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Hey Arnold!

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Hey Arnold! was a Nickelodeon cartoon which ran from autumn 1996 until summer 2004. Created by Matt Groening's inlaw Craig Bartlett, and based on his clay animation shorts, the central character is Arnold, who lives with his grandparents Phil and Gertrude (his parents Stella and Miles have gone missing) that run a boarding house. A quality of the series is that it isn't much about Arnold, but rather about the neighborhood, his friends at school, and even the boarders at the Sunset Arms. Most notable are the eccentric Grandma (she has been known to walk around in the rain wearing a scuba outfit) and Helga Pataki, who presents a guise of hating Arnold, but secretly loves him.

Nick had earlier turned down plans to spinoff the Helga character (and her family) into her own series, The Patakis (like All Grown Up!, the characters would have been older than when they were on Hey Arnold!: Helga would have been 15, for example).

Hey Arnold! is the second longest-running Nicktoon behind Rugrats. Also, there was a movie made in 2002 about the main characters' exploits to save their neighborhood from an unpopular redevelopment project. The much-derided animated feature-length film was originally intended to be a made-for-TV movie, but Nick decided to make it a theaterical release. It grossed a paltry $13 million at the box office. There had been plans for a second movie, based on Arnold's search to find his parents (and also meant to finally reveal Arnold's last name), however contractual problems with Nickelodeon among other things have since led Craig Bartlett to leave the channel for Cartoon Network.

The show takes place in Hillwood City, a fictional city resembling parts of New York City (specifically Queens and Brooklyn). Some sources state that Hillwood City is in fact a representation of San Fransisco with the triangular building and bridge that looks like the Golden Gate Bridge. Though most of these sources have been discredited for that snow has been featured in multiple Hey Arnold! episodes, a weather phenomenon not native to the Bay Area. Some of the original clay animation shorts were shown on Sesame Street.

An interesting tidbit is that the character MonkeyMan can be seen running through the background, foreground, or in plain sight in almost every other episode.

Contents

[edit] Characters

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season 1 (1996)

  1. Downtown as Fruits / Eugene's Bike
  2. The Little Pink Book / Field Trip
  3. Arnold's Hat / Stoop Kid
  4. Helga's Makeover / The Old Building
  5. 6th Grade Girls / The Baseball
  6. Heat / Snow
  7. Operation Ruthless / The Vacant Lot
  8. The List / Haunted Train
  9. Mugged / Roughin' It
  10. Door #16 / Arnold as Cupid
  11. Benchwarmer / Cool Jerk
  12. Das Subway / Wheezin' Ed
  13. Tutoring Torvald / Gerald Comes Over
  14. Spelling Bee / Pigeon Man
  15. Olga Comes Home / Sally's Comet
  16. Abner Come Home / The Sewer King
  17. False Alarm / World Records
  18. Magic Show / 24 Hours to Live
  19. Arnold's Christmas
  20. Arnold's Valentine

[edit] Season 2 (1997)

  1. Save The Tree / New Teacher (the first episode to feature Dan Butler as Arnold's teacher, Mr. Simmons)
  2. Helga's Love Potion / Gerald's Secret
  3. The Big Scoop / Harold's Kitty
  4. Longest Monday / Eugene's Pet
  5. Monkey Business / Big Caesar
  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 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
  13. Eating Contest / Rhonda's Glasses
  14. Helga's Boyfriend / Crush on Teacher
  15. Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah
  16. Coach Wittenberg / Four-Eyed Jack
  17. Eugene Goes Bad / What's Opera, Arnold?
  18. Tour de Pond / Teachers Strike
  19. Part-Time Friends / Bio Square
  20. Runaway Float / Partners

[edit] Season 3 (1998)

  1. Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher
  2. Dangerous Lumber / Mr. Hyunh Goes Country
  3. Casa Paradiso / Gerald's Tonsils
  4. Arnold's Room / Helga vs. Big Patty
  5. Stinky Goes Hollywood / Olga Gets Engaged
  6. Curly Snaps / Pre-Teen Scream
  7. Grandpa's Birthday / Road Trip
  8. Sid's Revenge / Roller Coaster
  9. The Aptitude Test / Oskar Gets a Job
  10. Arnold Betrays Iggy / Helga and the Nanny
  11. Career Day / Hey Harold!
  12. Best Man / Cool 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

[edit] Season 4 (1999)

  1. Big Gino / Jamie O. In Love
  2. Eugene's Birthday / Stinky's Pumpkin
  3. The Beeper Queen / Oskar Can't Read?
  4. Dinner for Four / Phoebe Skips
  5. Helga's Parrot / Chocolate Turtles
  6. Love and Cheese / Weighing Harold
  7. Back to School / Egg Story
  8. It Girl / Deconstructing Arnold
  9. Grudge Match / Polishing Rhonda
  10. Weird Cousin / Baby Oskar
  11. Grandpa's Sister / Synchronized Swimming
  12. Helga Sleepwalks / Fighting Families
  13. Friday the 13th / Headless Cabbie
  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
  20. Bag of Money / Principal Simmons

[edit] Season 5 (2000)

  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 (this episode has a story attached to it: The first time this was supposed to air was on 11 October 2002; by mistake, they started to air "Married" instead, and didn't catch the error until just after the second half started, when they switched to "Curly's Girl" just after it had started. Nickelodeon then decided to hold onto it for over a year, scheduling it for on 19 November 2003 - and they started "Married" again! After about six minutes, they switched to "The Racing Mule", and on 11 January 2004, the episode was finally aired in full for the very first time)
  15. The Journal (a one hour ep explaining about the story of Arnold's parents... it ended with him finding a map in the journal, as this was intended to be a lead-in into the planned 2nd movie that would deal with this)
  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
  19. Grandpa's Packard / Phoebe's Little Problem (final episode to be aired in the U.S., aired 8 June 2004)

[edit] Movie

[edit] DVD

The complete first & second seasons are available on Amazon.

Total Episodes: 100

[edit] Trivia

  • Arnold's favorite baseball character is Mickey Kaline. His name may have been inspired by Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Al Kaline. Mickey Kaline claims he faced Bob Gibson in the World Series. The last time Gibson played in the World Series was in 1968, so as of the show's debut in 1996, the recently-retired Kaline would've spent about at least thirty years in the majors. The logo on his uniform is a white sock, possibly indicating he plays for the Chicago White Sox.

[edit] External links

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