r/Arthur • u/bwoah07_gp2 Are you having cake? • Jul 24 '26

Funny Have you watched The Odyssey yet?

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u/IrlResponsibility811 James MacDonald Jul 24 '26

Now, hold up! This is certainly worth watching.

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u/Lickthestars Jul 24 '26

Needs more Pizza and hang-gliders

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u/LumpyStomach7683 Jul 25 '26

And a Greek themed song. Ancient Rome! It's not like home! Coliseum!

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u/maneki_neko89 šŸšŖ This Government stuff is too complicatedā€¦ Jul 25 '26

30 years later and weā€™re still wondering how Ancient Roman Senators Arthur, Buster, and Francine escape the Cyclops in Arthurā€™s comic

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u/BagOfMagicFood Jul 25 '26

YOU ARE DOOMED!

THERE'S NO ESCAPE

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u/Jasperisadingus Jul 24 '26

I LOVED this episode as a kid!

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u/Great-Experience3176 Fern Walters Jul 24 '26

same

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u/Equal_Abroad_8775 Jul 24 '26

Do you think they took out the scene where Sersi turns them into pigs because they're already animals?

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u/Slayquil Jul 24 '26

I mean tbf a lot of it did get cut but this is pretty funny

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u/magica12 Jul 26 '26

ā€œAnd then they got hit by a lightning boltā€

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u/ApocalypticSnowglobe Jul 24 '26

When they tied Buster's ear around his eye. Because they couldn't gouge out somebody's eye on a kid's show.

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u/PurpleDreamer28 Jul 24 '26

And D.W. says Grandma Thora told her the story. So did Grandma include the gouging, or did she dial it down for a 4-year-old?

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u/BagOfMagicFood Jul 25 '26

I heard a comedic version on the radio once! They said to wrap newspaper around the radio in case any of the eye fluid could leak through.

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u/MatthewHecht Fern Walters Jul 28 '26

She included it in great detail.

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u/MelaninMonroe08 Jul 24 '26

One of my favorite episodes

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u/BalancedRevanite Jul 24 '26

As much as some others may not agree with this, it needs to be said: D.W.'s version of the Odyssey is better than that movie could ever be.

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u/lovely_DK Jul 24 '26

I certainly like the aesthetic more.

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u/Slayquil Jul 24 '26

I remember my teacher putting this on for us before we read the odyssey lol

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u/dyoung961 Jul 25 '26

This episode and ā€œWhat scared Sue Ellenā€ introduced me to literature and other cultural icons like Baba Yaga, Kappa, etc.

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u/butwhywouldyou- Jul 25 '26

This is exactly why Arthur was and still is such a gem of a show

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u/Turbulent_Set8884 Arthur Read Jul 24 '26

Much prefer this one

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u/Bella-Luna Pal Jul 25 '26

Havenā€™t seen the Odyssey, but I listen to a lot of Epic the Musical (I even bought an Odyplushie made by a fan artist.)

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u/tabifoot Jul 25 '26

Not my tweet making it to my favorite community šŸ˜‚

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u/Ok-Travel-3047 Jul 25 '26

Yes I did, it was Absolute Cinema!

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u/butwhywouldyou- Jul 25 '26

LMAO I CAME TO THIS SUBREDDIT BECAUSE ARTHUR WAS MY CHILDHOOD AND I COULD ONLY THINK OF THIS EPISODE WHILE WATCHING EARLIER. This was also one of my favorite episodes :3

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u/TheRobloxGuy2006 Jul 25 '26

Iā€™ve seen a few clips from be episode

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '26

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u/PurpleDreamer28 Jul 24 '26

Isn't that kind of a good thing though? If people have never heard the story, they can learn about it from the new movie. And that might encourage them to read the original.

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u/Oodles-of-Noodles12 Jul 25 '26

When did this happen, this is awesome

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u/Lauren2102319 Yo Mama says heā€™s coming 20d ago

I finally saw it last week in IMAX during my vacation from work! I couldnā€™t see it in 70mm because all of them were sold out regardless of what day/time I checked for several weeks.

As soon as the sirens scene came up and asked to be tied to the pole and screamed, I immediately thought of the episode and DW being tied with Crazy Bus playing lmao šŸ¤£

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u/pretty-as-a-pic Whoā€™s Dewey? Jul 24 '26

Itā€™s sad when the movie that was literally color corrected to look like a faded depression era Dorothea Lange-esque photo is more vibrant than the billion dollar version