Remember the G-platform Buick Century station wagon that the other family that Arthur’s sisters are a part of drives in the Arthur movie for adults https://mparij.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/connection-with-the-creator-of-the-arthur-the-aardvark-character-marc-brown/
Below is the promotional video for the better-known Chevrolet version of the car called the Malibu.
The reason as to why the matriarch and patriarch of this other family that both of Arthur’s sisters are a part of in this movie buy the G-platform Buick Century station wagon is because they don’t have any desire to own a vehicle as big as anything built on the GM B-platform or the Ford Panther platform, they want to have all the luxury features that are traditionally available on a Buick or an Oldsmobile and were not available on a Chevrolet or a Pontiac; and futuristically speaking, the G-platform Buick Century station wagon is an ascendant to the Chevrolet Celebrity,
Chevrolet Lumina, Pontiac Aztek, Buick Rendezvous; and the Chevrolet Lumina APV/Venture/Uplander, Pontiac Trans Sport; and the Oldsmobile Silhouette/Buick Terazza.
The matriarch and patriarch of this family had replaced a 1978 G-platform Pontiac LeMans station wagon with this 1981 Buick Century station wagon. The lease was just about to run out by the time they had put their order in for their 1981 Buick Century wagon. The husband & wife/parents of this household wanted to upgrade to a Buick from the lower-end Pontiac (or Chevrolet).
Scanned pages of the brochure for the slightly older Pontiac version of the car:
As I will explain to Marc Brown should Shannon ever introduce me to him, the reasoning behind this family having midsize GM G-platform station wagons is because it mirrors an awful phase in my parents’ lives-when they had minivans, 2 Buick Rendezvous, had thought about buying a Pontiac Aztek; and when they had an affinity for the type of vehicle such as a minivan, Pontiac Aztek, and Buick Rendezvous. This family upgrading from the Pontiac to the Buick version of the same car is parallel to when my parents had thought upgrading from a Dodge Caravan/Plymouth Voyager to a Chrysler Town & Country and from a Chevrolet Venture/Pontiac Trans Sport to an Oldsmobile Silhouette/Buick Terraza. And then my parents came into realization that having all the luxury bells & whistles was trivial and unnecessary. This other family chauffeurs relatives around in their G-platform Buick Century wagon just like how my parents did with their minivans. This other family also wastes time driving around looking at houses and driving around a fictional island based on Harsens Island, Michigan just like how my parents did with their minivans.
I will also explain to Marc Brown that the funeral part in this movie is actually based on the time when my parents had forced me to attend the funeral of one of the relatives that I don’t like-my mother’s father. At this time, I also wanted to tell the rest of my mother’s familythat I just absolutely hate that I actually hate them, especially during this funeral that my parents had forced me to go to. Even at this time, I would have rather been in a Caprice wagon than in that awful Buick Rendezvous that my parents owned at that time; I would have much rather been around my paternal grandmother, Marie “Mimi, Mary Ann, Shannon; and all of her siblings than those relatives that I just absolutely don’t like at that moment in time. Last, I would have much rather been with my paternal grandmother in a large house on several acres of property during that period of frigid weather watching CBS on WJBK-TV than be with these relatives that I just absolutely hate, live in the awful house that my family has lived in since 1990, and WJBK-TV being a FOX affiliate; all during the frigid weather at this moment in time. And on a different subject, hoping that a diesel Suburban or G-Van would start as of this time.
Tony Stewart casted in this movie as the hearse driver, and the hearse being made out of a Cadillac Fleetwood brougham just like the one that he has as part of his vehicle collection; will add humor to the funeral part of this movie.
On a personal note, though obfuscated in this movie; Tony Stewart’s and my own love for vehicles on the GM B-platform (such as Tony Stewart’s hearse and Arthur’s parents Pontiac Catalina wagon and Buick Electra Estate wagon) triumph in importance over this family having lost their loved one. The reason as to why Tony Stewart’s and my interest in vehicles on the GM B-platform triumphing in importance over this family having lost their loved one is obfuscated is so that it doesn’t seem so egoistic.
This family would get together with their relatives at a saloon/banquet center called The Red Potato to mourn the death of their relative that had passed away. Several of this family’s relatives become wasted and passed out by the way of having consumed way too many alcoholic beverages while at this saloon/banquet center. This family’s relatives from Virginia, North Carolina; and South Carolina also travel to the area to attend this person’s funeral and to get together with the remainder of the relatives at this saloon/banquet center.
The relative of this family that passes away during the funeral part in this movie was born in 1900 and passes away at the age of 81 in 1981.
Relatives of this family based on my mother’s eldest brother and his wife, how poorly they take care of vehicles, and how they are not the appropriate type of people to own a Suburban or a Full-Size van; would own a 1979-1980 Ford Club Wagon (OEM/stock passenger van version of the Econoline) with the 335 architecture 400 cubic inch V8 engine. Relatives of this family based on my mother’s younger brother and how poorly he takes care of vehicles would own a 1977-1979 Ford Thunderbird with the 335 architecture 400 cubic inch V8 engine.
The only connection that Arthur and his parents have to this situation is that they are driving by The Red Potato saloon/banquet center, briefly spot all of those vehicles in the parking lot as they are passing by while they’re on their way to someplace else.
Irrelevant, but being with my paternal grandmother in that large house at that time would actually be like when my paternal grandmother had come over to our house to babysit me in December, 1993 when the weather in the Detroit area was -20 outside, times 10.
All of you following this blog already know that with the paradigms of Arthur and his family changed in this movie, such as Arthur being an only child who is severely autistic, Arthur’s mother is a School Bus driver, Arthur’s father owns his own trucking company, Arthur’s parents also own a NASCAR Winston Cup racing team; and Arthur and his parents have a vehicle collection as vast as Tony Stewart’s and Jay Leno’s. And Arthur and his parents are a reflection of when my parents had Caprice station wagons, Suburbans, Full-Size vans, Volkswagens/Audis; and when my father also had pickup trucks.
![Volkswagen Cabriolet [Typ 17]](https://live.staticflickr.com/4133/5059850239_d760f0b4ab.jpg)
Matthew Parij 