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|next episode = [[Arthur Meets Mister Rogers]]|prod. code = 13002|writers = [[Joe Fallon]] | |next episode = [[Arthur Meets Mister Rogers]]|prod. code = 13002|writers = [[Joe Fallon]] | ||
|storyboarders = [[Darren Brereton]]|number = 30B|titlecard = Arthur's New Year's Eve Title Card.png|us = November 15, 1996<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19970723021343/http://www.ket.org/Visions/Nov96/VL961115.html</ref>}}{{EpisodeHeader|2|30|1}} | |storyboarders = [[Darren Brereton]]|number = 30B|titlecard = Arthur's New Year's Eve Title Card.png|us = November 15, 1996<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19970723021343/http://www.ket.org/Visions/Nov96/VL961115.html</ref>}}{{EpisodeHeader|2|30|1}} | ||
==Summary== | ==Summary== | ||
On New Year's Eve, | On New Year's Eve, Arthur and D.W. are determined to stay up until midnight to see what occurs. | ||
==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
Arthur has never stayed up until midnight on New Year's Eve | [[Arthur Read|Arthur]] has never stayed up until midnight on New Year's Eve because his parents have always told him that he is too young. He has tried a couple of times on his own to stay up, but has fallen asleep before midnight each time he tried; therefore, this year he chooses not to even try to stay up until midnight. | ||
On New Year's Eve, Arthur is making his bed when [[Pal]] jumps on it, wanting to play. [[Jane Read|Jane]] comes in and tells him that she and his Dad are going out for New Year's Eve, and that Grandma Thora will be babysitting. [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] comes in and asks her Mom if she can stay up until midnight and her Mom tells her that she's too young but she gives Arthur the permission to stay up until midnight but he says that he is not going to. | |||
Arthur and Pal then go outside to play in the snow and [[Prunella Deegan|Prunella]] stops by and asks Arthur if he is going to stay up to see the [[Green flash]] tonight on New Year's Eve and that if there's no green flash it has to stay the same year again. | |||
Arthur and | After Prunella leaves Arthur goes and tells [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] about the green flash, but Francine tells Arthur that there is no green flash, and that on midnight on New Year's Eve, everyone has to throw out last year's calendar, because it becomes officially illegal and that the [[New Year's Police]] will check on people and anyone who still has last year's calendar will be arrested. Arthur then imagines that the New Year's Eve police come to his house and find that [[Grandma Thora]] still has last year's calendar, and arrest her. | ||
Arthur then goes to the [[Barneses' House|Barnes']] house and tells [[Binky Barnes|Binky]] about the New Year's Eve Police, but Binky says that there isn't any New Year's Eve Police. He says that on New Year's Eve at midnight there's this wrestling show that comes on T.V. where this baby (representing the new year) and this old man (representing the new year) fight and if the baby wins the New Year begins but if the Old Guy wins the baby has to go and live with a groundhog and there's six more weeks of winter (Binky obviously is mixing it up with Groundhog Day.) | |||
Arthur then goes to | Arthur then goes to Buster's condo and tells him about the wrestling show to which Buster says that's the silliest things that he's ever heard. Buster then says ''his'' theory where all the parents go to New Years Eve. He says the parents talk out all the rotten things they did to their kids the past year, and plan new awful things to do to kids the next year. However, what Arthur's friends explained to him about New Year's Eve were just complete myths. | ||
Arthur | Back at home, D.W. developed a plan to stay up till midnight with pinching and ice cubes. Later that evening, their parents went out, leaving Grandma Thora in charge of Arthur and D.W. D.W. got out her alarm clock and ice for her plan, and began to hypnotize herself with her clock. Meanwhile, Grandma Thora and Arthur were thumb-wrestling when thew saw D.W. getting a drink of water. Later, they were playing Go Fish when D.W. goes to get another drink of water. Back in bed, she was feeling tired, so she sent an ice cube down her back, which made her jump around and yelp. Meanwhile, Grandma Thora and Arthur were using their noisemakers for a practice run when D.W. came in, saying she had a nightmare. Arthur then falls asleep on Grandma Thora's shoulder at 11:30. Half an hour later, it reaches midnight, but without anything fancy happening, much to D.W's chagrin. However, she feels better when telling Arthur about it. | ||
Arthur was sad he missed it, but he cheers up after Grandma Thora tells him that as long as he remembers all the things he did in the past year, he didn't miss a thing, because that is what New Year's Eve is really about. Arthur thinks about this, and feels better. He even wishes Pal a Happy New Year, and adds that maybe they will see all the cool stuff his friends mentioned (like the green flash, the wrestling and the New Year's Police). | |||
==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
===Major=== | |||
*[[Arthur Read]] | *[[Arthur Read]] | ||
*[[D.W. Read]] | *[[D.W. Read]] | ||
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*[[Jane Read]] | *[[Jane Read]] | ||
*[[David Read]] | *[[David Read]] | ||
===Minor=== | |||
*[[Prunella Deegan]] | *[[Prunella Deegan]] | ||
*[[Buster Baxter]] | *[[Buster Baxter]] | ||
*[[Francine Frensky]] | *[[Francine Frensky]] | ||
*[[Binky Barnes]] | *[[Binky Barnes]] | ||
*[[Kate Read]] | ===Cameo=== | ||
*[[Pal]] | *[[Kate Read]] | ||
*[[Pal]] | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
* | * Clips from [[Buster's Dino Dilemma (episode)|Buster's Dino Dilemma]], [[Team Trouble]], [[Francine Frensky, Superstar]], [[Sue Ellen Moves In]] and [[Arthur Makes the Team (episode)|Arthur Makes the Team]] are shown at the end of this episode. | ||
*A repeat of this episode aired on December 31, 2010 on KCET Los Angeles, which made it the last Arthur episode to air on KCET Los Angeles due to the station dropping its affiliation with PBS after 40 years on January 1, 2011. | |||
==Errors== | |||
*Jane should have said to D.W., "You can do it, when you're one year older." | |||
*A repeat of this episode aired on December 31, | |||
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==Home Video== | ==Home Video== | ||
'''DVD''': | '''DVD''': | ||
*[[Arthur's Celebration]] | *[[Arthur's Celebration]] | ||
'''VHS''': | '''VHS''': | ||
*[[Arthur's Celebration]] | *[[Arthur's Celebration]] | ||
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