Author's Notes
I am very likely to add more haiku to each story every time I add a new season of "D.W. and Brain Haiku" because many similarities between D.W. and Brain are seasons apart.
These haiku are arranged in chronological order. You may notice that I use a lot of the same endings over and over. The haiku that end with "Hints of The Beaver" and "Hints of June Cleaver" mean that they are possible allusions to Leave It to Beaver, the haiku that end with "Hints of Maxwell Smart" and "Hints of Larabee" mean that they are possible allusions to Get Smart, and the haiku that end with "Hints of Michelle T" and "Hints of Joey G" mean that they are possible allusions to Full House (Michelle Tanner and Joey Gladstone). Apparently it's television tradition for pairs of characters who have a lot in common to have a lot in common with other pairs of characters who have a lot in common. Did you get that?
1 D.W. in "D.W.'s Library Card" 1
She wants Arthur to
Check out a book on his card
Hints of The Beaver
2 D.W. in "D.W.'s Library Card" 2
When she held the card
She said she knows true power
Like Alan Powers
3 D.W. in "D.W.'s Library Card" 3
She asks frequently
If the book she wants is back
(Larabee, Michelle)
4 D.W. in "D.W.'s Library Card" 4
If she hurts her book
They will take her card away
Hints of The Beaver
5 D.W. in "D.W.'s Library Card" 5
She loved the old book
About a frog on a log
(Michelle and Joey)
6 D.W. in "Arthur's Big Hit" 1
She'll leave if Arthur
Says please, or growling will do
Hints of Larabee
7 D.W. in "Arthur's Big Hit" 2
She told her brother
That he built the plane all wrong
Like Alan Powers
8 D.W. in "Arthur's Big Hit" 3
Model planes can't fly
She got hit for touching it
Hints of The Beaver
9 D.W. in "Arthur's Big Hit" 4
Model planes can't fly?
Then she said, "Give me a break!"
Like Alan Powers
10 Brain in "Hide and Snake" 1
Since the porcupine
He has needed permission
Hints of The Beaver
11 D.W. in "Hide and Snake" 1
She likes that book; She
Said, "You've got a deal, brother"
Hints of Michelle T
12 Brain in "Muffy's New Best Friend" 1
He failed Muffy's test
He said it's "fascinating"
Like D.W.
13 D.W. in "Muffy's New Best Friend" 1
Muffy's desperate
She tested D.W.
Like Alan Powers
14 D.W. in "Buster's Breathless" 1
Green-leaf camouflage
She exclaims, "Poison ivy?"
Hints of Maxwell Smart
15 Brain in "The Fright Stuff" 1
He does Binky's voice
Amplified by megaphone
Like D.W.
16 Brain in "The Contest" 1
Is it possible
That he has evil robots?
Hints of Maxwell Smart
17 Brain in "The Contest" 2
He made formula
Cherry soda accident
Hints of Maxwell Smart
18 Brain in "The Contest" 3
What goes with carrots
That are hairy? Hairy fish!
Hints of Joey G
19 D.W. in "The Contest" 1
D.W.'s car
Is much nicer than Arthur's
Hints of Larabee
20 Brain in "The Contest" 4
The contest winner
Possibly is related
Hints of Joey G
21 Brain in "Prove It" 1
He tells Kate and Pal
Just what causes day and night
Like D.W.
22 D.W. and Brain in "Prove It" 1
She is curious
How long he knew he was smart
(The Beaver and June)
23 D.W. and Brain in "Prove It" 2
He offers to play
The board game "Confuse the Goose"
(Michelle and Joey)
24 D.W. in "Prove It" 1
It's fascinating
What Kate does with toys and food
Like Alan Powers
25 D.W. and Brain in "Prove It" 3
What's fun with science?
The Exploratorium
(Michelle and Joey)
26 D.W. in "Prove It" 2
She teaches her friends
A lie about day and night
Like Alan Powers
27 D.W. in "Prove It" 3
It is so scary
She's smarter than Arthur thought
Hints of Larabee
28 Brain in "The Blizzard" 1
"Oh, give me a break!
"You don't know when the storm ends"
Like D.W.
29 D.W. in "The Blizzard" 1
It was horrible
Until she made a snowball
Hints of Larabee
30 D.W. in "The Rat Who Came to Dinner" 1
He wants her to leave
So she won't reveal secrets
Hints of Larabee
31 D.W. in "The Rat Who Came to Dinner" 2
She cannot believe
Teachers do not live at school
Hints of The Beaver
32 Brain in "The Rat Who Came to Dinner" 1
He wants Arthur to
Return his books very soon
Like D.W.
33 D.W. in "D.W. Tale Spins" 1
She introduces
The show with Arthur's glasses
Like Alan Powers
34 Brain in "Binky Barnes, Wingman" 1
It is his bedtime
What about the galaxy?
Like D.W.
35 Brain in "Binky Barnes, Wingman" 2
The number of legs
Have already been proven
Like D.W.
36 Brain in "To Beat or Not to Beat" 1
It is not polite
To tell Francine she's awful
Hints of Joey G
37 D.W. in "Prunella's Prediction" 1
She wanted to play
In the snow; Grandma said, "Yes"
Like Alan Powers
38 D.W. in "What Is That Thing?" 1
Arthur will take her
As long as she stops asking
Hints of Maxwell Smart
39 D.W. in "Buster's Best Behavior" 1
Buster is no fun
He abandoned the seesaw
Like Alan Powers
40 Brain in "Buster's Best Behavior" 1
When he heard Arthur
Telling jokes, his mouth opened
(Michelle and Joey)
41 D.W. in "My Music Rules" 1
The cello music
Was the best thing she has heard
Like Alan Powers
42 D.W. in "That's a Baby Show!" 1
"Mary Moo-Cow is
"Not for babies, Love Ducks is"
Like Alan Powers
43 Brain in "That's a Baby Show!" 1
"In comparison
"Mary Moo-Cow sounds so smart"
Like D.W.
Haiku Notes: One, Beaver in "Beaver's Library Book;" Three, Larabee in "The Not-So-Great Escape, Part 1" and "Smart Fell on Alabama" and general Michelle; Four, Beaver in "Beaver's Library Book;" Five, Michelle and Joey in "The King and I;" Six, Larabee in "Greer Window," "What's It All About, Algie?" and "I Am Curiously Yellow;" Eight, Beaver in "Brotherly Love;" Ten, General Beaver's trouble with pets; Eleven, General Michelle; Fourteen, Max in "What's It All About, Algie?"; Sixteen, Max in "Anatomy of a Lover;" Seventeen, Max in "How Green Was My Valet;" Eighteen, Joey in "Our Very First Night;" Nineteen, Larabee in "Do I Hear a Vaults?"; Twenty, Joey in "The Legend of Ranger Joe;" Twenty-Two, General Beaver and June's heart-to-heart talks; Twenty-Three, Michelle and Joey in "Under the Influence;" Twenty-Five, Michelle and Joey in "Super Bowl Fun Day;" Twenty-Seven, Larabee in "I Am Curiously Yellow;" Twenty-Nine, Larabee in "And Only Two Ninety-Nine;" Thirty, Larabee in "What's It All About, Algie?" and "I Am Curiously Yellow;" Thirty-One, Beaver in "Teacher Comes to Dinner;" Thirty-Six, Joey in "My Left and Right Foot;" Thirty-Eight, Max in "House of Max, Part 1;" Forty, General Michelle, and Joey in "The Legend of Ranger Joe;"
Author's Notes: A bit of trivia regarding haiku 27, where D.W. reminded me of Larabee at the end of Get Smart episode and series finale "I Am Curiously Yellow," the common bond being that both D.W. and Larabee are smarter than we thought. "I Am Curiously Yellow" is Get Smart episode number 138, and "Prove It" is Arthur story number 138 (episode 69, story 2).
It would have been nice if I could find more things that happened to D.W. and Brain that remind me of June Cleaver this season or any season. Surprisingly I have found more scenarios that remind me of Larabee than of June. Maybe if I pay closer attention to the Ward-and-June scenes I'll notice something.
Also, did anyone else think that in the Arthur story "The Contest" that some of the things in Brain's entry sounded really random? I thought that about the cherry soda, the hairy carrots, and the hairy fish. Then when I watched Full House episode 2, "Our Very First Night," the "teething ring/carrot/fish stick" gag immediately reminded me of the Brain's random Dexter's Laboratory parody (that was in 2003). Much later, I think it was 2011, I watched the Get Smart episode "How Green Was My Valet" and noticed a parallel between Joey's "teething ring/carrot/fish stick" incident and Larabee's "baby powder/cornstarch" incident. Also in "How Green Was My Valet," Max thinks something is cherry soda that really isn't. Weird!