So I went and looked: aardvark means “earth pig” or “ground pig” in afrikaner
Also, this is Arthur’s reaction

Erdferkel in German. Earth-Piglet.
That’s actually very accurate modern day’s double standards.
I can’t believe Arthur, my favorite celebrity, gave in to corruption and became a sellout. Now I’m questioning everything. Is the library even fun?
I have a library card. But I still find it difficult to have fun sometimes. Was it all lies?!
Do you think someone would actually do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?
Not if you don’t have a library card
He should have stuck with being an English alcoholic socialite in New York City.
Arthur… Bach? Is that the reference?
Yup.
I had to dig really hard to find this one. Why is he so well known to you?
Not really sure. I’m middle aged so maybe that’s a factor? Funny thing is I’ve never actually seen either of those movies. I guess I have a fairly good memory for useless trivia.
Or you’re a Christopher Cross fan?
I mean it’s a movie with the exact same title as the show everyone is talking about? Doesn’t seem like that much of a deep cut
whats the movie?
…Arthur, from 1981. Like I said, it has the same title as the show? Am I being trolled?
Yes the library is fun!
Ask Mychal Threets!
Marc Brown in conjunction with PBS inspired 4 generations of children to learn tolerance, respect, and community. The good this man has done is arguably more far-reaching than Mr Rogers himself
Them’s fightin words dissin’ Mr R like that tho.
gestures at America if he’s been at it for 4 generations then what’s all this?
He got 2 in 3 of us. The other 1/3rd I’d rather not talk about
1 in 3. A third decided to be bystanders in the fact of abject bigotry.
Well that’s a fine example of your “tolerance, respect, and community”
Perfect is the enemy of good
You are probably on to something here. We shouldn’t have tolerated everything. We shouldn’t have entertained their conspiracy theories or gave them a seat at the table at all.
We will have to figure out a way to do better.
For four generations we’ve been associating tolerance, respect and community with childish cartoon characters; something to be outgrown.

I got about as much tolerance left as Bugs Bunny.
But think of the memes!

Arthur is supposed to be an anteater??!?
They covered this in song.
My first artichoke plant was named Arthur. Then a bastard cultist murdered it. I think that’s about all i can go into it though.
Aardvark
A a rd v-a-r-k

YOU DONE MESEED UP AY-AY-RDVARK!
perfect
Aardvarks are much better than anteaters, if we sort them lexicographically by name.
NO THEY ARE NOT ANTEATERS DONE EVOLVED MORE TIMESES gang up on him all y’all different anteaterses

they are the crabs of the land. dude even looks scuttleyedit you know what i was going to edit it out but my hill folk heritage comes out in times of passion deal with it
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with your nose, but if you ever want to change that hideous thing on your face, give me a call
To be fair, that wasn’t the final change to his appearance. His design jumped around a lot. This is very clearly a multi-verse situation. The Arthur-verse.
Making him perfect one step at a time
Looks like they just shortened his face, the nose is the same
something was, in fact, wrong with Arthur’s nose
Arthur’s first book was nothing but beta cope, but once he took looksmaxxing seriously he ascended to become a celebrity and cultural icon.
Take notes, children.
He’s a fucking aardvark?! 🤦♂️
“🎶A-A-R-D-VARK!🎶”
also made him lighter skinned 🤔
He traded his nose for some minor sight defects.
His shirt also went from rad as hell to swirly bait
Just like all the body positivity ppl once a shot could make you skinny












