He also sold ribbons at the time Doug and Carrie were purchasing their home. He worked briefly in customer service, stating if a little person walked into his store it was all he could talk about for years. Doug and Carrie occasionally point out this fact, but Arthur always discounts it.ĭuring Carrie's young life, Arthur held an innumerable number of jobs, including at a crab cannery in Maryland, jobs in sales, a brief stint working for PBS on Sesame Street, and many others. Ironically, his unstable marital life and always unsure job situation led to even less security than Carrie might have had if Arthur remained an actor. He quit his acting career in an attempt to create a more stable life for his daughter. (Carrie has no recollection of this incident.) Arthur lost Carrie's birth name of Simone in a poker game and she had to switch names with her cousin Carrie. After a night of passion, the couple found out that Sophia was pregnant, and decided to get married for the sake of the child, Simone (later Carrie).

It was during this time that he met his first wife, Sophia, a show dancer. Sometime after the war, Arthur took up a career as an actor, performing on Broadway and at other venues. At some point during his enlistment, he left a man named Jack Russell for dead. He variously claims to have been in the US Army 33rd Brigade and the 71st Infantry Division. Īrthur served in World War II in the Italian theater and in The Battle of the Bulge, and also mentions being in Paris, France. He possibly attended the State University of New York at Oneonta, having mentioned playing for the 'Oneonta Red Dragons'. He lived on a farm from the ages of 7 to 10, then again at 43, was a gifted singer as a child, performed jigs for the workers at the Empire State Building, has an estranged half-brother named Skitch (played in one episode by Shelley Berman), was bald until the age of 12, and lost his virginity to someone named Peppermint Patty. He was born in 1925 to an abusive father (played in one episode by Stiller's own son, Ben Stiller), but nothing is known about his mother. Meanwhile, Arthur tries getting a comic strip he created into Playboy magazine, but his artistic talents leave a little something to be desired.Little is known about Arthur's early life. Though they initially feel they need to treat this unbearable couple to a few meals before asking in order to justify their actions, Carrie loses her patience the first time and she re-opens the gravy boat and 'notices the check.' The plan backfires when Doug tells Ron and Marcia that they want to use the money for a trip to New Orleans and Marcia sets one condition – Doug and Carrie can't go to New Orleans without them! Trying to avoid that debacle, Doug and Carrie attempt to sneak off to the Big Easy alone without letting their cousins know about it.

However, because the check expired a year after the wedding, they ask Ron and Marcia to rewrite it. Little did they know that inside was a check for $1,500 that they never realized was there and therefore never cashed.

#18 - No Orleans Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired ĭoug and Carrie find an old, unopened wedding present – a gravy boat – from Doug's third cousin Ron and his wife Marcia.

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