"Desk Wars" is one of my favorite season 8 episodes. What I like about it is that it had a "stupid Brain" moment that I thought was more believable than most others: him not knowing what feng shui is.

George is right. They do tend to make a big deal out of everything.

How did the writer(s) think up the chain reaction?

I just thought of "Belladonna."

I do believe that dream sequences can be useful in a storyline sometimes, but I just think that Arthur uses them way too often. I've counted at least a hundred.

I miss Joe Fallon! He was one of my favorite writers. Did you know that he was also a writer for Doug? So were Ken Scarborough, Matt Steinglass, and Dietrich Smith. I also like Kathy Waugh, who wrote a lot of D.W. and Francine stories.

I don't like very many of the episodes Peter K. Hirsch has written.

There have been two instances where they brought back celebrity guest stars: Lance Armstrong (seasons 12 and 13) and Joan Rivers (seasons 12 and 15).

For "Elwood City Turns 100," Muffy invited past guest stars. Larry King was the only guest star to not be animated.

They have even had "celebrity guest stars" that I've never even heard of. The Finnish ABBA-like band that played Binky, Arthur Ganson,  Koko Taylor, Taj Mahal, Frank Gehry, Mike Finke (I did see him on the CBS Evening News recently).

If I were to picture Arthur's animation to change, I would have thought Between the Lions shorts. But I'm glad that they didn't go in that direction.

I assumed that Arthur would stop with at most six seasons because usually PBS's animated series last no longer than that while the live action ones (Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Reading Rainbow) last for decades.

There are two animated kids' shows that I know of that have ran for almost as long as Arthur: SpongeBob SquarePants and Pokemon. I don't know whether the original viewers of those shows are getting tired of them or not.

I lot of your predictions seem like episodes that have been done before. Therefore, they're plausible.

Here's what I thought about season 16:

I actually prefer the Flash animation. It seems more Marc Brown-like to me.

I like Ladonna and Bud. I wonder if we'll get to see any of the other siblings they keep talking about. One thing I didn't understand why both Ladonna and Bud were asked if their first names were short for anything. They don't seem like diminutive forms of names to me.

I was never a fan of Arthur's dream sequences, and I'm still not.

I was glad that Cheikh was present this season. It's a shame that he didn't have any lines.

I seem to remember D.W. talking about Amanda in "So Long, Spanky." I think she had a bottlecap collection?

What I liked about "Baby Steps" was that once again D.W. asks Brain for help (I like those moments). Too bad it was a Kate and Pal episode.

On "Get Smart" what HUGO reminded me of was Watson the computer from the Jeopardy! challenge. I thought it was interesting that the actor who did the voice of Hugo was Jamie Watson.

Assuming that there will be more episodes, is there any chance that any of the season 17 episodes have already aired in Australia of wherever?