User blog comment:The Pop Cult Gamer/How Arthur’s Big Hit Could Have Been.../@comment-32560263-20180806181150/@comment-4797643-20180806203307

Every TV series is gonna have a few bad episodes in it. Episodes that were poorly written, poorly animated (this was common if the show had multiple overseas studios working on it like Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, etc.), or crossing the line/or going too far (this only applies to adult cartoons like The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park and Rick and Morty or anime) therefor in bad taste.

If I were to say which episode of Arthur was the absolute worst of all-time in the show’s entire run. That would have to be “Nicked by a Name.” Not only has it been done before (“D.W.’s Name Game”), it was completely unoriginal. It had VERY cheesy writing and the worst part about it, it had the worst animation out of the Animation Sevices HK, Ltd. episodes. That overseas studio was really choppy and off-model. It was also undetailed and felt unfinished like AKOM’s rough draft of The Simpsons “Some Enchanted Evening.” James L. Brooks even called the episode the S word. That episode was supposed be the very first episode of The Simpsons but it’s poor animation caused it to get delayed until the end of the first season. It had to be redone about 70%.