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When Duty Calls
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| "When Duty Calls" | |
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| Season/Series: | 23 |
| Number in season: | 2 |
| Original Airdate: |  October 16, 2019 March 18, 2020[1] February 23, 2020 |
| Credits | |
| Written by: | Matt Hoverman |
| Storyboard by: | Allan Jeffery Karine Charlebois |
| Episodes | |
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Next "The Pea and the Princess" |
| Read transcript | |
"When Duty Calls" is the second episode in the twenty-third season of Arthur. It is a two-part episode.
Summary
Fern and the others try to make an upset Ladonna feel better after she finds out her family will have to move from Elwood City.
Plot
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Characters
Major
Minor
- David Read
- Rapty (no voice)
- Lafawna
- Vern
- Pal
- General Higgins
- Tony Arnoni
- Laurie
- Rufus Compson
Cameo
- Francine Frensky
- Cisely Compson
- Gussie Compson
- Madison Compson
- Sue Ellen Armstrong
- Alex
- Maria Pappas
- Bitzi Baxter
- Binky Barnes
- Jane Read
- George Lundgren
- Platy
Trivia
- Moral:Change may not be easy but you have to deal with it whether you want to or not.
- The Compson family moves to Oregon in this episode, and it's also revealed that this is the fourth time they have moved.
- It is revealed in this episode that the Rapty that Bud has is his second; the first one was left behind when he moved from Guam.
- The second Rapty is then left behind at the end of the episode; however Bud does that on purpose so that he and D.W. could keep writing to each other.
Episode connections
- The Compsons moved to Elwood City from Louisiana in "Based on a True Story."
- Buster recalls leaving Elwood City for a time in "Arthur's Faraway Friend," and being afraid that his friends would forget about him.
- Fern and Ladonna say that they are inspired to write their own book, like Arthur and Buster did in "Arthur's Faraway Friend" and "Buster's Back."
- Arthur shows his diorama from "Arthur and the Whole Truth."
- The selfie of Arthur, Buster, Muffy and Ladonna in Muffy's video was taken during "The Longest Eleven Minutes."
- Bud gives D.W. Rapty, he's seen again in "The Rhythm and Roots of Arthur."
Production notes
- London, from the And Now a Word from Us Kids segment, is featured in a podcast from The Military Child Education Coalition.
- This is the first two-part episode to be written by someone other than Peter K. Hirsch since "Fifteen."
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