Editing My Club Rules

|storyboarders = [[Gerry Capelle]]

|number = 29A

|titlecard = My Club Rules Title Card.png

|us = November 14, 1996<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19970723021343/http://www.ket.org/Visions/Nov96/VL961114.html</ref>

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The kids can't agree on the rules for Arthur's new club, and suddenly the gang is starting their own clubs.

The episode starts by Arthur saying that whatever team or club you join, there has got to be rules. Then he provides examples such as what will happen if there were no rules while playing soccer. The next example is at a library with one book. He says that if you want to join a library you must agree to return the books back to the library on time or it's no library. At the swimming club, he narrates that to join the club, you have to know how to swim. Binky then says that it's a waste of time so he jumps to the pool and thinks he is drowning and so he starts yelling for help. Then in the next example Arthur is riding his bike until he stops at the Tibbles' house because the Tibble twins and a tree branch are blocking his path. They tell him that he has to pay $1 and hop on one foot. Arthur then says that maybe not always. 

<center>'''My Club Rules '''</center>

Mr. Ratburn and Mr. Haney tell the class about [[The Strawberry Festival]] parade and have three weeks to complete their costumes and float. Mr. Ratburn tells them that he will wear a strawberry shortcake with real strawberries and Mr. Haney says he will be the king of a desert island. Francine tells Arthur to start working on it and he said he already invited everyone to the treehouse.  

At the yard Muffy and Francine give her a [[Bowling Ball|bowling ball]]. But she complains that she might break her foot. D.W. asks everybody else to follow their own rules and kick the ball also.  

At the treehouse they think of their success in shooing away D.W. Read. Muffy and Francine suggest they implement more rules such as: Buster not eating all of the snacks, keep the treehouse clean, and money to repair the treehouse. Muffy says to raise funds everybody should start paying $1 every week which shocks everybody including Francine, who only has 50¢ every week. Muffy kindly offers to take care of Francine but storms about nobody else gets any breaks. Arthur protests and says that the treehouse has always been free. Muffy plans to build her own club and Buster starts agreeing with some of the ideas Muffy and Francine mentioned before leaving as well.

Then she officially opens the Muffy Club Headquarters. Inside the Muffy Club there is TV, refrigerator, Microwave Oven, basketball net, and bookshelves. Muffy says $1 for her and Francine and $2 for Buster which means not only is Buster the only member that has to pay, but also double the rate. When asking why she says because "he eats like a pig" which he thinks it is not fair then he quits the club.  

But Buster, Muffy, and everyone that used to be part of the old club and reunite and they start playing cards. When Brain asks what is the name of the club and what does it do, D.W. sternly says that she was there first so it is her club. She has taken over The Tree House and also The Parade Float Club. She says there is only one rule to follow: that her idea for the float for the parade must be used. She is a queen with four servants. This inadvertently excludes three of the members from The Strawberry Festival Parade but is otherwise seems fair considering everybody joined together just in time for The Strawberry Festival Parade.  

*[[Alan Powers|The Brain]]

*This is one of the few episodes where Molly's eyes can be seen. (when she is wearing goggles in the introduction)

*A boy, [[Brian (4th grader)|a cream dog with floppy ears]], appears as a student in Mr. Ratburn's class. In other episodes he is in the 4th grade.

**Arthur and his friends kicked out D.W., so they got tricked.

*'''Moral:'''  You can't force people to stop eating snacks, keep stuff clean, pay money, exclude someone else, insult someone, trick someone, overreact, threaten someone and force her or him to leave your club just because she or he isn't having "fun" for your own personal benefit.

*'''Irony:''' Francine and Muffy agree at the end of the episode that if they had just let D.W. into their "club" at the beginning, none of the feuds would have ensued.

*Francine had previously been offered an Ancient Egyptian costume in "[[Francine's Bad Hair Day]]."

*The bowling ball reappears in "[[D.W. Tricks the Tooth Fairy]]."

*On the float for [[Jack's Joke Shop]], it reads "'''Bill's''' Joke Shop."

 

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