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"Love Ducks" alone is worth the price of the DVD, January 16, 2006
This review is from: Arthur: Arthur Goes to Hollywood (DVD)
Our kids generally like Arthur to begin with, but these three episodes gave Marc Brown & his team an opportunity to flex their muscles in the realm of parody and satire. The episode featuring "Love Ducks," a bizarre & psychedelic baby show to which Arthur becomes addicted, is note-perfect in its parody & never fails to make me laugh out loud. The other two episodes also deal with the themes of TV shows, some related to other PBS kids' shows, some to shows very much not associated with PBS, such as South Park.
As usual, the kids will enjoy them, but the parents should also find the satire to be more amusing than normal.
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Baby Shows and Teasing, October 15, 2009
This review is from: Arthur: Arthur Goes to Hollywood (DVD)
My granddaughter, who has recently been watching a "baby show" tape (her younger brother checked out of the library) -- repeatedly -- seemed extraordinarily interested in my unrelated description of several episodes of Arthur. She ever so casually kept redirecting the conversation back to the episode "That's a Baby Show," to which she paid rapt attention.
I later learned she'd seriously been warned (by her mother) that choosing to wear a costume based upon the "baby show" character might lead to teasing. Although the sensitive child imagined she could "excuse" her interest by the interest of her younger brother, she apparently remained anxious. After hearing of the Arthur episode, the well-read child wrote her own "chapter book" story of a pair of twin sisters reluctantly becoming increasingly more interested in a younger brother's obsession with the show she had watched. Their resolution became her own, and she seemed much more at ease.
I recommend making specific Arthur episodes even easier to find, since several seem to be grouped together, with each group's being titled without a hint to its content. After extra research, I had the collection "Arthur: Arthur Goes to Hollywood" sent. It was well received and has been watched repeatedly, apparently adding nuance to her understanding of interactions (she has aspergers) and shared fun for her brother. There's nothing like feeling understood, even if by a cartoon character.
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More great Arthur episodes, August 3, 2006
This review is from: Arthur: Arthur Goes to Hollywood (DVD)
My kids love Arthur and the episodes on this disk do not disappoint.
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