My Dad, the Garbage Man

"My Dad, the Garbage Man"
Season/Series:	1
Original Airdate:	April 21, 1997
Episodes
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My Dad, the Garbage Man is the first half of the 26th episode of season 1 of the animated children's series Arthur. It originally aired on April 21st, 1997.

Summary

Mr. Ratburn's class is going on field trips to several of the students' parents at work to learn about careers. Francine is embarrassed to let everyone know that her dad works as a garbage man.

Plot

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Trivia

• Arthur will again, wear a surgical mask in Hic or Treat, and the kids will again, wear surgical masks in .Vomitrocious! (albeit in Francine's dream sequence.)

Goofs

• The sign for Westboro Apartments lacked the letter S in the word "Apartments"
• Helmets usually have holes in them. But while they are at the dump, there are no holes in them. Since George is a moose and has antlers, it would be impossible for the helmet to fit on him.
• After Francine talks to her mother Laverne about having to cancel the field trip to the Elwood City Dump where her father Oliver works, when Laverne tells Francine "It sounds like you've been talking to Catherine", the closed-captioning reads "You sound like Catherine".

Comments

• What up with that anyway? Mr. Frensky appears to just be a regular garbage man, yet he gets space to build his own playground, can drive a garbage truck home whenever he wants (To Beat or Not to Beat). Also, he can sign out large amounts of equipment, like in Arthur Cleans Up, and is free to give Arthur a complete tour of the Sanitation Department's head office on his off day, even getting them to come up with computer simulations for him. Perhaps everyone in the Sanitation Department is scared of Mr. Frensky, and lets him do whatever he wants... to prevent him from going nuts.
• The mattress-trampoline-into-a-vat-of-styrofoam-chips ride looks more like the sort of game that would get you a nasty lawsuit rather than entice someone to build a city of the future. The kids seem to like it though.
• Another thing... there's evidently no lock on the Frensky's bathroom. If I was Catherine, I wouldn't want Francine busting in while I was doing my lipstick in the morning.
• One of the new cars being advertised at "Crosswire Motors" is the "Futura".
• I wonder how much "Rocky Ratburn" flavor will be sold? The kids hardly ever visit the ice cream shop, prefering to spend their money at "The Sugar Bowl"...