benaboo This show is up there with Little Bear, Franklin, Sesame Street, and Veggie Tales as one of my all time favorite kids show. I love most of the characters. There are a lot of classic episodes such as Arthur's Eyes, Locked In The Library, Arthur's Family Vacation, Grandpa Dave's Old Country Farm, The Chips Are Down, The Cave, Best Of The Nest, as well as the special Arthur, It's Only Rock and Roll and many more. And there are some not so great episodes like So Funny I Forgot To Laugh, You Are Arthur, and the one I stopped watching after five minutes Vomitrocious. I would say that after Season 15 the show became a lot less great but there are still great episodes such as Lend Me Your Ear. I mean come on it's awesome seeing Mr. Ratburn play a Nirvana like song. This show does have problems but like some other children's shows it holds a special place in my heart and I still like to watch it but mostly the older episodes.

camiacono Arthur is a great show for kids that is not only charming, relate- able and fun and taught great morals to watch but also had great characters. Like the ever reliable best friend Buster who had a running gag of eating questionable food, the tom boy Francine who is hinted to be a love interest for Arthur, Binky the on and off again bully, Fern the adorable shy girl and many more. But for every good character on this show there is a bad trait put in to 1 of the worst characters of any show ever DW! DW is annoying, bratty, mean, selfish, loud, snot nosed, whiny, rude, greed and just plain a shot in the foot to the show for having so many episodes with her put in the lead role. For a show called Arthur their sure is a lot of his sister and some episodes really could have been better if they just swapped her out for someone else. Their are good episodes with her in the lead role like the fire drill episode or Bleep. But there are the bad ones like the one where she gets an allowance but is jealous that her friends get more and does some pompous bull crap to trick her parents into giving her more or one of the episodes I hate the most, "Never, Never, Never" where she has to donate toys she doesn't play with anymore but obviously she doesn't want to get rid of them, so you know what she dose, she gives legit all her toys to the tibble twins and like the brats they are don't give them back and she acts like a brat for the rest of the episode and doesn't really learn anything at the end of episode. Or The episode DW flips she could have been replaced with Sue Ellen or any other girl character. Overall I was just ranting about DW a bad character in a show full of great ones.....but really there should have been less of her.

The_Light_Triton I won't lie. Arthur is one of the best children's shows out there. it doesn't sugar coat anything. it's like telling you about reality, and telling you to live with it or suffer the consequences. in one episode, the character sue Ellen (i think thats whom) has a bed-wetting problem but doesn't want to admit it. one night, she's invited to a sleep-over, and she has to wear a diaper to bed. this embarrasses her, and when the truth comes out at the sleepover that she's a bed-wetter, no one laughs at her.but some lessons i disagree with. for one, Arthur gets mad with his little sister after she destroys his model plane, and he hits her, and Arthur is the one who takes all the blame, while Arthur's parents just want to talk to D.W., and leave it at that. why i disagree with it, is that it brings 2 elements to the table, one of which that an ignorant person would jump all over, and another that would be worth talking about. the 1st element is that Arthur is hitting a girl/his sister, which is wrong, unless of course they're both equal in strength. the other part, is that D.W. gets no punishment and Arthur gets punished. which basically means D.W. can keep on ruining Arthur's stuff, and hide behind her parents, saying "mommy! save me! Arthur wants to hurt me!" Bottom line, Arthur is somewhat of an enjoyable show, but if you have different opinions, it might not be.

waiching liu Nominated 18 times and with 7 wins under its belt, Arthur is a great animated show that people of all ages, not just kids can enjoy. When I first saw this, I thought to myself: 'what on earth is this?'. It took me a while to understand what Arthur was about. My first impressions based on the appearances of Arthur and his family members were that they were rodents, but of course Arthur, his younger sister DW, baby sister and his mother and father are indeed aardvarks. However, in real life aardvarks are supposed to have long snouts but hey, this was a cartoon. I wasn't familiar with the books themselves, in fact I wasn't even aware that they'd existed before the cartoon was made and shown on TV. Arthur is a very interesting and rare cartoon, which has a very educational theme running throughout the show. It made a nice change to watch a cartoon that wasn't the typical and over-hyped Manga-esquire Pokémon,Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon rubbish. The plot in Arthur revolves around youngster Arthur himself, his family and friends and the everyday situations and dilemmas they all face. Some episodes would focus on Arthur and his friends together but also other episodes would concentrate on DW, Buster, Francine, Muffy, Sue Ellen and Blinky individually. Each of them realise that they have their own faults and to accept that no one is perfect but that in itself, is what the show successfully does: via those episodes it focuses on the imperfections and difficulties these people- or be it animals, which they are- face and their attempts to address them, whilst at the same time, as they address those difficulties they all learn important lessons in life along the way. In all though the main themes in Arthur are friendship, respect, trust and fun- and fun is what this cartoon is. And whereas this is predominately a kids show, the issues and subject matters in Arthur can also be identified, recognised and understood from an adults point of view because we can easily detect what those issues are and often relate them to real life situations we ourselves or other kids find themselves in. I also like the idea that all the characters in Arthur are of different species, because for me, it is the equivalent of having human characters hailing from various racial backgrounds, coming together and working together, as opposed to working against and hating each other. Hence, Arthur and DW are aardvarks, Buster is a white bunny rabbit, Francine is also an aardvark whose family is poor, Muffy whose dad is rich and Binky- who at first impressions would be mistaken for a bully but is in fact, a gentle, down-to-earth and a very obedient ogre. Arthur is a very good kids cartoon, and whilst it is not a humorous show by any means, it does have a few funny moments and deserves full marks for being very informative, educational and for being moralistic without being patronising to its viewers. Even though i'm 26, this cartoon is one of the best and most under rated, and I for one can empathise with Arthur and his friends because i've been in similar situations myself when I was a kid. Definitely worth giving this a tryOverall Rating: 8.5/10