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Cousins!

One of the most popular animated series of our generation has bid a farewell this week after 25 solid seasons on television!

Originally airing back in 1996, the life and times of the 8 year old aardvark ‘Arthur’ instantly won the hearts of many. The series helped children as young as 4, learn essential lessons about friendship, family, learning, acts of kindness, problem solving and more.

As we previously reported the show’s screenwriter Kathy Waugh confirmed back in 2021 that the show would be coming to an end as production had ended abruptly.

However they made sure to issue fans a proper send-off, as the final episode showed the original cast 20 years into the future as adults.

The finale is also full of Easter eggs. When Arthur is checking out a book about how to draw animals, Buster remarks, “I never knew their noses were so long.” Brown’s first book, published in 1976, was entitled “Arthur’s Nose” — and that Arthur did, in fact, have an appropriately long nose. Muffy is running against a character named Mayor Hirsch who has been in office for years. Arthur meets a man in the library who encourages him to keep the book “Drawing Animals the Easy Way.” That kindly patron is voiced by none other than Brown himself. Michael Yarmush, who voiced Arthur when the show premiered (Arthur and D.W. are always voiced by child actors and have been recast throughout the seasons), returns to voice the adult Arthur. -via Los Angeles Times

According to CNN, reruns of the fan favorite series will continue to play on PBS.