (a parody of the famous author and biologist). Turkel hands a petition to Arthur to make the same tree shown above a memorial. When Buster continues the Montaigne Tour and finds out that Montaigne never was in Elwood City, he hands the tour over to Arthur, who then changes the subject of the tour. By then, he gets more signatures on the petition.
Trivia
- Summer School Musical is a parody of the Disney film High School Musical.
- In the beginning of the episodes, Francine and Buster were on hover scooters, a reference to the Mattel hoverboards that Marty McFly borrowed in Back to the Future Part II.
- 1885 refers to when Doc gets struck by lightning in the DeLorean, and is sent to January 1, 1885 in Back to the Future Part II.
