Arthur

Plans are under way in Elwood City for the best holidays ever! Arthur, D.W., their friends and family make preparations for perfect gifts, perfect parties, and perfect family traditions for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. But, just as in real life, perfection cannot last and things begin to fall apart. Arthur learns that the joy in Christmas isn't found in an artificial vision of the perfect holiday season, but in the wonderfully messy, imperfect world he lives in.

The Backstreet Boys are coming to Elwood City! While Muffy fantasizes about meeting her idol, Nick Carter, Francine gripes about everyone's infatuation with a bunch of sellouts. Fed up with the hype, Francine forms her own anti-sellout band, U Stink. But when U Stink becomes an overnight sensation, the band suffers from an identity crisis and Francine quits in a huff. Will U Stink rise to stardom without Francine? Will the Backstreet Boys make Muffy their manager?

Aired on PBS on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2005, this two-hour special featured several Arthur stories and two complete episodes of Postcards from Buster. This special featured interstitial postcard segments from Buster, segments with kids from the show Zoom (Taylor and Kyle) and a small additional factoid regarding Arthur and Buster. At the end of the special, a secret password for The Tibble Super Action Challenge, a new game at the official PBS Kids Arthur website was revealed. The Arthur stories shown were: "Buster's Green Thumb" "Dad's Dessert Dilemma" "Thanks a Lot, Binky" "The Ballad of Buster Baxter" The Postcards from Buster episodes shown were: "Best Friends" "Among the Hmong"

Arthur is embarrassed because he now has to wear glasses.

Francine tries to get through picture day, without messing up her meticulously-crafted hairdo.

Arthur and Buster fear that their new teacher, Mr. Ratburn, is some kind of evil maniac who collects children's heads - until they discover the truth about him, of course.

Mr. Rogers from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood comes to the Read family for a visit.

After Francine makes fun of Fern for liking Mr. Ratburn's puppet shows, Fern gets revenge by drawing an unflattering comic strip making fun of Francine, and pretty soon, everyone else tries it too.

Binky gets teamed up with Arthur and Buster for an art class assignment. They go to an art museum and Binky discovers a mistake with a certain drawing-

Buster returns after a extremely long trip to bond with his father and a nervous Arthur wonders if Buster's trip made him change.

Buster feels left out having missed all the adventures since he was away. He feels that everyone has changed and they feel the same about him, so Arthur plans a party so they can rekindle their friendship with Buster.

D.W. loves school and wants to go everyday, but when Ms. Morgan starts doing fire drills she fears for her safety and doesn't want to go anymore.

D.W. discovers that she can get her own library card and feel the power as Arthur has, but she can not write her own name. When she does and waits a week for a book to come in, she borrows it but never reads it because she thought she might destroy it.

After Arthur worked hard to build a model airplane, D.W. throws it out the window to see if it flies and the model exploded. Arthur gets extremely mad and strikes her.

While the kids played hide and seek, a snake shows up and Arthur brings it home.

Arthur is chosen to appear on the popular game show Riddle Quest.

Arthur, Francine, and The Brain dare each other to skip school for a day

Lakewood Elementary is having an open house. Sue Ellen is excited to introduce her parents until she hears her friends tell stories about their parents being embarrassing.

Sue Ellen is the champion of the popular Internet game Virtual Goose. She becomes so obsessed, however, that she starts imagining her friends as geese to be conquered.

Now that the gang has beaten Virtual Goose, they move onto Best of the Nest, where five geese fight to survive in the virtual woods. As the competition escalates, Brain becomes inspired to initiate a camping trip in the real woods.

Arthur's beloved piano teacher is retiring, but she assures him that the new teacher is outstanding. When he meets Dr. Fugue, who's as strict as he is odd, Arthur begins to doubt his own abilities.

Arthur is thrilled when Dad invites him to go fly fishing for the weekend.

One of D.W.'s socks goes missing, so Pal and Kate try to find it.

When Francine's bowling tournament and her cousin's bar mitzvah take place at the same time, her friends help her attend both events at once.

Arthur is excited to have a new pen pal named Adil and fantasizes about what life would be like in Turkey.

When Bitzi and Harry break up, Buster is sad to lose his favorite baseball buddy.

The Elwood city kids are thrilled to go hiking, but when pro Francine is assigned to be novice Fern's partner, squabbling ensues.