Arthur (TV Series) Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone/The Feud (2019) User Reviews

Never expected this from Arthur but good episode.

[m667 · 7/10 · 21 April 2021]

Of all the years I watched Arthur, I never expected Mr. Ratburn to be gay. But now that they already revealed a gay character that just shows how gay people are now more accepted today, so it is possible one day they'll make an episode where Timmy Tibble grows up as an adult and he comes out as gay. This episode is actually funny even though i'm used to the older Arthur.

Children of Equality

[Ian_Jules · 9/10 · 28 May 2020]

Just a voice of support: I can hardly express my appreciation and pride in seeing PBS Kids and the producers of Arthur create this story, in which the city of Elwood celebrates Mr. Ratburn's marriage to his boyfriend. I hope this episode will come to be seen as a landmark in children's television, following in the legacy cvof Sesame Street's "Goodbye Mr. Hooper" special and the Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood episodes on conflict and peace.

Having been on the air now for 24 years, Arthur has earned its standing as a flagship title and crucial voice in children's educational TV. After the dust-up years ago in which in an episode of the spinoff Post Cards for Buster was withdrawn for featuring a real life lesbian couple with children, this beautifully written and impeccably voice-acted episode resolves a bit of unfinished business and serves as a timely reassertion of the role of educational media in nurturing young minds to make our society smarter, fairer, and more loving.

Teach tolerance!

[dmloud · 9/10 · 12 January 2021]

LGBTQA+ people aren't going away, no matter how fervently some people seem to wish they would. What better way to encourage love and tolerance (which, if you think about it is a sadly low bar to set. I *tolerate* traffic jams or other people's chewing or, idk, hateful people hiding behind a magic sky fairy to excuse their poor behavior. I'm more the type to *celebrate* people who are living their best lives than merely tolerate them) than to educate our children about what it means to view others as equally deserving of love and dignity and basic human rights?

Besides, it has Jane Lynch!

Everyone deserves to find love and connection and someone to share their life with. Except bigots. They deserve nothing but scorn.

SHOCKED

[sivilhareket · 5/10 · 14 May 2023]

Seriously? I didn't expected kind a like this end. Mr. Ratburn is the one of the most crazy, smart, funny and also respectful cartoon character I ever seen in my childhood. Especially when i was watching the Arthur, somehow he can always find a way for laugh me so hard. In my mind he is always be an unpredictable person. And this episode showed me again he is much more than what I thought about him. But still... Something's looks wrong about him. Come on!! After 19 season, the writers scripted his wedding stuff and his personal love story and end of the scene he was married with a man! Personally I have no problem for that but this type of cartoons shouldn't use it as a manipulative way against to kids. Mr Ratburn belongs to the library girl!!!