Fountain Abbey (episode)

"Fountain Abbey (episode)"
Season/Series:	18
Number in season:	5a
Original Airdate:	January 26, 2015; March 5, 2015;
	Credits
Written by:	Kathy Waugh
Storyboard by:	Gerry Capelle
	Episodes
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"Fountain Abbey" is the first half of the fifth episode in the eighteenth season of Arthur.

Summary

Muffy's devastated when she learns her great, great grandmother Mary Alice wasn't royalty, but a common maid. The indignity! However, Mary Alice's old diary reveals a more interesting story.^[2]

Plot

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Characters

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Background

Trivia

Many of the costumes from this episode were available in Muffy's Costume Game, in Arthur's Big App, before the episode's release.

Cultural references

This episode was inspired by the British costume drama television series Downton Abbey.^[7]
A portrait in the dining hall looks like Henry VIII of England.

Episode connections

Muffy had previously learned about her family's humble past in "Background Blues" and "Family Fortune".
Sue Ellen learned about the past by reading a diary in "Strangers on a Train".
Binkford wants to join a circus, as Shelley Barnes, another of Binky's ancestors, would do in "What's in a Name?".
Muffy wears the same crown she did in "Framed".