Arthur - Where is the Show Going?

[MikaelaMuppet]

Welp, it's official: Ladonna is leaving.

Honestly, Ladonna never really bothered me at all . . . aside from her and her family's inaccurate southern accents (they still pronounced certain words more like northerns and Canadians do), I just never could hate her, because she wasn't a bad character . . . part of me wanted to automatically hate her because she was dumped into a show so far into its run, and with the humongous cast of characters it already has, her addition just seemed completely unnecessary . . . and this now solidifies it.

Where did you find that out?

 

[Buff Beaker]

I wonder if she's leaving due to fans complaining.
Something similar happened in the later seasons of FOP with the infamous additions of Poof and (even more so) Sparky. They were so hated that after a few seasons they were quietly phased out of the show. But it ended up not mattering because the show ended shortly after anyway.

Wait Poof and Sparky were removed from the show in the end? I stopped watching the show when Sparky was introduced.

 

[MuppetSpot]

Wait Poof and Sparky were removed from the show in the end? I stopped watching the show when Sparky was introduced.

Poof made a cameo in the Chloe season and that’s about it.

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

Where did you find that out?

Never mind. I found the article.

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

R.L. Stine will be the special guest star for this season, and he'll be playing Buster's Uncle Bob:

PBS KIDS Welcomes Fall With New Programming, Games and Activities for the Entire Family

This October, PBS KIDS invites families to celebrate the beginning of autumn with new episodes of their favorite shows, new games and a wide array of activities.

www.pbs.org

Fright Night

"Fright Night" is the first half of the first episode in the twenty-third season of Arthur. Buster's Uncle Bob tells him a spooky bedtime story about an encounter with a mysterious creature called the lycanbunny. Buster is telling D.W. and Bud a spooky story in Arthur's bedroom about how some...

arthur.fandom.com

 

[YellowYahooey]

I wonder if Ladonna Compson is leaving the show because of possibly her voice actor retiring or something?

The "Fright Night" episode sounds pretty cool, especially more than two decades after "Night Fright".

 

[YellowYahooey]

I never knew Sparky was a character in "Arthur". Especially since the Arthur Wiki doesn't have a page for Sparky. Maybe that poster meant Spanky (the bird, whose name was spelled like the leader of "Our Gang").

EDIT: I originally misread the post, it turns out Sparky and Poof were on FOP. What does FOP stand for?

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

I wonder if Ladonna Compson is leaving the show because of possibly her voice actor retiring or something?

The "Fright Night" episode sounds pretty cool, especially more than two decades after "Night Fright".

Here is the Ladonna article:

PBS KIDS Kicks Off October with Week of ‘Molly of Denali’ Premieres

This October, PBS KIDS invites families to celebrate the beginning of autumn with new episodes of their favorite shows, new games and a wide array of activities

www.animationmagazine.net

 

[MuppetSpot]

EDIT: I originally misread the post, it turns out Sparky and Poof were on FOP. What does FOP stand for?

Fairly Odd-parents

 

[YellowYahooey]

Now that I think about it, I wouldn't declare that Ladonna is leaving the show - yet.

It might be a similar situation as with the 1983 Charlie Brown special "Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?" where Linus and Lucy were moving away because of their father's job transfer, only to return at the end of the special, implying his father got laid off and returned to his old job.

The episode "When Duty Calls" might be considered a way to reboost viewership in order to continue producing episodes and have the show continue making money, since the show is losing popularity and ratings are in decline, which explains the episode order being reduced from ten to seven a few years ago.