#ratburn gay

[connorsartcorner]

Today for pride month I decided to draw Mr. Ratburn and his husband Patrick from Arthur. I decided to draw them today because it really shows how far we have come with queer representation, for context in 2005 the people who made Arthur got in trouble for showing same sex parents in a spin off and now they can show two men getting married without much pushback.

[leatherbelt1295]

Your Daily Smile #3071

Nigel Charles Ratburn & Patrick - Arthur

[yaoialien]

Happy Pride or something

[chocolatecak3]

[tumblydove]

Nature Cat can kiss Hal, Mr. Ratburn can be gay, Purple Panda can wear a hula skirt, but when Lucas wears a dress it's Armageddon

[issacharmastersdp18]

On the first day of Pride month, PBS Kids gave to me:

A really nice wedding that couldn’t air in my state when it premiered because conservatives lost their shit.

(You don’t even see them kiss. They walk down the aisle and you don’t see them again until they’re dancing together in an embarrassing teacher kinda way)

[waddup-its-homegirl]

Nigel Ratburn 🤝 Cecil Palmer

“My husband could help with that, he’s so smart”

[sexwithaninja]

Fucks me right off when people try to claim Dr Doofenshmirtz is Phineas' dad just cause he's a bit triangular. What about this fucker

[potemkinjuice]

neil gaiman…. what are you doing in my falafel?!

[fortunatefires]

Happy pride! Bringing back the Mr.Ratburn wedding post for a splash of dopamine

Mr Ratburn from Arthur is gay! It was a straight bait and switch! Oh my god!

[clarasbeans]

doing some research for a school thing bla bla bla but randomly came across this quote

“seeing two male aardvarks getting married is not going to make your child attracted to the same sex”

the meaning aside, I just love that sentence

[uglygirlstatus]

remembering gay mr ratburn

[chocolatecak3]

i made this like almost a month ago for their anniversary but apparently never posted it here?? 💀 whoops. well i guess it’s still the right time LOL

anyways. here they are in their glory

[whoopseydaisy]

enough said

the bRATcket

SEMIFINALS!

Here’s our first two semifinalists! The scrappy underdog (and canon dilf) who’s beat the odds to be here, Ripred, VS. the queer icon math teacher from our childhood, Mr. Ratburn!

[purpledemonlilyposting]

Hi! Watching your stream on Lily's lost SU video and I would like to bring something up in regards to Arthur. I think you've conflated two incidents where showing a gay couple in the show got PBS in trouble.

The first was in the spinoff, Postcards from Buster (where Buster travels the country with his dad and they meet real kids and families. In the episode, "Sugartime!" he visits a family in Hinesburg, Vermont during sugartime (maple syrup) season, and that family just so happens to have two moms, with Buster himself commenting on it, and that the kids love their moms very much. And that was it. The episode was straight-up pulled from networks nationwide because this was 2005, almost twenty years ago. I was still able to watch this episode because I was living in New York.

The second, and more recent, was in the main show episode, "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone." That episode had the wedding as the main focus with a bait-and-switch as to who Ratburn would be marrying. It builds up that he was gonna marry this female rat; but no, she's his sister, and he's marrying a local chocolatier instead (and they just so happen to have similar names, so there's the confusion from the kids). More support was shown, but it was still pulled from networks in Alabama, and then One Million Moms got involved.

Ooooh good catch. I'd never really watched Arthur so I just remembered it as "lesbian farmer episode got pulled".

Of course One Million Moms got involved. But at least it goes to show we've had a little bit of progress.