Get Smart

"Get Smart"
	File:Get Smart Title Card.jpg
Season/Series:	16
Number in season:	4A
Original Airdate:	October 18, 2012;
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Written by:	Claudia Silver
Storyboard by:	Cilbur Rocha
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"Get Smart" is the first half of the fourth episode in the sixteenth season of Arthur.

Summary

A battle begins when HUGO, the new interactive whiteboard, corrects Mr. Ratburn in front of the class.

Plot

The episode starts with Principal Haney announcing that Mr. Ratburn's class was chosen to test out a whiteboard for two weeks. After Brain helped Mr. Ratburn turned on HUGO, the smartboard, the students asked HUGO questions. Then, Mr. Ratburn tried to read the directions but Brain offered to help him so after Mr.Ratburn tried to read the direction, he accepted Brain's offered so, after school that day Brain spent time trying to helped Mr. Ratburn then they manage to go through the whole manual then Brain saw something in the manual that said that HUGO was 100 percent accurate and questions how something can be 100 percent accurate. The next day at school, HUGO said that Mr. Ratburn was incorrect when he said that Jacob Katzenellenbogan was Elwood City's founder because HUGO believed that Francis Wheaton was the actual founder of Elwood City. But it turned out that Jacob Katzenellenbogan was Elwood City real founder when Brain did some research on the history of Elwood City and even brought Alfred Katzenellenbogan, the great-newphew of Jacob Katzenellenbogan, to school to revealed a letter that says that is great-uncle was the founder of Elwood City. After HUGO was proven wrong by the evidence Brain presented, HUGO malfunctioned. Mr. Ratburn asked if Alfred Katzenellenbogan would mind telling the class about Elwood City in the earlier days, which Alfred Katzenellenbogan proceeded to do.

Characters

Major characters

Minor characters

Background characters

Songs

"Daisy Bell"

Trivia

Cultural references

This episode is set in 2012, as 'cymotrichous' was the winning word of the 2011 national spelling bee, and Mr. Ratburn said it was the winning word of last year's national spelling bee.
When Mr. Ratburn asks Hugo a question about poetry, a theme music similar to the music theme from "Who Wants to be a Millionare."
The device looks similar to the Smartboard.
HUGO is a reference to the supercomputer HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. In fact, both computers sing the 'Daisy Bell' song when they break down.
The title is a reference to the television show Get Smart.
- "Smart" also refers to high-tech devices.

Episode connections

This episode's plot is similar to "Mr. Alwaysright," where Buster continuously tries to prove Brain wrong. However, this time, it is Brain who is trying to prove HUGO wrong.