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'''''Arthur's Computer Disaster''''' is the 23rd book in the ''[[Arthur Adventure]]'' series. It was written and illustrated by [[Marc Brown]], and published by [[Little, Brown and Company]]. It is based | '''''Arthur's Computer Disaster''''' is the 23rd book in the ''[[Arthur Adventure]]'' series. It was written and illustrated by [[Marc Brown]], and published by [[Little, Brown and Company]]. It is based upon the first half of "[[Arthur the Wrecker]]", and it is also the second ''Arthur Adventure'' book based on an episode, but the first to be published ''after'' its episode counterpart's original airdate. | ||
In the story, Arthur Read plays a game | In the story, Arthur Read plays a game, and accidentally breaks his mother's computer. In the end, he finds that it is not, in fact, broken, but he gets into trouble for disobeying his mother's orders to stay off the computer. | ||
==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
*[[D.W. Read]] | *[[D.W. Read]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Dad]] | ||
*[[Arthur Read]] | *[[Arthur Read]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Mom]] | ||
*[[Kate Read]] | *[[Kate Read]] | ||
*[[Pal]] | *[[Pal]] | ||
*[[Buster Baxter]] | *[[Buster Baxter]] | ||
*[[Mrs. Powers|The Brain's mom]] | *[[Mrs. Powers|The Brain's mom]] | ||
*[[ | *[[The Brain]] | ||
*A [[Computer expert (Arthur's Computer Disaster)|computer expert]] | *A [[Computer expert (Arthur's Computer Disaster)|computer expert]] | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
===Notes=== | |||
* There's also a version of the book called ''[[Arthur's Computer Adventure (game)|Arthur's Computer Adventure]]'' that's a computer game. | * There's also a version of the book called ''[[Arthur's Computer Adventure (game)|Arthur's Computer Adventure]]'' that's a computer game. | ||
===Differences from the | |||
* When [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] started playing ''[[Deep Dark Sea]]'', he was wearing his pajamas. In the | ===Differences from the cartoon=== | ||
* When | * When [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] started playing ''[[Deep Dark Sea]]'', he was wearing his pajamas. In the [[Arthur the Wrecker|cartoon]], he was playing on the computer before changing into his pajamas. | ||
* When [[Jane Read|Jane]] tells Arthur and [[Buster Baxter|Buster]] that it's tax season that she needs to use the computer all day, she was making a phone call in the kitchen. In the cartoon, she was on the computer when she told them. | |||
* Mrs. Powers told the boys that the Brain was not home instead of Mr. Powers. | * Mrs. Powers told the boys that the Brain was not home instead of Mr. Powers. | ||
* After the Brain couldn't find the problem with the computer, Arthur | * After the Brain couldn't find the problem with the computer, Arthur and Buster then go to the computer repair shop. In the cartoon, they didn't go to the computer repair shop because Jane came home right away, thus making Buster and the Brain leave. | ||
* After the computer incident, Arthur's mom calls to check and see how he's doing, and he lies to her about not touching the computer. In the cartoon, she doesn't call, but later mentions he could have called her and asked her for help. | |||
* After the computer incident, Arthur's mom calls to check and see how he's doing, and he lies to her about not touching the computer. In the | * The main character in the game ''Deep Dark Sea'' was a bear wearing goggles, a snorkel, air tanks on its back, a swimsuit, and flippers. In the cartoon, the character in the game was wearing a metal diving suit. | ||
* The main character in the game ''Deep Dark Sea'' | * When Jane uses the computer once again (but decides to play ''Deep Dark Sea'' instead of working on her taxes), she grounds Arthur by telling him, "No computer games for a week". In the cartoon, she said, "I'm forbidding you from the computer for a week. Fair?". | ||
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===Goofs=== | |||
* When [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] tells [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] that she's afraid that their [[Jane Read|mom]] will lose her job and that they will all lose the house and live out on the street and get pneumonia, the text incorrectly used the homophone "ammonia" which refers to NH<sub>3</sub> that is condensed to a liquid, when the actual homophone would be "pneumonia", which refers to a disease in the lungs where someone could have trouble breathing. | |||
**This may have been on purpose; D.W. tends to mispronounce big words due to her age and that she can neither read nor write. | |||
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