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"Prunella the Packrat"
Season/Series: 15
Number in season: 7a
Original Airdate: United States April 16, 2012[1]
Canada May 23, 2013[4]
United Kingdom January 27, 2011[2][3]
Germany December 31, 2012[5]
Credits
Written by: Guy Lancaster
Peter K. Hirsch
Storyboard by: Daniel Miodini
François Brisson
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"Prunella the Packrat" is the first half of the seventh episode in the fifteenth season of Arthur.

Summary[]

Can Arthur help Prunella break her pack rat habits in time to put together the display for the school's Earth Day fair?

Plot[]

Arthur is busy cleaning up his room and asks the viewers if they have ever given thought to how many items they have. He then goes over a history of peoples' possessions before reverting to current time and asks the viewers what will happen to their stuff 2,000 years from now?

Prunella the Packrat

In Mr. Ratburn's class, Muffy is going over her decoration plans for the upcoming Earth Day celebration. However, Mr. Ratburn tells Muffy that the students selected for the objective will be selected randomly, and he reveals that Prunella will represent the fourth grade, while Arthur will represent the third grade.

Meeting up at Prunella's house, Arthur and Prunella are spooked by Rubella, who gives a warning about the state of Prunella's closet. Arthur stares in shock upon finding how crowded Prunella's closet is. She goes over pencils, broken shoe-laces, ticket stubs, and so fourth until Arthur waits outside of her closet for her to find what they need for the upcoming events. After an hour or so, Arthur suddenly hears a crash. He asks Prunella if she is okay, but she insists it is a frequent thing. Arthur then tells her he has to leave for dinner while Prunella lays in the mass of objects.

Arthur later goes to Buster and discusses how much of a pack rat Prunella is. Buster does not think it is a big deal since he is a pack rat when it comes to saving food, but Arthur explains that it is not just one thing Prunella saves; she saves every single thing she gets. Buster suggests that Prunella should read a book that his mom had gotten for him called "Neatnik Ned's Guide to Clearing Clutter"; he mentions that he only read a single chapter of it, but it was still life changing and he thinks that it can help Prunella.

The following day, Prunella is having trouble being convinced to read the new book. She also tries to keep both Arthur and Rubella out of her closet, but this proves to be futile. So Arthur suggests that they make a pile for keep items, a pile for get rid of items, and finally a pile for the fair items. After some time, the three manage to make a good pile of objects to get rid of and Prunella tells Arthur and Rubella that they have done enough, so she will put the remaining items into the wagon and take it to the recycling center herself.

Upon arrival, the manager tells her that the items are free so that she can take whatever she wants. She looks over the items and manages to find many she would like, to the point of coming home with triple the amount of items she was going to dispose of. She heads to Buster's and mentions how she found a big heart shaped beet and asks if he wants it. He agrees, but she then asks him to do a favor for her and asks him to keep all of the items she got from the recycling center for a few days.

At The Sugar Bowl, Arthur goes over the map he planned out for the fair. He then asks if he could come over to pick up the book he lent Prunella, also wanting to read it. Prunella makes Arthur stay in the hallway until he hears a lot of noise and looks to see her overly crowded floor and closet. Hesitantly, Prunella admits that she kept getting more and more from the center.

Arthur then leaves after he comments that she needs the book a lot more than he does, also saying that he hopes she gets a bigger closet because he cannot imagine what the closet will look like a year from now. This causes Prunella to imagine her closet practically exploding, and she finally realizes that she needs to organize her bedroom.

On the day of the fair, Buster is introducing Arthur to the "organic" foods he had made, while Muffy tells him that she would have made a much better fair display, when they suddenly hear a microphone nearby making a loud noise. They approach as Prunella explains that every object she is putting up for display is free and makes a request that whoever takes it not hang on to it for so long and that they should all share the items. Upon being asked for her second request, she informs Mr. Ratburn that she plans on using it for her ideas.

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Cultural references[]

  • In the introduction, Arthur mentions the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu, also known as Cheops. His pyramid is the biggest in the world.
  • Earth Day is a central theme of this episode.
  • Buster's "Yamlet" is a reference to William Shakespeare's Hamlet, especially the line "Two beets, or not two beets," which references "To be, or not to be." Buster also mentions Yamlet's ghost, referring to the ghost of Hamlet's father, also named Hamlet.

Errors[]

  • An uncolored cat picture is behind Buster when he shows Arthur the book. But when he suddenly shows it up close, the cat is suddenly colored.
  • The collar of Buster's sweater briefly takes on the style of Arthur's v-neck sweater with the correct pink and cyan coloring.
  • Binky changed from his biking clothes to his normal clothes between the time he was at his booth and when he tried to take the microphone from Prunella.

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