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"What is that Thing?"
Season/Series: 4
Number in season: 9A
Original Airdate: November 1, 1999
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Written by: Peter K. Hirsch
Storyboard by: Jeremy O'Neill
Emmanuelle Gignac
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"What is that Thing?" is the first half of the ninth episode in the fourth season of Arthur.

Summary

A magical device helps everyone finish their seemingly impossible tasks — but what is it?

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Trivia

  • Muffy uses the bobbin to save a plush anteater of hers named "Andy". It wears Arthur's sweater - a clever in-joke.
  • Nemo's design has changed in this episode after his debut in "Francine and the Feline", and has remained in subsequent seasons.

Cultural references

  • Elias Howe was a real-world inventor. He was the first to make a sewing machine with: a needle with the eye at the point, a shuttle operating beneath the cloth to form the lock stitch, and an automatic feed.

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