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|next episode = Hide and Snake}}'''Arthur's Big Hit '''is the second half of the 1st episode [[Arthur (season 4)|Season 4]]. It first aired on September 6, 1999 with [[D.W.'s Library Card]].
|next episode = Hide and Snake}}'''Arthur's Big Hit '''is the second half of the 1st episode [[Arthur (season 4)|Season 4]]. It first aired on September 6, 1999 with "[[D.W.'s Library Card]]."


This was the first controversial episode, because [[Arthur]] punches [[D.W.]]. However, it's not as controversial as [[Bleep]], and this episode still airs today. Its education value is somewhat misleading.
This was the first controversial episode, because [[Arthur]] punches [[D.W.]]. However, it's not as controversial as "[[Bleep]]," and this episode still airs today. Its education value is somewhat misleading.
==Summary==
==Summary==
Arthur tells D.W. not to touch his model plane that he has been working hard on. However, she mistakes it for a real plane, so she throws it out of Arthur's bedroom window. The plane hits the sidewalk, causing it to break. D.W. tried to tell Arthur that it did not fly for one second, and that it wasn't her fault. Arthur doesn't believe D.W. and he punches her, causing her to hurt her arm and cry. Binky then hits Arthur after a dare.
[[Arthur Read|Arthur]] tells [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] not to touch his [[Bell X-1 Model Plane|model plane]] that he has been working hard on. However, she mistakes it for a real plane, so she throws it out of Arthur's bedroom window and it breaks on the sidewalk. Arthur punches D.W., causing her to cry. Arthur doesn't understand why everyone is against his reaction, since she ''did'' break the plane after he told her not to. But when the [[Tough Customers]] force [[Binky Barnes|Binky]] to punch Arthur, he finally realizes that hitting someone not only physically hurts but is also saying that you do not care about the person's feelings.


==Plot Outline==
==Plot Outline==


[[File:Arthur.JPG|thumb|left|Arthur about fighting D.W.(That actually is Binky)]]The episode starts in a boxing arena with [[Francine Frensky]] as the referee. It is [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] vs. [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] in the ring. [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] helps Arthur and [[Nadine]] helps D.W. Arthur and D.W. have their mouthpieces in. Then Arthur sees D.W. on a seat and in the ring, and finds out that it is an imposter and the imposter is actually [[Binky Barnes]] in a D.W. costume! Binky says that he had figured Arthur would rather fight someone his own size. The ''real'' D.W. laughs while Binky chases Arthur.
[[File:Arthur.JPG|thumb|left|Arthur about fighting D.W.(That actually is Binky)]]The episode starts in a boxing arena with [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] as the referee. It is [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] vs. [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] in the ring. [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] helps Arthur and [[Nadine]] helps D.W. Arthur and D.W. have their mouthpieces put in. Then Arthur sees D.W. on a seat and also in the ring, and finds out that the one in the ring is actually [[Binky Barnes]] in a D.W. costume! Binky says that he had figured Arthur would rather fight someone his own size. The ''real'' D.W. laughs while Binky chases Arthur.[[File:ABH_Arthur_Working_on_Model_Plane.png|thumb|right|200px|Arthur works on his model plane for the week while D.W. tries to distract him.]]


[[File:ABH_Arthur_Working_on_Model_Plane.png|thumb|right|200px|Arthur works on his model plane for the week while D.W. tries to distract him.]]
- - - - TITLE CARD - - - -


After the episode title card, Arthur is about to build a scale model of the Bell-X1 rocket plane; which broke the sound barrier. D.W. thinks it's a game and was smashed up. Arthur kicks D.W. out of his room. The next day, he is in the middle of building the plane, but all of a sudden, D.W. spills one of his paint bottles and ran out of his sight. After a few days, D.W. gets caught playing with his plane while the paint is drying up. The next day, Arthur completes his project and is thinking about receiving a blue ribbon for his model plane and flying the real one. Arthur and [[Pal]] celebrate his completion of his model plane.
Arthur is about to build a scale model of the [[Bell X-1 Model Plane]]; which broke the sound barrier. D.W. thinks it was smashed up because it is in pieces. Arthur kicks D.W. out of his room. The next day, he is in the middle of building the plane, but all of a sudden, D.W. spills one of his paint bottles and ran out of his sight. After a few days, D.W. plays with his plane while the paint is still drying and gets fingerprints on it, making Arthur have to repaint it. The next day, Arthur completes his project and is thinking about receiving a blue ribbon for his model plane and getting to fly the real one. Arthur and [[Pal]] celebrate his completion of his model plane. Even
After being told multiple times not to touch his plane, D.W. disobeys him. She flies it (while holding it), then the plane falls out the window, with D.W. thinking that it flies. The model then crashes to the ground and when Arthur sees his model wrecked, he is shocked, angered, and devastated. Arthur tells D.W. that he warned her continuously not to touch his model. D.W. keeps telling him that he made the plane wrong. [[File:ABH 56.JPG|left|thumb|Arthur gets his fist ready to punch D.W..]]An enraged Arthur punches D.W. with his fist directly on the arm while screaming: "I TOLD YOU... NOT TO TOUCH IT!!!!!". D.W. cries loud enough for their parents to hear. Jane yells for him to come in the house for his punishment while David heals D.W. with ice, but bawls when he puts it on her wound.
fter being told multiple times not to touch his plane, D.W. disobeys him. She flies it (while holding it), then the plane falls out the window, with D.W. thinking that it flies. The model then crashes to the ground and when Arthur sees his model wrecked, he is shocked, angered, and devastated. Arthur tells D.W. that he warned her continuously not to touch his model. D.W. keeps telling him that he made the plane wrong since it didn't fly. [[File:ABH 56.JPG|left|thumb|Arthur gets his fist ready to punch D.W..]]An enraged Arthur punches D.W. with his fist directly on her arm while screaming: "I TOLD YOU... NOT TO TOUCH IT!!!!!". D.W. cries loud enough for their parents to hear. [[Jane Read|Mom]] yells for him to come in the house for his punishment while [[David Read|Dad]] heals D.W. with ice, but she bawls when he puts it on her wound because it is cold.[[File:ABH 63.JPG|right|thumb|D.W. saying "You're bad!".]]


[[File:ABH 63.JPG|right|thumb|D.W. saying "You're bad!".]]
Mom tells Arthur to apologize to D.W., but he refuses to because she wrecked his plane, which took him a week to build. Then they go into the living room, Arthur sits in the time-out chair, and his parents sit on the sofa. Dad tells Arthur that he is now grounded from watching TV for a week for what he just did. He thinks that his parents don't even care what D.W. did to him and his plane model, which Arthur found to be absolutely unfair. Mom tells him that they will deal with what D.W. did, but that what he did was wrong too. Arthur still disagrees.


Jane tells Arthur to apologize to D.W., but he refuses to because she wrecked his plane, which took him a week to build. Then they go into the living room, Arthur sits in the time-out chair, and his parents sit on the sofa. David tells Arthur that he is now grounded from watching TV for a week for what he just did. He thinks that his parents don't even care what D.W. did to him and his plane model, which Arthur found this to be absolutely unfair from what she did to him. Jane tells him that they will deal with what D.W. did, but that what he did was wrong too, but Arthur disagrees.
[[File:ABH_Arthur's_Punishment.png|thumb|left|200px|Arthur's parents ground him from watching TV for a week for punching D.W.]]The next day, the [[Tough Customers]] heard about it and dare Binky to hit the next person that walks by (which happened to be Arthur) to prove that he is still tough. Binky refuses to hit Arthur, so he avoids looking at Arthur for the rest of the school day so he wouldn't have to hit him. Arthur discusses it with his friends, and Francine asks him why he wouldn't apologize. After second recess, he discusses it with [[Fern Walters|Fern]], and she tells him that D.W. is "just a little girl," and that most kids her age don't know how to compare models with actual things; but he compares what she's said about D.W. to "a tornado being just a little wind".


[[File:ABH_Arthur's_Punishment.png|thumb|left|200px|Arthur's parents ground him from watching TV for a week for punching D.W.]]
After school, right by the [[Sugar Bowl]], Arthur runs towards Binky and the Tough Customers and tells Binky that he dropped his pen when he ran out of school. So Binky is told to hit Arthur, which he does, making Arthur feel hurt and embarrassed. When Arthur is home, he learns that Binky kind of did him a favour by showing that it was very mean for him to hit D.W. because her feelings were hurt. Arthur apologizes to D.W. for hitting her and she apologizes to him for wrecking his plane. She asks him what kind of a plane does not fly, and he tells her "a model plane."


The next day, the Tough Customers hear about the case and dare Binky to hit him for that. Binky refuses to hit Arthur, so he avoids Arthur for the rest of the school day. Arthur discusses it with his friends, and Francine asks him why he wouldn't apologize. After second recess, he discusses it with Fern, and she tells him that D.W. is just a little girl, and that most kids her age don't know how to compare models with actual things; but he compares what she's saying to a "tornado being just a little wind".
The next day, Binky apologizes to Arthur, who has learned his lesson, and Arthur thanks him. Then [[Molly MacDonald|Molly]] invites Arthur to join the Tough Customers, but Binky dissolves the club and tells them that making someone to do something they don't want to do is wrong. Binky founds a new club with no violence, and will clobber anyone who breaks that new rule.
 
After school, right by the Sugar Bowl, Arthur runs towards Binky and the Tough Customers and tells Binky that he dropped his pen when he ran out of school. So Binky is told to hit Arthur, which he does, making Arthur feel embarrassed for punching D.W. But unlike D.W., Arthur does not bawl when that happened to him, instead saying "OW!". When Arthur is home he learns that Binky did him a favour, and that it was very mean for him to hit D.W. Arthur apologizes to D.W. for hitting her and she apologizes to him for wrecking his plane. She asks him what kind of a plane does not fly, and he tells her "A model plane". Now she has learned her lesson.
 
The next day, Binky apologizes to Arthur, who has learned his lesson, and Arthur thanks him. Then [[Molly MacDonald|Molly]] invites Arthur to join the Tough Customers, but Binky cancels the club and tells the gang that daring someone to do something they don't want to is wrong. So Binky forms a new club with no violence, and will beat someone who breaks that new rule.


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
===Notes===
===Notes===
*This episode was rated TV-Y-7 for Arthur hitting D.W.
*This episode was rated TV-Y-7 for Arthur hitting D.W.
*Many fans consider this to be one of the two most violent episodes, the other being [[Attack of the Turbo Tibbles]].
**Many fans consider this to be one of the two most violent episodes, the other being "[[Attack of the Turbo Tibbles]]."
*When Arthur & D.W. were saying "Sorry" to each other in the dining room, viewers can see his cast after Binky hit him.
*Arthur doesn't have a bandage on his arm until he and D.W. go to the dining room.
*Arthur's middle name is Timothy.
*Arthur's middle name is Timothy.
*While explaining to his father about what happened, everyone can see a bruised spot on Arthur's arm.
*Both D.W. & Arthur got hit in the left arm.
*Both, D.W. & Arthur got hit in the left arm.
*This is the fourth time that Arthur is grounded for doing something wrong, the first time is in "[[Play it Again, D.W.|Play it Again, D.W]]''[[Play it Again, D.W.|.]]''," when he said he would wreck D.W.'s ''[[Crazy Bus]]'' CD, although it wasn't heard. In "[[Arthur the Wrecker]]," Arthur is grounded from the computer for a week. In "[[Arthur's Knee]]," he was grounded for breaking into the dump.
*This is the third time that Arthur is grounded for doing something wrong, the first time is in ''[[Play it Again, D.W.]]'', when he said he'd wreck D.W.'s ''[[Crazy Bus]]'' CD. Although it wasn't heard. In ''[[Arthur the Wrecker]]'', Arthur is grounded from the computer for a week. In [[Arthur's Knee]] where he was grounded for breaking into the dump.
*When working on the plane for a week, Arthur's red shoes weren't worn the next few days.
*When working on the plane for a week, Arthur's red shoes wern't worn the next few days.
*During the week in which Arthur made his plane, he wore more different outfits than he is usually seen wearing in most of the series.
*During the week in which Arthur made his plane, he wore more different outfits than he is usually seen wearing in most of the series.
*This the first Season 4 episode to have Baby Kate absent.
*This the first Season 4 episode to have Baby Kate absent.


===References===
===References===
*Arthur saying that Binky is ''huge'' is a reference to ''[[Bully for Binky]]''.
*Arthur saying that Binky is ''huge'' is a reference to "[[Bully for Binky]]."
*In the later episode ''[[Bleep]]'', Arthur was working on another model plane as a replacement for the one D.W. broke in this episode. However, in that episode, D.W. said the curse word which caused the second one to break, also.
*In the later episode "[[Bleep]]," Arthur was working on another model plane as a replacement for the one D.W. broke in this episode. However, in that episode, D.W. said the curse word which caused the second one to break, also.
===Goofs===
*The sky turns gray and cloudy when Arthur finds the plane broken on the ground, but it was sunny right before and afterwards. This is most likely for dramatic effect.
==Cast==
==Cast==


* [[Michael Yarmush]] as [[Arthur Timothy Read]]
* [[Michael Yarmush]] as [[Arthur Read]]
* [[Oliver Grainger]] as [[D.W. Read]]
* [[Oliver Grainger]] as [[D.W. Read]]
* [[Daniel Brochu]] as [[Buster Baxter]]
* [[Daniel Brochu]] as [[Buster Baxter]]
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* [[Sonja Ball]] as [[Jane Read]]
* [[Sonja Ball]] as [[Jane Read]]
* [[Bruce Dinsmore]] as [[David Read]], [[Binky Barnes]], [[Rattles Ciccone]]
* [[Bruce Dinsmore]] as [[David Read]], [[Binky Barnes]], [[Rattles Ciccone]]
* [[Luke Reid]] as [[Brain]]
* [[Luke Reid]] as [[Brain|The Brain]]
* [[Patricia Rodriguez]] as [[Sue Ellen Armstrong]]
* [[Patricia Rodriguez]] as [[Sue Ellen Armstrong]]
* [[Holly G. Frankel]] as [[Fern Walters]]
* [[Holly G. Frankel]] as [[Fern Walters]]
* [[Maggie Castle]] as [[Molly MacDonald]]
* [[Maggie Castle]] as [[Molly MacDonald]]


==Goofs==
==Quotes==
* When D.W. throws Arthur's model plane outside his room window (in which she mistakes the model plane for a real one) which then breaks as it lands to the ground a story below, the sky was clear and it was windy outside. When Arthur goes outside to see it ruined, the sky has a gray cloud ceiling and then it rains. Yet when Arthur's parents tell him he's grounded from watching TV for a week, there is no more rain when looking at the windows.
 
== Quotes==
*'''D.W.: '''What kind of game is that?
*'''Arthur: '''It's not a game! It's the scale model of the Bell Rocket plane. The plane that broke the sound barrier.
*'''D.W.:''' The sound barrier must be pretty hard because this plane is all smashed up.
*'''Arthur:''' It's not smashed. I'm gonna build it...... '''Stop touching everything! You'll mix up the pieces!'''
*'''D.W.: '''I never heard of toys that come already broken. '''(Arthur looks at her) I'm going. Never say "Don't go." because I'm''' going like that. Maybe if you want me to go, I'm on my way out of here. No waiting.
*'''Arthur: Go already!'''
*'''D.W.: And if you say "please", I go faster because when they-- (Arthur growls and D.W. runs out of Arthur's room)'''
 
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*'''D.W.: '''That's a pretty color.
*'''(She spills Arthur's paint bottles and Arthur yells)'''
*'''D.W.: (Nervously laughs)''' Bye! '''(then runs away & Arthur growls)'''
 
*'''Arthur:''' '''(Brings Buster to his room)''' I've been working on the plane all week. It's hard, but I'm almost done. '''(in Arthur's room, Arthur walks in and sees D.W. has her hands on his model plane) D.W., don't touch that! (rushes to D.W.) The paint isn't dry! (picks up the model plane)'''
*'''D.W.: (looks at her hands that have orange paint on them) EEWW! (runs out of Arthur's room) Mommy, Arthur made my hands orange!'''
*'''Buster''': I never thought about it before. But being an only child is nice.
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*'''D.W.:''' Arthur, you made that plane all wrong! It doesn't fly at all.
*'''D.W.:''' Arthur, you made that plane all wrong! It doesn't fly at all.
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*'''Arthur:''' '''(enraged) I TOLD YOU... NOT TO ''TOUCH IT!!!!!!'' (He punches D.W., and she hits the ground; D.W. crys in pain as she heads back inside)'''
*'''Arthur:''' '''(enraged) I TOLD YOU... NOT TO ''TOUCH IT!!!!!!'' (He punches D.W., and she hits the ground; D.W. crys in pain as she heads back inside)'''


*'''Mrs. Read: Arthur Timothy Read, come here!'''
*'''Mom: Arthur Timothy Read, come here!'''


*'''Arthur: (shocked)''' Uh-oh! Middle name!
*'''Arthur: (shocked)''' Uh-oh! Middle name!
*'''D.W.: (in the kitchen) '''Are they gonna have to amputake my arm?
*'''D.W.: (in the kitchen) '''Are they gonna have to amputake my arm?
*'''Mr. Read:''' No, honey, it's ampu''tate'', not amputake.
*'''Dad:''' No, honey, it's ampu''tate'', not amputake.
*'''D.W.: They're gonna amputate?!'''
*'''D.W.: They're gonna amputate?!'''
*'''Mr. Read''': No. I'm in charge, and I'm putting some clean ice on it. '''(places an ice pack on D.W.'s punched arm until she crys in pain, again)''' What's wrong?
*'''Dad''': No. I'm in charge, and I'm putting some clean ice on it. '''(places an ice pack on D.W.'s punched arm until she crys in pain, again)''' What's wrong?
*'''D.W.''': That's cold.
*'''D.W.''': That's cold.
*'''Mom:''' '''Apologize to your sister!<br />'''
*'''Mom:''' '''Apologize to your sister!'''
*'''Arthur: No way! She should apologize to me! I worked all week on it! I told her a million times not to touch it!'''
*'''Arthur: No way! She should apologize to me! I worked all week on it! I told her a million times not to touch it!'''
*'''D.W.: (Being carried by her father) You're ''BAD!'''''
*'''D.W.: (Being carried by her father) You're ''BAD!'''''
*'''Mr. Read: (In the living room after Arthur refused to apologize to and punched D.W.) Arthur, this means no TV for a week!'''
*'''Dad: (In the living room after Arthur refused to apologize to and punched D.W.) Arthur, this means no TV for a week!'''
*'''Arthur: WHAT?!?! That is so unfair! You don't even care what she did to me!'''
*'''Arthur: WHAT?!?! That is so unfair! You don't even care what she did to me!'''
*'''Mrs. Read:''' We'll deal with what she did. But what ''you'' did is ''wrong'', too.
*'''Mom:''' We'll deal with what she did. But what ''you'' did is ''wrong'', too.
*'''Arthur: (scoffs and when going to school the next day as he talks to Buster)''' So I missed Bionic Bunny last night, and I can't watch TV all week. Can you believe that?
*'''Buster:''' No, I don't believe it. You hit your sister? That's terrible.
*'''Arthur:''' Oh, come on! Like you never hit anybody!
*'''Buster:''' Nope.
*'''Binky Barnes: (To the tough customers)''' Did you here that? Arthur hit his sister! I, For one, Am shocked!
*'''Rattles Ciccone''': How Can You Be Shocked About Someone Hitting Someone?
*'''Binky Barnes''': Wh​​​y Not?
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*'''Arthur:''' Oh, come on! She wrecked my plane! Why can't anybody see my side of this?
*'''Arthur:''' Oh, come on! She wrecked my plane! Why can't anybody see my side of this?


*'''Muffy:''' Ahh, because you're wrong?
*'''Muffy:''' Uhh, because you're wrong?


*'''Francine:''' Hey, Binky, did you hear that Arthur hit his little sister?
*'''Francine:''' Hey, Binky, did you hear that Arthur hit his little sister?
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*'''Arthur: (To Fern about D.W.)''' She broke my plane.
*'''Arthur: (To Fern about D.W.)''' She '''broke''' my plane!


*'''Fern:''' But she's just a little girl.
*'''Fern:''' But she's just a little girl.

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"Arthur's Big Hit"
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Season/Series: 4
Original Airdate: September 6, 1999
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Arthur's Big Hit is the second half of the 1st episode Season 4. It first aired on September 6, 1999 with "D.W.'s Library Card."

This was the first controversial episode, because Arthur punches D.W.. However, it's not as controversial as "Bleep," and this episode still airs today. Its education value is somewhat misleading.

Summary

Arthur tells D.W. not to touch his model plane that he has been working hard on. However, she mistakes it for a real plane, so she throws it out of Arthur's bedroom window and it breaks on the sidewalk. Arthur punches D.W., causing her to cry. Arthur doesn't understand why everyone is against his reaction, since she did break the plane after he told her not to. But when the Tough Customers force Binky to punch Arthur, he finally realizes that hitting someone not only physically hurts but is also saying that you do not care about the person's feelings.

Plot Outline

Arthur about fighting D.W.(That actually is Binky)

The episode starts in a boxing arena with Francine as the referee. It is Arthur vs. D.W. in the ring. Buster helps Arthur and Nadine helps D.W. Arthur and D.W. have their mouthpieces put in. Then Arthur sees D.W. on a seat and also in the ring, and finds out that the one in the ring is actually Binky Barnes in a D.W. costume! Binky says that he had figured Arthur would rather fight someone his own size. The real D.W. laughs while Binky chases Arthur.

Arthur works on his model plane for the week while D.W. tries to distract him.

- - - - TITLE CARD - - - -

Arthur is about to build a scale model of the Bell X-1 Model Plane; which broke the sound barrier. D.W. thinks it was smashed up because it is in pieces. Arthur kicks D.W. out of his room. The next day, he is in the middle of building the plane, but all of a sudden, D.W. spills one of his paint bottles and ran out of his sight. After a few days, D.W. plays with his plane while the paint is still drying and gets fingerprints on it, making Arthur have to repaint it. The next day, Arthur completes his project and is thinking about receiving a blue ribbon for his model plane and getting to fly the real one. Arthur and Pal celebrate his completion of his model plane. Even

fter being told multiple times not to touch his plane, D.W. disobeys him. She flies it (while holding it), then the plane falls out the window, with D.W. thinking that it flies. The model then crashes to the ground and when Arthur sees his model wrecked, he is shocked, angered, and devastated. Arthur tells D.W. that he warned her continuously not to touch his model. D.W. keeps telling him that he made the plane wrong since it didn't fly.

Arthur gets his fist ready to punch D.W..

An enraged Arthur punches D.W. with his fist directly on her arm while screaming: "I TOLD YOU... NOT TO TOUCH IT!!!!!". D.W. cries loud enough for their parents to hear. Mom yells for him to come in the house for his punishment while Dad heals D.W. with ice, but she bawls when he puts it on her wound because it is cold.

D.W. saying "You're bad!".

Mom tells Arthur to apologize to D.W., but he refuses to because she wrecked his plane, which took him a week to build. Then they go into the living room, Arthur sits in the time-out chair, and his parents sit on the sofa. Dad tells Arthur that he is now grounded from watching TV for a week for what he just did. He thinks that his parents don't even care what D.W. did to him and his plane model, which Arthur found to be absolutely unfair. Mom tells him that they will deal with what D.W. did, but that what he did was wrong too. Arthur still disagrees.

File:ABH Arthur's Punishment.png
Arthur's parents ground him from watching TV for a week for punching D.W.

The next day, the Tough Customers heard about it and dare Binky to hit the next person that walks by (which happened to be Arthur) to prove that he is still tough. Binky refuses to hit Arthur, so he avoids looking at Arthur for the rest of the school day so he wouldn't have to hit him. Arthur discusses it with his friends, and Francine asks him why he wouldn't apologize. After second recess, he discusses it with Fern, and she tells him that D.W. is "just a little girl," and that most kids her age don't know how to compare models with actual things; but he compares what she's said about D.W. to "a tornado being just a little wind".

After school, right by the Sugar Bowl, Arthur runs towards Binky and the Tough Customers and tells Binky that he dropped his pen when he ran out of school. So Binky is told to hit Arthur, which he does, making Arthur feel hurt and embarrassed. When Arthur is home, he learns that Binky kind of did him a favour by showing that it was very mean for him to hit D.W. because her feelings were hurt. Arthur apologizes to D.W. for hitting her and she apologizes to him for wrecking his plane. She asks him what kind of a plane does not fly, and he tells her "a model plane."

The next day, Binky apologizes to Arthur, who has learned his lesson, and Arthur thanks him. Then Molly invites Arthur to join the Tough Customers, but Binky dissolves the club and tells them that making someone to do something they don't want to do is wrong. Binky founds a new club with no violence, and will clobber anyone who breaks that new rule.

Trivia

Notes

  • This episode was rated TV-Y-7 for Arthur hitting D.W.
  • Arthur doesn't have a bandage on his arm until he and D.W. go to the dining room.
  • Arthur's middle name is Timothy.
  • Both D.W. & Arthur got hit in the left arm.
  • This is the fourth time that Arthur is grounded for doing something wrong, the first time is in "Play it Again, D.W.," when he said he would wreck D.W.'s Crazy Bus CD, although it wasn't heard. In "Arthur the Wrecker," Arthur is grounded from the computer for a week. In "Arthur's Knee," he was grounded for breaking into the dump.
  • When working on the plane for a week, Arthur's red shoes weren't worn the next few days.
  • During the week in which Arthur made his plane, he wore more different outfits than he is usually seen wearing in most of the series.
  • This the first Season 4 episode to have Baby Kate absent.

References

  • Arthur saying that Binky is huge is a reference to "Bully for Binky."
  • In the later episode "Bleep," Arthur was working on another model plane as a replacement for the one D.W. broke in this episode. However, in that episode, D.W. said the curse word which caused the second one to break, also.

Goofs

  • The sky turns gray and cloudy when Arthur finds the plane broken on the ground, but it was sunny right before and afterwards. This is most likely for dramatic effect.

Cast

Quotes

  • D.W.: Arthur, you made that plane all wrong! It doesn't fly at all.
  • Arthur: No, D.W. I made it exactly ri-....... WHAT?! (Gasps outside then imagines the same thing as he was on a real one and falls off it screaming down into the earth below)
  • D.W.: If it could break the sound barrier, falling out of a window shouldn't be able to break it.
  • Arthur: I told you not to touch it!
  • D.W.: You built it all wrong! Did you even read the directions? (Arthur angrily gets on his feet and grits his teeth, and gets his fist ready while D.W. is too busy talking to be terrified) It didn't fly for one second! It's not my fault if you made a plane that can't fly......
  • Arthur: (enraged) I TOLD YOU... NOT TO TOUCH IT!!!!!! (He punches D.W., and she hits the ground; D.W. crys in pain as she heads back inside)
  • Mom: Arthur Timothy Read, come here!
  • Arthur: (shocked) Uh-oh! Middle name!
  • D.W.: (in the kitchen) Are they gonna have to amputake my arm?
  • Dad: No, honey, it's amputate, not amputake.
  • D.W.: They're gonna amputate?!
  • Dad: No. I'm in charge, and I'm putting some clean ice on it. (places an ice pack on D.W.'s punched arm until she crys in pain, again) What's wrong?
  • D.W.: That's cold.
  • Mom: Apologize to your sister!
  • Arthur: No way! She should apologize to me! I worked all week on it! I told her a million times not to touch it!
  • D.W.: (Being carried by her father) You're BAD!
  • Dad: (In the living room after Arthur refused to apologize to and punched D.W.) Arthur, this means no TV for a week!
  • Arthur: WHAT?!?! That is so unfair! You don't even care what she did to me!
  • Mom: We'll deal with what she did. But what you did is wrong, too.
  • Francine: Arthur, why didn't you just apologize?
  • Arthur: Oh, come on! She wrecked my plane! Why can't anybody see my side of this?
  • Muffy: Uhh, because you're wrong?
  • Francine: Hey, Binky, did you hear that Arthur hit his little sister?
  • Binky: Well, I haven't seen Arthur. As far as I know Arthur isn't even here.
  • Francine: Binky's so upset about for what Arthur did and won't even look at him!
  • Arthur: (To Fern about D.W.) She broke my plane!
  • Fern: But she's just a little girl.
  • Arthur: Saying that D.W. is just a little girl is like saying a tornado is just a little wind.
  • Arthur: (Back home explaining what happened after Binky punched him) And the next thing I know, I was on the ground. And it hurt, and it was embarrassing.
  • Mr. Read: Well, maybe that's how D.W. felt when you punched her.
  • Arthur: Well maybe, but what's that got to do with this? I mean, Binky Barnes is HUGE! (Realizes) Yeah, oh well, I guess I get it. (In the dining room with D.W. alone) I'm sorry I hit you.
  • D.W.: And I'm sorry I broke your plane. But what kind of a stupid plane doesn't fly?
  • Arthur: A model plane?
  • D.W.: Well, I didn't know. I'm just a child. Give me a break!
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