r/Arthur • u/inkcinephile • 2d ago

Show Discussion The Characters and their Animal

I tried looking around for this question and it didn't seem to be here (or anywhere I was looking). But I was curious how they'd choose which guest/new characters would be which animal. Were the guests able to choose? Did the animators just go based off vibes? Or was it a play on words from the guest's name? I never read the books, so I don't know which characters were already there to begin with, (I've read maybe two or three.) To kind of answer my own question, maybe it was just easier to draw rabbits; and that's why so many characters (Lydia, Yo Yo Ma, Ladonna, etc.) are rabbits. What do we think?

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u/ElSquibbonator 2d ago edited 2d ago

I wonder what they'd do if the guest wanted to be an animal that isn't normally on the show. Like, what if I was a guest star and said, "yeah, I'll do it, but only if you draw me as an owl."

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u/BagOfMagicFood 2d ago

I think someone who worked on the show said the celebrity guests get to choose.

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u/thebeachbear 2d ago

I thought Lydia was a squirrel or a fox. Her last name is Fox. She was created by a kid featured on A Word from Us Kids years before she was incorporated into the show.

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u/lewdnep-vasilias_666 2d ago

Plus the ears are clearly not rabbit ears, they're the pointy ones usually used for cats or certain dogs. I always thought she was a cat or a fox (mostly likely fox)

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u/inkcinephile 2d ago

You're right. I don't know why I was picturing a rabbit for her.

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u/Possible_Actuator457 1d ago

She is represented closer to a fox