Does anybody remember the children's cartoon Arthur? Our central character Arthur is an aardvark, the show follows him and his friends going through life and school getting up to all the crazy shenanigans that children do. Some classic episodes are when they sing the Library song and Arthur falling off his bike and cutting his leg.
Now Arthur is joined on his many adventures by his friends, there is Buster his best friend (a rabbit), then we have brain who is funnily enough the smart one (I believe he is a mouse, though he could equally be an aardvark) Francine, who is a tomboy and my least favorite character, I wouldn't be friends with her if I was Arthur she is so rude to them! (She is a monkey), and many other animal friends for Arthur.
I am all for humanising animals and giving them their own civilisation to live in but I believe there is a massive plot hole in using this device. Arthur has a pet dog.
How can this be possible? How can Arthur an animal, have another animal as a pet? Especially considering that in the show Binky, the class Bully is also a dog! Who decides which dogs are allowed to grow up as humans and which dogs must be reduced to household pets? Also Arthur has a baby sister, so an infant aardvark is being raised as a human and yet a puppy must be raised as an animal in the same house!
What a messed up world Elwood city is. But hey Arthur did teach me that having fun isn't hard when you have a library card
Absolute genius.
I'll concede that Francine is pretty bad, but she is as nothing compared to Prunella - what a cow.
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