Editing Arthur (TV series) (section)

==Setting==
[[Arthur Read]], the series' titular character, is an [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] brown [[aardvark]] who lives in the fictional town of Elwood City. He is a third-grade student at Lakewood Elementary School. Arthur's family includes two home-working parents, his father David (a chef) and his mother Jane (an accountant), his two younger sisters, [[List of Arthur characters#D.W. Read|Dora Winifred (D.W.)]], who is in preschool, and Kate, who is still an infant, and his dog, Pal. Arthur also has several friends who come from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and he also occasionally meets with members of his extended family.

Elwood City is portrayed as a largely suburban area which bears a strong resemblance to the [[Greater Boston|Boston area]]; the TV series is partially produced by [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]]. There are also firm references to Brown's hometown of [[Erie, Pennsylvania]]. Most notably, the local shopping mall in the TV show is called "Mill Creek Mall", a reference to [[Millcreek Mall]]. Brown himself stated that the series is influenced by his upbringing as a child in Erie, and specifically noted that Mr. Ratburn is based on a middle-school algebra teacher he had at Westlake Middle School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goerie.com/article/20160417/NEWS02/304179902/millcreek-native-marc-brown-on-aardvarks-and-art|title=Millcreek native Marc Brown on aardvarks and art|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827183108/http://www.goerie.com/article/20160417/NEWS02/304179902/millcreek-native-marc-brown-on-aardvarks-and-art|archive-date=August 27, 2016|access-date=August 12, 2016|date=April 17, 2016|author=Erie Times-News|website=GoErie.com}}</ref>