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Hey Arnold!
File:Tv PR hey arnold.jpg
From left to right: Helga Pataki, Arnold, and Gerald Johanssen.
Created byCraig Bartlett
StarringToran Caudell
Phillip Van Dyke
Spencer Klein
Alex D. Linz
Country of originUSA
No. of episodes98 episodes, 1 theatrical feature-length movie, and 1 made-for-TV movie
Production
Running time30 minutes (15 minutes per segment) (approx. per episode)
Original release
NetworkNickelodeon
Release1996 –
2004

Hey Arnold! is an American animated television series that ran on Nickelodeon from Autumn 1996 through Summer 2004. Created by Matt Groening's brother-in-law Craig Bartlett, and based on his clay animation shorts on Sesame Street, it stars grade-schooler Arnold, who lives with grandparents Phil and Gertrude, proprietors of the Sunset Arms boarding house. (His doctor parents Stella and Miles went missing while on an international rescue mission).

The supporting characters include Arnold's African-American best friend, Gerald Johanssen; his eccentric, free-spirited Grandma, who has been known to walk around in the rain wearing a scuba outfit, and acerbic classmate Helga G. Pataki, who presents a guise of hating Arnold but secretly loves him. The series takes place in Hillwood City, a fictional locale resembling New York City, with a triangular building similar to the Flatiron Building and bridge that resembles the Brooklyn Bridge. In an episode involving Helga and her mother taking a road trip, the two, returning home, see the left half of a sign reading, "WELCOME TO WASHINGTON STATE". Bartlett himself is from Seattle. (Also, the episode entitled The Pig War involves the celebration of an event loosely based off of a real-life incident, an 1859 US-British dispute over San Juan Island which lies between Washington and Vancouver {see Pig War}.)

Hey Arnold! is the second longest-running Nicktoon behind Rugrats. In Great Britain, the show previously aired on ITV1 but still airs on Britain's NickToons network. Some of the original clay animation shorts were shown on Sesame Street. The television series was produced by Snee-Oosh, Inc. for Nickelodeon.

A 2002 theatrical movie involved the characters' exploits to save their neighborhood from an unpopular redevelopment project. There had been plans for a second movie (working title: Hey Arnold! 2: The Jungle), involving Arnold's search to find his parents (and also meant to finally reveal Arnold's last name). However, contractual problems with Nick [citation needed], among other things, have since led Bartlett to leave the channel for the Cartoon Network. Nick had also earlier turned down plans to spinoff the Helga character (and her family) into her own series, The Patakis (As with the Rugrats spinoff All Grown Up!, the characters would have been mid-teenagers.) [1]

The first appearance of Hey Arnold was as a short subject preceding Harriet the Spy, a film produced by Nickelodeon.

Characters and voice actors

  • The only Vietnamese character in the show, excluding Mr. Hyunh's daughter that appeared in the episode "Arnold's Christmas"

Recurring Jokes

One of the series' main recurring jokes is the frequent use of a gag originally seen in Gilligan's Island, known as the Gilligan Cut [2]. For example:

  • Mr. Kokoschka: Don't worry, Arnold, there's no way I can lose.

frame changes I can't believe I lost.
("Arnold as Cupid", Oskar has just gambled Arnold's CD player, and lost on an unlikely hand from his opponents)

  • Helga: There is no way I am taking the subway.

frame changes I can't believe I'm taking the subway.
("Das Subway")

  • Gerald: There is no way we're fishing in a swan boat!

frame changes I can't believe we're fishing in a swan boat.
("Big Caesar", all the rental boats have been taken, and Arnold has just spotted a swan boat)

  • Helga: There is no way I'm gonna go back in there, tell them the truth, and wind up washing dishes.

frame changes I can't believe I told them the truth, and I wound up washing dishes.
("Dinner For Four", Nadine talks to Helga about releasing a cockroach into a French restaurant so that Helga can get out of having to paying for a dinner: she discovered on the bill that they were eating at the restuarant opposite from where she had won a voucher for)

  • Arnold: Stinky, there is no way we're calling our go-cart the Mauve Avenger.

frame changes I can't believe we called our go cart the Mauve Avenger.
("Grand Prix", Arnold decides to take parts from Eugene's totalled gokart to fix his gokart)

Another recurring gag involves Brainy:

  • Helga: Watch it, Football Head! (Arnold)...how I hate you...and yet...brings out locket with Arnold's picture...I love you! After giving her heartfelt monologue, Helga usually discovers Brainy wheezing down the back of her neck; annoyed, she gives him a backwards punch in the face.
  • Occasionaly, the creators of the show will tease viewers with the revelation of Arnold's last name, only to pull back, either because it's not legible or the speaker is interrupted.

Episodes

100 episodes were produced:

Season 1

(1996 Season)

  1. Downtown as Fruits / Eugene's Bike
    • Avoiding a food group play ran by Helga Pataki, Arnold and Gerald find themselves lost in the downtown area of the city/ After Eugene's bike is decimated, Arnold tries to make up for it by taking Eugene to a series of entertainment centers.
  2. The Little Pink Book / Field Trip
    • Arnold finds a little pink book with poems written by an "unknown" girl/ The class goes to the Aquarium; Gertie and Arnold try to free a turtle
  3. Arnold's Hat / Stoop Kid
    • Arnold loses his hat after being blown in a gusts while trying to fly a kite/ Arnold tries to make a teenager that has been living on a stoop since he was born to conquer his fear of the things outside his stoop.
  4. Helga's Makeover / The Old Building
    • Helga goes to a slumber party; the 4th Grade boys intend to crash the slumber party/ Arnold is caught in the middle when Arnold's Grandma and Ernie are arguing about whether an old building should be torn down or not.
  5. 6th Grade Girls / The Baseball
    • Arnold and Gerald attend a 6th grade party / Arnold meets Mickey Kayline, his favortie baseball player
  6. Heat / Snow
    • A heat wave engulfs the city; Arnold and Gerald try to find ways to escape heat/ After a heatwave, a snowstorm comes to the city; Arnold's Grandpa tries to teach Arnold work ethic
  7. Operation Ruthless / The Vacant Lot
    • While the Cheese festival is in town, Phoebe and Helga try to eliminate Arnold's interest in Ruth/ Arnold and Gerald find a vacant lot and turn it into a baseball field; they call it "Gerald Field"
  8. The List / Haunted Train
    • A note with a series of events posted on it is believed to have made some 4th Grader's Saturday good/ Arnold, Herald, and Helga take a subway
  9. Mugged / Roughin' It
    • Grandma teaches Arnold to become a kung-fu master in order to face a guy who mugged him/ Arnold goes camping
  10. Door #16 / Arnold as Cupid
  11. Benchwarmer / Cool Jerk
    • Arnold plays basketball for a coach who insists on passing to his son and thus doesn't let the "team" play as an actual team/ Arnold hangs out with some biker
  12. Das Subway / Wheezin' Ed
    • The gang encounters trouble while traveling in the subway/ The gang travels to Elk island to find a pirate treasure
  13. Tutoring Torvald / Gerald Comes Over
    • Arnold must tutor a thirteen-year-old 4th Grader to pass a math test/ Gerald visits Arnold at his house and gets to know about its wacky inhabitants
  14. Spelling Bee / Pigeon Man
    • Arnold competes in a Tri-City spelling bee/ Arnold confronts a man that has known and trusted pigeons all his life
  15. Olga Comes Home / Sally's Comet
    • Jealous of her older sister, Helga sabotages Olga's grades/Arnold, Gerald, and Arnold's Grandpa await a comet to come across the city
  16. Abner Come Home / The Sewer King
    • Arnold loses his pet pig, Abner/ After getting a watch for his grandpa, Arnold tries to retreive it from a man who has lived in the sewers all his life
  17. False Alarm / World Records
    • Eugene is framed for pulling the fire alarm at school/ Arnold and his friends try to get into a book of world records.
  18. Magic Show / 24 Hours to Live
    • While Arnold was carrying out a magic trick, Helga runs away and gets blacked out/ Herald challenges Arnold to a fight
  19. Arnold's Christmas
    • Arnold tries to find Mr. Hyunh's daughter (they were separated in the Vietnam War) as he carries out his duty as Mr. Hyunh's secret Santa
  20. Arnold's Valentine

Season 2

(1997 Season)

  1. Save The Tree / New Teacher (the first episode to feature Dan Butler as Arnold's teacher, Mr. Simmons)
    • Arnold and other 4th graders try to save their treehouse from being torn down for a Big Bob's Beeper's establishment/ After their last teacher, Mrs. Slovak, retired to become a pro golfer, Arnold's 4th grade class gets a new teacher, Mr. Simmons.
  2. Helga's Love Potion / Gerald's Secret
  3. The Big Scoop / Harold's Kitty
  4. Longest Monday / Eugene's Pet
    • Kids get thrown in dumpsters and trash cans/ Eugene's goldfish gets killed
  5. Monkey Business / Big Caesar
    • Helga thinks she will die from a superstitious disease from 1800's America/ Arnold and Gerald compete in a fishing competition to catch a ledgendary fish, Big Ceaser
  6. Ransom / Ms. Perfect (the first story made with Mr. Simmons, and the only story without Arnold speaking)
  7. Arnold Saves Sid / Hookey (the last episode made with Tress MacNeille as Arnold's previous teacher, Mrs. Slovak)
  8. Freeze Frame / Phoebe Cheats
  9. Mud Bowl / Gerald Moves Out
  10. The High Life / Best Friends
  11. Arnold's Halloween
  12. Steely Phil / Quantity Time
    • Arnold's grandpa enters a Chinese Checkers tournament to reclaim his pride lost fifty years ago/ Helga's mom tries to let Helga and her father, Bob, bond
  13. Eating Contest / Rhonda's Glasses
  14. Helga's Boyfriend / Crush on Teacher
  15. Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah
    • Phoebe becomes hall monitor, asking Helga for tips for becoming a good hall monitor/ Harold runs away from his Bar Mitzvah for thinking he will retain his childhood this way
  16. Coach Wittenburg / Four-eyed Jack
    • Arnold and his friends get Coach Wittenberg to be their new bowling coach/ The ghost of a former bording house resident is believed to have been causing strange accurances in the boarding house
  17. Eugene Goes Bad / What's Opera, Arnold?
    • After finding out that his idol is a total wimp, Eugene sets out to become bad/ Helga falls asleep and has her own parody/dream of Carmen
  18. Tour de Pond / Teachers Strike
    • Arnold and a descendant of Arnold's grandpa's arch enemy, Rex Smythe Higgins, compete in a remote-control boat race/ Teachers of Arnold's school go on strike because of inadequate funding; Arnold and his friends find things to do until the school reopens
  19. Part-Time Friends / Bio Square
    • Arnold is okay with working with Gerald at Mrs. Vitello's flower shop, but not okay with working for Gerald/ As a science assignment, Arnold and Helga have to live with each other for 24-hours in the Sunset Arms greenhouse
  20. Runaway Float / Partners
    • After creating an idea for a parade float, Arnold is confident of it showing up in a parade/ A lounge singer moves in to the Sunset Arms after renouncing his songwriter

Season 3

(1998 Season)

  1. Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher
  2. Dangerous Lumber / Mr. Hyunh Goes Country (Guest voice Randy Travis)
  3. Casa Paradiso / Gerald's Tonsils
    • Arnold's grandfather is convinced of leaving Sunset Arms and going to a condo in Florida known as Casa Paradiso/ Gerald gets his tonsils removed in time for a chorus recital
  4. Arnold's Room / Helga vs. Big Patty
    • Sid borrows Arnold's room in order to study with Lorenzo/ Helga harasses Patty that she challenges Helga to a fight
  5. Stinky Goes Hollywood / Olga Gets Engaged
    • Stinky becomes the new Yahoo! poster child/ Olga gets engaged (very explanatory title).
  6. Curly Snaps / Pre-Teen Scream
  7. Grandpa's Birthday / Road Trip
  8. Sid's Revenge / Roller Coaster
    • Sid swears vengeance with a bar of soap carved into the form of the principal of P.S. 118/ A roller coaster breaks down while Eugene and Arnold while at the top of the tallest drop of the roller coaster
  9. The Aptitude Test / Oskar Gets a Job
  10. Arnold Betrays Iggy / Helga and the Nanny
    • Arnold insinuates Iggy wearing pink bunny footie pajamas, even though it eventually wasn't his fault/ Bob hires a Nanny; Helga gets envious of her Nanny.
  11. Career Day / Hey Harold!
  12. Best Man / Cool Party
    • Coach Wittenburg assigns Arnold the duty of his best man at his second wedding/ After being rejected to an invitation to Rhonda's party, he starts his own party with all of the other people that were excluded from Rhonda's party
  13. Arnold & Lila / Grand Prix
  14. Arnold's Thanksgiving
  15. Helga's Show / The Flood
  16. Phoebe Takes the Fall / The Pig War
  17. Crabby Author / Rich Kid
  18. Girl Trouble / School Dance
  19. School Play
  20. Full Moon / Student Teacher

Season 4

(1999 Season)

  1. Big Gino / Jamie O. In Love
    • Arnold and Gerald ask Big Gino a favor/ Jamie O. finds a girlfriend; Arnold and Gerald find out what she really is
  2. Eugene's Birthday / Stinky's Pumpkin
    • Arnold feels obliged to throw a birthday party for Eugene/ Stinky grows a pumpkin for the City-Wide Vegetable Fair
  3. The Beeper Queen / Oskar Can't Read?
    • After Bob pops his spine, Miriam has to temporarily run Big Bob's Beepers/ Arnold finds out that Oscar is illiterate
  4. Dinner for Four / Phoebe Skips
  5. Helga's Parrot / Chocolate Turtles
    • Bob buys a parrot, causing the parrot to find out Helga's secret; Helga tries to kill the parrot/ Crisis strikes when Gerald's little sister eats a stock of chocolates that Arnold and Gerald are supposed to sell for a local scout organization
  6. Love and Cheese / Weighing Harold
  7. Back to School / Egg Story
  8. It Girl / Deconstructing Arnold
    • Helga becomes a model for a child-friendly clothing line/ Helga decides to give some advice of her own
  9. Grudge Match / Polishing Rhonda
  10. Weird Cousin / Baby Oskar
    • Arnold's country cousin, Arnie, visits/ Oskar has to look over a baby while his wife and his wife's sister are gone
  11. Grandpa's Sister / Synchronized Swimming
    • Phil's sister (voiced by Phyllis Diller) comes for a visit, bringing along an unsettled conflict between them/ Arnold and the gang have to be in a synchronized swimming team lead by Coach Wittenburg
  12. Helga Sleepwalks / Fighting Families
    • After eating pork rinds, Helga sleepwalks trying to unveil her feelings to Arnold/ The residents of the boarding house compete in a game show with another family
  13. Friday the 13th / Headless Cabbie
    • Arnold and Gerald try to prove superstitions are fictitious/ Arnold tells an urban ledgend about a decapitated cab driver
  14. Veterans Day
  15. Helga on the Couch (guest starring Kathy Baker as the psychiatrist Helga talks to)
  16. Dino Checks Out
  17. Monkeyman! / Buses, Bikes and Subways
  18. Helga's Masquerade / Mr. Green Runs
  19. Sid the Vampire Slayer / Big Sis
    • Sid believes that Stinky is a vampire/Olga becomes a supporter of Lila
  20. Bag of Money / Principal Simmons
    • Arnold tries to convince people that an old lady with pink hair, a peg leg, and one eyebrow took a bag of money he found in an alley/ Mr. Simmons becomes principal after Principal Wartz has one too many outbursts

Season 5

(2000 Season)

  1. New Bully on the Block / Phoebe Breaks a Leg
  2. Parents Day (explaining why Arnold doesn't have his parents around)
  3. Helga's Locket / Sid and Germs
  4. Suspended / Ernie in Love
  5. Summer Love ("a.k.a." Beach Story)
  6. Stuck in a Tree / Rhonda Goes Broke
  7. Beaned / Old Iron Man
  8. Arnold Visits Arnie / Chocolate Boy
  9. Harold vs. Patty / Rich Guy
  10. Gerald's Game / Fishing Trip
  11. Married
  12. April Fool's Day
  13. On The Lam / Family Man
  14. The Racing Mule / Curly's Girl (when this episode was originally supposed to air, on October 11, 2002, Nickelodeon began airing "Married" instead. The network did not catch the mistake until just after the second half of the episode began, when they switched to the regularly scheduled "Curly's Girl". After this gaffe, Nickelodeon did not rerun the episode until November 19, 2003, when they repeated the same mistake. On January 11, 2004, the episode was finally aired in full.)
  15. The Journal (originally intended to be a lead in for a conceptual second Hey Arnold! movie).
  16. Timberly Loves Arnold / Eugene, Eugene!
  17. Ghost Bride / Gerald vs. Jamie O
  18. A Day In The Life Of A Classroom / Big Bob's Crisis (the latter being the final episode to have all of the Pataki family in it)
  19. Grandpa's Packard / Phoebe's Little Problem (final episode to be aired in the U.S., aired June 8, 2004)

Movie

Fandom

With over 1500 fanfiction stories on fanfiction.net, Hey Arnold has the reputation of being the most popular Nicktoon to write about.

Trivia

  • There has a "bad" word used in this show. In the final episode made, Earnie is angry as the horse he bet on is losing. He screams, "Great! $200 straight down the crapper!"
  • Helga is often the victim of humorous child neglect by her parents, who often forget that she exists.
  • Pay attention! During certain episodes, you can see Monkeyman running around town, yelling, "Monkeyman!"
  • Also, you can see a dorky kid in blue pants and a white shirt. Although he is given no name, you can recognize him as the kid who stole Arnold's ball in the episode, The List. He makes several cameo appearances.
  • In the episode "On the Lam", there is a swear word, which is on the bottle of hot sauce saying "Ass kicking" with a picture of a donkey being kicked. It is a another bad world.
  • Also,this show had GBA Game based off the movie.
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