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Arthur the Wrecker
| "Arthur the Wrecker" | |
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| Season/Series: | 1 |
| Number in season: | 14A |
| Original Airdate: |  December 9, 1996[1] |
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| Written by: | Joe Fallon |
| Storyboard by: | Stefanie Gignac |
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"Arthur the Wrecker" is the first half of the fourteenth episode in the first season of Arthur. It was later adapted into the book Arthur's Computer Disaster.
Summary
Arthur breaks his mom's computer. Can he fix it before she finds out?
Plot
Intro: Arthur mentions that kids like him have done important things. He is then seen in three flashbacks, where he dislodges the nose of the Sphinx in Egypt, accidentally breaking the arms off of Dad 's sculpture that is bought soon after, and running into a giant bell and making a crack in its side. It is then shown that Arthur broke a window in the backyard door while playing baseball. He was sugarcoating the accident by making it seem like a to-be "valuable and important" event in history created by an innocent kid. D.W. assumes that Arthur will never forget the accident, and proceeds to tell Mom about the broken window.
To Arthur and D.W.'s dismay, Mom has to work since it is tax season. Eager to play a new computer game, Deep Dark Sea, Arthur plays it on the family computer right after rapidly finishing his dinner. Right up to bedtime, Arthur has made some progress in the game, but Mom and Dad convince him to stop and save since he is already tired. The next morning, Buster comes over to the house, and dashes with Arthur to the computer to continue the game. They are both hoping to find a "thing" that will earn Arthur free prizes and rewards if found, but are stopped when Mom tells them she has to work on the computer. When Mom leaves the house, Arthur and Buster play on it anyway, despite Mom telling them that she will need it again when she gets back, and D.W. reminding them of what Mom said. When Arthur finds a treasure chest, Arthur and Buster assume it to be the "thing", so they both fight for for the mouse, and knock the keyboard off the desk, causing the monitor to go blank. While D.W. exaggeratingly forsees the possible repercussions of the computer getting wrecked, such as Mom losing her job and the family starving and losing the house, Arthur and Buster find the Brain, skipping rocks at a pond, to try and fix the computer before Mom gets home. Unfortunately, he cannot find the problem.
As soon as Mom comes back home through the front door, Buster and the Brain leave, and D.W. goes up to her room. Mom allows Arthur to play on the computer before she uses it, but Arthur declines. After dinner that night, Mom proceeds to the computer to work, but Arthur attempts to distract her from finding out what happened to the computer. Finally, Arthur tells her that he wrecked it after playing on it, and apologizes. Mom is able to fix the computer by toggling a switch in the back. Mom tells Arthur that he could have just told her what happened instead of worrying, and Arthur says that she would have been mad. Not mad, but disappointed, Mom forbids Arthur from playing on the computer for a week, and Arthur accepts the punishment. The episode ends as Mom becomes fascinated with Deep Dark Sea, and plays it passionately that night.
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Trivia
- "Arthur the Wrecker" became adapted into a book in the Arthur Adventure series and re-titled as Arthur's Computer Disaster.
- It was also an entry in the Living Book series, going by the title Arthur's Computer Adventure.
Errors
- The Brain thought it was broken when the computer fell asleep, but in a later episode, The "A" Team, he knew exactly what to do when that happens.
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