Muffy and the Big Bad Blog

"Muffy and the Big Bad Blog"
Season/Series:	14
Number in season:	7B
Original Airdate:	April 25, 2011; November 4, 2010; December 13, 2012;
	Credits
Written by:	Jon Greenberg
Storyboard by:	François Brisson
	Episodes
Previous; "Around the World in 11 Minutes"	Next; "Arthur Unravels"
	Read transcript

"Muffy and the Big Bad Blog" is the second half of the seventh episode in the fourteenth season of Arthur.

Summary

Muffy discovers that web blogging is a great way to keep her readers up to date with her every move... whether they are interested or not! But then she goes too far and publicizes a disagreement with Francine.

Plot

The intro begins with Arthur and Francine playing tennis. Muffy is spectating, and writing down everything that happens. Arthur gets annoyed by Muffy constantly typing, even down to things like "Arthur grunts when he serves," and "Now Arthur is losing his cool." The introduction ends with Muffy telling Arthur that he'd do better if he focused on the game, instead of her. Arthur groans.

Muffy and the Big Bad Blog

Muffy walks into class, announcing that she'll be going to Costa Rica, and she'll be posting about it on her blog. Mr. Ratburn doesn't know what a blog is, so The Brain explains that it's when someone writes their thoughts and posts them on a website for others to read. Muffy states that her blog is called The Muffington Post.

The following scene is a montage of Muffy blogging in Costa Rica, and her classmates reading about it online. Mr. Ratburn enters Computer Fun and buys the most user-friendly computer, which is, according to one of the employees, "well worth the expense."

Back at Lakewood Elementary, Mr. Ratburn gives the class an assignment to research their favorite author. However, the class is quickly distracted when Muffy announces that she's back from Costa Rica, and she'll be answering people's questions on her blog. Arthur finds out that Muffy is now blogging about the positive feedback to her blog.

Mr. Ratburn is setting up his new computer in his house. He finds the instructions, which come on a disc, and decides that it must go in his computer. Since he can't figure out how turn on the computer without reading the instructions, and the instructions require that the computer is turned on, Mr. Ratburn concludes, "It's a paradox!"

Muffy is now able to blog using her MySmartPhoney, because she got Internet access on it. However, all she does is blog, even during baseball games and at school. Mr. Ratburn confiscates her MySmartPhoney when she uses it in class. He returns it at the end of class, and tells Muffy that she should do things besides blogging. Muffy agrees, saying that if she doesn't do anything else, she won't have anything to blog about.

Characters

Major

Minor

Cameo

Trivia

Cultural references

The Muffington Post is a parody of The Huffington Post.
The name of the blog shared by Francine and Muffy, called "She Said, She Said," is a reference to a song of the same name by The Beatles, as well as a reference to the Paramount movie "He Said, She Said."

Episode connections

Francine publishes The Frensky Star online, a newspaper she started in "Citizen Frensky."
Muffy goes on vacation again in "Muffy Misses Out."
Muffy has her MySmartPhoney from "The Play's the Thing."

Errors

Mr. Ratburn claims that he never used the Internet before, but in Best of the Nest, Brain showed him all about the Internet and for the camping trip he bought an item online.