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Although Arthur is directed primarily toward a prepubescent audience, over the years it has gained a substantial cult following among older viewers. The show regularly incorporates satirical parodies of adult-oriented topics and references to pop culture, including parodies of South Park, The Sopranos, Beavis and Butt-head, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, The Jerry Springer Show, Oprah and Law & Order. Many of the references and topics covered are ones with which the target audience most likely would not be familiar. In the episode Desert Island Dish, Francine holds up a cage containing a swallow and then shows a coconut, saying the bird was carrying the coconut. This is a subtle reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail and would only be picked up by older audiences.
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All Arthur McNeil instructors are seasoned professionals who are "in the trenches" every day, configuring, designing and troubleshooting. The Arthur McNeil instructors holds certifications from A+, Network+, Security+, Linux+, Novell CNE, MCP, MCSA & MCSE, SUN, HP, Cisco CCNA and CCNP all the way to CCIE.
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Since joining the faculty Arthur has continued performing, composing and recording. He is ... much in demand as a jazz clinician. He has performed with such diverse jazz artists as Larry Coryell, Charles Davis, Ray Vega, Joe Lee Wilson, Melissa Walker, Phillip Manuel and Dizzy Gillespie's guitarist Ed Cherry. From 1998 - 2002 he was holding a house pianist position at the "Blue Note Cafe", where he weekly performed with his own group and international artists. The quality of his arrangements, compositions and piano-playing has raised eyebrows among visiting stars - like Larry
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According to the ninth century historian, Nennius, Arthur had a son named Amr, as well as a dog, called Cabal. Nennius say that Arthur had killed his own son, but doesn't state why he had done so. Arthur had set up tomb near the spring called Licat Amr, in the region of Ercing. What was marvelous about this tomb is that it change in length in various days. Amr could be the prototype to Mordred. As for his dog, the mound was called Carn Cabal, located in Buelt. Cabal was killed when they went hunting against the wild boar Troynt (possibly Twrach Trwyth in Culhwch and Olwen?).
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Arthur's court proved a magnet for heroes and their deeds, and in much Arthurian material Arthur's own profile is low. The legend of Tristan and Isolde, one of the most popular, was tacked on to Arthur's. Other tales... developed out of it. The Grail element, combining Celtic traditions of magical testing-vessels and blessed food-producing horns with Christian sentiment, first crystallized in French. Chrétien of Troyes in the 1170s and 1180s also introduced courtly love, made the Round Table a centre of chivalry, and identified Arthur's capital as Camelot. The first treatment in (Middle) English was Layamon's Brut (late 12th cent.), which introduced the element of faerie. The greatest English production was the late 14th-cent.
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Each episode of Arthur runs a half-hour. Episodes consist of two completely self-contained 11-minute stories separated by a one to two-minute live-action interstitial called And Now A Word From Us Kids (or, in some cases, a permutation of that title more specific to its contents). The live-action segments almost always feature children from elementary schools (generally in the Boston area) presenting subjects they are currently learning about or projects they have been working on in their classes. (The subjects covered here relate to the first cartoon segment in the half-hour.) This segment is not seen outside PBS stations broadcast to United States and Canada. There is ... a relatively new segment that sometimes appears at the end of the second 11-minute episode called "And Now A Word From Marc Brown" where he shows the viewers how to draw various main characters from the show. In 2007, the show began encouraging viewers to send in "video postcards" (similar to those used in the related show Postcards from Buster), which are now shown in the interstitials of new episodes.
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