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His nose was shortened over time even before the show came out: https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur%27s_Nose?file=Vous.png

Eh, I understand the irony but I feel the show very much surpassed the source material.

Arthur's nose was shortened years prior to the first season of the TV show coming out. You can see on the cover of Arthur's Teacher Trouble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s_Teacher_Trouble

I read these books to my three year old. Arthur’s nose is only large in the first book (or books, I only have one from that time). As early as the mid 80s Marc Brown changed him into the aardvark we know today.