Editing Season 8

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'''Season 8''' of ''[[Arthur (series)|Arthur]]'' premiered in the United States on September 15, 2003 on [[PBS]] with the episode "[[Dear Adil]]" and ending December 26, 2003 with "[[Bleep]]".

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|  width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | Arthur decides to write to a Turkish boy who is looking for a pen pal after reading his Dad's letters from Japan. He isn't sure what life is like in Turkey, so to give him an idea, he looks at Buster's comics set in Turkey. However, these give him a stereotypical picture of Turkey, and Adil is confused when Arthur asks him about his camel, tent or the taste of lamb's eyes. Arthur finds in his paper, Adil's email address and they find out that they are alike in many ways.

|  width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | Bitzi has a confession to make to Buster: she's breaking up with her boyfriend, Harry. Buster is dismayed, so with the help of Muffy, he creates a plan to get them back together again.

|  width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | Mr. Frensky takes several of the girls on a mountain trail hiking trip. Fern believes that Moose Mountain is where her hero, Zutzut went to. Fern and Francine clash personalities on the way up and end up separated from the group. They have to learn to work together and end up as the only group that make it to the top of the mountain.

|  width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | After saving Rattles from getting hurt in a dangerous stunt and not getting thanked for it, Binky is shown in a dream, what the world would be like if he decided to never be nice again with Uncle Sam the wrestler. It ends with his parents leaving on a cruise without him, and without leaving him money, food, or water. Realizing that his mother does a lot of things without getting thanked, he decides to do her chores for her and alongside a thank you card.

|  width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | Arthur begins a snow shoveling business to make some extra money. He allows Buster to join but Buster hardly does any work and expects to earn more money. The two argue and Buster decides to start his own snow shoveling business and the two have to compete to keep their customers.

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|  width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | Brain has a dream where he becomes a bug to see how his friends really see him (as someone who bugs them all the time). He decides to never try to speak or to help them again, but soon learns that that might not be the best solution to his problems.

|  width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | Fern tries to write a story that matches up to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. She completes it and when she reads it to her friends they are horrified and frightened while refusing to talk to her, fearing another story as fear inspiring.

| width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | D.W. and Binky are paired up together for a school project. Binky teaches D.W. how to dance, but thinks she is not doing well. Molly and Rattles then wants to learn "Kung Fu Young" (ballet). This time, they both point out Binky's mistakes. After days of practicing with a reformed curriculum, he teach D.W to spin, but he ends up with a twisted ankle. D.W. has to do the recital herself, although she does not have enough courage.

|  width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | Francine and her friends pick on George due to his constant nose bleeds. But when Francine suddenly vomits in front of the whole school, she learns a hard lesson about teasing others when she and George discuss their embarrassment.

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|  width="88%" colspan="4" height="81" | The Sugar Bowl is going out of business and a fast-food chain called the Chikin Lickin' is trying to buy it. Sue Ellen immediately goes to the Sugar Bowl's defense, but her friends ignore this crisis. She, Binky and Buster protest at the new opening at the mall but with no avail.

| colspan="4" width="88%" height="81" | Buster is about to start his 2003-2004 travel with his dad, and poor old Buster is convinced that his mother is going to miss him. Meanwhile, D.W. wants to see "Unicornucopia", a 1-star rated play showing in New York City, so she tries to save money through every way possible. After Buster is finally convinced that his mother won't miss him as much as he thought, he decides to go to NYC with Arthur anyway. While she and her parents go to see the play, Arthur and Buster explore New York City with Bo. First they go to Chinatown, El Barrio, meet up with subway break dancers and a sidewalk chalk artist, James De La Vega. Then they try to meet Los Viajeros at "The Point", a children's recreation center in the Bronx, but they get lost. They ask some girls if they know the way to "The Point" which they do find, but don't meet up with Los Viajeros because they aren't there. Suddenly Arthur forgets he was supposed to see "Unicornucopia" with his family, which was a good thing, because the play wasn't even worth it anyway. At the end of the episode Arthur thanks Buster for a good time.

| colspan="4" width="88%" height="81" | On a super-hot day, Arthur and his friends get into a complete war over each other's desks involving the seats by the fan. Everyone except George fights over with consequences. After Mr. Haney gets slapped by a moldy sandwich, the class clean up the room and goes to Muffy's pool party.

| colspan="4" width="88%" height="81" | D.W. sells Arthur's teddy bear, Stanley, at the garage sale. Arthur regrets this decision and goes on a search. Later, after the commotion, he gives Stanley to Ms. Tibble, who has a room full of stuffed animals.

| colspan="4" width="88%" height="81" | Muffy tries to build a beach house for her dolls. Owing inspiration from an exhibition of the work of Arthur Ganson, she and Baliey build kinetic sculptures. The exhibition is a success and Ganson shows up to install "Machine with Wishbone", whom was bought by Mr. Crosswire. He sees Muffy's beach landscape and tells her that is art.

| colspan="4" width="88%" height="81" | Vicita has to use a new bed, but she wants to keep her crib. D.W. tells Vicita the story of how she grew out of her crib.

| colspan="4" width="88%" height="81" | A flea named Pepe tells his around the world story of how he got separated from his brother Sale.

| colspan="4" width="88%" height="81" | Emily tells D.W. how she felt when a boy kissed her on vacation, and D.W. begins to wonder what it feels like. When James kisses her, though, she realizes that she may be too young to fully appreciate it, and Emily told D.W. that it was a kiss on the hand.

| colspan="4" width="88%" height="81" | George learns how to sing the blues with a little inspiration from his dummy Wally and Brain's CDs.

| colspan="4" width="88%" height="81" | D.W. overhears a curse word from a teenage boy, but she's afraid if she says it, something will break. The Tibbles tell her if she says it, anyone will become her zombie servant. D.W. tests this on Vicita, only to get in trouble, but her mom does not punish her because she did not know what it meant. She then decides to talk to her friends about cursing.