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Revision as of 16:21, 3 January 2020
| "The Curse of the Grebes" | |
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| Season/Series: | 10 |
| Number in season: | 6A |
| Original Airdate: |  May 22, 2006[1] November 9, 2006[2] |
| Credits | |
| Written by: | Stephanie Simpson |
| Storyboard by: | Elie Klimos Jeremy O'Neill |
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Summary
Can the addition of three new players help the Elwood City Grebes win their first baseball championship since 1918?
Plot
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Characters
Main
Minor
Cameo
- Carl Manino
- Bailey
- Monique lookalike
- Unknown Female Adult Rabbit (Number 4)
- Maria lookalike
- Otis
- Ricky
Trivia
- In the grocery store, Winlin recited the first stanza of Emily Dickinson's poem, "Hope is the Thing with Feathers," which Buster later chants out the first line during the Grebes' game.
- When Muffy changed her Grebes' hat to a Kings' hat, the Grebes started winning, and every time Muffy was at a game, the Grebes lost.
Cultural references
- Sisyphus was an evil but clever king from Greek mythology. Since he cheated even death, Zeus instead punished him by making him roll a boulder up a mountain for eternity.
- The episode's title is a reference to the "Curse of the Bambino" which lasted 86 years, from 1918 to 2004. The Elwood City Grebes are a reference to the Boston Red Sox and the Crown City Kings are a parody of the New York Yankees. According to the episode the "Curse of the Kid" also lasted 86 years starting in 1918, which means the episode must be set in 2004 despite being first aired in 2006.
- Another famous baseball curse is the "Curse of the Billy Goat" (Chicago Cubs, 1945-2016). Kid, as in "Curse of the Kid", is both English for "bambino" and the term for a young goat.
- The three star players look like and are voiced by real major league players: Johnny Damon (as Playmon), Mike Timlin (as Winlin), and Édgar Rentería (as Bateria).
- In Buster's fantasy, Brain mentions the observer effect, which states that most forms of measurement have some effect on the thing being measured. In quantum mechanics, which applies to extremely small things, the effect can be significant. The observer effect is sometimes wrongly used to claim that you can affect reality by observing it, like Buster thinks he is doing.
Episode connections
- This is the second episode where the last scene shows a child character as an old adult. The first was And Now Let's Talk to Some Kids.
Production notes
- Like all episodes of Season 10, this episode included the number '10' hidden in various places. For a list of them, see ARTHUR Season 10 Scavenger Hunt.
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