Category:Is that all?

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"Is that all..."

 * or, if you prefer... what was edited out for time constraints... Stuff you may not have seen on TV.
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Comments by Naruto_Uzumaki1 , Onji_dreamlover , Ikki_nerdystar , MadameBouche , Bloom_dreamgirl , TheHyeCircus ,&  Dustin (don’t forget ''KorraIsBack! <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'ArialUnicodeMS',sans-serif;">) ''

<p style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;">One thing that people who will have seen the special on TV might be thinking as they wade their way through the synopsis is that it doesn't match up with what they saw on TV. Why is this?

<p style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;">"Arthur's Perfect Christmas" also played on PBS in 2? versions, one with pauses for pledge breaks (as I saw it, and as Aonarr<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;"> did -- see our "Aftermath"<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;"> comments), and I would imagine, a version without the pledge breaks.

<p style="color:rgb(255,255,255);"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;">Anyway -- the point is, that in order to fit in commercials/pledge breaks, some of the special was edited for time... so bits got missed out. Here's what didn't appear on the CBC version -- I don't really know how complete this is -- [mailto:ecdc@angelfire.com let me know]<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;"> if there's anything missing so I can fill in the gaps.

<p style="color:rgb(255,255,255);">KorraIsBack

<span style="color:yellow;font-family:arial,helvetica;">At the start, Arthur sung a song, which appears on the CD singing about how this year, he's going to have a "perfect" Christmas -- hence the title of the special. Which helps to explain why Arthur is especially upset once things start going wrong

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;">After netting a record 37 presents this year, Muffy has a big song routine where she laments about not being able to share her presents with Francine, (since Francine and her have had a spat about Christmas vs. Hannukah.) a song includes the lyrics...

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-style:italic;">I got a club house,

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-style:italic;">I think it's the biggest in the world.

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-style:italic;">I'd be the princess

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-style:italic;">And Francine, a serving girl

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-style:italic;">It'd be so neat,

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-style:italic;">And if she was sweet,

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-style:italic;">I might even let her be queen...

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;">The song goes on as Muffy laments about not being able to play with her new presents with Francine, presents which include among other things, video games, a twenty-thousand piece puzzle, and a miniature submarine.

<span style="color:rgb(100,149,237);font-family:arial,helvetica;">The music to "What's the Use of Presents" sounded A LOT like "Beauty School Dropout" from Grease !

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;">Bloom_dreamgirl was, uhh, less than complimentary about this song in her review of the special on her site<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;">... comments which netted him a complaint. :)

At the end of the special, Arthur wonders how his friends are getting on, and we see what they're doing. We then see a series of short scenes which include Binky feeding the homeless, as just described, as well as:

<span style="color:rgb(100,149,237);font-family:arial,helvetica;">The man dancing with the woman in George's family seemed to resemble Mr. Elkin who was one of Arthur's substitute teachers<span style="color:rgb(100,149,237);font-family:arial,helvetica;">, HOWEVER, George's father was clearly shown in #60701 - "The Boy with His Head in the Clouds"<span style="color:rgb(100,149,237);font-family:arial,helvetica;">! A mess up?

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;">Arthur's song about Christmas being "perfect" is reprised at the end, and he sings again, concluding that although things didn't go as planned, things turned out well in the end. (As they usually do for Arthur.)<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;"> One member of the'' Yahoo! Arthur Club'' said that Arthur's singing here was "beautiful".

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);font-family:arial,helvetica;">Personally, I'd rather have watched more of these things than say, Arthur imagining himself in a parade for being oh-so-perfect, or Buster's "Baxter Day" song. Not that I have anything against Buster particularly -- it's just that Buster does the "alien" thing day in and day out -- this is a holiday special; why not concentrate on actual-factual holiday-related stuff?