After 26 years and 25 seas🃏ons, animated c💧hildren's series Arthur has officially come to an end.

Arthur, an adaptation of author Marc Brown's Arthur Adventure book seri⛄es, premiered on PBS in 1996. The s🃏how followed the lives of an anthropomorphic aardvark named Arthur Reed and his friends and family. 

The final episode, titled All Grown Up, not only wrappe♔d up Arthur's story but contained several small surprises for long-time fans of the show.

Towards the beginnin🔯g of the episode, creator Marc Brown makes a special cameo as a library patron who gives Arthur a book on how to draw. Click on "see more" on the tweets below to read the tweets.

The show then fast-forwards some 20 years into the futu🐻re, with the beloved cast of characters depicted as fully grown adults.

Many were touched to learn that avid reader Arthur Reed beca𝔍me an author after all. The graphic novel, simply titled Arthur, begins with a chapter called Arthur's Eyes, which was the very first episode of the series 💖to air.

"Not me sobb꧟ing over the fact that Arthur Reed followed his dreams and is living his authentic life with his best friends supporting him all the way... he earned that," said.

"I grew up with this show for so long and to see them all grown up with successful careers makes me feel a sense of 🎀pride," said .

Original voice actor Michael Yarmush,༒ who played the aardvark until season five, 🐻returned to voice 28-year-old Arthur.

Luckily, reruns of the series will continue to air on PBS. For more, check out our list of the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: 100 best TV shows of all time.