The BEST episodes of Arthur season 1
Every episode of Arthur season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Arthur season 1!
The adventures of Arthur, an 8-year-old aardvark, and his family and friends as they grow up and learn how to be good neighbors to one another.
#1 - Bully for Binky
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/6/1996
Binky is the toughest kid in school and everyone is afraid of him. He messes with the wrong person: Sue Ellen, and thinks that she is a pushover until he finds out that she is a blackbelt in Tai-Kwan-Do!
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#2 - Arthur Accused!
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/14/1996
Arthur had a job to collect coins for Mrs. McGrady to raise money for a new dog for the Elwood City firemen, and when he left the bag of quarters where Mrs. McGrady was working, she said she never received them. While this was happening, Buster opened his detective agency, he has no idea his first job will involve Arthur. Now, it is up to Buster to solve this mystery, was Arthur the real thief?....
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#3 - Meek for a Week
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/29/1996
Everyone knows that Francine is rather bossy and somewhat independent, but when she insults Muffy on her street hockey playing skills, it would seem she's gone to far. After a bit of crying, Muffy decides to make a bet with Francine --- she'll give Francine the Princess Peach watch that she's always adored if Francine can be nice for an entire week. Francine takes the bet seriously and pretty soon, her behavior is barely recognizable to her friends. Worried that she may be bottling her anger, Arthur and the rest of the group try to get Francine to let off some steam, before she ends up doing something really rash.
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#4 - Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/28/1996
Arthur enters a contest to find the perfect jingle for a Crunch Cereal commercial. So far he's come up with nothing but is struck with an idea as D.W. hums a melody.
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Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/1/1996
Grandma Thora can't cook. Her food is terrible but Arthur and D.W. always pretend to like it to spare her feelings. She plans to have a bake sale but things get so bad that Arthur and D.W. decide to save the people from her food.
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Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/18/1996
Francine has always gotten the worst roles in school plays, so everyone in the Ratburn class asks Mr. Ratburn to give her a good part in the next one. The play is about Thomas Edison, and Francine is given the role of Edison himself. She takes her role very seriously, to the point where she starts to trying to run everything her way and insults her friends. After the hurt and the anger, they set out to show her that she can't just forget their needs
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#7 - D.W.'s Snow Mystery
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/5/1996
D.W. loses her snowball out the freezer. Her 3 main suspects are Francine, Buster, & Arthur but in the end everyone is innocent. D.W. doesn't find out what happened to her snowball but she still has a feeling it was Arthur.
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#8 - Arthur's Cousin Catastrophe
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/17/1996
The Read Family is having a big reunion, with aardvark relatives from all over coming. Arthur normally enjoys the festivities, such as sack-racing and swapping stories, but finds himself hiding because he's worried that his cousin Mo has a big practical joke planned for him. He remembers her being awful to him in the past and is sure that she has something big planned. However, his worries might just be unfounded. More Info - ECDC
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#9 - Arthur's Almost Boring Day
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/1/1996
Arthur is supposed to write a report about what he did over the weekend. He planned to write about a day at the park but it rained. Bored both he and D.W. were forced to go to Grandma Thora's where Arthur discovered something great for his report!
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Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 11/8/1996
The park is in bad condition and Arthur decides to team up with Francine's dad and clean it up.
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Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 11/12/1996
When Mr.Ratburn gets sick his sister has to substitute for his class and all the kids think that she's going to be tougher but when she comes they realize that she's an easy teacher. Tired of not being challenged enough the kids want Mr.Ratburn back.
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Season 1 - Episode 56 - Aired 11/13/1996
Muffy's dad decides to ban all the Scare-Your-Pants-Off books because Muffy got a nightmare from it so Arthur and the kids band together to put a stop to it.
#13 - Arthur Babysits
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/17/1996
Arthur has plenty of gripes about his past babysitters, but soon finds himself trying his hand at some babysitting of his own. He ends up having the Tibble Twins' Grandma ask him to babysit the infamous Tibble Twins and he agrees to the job. Despite the warnings from both his friends and D.W., he takes on the task and quickly finds himself overwhelmed. After some quick thinking, and a willingness to keep at things, he comes up with a plan. More Info - ECDC
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#14 - Arthur's Pet Business
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/11/1996
Arthur wants a dog very badly, but he has to prove he's responsible first. Arthur decides to start his own pet business in order to prove that he's responsible, which includes watching over the neighborhood dog Perky, who is very mean and aggressive.
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#15 - Arthur Goes to Camp
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/15/1996
Arthur and his friends go to summer camp and Binky brings up the issue that it's boys vs. girls. The other team participating always won because of this problem, so now the kids of Elwood must work together to defeat them this year.
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#16 - Arthur's Lost Library Book
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/10/1996
Everyone loves the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club series, and the new book, "The Mysterious Hand", is coming out. Arthur's the first to borrow it (along with many other books at the same time), but when he collects the library books scattered around the house, he can't find the Scare-Your-Pants-Off book. He later teams up with Binky to look for it.
#17 - Locked in the Library!
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/14/1996
After Arthur called Francine a marshmallow, Francine and her friends got really made and it looks like they are going to fight. But when they both got locked inside the Elwood City Library they either have to make up, or prepare for a long and scary weekend, because it was the weekend and the library closes until Monday.
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#18 - I'm a Poet
Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 11/13/1996
Fern dares everyone to write a good poem for a contest. If the loser backs out they have to join art club for a year. They all make good poems and loved doing it so much that they wanted to join anyway.
#19 - Buster Makes the Grade
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/15/1996
Buster's grades aren't as good as his jokes, and now he is on the verge of repeating his third grade year. If he does not receive at least a B on his next test, he fails...
#20 - Arthur Makes the Team
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/31/1996
Arthur stinks at baseball on his team and makes them lose games so Francine tries to make him a better player.
#21 - Arthur's New Years Eve
Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 11/15/1996
Arthur plans to stay up through New Years. He feels that he's missed it but Grandma Thora said that as long as you've had good times from the past year there sure to follow up in the new year.
#22 - Buster's New Friend
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/23/1996
Arthur is very surprised when Buster doesn't show up to watch Bionic Bunny with him and even more surprised when it turns out that Buster's hanging out with some new friend named Mike. Buster makes Mike sound plenty cool, but Arthur really needs Buster's help with their science project. What's worse is that Arthur keeps asking just who Mike is, but it seems like Buster can only gush about who Mike is, rather than give a straight answer. Arthur begins wonder if Buster isn't his friend anymore.
#23 - Buster's Dino Dilemma
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1996
Mr. Ratburn's make a long-awaited field trip to a Rainbow Rock State Park. On his own, Buster discovers a fossilized dinosaur footprint and takes it home. Despite it being against museum rules, he doesn't want to relinquish his find.
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#24 - D.W. All Wet
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1996
On a hot summer day, D.W. and her preschool class go on a field trip to the aquarium. When a shark swims by, her classmates hide while she teases it, but when an octopus appears, she is the only one afraid. The Reads go to Bear Lake to escape from the summer heat and everyone is having a wonderful time, except for D.W. who won't swim because she thinks there are octopuses there.
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#25 - Arthur's Birthday
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/18/1996
Arthur is excited about his birthday. After shopping for party supplies, he makes invitations and passes them out at school. He then finds out that Muffy is having her party on the same day, at the same time. This starts a huge battle between the boys and the girls in the Ratburn class. Fortunately, Francine and Arthur devise a great solution to the problem.