Welcome back to our look at Arthur episodes, in totally random order, because it's the spice of life or something. Anyway, we are doing an episode 3 pairing , both are episode 2 pairings. (We might have gone mad)
First off, Season 3 first aired back 1998 and has 15 half hour episodes or 30 segments. Though I won't go to far into the back story of season 3 because I've covered episodes from this season in the past, before. Now we continue with our look at two more episodes as I remind myself to calm down on dipping into season 3 so much.
Episode 2a: D.W. , All Fired Up'
The Monologue: D.W apparently really likes going to school (because she hasn't been corrupted by the system yet, what? Don't look at me like that) but Arthur remembers one time when D.W didn't like school. (We call that The Great Depression)
The Episode: At D.W's pre-school the teacher announces that they are going to have their first fire drill, which D.W thinks is going to be a drill made of fire (which sounds pretty cool, actually) until they use Emily to have the teacher explain what a fire drill is to the people in the back. D.W is scared because she thinks they are going to have an actual fire. (That would be more dedicated) Meanwhile, D.W stares at fire at it taunts her very soul. D.W even has bad fire dreams as it taunts her soul and brain.
I'm the fire! I'm burnin' for you/ Copyright WGBH
The parents figure out that D.W might be a little scared and try to help her get past her fears. Even getting a warden joke in there. They let her help around the house for fire safety learning. Arthur tries to help her, but she's still nervous as can be. When the fire drill starts, for real, D.W seems to take some command helping some friends follow along. D.W seems to get along with it all seems well.
Pretty simple episode , for a younger audience it's a great one to show them that fire drills and safety are good things to be prepared for in case of a real one. D.W's fears are played well and give a realistic approach while still fitting her character. Yeah, this was one of those strictly younger part of target audience educational episode, the show has to do sometimes to justify it's PBS existence.
More after the Jump
Episode 2b: I'd Rather Read it Myself
The Monologue: Arthur mentions who annoys D.W and that's the Tibble twins. They always want to be better at things. (Better at murdering will be their down fall) D.W. swears she will do something can't do.
The Episode: The Tibble twins are coming over to the Read house and they can't go outside because it's raining. They annoy D.W and she goes to Arthur for help, and she gets an idea to tell a story from Arthur. She says she can read , the twins don't think she can because they can't. D.W decides to grab a random book and and "reads"it to them.
She does a story about a girl named BW (get it?) who had a very semi-charmed kind of life. B.W has a brother who can transform into things , because yes. Buster is the story with own theme song. (cool) They stole B.W's snowball so, B.W can have a flying car and goes looking for her brother and Bustrantor. (This is a strange paragraph) This story really has everything, even octopuses, poisoned mind control spinach. (beh)
Nocycle / Copyright WGBH
What is fun about the story is how many references to past episodes that are used it's a great touch. The story is really imaginative. It makes the Tibbles even amazed and calmed down. The twins take the book and want their grandma to finish the book. Do they found that D.W can't read? Well nope, they think it's a magic book, because of course.
This was a great episode, not much I can say, that I didn't say. It's a great reward to those who watched the past couple seasons and gives them all the references while D.W's story is creative and well thought out , kind of wish it was a real story thing, It'd be a great movie.
That's our look this time, tune in next time when we read a math book and tell a great story about a pie that took over the world.
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