Little Miss Meanie

"Little Miss Meanie"
Season/Series:	19 (US)
Number in season:	8B
Original Airdate:	June 3, 2015 May 7, 2015
Credits
Written by:	Raye Lankford
Storyboard by:	Rick Marshall
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"Little Miss Meanie" is the second half of the eighth episode in the nineteenth season of Arthur.

Summary

Lydia and Muffy join forces to defeat a mean beauty queen in the "Little Miss Crocus" pageant.

Plot

It all started when Muffy sees the poster for the new Little Miss Crocus" pageant. Muffy is excited and amaze that the winner would get a beautiful tiara. She chooses to sign up and wanted in line to get sign up. Francine doesn't see the big deal with beauty pageant since she finds them shallow and ridiculous. Muffy explained she never won beauty pageants and tried three times. The first one was "Little Miss Daffodil" she lost that one because it was during her gap tooth years. The second one was "Little Miss Strawberry" she lost that one because she broke down into hives. The third one was "Little Miss Aloe" Muffy doesn't know why she lost that one but it shows she had toilet paper stuck on the bottom of her shoes.

When Muffy was about sign up until Lydia signed for the pageant. This shocks and worries Muffy because she thinks that Lydia will win easily because she's in a wheelchair. She thinks once the judges will see Lydia in a wheelchair, they will feel sorry for her and give her the tiara. Unknowingly to Lydia she tells Jenna that she thinks Muffy will win easily because of being rich and will bribe the judges with the expensive objects in her possession.

While walking with Muffy Francine said that the pageants would only care about the talents. But Muffy doesn't listen and believe that they would only care about the looks and plans to tell Lydia to drop out of the pageant. That night Muffy practice to tell Lydia to drop out in the nicest possible way that she can. The next day at the sign up pageant Muffy sees a girl name Portia Demwiddy telling Lydia to drop out of the contest because of being in a wheelchair. Muffy hears how mean it sounded and Portia goes up to her and even tells Muffy to drop out because of her wealth. Both Muffy and Lydia knows what a snob and bully Portia really is and how she trying to butter up the judges with being polite. They choose to work together to make sure Portia don't win the tiara.

Muffy decorates Lydia's wheelchair with shiny jewels and Lydia gets one of Muffy's dresses loaned to her. Lydia helps Muffy practice how to spin the baton for her act. As they were practicing, Muffy's phone rang and Lydia picked it up and it turned out to be Francine calling. When Francine recognized Lydia, she quickly tells her not to drop out of the contest because of what Muffy said about having an "unfair advantage" which confuse and shocks Lydia. Muffy quickly hang up the phone and when Lydia glared at Muffy, she admits that she thought Lydia was gonna win easily because she was she was an wheelchair, she was about to ask her to drop out but once she saw Portia doing it, she heard how mean and nasty it sounded and feels terrible for even thinking it. However Lydia admits that she thought that Muffy would win easily because of being rich and bribing the judges. This realize the girls have a lot of matters in common and continue to practice for the pageant.

On the day of the pageant the first person up was a girl name Beulah McInnerny who does a hula dance and an ukulele song. Then later it was Lydia who does basketball tricks and shots, and Muffy who does a dance and song of Yankee Doodle Dandy. The last person to show their act is Portia who does an amazing ballet dance but however during the dance, the machine for her spotlight malfunctions which forces the lights to go back on and the host tells Portia she has to continue her dance without it. Portia refuse saying she needs it and find it is unacceptable and demanded that someone should be fired. She began to throw a temper tantrum which shocks everybody, even the judges so the host has to close the curtains on her. Then the host because to call the first runners up which Lydia and Muffy are one of them and the winner of Little Miss Crocus is.....

.....Beulah McInnerny! Lydia is glad that Beulah won because she's not like one of those snobby beauty pageant contestant. Muffy agrees and said how her Ukulele playing was great and Muffy once again apologize to Lydia about judging her and Lydia accept it. As they were going home they both think beauty pageants are shallow and ridiculous and how the name Little Miss Crocus is terrible. They come up with new names like Little Miss Rocket Science, Little Miss Algebra, etc.

Characters

Major Characters

• Lydia Fox
• Muffy Crosswire
• Francine Frensky
• Jenna Morgan
• Portia Demwiddy

Minor Characters

• Alan Powers
• Mary
• Beulah McInnerny
• 3rd Grade Female Aardvark

Background Characters

• Maria Pappas
• Prunella Deegan
• Jessica
• Madison Compson
• Cisely Compson
• Thora Read
• Cheikh's father
• Lucy's mother
• Leah MacGrady
• Chip Crosswire
• Catherine Frensky

Trivia

• Arthur does not appear in this episode.
• This episode was not shown when Season 19 originally aired in the UK.
• The host of Little Miss Crocus appeared in Revenge of the Chip and D.W. Unties the Knot.

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