Arthur Play It Again Dw Worst
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Arthur's Big Hit is the second half of the first episode in the fourth season of Arthur.
Plot
Arthur ends up hitting D.W. out of rage and frustration after she breaks his model plane. Later, Binky is pressured by his gang members to hit Arthur the next time he sees him.
Why It Wasn't A Big Hit
- The concept of hitting/violence in little kids' shows has already been executed well with "No Hitter" from Dragon Tales, and "Kai-Lan's Playhouse" from Ni Hao, Kai-Lan (despite the former being another bad episode) but is taken way too seriously in this episode, as it turns D.W, (who Arthur punches and is his younger sister) into an unnecessary antagonist who gets away with it.
- It's pretty much nothing but an 11-minute torture episode for Arthur and Binky, and it's also utterly infamous for how mean-spirited it is and how it fails to portray the message on not using violence against other people.
- Like with most episodes of the series, D.W. is incredibly unsympathetic, as she annoyingly tortures Arthur throughout the entire episode.
- In addition, she breaks Arthur's plane but still bothers him about why it "didn't fly", which causes him to punch her.
- Even though Arthur shouldn't have hit his sister, she had it coming because of the way she constantly nags him about the plane not flying.
- The episode tries way too hard to make the viewer side with D.W., but due to how poorly written, selfish and bratty she is and with her showing no remorse at all for whatever she does to Arthur, this episode makes the viewer want to side with him instead.
- D.W. doesn't feel any remorse at all for breaking Arthur's plane, even when both of them apologize to each other near the end of the episode, in which D.W.'s apology (based on the tone of her voice) is insincere as she demands him to give her a break and uses being a child as an excuse.
- Arthur's parents, David and Jane, themselves are no better. For example, they don't seem to care about the fact that D.W. broke Arthur's plane and instead only care about D.W. getting hit, even when Arthur gets punched by Binky Barnes near the end of the episode, they don't seem to care and claim "that's how D.W. felt when you punched her", instead of pressing assault charges on Binky.
- Even though Arthur gets punished by his parents for punching D.W., D.W. on the other hand receives little-to-no punishment for breaking Arthur's plane, so it makes her a Karma Houdini, and makes her status of being one a whole lot more. While it's true that their parents did say that they would "deal with what she did" when they announce his punishment, it is never revealed what D.W.'s punishment is, and D.W. doesn't even seem to be affected by whatever it was, as shown by the insincerity of her apology to him.
- Arthur's friends (even Buster, who was appalled by D.W.'s behavior, and Binky) side against him without letting him explain his side of the story. For instance, Francine proceeds to talk behind Arthur's back to Binky about the incident and Fern uses D.W. being a "little girl" as an excuse, aggravating him.
- False advertising: The DVD cover shows Arthur getting ready to fight with D.W., but it isn't shown in the episode at all (unless you count the opening scene, in which the "D.W." in the boxing ring is Binky in disguise while the real D.W. is sitting in the audience).
- Binky is pressured by his gang to the point of forcing him to punch Arthur in one scene.
- What's worse about this is that Binky's gang doesn't receive any comeuppance at all for forcing Binky to punch Arthur.
- Arthur learns his lesson about not punching people, all because Binky punched him, which goes against the "violence is wrong" message that the episode was going for.
- The actually seen where Arthur punches D.W is the most broken censored punch even by 4kids standards
Redeeming Qualities
- Despite Arthur's parents not feeling any form of sympathy towards their son when he gets punched, they at least had the decency to bandage it.
- Seeing Arthur punch D.W is justifiable and satisfying at the same time.
- At least Binky felt bad and apologized for hitting Arthur, unlike D.W., who apologizes to Arthur, but in an insincere way.
- It does teach a good moral about only using violence as an absolute last resort, even if the execution was horrible.
Reception
This episode was poorly received by fans and critics of the show because of how unbalanced the hitting story is and also the fact that Arthur is tortured non-stop throughout the entire episode, many called it one of the worst if not the worst episode of Arthur. The series creator and the author of the books it's based on, Marc Brown, even admitted that he isn't a big fan of the episode. The episode currently sits at a 6.2/10 rating on IMDb.
Videos
The Episode
Trivia
- The scene where Arthur says "I told you, NOT TO TOUCH IT!" became a famous internet meme, which also lead to the creation of the "Arthur's Fist" meme.
- This is the first episode when Arthur's middle name Timothy is revealed.
- Arthur's plane model is broken again in the episode "Bleep."
External Links
Source: https://terribletvshows.miraheze.org/wiki/Arthur%27s_Big_Hit_(Arthur)
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