This forces Arthur and his other daughter Sara (who was written out during the first season without explanation) to move in with Carrie and Doug. Arthur subsequently burns his house down while cooking on his "lucky hot plate". In the pilot episode, Arthur's third wife Tessie has died. Arthur said "Why don't you go back to the corner where I found you?!", and Lily replied "I was waiting for the bus!" Because of this, she never attended college.ĭuring a Thanksgiving episode, it was mentioned that Arthur met his second wife Lily at a bus stop. With Arthur unable to stay employed, Carrie was forced to work in addition to attending high school. In 1985, Sophia died, leaving Arthur a widower and the single parent of 15-year-old Carrie. However, in another episode, he claims to have had "nearly 200". Though he was never able to hold down a job for very long, he did land 74 of them, one as a woman. He was unable to maintain any of these careers for more than a month at a time, resulting in a very volatile home life for his family. He thought it was a good idea to cut out the middle man and offer little girls in the schoolyard ribbons to buy for their hair, which Carrie convinced him was a bad idea. 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. Little is known about Arthur's early life.
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