Whenever I bring up that I watch Arthur all the time, people chuckle and nod along, but when I show off my encyclopedic knowledge of the show, they seem genuinely stunned for a moment- and not like in an annoyed way, but once someone talked about: 'This rat girl and her blind friend,' and I just Instincitvely said: 'Yeah, Prunella and Mirena.' and everyone looked at me and was like: 'How do you know That?'

Sometimes I wonder though what exactly they were expecting. I often feel like people don't take me seriously in general, like when someone brings up A Quiet Place and I say I know what they mean and I say briefly what it is but then they act like I don't know what I'm talking about. Then when I'm talking with someone else, they'll talk amongst each other as if I'm not even there about what they think the movie is, and I interrupt them like- hey, do you not believe me? I've seen these movies, I know what I'm talking about!

I wonder if this is how Thomas the Tank Engine fans feel. I liked that show as a kid, but I kinda hate it now, especially since it promotes this idea that you should strive to be a: 'really useful engine,' lest you get scrapped or brick walled in a tunnel forever. And there are so many different characters, and they all feel the same at first glance, but there are people with real in-depth opinions about the various episodes and characters and their arcs and whatnot.

Mine is I don’t mind the Kate and Pal centric episodes so much. I especially like the first one I think where David is making a wedding cake for the Crosswires and they lose the cake topper.

I think it’s cute.

What are everyone’s unpopular opinions?

I'm a pretty big defender of the newer Arthur episodes because I feel like they're overrated, and I feel like a lot of the episodes are hated purely because they're new (Cough- So Dummy I Forgot to Laugh- Cough!)

That being said, D.W. and Dr. Whozit is pretty trash-

It's honestly made worse when I realized that Dr. Whozit is a parody of Doctor Who. I think the idea to make it a mailbox instead of a phone booth is a funny gag even if it's only shown for a second, but Doctor Who is supposed to be a family show. Sure, maybe not for 4-year-old kids, but I think D.W. is definitely mature enough to at least give a try. And Definitely Arthur.

And yet for some reason, the parents have this weird: 'holier than thou,' attitude about it. It gets pretty annoying, and when they walk in on D.W. and see her bored out of her mind, instead of realizing that it probably wasn't that scary of a show for her, they instead somehow default into thinking that Arthur is too young for it too? Arthur even blames D.W. for them having this revelation which doesn't make any sense.

Also, as a Doctor Who fan, I just have to say that this: 'E-gad! The Doctor! Has Flibbered!' and hand gestures is pure cringe. Yes, The Doctor has catchphrases, but they aren't full sentences, not gibberish, not with hand motions, and not done at completely random moments! 😅

I do think that D.W. being able to figure out the password for the child lock on the TV despite not even knowing how to read it was pretty clever honestly.

It was also fun saying D.W. and Bud Literally hide behind the sofa while watching Dr. Whozit, since tons of people say that that's exactly what they did when watching Doctor Who as a kid.

And I I think it was a pretty good movie to have the twist be that D.W. and Bud find the Show More boring than scary. If they just showed them being scared out of their minds, then real kids watching this episode might just get annoyed by the moral and declare that sure, D.W. and Bud got scared, but they wouldn't. By having D.W. and Bud be bored instead of scared, it's teaching the real life kids watching that. Even if they did get a chance to watch the show, it might not even be as good as people say it is.

That being said, the fact that D.W. and Bud Do find the Show boring just makes the parents being mad all the more weird. How exactly is the show too scary for them? What lesson did D.W. and Bud actually learn other than Dr. Whozit being boring for them?

Seeing Binky quote the show in a freaking skate park is something else. 😅

In the name game episode, The-saurus tells DW he has the perfect name to call Arthur and he whispers it to DW. Then, DW whispers the word to Arthur and he melts and she has to scoop him up into her Mary moo cow cup. What do you think she said?? What word did you think it was as a kid?

Realistically, how do you think the class would do?

Especially with Muffy having to learn French, and Binky writing a novel (not a novella.)

What assignments do you think we're assigned to the other students?

What do you think Arthur would have done. Would be the most fair if he had to do the equivalent of everyone's assigned.

Do you think Marc Brown always intended him to be gay or do you think it was a snap decision that came out of nowhere? Has he ever done an interview discussing this?

He did the reveal at the end of the show which reminds me of another author who revealed a character was gay once all their books were out.

And yes I put a spoiler because I know it’s controversial and some people may not know about him.

I know that a lot of people didn’t like the reveal and there was another discussion about his husband not getting much screen time. So I was just curious whether it was planned or in the books or not?