Muffy Misses Out

"Muffy Misses Out"
Season/Series:	21
Number in season:	4a
Original Airdate:	February 12, 2018 February 13, 2018
Credits
Written by:	Matt Hoverman
Storyboard by:	Allan Jeffery
Episodes
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"Muffy Misses Out" is the first half of the fourth episode in the twenty-first season of Arthur.

Summary

When Muffy's ideas are ignored when she goes on a trip, she starts to wonder if she really matters.

Plot

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Characters

Major

• Muffy Crosswire
• Binky Barnes
• Ladonna Compson
• Sue Ellen Armstrong

Minor

• Buster Baxter
• Francine Frensky
• Ed Crosswire

Cameo

• Millicent Crosswire
• Prunella Deegan
• Slink
• Arthur Read
• Waldo
• George Lundgren
• Molly MacDonald
• Brain
• Bailey
• Rattles
• Kiefer
• Francis Haney
• Nigel Ratburn
• Jenna Morgan
• Alex

Mentioned

• Catherine Frensky
• Chip Crosswire (indirectly)

Trivia

• The airline ticket shown at the intro has a flight number "TH894" which the code TH is the IATA code for Malaysian cargo airline Raya Airways.
• The closing credits for this episode include a cover of Believe in Yourself performed by Chance the Rapper, Peter Cottontale, Nate Fox, Donnie Trumpet and Stix for Social Experiment.
• Timeline: Mr. Haney wears a face mask when he takes a beignet from the bake sale. This is the same mask he wears at the Halloween party in "Arthur and the Haunted Tree House."
• Moral: Don't overreact for your own benefits.

Episode connections

• Muffy previously went on a trip to a foreign country (Costa Rica) in "Muffy and the Big Bad Blog."
• In the scene where Muffy pretends to be sick, Waldo is shown physically as a stuffed animal, but in "The Friend Who Wasn't There," he is shown to be imaginary when Muffy talks to him at the end.

Cultural references

• The scene of Muffy and her dad eating pasta resembles the pasta scene from Lady and the Tramp.
• In Italy, Muffy visits:
  • the church Il Redentore in Venice
  • the Lion of Venice pillar on St. Mark’s square in Venice
  • the Colosseum in Rome
  • Michelangelo’s David in Florence
    • In Arthur's world, David is a sheep. The real world David used to be a shepherd.
    • The David statue is naked, which is why Muffy's head is always blocking its pelvic region. This is apparently a common trend in kid shows and shorts (such as in No Time for Nuts where Scrat ends up in front of the sculpture blocking the pelvic region.
  • the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Muffy mentions Galileo’s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment. She claims that no one believed Galileo, but in fact, while the experiment contradicted Aristotle, the idea that objects fall independent of their mass was older than Galileo.
• Muffy and her dad use some real Italian words like ciao, arriverderci and pronto, but boffo and paisan are in fact colloquial American terms.
• Cannoli are a Sicilian dessert, made of fried pastry dough filled with a sweet cream.
• Beignets are a kind of deep-fried choux pastry from New Orleans. Sue Ellen has made Mardi Gras masks and Binky plays Dixieland jazz.

Errors

• When Muffy is giving orders in the hallway at Lakewood, the room numbers are backward (i.e., the background is flipped horizontally).

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