Arthur

Moving on.

Arthur, the beloved long-running animated children's series, premiered on PBS Kids on October 7th, 1996.

Hey Arnold, Nickelodeon's hit animated show officially debuted its regular series run on October 7th, 1996.

Pop-Up Video, VH1, premiered its innovative trivia-packed music video show on October 27, 1996.

Dragon Tales, I remember that.

Arthur.

Arth- Of course, Arthur.

You can easily sing that, that intro song every day of the week.

Yeah.

I mean, go live, right? Important cultural news on this date.

Arthur turned thirty.

Yes, the aardvark.

The PBS show ultimately ran for two hundred and fifty-three episodes across twenty-five seasons, and if that information just made your lower back hurt, I am sorry.

Worst August.

Okay, so moving from Hey Arnold!, October 7th, 1996, tell me what you remember about Arthur.

I don't remember shit about Arthur.

I... [laughs]

What?

[laughs] Is he a rapper? I never heard of him.

Is he a dog?

So behind The Simpsons, Arthur is the second longest running animated series in the US.

Hey all.

Did you watch much Arthur growing up? Arthur's on my list.

And yes,

I did watch Arthur.

Only when we went to my grandparents' house.

Because am I right in saying it was on Foxtel? It was on

that's not an interesting story then.

But go on.

TV, obviously, we're all so, you know, absorbed in it as kids, all this American TV.

I mean, I didn't have like Disney Channel or anything like that when I was a kid, but we did have like Arthur, you know, Arthur the Arthur.

Oh my

God, childhood nostalgia.

Yes.

I loved Arthur.

Arthur PBS.

Yes.

what does it look like? Hold on.

Arthur.

What?

What? Arthur from the PBS show.

I thought it was a rabbit.

No, he's an aardvark.

Damn, I always thought that nigga was a rabbit.

That's crazy.

course

of course I gotta say too Arthur I think was such when you look at Arthur as an adult he was such a strong kid like I mean I know he's an aardvark but yeah yeah because he would speak like truth to power or he was a very morally strong kid and I think a lot of these shows were strong in their messaging to kids like you look at magic school bus right they taught you so much about i mean i don't look at the the newer shows but it always had a message like you look at the berenstain bears or you look at did you guys watch a little bear yes yes like it was such a calming show yeah rupert like and it was like always the

world of richard scary wait what about uh pinky in the brain

but pinky in the brain

Shem?

Uh, for me probably Arthur.

Oh.

Oh, Arthur's a classic.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, Arthur, um, Magic School Bus as well.

Yeah.