The 16th season of the television series Arthur was originally broadcast on PBS Kids in the United States from October 15, 2012 until May 10, 2013 and consists of 10 episodes. This season was the first to be distributed internationally by 9 Story Media Group, as Cookie Jar Entertainment merged with DHX Media. Season 16 was the first to switch from traditional animation to in-house Flash animation. The Flash animation for the episodes of this season are made with Adobe Flash by 9 Story Media Group.
| Arthur | |
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| Season 16 | |
| No. of episodes | 10 (19 segments) |
| Release | |
| Original network | PBS Kids |
| Original release | October 15, 2012 – May 10, 2013 |
| Season chronology | |
Episodes
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | |
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| 186 | 1 | "Based on a True Story" | Peter K. Hirsch | Gerry Capelle & Cilbur Rocha | October 15, 2012 | |
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A new girl named Ladonna Compson and her younger brother, Bud Compson, move to Elwood City from Louisiana with Mr. and Mrs. Compson. In order to make friends, she tells the Lakewood students stories about her life. As she continues with her tales, the kids get bored when she tells the same ones multiple times. Ladonna begins to fabricate her stories and is caught by Brain when she makes a factual mistake. When something amazing does happen to Ladonna, nobody believes her, and she has to prove it. Meanwhile, Bud tries to befriend D.W. | ||||||
| 187a | 2a | "Flippity Francine" | Matt Hoverman | Allan Jeffery | October 16, 2012 | |
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Francine becomes popular after starring in an embarrassing video, but she gets tired of everyone bringing it up, and tries to get famous for something she is proud of. | ||||||
| 187b | 2b | "Muffy Takes the Wheel" | Jon Greenberg | Gerry Capelle | October 16, 2012 | |
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Muffy asks Ed for help with a car model-building assignment for the Lakewood Derby, and he promptly takes over. | ||||||
| 188a | 3a | "All About D.W." | Claudia Silver | Ken Cunningham | October 17, 2012 | |
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D.W. wants to play Little Red Riding Hood in her preschool play, but is jealous when Emily gets the part. She tries to get Emily to quit the play, and when Emily is ill, D.W. ends up as her understudy. | ||||||
| 188b | 3b | "Blockheads" | Jon Greenberg | Robert Yap | October 17, 2012 | |
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At preschool, D.W. and Emily build their very own dream house out of blocks. | ||||||
| 189a | 4a | "Get Smart" | Claudia Silver | Cilbur Rocha | October 18, 2012 | |
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Mr. Ratburn's class is given the chance to test out HUGO, an interactive whiteboard that is supposedly 100% accurate. When HUGO corrects Mr. Ratburn in front of the class, the Brain locates evidence that Mr. Ratburn was correct. | ||||||
| 189b | 4b | "Baby Steps" | P. Kevin Strader | Gerry Capelle | October 18, 2012 | |
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Worried that Kate may never mature, D.W. tries to get Kate to demonstrate her intelligence. Meanwhile, she and Pal are confused by D.W.'s odd behavior, and try to find a cure. | ||||||
| 190a | 5a | "Night of the Tibble" | Dietrich Smith | Allan Jeffery | October 19, 2012 | |
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The Tibbles invite James to their sleepover. Worried for James' safety, D.W. and Emily try to help James to back out of the invitation. | ||||||
| 190b | 5b | "Read and Flumberghast" | Peter K. Hirsch | Robert Yap | October 19, 2012 | |
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When Bud accuses Tommy Tibble of stealing a cupcake from him, D.W. has a court trial, and is on the case of the stolen cupcake. | ||||||
| 191a | 6a | "The Last Tough Customer" | P. Kevin Strader & Peter K. Hirsch | Cilbur Rocha | May 6, 2013 | |
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Binky decides that the Tough Customers should quit bullying after noticing it is not effective anymore. Slink and Rattles both agree with Binky, but Molly refuses to change. The boys try anything to get her to change her mind, but nothing works. However, after realizing that James is starting to copy her bullying, Molly decides to change her behavior. | ||||||
| 191b | 6b | "Brain's Chess Mess" | Peter K. Hirsch | Allan Jeffery | May 6, 2013 | |
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The Brain starts a chess club to beat Los Dedos at school, but Rattles is the only one who takes it seriously. | ||||||
| 192a | 7a | "Baseball Blues" | David Steven Cohen | Ken Cunningham | May 7, 2013 | |
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George is very knowledgeable about baseball, but his first season doesn't go like he planned, so he learns that he needs to play good as well. | ||||||
| 192b | 7b | "Brain's Biggest Blunder" | Matt Hoverman | Robert Yap | May 7, 2013 | |
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The Brain tutors Buster at math to win a competition. | ||||||
| 193a | 8a | "Buster's Book Battle" | Jon Greenberg | Gerry Capelle | May 8, 2013 | |
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Lakewood Elementary has just instituted IRP, a program where kids can earn points and prizes for reading. Buster struggles between choosing to read a boring series to earn a prize, or an appealing book that does not give him points. | ||||||
| 193b | 8b | "On the Buster Scale" | Dietrich Smith | Ken Cunningham | May 8, 2013 | |
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Buster and the Brain never agree about movie ratings, so they fight over them, with Buster rating everything a "10+" and the Brain disliking all of them. | ||||||
| 194a | 9a | "Fern and the Case of the Stolen Story" | Craig Carlisle | Jeremy O'Neill | May 9, 2013 | |
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Fern suffers from writer's block and writes a detective series heavily based on some of Ladonna's tales, without her permission. | ||||||
| 194b | 9b | "Sue Ellen Vegges Out" | Jacqui Deegan | Raymond Jafelice | May 9, 2013 | |
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Sue Ellen goes vegan, which inspires Muffy and Francine to take it up. Muffy sees it as a trend but soon lapses, causing Francine to bet she can be "meatless". Muffy goes too far when she hosts a meat-themed potluck dinner to trick Francine into eating meat, and Sue Ellen points out they are just looking for an excuse to fight with each other. | ||||||
| 195a | 10a | "So Funny I Forgot to Laugh" | Peter K. Hirsch | Allan Jeffery | May 10, 2013 | |
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When Sue Ellen receives a new sweater from her pen pal, Arthur teases her about it, but is unaware how much his bullying is bothering her. Mr. Ratburn tells Arthur to write an apology letter to Sue Ellen, but his letter is insincere when he tells her she overreacted. He then mistakenly sends her an insulting picture and soon realizes how much of a bully he has been. | ||||||
| 195b | 10b | "The Best Day Ever" | Andy Yerkes | Gerry Capelle | May 10, 2013 | |
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Arthur and his friends recount their best days ever. | ||||||
Voice casting
editThe voice actors for Arthur, D.W., Brain, Timmy, and Catherine have all been replaced by new actors. Drew Adkins has replaced Dallas Jokic as Arthur, Jake Beale has replaced Robert Naylor as D.W., Siam Yu has replaced Lyle O'Donohoe as Brain, Jacob Ewaniuk has replaced Dakota Goyo as Timmy, and Robyn Thaler has replaced Alexina Cowan as Catherine. Beale previously voiced James in seasons 11 through 15.
This season was also the first one to feature two new characters, Ladonna Compson (Krystal Meadows) and Bud Compson (Julie Lemieux).