+goldblaze93 Those parents keep the Orb of Confusion on their nightstand and forget to turn it off. Honestly, the adults in this show provide good examples of how not to be a parent/adult, the Reads in particular.
I don't really even remember this show at all, I don't think I used to watch it much. Was DW always this...terrible? Did she even have a single episode where she was remotely likable or useful to the plot at all besides being literally the worst thing ever? Because she kind of looks like the worst thing ever judging by the two episodes reviewed in this series.
The way I see it, when Arthur said that, he was merely exaggerating (but only *slightly*). After all, this is the same kid who exaggeratedly portrayed D.W. as a rampaging giant in the episode, "D.W.'s Very Bad Mood".
***** well never hit anyone in general. My thing about that however is that if a woman is bold enough to hit a man, then she should be prepared for him to hit back. That's why I don't hit people if I can help it unless it's someone I could take a punch from.
When I was 10 my sister wanted to play Pokemon Yellow (instead of her christmas present). I didn't want it because I had a 300 hours savegame in it, and it was fairly easy to delete the game by creating a new game (my sister was 6). My mom forced me to share it, and in less than 1hr of me not looking, the savegame was gone. My mom said "it's not that big of a deal". That's all. Now, 2016, a year ago she started to play videogames, a lot of Animal Crossing for Wii in an emulator I helped her to install. She had this 50 hour savegame, and then one day the computer didn't react (RAM issues). She lost the savegame, and suddenly, she remembered that moment, when I was 10 and she just said "it's not that big of a deal". She apologized to me. A lot. I'm 24 now. I waited 14 years. FUCKING WORTH IT. P.D. I'll always remember you, First Pikachu.
That's good for you that that happened it was a long time. I know most would say it just a game, you can do it all over again. But it's more than it than that
Saying “it’s just a game” doesn’t cut it for me. Sure, if you lose a single match in the game then you could always try again. But when 300+hours of a game is deleted..just no..
Noah Sturgis A most eloquent response, and I mean that in the mathematical way. I may have used the wrong word, but on an episode of Numb3rs Charlie described the word as meaning "simple and accurate," just like your statement.
*elegant! That was the math term I was looking for! Had to literally stream Numb3rs from Netflix to find the term. Of course, in so doing I realized that it is streamable from Netflix.
This actually reminded me of something I did when I was younger. First I need to explain that my now passed sister Lilly, was the coolest sister ever. I snuck in her room and read her diary, but instead of punching me, she started crying and kind of shut me out. She bought a lock for her room, and so to apologize, I read my diary out loud to my entire class. And then we were cool. Well, I told her what I did, then were cool.
Roxas theNobody How I read your comment: "So if I hurt my sister because she's being a little bitch then I get grounded, But if I get hit by a random person for practically no reason, I get bitched at? Fuck you guys, I'm goiiin' home."
When Arthur punched her in this episode, all I kept thinking was "Do it again. Harder this time." I don't normally condone violence, especially between children. But in this instance, I felt it was kind of justified. Good god they really cranked up D.W's annoyance to a 1000 and ripped the knob off.
You know, it could have worked better if Arthur hit DW unprovoked and for no reason. But, instead, he hits her for breaking his belongings p. what this episode ends up doing is shaming Arthur for being rightfully pissed off.
I love how after Arthur gets hit and tells his parents it pretty much goes like: Arthur: "And the next thing I knew I was on the ground" Dad: "Well son that's what you get for being a little shit." Arthur: "You mean like DW was being to me earlier?" Dad: "Exactly...wait..."
+Merete Nora Actually, have you heard of the 90's cartoon Bobby's World? There's a scene in the episode "Bobby's Girl" where Bobby pushes his friend Jackie for not playing with him and it appears in a split second, Bobby knew he did wrong and when he gets reprimanded, he looks genuinely sorry. And he was five years old in the episode! I'd explain what leads up to it, but it's a long story.
The Thunder Productions women are generally viewed in society as weaker and more fragile than men, so in the male community, hitting a woman is seen as pathetic and weak. The reason why it’s less of a problem when a man is hit it because men are seen as basically the lance and shield weapon from Monster Hunter.
Kind of wondering if the writers ever realized they were kind of making DW out to be a psychopath? I mean, even for a little kid, it's pretty alarming. She sees whatever she wants as good, whatever she doesn't want as bad, she is entitled, is known to have outbursts, is manipulative (explains why parents don't punish her), is learning to do what is socially expected of her(apologizes on cue) but shows a complete lack of sympathy/empathy towards others (doesn't actually feel bad for breaking the plane and so still basically blames it on Arthur, seeing anything "bad" as someone else's fault.) It's pretty eerie.
I would imagine this is just art imitating life. It's not uncommon for the youngest child, or only child for that matter, to behave in that exact manner.
*+switch the flip* Not really. Child psychology studies prove that while young children might be prone to tantrums because of their operant conditioning, most children aren't able to manipulate on the scale of DW, and stage apologies to elicit sympathy. Children who act like DW are more realistically affected by psychological disorders, victim complexes from troubled parenting, or general mental illness. So in conclusion, DW is so unrealistically evil that she ceases to be believable as a _human_.
MJ George Productions oh, I was simply going off personal experience and anecdotes. My youngest brother was, and in many ways still is, a more extreme version of D.W. so I can believe it. From the sounds of it though, I seem to be the only one.
If the purpose of this episode was to teach that violence doesn't solve problems, why in the holy hell did they pick Arthur (one of the most calm, reasonable characters on the whole show) to be the bad guy here? Why not a character like Binky or even Francine, characters that have ACTUALLY hit people before on the show, or in the least have a very short temper, so them losing their cool and hitting someone in retaliation is actually expected?
***** Its so they don't have to worry about continuity in future episodes. When working with a large cast, that has a moral each episode, it gets hard keeping track of all that character development. And inconvenient if you want a more confrontational character, but they've already learned their lesson about violence, so they're not so confrontational, anymore. But doing it to Arthur means they can have him learn the moral without being any different after the episode than he was before.
MrEricon9 You're basically saying that the writers shouldn't have to worry about continuity because it would be a lot of work, and that's just a lazy excuse.
***** We're talking about over ten years worth of episodes, here. That is quite a lot to ask someone to maintain. Especially since writers come and go, all the time. Its unreasonable to have a new writer go back and review every single episode of the last ten years and keep track of every amount of character development. On top of which, if every character maintained every lesson they learned, by a certain point, they'd all be paragons of humanity. There won't be any conflict if every character is a monk, and the kids watching the show won't be able to identify with the characters. If Francine learned not to be violent, that's drastically changing her personality. Now if we ever need someone with her type of personality for a particular role later, oops, can't do it. She's not that type of person, anymore. The characters need to forgo development in between episodes in order to continue being characters everyone can identify with.
1.) I hate how his parents react when Arthur gets hit. They don't go to school to complain about their kid getting bullied, instead they basically told him that he deserved to be hit. From Arthur's pov, he got hit for no reason. At least DW deserved it! 2.) I hated this episode as I whole because it seemed unrealistic. My cousin (only a few months younger than me but still around my age) used to always hit me when we was like 5 or something. That was her way of handling stuff when she didn't like how something was happening. Her mom (and my mom to some extinct) got on her about it unlike DW that got off scot free. I was taught to hit back if someone hits me and that's basically when it stopped. When I hit back it stopped but that's not the point. Only Arthur seems to get in any sort of trouble and instead of.. idk, protesting against the unfairness of it all, he EXCEPTS it. Now he's disillusioned into believing that he was in the wrong.
Arthur's Big Hit is an Arthur Torture Porn heck anytime D.W. annoys Arthur and her parents let her get away with that is an Arthur Torture Porn an Arthur's Big Hit is the worst of them all D.W constantly mistreats and bothers him, his parents treat him like the black sheep of the family even though it was D.W's fault, his friends betray and sell out to D.W., He gets physically harmed by Binky, his parents are cold-hearted, unsympathetic, malicious and abusive jerks to him and he learns a moral that's twisted, wrong, forced and unnecessary for all the wrong reasons Arthur's Big Hit is the worst Arthur Torture Porn of them all. Arthur needs therapy, to be in foster care and get better parents and Jane and David Read need to go to a parenting class in order to learn about being better parents and to go to jail for their nasty treatment of Arthur.
+Conqueror714 (Sigh) I know that's an old comment, but you... are everything that's wrong with society. It's the very *fact* that this stuff happens in real life that makes this episode a whole lot *worse*, even disregarding what happened to *me* personally. And to everyone else reading this, I hope you all understand that it's comments like that that make me angry, especially those "that's ow the real world works" statements said in a degrading, unsympathetic manner.
+ThomasNCookieMonster My previous comment was a pathetic attempt at sarcasm. I didn't take into account that I was writing on a freaking COMPUTER, where nobody could communicate anything that would DENOTE sarcasm. I was so enraged with this episode's morals that I wrote the previous comment as a rant AGAINST these morals. Everything I said before was exactly what this episode was communicating, and, yes, that message is everything that's wrong with society. I'm also very upset about the double standard in which Arthur is the only one who can ever get bullied or blamed for any wrongdoing just because he's "mature" enough to have bad things happen to him. But it appears as though I made the same mistake as Seth Macfarlane, where it's not clear at all if I actually harbor the offensive views that I write about. I'm sorry for making myself look like a horrible person, and I deleted the old comment so nobody else would see.
This is how I would have written the episode DW asked what Arthur is making and is curious about the plane, but once he says stay away she does for the most part. We see she never stopped being curious and would look into Arthur's room from a distance whenever he worked on it. Once he's done and out of his room her curiosity gets the better of her, and she tries to see if it will fly. Of course it doesn't and she's the one who goes outside first and frantically tries to fix the plane when she realized what she did and it's very clear she regrets her actions. Arthur hears something crash and DW's voice outside. When she sees him she says "I'm sorry" right away and means it but Arthur is having none of it after seeing all his hard work destroyed and DW having broken her promise after being so good at keeping it for all this time. That's when he hits her. The episode will pan out mostly the same from then on out until other than a subplot of Arthur feeling regret deep down but being too proud and too angry to admit it over his lost hard work, then the changes come back when Arthur gets hit. His parents don't have no sympathy, they're adults, so all they say is "oh my god are you okay?", Nothing about DW's feelings heck DW, isn't even home she's at Emily's house or something. It's Arthur who realizes he must have made DW feel the same way. He goes to the store, buys a new plane, and when he gets home that's when he apologizes and accepts DW's earlier apology. He then shows DW the new model kit and asked her if she wants to make it together this time. She says yes. Everything is hunky dorey between the siblings again.End episode. No thanking Binky and after he hits Arthur we see him getting reprimanded and punished and there is a look of deep shame of Binky's face, so we know it's wrong and don't side with him. There same lesson and we actually side with the people we are supposed to.
This is much better. Still not perfect (It shares one same problem with the original: Arthur's generally not a short-tempered sort, he would not be so quick to resort to violence... Francine or one of the Tough Customers would be much better suited to a "resorting to violence is wrong" moral), but a major improvement.
This kinda reminds me of a fix the episode comment chain I had on my old account, only both Binkyand the Tough Customers were appalled that Arthur hit hus sister in mine, leading to Binky hitting Arthur because for all their faults, they'd NEVER hit their siblings. (Though Binky would want to know the full story.)
@@thomashuffman3237 honestly the problem i have with what he wrote was it seems a bit out of character that dw would actually not bother arthur. i mean the sad thing about this episode is everyone somehow manages to feel in character.
I remember when I was about 10 years old, watching this episode with my little brother after school. My Mom came in and started watching it with us, and she got infuriated with DW and the whole story for exactly these reasons. Thank God I was raised to watch TV critically.
Mr. and Mrs. Reid do say to Arthur that they will deal with D.W. (off-screen) and D.W. does apologize (followed up with an annoying question about the model airplane), but yes, this is a flawed episode. It does try its best to address an issue, but due to the short amount of time allocated, it got slanted. It does not help that D.W. is an annoying character and many fans actually rejoiced when she got hit.
I watched this episode back in 2007 when I was only 10, and I was mad when DW didn’t get her ass beat. At the same time, it’s also Arthur’s fault for leaving his bedroom door open, but it’s mostly DW’s fault for causing all this…
3:10 When you bring up that DW cries louder than when she got hit, that is another sign that Arthur's parents display parental favoritism towards DW over Arthur because a child crying loudly for a mild situation like that is usually a sign of spoiling and favoritism. Just out of curiosity, did Arthur ever do an episode where his parents realize that they favor DW over Arthur? Personally, that would be a really good episode concept if you ask me.
I don't know if there was an episode where Arthur's parents realize they favorite D.W, but I know another episode similar to this one. Half of "Play it again, D.W!" was about Arthur losing his sanity to D.W playing her Crazy Bus CD and for good reason. He heard the song 532 times in ONE WEEK! No joke, Arthur counted it with a tally chart and says it. Apparently, 532 times of hearing the same song in one week didn't drove the parents insane. Jane (Arthur and D.W's mother) tells her daughter to turn off the music during the song with a smile on her face and when Arthur whine to Jane that D.W's humming the song, she's still smiling. David (the father) did try to ignore the music by wearing earplug. They dragged Arthur to a "Crazy Bus LIVE" show and he finds out Buster is a fan of the song too. Finally, when Arthur tries to do his homework, but can't cause D.W's playing the CD again, he snaps. He tells D.W that he'll wreck the CD; which causes D.W to run out of her room to tell the parents. Arthur then gets loses some TV time and if they hadn't took the CD to David's HS reunion, Arthur would have heard the song all night.
Samsapopin And this is why I think that Arthur's parents were more-or-less asking for D.W. to get hit in *this* episode. If it hadn't been for the model plane incident, it would most likely have been something else that led Arthur to hit her. Now, I'm aware that hitting is wrong, no matter *what* the circumstance. But this (IMO) is *the* episode that emphasizes that Arthur's parents constantly side with D.W. whenever she antagonizes Arthur (and Arthur alone), especially if he retaliates in *any* manner. Personally, I think Arthur was more right to threaten to wreck the CD than he was to hit his sister. Neither one of those reactions really solves anything. But since Arthur had to do *homework* in the former situation... yeah.
***** Yeah. It is true that children should be taught that violence is not okay to solve situations but at the same time, they also need to be taught that being hit still doesn't excuse the fact that if you annoy of harass a person long enough, they will retaliate! And as MrEnter pointed out the whole "I'm only five years old" is NOT an excuse for bad behavior. Parents need to correct children's bad behavior while they are still young or else they will end up learning that lesson the hard way in the future.
bonnie641 (Slightly off topic kinda) When I was 5-9 my parents would take us to the movie theaters really early and we could run around all we wanted. But when people came into the theater they would make us sit and do nothing. If we made noise we had to leave and miss some of the movie. Nowadays kids will cry and sometimes scream during some parts where it seems almost vital that the audience needs to be quiet. Then The parents use the excuse "They're only 7" Like they said in the video. Not. An. Excuse.
Chozo Hunter Mr Krabs from SpongeBob stands at number 3, and bendy from that fosters home for imaginary friends episode stands at number 2, yeah, I hate D.W that much. And I rarely hate TV show characters!
The bad thing is this episode could have worked. DW could have watched from afar as Arthur spent all that time building the plane, with very little interaction between the two. Then have her curiosity get the best of her and sneak in ONE time, play with the plane, and break it. She can try to deny it, say Nadine broke it, then he gets mad and hits her. That way DW is sympathetic, and Arthur can be mainly in character. At the end, have Arthur and DW apologizing, and DW give Arthur a badly patched plane to show she's sorry.
Yeah.This would have been a much better idea for the episode than what we got:A terrible episode of Arthur with characters that act nothing like themselves, Arthur's parents acting like total jerks, and a seriously confusing moral.
Christopher Frencham I was 14. I would watch Arthur with my nieces and cousins. This one was irritating to me because it seemed unnecessarily exaggerated to make the point.
GAs honeybear I remember watching this episode when I was around 3 or 4 and even back then I was able to see something wrong with it (plus DW really pissed me off), and watching it now I can see a lot of things wrong with it. but aside from that, I loved watching Arthur
+GAs honeybear I'm thinking that perhaps the moral was "hitting is wrong no matter what". Even then however, to anyone with a thinking brain the fact that DW is not shown getting any punishment makes it look like being an annoying little sister is fine.
1) D.W. is the most annoying little girl who never feels guilt! 2) His parents care about D.W. more than Arthur even when a bully punches his arm! 3) Not even Buster is on Arthur's side! 4) You can be a jerk to your older sibling and will never be seen in guilt by your parents! 5) Messy moral!
People don't seem to get that dw acts like a normal 4 year old. I worked in a preschool and let me tell you, children are just starting to develop a moral conscience at that age and don't usually feel full guilt and remorse or know right from wrong until a few years later.
@Y. vazquez I never said she shouldn't be. I said people have been blaming a 4 year old child who doesn't know any better and she is not the one at fault for that.
@Y. vazquez She isn't stupid for a 4 year old, but 4 year olds are still just barely starting to grasp morality, empathy, remorse, and boundaries. She can't be expected to fully understand those things yet even though she is slowly learning them, so her behavior really is normal for a girl her age.
Minor but important detail: When Arthur's dad helped Arthur see the error of his ways, as the show portrayed, right after Arthur said, "Yeah, I guess I get it", DW walks in the kitchen smiling. Smiling.
The fact that DW got away from this with little more than a bruise (cause let's face it, Arthur didn't punch her THAT hard) is probably the worst part of the episode. If she got scolded on-camera by the parents for provoking Arthur, but the parents ALSO scold Arthur for way over-reacting, then I think this episode would have gone a lot better. It also would have helped if it didn't seem almost DELIBERATE that DW was messing with his stuff to provoke him. This episode had a potentially good message behind it. "Violence/bullying is bad" is a good message to send. "Karma will take a dump on you if you so much as lay a finger on someone who was clearly in the wrong" is NOT a good message.
Cameron Rubio Watch the episode/review again. He punches her, but it seems very soft for a punch. The episode says he's in the wrong because he punched her, which is true. However, DW is ALSO in the wrong because she annoyed Arthur, messed with his belongings, broke into his room, and broke a project that he clearly showed meant something to him. The episode makes us WANT A LITTLE GIRL TO GET HIT BECAUSE SHE'S ANNOYING. That's when the message sent is botched. I liked Arthur when I was younger. I can't really watch it now because of the cringe-worthy audio, but I remember it being fairly interesting and very mature in the sense that it handled each of its subject matters like an adult, but made them easy enough to understand by children. This episode just really sucks.
Another episode where DW gets off scot free for misbehavior is in "DW's Very Bad Mood", in which she had a tantrum that lasted for days on end. And that was just because she was not invited to somebody's party. The episode does not do a good job of making her sympathetic, like at all.
+Joe Segal "Francine, why don't you go to your house and stop bothering us?" If D.W. was my child, I would have given her an earful for talking like that.
Also, "For Whom The Bell Tolls", where D.W. pretends to not have a voice to get Arthur and her parents to give her special treatment (she started out not having one, but kept silent after she recovered because of her parents' spoilage), which only stopped because Arthur has sort of good friends (Mrs. Read is even so ignorant and stupid as to say "Now why would she pretend to be sick?" and doesn't even consider Arthur's point of "Because she gets what she wants!"). Also "Play It Again, D.W.", where D.W. plays the eternal torment that is Crazy Bus constantly, at max volume, which keeps Arthur from having any peace - even to do his homework - and the parents completely side with her when he threatens to break it, and later when she loses it and instantly accuses Arthur of taking it... Although at least those two have the benefit of not portraying D.W. in a sympathetic light to the audience, which cannot be said of "Arthur's Big Hit" or "D.W.'s Very Bad Mood"...
May i quote one moment from the episode "Saying D.W. is just a little girl is like saying a Tornado is just a little wind". I know that quote was supposed to portray Arthur as wrong, but in fact he is right
To be fair, DW was always an obnoxious little snot. And, speaking from experience, telling your parents that your sibling is annoying you rarely works as often as TV would like us to believe. The parents either tell the siblings the same thing YOU told them, to then have the sibling ignore both you and the parents, or they tell you to suck it up and work it out for yourself. Either way, it's not the Ultimate Solution.
@@thesupershinymegagengar2034 precisely! When you’re getting bullied, they’ll usually hit you with that “Ignore them and they’ll stop” bullshit, which, speaking from experience, RARELY works.
I have a bit of an issue with 'Violence is always wrong' morals, because, as this episode shows, they completely ignore the situation. Obviously, Arthur was wrong to hit his sister just for breaking his model plane (even if she's totally not sorry for what she did, and we completely understand why Arthur snapped,) but let's have a look at when Binky hit Arthur and his parents didn't give a shit. What if it hadn't just been one punch? What if Binky had tried to beat Arthur up? Would it have been wrong for Arthur to try and punch Binky off of him?
***** Your comment is spot on, especially the last line. I can't stand it when people say "get over it." It's callous and dismissive because it shows that you don't give a shit about anyone else's suffering--only your level of comfort around those people. In the sixth grade, because of my attention-seeking behavior (that I deeply regret), I was sent to the sixth-grade principal's office. I was visibly shaken because I wanted everyone to like me, so that's why I tried so hard to be a class clown, but can you guess what the principal said to me? "Get over it." Those exact words. Not "it's okay not to be liked" or "you don't need to cry over something that shouldn't bother you," just a simple "get over it." I get that no one likes an attention seeker, but that was completely unwarranted. To this day, I wonder what would have happened if he said that in front of a more sympathetic faculty member. I did learn that it's okay to be disliked, but it didn't help that most people who knew about my behavior didn't seem to care and that my mother was angry at me and didn't seem to care about my emotional distress, either, not to mention that I was bullied for supposedly being gay (because of a rumor that I unwittingly caused). I was done with that school and went to another one, the next year. I was still bullied for the next two years, even though most of the time, I did nothing wrong. God, I hated middle school. I digress, and I suppose shouldn't have expected sympathy so soon after all that I've done, but those three words bring up such a horrible memory that I promised myself that I would never use them on anyone else.
***** I'm sorry to hear that. My mother acts the same way towards me when I'm visibly afraid of bees and wasps, so I empathise with you. Tough love can be a bitch. It's sad. I hate those words so much. I know that I misbehaved in middle school, but I really wanted to be liked. No one cared. Well, actually, one person seemed to understand that I wasn't trying to act out the time I broke down, so there's that.
chimanruler15 I'm actually in a tight spot right now. My dad says he loves me, says he'll never hurt me! but right now, he Shoved me to the floor! I hope I can get out of the house away from him soon! He says he loves me but yet, he just wants to control me and my sister, like a dictator! In fact, that's what he thinks "Family" is, a Dictators-ship.
There was so much injustice in this episode. Arthur told DW not to touch it, she shows no remorse, and yeah, maybe he shouldn’t have hit her, but there should’ve been some kind of repercussion for her doing what she did. And then, everyone hates on Arthur despite everyone knowing that DW is a freaking nightmare, Binky only hits Arthur by peer pressure from the other bullies, and Arthur’s parents are FINE with that (condoning bullying because they thought it would teach him a lesson), and the only excuse DW has for breaking the plane is, “I’m just a child. Give me a break.” That argument doesn’t work if you already should know better!!! What. The. HELL!?
To be fair to Arthur telling his parents probably wouldn't have done any good considering other episodes where D.W. Constantly is terrible and the parents do nothing. I think the only time she's ever gotten what she deserves was when she got upset at the baby and that was because she was trying to eat her stuff (nice parenting guys)
Yeah, she gets pissed with Kate, when there’s a simpler solution for her: TAKE YOUR TOYS TO THE OTHER ROOM AND PLAY WITH THEM!!! Jeez, DW is an idiot and an asshole. Not a good combination.
Shaun Vega My little sister at that age was pretty much what D.W. would look like if her parents were actually competent enough to not let her get away with all the shit she does. Of course when I was that age I was a powder keg who switched from normal to BERSERKER RAGE at the drop of a hat
"But what kind of a stupid plane doesn't fly" this line makes DW fell that she is not sorry for what she did I also agree why did the writers put this line
I've always had a personal grudge with this episode ever since I was a kid, not just because it's terrible, but because it hit a little too close to home for me. (pun not intended) You see, I have a younger brother who was a lot like D.W. (and coincidentally has those same two initials), meaning he was often irritating as hell and wouldn't leave me alone when I told him to; and, just like Arthur here, I would get so fed up that I'd hit him, which rightfully got me into big trouble; but, just like Arthur's parents, my mom wouldn't punish my brother for what he did, because "you hitting him was punishment enough." Seeing this episode as a kid did nothing to help my hitting problems. In fact, since it was one of the only shows I saw back then that tried to teach that hitting was wrong, it might have actually made things worse. That's why this is one of my all-time favorite Animated Atrocity reviews. As strange as it may sound, hearing someone call out this dung-heap of an episode for its bullshit gives me a sort of feeling of having been vindicated. (P.S. My brother and I get along a lot better now than we used to, so don't worry about us)
seanmyster6 I totally know the feeling. Truth is, when this episode came out that was generally the parenting culture. I learned to adapt, some suggest too much. I would say that I am stronger for those challenges, however, as people generally say I am one of the most patient people they know. I can't help but think that if they knew how I got that way, they wouldn't be envious! I have a feeling you might feel the same way.
I know how you feel, my little brother Alex would annoy me every day and torture me until I'd scream at him or freak out. But every time I did, I would get in trouble with my parents. No matter what sick and twisted shit Alex would do to me, my parents would take HIS side, whether they didn't notice, or didn't believe me when I told them. Things are different now… for the worse! Now, instead of just torturing me, Alex treats me like utter shit, always finding ways to fuck with me and piss me off every damn day! Although now, my parents will more often than not take my side, so at least THAT'S a plus.
+Tyler Nestor What I normally do when that happens to me is make the person regret the day they were born by psychologically torturing them to the point where they can no longer adequately function. No one messes with the heir of Hernando de Soto and gets away with it.
Kira Caroso I would LOVE to do that. But there are 3 reasons why I won't. 1: I'm too nice. 2: He would call the police or (at least) tell my parents and I would get in EXTREME trouble. 3: He wouldn't learn anything even in a traumatic experience like that and would still piss me off all of the time. Hell, after that experience, he would just treat me even worse than he does now.
+Tyler Nestor I am sorry to hear that. I actually used to be a nice guy, and still am for the most part, but when I have reached my limit, I use my much higher than average intelligence to get vengeance in a way that no one can pin the blame on me. But it takes forever to get me to that point.
Why is arthur's arm bandaged? You bandage a cut, but punching someone shouldn't cause anything more than a bruise. Did Binky's buddies pull a knife on arthur because Binky didn't hit him hard enough or something?
Bandages are the ultimate cure-all in kid's shows. Got punched? Bandages. Got crushed? Bandages. Got exposed to a machine that turned you into a mutant evil genius and then you got third degree burns? Bandages. Got sliced in half and tossed into a black hole? Bandages.
Yeah this episode seems rather....dumb. It has several problems not the least of which is that DW really is not a sympathetic character, in fact how she acts, treats Arthur, and is generally favored by the parents has made me and Im sure many other people heavily dislike her(my little sis was also like this a lot. to the point that if she was in trouble and getting yelled at my mom would shift to yelling at and grounding me because I happened to be walking down the steps at the time :/). This makes her unsympathetic, I cant feel bad for Arthur snapping and hitting her because I know what a little piece of crap she's been to him and how much crap she puts Arthur through, and because of how the parents favor her(if he told on her I still doubt anything major would have been done about it). And she still doesnt really accept any responsibility in the end :/ So the "violence is bad" message is already muddled by having the person we are supposed to be sympathetic towards someone we already dislike. Then the whole Binky situation showing more how the parents favor DW over Arthur and how they showed no sympathy for their son being attacked for no reason. Arthur at the least had a reason for his action as wrong as that action was, but as far as they know Binky just out of nowhere attacked their son, further giving sympathy to Arthur. Hell he's the only character that has any fault in the episode that is seen to receive any kind of punishment for his actions He gets pretty much tortured by DW, his parents arent shown to do much if anything, and even his friends(who you would think would back him up) side against him. I honestly feel worse and worse for Arthur in this episode. He doesnt have an escape or any kind of outlet for all this crap so I can understand him snapping. Which I think is the biggest problem with the episode. The situation as presented to us is a lot more complex than "violence is bad". This is honestly an issue that needed more time and care put into it, and should actually deal with multiple issues like peer pressure and even family problems with parents favoring children.
UnbreakableJames If anything this episode taught me violence really is the answer. All peaceful solutions failed to change anything, no matter how much he told D.W. to stop or told his parents. His parents were very likely to not punish D.W. for breaking the plane, the only logical response was to take justice into his own hands. Sure he got punished for it, but D.W. will always remember that even if the system protects her she can only push people so far before they say to hell with the consequences
+Rainbow Dashs BBFF Well, you won't find one in me because I freaking hate her, too. In fact, this episode is one of her worst, which makes me feel *extra* bad for Arthur. It also doesn't help that I'm kinda like Arthur in this episode IRL. Admittedly, I haven't punched any*one* because I was super pissed off in the past few years, but I've punched a few *things* in pure rage. Thankfully, I haven't damaged my hands yet, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
+PikachuLittle Or as i've heard many times, when a nice person gets angry, the devil shivers, here we see a guy that was pushed, and pushed , and pushed (not necessarily in this episode alone, seeing that asshole of a sister get away with everything wrong she did does make people angry), for one thing this episode thaught me to back up my friends, and that actions have consequences, i honestly dispised DW, luckily no one in my family is like her, she is an awful person and in this episode Arthur taught her a lesson she will not soon forget.
This episode, despite being morally challenged, and hard to sit through, has one of the best moments in the entire series; D.W. actually gets what's coming to her. Honestly, I could watch that one moment for hours.
My middle school had something called a "bully box". We were supposed to fill out a complaint form and put it in there, but I never bothered since I knew I'd be the one getting blamed anyway.
I hated this episode as a kid. Its just out f Arthur's character and I said the same Fuck this episode. Also another episode I don't like is the one where Buster steals a toy and Arthur got grounded for it even he had nothing to do with it and was unaware that Buster stole it. I can understand if he was aware and didn't tell anyone but he didn't deserve to be punished for it. I never really liked Arthur's parents in some episodes. J hate those episodes where they just treat the main character like shot.
They are. I'm 23 and though I don't watch Arthur, I do still watch the Magic School Bus for sheer nostalgia, wishing they still aired. My kids are going to have to watch all the good stuff on my computer it seems, since I don't dare show them the crap that's airing now.
Arthur treats adult situations with maturity for kids and the Magic School Bus is accurately (for it's time) educational and enjoyable. There could be worse opinions I suppose
I actually remember when I saw this episode for the first time, I thought to myself "Why does Arthur have to apologize here?" Another big problem is that DW is a spoiled brat in virtually EVERY episode, not just this one, so rather than DW being unusually curious, I genuinely felt like she was TRYING to annoy Arthur, which makes it all the more infuriating that the one time her misbehavior has to come to the parents attention, they (seem to) do NOTHING to punish her. Thinking it over, Arthur's parents were probably my biggest problem with the show as a kid (before I thought too heavily on DW herself) because I always felt like they didn't do things a parent should in situations. As a kid, I could relate to Arthur not going to them with all his problems, and their reactions to the ones he did only reinforced that notion.
Yeah, this was bad. Yes I get they're trying to say violence no matter what is wrong but everyone taking D.W.'s side just because he hit her, IN THE ARM of all places, not in the face, not in the gut or anywhere on her mid section, HER FUCKING ARM! Then Binky being peer pressured into hitting someone is laughable since he's shown he's willing to use physical force. Yes he's your typical misunderstood bully who's good at heart but he has shown he's not afraid to fight someone unless they can actually kick his ass like Sue Ellen. Third, why Author? As someone else said Binky or Francine would have been better because hell they have naturally short tempers. Fourth: also as scottski02 said " 'Arthur's Cousin Catastrophe' Arthur's Cousin uses karate on him and no one cared. And she did it not because she was mad but bored! And no one cared." That hits a major point, it seems that NO ONE cares when violence is being done TO Arthur! Which brings me to my final point: His father's reaction when ARTHUR got hit. He openly said Arthur deserved it in not so many words without batting an eye! If that was my kid, even if he was in trouble at home I'D NEVER say something like that! I'd be at the school demanding Binky was expelled or at least suspended! The morals are so fucked up and I always felt something was very wrong with this episode. Thank you for calling out this episode on this bullshit! Edit: As cruel as this is to say I wouldn't mind Purple Guy from Five Nights at Freddy's kill her and for her to be stuffed into an animatronic suit.
+Cameron Rubio Because these cartoons are not the kind to show a fist making direct contact with another body. Pushing and shoving is one thing, but if a cartoon isn't Tom and Jerry or Looney Tunes, it means something, possibly serious, to smack a person.
There are so many fanfictions that re-write this episode so that they 'both' get into trouble. Growing up I was taught 'no one should hit anyone'. Because teaching kids that 'Boys shouldn't hit girls' I found might get it into a few girls heads that 'I can hit boys all I want and there not allowed to fight back.' This episode teaches that girls can torment boys all they want and get away with it. This is a horrible lesson.
Another episode I never liked is Nerves of Steal. In that episode, Buster steals a toy from the drug store, and both he AND Arthur get in trouble at the end even though Arthur doesn't do anything other than help Buster try to do the right thing and return the toy at the end. Arthur gets in trouble at the end basically for not telling on Buster and trying to "cover up" what Buster did even though they were really just trying to do the right thing. Wth? The moral was a bit confusing in that episode too.
But, that's realistic. That's what happens in real life. I've had situations where I've tried to help a friend get out of doing something stupid, but end up getting punished too.
It always annoyed me how Arthur keeps getting in trouble when DW yells "Mooooom, Arthur's....!" especially during the current season. "Mooooom, Arthur's staring at me!" "Mooooom, Arthur's breaking promises!" She even gloats about it in the World Records episode in the cold opening when Arthur is in the tuxedo and steps in front of Mary Moo Cow on tv and DW cries out to her Mom and she calls Arthur to the kitchen and then DW comes out in a tuxedo exclaiming how she has broken the record for getting Arthur in trouble the most times. Don't get me started about the bugs scene in the same episode.
Gotta wonder if that's why Candice in Phineas & Ferb is shown in the wrong? DW screams for mommy every five seconds, and of course the parents side with their favorite child over the one they apparently could care less for. Candice screams for mom, and Mom rolls her eyes and wonders what it could be THIS time?
I'm one of five kids, and I have all brothers. My older brother hit me all the time when we were growing up (I didn't cry to my parents; I learned to hit back). Yeah, brothers and sisters do that. It's not "good," per se, but it is what it is.
"Did you have to have that line, writers? Really? You didn't want to give her apology the *slightest* hint of genuineness to it?" What part of DW's a sociopath do you not get?
The reason Arthur never told his parents about DW bothering him is because he knew that his parents wouldn't do jackshit about it, he's too self aware.
Arthur and DW's relationship is a lot like my relationship with my youngest sister. She gets away with everything and I take the fall for all of her crap. I feel his pain.
That's how I feel. My little brother hits me and he isn't punished. But if I hit him I get yelled at because of the normal parent reasoning "you're the oldest and should know better," but younger siblings should be held accountable for their actions as well. (-.-)
Same, only it’s with my older sister. She gets away with doing certain stuff she isn’t supposed to, and every time I break a rule I ALWAYS get punished. Note she also does have anger management issues which has affected us whenever we go on vacation (I’m not joking, we almost cancelled it because of how awful and childish she was behaving just because someone was in the bathroom and she had to pee, we had relatives there and my mom was so embarrassed) and for whatever reason I’m held to a higher standard. I’ve gotten into fights with my mom over it and even threatened to cut ties with her because of how sick of it I am
Sadly, this practically happens throughout the whole series, I've noticed. D.W. always takes advantage of Arthur by teasing him, and the times that D.W. causes trouble, she never gets caught at times. This is why everyone thinks D.W. is a bad character: she's an annoying little brat.
Violence is wrong, everyone can do that, ANYONE. This show deals about the trauma of cancer and the 9/11 attacks PERFECTLY but can't teach a moral about don't hit people, How? What?! WHY?!
2:57 - SERIOUSLY?! Arthur HIT her?!? Well, I expected that, this episode titled "Arthur's big hit", but if my brother ruined something I spent FROEVER making, I would've just yelled at him!
Arhem. She annoyed him for months as he made the plane, then broke into his room, touching it as it was drying and broke it; At the end blaming him for it. If I would have any sibling that did that to me, I would punch them in the face. Several times. She got a pretty mild treatment for something so bad. She knows very well it was wrong and something would happen.
What I really hate about this episode is that not only did Arthur not provoke Binky at all, he was actually helping him by bringing him the pen that he lost. So the writers want us to think that punching someone for no reason after they do you a favor = punching someone after they repeatedly harass you, destroy your property and harass you some more. FUCK. THAT.
Most of the D.W. episodes like this one now makes me think of that line that Lin says to Toph in Legend of Korra in her flashback. I'll just rephrase it to fit the story told here. "Once again, D.W. gets to do whatever she wants, and there are no consequences!"
If you add an S before Hit in the title then you'd get Arthur's Big Shit and that would've been a far more interesting episode. I never watched Arthur before but I still think that would be interesting.
i dont remember watching arthur as a kid. but i do remember hating D.W. i hate these kinda characters. in every cartoon that involves a female or little sister its always either the girl can do whatever she wants because she is young and dosent understand or is adorable, the big brother is always stupid while the little sister is intelligent(except for dexters lab), or in anime a tsundere can punch/beat up a guy and the guy wont ever physically hit back(sakura from naruto, edolas lucy from fairy tail)
Or Nami from One Piece. Words can't describe how much I hate that and I am a girl. My mom Always taught me that if anyone hits me I have a right to hit them back. No matter who they are. If you can dish it you can take it
D.W is my least favorite character of all time, I hate her... and I'll be honest here, I replayed the scene of D.W getting hit several times, cause I feel she had it coming. I swear I'm a good person, I just hate D.W with a passion.
Not really. Soul Eater has a character that is a child abuse victim. As Told By Ginger had an episode where Ginger wrote a poem about a girl who committed suicide, an episode where Ginger gets addicted to caffine, an episode where Ginger gets a substitute teacher who's clearly a psycho-path who mentally abuses children for a living, and an episode where another character doesn't know how to feel about his own grandmother's death. Underland Chronicles (a kids' book series) portrays racism among fictional species, has a genocide take place, portrays its authority figure characters as morally gray at best, and has a character whose parents killed each other when he was an infant. Another kids' book, Hound of Ulster, has as much violence as Metalocalypse and ends with the main character getting beheaded. Courage the Cowardly Dog had an episode that showed domestic abuse and hinted that the abuse victim is a lesbian. The fifth book of Harry Potter has a main villain that is a clear satire of governmental interference of public schools and she literally forces people to cut their own hands for their political beliefs. Fullmetal Alchemist starts of by making the viewer think the soldiers are the good guys before they get split between the trigger happy ones who follow an evil dictatorial leader and the ones who simply want to serve justice and save people. Yu Yu Hakusho has its main character die in the very first episode. Aaahh!!! Real Monsters had an episode about a one-time character who was constantly bullied as a kid for his appearance, and shows the negative toll it took on him as an adult. Danny Phantom had an hour-long movie where he finds out about a potential future where him cheating on a test leads to him falling down a slippery slope to become a villain. Regular Show had an episode that revealed one of the characters was overshadowed by a younger brother who was a favorite child. Samurai Jack is set in a Crapsack World that is ruled by a demon and is filled with illegal alien immigrants. Sym-Bionic Titan has a backstory episode where one of the characters loses his father, gets sent to a boarding military school where he is emotionally abused, and the episode ends on a huge downer note I don't want to spoil. The ThunderCats reboot is about race wars and deals with other issues like severe poverty, child favoritism, and prisoners of war. A Series of Unfortunate Events deals with child abuse (book one), OCD women (book three), underpaid employment and child employment (book four), abusive boarding schools (book five), rich parents who never make time for their kids (book six), the reality of people being accused of crimes they didn't commit as well as the evil of laws against self-defense (book seven), the bloodthirstiness of human nature, the moral problems of fortune telling, and the legalized discrimination of people with physical abnormalities (book nine), self-imposed guilt (book ten), extreme feminism (book eleven), and small societies trying to run away from mainstream society while being led by hypocrites who keep things away from the people they rule and claim to do so justly (the final book).
Funnily enough, by not showing DW receive any punishment for her crime, despite her clearly not caring about the consequences of her actions, and Arthur being perpetually treated like garbage, despite genuinely acknowledging his wrongdoings, the show possibly teaches one of the greatest morals of all: Life isn't fair. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, you will be treated like shit, and it's purely because of what you are, not who.
Really, though, the fact that this sort of stuff happens in real life makes this episode *worse* rather than better. Even disregarding what happened to me personally, I've witnessed (or at least heard about) cases in which the instigator got no punishment whatsoever, especially if the other party retaliates and gets punished themselves. I'm thoroughly convinced that people don't really care about what provokes someone into doing something wrong, especially if that someone reacts negatively, and that they're punishing their reaction solely for *being* a reaction, not just a wrongdoing, because even if they *did* see what provoked the reaction, they flat out do nothing (or at least, nothing major).
+crazyinsane500 "Life isn't fair, and kids, you should continue to believe that. Accept that people not caring about other people is an inevitability, and feel totally justified in being selfish or mean for no real reason because being fair is a totally pointless exercise. Don't get any ideas in your head about making the world a better place through kindness or justice, because that's just crazy talk. It will never happen, and you will always be unfairly victimized, because life isn't fair."
If you want an episode of a kids show that teaches this lesson the right way, look at the Dragon Tales episode "No Hitter". It's from around the same time but it fixes everything wrong with this episode.
IAmNotAFunguy I agree, especially since "Dragon Tales" was *also* on PBS. Instead of being treated like a pariah, Max is just pulled aside and simply told that while it's okay to be angry, it's not okay to hit. So, what was that PBS was saying about their strict policy against hitting?
Superman13195 Which episode? The "Arthur" one or the "Dragon Tales" one because the "Dragon Tales" one actually *did* show Max hitting Emmy and kicking Ord. The "Arthur" episode on the other hand didn't actually *show* the punch; just Arthur moving his fist forward, the *sound* of the punch, and D.W. flying back.
I do like Arthur. But, This episode gets on my nerves. I am so glad I am not the only one who feels that way. Plus the parents seems more concern about DW getting hit even when they know she broke something that was really important to Arthur. But, When Arthur gets hit they are like 'Well you deserved it for upsetting and hurting your sister." What the fuck ? Are they favoring DW over Arthur ? If they are they should stop. You should not favor your kids. Plus I don't blame for Arthur for snapping like that. Maybe he did tell his parents a bunch of times and it wasn't shown. They don't even punish DW when she was having a tantrum about not going to someones birthday for days. All they said that her behavior has got to stop. They did not take any toys or privileges away for screaming all night long. The father just carried her to bed and tuck her in with a smile on his face while she was yelling and didn't say anything to her in one scene. I don't get why they allow her to get away with things that most kids in real life would get in trouble with. Just cuz she is 4 doesn't mean they she shouldn't get punished. Little kids needs to have some punishes or else they will be worse then DW when they get older.
+xXWounded-AngelXx the funny thing is they only pushed her twice that i can recall the one time she said a swear word to her mom and the other time she said she was going to hit kate.
+xXWounded-AngelXx I seem to remember an episode once where she did get punished and sent to her room, and pretty much the whole episode was about her going insane.
This episode just might've been salvaged if they showed DW getting repercussions for what she did. Both Arthur and DW were in the wrong, if they showed DW getting punished and come to the realization that she did something wrong it would've not only strengthened the episode but also DW's character and the relationship between her and Arthur
If Arthur tells his parents about DW messing with his model plane Arthur's parents would probably say something along the lines of "You should learn to keep your plane in a safe place" Or "Don't blame her for your plane"
Actually, I can totally see where this episode is going. This episode of Arthur is trying to teach you the blunt, harsh reality of life. The fact that no one on earth has the balls to condone violence anymore no matter what the circumstances. If you stand up to a bully at school, you get detention. If you shoot someone defending yourself, you go to court. If you're in the armed forces and you fight back against the psychopathic idealists opened fire on you, you get court marshaled. Arthur was trying to tell us that the world was going to LOOSE IT'S BALLS. Well guess what, they were right. It already has.
I... can actually see where you're coming from. Now, granted, I don't 100% agree with it. But you've got a valid point. I mean, one time, someone kept joking with me about something, even when I was getting annoyed (what it was they were joking about, I'd rather not say). I wanted to stand up for myself, but I was worried that if I did, I would get called out... *at best*. It just goes to show what happens when there's so much as a *threat* of a consequence if you stand up for yourself, even if you're not saying anything rude of disrespectful, you just want to tell them to stop.
@@ThomasNCookieMonster The only thing this episode taught was that nowadays in life, everyone has to take everything and you'll either be scolded for it or people will feel bad that you had to deal with it. The only thing is, the victim doesn't get to choose. Sometimes, someone will be praised and get the sympathy of people for having to deal with a bully when they stand up for themselves, sometimes they'll be scolded for "being mean/rude".
This might be the most cogent comment on this entire thread. Don't get me wrong, I agree with pretty much every single other comment on this video too but I think yours is the one that sums it up most efficiently. 100% agree
The moral is don't hit siblings when they destroy your hard work and they shouldn't get punished, then if you get punched by a bully it is completely fine and you are still the "bad guy"
The way Arthur is treated in this episode, I wouldn’t be surprised if this happened. Athur has a staring contest. If Arthur wins, D.W can’t go into his room ever again. Athur breaths on D.W, and she immediately screeches. Arthur is shot down by a helicopter. In the hospital, dad says “Well now you know how D.W felt when you breathed on her.
The intended moral of this episode never phased me the first time I saw it at age 7. My hatred for DW kept me from doing so. Hearing Arthur's fist connect and seeing DW hit the ground was the best Arthur memory of my childhood...
This reminds me so badly of like a million situations with my own little sister and me. She could basically do whatever she wanted and break all my stuff, my single mother told me we should discuss that among ourselves like adults (How do you discuss "like adults" with a ten-year-old who is maniacally giggling about breaking your things and burping into your face as a reply?). But as soon as I did anything my sister didn't want me to (like have a fork at dinner she wanted to eat with, not kidding), my mum would yell at me and make me stop it and then sometimes still punish me. Surprise, she grew up to be very entitled and badly equipped to deal with real world situations and interpersonal relationships. Luckily, it got better after both my brother and I moved out and our mother didn't have anyone to blame for our sister's misconducts anymore. What Mr Enter says here is absolutely true.
This episode is so hypocritical. It said that Arthur hitting was wrong because two wrongs don't make a right, but then it says that binky hitting Arthur was "him getting what was coming to him". What the hell?!
Even as a kid, I felt it was COMPLETELY unfair! I hit my brothers all the time and didn't get the same punishment as Arthur (my brothers and I rough-housed a lot as kids. Who didn't? XD ). Also, D.W. has probably always been my most HATED character in almost EVERY show. It's kinda funny how 7 year olds have a better grasp of morals than the writers of this episode, eh?
"Maybe that's how DW felt when you hit her" What?! There's a big difference, 1st Arthur got hit for no reason from their pov while DW deserved it. 2nd Arthur isn't usually like this, so DW must have done something bad to get him to snap. 3rd DW is a awful character
Now that I think about it, I vaguely remember laughing my head off as a child when Arthur's voice cracked when he squealed, "I TOWWLD YOOUU... NAWT TO TOUUCH IIIITTT!" So in a way, I thought D.W. deserved it.
Given how many people were dealing with this scenario in their lives, this episode was incredibly shitty. I've witnessed a very similar situation in which the younger sister took something she knew she wasn't allowed to, damaged it, and then cried that she was being bullied. (Note, she was never hit, she was held and not allowed to run away. She only got hurt by pulling to try to get free, still refusing to let go of what she had taken and was crushing in her hand.) So she got her brother in trouble, who was himself also "just a kid", but that excuse somehow works for her and not for him. To do that, to set an example so undeniably clear that she can ruin your belongings and it'll be your fault and never hers, that you are the child less loved... That is truly sick parenting. And for the first time ever in describing some parental abuse on one of Mr Enter's videos, this story is not about me. I was witness to it all. I hate that this episode so strongly makes me think to that horrific day. That it justifies it. That it makes Arthur do all the wrong things, and respond unrealistically, but most of all that DW really never learns anything despite being the antagonist. Did they forget their target audience??? I'm glad this is here an an atrocity.
I saw this when I was 7 or 8 with my mom. She was on Arthur's side, a parent on the hitter's side. That's how much my parents, sisters, and I found DW insufferable.
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How this episode should have played out:
D.W.: "Arthur hit me!"
Parents: "Of course he did, dear. You're an unlikable twat."
+otakuploader Maybe they got hit by the Orb of Confusion.
+SunnysFilms And that just made me laugh.
+SunnysFilms you make my fucking day
karma?
+goldblaze93 Those parents keep the Orb of Confusion on their nightstand and forget to turn it off.
Honestly, the adults in this show provide good examples of how not to be a parent/adult, the Reads in particular.
When I was 7 I felt that D.W deserved it and at 25 I still feel the same
Are you re-watching this episode in honour of the most recent one as well?
Yes I must have missed this one
Just watch the video on D.W.'s very bad mood and it feels even more satisfying!
I would've killed the bitch
I don't really even remember this show at all, I don't think I used to watch it much. Was DW always this...terrible? Did she even have a single episode where she was remotely likable or useful to the plot at all besides being literally the worst thing ever? Because she kind of looks like the worst thing ever judging by the two episodes reviewed in this series.
Arthur: Dad, people are beating me up at school.
Dad: Well, son, you deserve it.
O_O
SelfAwarePedant Me: *Faceplam*
SelfAwarePedant apple
SelfAwarePedant Parent of the year award!!
To Dad: How rude!
+WeirdTv for worst parent ever!
Arthur: "I'm sorry I hit you and feel legitimate remorse"
DW: "And I'm sorry your plane was a piece of crap."
I will never like this episode or be on the other side of D.W.
+Acid_Lace dw was a straight up b1tch
I REALLY wanted Arthur to break something of hers after that.
@@justin2308 And if confronted, he should say, "Well maybe that's how I felt when she broke my plane."
I really wanted her to get hit again
Yeah... Even as a kid I thought DW deserved it.
Who didn't
She didn't?
I know I did. Even today, I fucking hate D.W.
+TalkingToMyself I know, right?! I supported Arthur throughout the whole episode!
+TalkingToMyself sorry but I thought don't fit she did deserved it
"Saying DW is 'just a little girl' is like saying a tornado is 'just a little wind'."
The way I see it, when Arthur said that, he was merely exaggerating (but only *slightly*). After all, this is the same kid who exaggeratedly portrayed D.W. as a rampaging giant in the episode, "D.W.'s Very Bad Mood".
I know he was exaggerating... I just liked what he said because it's a great comparison for D.W. or anyone else that annoys you :D
Indeed. It is never too soon to gain some essential inner beauty in a seemingly nightmarish manner!
+Boo Galoo "Never hit a woman"
***** well never hit anyone in general. My thing about that however is that if a woman is bold enough to hit a man, then she should be prepared for him to hit back. That's why I don't hit people if I can help it unless it's someone I could take a punch from.
When I was 10 my sister wanted to play Pokemon Yellow (instead of her christmas present). I didn't want it because I had a 300 hours savegame in it, and it was fairly easy to delete the game by creating a new game (my sister was 6). My mom forced me to share it, and in less than 1hr of me not looking, the savegame was gone. My mom said "it's not that big of a deal". That's all.
Now, 2016, a year ago she started to play videogames, a lot of Animal Crossing for Wii in an emulator I helped her to install. She had this 50 hour savegame, and then one day the computer didn't react (RAM issues). She lost the savegame, and suddenly, she remembered that moment, when I was 10 and she just said "it's not that big of a deal".
She apologized to me.
A lot.
I'm 24 now.
I waited 14 years.
FUCKING WORTH IT.
P.D. I'll always remember you, First Pikachu.
That's good for you that that happened it was a long time. I know most would say it just a game, you can do it all over again. But it's more than it than that
Don't worry, Pikachu's with rattata now
Tiz Horrior that must be satisfying
Tiz Horrior A
Saying “it’s just a game” doesn’t cut it for me. Sure, if you lose a single match in the game then you could always try again. But when 300+hours of a game is deleted..just no..
Never taint an apology with an excuse.
Noah Sturgis A most eloquent response, and I mean that in the mathematical way. I may have used the wrong word, but on an episode of Numb3rs Charlie described the word as meaning "simple and accurate," just like your statement.
+Noah Sturgis Heh heh, you said "taint". 😒
*elegant! That was the math term I was looking for! Had to literally stream Numb3rs from Netflix to find the term. Of course, in so doing I realized that it is streamable from Netflix.
If I was Arthur I would say
"So if dw gets hit, shame on me,
If I get hit, shame on me?...
Yeah no screw you guys, ima going home."
is Arthur Mario now
Tony Arce its cartman
This actually reminded me of something I did when I was younger. First I need to explain that my now passed sister Lilly, was the coolest sister ever. I snuck in her room and read her diary, but instead of punching me, she started crying and kind of shut me out. She bought a lock for her room, and so to apologize, I read my diary out loud to my entire class. And then we were cool. Well, I told her what I did, then were cool.
Roxas theNobody
How I read your comment:
"So if I hurt my sister because she's being a little bitch then I get grounded,
But if I get hit by a random person for practically no reason, I get bitched at?
Fuck you guys, I'm goiiin' home."
Okllzoom
Mario: “It’s a me! Arturo (Arthur in Italian)”
Cartman: “Screw you guys! I’m going home!!”
When Arthur punched her in this episode, all I kept thinking was "Do it again. Harder this time." I don't normally condone violence, especially between children. But in this instance, I felt it was kind of justified. Good god they really cranked up D.W's annoyance to a 1000 and ripped the knob off.
Brandon Roberts DW is 3 or 4. Arthur is 8. Her parents still should have taught her right from wrong.
You have issues
My thoughts on Arthur hitting D.W.
Me: (Impersonating Emperor Palpatine) Good, let the hate flow through you!!!!
You know, it could have worked better if Arthur hit DW unprovoked and for no reason. But, instead, he hits her for breaking his belongings p. what this episode ends up doing is shaming Arthur for being rightfully pissed off.
Heh, I watched it a while back, and during that scene I was just like (and imagine this in Tyler Cutebiker's voice) "Get her! _Get her!"_
DW makes Caillou look like well-behaved kid.
DW makes slippy toad's annoyance in star fox 64 look like a master peice of diolouge
DW makes fucking manaphy look like an amazing character.
DW Makes Annoying Orange look like a masterpiece.
+Izzy KawaiiKittens DW makes Frisk look like a good person.
Nova Space Heros
DW makes Fairy Tail look like it isn't horribly overrated.
I love how after Arthur gets hit and tells his parents it pretty much goes like:
Arthur: "And the next thing I knew I was on the ground"
Dad: "Well son that's what you get for being a little shit."
Arthur: "You mean like DW was being to me earlier?"
Dad: "Exactly...wait..."
+Darkraes743 dad:"well, you hit a girl so you deserved an extra-punishment."
+Merete Nora I never understood how that logic goes, that hitting guy is a minor setback comparing to hitting a girl.
The Thunder Productions same here.
+Merete Nora Actually, have you heard of the 90's cartoon Bobby's World? There's a scene in the episode "Bobby's Girl" where Bobby pushes his friend Jackie for not playing with him and it appears in a split second, Bobby knew he did wrong and when he gets reprimanded, he looks genuinely sorry. And he was five years old in the episode! I'd explain what leads up to it, but it's a long story.
The Thunder Productions women are generally viewed in society as weaker and more fragile than men, so in the male community, hitting a woman is seen as pathetic and weak. The reason why it’s less of a problem when a man is hit it because men are seen as basically the lance and shield weapon from Monster Hunter.
Kind of wondering if the writers ever realized they were kind of making DW out to be a psychopath? I mean, even for a little kid, it's pretty alarming. She sees whatever she wants as good, whatever she doesn't want as bad, she is entitled, is known to have outbursts, is manipulative (explains why parents don't punish her), is learning to do what is socially expected of her(apologizes on cue) but shows a complete lack of sympathy/empathy towards others (doesn't actually feel bad for breaking the plane and so still basically blames it on Arthur, seeing anything "bad" as someone else's fault.) It's pretty eerie.
I would imagine this is just art imitating life. It's not uncommon for the youngest child, or only child for that matter, to behave in that exact manner.
*+switch the flip* Not really. Child psychology studies prove that while young children might be prone to tantrums because of their operant conditioning, most children aren't able to manipulate on the scale of DW, and stage apologies to elicit sympathy.
Children who act like DW are more realistically affected by psychological disorders, victim complexes from troubled parenting, or general mental illness. So in conclusion, DW is so unrealistically evil that she ceases to be believable as a _human_.
MJ George Productions oh, I was simply going off personal experience and anecdotes. My youngest brother was, and in many ways still is, a more extreme version of D.W. so I can believe it. From the sounds of it though, I seem to be the only one.
switch the flip I wasn't denying children couldn't act that way; many probably do. i'm just saying that they're typically in the minority.
***** Or an ogre.
If the purpose of this episode was to teach that violence doesn't solve problems, why in the holy hell did they pick Arthur (one of the most calm, reasonable characters on the whole show) to be the bad guy here? Why not a character like Binky or even Francine, characters that have ACTUALLY hit people before on the show, or in the least have a very short temper, so them losing their cool and hitting someone in retaliation is actually expected?
***** ...because that would make sense.
***** Its so they don't have to worry about continuity in future episodes. When working with a large cast, that has a moral each episode, it gets hard keeping track of all that character development. And inconvenient if you want a more confrontational character, but they've already learned their lesson about violence, so they're not so confrontational, anymore. But doing it to Arthur means they can have him learn the moral without being any different after the episode than he was before.
MrEricon9 You're basically saying that the writers shouldn't have to worry about continuity because it would be a lot of work, and that's just a lazy excuse.
*****
We're talking about over ten years worth of episodes, here. That is quite a lot to ask someone to maintain. Especially since writers come and go, all the time. Its unreasonable to have a new writer go back and review every single episode of the last ten years and keep track of every amount of character development.
On top of which, if every character maintained every lesson they learned, by a certain point, they'd all be paragons of humanity. There won't be any conflict if every character is a monk, and the kids watching the show won't be able to identify with the characters. If Francine learned not to be violent, that's drastically changing her personality. Now if we ever need someone with her type of personality for a particular role later, oops, can't do it. She's not that type of person, anymore.
The characters need to forgo development in between episodes in order to continue being characters everyone can identify with.
+MrEricon9 But Arthur is ALWAYS cool calm and collected. It is not likely that anyone would mix that part of his personality up.
1.) I hate how his parents react when Arthur gets hit. They don't go to school to complain about their kid getting bullied, instead they basically told him that he deserved to be hit. From Arthur's pov, he got hit for no reason. At least DW deserved it!
2.) I hated this episode as I whole because it seemed unrealistic. My cousin (only a few months younger than me but still around my age) used to always hit me when we was like 5 or something. That was her way of handling stuff when she didn't like how something was happening. Her mom (and my mom to some extinct) got on her about it unlike DW that got off scot free. I was taught to hit back if someone hits me and that's basically when it stopped. When I hit back it stopped but that's not the point. Only Arthur seems to get in any sort of trouble and instead of.. idk, protesting against the unfairness of it all, he EXCEPTS it. Now he's disillusioned into believing that he was in the wrong.
Arthur's Big Hit is an Arthur Torture Porn heck anytime D.W. annoys Arthur and her parents let her get away with that is an Arthur Torture Porn an Arthur's Big Hit is the worst of them all D.W constantly mistreats and bothers him, his parents treat him like the black sheep of the family even though it was D.W's fault, his friends betray and sell out to D.W., He gets physically harmed by Binky, his parents are cold-hearted, unsympathetic, malicious and abusive jerks to him and he learns a moral that's twisted, wrong, forced and unnecessary for all the wrong reasons Arthur's Big Hit is the worst Arthur Torture Porn of them all. Arthur needs therapy, to be in foster care and get better parents and Jane and David Read need to go to a parenting class in order to learn about being better parents and to go to jail for their nasty treatment of Arthur.
+otakuploader your right and that's true siblings do fight.
you said we was its we where
+Conqueror714 (Sigh) I know that's an old comment, but you... are everything that's wrong with society. It's the very *fact* that this stuff happens in real life that makes this episode a whole lot *worse*, even disregarding what happened to *me* personally.
And to everyone else reading this, I hope you all understand that it's comments like that that make me angry, especially those "that's ow the real world works" statements said in a degrading, unsympathetic manner.
+ThomasNCookieMonster My previous comment was a pathetic attempt at sarcasm. I didn't take into account that I was writing on a freaking COMPUTER, where nobody could communicate anything that would DENOTE sarcasm. I was so enraged with this episode's morals that I wrote the previous comment as a rant AGAINST these morals. Everything I said before was exactly what this episode was communicating, and, yes, that message is everything that's wrong with society. I'm also very upset about the double standard in which Arthur is the only one who can ever get bullied or blamed for any wrongdoing just because he's "mature" enough to have bad things happen to him. But it appears as though I made the same mistake as Seth Macfarlane, where it's not clear at all if I actually harbor the offensive views that I write about. I'm sorry for making myself look like a horrible person, and I deleted the old comment so nobody else would see.
Isn't this the episode that gave birth to the arthur fist meme?
Yup.
I don't know why but I just find that Arthur pic funny as hell. :)
I think the pic is funny because of Arthur's expression.
beep beep dying omg yes
Yes, only good thing about the episode.
This is how I would have written the episode
DW asked what Arthur is making and is curious about the plane, but once he says stay away she does for the most part. We see she never stopped being curious and would look into Arthur's room from a distance whenever he worked on it. Once he's done and out of his room her curiosity gets the better of her, and she tries to see if it will fly. Of course it doesn't and she's the one who goes outside first and frantically tries to fix the plane when she realized what she did and it's very clear she regrets her actions.
Arthur hears something crash and DW's voice outside. When she sees him she says "I'm sorry" right away and means it but Arthur is having none of it after seeing all his hard work destroyed and DW having broken her promise after being so good at keeping it for all this time. That's when he hits her. The episode will pan out mostly the same from then on out until other than a subplot of Arthur feeling regret deep down but being too proud and too angry to admit it over his lost hard work, then the changes come back when Arthur gets hit.
His parents don't have no sympathy, they're adults, so all they say is "oh my god are you okay?", Nothing about DW's feelings heck DW, isn't even home she's at Emily's house or something. It's Arthur who realizes he must have made DW feel the same way. He goes to the store, buys a new plane, and when he gets home that's when he apologizes and accepts DW's earlier apology. He then shows DW the new model kit and asked her if she wants to make it together this time. She says yes. Everything is hunky dorey between the siblings again.End episode.
No thanking Binky and after he hits Arthur we see him getting reprimanded and punished and there is a look of deep shame of Binky's face, so we know it's wrong and don't side with him.
There same lesson and we actually side with the people we are supposed to.
This is much better. Still not perfect (It shares one same problem with the original: Arthur's generally not a short-tempered sort, he would not be so quick to resort to violence... Francine or one of the Tough Customers would be much better suited to a "resorting to violence is wrong" moral), but a major improvement.
This kinda reminds me of a fix the episode comment chain I had on my old account, only both Binkyand the Tough Customers were appalled that Arthur hit hus sister in mine, leading to Binky hitting Arthur because for all their faults, they'd NEVER hit their siblings. (Though Binky would want to know the full story.)
Oh, my gosh! You need to be a writer!
@@thomashuffman3237 honestly the problem i have with what he wrote was it seems a bit out of character that dw would actually not bother arthur. i mean the sad thing about this episode is everyone somehow manages to feel in character.
I remember when I was about 10 years old, watching this episode with my little brother after school. My Mom came in and started watching it with us, and she got infuriated with DW and the whole story for exactly these reasons. Thank God I was raised to watch TV critically.
I agree. I always hated this and of course my favorite scene was when she was punched.
Micheal Polant Best scene in the episode. :D
Mr. and Mrs. Reid do say to Arthur that they will deal with D.W. (off-screen) and D.W. does apologize (followed up with an annoying question about the model airplane), but yes, this is a flawed episode. It does try its best to address an issue, but due to the short amount of time allocated, it got slanted. It does not help that D.W. is an annoying character and many fans actually rejoiced when she got hit.
I always watched the show with my kids...we were all angry that DW wasn't punished.
I watched this episode back in 2007 when I was only 10, and I was mad when DW didn’t get her ass beat. At the same time, it’s also Arthur’s fault for leaving his bedroom door open, but it’s mostly DW’s fault for causing all this…
The only good thing that came out of this episode is that punch scene. That was so satisfying in every way.
+Scott Wild (TornadoSponge) I WANTED dw TO BLEED THO, THE I'D BE SATISFIED
Yeah someone should make a version of that scene where Arthur just shanks her in the face.
(what is wrong with me)
I like the many different versions of that scene people have made on UA-cam.
And that scene has now become a hilarious meme.
"You Thought it was DW fighting you, BUT IT WAS I DIO!"
"holy diver, you've been down too long on the midnight sea."
Oh come on!
Noah Marmorstein Oh what's becoming of meeeeee.
3:10 When you bring up that DW cries louder than when she got hit, that is another sign that Arthur's parents display parental favoritism towards DW over Arthur because a child crying loudly for a mild situation like that is usually a sign of spoiling and favoritism. Just out of curiosity, did Arthur ever do an episode where his parents realize that they favor DW over Arthur? Personally, that would be a really good episode concept if you ask me.
I don't know if there was an episode where Arthur's parents realize they favorite D.W, but I know another episode similar to this one.
Half of "Play it again, D.W!" was about Arthur losing his sanity to D.W playing her Crazy Bus CD and for good reason. He heard the song 532 times in ONE WEEK! No joke, Arthur counted it with a tally chart and says it. Apparently, 532 times of hearing the same song in one week didn't drove the parents insane.
Jane (Arthur and D.W's mother) tells her daughter to turn off the music during the song with a smile on her face and when Arthur whine to Jane that D.W's humming the song, she's still smiling. David (the father) did try to ignore the music by wearing earplug. They dragged Arthur to a "Crazy Bus LIVE" show and he finds out Buster is a fan of the song too.
Finally, when Arthur tries to do his homework, but can't cause D.W's playing the CD again, he snaps. He tells D.W that he'll wreck the CD; which causes D.W to run out of her room to tell the parents. Arthur then gets loses some TV time and if they hadn't took the CD to David's HS reunion, Arthur would have heard the song all night.
Samsapopin And this is why I think that Arthur's parents were more-or-less asking for D.W. to get hit in *this* episode. If it hadn't been for the model plane incident, it would most likely have been something else that led Arthur to hit her. Now, I'm aware that hitting is wrong, no matter *what* the circumstance. But this (IMO) is *the* episode that emphasizes that Arthur's parents constantly side with D.W. whenever she antagonizes Arthur (and Arthur alone), especially if he retaliates in *any* manner.
Personally, I think Arthur was more right to threaten to wreck the CD than he was to hit his sister. Neither one of those reactions really solves anything. But since Arthur had to do *homework* in the former situation... yeah.
*****
Yeah. It is true that children should be taught that violence is not okay to solve situations but at the same time, they also need to be taught that being hit still doesn't excuse the fact that if you annoy of harass a person long enough, they will retaliate! And as MrEnter pointed out the whole "I'm only five years old" is NOT an excuse for bad behavior. Parents need to correct children's bad behavior while they are still young or else they will end up learning that lesson the hard way in the future.
bonnie641 (Slightly off topic kinda) When I was 5-9 my parents would take us to the movie theaters really early and we could run around all we wanted. But when people came into the theater they would make us sit and do nothing. If we made noise we had to leave and miss some of the movie. Nowadays kids will cry and sometimes scream during some parts where it seems almost vital that the audience needs to be quiet. Then The parents use the excuse "They're only 7" Like they said in the video. Not. An. Excuse.
As the youngest in my family, I can say from personal experience that parents mostly stick up for the younger child.
When I watched this as a kid I thought "D.W deserved." 18 and still believe it.
Yeah, I fucking hate D.W with a passion, she's number one in my top 3 LEAST favorite characters.
What two did she beat out?
Chozo Hunter Mr Krabs from SpongeBob stands at number 3, and bendy from that fosters home for imaginary friends episode stands at number 2,
yeah, I hate D.W that much.
And I rarely hate TV show characters!
@@RobertPlays "I rarely hate tv show characters" *has a list of most hated tv show characters*
@@theimplications635 Well, it was quite extreme.
The bad thing is this episode could have worked. DW could have watched from afar as Arthur spent all that time building the plane, with very little interaction between the two. Then have her curiosity get the best of her and sneak in ONE time, play with the plane, and break it. She can try to deny it, say Nadine broke it, then he gets mad and hits her. That way DW is sympathetic, and Arthur can be mainly in character. At the end, have Arthur and DW apologizing, and DW give Arthur a badly patched plane to show she's sorry.
Yeah.This would have been a much better idea for the episode than what we got:A terrible episode of Arthur with characters that act nothing like themselves, Arthur's parents acting like total jerks, and a seriously confusing moral.
GAs honeybear how old were you when this episode came out? because that's a great scenario
Christopher Frencham I was 14. I would watch Arthur with my nieces and cousins. This one was irritating to me because it seemed unnecessarily exaggerated to make the point.
GAs honeybear I remember watching this episode when I was around 3 or 4 and even back then I was able to see something wrong with it (plus DW really pissed me off), and watching it now I can see a lot of things wrong with it. but aside from that, I loved watching Arthur
+GAs honeybear I'm thinking that perhaps the moral was "hitting is wrong no matter what". Even then however, to anyone with a thinking brain the fact that DW is not shown getting any punishment makes it look like being an annoying little sister is fine.
1) D.W. is the most annoying little girl who never feels guilt!
2) His parents care about D.W. more than Arthur even when a bully punches his arm!
3) Not even Buster is on Arthur's side!
4) You can be a jerk to your older sibling and will never be seen in guilt by your parents!
5) Messy moral!
People don't seem to get that dw acts like a normal 4 year old. I worked in a preschool and let me tell you, children are just starting to develop a moral conscience at that age and don't usually feel full guilt and remorse or know right from wrong until a few years later.
@Y. vazquez That means the parents are at fault, not the kid. The kid doesn't know any better. The parents do.
@Y. vazquez I never said she shouldn't be. I said people have been blaming a 4 year old child who doesn't know any better and she is not the one at fault for that.
@Y. vazquez She isn't stupid for a 4 year old, but 4 year olds are still just barely starting to grasp morality, empathy, remorse, and boundaries. She can't be expected to fully understand those things yet even though she is slowly learning them, so her behavior really is normal for a girl her age.
Finally, DW is a bratty, unlikable c*nt bitch.
Arthur's Big Shit should be the title.
But that completely destroys the (bad) pun.
Love your thumbnail ^_^
Deviantart.
Search for the UA-cam Poop, "Arthur's Massive Throbbing Hit."
DW gets what she truly deserves in that one.
Lol that's so true
Minor but important detail: When Arthur's dad helped Arthur see the error of his ways, as the show portrayed, right after Arthur said, "Yeah, I guess I get it", DW walks in the kitchen smiling. Smiling.
It's so obvious D.W. was smug that only Arthur got in trouble and never got any compensation for it.
***** Its also the type of smug that you O SO wish that you could slap straight across the face with your bare hand
@@ThomasNCookieMonster well, she DOES go out of her way to make Arthur's life a living hell.
Man I forgot how much I hated D.W.
ditto
DW is one of the most annoying child ever
+OurGangFan no Peter and D.W aren't annoying they're unlikeable assholes even more so with D.W
hehe no objection to that
Coral McNaughton same
The fact that DW got away from this with little more than a bruise (cause let's face it, Arthur didn't punch her THAT hard) is probably the worst part of the episode. If she got scolded on-camera by the parents for provoking Arthur, but the parents ALSO scold Arthur for way over-reacting, then I think this episode would have gone a lot better. It also would have helped if it didn't seem almost DELIBERATE that DW was messing with his stuff to provoke him.
This episode had a potentially good message behind it. "Violence/bullying is bad" is a good message to send. "Karma will take a dump on you if you so much as lay a finger on someone who was clearly in the wrong" is NOT a good message.
He PUNCHED her?! (I knew he punched her, but it did not even look like a punch)
Cameron Rubio Watch the episode/review again. He punches her, but it seems very soft for a punch. The episode says he's in the wrong because he punched her, which is true. However, DW is ALSO in the wrong because she annoyed Arthur, messed with his belongings, broke into his room, and broke a project that he clearly showed meant something to him.
The episode makes us WANT A LITTLE GIRL TO GET HIT BECAUSE SHE'S ANNOYING. That's when the message sent is botched.
I liked Arthur when I was younger. I can't really watch it now because of the cringe-worthy audio, but I remember it being fairly interesting and very mature in the sense that it handled each of its subject matters like an adult, but made them easy enough to understand by children. This episode just really sucks.
Maybe the moral is to bottle up all of your anger because if you don't, your parents and best friend will turn their backs on you.
Yeah, but you can't make someone bottle up their anger like that, it'd be bad for their health.
Yeah well three rights make a left.
+DeadDudeGaming So take three rights at Albuquerque?
ALP Yep.
you made my day
Jedi Gamer Well, I'm glad to have made your day.
DeadDudeGaming haha
Another episode where DW gets off scot free for misbehavior is in "DW's Very Bad Mood", in which she had a tantrum that lasted for days on end. And that was just because she was not invited to somebody's party. The episode does not do a good job of making her sympathetic, like at all.
+Joe Segal "Francine, why don't you go to your house and stop bothering us?"
If D.W. was my child, I would have given her an earful for talking like that.
He recently released another atrocity on that very episode
Also, "For Whom The Bell Tolls", where D.W. pretends to not have a voice to get Arthur and her parents to give her special treatment (she started out not having one, but kept silent after she recovered because of her parents' spoilage), which only stopped because Arthur has sort of good friends (Mrs. Read is even so ignorant and stupid as to say "Now why would she pretend to be sick?" and doesn't even consider Arthur's point of "Because she gets what she wants!").
Also "Play It Again, D.W.", where D.W. plays the eternal torment that is Crazy Bus constantly, at max volume, which keeps Arthur from having any peace - even to do his homework - and the parents completely side with her when he threatens to break it, and later when she loses it and instantly accuses Arthur of taking it...
Although at least those two have the benefit of not portraying D.W. in a sympathetic light to the audience, which cannot be said of "Arthur's Big Hit" or "D.W.'s Very Bad Mood"...
I fucking hated... and still hate D.W, to me she's almost... inhuman.
Robert Plays yeah I get she’s young but I wasn’t this much of a sack of shit when I was young
May i quote one moment from the episode
"Saying D.W. is just a little girl is like saying a Tornado is just a little wind". I know that quote was supposed to portray Arthur as wrong, but in fact he is right
It also sort of tells the younger kids that they can get away with misbehaving because they're just little kids
Zak Rosenfeld h
That line was the only good thing to come from the episode.
To be fair, DW was always an obnoxious little snot. And, speaking from experience, telling your parents that your sibling is annoying you rarely works as often as TV would like us to believe. The parents either tell the siblings the same thing YOU told them, to then have the sibling ignore both you and the parents, or they tell you to suck it up and work it out for yourself. Either way, it's not the Ultimate Solution.
I can totally relate to that
School has it the worst. And I mean the WORST!
@@thesupershinymegagengar2034 precisely! When you’re getting bullied, they’ll usually hit you with that “Ignore them and they’ll stop” bullshit, which, speaking from experience, RARELY works.
I have a bit of an issue with 'Violence is always wrong' morals, because, as this episode shows, they completely ignore the situation. Obviously, Arthur was wrong to hit his sister just for breaking his model plane (even if she's totally not sorry for what she did, and we completely understand why Arthur snapped,) but let's have a look at when Binky hit Arthur and his parents didn't give a shit. What if it hadn't just been one punch? What if Binky had tried to beat Arthur up? Would it have been wrong for Arthur to try and punch Binky off of him?
***** Your comment is spot on, especially the last line.
I can't stand it when people say "get over it." It's callous and dismissive because it shows that you don't give a shit about anyone else's suffering--only your level of comfort around those people.
In the sixth grade, because of my attention-seeking behavior (that I deeply regret), I was sent to the sixth-grade principal's office. I was visibly shaken because I wanted everyone to like me, so that's why I tried so hard to be a class clown, but can you guess what the principal said to me? "Get over it." Those exact words. Not "it's okay not to be liked" or "you don't need to cry over something that shouldn't bother you," just a simple "get over it." I get that no one likes an attention seeker, but that was completely unwarranted. To this day, I wonder what would have happened if he said that in front of a more sympathetic faculty member. I did learn that it's okay to be disliked, but it didn't help that most people who knew about my behavior didn't seem to care and that my mother was angry at me and didn't seem to care about my emotional distress, either, not to mention that I was bullied for supposedly being gay (because of a rumor that I unwittingly caused). I was done with that school and went to another one, the next year. I was still bullied for the next two years, even though most of the time, I did nothing wrong. God, I hated middle school.
I digress, and I suppose shouldn't have expected sympathy so soon after all that I've done, but those three words bring up such a horrible memory that I promised myself that I would never use them on anyone else.
***** I'm sorry to hear that. My mother acts the same way towards me when I'm visibly afraid of bees and wasps, so I empathise with you. Tough love can be a bitch.
It's sad. I hate those words so much. I know that I misbehaved in middle school, but I really wanted to be liked. No one cared. Well, actually, one person seemed to understand that I wasn't trying to act out the time I broke down, so there's that.
chimanruler15 Hopefully I'll soon be living with my older sister out of town so I won't have to deal with it anymore.
***** I'm glad. =)
chimanruler15 I'm actually in a tight spot right now. My dad says he loves me, says he'll never hurt me! but right now, he Shoved me to the floor! I hope I can get out of the house away from him soon! He says he loves me but yet, he just wants to control me and my sister, like a dictator! In fact, that's what he thinks "Family" is, a Dictators-ship.
I remember this episode confused me when I was little. The moral was lost in it.
Same
+otakuploader after a story like that I half expected it to go "I forgot what I was talking about. Anyway I recommend the soup." I don't know why
There was so much injustice in this episode. Arthur told DW not to touch it, she shows no remorse, and yeah, maybe he shouldn’t have hit her, but there should’ve been some kind of repercussion for her doing what she did. And then, everyone hates on Arthur despite everyone knowing that DW is a freaking nightmare, Binky only hits Arthur by peer pressure from the other bullies, and Arthur’s parents are FINE with that (condoning bullying because they thought it would teach him a lesson), and the only excuse DW has for breaking the plane is, “I’m just a child. Give me a break.” That argument doesn’t work if you already should know better!!!
What. The. HELL!?
To be fair to Arthur telling his parents probably wouldn't have done any good considering other episodes where D.W. Constantly is terrible and the parents do nothing. I think the only time she's ever gotten what she deserves was when she got upset at the baby and that was because she was trying to eat her stuff (nice parenting guys)
Yeah, she gets pissed with Kate, when there’s a simpler solution for her: TAKE YOUR TOYS TO THE OTHER ROOM AND PLAY WITH THEM!!! Jeez, DW is an idiot and an asshole. Not a good combination.
I didn't know not to impale the innocents, i'm just a child.
Don't we all have someone like DW in our lives?
Yeah
If you don't, you're probably a hermit.
Shaun Vega My little sister at that age was pretty much what D.W. would look like if her parents were actually competent enough to not let her get away with all the shit she does. Of course when I was that age I was a powder keg who switched from normal to BERSERKER RAGE at the drop of a hat
Magnum Cannon or an only child. like me!(reasons why i'm glad i don't have a sister: 8.12.C (swap letters to numbers, and numbers to letters)
Shaun Vega My little sister is 10 and acts like D.W, it annoys the freak out of me and my parents don't give a crap.
"But what kind of a stupid plane doesn't fly" this line makes DW fell that she is not sorry for what she did
I also agree why did the writers put this line
I've always had a personal grudge with this episode ever since I was a kid, not just because it's terrible, but because it hit a little too close to home for me. (pun not intended)
You see, I have a younger brother who was a lot like D.W. (and coincidentally has those same two initials), meaning he was often irritating as hell and wouldn't leave me alone when I told him to; and, just like Arthur here, I would get so fed up that I'd hit him, which rightfully got me into big trouble; but, just like Arthur's parents, my mom wouldn't punish my brother for what he did, because "you hitting him was punishment enough."
Seeing this episode as a kid did nothing to help my hitting problems. In fact, since it was one of the only shows I saw back then that tried to teach that hitting was wrong, it might have actually made things worse.
That's why this is one of my all-time favorite Animated Atrocity reviews. As strange as it may sound, hearing someone call out this dung-heap of an episode for its bullshit gives me a sort of feeling of having been vindicated.
(P.S. My brother and I get along a lot better now than we used to, so don't worry about us)
seanmyster6 I totally know the feeling. Truth is, when this episode came out that was generally the parenting culture. I learned to adapt, some suggest too much. I would say that I am stronger for those challenges, however, as people generally say I am one of the most patient people they know. I can't help but think that if they knew how I got that way, they wouldn't be envious! I have a feeling you might feel the same way.
I know how you feel, my little brother Alex would annoy me every day and torture me until I'd scream at him or freak out. But every time I did, I would get in trouble with my parents. No matter what sick and twisted shit Alex would do to me, my parents would take HIS side, whether they didn't notice, or didn't believe me when I told them. Things are different now… for the worse! Now, instead of just torturing me, Alex treats me like utter shit, always finding ways to fuck with me and piss me off every damn day! Although now, my parents will more often than not take my side, so at least THAT'S a plus.
+Tyler Nestor What I normally do when that happens to me is make the person regret the day they were born by psychologically torturing them to the point where they can no longer adequately function. No one messes with the heir of Hernando de Soto and gets away with it.
Kira Caroso I would LOVE to do that. But there are 3 reasons why I won't.
1: I'm too nice.
2: He would call the police or (at least) tell my parents and I would get in EXTREME trouble.
3: He wouldn't learn anything even in a traumatic experience like that and would still piss me off all of the time. Hell, after that experience, he would just treat me even worse than he does now.
+Tyler Nestor I am sorry to hear that. I actually used to be a nice guy, and still am for the most part, but when I have reached my limit, I use my much higher than average intelligence to get vengeance in a way that no one can pin the blame on me. But it takes forever to get me to that point.
I replayed that punch scene over and over
creolejoy.
Lmao
Why is arthur's arm bandaged? You bandage a cut, but punching someone shouldn't cause anything more than a bruise. Did Binky's buddies pull a knife on arthur because Binky didn't hit him hard enough or something?
Bandages are the ultimate cure-all in kid's shows.
Got punched? Bandages.
Got crushed? Bandages.
Got exposed to a machine that turned you into a mutant evil genius and then you got third degree burns? Bandages.
Got sliced in half and tossed into a black hole? Bandages.
DarthVaderReviews Last two made me laugh 'cause it's so true XD
Genesis Calderon The second to last one actually happened in The Secret Of Nimh 2, and yes, the answer was bandages.
Lunara Hunter Unlike DW, Arthur actually did get a massive bruise. I think the animators wanted to cover it up.
DarthVaderReviews "i have head trauma and eternal bleeding"
"sounds like you need some bandages"
Yeah this episode seems rather....dumb. It has several problems not the least of which is that DW really is not a sympathetic character, in fact how she acts, treats Arthur, and is generally favored by the parents has made me and Im sure many other people heavily dislike her(my little sis was also like this a lot. to the point that if she was in trouble and getting yelled at my mom would shift to yelling at and grounding me because I happened to be walking down the steps at the time :/). This makes her unsympathetic, I cant feel bad for Arthur snapping and hitting her because I know what a little piece of crap she's been to him and how much crap she puts Arthur through, and because of how the parents favor her(if he told on her I still doubt anything major would have been done about it). And she still doesnt really accept any responsibility in the end :/
So the "violence is bad" message is already muddled by having the person we are supposed to be sympathetic towards someone we already dislike.
Then the whole Binky situation showing more how the parents favor DW over Arthur and how they showed no sympathy for their son being attacked for no reason. Arthur at the least had a reason for his action as wrong as that action was, but as far as they know Binky just out of nowhere attacked their son, further giving sympathy to Arthur. Hell he's the only character that has any fault in the episode that is seen to receive any kind of punishment for his actions
He gets pretty much tortured by DW, his parents arent shown to do much if anything, and even his friends(who you would think would back him up) side against him. I honestly feel worse and worse for Arthur in this episode. He doesnt have an escape or any kind of outlet for all this crap so I can understand him snapping.
Which I think is the biggest problem with the episode. The situation as presented to us is a lot more complex than "violence is bad". This is honestly an issue that needed more time and care put into it, and should actually deal with multiple issues like peer pressure and even family problems with parents favoring children.
UnbreakableJames If anything this episode taught me violence really is the answer. All peaceful solutions failed to change anything, no matter how much he told D.W. to stop or told his parents. His parents were very likely to not punish D.W. for breaking the plane, the only logical response was to take justice into his own hands. Sure he got punished for it, but D.W. will always remember that even if the system protects her she can only push people so far before they say to hell with the consequences
***** My sister liked her. Mostly because my sister was her
+Rainbow Dashs BBFF Well, you won't find one in me because I freaking hate her, too. In fact, this episode is one of her worst, which makes me feel *extra* bad for Arthur. It also doesn't help that I'm kinda like Arthur in this episode IRL. Admittedly, I haven't punched any*one* because I was super pissed off in the past few years, but I've punched a few *things* in pure rage. Thankfully, I haven't damaged my hands yet, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
+PikachuLittle Or as i've heard many times, when a nice person gets angry, the devil shivers, here we see a guy that was pushed, and pushed , and pushed (not necessarily in this episode alone, seeing that asshole of a sister get away with everything wrong she did does make people angry), for one thing this episode thaught me to back up my friends, and that actions have consequences, i honestly dispised DW, luckily no one in my family is like her, she is an awful person and in this episode Arthur taught her a lesson she will not soon forget.
+UnbreakableJames I have no *Objection!* to what you said, and I agree wholeheartedly.
This episode, despite being morally challenged, and hard to sit through, has one of the best moments in the entire series; D.W. actually gets what's coming to her. Honestly, I could watch that one moment for hours.
What about that scene where she got hit by a swing by the nibblets? That was just as satisfying.
@@lychee_batz.. Same.
I hated this episode As a kid. Blaming the victim
+ZachRULES96 Which is pretty much how it happens in real life, especially with bullying situations.
+Carolina West
Especially in schools.
They don't fix jack-shit.
No kidding. I was one of those victims. :/
+Carolina West Me in 3rd to 4th grade
My middle school had something called a "bully box". We were supposed to fill out a complaint form and put it in there, but I never bothered since I knew I'd be the one getting blamed anyway.
When a great meme comes from a terrible episode 👊
That's nothing. A lot of memes come from crap, and some such memes ARE crap.
Don’t. Fucking. Remind me.
@@lychee_batz.. Too late.
@@fredricknoe3114
Well sheet.
@@lychee_batz.. 4 years tho, wack
I hated this episode as a kid. Its just out f Arthur's character and I said the same Fuck this episode. Also another episode I don't like is the one where Buster steals a toy and Arthur got grounded for it even he had nothing to do with it and was unaware that Buster stole it. I can understand if he was aware and didn't tell anyone but he didn't deserve to be punished for it. I never really liked Arthur's parents in some episodes. J hate those episodes where they just treat the main character like shot.
No is not worst episode is banned episode
NAZIR SHEFTALL be nice
Pique Supreme wait what banned episode?
I think the episode when DW hears a curse word from a bigger kid or something.
Arthur and The Magic School Bus are the only two kids shows that I still think are good today.
They are. I'm 23 and though I don't watch Arthur, I do still watch the Magic School Bus for sheer nostalgia, wishing they still aired. My kids are going to have to watch all the good stuff on my computer it seems, since I don't dare show them the crap that's airing now.
***** Yeah, it's tragic when something actually GOOD gets cancelled, but crap stays on. EX: SpongeBob.
Missy Briarwood I would also throw Gravity Falls into the mix.
Arthur treats adult situations with maturity for kids and the Magic School Bus is accurately (for it's time) educational and enjoyable. There could be worse opinions I suppose
AJ Les but it's still relevant for children today, my younger siblings often either watch it at school or on Netflix.
I actually remember when I saw this episode for the first time, I thought to myself "Why does Arthur have to apologize here?"
Another big problem is that DW is a spoiled brat in virtually EVERY episode, not just this one, so rather than DW being unusually curious, I genuinely felt like she was TRYING to annoy Arthur, which makes it all the more infuriating that the one time her misbehavior has to come to the parents attention, they (seem to) do NOTHING to punish her.
Thinking it over, Arthur's parents were probably my biggest problem with the show as a kid (before I thought too heavily on DW herself) because I always felt like they didn't do things a parent should in situations. As a kid, I could relate to Arthur not going to them with all his problems, and their reactions to the ones he did only reinforced that notion.
Yeah, this was bad. Yes I get they're trying to say violence no matter what is wrong but everyone taking D.W.'s side just because he hit her, IN THE ARM of all places, not in the face, not in the gut or anywhere on her mid section, HER FUCKING ARM! Then Binky being peer pressured into hitting someone is laughable since he's shown he's willing to use physical force. Yes he's your typical misunderstood bully who's good at heart but he has shown he's not afraid to fight someone unless they can actually kick his ass like Sue Ellen. Third, why Author? As someone else said Binky or Francine would have been better because hell they have naturally short tempers. Fourth: also as scottski02 said " 'Arthur's Cousin Catastrophe' Arthur's Cousin uses karate on him and no one cared. And she did it not because she was mad but bored! And no one cared." That hits a major point, it seems that NO ONE cares when violence is being done TO Arthur! Which brings me to my final point: His father's reaction when ARTHUR got hit. He openly said Arthur deserved it in not so many words without batting an eye! If that was my kid, even if he was in trouble at home I'D NEVER say something like that! I'd be at the school demanding Binky was expelled or at least suspended! The morals are so fucked up and I always felt something was very wrong with this episode. Thank you for calling out this episode on this bullshit!
Edit: As cruel as this is to say I wouldn't mind Purple Guy from Five Nights at Freddy's kill her and for her to be stuffed into an animatronic suit.
Headcannon accepted.
The first time I saw this, I was not even sure he even hit her. They show him about to hit her and the next part is her falling down.
I used to watch Arthur as a kid and I guess I'm glad I didn't see this episode.
+Cameron Rubio Because these cartoons are not the kind to show a fist making direct contact with another body. Pushing and shoving is one thing, but if a cartoon isn't Tom and Jerry or Looney Tunes, it means something, possibly serious, to smack a person.
If someone said their son deserved to get hit just because he hit his littlesister, I'd be calling fucking social services.
"I'm just a child"
IF YOU'RE AWARE THAT YOUR ACTION IS CHILDISH BEHAVIOR THAN DON'T DO IT
Like Mr. Enter says in some of his other reviews: “What she did was wrong, she knew it was wrong, but she did it anyway.”
Very psychopathic behavior. She’s smart enough to know that her age carries weight when most kids wouldn’t and uses it to manipulate her family
There are so many fanfictions that re-write this episode so that they 'both' get into trouble.
Growing up I was taught 'no one should hit anyone'. Because teaching kids that 'Boys shouldn't hit girls' I found might get it into a few girls heads that 'I can hit boys all I want and there not allowed to fight back.' This episode teaches that girls can torment boys all they want and get away with it. This is a horrible lesson.
I feel the same way
Another episode I never liked is Nerves of Steal. In that episode, Buster steals a toy from the drug store, and both he AND Arthur get in trouble at the end even though Arthur doesn't do anything other than help Buster try to do the right thing and return the toy at the end. Arthur gets in trouble at the end basically for not telling on Buster and trying to "cover up" what Buster did even though they were really just trying to do the right thing. Wth? The moral was a bit confusing in that episode too.
+marebear62990 That bothered me, too. Arthur didn't technically do anything illegal. Yes, he should have told someone, but still...
I don't like the one where DW gets an operation.
TBH Recess did a better job with this moral.
But, that's realistic. That's what happens in real life. I've had situations where I've tried to help a friend get out of doing something stupid, but end up getting punished too.
Robber Stopper Realistic isn't necessarily good.
I never thought I’d sympathize with a guy who punched his little sister, yet here we are.
Parents: you're grounded for hitting your unlikable sister.
Arthur: Prove it, you have no evidence
*Law and Order Dun Dun*
It always annoyed me how Arthur keeps getting in trouble when DW yells "Mooooom, Arthur's....!" especially during the current season. "Mooooom, Arthur's staring at me!" "Mooooom, Arthur's breaking promises!" She even gloats about it in the World Records episode in the cold opening when Arthur is in the tuxedo and steps in front of Mary Moo Cow on tv and DW cries out to her Mom and she calls Arthur to the kitchen and then DW comes out in a tuxedo exclaiming how she has broken the record for getting Arthur in trouble the most times. Don't get me started about the bugs scene in the same episode.
Yeah, if I was in that episode I would scream "SHUT UP, LITTLE SHIT!" To D.W.
Gotta wonder if that's why Candice in Phineas & Ferb is shown in the wrong? DW screams for mommy every five seconds, and of course the parents side with their favorite child over the one they apparently could care less for. Candice screams for mom, and Mom rolls her eyes and wonders what it could be THIS time?
I didn't buy this episode even as a kid. Siblings beat on each other all the time.
I'm one of five kids, and I have all brothers. My older brother hit me all the time when we were growing up (I didn't cry to my parents; I learned to hit back). Yeah, brothers and sisters do that. It's not "good," per se, but it is what it is.
Same, most days I fight with my sister over stuff to the point where my dog gets involved
My two little sisters fight all the time, verbally and physically.
"Did you have to have that line, writers? Really? You didn't want to give her apology the *slightest* hint of genuineness to it?"
What part of DW's a sociopath do you not get?
The reason Arthur never told his parents about DW bothering him is because he knew that his parents wouldn't do jackshit about it, he's too self aware.
Arthur and DW's relationship is a lot like my relationship with my youngest sister. She gets away with everything and I take the fall for all of her crap. I feel his pain.
That's how I feel. My little brother hits me and he isn't punished. But if I hit him I get yelled at because of the normal parent reasoning "you're the oldest and should know better," but younger siblings should be held accountable for their actions as well. (-.-)
cool story bro
@@ShyGirlMPZ That's how I gave a lecture to my parents about that and they now treat me and my younger sister equally
I feel the same but I'm younger. Its not fun when when your more mature than a sibling that is 5 years older
Same, only it’s with my older sister. She gets away with doing certain stuff she isn’t supposed to, and every time I break a rule I ALWAYS get punished. Note she also does have anger management issues which has affected us whenever we go on vacation (I’m not joking, we almost cancelled it because of how awful and childish she was behaving just because someone was in the bathroom and she had to pee, we had relatives there and my mom was so embarrassed) and for whatever reason I’m held to a higher standard. I’ve gotten into fights with my mom over it and even threatened to cut ties with her because of how sick of it I am
"Karma's a bitch, huh son?"
Father of the year.
Sadly, this practically happens throughout the whole series, I've noticed.
D.W. always takes advantage of Arthur by teasing him, and the times that D.W. causes trouble, she never gets caught at times.
This is why everyone thinks D.W. is a bad character: she's an annoying little brat.
Violence is wrong, everyone can do that, ANYONE.
This show deals about the trauma of cancer and the 9/11 attacks PERFECTLY
but can't teach a moral about don't hit people, How? What?! WHY?!
And it did it with the wrong character.
3:37 Same thing with my family. They never punish my little brother when he destroys my stuff.
Exactly with my little cousin
2:57 - SERIOUSLY?! Arthur HIT her?!? Well, I expected that, this episode titled "Arthur's big hit", but if my brother ruined something I spent FROEVER making, I would've just yelled at him!
Arhem. She annoyed him for months as he made the plane, then broke into his room, touching it as it was drying and broke it; At the end blaming him for it.
If I would have any sibling that did that to me, I would punch them in the face.
Several times.
She got a pretty mild treatment for something so bad. She knows very well it was wrong and something would happen.
Arthur's Big Hit has the most satisfying scene, right when Arthur punches DW.
It is the greatest moment of satisfaction and happiness.
What I really hate about this episode is that not only did Arthur not provoke Binky at all, he was actually helping him by bringing him the pen that he lost. So the writers want us to think that punching someone for no reason after they do you a favor = punching someone after they repeatedly harass you, destroy your property and harass you some more. FUCK. THAT.
Well, to be kinda fair, Binky was pressured to do it by his gang
@@zierragacha5089 Still not as much of a "justification" as Arthur had.
"Midna in peril" good music choice.
I just gave you a like! Have a good Sunday!
+David Johnson On my comment?
As an older sibling, I can say parents turn down right cold if you hit the younger kid.
Most of the D.W. episodes like this one now makes me think of that line that Lin says to Toph in Legend of Korra in her flashback. I'll just rephrase it to fit the story told here. "Once again, D.W. gets to do whatever she wants, and there are no consequences!"
If you add an S before Hit in the title then you'd get Arthur's Big Shit and that would've been a far more interesting episode. I never watched Arthur before but I still think that would be interesting.
This comment made me laugh so fucking hard. xD
😅😅😅😆
@btamamura funny thing is, there's a ytp of that exact title. It's been out for several years
i dont remember watching arthur as a kid. but i do remember hating D.W. i hate these kinda characters. in every cartoon that involves a female or little sister its always either the girl can do whatever she wants because she is young and dosent understand or is adorable, the big brother is always stupid while the little sister is intelligent(except for dexters lab), or in anime a tsundere can punch/beat up a guy and the guy wont ever physically hit back(sakura from naruto, edolas lucy from fairy tail)
Or Nami from One Piece. Words can't describe how much I hate that and I am a girl. My mom Always taught me that if anyone hits me I have a right to hit them back. No matter who they are. If you can dish it you can take it
You are not a girl. You are what I call a WOMAN.
Tiz Horrior aw thanks
I like tsunderes just because I end up acting like one A LOT.
D.W is my least favorite character of all time, I hate her... and I'll be honest here, I replayed the scene of D.W getting hit several times, cause I feel she had it coming.
I swear I'm a good person, I just hate D.W with a passion.
Wait, this show dealt with cancer at some point? Damn, this show is probably the most mature kids show ever.
Not really. Soul Eater has a character that is a child abuse victim. As Told By Ginger had an episode where Ginger wrote a poem about a girl who committed suicide, an episode where Ginger gets addicted to caffine, an episode where Ginger gets a substitute teacher who's clearly a psycho-path who mentally abuses children for a living, and an episode where another character doesn't know how to feel about his own grandmother's death. Underland Chronicles (a kids' book series) portrays racism among fictional species, has a genocide take place, portrays its authority figure characters as morally gray at best, and has a character whose parents killed each other when he was an infant. Another kids' book, Hound of Ulster, has as much violence as Metalocalypse and ends with the main character getting beheaded. Courage the Cowardly Dog had an episode that showed domestic abuse and hinted that the abuse victim is a lesbian. The fifth book of Harry Potter has a main villain that is a clear satire of governmental interference of public schools and she literally forces people to cut their own hands for their political beliefs. Fullmetal Alchemist starts of by making the viewer think the soldiers are the good guys before they get split between the trigger happy ones who follow an evil dictatorial leader and the ones who simply want to serve justice and save people. Yu Yu Hakusho has its main character die in the very first episode. Aaahh!!! Real Monsters had an episode about a one-time character who was constantly bullied as a kid for his appearance, and shows the negative toll it took on him as an adult. Danny Phantom had an hour-long movie where he finds out about a potential future where him cheating on a test leads to him falling down a slippery slope to become a villain. Regular Show had an episode that revealed one of the characters was overshadowed by a younger brother who was a favorite child. Samurai Jack is set in a Crapsack World that is ruled by a demon and is filled with illegal alien immigrants. Sym-Bionic Titan has a backstory episode where one of the characters loses his father, gets sent to a boarding military school where he is emotionally abused, and the episode ends on a huge downer note I don't want to spoil. The ThunderCats reboot is about race wars and deals with other issues like severe poverty, child favoritism, and prisoners of war. A Series of Unfortunate Events deals with child abuse (book one), OCD women (book three), underpaid employment and child employment (book four), abusive boarding schools (book five), rich parents who never make time for their kids (book six), the reality of people being accused of crimes they didn't commit as well as the evil of laws against self-defense (book seven), the bloodthirstiness of human nature, the moral problems of fortune telling, and the legalized discrimination of people with physical abnormalities (book nine), self-imposed guilt (book ten), extreme feminism (book eleven), and small societies trying to run away from mainstream society while being led by hypocrites who keep things away from the people they rule and claim to do so justly (the final book).
Cartoon Fan Hello wall of text. Try spacing it out with paragraphs next time. Though, I agree, cancer isn't a "mature" topic.
SirLampy In Japan they're kids shows. Also, Yu Yu Hakusho aired on Cartoon Network.
Cartoon Fan Shit, I didn't think about that.
Cartoon Fan
Soul Eater isn't for kids, come on. At least not like Arthur's target audience.
Funnily enough, by not showing DW receive any punishment for her crime, despite her clearly not caring about the consequences of her actions, and Arthur being perpetually treated like garbage, despite genuinely acknowledging his wrongdoings, the show possibly teaches one of the greatest morals of all: Life isn't fair.
Sometimes, for no apparent reason, you will be treated like shit, and it's purely because of what you are, not who.
Really, though, the fact that this sort of stuff happens in real life makes this episode *worse* rather than better. Even disregarding what happened to me personally, I've witnessed (or at least heard about) cases in which the instigator got no punishment whatsoever, especially if the other party retaliates and gets punished themselves. I'm thoroughly convinced that people don't really care about what provokes someone into doing something wrong, especially if that someone reacts negatively, and that they're punishing their reaction solely for *being* a reaction, not just a wrongdoing, because even if they *did* see what provoked the reaction, they flat out do nothing (or at least, nothing major).
+crazyinsane500 "Life isn't fair, and kids, you should continue to believe that. Accept that people not caring about other people is an inevitability, and feel totally justified in being selfish or mean for no real reason because being fair is a totally pointless exercise. Don't get any ideas in your head about making the world a better place through kindness or justice, because that's just crazy talk. It will never happen, and you will always be unfairly victimized, because life isn't fair."
+PassTheMarmalade1957
I read that in Mr. Enter's voice…no regrets.
SEGASister Seriously, though, 'life isn't fair' is just a lazy excuse for people to not give a shit about anything.
PassTheMarmalade1957
I know. Parents give that excuse all the time.
If you want an episode of a kids show that teaches this lesson the right way, look at the Dragon Tales episode "No Hitter". It's from around the same time but it fixes everything wrong with this episode.
IAmNotAFunguy I agree, especially since "Dragon Tales" was *also* on PBS. Instead of being treated like a pariah, Max is just pulled aside and simply told that while it's okay to be angry, it's not okay to hit. So, what was that PBS was saying about their strict policy against hitting?
Superman13195 Which episode? The "Arthur" one or the "Dragon Tales" one because the "Dragon Tales" one actually *did* show Max hitting Emmy and kicking Ord. The "Arthur" episode on the other hand didn't actually *show* the punch; just Arthur moving his fist forward, the *sound* of the punch, and D.W. flying back.
I misread that as no Hitler
Andrew Chen I'll admit that I did too. I was about to say "hm, I don't remember THAT episode of Dragon Tales"
5:15 - simple: any kind or sort of model airplane EVER! They aren't supposed to fly, they're supposed to sit on a stand and look cool!
And there's terrible families like that too... :l
I do like Arthur. But, This episode gets on my nerves. I am so glad I am not the only one who feels that way. Plus the parents seems more concern about DW getting hit even when they know she broke something that was really important to Arthur. But, When Arthur gets hit they are like 'Well you deserved it for upsetting and hurting your sister." What the fuck ? Are they favoring DW over Arthur ? If they are they should stop. You should not favor your kids. Plus I don't blame for Arthur for snapping like that. Maybe he did tell his parents a bunch of times and it wasn't shown. They don't even punish DW when she was having a tantrum about not going to someones birthday for days. All they said that her behavior has got to stop. They did not take any toys or privileges away for screaming all night long. The father just carried her to bed and tuck her in with a smile on his face while she was yelling and didn't say anything to her in one scene. I don't get why they allow her to get away with things that most kids in real life would get in trouble with. Just cuz she is 4 doesn't mean they she shouldn't get punished. Little kids needs to have some punishes or else they will be worse then DW when they get older.
+xXWounded-AngelXx it's times like those I'm glad my parents were hard to me when I got tantrums as a kid.
+xXWounded-AngelXx the funny thing is they only pushed her twice that i can recall the one time she said a swear word to her mom and the other time she said she was going to hit kate.
She did get punished when she punch her Salad when it had spinach in it.
+xXWounded-AngelXx I seem to remember an episode once where she did get punished and sent to her room, and pretty much the whole episode was about her going insane.
Kind of reminds me of how males are treated in real life.
If it's any consolation, even Marc Brown hated this episode because of the messed-up morals.
This episode just might've been salvaged if they showed DW getting repercussions for what she did. Both Arthur and DW were in the wrong, if they showed DW getting punished and come to the realization that she did something wrong it would've not only strengthened the episode but also DW's character and the relationship between her and Arthur
If Arthur tells his parents about DW messing with his model plane
Arthur's parents would probably say something along the lines of
"You should learn to keep your plane in a safe place"
Or "Don't blame her for your plane"
Actually, I can totally see where this episode is going. This episode of Arthur is trying to teach you the blunt, harsh reality of life. The fact that no one on earth has the balls to condone violence anymore no matter what the circumstances. If you stand up to a bully at school, you get detention. If you shoot someone defending yourself, you go to court. If you're in the armed forces and you fight back against the psychopathic idealists opened fire on you, you get court marshaled.
Arthur was trying to tell us that the world was going to LOOSE IT'S BALLS. Well guess what, they were right. It already has.
I... can actually see where you're coming from. Now, granted, I don't 100% agree with it. But you've got a valid point. I mean, one time, someone kept joking with me about something, even when I was getting annoyed (what it was they were joking about, I'd rather not say). I wanted to stand up for myself, but I was worried that if I did, I would get called out... *at best*. It just goes to show what happens when there's so much as a *threat* of a consequence if you stand up for yourself, even if you're not saying anything rude of disrespectful, you just want to tell them to stop.
@@ThomasNCookieMonster The only thing this episode taught was that nowadays in life, everyone has to take everything and you'll either be scolded for it or people will feel bad that you had to deal with it. The only thing is, the victim doesn't get to choose. Sometimes, someone will be praised and get the sympathy of people for having to deal with a bully when they stand up for themselves, sometimes they'll be scolded for "being mean/rude".
This might be the most cogent comment on this entire thread. Don't get me wrong, I agree with pretty much every single other comment on this video too but I think yours is the one that sums it up most efficiently. 100% agree
The moral is don't hit siblings when they destroy your hard work and they shouldn't get punished, then if you get punched by a bully it is completely fine and you are still the "bad guy"
The way Arthur is treated in this episode, I wouldn’t be surprised if this happened. Athur has a staring contest. If Arthur wins, D.W can’t go into his room ever again. Athur breaths on D.W, and she immediately screeches. Arthur is shot down by a helicopter. In the hospital, dad says “Well now you know how D.W felt when you breathed on her.
Okay, there are times where i don’t like hyperbole, but this is not one of those times 😂
The intended moral of this episode never phased me the first time I saw it at age 7. My hatred for DW kept me from doing so.
Hearing Arthur's fist connect and seeing DW hit the ground was the best Arthur memory of my childhood...
This reminds me so badly of like a million situations with my own little sister and me. She could basically do whatever she wanted and break all my stuff, my single mother told me we should discuss that among ourselves like adults (How do you discuss "like adults" with a ten-year-old who is maniacally giggling about breaking your things and burping into your face as a reply?). But as soon as I did anything my sister didn't want me to (like have a fork at dinner she wanted to eat with, not kidding), my mum would yell at me and make me stop it and then sometimes still punish me. Surprise, she grew up to be very entitled and badly equipped to deal with real world situations and interpersonal relationships. Luckily, it got better after both my brother and I moved out and our mother didn't have anyone to blame for our sister's misconducts anymore. What Mr Enter says here is absolutely true.
This episode is so hypocritical. It said that Arthur hitting was wrong because two wrongs don't make a right, but then it says that binky hitting Arthur was "him getting what was coming to him". What the hell?!
Even as a kid, I felt it was COMPLETELY unfair! I hit my brothers all the time and didn't get the same punishment as Arthur (my brothers and I rough-housed a lot as kids. Who didn't? XD ). Also, D.W. has probably always been my most HATED character in almost EVERY show.
It's kinda funny how 7 year olds have a better grasp of morals than the writers of this episode, eh?
"Maybe that's how DW felt when you hit her" What?! There's a big difference, 1st Arthur got hit for no reason from their pov while DW deserved it. 2nd Arthur isn't usually like this, so DW must have done something bad to get him to snap. 3rd DW is a awful character
I thought Arthur's Big Hit would be about weed
+SeriouslyNotNormal I thought it would be about baseball.
I thought it was about a school play
XD
What pisses me off most about this episode is that Arthur's parents used his being hit by Binky as an, "Oh. well, karma's a bitch" moment.
3:09 That kind of reminds me of an old UA-cam Poop. "AHHHHHHHHH!"
"What's Wrong?" "That's Cold!" (Puts Back On Her Arm Anyway)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I have to see that! If only I know the name!
Apologize to your sister 🙁
Now I remember why my friend and I used to say DW stood for DimWit.
***** You are correct but it was a running joke we had.
+SupermarketSweep777 okay I hate this little bitch but it's gonna bug me all day if I don't say something: it's Dora Winifred XD
SupermarketSweep777 Ikr XD
Now that I think about it, I vaguely remember laughing my head off as a child when Arthur's voice cracked when he squealed, "I TOWWLD YOOUU... NAWT TO TOUUCH IIIITTT!"
So in a way, I thought D.W. deserved it.
This episode at least gave us a beautiful UA-cam Poop. That's more than what some of the later seasons brought.
Given how many people were dealing with this scenario in their lives, this episode was incredibly shitty. I've witnessed a very similar situation in which the younger sister took something she knew she wasn't allowed to, damaged it, and then cried that she was being bullied. (Note, she was never hit, she was held and not allowed to run away. She only got hurt by pulling to try to get free, still refusing to let go of what she had taken and was crushing in her hand.) So she got her brother in trouble, who was himself also "just a kid", but that excuse somehow works for her and not for him. To do that, to set an example so undeniably clear that she can ruin your belongings and it'll be your fault and never hers, that you are the child less loved... That is truly sick parenting.
And for the first time ever in describing some parental abuse on one of Mr Enter's videos, this story is not about me. I was witness to it all. I hate that this episode so strongly makes me think to that horrific day. That it justifies it. That it makes Arthur do all the wrong things, and respond unrealistically, but most of all that DW really never learns anything despite being the antagonist. Did they forget their target audience??? I'm glad this is here an an atrocity.
Here's the lesson if you punch a little kid your in trouble but if a bully hits you at school they won't give a crap
I saw this when I was 7 or 8 with my mom. She was on Arthur's side, a parent on the hitter's side. That's how much my parents, sisters, and I found DW insufferable.
I always hated this episode, even my parents thought it was done pretty badly.