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@fyeaharthurread
Can we appreciate how The Brain’s parents keep a dictionary just to look up words that their son says that they don’t understand, but they want to encourage him in his intelligence and don’t shut him down with ‘In English please’ like most people in cartoons will tell the smart characters?
Even real life parents are more likely to ask for their kid to rephrase their sentence while using simpler terms, and having seen this with my brother, it discourages the kid from even talking to the parent because they start to think a)they don’t understand them b)they are stupid and c)they have no middle ground to meet at.
But The Brains parents are so caring and want Alan to never feel odd or like he can’t talk to them so they keep a dictionary- a very thick one- just to be able to talk to their son without having to make him feel like a bother for using words that aren’t every day regular people words.
And they black
The Brain is a fucking bear. A BEAR. Holy shit tumblr, you never dissapoint me.
@naturelovefreedom HE’S AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CODED ANTHROPOMORPHIC CHARACTER!!! HAVE YOU IDIOTS NEVER WATCHED ARTHUR??!! HE CALLS HIMSELF AFRICAN AMERICAN!!!! Omg!!!!
A link to the Christmas special, time stamped to where The Brain specifies that he celebrates Kwanzaa (41:48): https://youtu.be/ygXALnyCa0c?t=41m48s
“And the raspberry (represents) the African struggle for freedom”
This one is the timestamp for the Kwanzaa celebration itself (51:28)(it’s a brief clip in the episode wrap-up of everyone celebrating at home): https://youtu.be/ygXALnyCa0c?t=51m28s
Thank you! They been blowing me up!
Bruh. Why do they always step so far out of their lane?
they have been really trying it over this post
Anyone who thinks race does not exist in Arthur did not watch Arthur correctly/doesn’t remember enough. All of the characters hint at nationalities, at traditions from their grandparents etc. who lived in other countries, and even religions. Meaning, yes, race exists in Arthur-BUT NO ONE IS FIGHTING OVER RACES IN THE SERIES WHICH IS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL.
Brain has African roots-and African cousins. According to Wiki, those roots come from the Senegalese area of Africa. They even did a song about Africa when said cousin visited.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYh-zW3UkS8
Francine Frensky was Hebrew, or at least Jewish.
You could even argue that Francine is black, based on the makeover episode where rich white girl Muffy tries to change her style to make her girly while also criticizing everything about Francine and her poor lifestyle. In that episode, Francine’s Bad Hair Day, you can very clearly tell they are making a hint that Francine has hair that is much different than Muffy’s. Sound familiar? Black hair and white hair are not the same. Hair is hair, but depending on your race, your hair tends to be much different than others.
The Reeds neighbors are Mexican
Binky Barnes family adopted a Chinese baby Mei Lin Barnes.
And you can’t go off their colors alone on the show. You have to know them as a person before you get the hints of what race the characters are meant to represent. In some cases yes, you can very clearly see what race someone is meant to represent but in an animal form-like Emily, DW’s friend, but in some cases, like when Celebrities were on the show, they either had the characters colors look like the person skin or changed it up to fit the series. Examples:
Mr. Rogers was one of the whitest old men around on TV, and we all loved him, but in Arthur he’s a dark tan/light brown
The same goes for Jack Prelutsky
Yo-Yo Ma -because no one on earth is a silvery gray
Alex Trebeck played himself but with a different last name
Then we have some very clear examples of characters fitting color schemes of their real life counterparts races.
Neil Gaiman
Backstreet Boys
Joshua Reedman (Aka Francine's canon uncle)
Michael Fincke
Michelle Kwan (a little paler in her Arthur appearance but it still works)
Race, nationalities, religion and all of that stuff exist in Arthur no matter how you try to water it down or deny it. The big difference between Arthur and our world is that in Arthur- I state again that Race and Nationality were not put down, they were not even big deals to the characters, but something to learn about and find out that no matter how people may look, what they do, people are people, and you should always accept people no matter their race, nationality, traditions, etc. If you didn’t take that from the show, I don’t know what you did take out of it other than a meme.
Come thru!!!
I love this post
Really good post although I will add that the Reads’ neighbors aren’t Mexican, they’re Ecuadorian!
Does Arthur have any confirmed LGBT+ characters?
not yet!! though in a recent interview with huffpo, marc brown entertained the possibility of francine being gay, so. THAT’S SOMETHING
(source)
Knowing the “muh representation” crowd and that this was on huffpo, this makes nervous
Plus wouldn’t be a bit of a cliche to make the tomboyish sport loving girl a lesbian?
Now if you made prunella and her blind friend gay, I could see that.
I MADE A PUN ON ACCIDENT AGAIN-
Aren’t the cast of Arthur 10 or something? And Francine was interesting in Arthur…
I think Arthur has a lot of representation already. They have a well written and accurate Autistic/Aspergers character. It’s dealt with diabetes, cancer, memory loss/alzheimers,
It has well written and likable kids of most ages (ignoring D.W) Hell back when I was a kid Francine was a great character for tomboy children like myself, since at the time there was a kind of push against tomboys in the UK late 90′s/early 2000′s.
I think love/relationships should be left out personally. I dunno, I think there’s more important things to teach lil’ kids than that. (Yes i mean all types of loving relationships before you start) I mean…Shows like Steven Universe and Adventure Time deal with loving connections brilliantly, and can deal with the complexities that brings. Where as Arthur is still a show that can only do so much for little kids in 20 minutes. It’s not exactly meant ot be the deepest show it can be.
I think if they had an episode where an older kid was feeling confused about who they should be, that would be the best way to deal witht hat sort of thing for that kind of show.
Why not make her bi? We barely have any representation
Maybe, but I agree with dawnstone about an episode like that should play out
I literally hate every single person in this thread it’s like asshole bingo
i never really watched arthur as a kid but this blog is so sweet & cheers me up a lot when i'm down (thank you so much for that) & i'm thinking of watching the show. which eps would you recommend, like personal favourites? <3
aww anon, you’re too sweet!! thank you, i’m glad to know the blog can bring you some chuckles :>
and some of my personal favourite episodes aaaare:
Arthur’s Almost Live Not Real Music Festival
Best of the Nest
Desk Wars
April 9th
The Agent of Change
the 2002 animated special Arthur, It’s Only Rock'n’ Roll.
armageddon
world war 1
did muffin really needed to start all that drama
how’d all this happen
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happy early baxter day, everyone!! this video always makes me smile :)
Happy holidays from Arthur and the Gang!
Vintage Arthur Cap from VTGdallas
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AU where Mr. Ratburn is Miss Frizzle from The Magic School Bus
every episode is just him driving the kids to a different cake shop