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biolizardboils · 1 year

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seriously, please support your local library!

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Tubthumping by Chumbawamba

Library Card by Michael Yarmush from Arthur and The First Almost Real Not Live CD (or Tape)

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#arthur #pbs kids #marc brown #arthur read #having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card #library card #library card song #tubthumping #chumbawamba #mashups #mashup #jams #me talking #oh yeah ziggy marley's in there too!#my mashups

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sandytrish008 · 3 months

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Fern having an identity crisis when she discovers that arthur has a dog as a pet

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gunwildversuseverything · 3 months

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#arthur #muffy #pbs #marc brown #muffy crosswire #cartoons #animation #television #tv

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elwoodcitylimits · 1 month

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✨blessing your feed with Marc Brown✨

#arthur pbs #marc brown

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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A title in the Arthur children’s book series is facing a potential ban after a conservative activist claimed that it “damaged souls”.

On 12 July, Bruce Friedman, a member of the Clay County School District community in Florida, filed a challenge to Arthur’s Birthday, a 1989 children’s book by Marc Brown about a fictional brown aardvark whose birthday falls on the same day as another party of a different classmate.

At one point in the book, Arthur receives a glass bottle from Francine the monkey as a birthday present. The bottle has the words “Francine’s Spin the Bottle Game” printed on it.

According to the challenge, which The Daily Beast website published, the reason for Friedman’s ban request is to “protect children”.

“IT IS NOT APPROPRIATE TO DISCUSS ‘SPIN THE BOTTLE’ WITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN,” he wrote in all capital letters. “THIS BOOK IS FOUND IN ALL/ALMOST ALL [DISTRICT SCHOOLS]!”

“‘SPIN THE BOTTLE’ NOT OKAY FOR K-5 KIDS,” Friedman added, still using all capital letters. In response to a question about what he believes might be the result of a student using the material, he wrote, “DAMAGED SOULS.”

In a statement to The Daily Beast, a district spokesperson, Terri Dennis, said the book was among 45 titles currently “pending oversight committee review”.

Friedman is the Florida chapter president of No Left Turn in Education, a rightwing group that campaigns against critical race theory. The group seeks to “use all forms of media to expose the radical indoctrination in K-12 education, its perpetrators, the resources and methods employed and the resulting harm it inflicts”, according to its website.

In a Facebook post in September 2020, the group compared public schools to “Pol Pot’s Cambodia”, referring to the former leader of Cambodia who perpetrated the mass genocide of over 2 million people.

Last December, Friedman said that he had compiled “a list of over 3,600 titles that I believe have concerning content [including] porn, critical race theory, social-emotional learning, [and] fluid gender,” Popular Information reported.

He told the outlet that he identified the titles by “scouring the internet” for books that have been challenged in other parts of the country.

The Florida Freedom to Read Project has pushed back against Friedman’s challenge to Arthur’s Birthday, saying: “The entire book is about being inclusive of all friends and not only inviting boys or girls (based on your gender) to your birthday party.”

In recent years, Florida’s public education system has become a divisive battleground for Republican lawmakers who have enacted a slew of laws targeting various minority and marginalized communities.

In addition to the “Don’t Say Gay” ban across all school grades and bans of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in public universities, Florida’s Governor, Ron DeSantis, has banned African American studies from high schools while the state’s Board of Education updated controversial new standards earlier this month to include the claim that some black people benefited from being enslaved.

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randomly-a-fan · 7 months

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Arthur was having a nightmare about "Mostly" villains. (Though there are some who are not villains). Let's hope Arthur survives this.

#youtube #Arthur #Marc Brown #HMV #Horror #Spongebob Squarepants #Death Note #Poppy Playtime #Spoof #Memes #Dank Memes

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haroldjaffe · 1 year

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Two cool rodents!

[Image description: color drawing of Mr. Slinger from Kevin Henkes's Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (left) and Mr. Ratburn from Marc Brown's Arthur series and its television adaptation (right). Slinger is a gray mouse with a mustache wearing light blue pince-nez, a blue plaid shirt, a purple tie, brown corduroy pants, and light brown sandals. Ratburn is a brown rat wearing a yellow shirt, a red tie, a green suit, and dark brown shoes.]

#mr. slinger #mr slinger #kevin henkes #lilly's purple plastic purse #mr. ratburn #mr ratburn #nigel ratburn #nigel charles ratburn #marc brown #arthur #arthur pbs #my art #fanart

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picturebookshelf · 1 year

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Arthur's Valentine (1980)

Story and Art: Marc Brown

#arthur #arthur brown #arthur's valentine #valentines #marc brown #aardvark #sue ellen #picture book #children's literature #children's books #kidlit #1980s #80s

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literalbuzzkill · 1 year

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I'm screaming I just accidentally uncovered a new conspiracy/most likely truth but definitely unconfirmed knowlege by hyperfixating on the sinking of the Titanic and this probably has no relevance and no one cares but I'm going to info dump it so here it is.

The show Arthur, the kids show,

Arthur has a little sister, D.W. you know her, she's sassy, shes mean, but we love her because she sometimes she spits facts and makes a great meme.

Well anyway, obviously that D.W stands for something and at one point it's revealed to be Dorothy Winifred.

Ok.

Now that you have that information:

On the titanic list of survivors was a famous silent film actress from that era, she even starred in a film about the sinking and wore the clothes she survived in for the film too, ANYWAY, the name she went by publicly was Dorothy Gibson, BUT her birth name was actually Dorothy Winifred Brown.

Now you might be realizing what I realised.

D.W. it makes sense right?

Both her and Arthur's little sister were named Dorothy Winifred, although DWs last name in the fictional kids show was Read, and not Brown like the actress, so obviously it could just be coincidence?

Diving in deep with the basic research:

The Arthur Wiki states that the character DW was named after her grandma Thora's aunt Dorothy Winifred, who died before she was born. But we don't know how/when/why or anything else about her unfortunately.

Though it does make sense considering Titanic Lady was born 1889 and died 1946 so that timeline checks out with the age/information that the show Arthur gives us about Grandma Thoras Aunt. She'd be the same age roughly as the real Dorothy (I'm adding this extra following info with no relevance just because its interesting, but the Real Dorothy passed away in 1946 of a heart attack in a Paris hotel room, affer death her estate was divided between a different lover and her mom who ALSO was found dead in a Paris hotel room 15 years later, hmmmm, seems a little suspicious tbh)

Anyway, the character "Grandma Thora Read" in the show Arthur was in fact based off of the creators REAL grandma,

In the show her maiden name is not revealed but if this is based on titanic lady it would be Brown.

Would you like to know the creators name?

Because it's Marc Brown.

So in conclusion I have successfully deduced that DW the little sister from the kids show Arthur was in fact named after the famous Titanic survivor Dorothy Winifred Gibson-Brown.

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Episode similarities to reality:

Dorothy Gibson/Brown also accidentally killed a pedestrian in the sports car of her affair lover, oof yikes thats rough, but worth mentioning, because in the Arthur Wiki apparently Arthur's dad David mentions that Grandma Thora was in an car accident when he was Arthur's age but she wasn't hurt, this episode may elude to the encounter that happened above in real life to Dorothy.

Just like Real Dorothy was an actress in silent films, Dw is also in alot of the school plays in the show and even goes on completely silent during one of them forgetting all of her lines.

In another episode, some kids try to sell Grandma Thora a painting of a boat and she declines, tells them it's not her cup of tea, probably a vague titanic reference lol can't blame her for that tbh I wouldn't want that reminder either

Also, again in an episode DW says that her grandma told her mom a secret, we don't know what that is. But if I had to pull out all the red strings for this I'd say it's titanic related.

There is a titanic reference in the antiques roadshow parody episode of Arthur where Muffy has a sapphire necklace that is supposed to portray the heart of the ocean from the Titanic film.

In a picture from Grandma Thoras living room there's a small mistake showing that DWs hair was blonde,

In one of the younger pictures of Real Dorothy Gibson it looks like she is blonde or is at least wearing a wig

In the episode "DW swims with the fishes" both her and James have trouble swimming, Arthur and a character named Molly(who didn't want to be there, LOL) rescued them, this may be a nod to The Unsinkable Molly Brown who from one of the lifeboats helped rescue people in the water (possibly including Dorothy?) after the Titanic sank

This might even be a stretch but there's a character named Mary Helene in the show as well as a titanic survivor named Ellen Mary which is pretty close

I have no actual evidence and don't think it's something the creator of Arthur has ever talked about (To my knowledge) but the adhd said let's hop into it so I did

#titanic #arthur read #Marc Brown

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boricuacherry-blog · 2 months

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#arthur's valentine #book #kids #marc brown

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thatwritererinoriordan · 5 months

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#marc brown #arthur's thanksgiving #arthur the aardvark

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sandytrish008 · 9 months

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Some digital doodles I did of Fern Walters from Arthur, along with George and Sue Ellen, aaand Buster too, done back on September 23th, 2022 🐶🐕💞

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mceproductions · 1 year

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Best of 2022 TV Shows #23: Arthur (PBS)

Marc Brown has had a legacy.

As one of two major cartoons celebrating 25 years this year the saga of the worlds most famous a a r d v a r k, can still inspire many years later.

Yet what most of us didn’t see in Arthur, Buster, Francine, Muffy, Binky, George, Brain, Sue Ellen, DW, or Ratburn we saw in slice of life done with the overall message of the immortal theme by Ziggy Marley.

Yet this past February when the final 5 Episodes aired and we got to see a future where Buster teaches, Muffy is a politician, Binky reports the weather, Francine runs Elwoods own version of Nike and DW is a cop, nobody figured Arthur would come full circle.

A graphic novelist of his own story.

Well never stop believing in ourselves…

…cause we know the place to start.

SUM 22: After 25 Years of Wonderful Days, Arthur Reed and the kids of Elwood City bid a hopeful yet poignant farewell.