Buster Baxter Cat Saver- I find it very weird that Buster gets such attention for saving a cat from a tree, and being followed around by reporters. I'll admit, while the cat saver stuff is annoying, this episode ended with one of the bravest things I have ever scene a character on any show do, and I seriously can't believe that it got ignored rest of the shows run. Buster saves Arthur and Francine from a runaway piano! After Francine just told him, "He never did a single brave thing in his entire life". Buster went from being a jerky and pompous sham, to an actual hero, and all either Francine and Arthur can do, is say, "here we go again". Buster just saved your life, I would forever be in his debt for doing something heroic and brave like that.
Plat it Again D. W.- I realize I'm not the first person to talk about their hatred of this episode. Since I don't want to rant and rant about everything wrong with this episode, let me just list the things that bother me the most here.
1.) Arthur's Parents being completely unphased or show any sort of consideration for their son, or anyone else who's annoyed by D. W. constantly playing over and over The Crazy Bus song. All they so is smile and look completely unphased. Was this a subtle thing by the writing staff to imply that The Reed's are careless parents that are so down beaten by D. W.'s antics that they don't care if she's annoying their son or anyone else.
2.) This episode was before the invention of The iPod, so D. W. listens to Crazy Bus repeatedly on a boom box, instead of a pair of head phones, which D. W. claims "Broke". I love it how this is actually makes the episode dated, and goes to show how down beaten the other residence in Arthur's neighborhood are with D. W.'s music. I kind of always thought D. W. kept listening to it over and over the same way Charles Manson listened to Helter Skelter, but even then that is a bit unfair seeing as how we all have that one song we like to here on repeat.
3.) This episode when you really think about it, is like the equivalent to The Simpsons episode, "Homer's Enemy", where it vilifies one character while the other is only one who is bothered and upset by that persons actions, and trying to get some relief or answers.