Human

The term human is used in the TV show, despite all of the characters appearing as anthropomorphic animals. Instances include:
==Albums==
*Poetry Club (track): Buster: "Finding a human bone in your jello"
==Books==
*Mrs. Tibble in Arthur's Halloween and she and the Tibble twins in both Arthur Babysits and D.W.'s Guide to Preschool, although all 3 become bears in the cartoon
==Season 1==
*Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn: Buster: "Get with it, Arthur. We're not dealing with a human being here. This is serious!"
==Season 5==
*The Last of Mary Moo Cow: "only one person stands between crime and humanity"
*You Are Arthur: in the introduction "Human treasure, lad, not buried treasure"
==Season 6==
*Arthur Loses His Marbles: Buster: "Oh, the humanity!,"
==Season 13==
*Paradise Lost: when Kate begins to lose her comprehension of Pal's speech, Amigo explains "This happens to all human children. I remember when it happened to Vicita."
== Season 17 ==
* Dog's Best Friend: Pal asks, "Who knows why humans do anything?"
== Season 19 ==
* Brain's Brain: Arthur says, "I wonder how many neurons there are in a human brain."
==Season 20==
;2001b. "Arthur and the Whole Truth"
*Buster responds to Arthur's shirt by saying: “Please, for the love of humanity, hide that thing!”
;2002a. Fern's Flights of Fancy"
*Fern imagines writing a book called Portrait of the Aardvark as a Young Man.
*The characters in Fern's story are portrayed as humans.
;2002b. "Cereal"
*Buster refers to Arthur as “an average eight-year-old aardvark.”
;2003a. "He Said, He Said"
*Buster refers to a “man-eating plant.”
*The Breeze in the Brambles characters look more like real-world animals (tails, claws), except for their clothes. The mouse does not seem to be able to speak human language.
;2003b. "Bunny Trouble"
Ladonna is called a “bunny whisperer,” although there is no lampshading of the fact that she is a bunny herself.
;2004a. "Bud's Knotty Problem"
*D.W. tells Bud to make "bunny ears" when teaching him to tie his shoes.
;2005a. "Lend Me Your Ear"
*Mr. Ratburn's ear model is of a human ear. 
*On Mr. Ratburn's imaginary ear tour, he and the boys are seen climbing into a human ear.
;2005b. "The Butler Did It"
*Mr. Crosswire repeatedly treats the robot butler KEATS like a dog. His butler Bailey is an anthropomorphic dog.
==Season 21==
;2101b. "Brain and the Time Capsule"
*The stars of Keeping Up with the Kamerahounds are anthropomorphic dogs.
;2103b. "Sue Ellen & the Last Page"===
*Buster compares the citizens of Elwood City to “a bunch of hairy animals glued to their cell phones.”
*Muffy suggests to Sue Ellen to do a video about saving kittens.
;2105b. "Take a Hike, Molly"
*Slink jokingly refers to Molly as a “very grumpy, dangerous animal.”
;2107a. "Invasion of the Soccer Fans"
*The dogs repeatedly refer to the anthropomorphic characters as “people.”
==Season 22==
;2201b. "The Feud"
*Arthur plays Dr. Aardvarkian in a video game. Later in a fantasy, Arthur voices Dr. Aardvarkian while Buster voices Dark Bunny.
;2202b. "The Longest Eleven Minutes"
*When Arthur opens a dictionary, the first thing he sees is a picture of an aardvark.
;2203b. "Binky Can't Always Get What He Wants"
*Buster does a magic show in which he pulls a nonanthropomorphic white rabbit out of a hat.
;2204a. "Muffy's Car Campaign"===
*Mr. Crosswire is allergic to dogs, despite his trusted butler being one.
==Season 23==
;2303. "When Duty Calls"
*When Ladonna claims that she has never been better, nonanthropomorphic General Higgins puts his paws on his hips and looks reproachfully. For the rest of the episode, he behaves like a normal rat.
== Season 24 ==
;2403b "Freaky Tuesday"
* After turning into Mr. Ratburn, Buster is shocked that his hands are covered with hair.
==Season 25==
;2502a. "Making Conversation"
*George tells Arthur, Francine, and Buster that people pinched his antlers at the house party, and they all pinch his antlers too. A random partygoer later pinches his antlers too at Mrs. Renaldi's retirement party.
==Specials==
===Special 1 - "Arthur's Perfect Christmas"===
*George wears Christmas tree ornaments on his antlers.
===Special 3 - "D.W. and the Beastly Birthday"===
*Buster says about a drawing of anthropomorphic llamas, “They all look like mutants to me.” When asked what sort of creatures they are, Arthur answers, “maybe an aardvark.”
*Kate refers to Buster as “that dopey kid with long ears.”
*Buster says that he would not fit in a wormhole, but “maybe a rabbit hole.”
===Special 4 - "Arthur and the Haunted Tree House"===
*Bailey claims that cats "believe [he's] one of them". Inky reacts to him as he might react to a dog.
*An anthropomorphic cat at the Halloween party is dressed like Catwoman.
*Despite being a goat himself, Mr. Saperstein’s golem costume has rabbit ears.
 
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