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I genuinely had no idea they were still making Arthur. I thought it was just a circle of reruns like how I watched Mr. Rogers as a kid. Seems to me like you'd

by donatj 5y ago

I genuinely had no idea they were still making Arthur. I thought it was just a circle of reruns like how I watched Mr. Rogers as a kid. Seems to me like you'd only need to make a couple seasons worth of any kids show, you've got a continuing cycle of aging out and brand new audience.

chana_masala 5y ago
I think to maintain relevancy shows like to stay up to date with drawing style and current technology, though. I think kids would find it funny if Arthur were still using a typewriter and didn't own a computer, for example.
- echelon 5y ago
  This is one of the reasons why we still make movies. And music. Any art.
  - gruez 5y ago
    Just to update the set pieces?
    - thereddaikon 5y ago
      To keep things relatable. Most stories may at their core be a rehash or Aesop, Shakespere and the hero's journey but that doesn't mean they are relatable to the audience. At some point Beowulf must turn into Siegfried and Siegfried must become Luke Skywalker.
- gruez 5y ago
  >I think kids would find it funny if Arthur were still using a typewriter and didn't own a computer, for example. Not if you play it off as a period piece.
- fomine3 5y ago
  Sazae-san story is now basically like that. Their lifestyle is frozen at around 1980s. The anime production also had been used analog cel rather than digital until about 2010. It's last TV anime show uses cel (oh I must put this word: "at least in Japan").
zamadatix 5y ago
Perhaps even more surprisingly Mr. Rogers had more episodes and seasons over more years than Arthur.
- xmprt 5y ago
  Now that's impressive because it means Mr. Rogers (the show) is almost 60 years old. The show feels so timeless though and I can imagine kids in 10 years still watching the show.
EvanAnderson 5y ago
I remember when my youngest sister was watching it in the late 90s. My daughter started watching it in the last couple of years. I was a little taken aback that it was the same show. There's at least one episode where a reference is made to the non-passing of time in their universe. We got some DVDs of the older episodes from the library. I found it interesting, and a little spooky, that technology in the "Arthurverse" updates while the ages of all the characters remained the same. It's like some kind of twisted "groundhog day" scenario.
- Apocryphon 5y ago
  Eh, the Simpsons have been dealing with that for longer.
  - learc83 5y ago
    It's not just technology either, the character back stories get updated too. There's an episode from the 90s where Homer feels old because he doesn't understand grunge rock. Then, more than a decade later, they made a flashback episode where his backstory was updated to show that he basically started grunge, and Kurt Cobain ripped him off.
    - ljp_206 5y ago
      Boy, I hope somebody was fired for that blunder.
      - Kye 5y ago
        There's no blunder. That's how The Simpsons handles ageless characters on a show that's almost old enough to run for president.
        LambdaComplex 5y ago
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxw5nQX7SA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxw5nQX7SA
menzoic 5y ago
Even though the audience cycles, the context of modern times changes so the show needs new episodes to stay relevant amongst competition.
- rejectedandsad 5y ago
  There was a recent episode about car culture and fake polling that was probably less relevant in 1996 for instance.
armchairhacker 5y ago
Yeah I remember watching it as a kid and seeing the same episodes over and over. I thought I had watched them all. And that was around 10 years ago.
cush 5y ago
Yet we still write books.
Kye 5y ago
This much-discussed episode aired in 2019: https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Ratburn_and_the_Special_Someone https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Ratburn_and_the_Special_S...
RIMR 5y ago
Have you ever watched Arthur? They cover current events in every season, and have done episodes about social media and the Internet. There's a value to staying current, even when your target audience nearly completely refreshes every few years.

by donatj 5y ago

chana_masala 5y ago

I think to maintain relevancy shows like to stay up to date with drawing style and current technology, though. I think kids would find it funny if Arthur were still using a typewriter and didn't own a computer, for example.

echelon 5y ago
This is one of the reasons why we still make movies. And music. Any art.
- gruez 5y ago
  Just to update the set pieces?
  - thereddaikon 5y ago
    To keep things relatable. Most stories may at their core be a rehash or Aesop, Shakespere and the hero's journey but that doesn't mean they are relatable to the audience. At some point Beowulf must turn into Siegfried and Siegfried must become Luke Skywalker.
gruez 5y ago
>I think kids would find it funny if Arthur were still using a typewriter and didn't own a computer, for example. Not if you play it off as a period piece.
fomine3 5y ago
Sazae-san story is now basically like that. Their lifestyle is frozen at around 1980s. The anime production also had been used analog cel rather than digital until about 2010. It's last TV anime show uses cel (oh I must put this word: "at least in Japan").

zamadatix 5y ago

Perhaps even more surprisingly Mr. Rogers had more episodes and seasons over more years than Arthur.

xmprt 5y ago
Now that's impressive because it means Mr. Rogers (the show) is almost 60 years old. The show feels so timeless though and I can imagine kids in 10 years still watching the show.

EvanAnderson 5y ago

I remember when my youngest sister was watching it in the late 90s. My daughter started watching it in the last couple of years. I was a little taken aback that it was the same show. There's at least one episode where a reference is made to the non-passing of time in their universe. We got some DVDs of the older episodes from the library. I found it interesting, and a little spooky, that technology in the "Arthurverse" updates while the ages of all the characters remained the same. It's like some kind of twisted "groundhog day" scenario.

Apocryphon 5y ago
Eh, the Simpsons have been dealing with that for longer.
- learc83 5y ago
  It's not just technology either, the character back stories get updated too. There's an episode from the 90s where Homer feels old because he doesn't understand grunge rock. Then, more than a decade later, they made a flashback episode where his backstory was updated to show that he basically started grunge, and Kurt Cobain ripped him off.
  - ljp_206 5y ago
    Boy, I hope somebody was fired for that blunder.
    - Kye 5y ago
      There's no blunder. That's how The Simpsons handles ageless characters on a show that's almost old enough to run for president.
      - LambdaComplex 5y ago
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxw5nQX7SA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxw5nQX7SA

menzoic 5y ago

Even though the audience cycles, the context of modern times changes so the show needs new episodes to stay relevant amongst competition.

rejectedandsad 5y ago
There was a recent episode about car culture and fake polling that was probably less relevant in 1996 for instance.

armchairhacker 5y ago

Yeah I remember watching it as a kid and seeing the same episodes over and over. I thought I had watched them all. And that was around 10 years ago.

cush 5y ago

Yet we still write books.

Kye 5y ago

This much-discussed episode aired in 2019: https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Ratburn_and_the_Special_Someone https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Ratburn_and_the_Special_S...

RIMR 5y ago

Have you ever watched Arthur? They cover current events in every season, and have done episodes about social media and the Internet. There's a value to staying current, even when your target audience nearly completely refreshes every few years.