parody of HP on Arthur

[Linda C. McCabe]

I was watching the Arthur Show on PBS today and they had a parody of the
Harry Potter series.

The book that all the students were crazy over was "Henry Screever and the
Cabbage of Mayhem."

They were all waiting until midnight to get the latest book and competing
with one another as to who read the book the fastest.

Some of the sight gags went really fast and I couldn't get everything.  I
didn't catch what they called Hogwarts, but it did have pigs on the coat of
arms.  Mr. Ratburn, Arthur's teacher, arrived at school in a flying red
convertible and a Mango tree grabbed it with its branches.  Then they had a
game with flying carpets rather than broomsticks and they were supposed to
catch a hopping bullion cube, and used tomatoes as Bludgers.

One of the kids wanted a special limited edition from England.  When it
came, she found that it was in Braille.

Prunella tried desperately to get her hands on a regular copy, but by that
time all the copies were sold out or checked out of the library.  To get a
replacement regular copy was going to take an additional three weeks.  So
Prunella decided she had to learn Braille.  She then bumped into a little
blind girl in the library and became friends.  The blind girl would read the
book to Prunella aloud.

Anyway, I thought people might be interested in hearing about this parody of
HP.

Athena