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Hey Arnold! was a Nickelodeon cartoon which first aired in autumn 1996, and ended in summer 2004. Created by Matt Groening's brother-in-law 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 G. Pataki, who presents a guise of hating Arnold, but secretly loves him. In Great Britain, the show airs on Tuesdays on ITV, while also airing 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.

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 theatrical 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 Nick among other things have since led Bartlett to leave the channel for the Cartoon Network.

The show takes place in Hillwood City, a fictional city resembling New York City with the triangular building and bridge that looks like the Brooklyn Bridge. Hillwood City is in actually in Washington state, evident by the episode where Helga and her mother take a road trip, when they come back the left half of a sign saying "WELCOME TO WASHINGTON STATE" can be seen. Bartlett has also made it known he's from Seattle.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Recurring Jokes 3 Episodes 3.1 Season 1 3.2 Season 2 3.3 Season 3 3.4 Season 4 3.5 Season 5 4 Movie 5 External links

Characters

• Arnold (Toran Caudell, Phillip Van Dyke, Spencer Klein, Alex D. Linz)
• Gerald (Jamil Walker Smith)
• Helga (Francesca Smith)
• Harold (Justin Shenkarow)
• Phoebe (Anndi McAfee)
• Rhonda (Olivia Hack)
• Stinky (Christopher P. Walberg, Toran Caudell in "Downtown as Fruits")
• Sid (Sam Gifaldi, his brother Taylor in "April Fool's Day")
• Eugene (Christopher J. Castile, Jarrett Lennon, Ben Diskin, Blake Ewing)
• Arnold's Grandpa Phil (Dan Castellaneta)
• Arnold's Grandma Gertie (Tress MacNeille)
• Stella (Arnold's Mom) (Antoinette Stella)
• Miles (Arnold's Dad) (Craig Bartlett)
• Brainy
• Wolfgang (Toran Caudell)
• Ludwig (Phillip Van Dyke)
• Iggy (Tress MacNeille)
• Bob Pataki (Maurice LaMarche)
• Myriam Pataki (Kath Soucie)
• Mr. Hyunh

Recurring Jokes

• Grandpa's rival: I heard if you punch a shark in the nose, it'll go away.

Grandpa: That's that dumbest idea I've ever heard. Let's do it!

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

frame changes I can't believe I lost.

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

frame changes I can't believe I'm taking the 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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 Eugine to a series of entertainment centers.

1. The Little Pink Book / Field Trip

• Arnold finds a little pink book with poems written by an unknown girl (Helga)./The class goes to the Aquarium; Gertie and Arnold try to free a turtle

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 6th Grade Girls / The Baseball

• Arnold and Gerald attend a 6th grade party / Arnold meets Mickey Kayline, his favortie baseball player

1. 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

1. 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"

1. 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 that is beleived to be haunted

1. Mugged / Roughin' It

• Grandma teaches Arnold to become a kung-fu master in order to face a guy who mugged him/(Unknown)

1. Door #16 / Arnold as Cupid
2. Benchwarmer / Cool Jerk
3. Das Subway / Wheezin' Ed

• The gang encounters trouble while traveling in the subway/The gang travels to Elk island and find a pirate treasure

1. Tutoring Torvald / Gerald Comes Over

• Arnold must tutor a thirteen-year-old 4th Grader to pass a math test/Arnold

1. 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

1. 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

1. Abner Come Home / The Sewer King

• Arnold loses his pet pig, Abner/after buying a watch for his grandpa, Arnold tries to retreive it from a man who has lived in the sewers all his life

1. False Alarm / World Records

• Eugene is framed for pulling the fire alarm at school/ Arnold and his freinds try to get into a book of world records.

1. 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

1. Arnold's Christmas

• Arnold tries to find Mr. Hyunh's daughter (they were seperated in the Vietnam War)

as he carries out his duty as Mr. Hyunh's secret Santa

1. 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.

1. Helga's Love Potion / Gerald's Secret
2. The Big Scoop / Harold's Kitty
3. Longest Monday / Eugene's Pet
4. 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

1. Ransom / Ms. Perfect (the first story made with Mr. Simmons, and the only story without Arnold speaking)
2. Arnold Saves Sid / Hookey (the last episode made with Tress MacNeille as Arnold's previous teacher, Mrs. Slovak)
3. Freeze Frame / Phoebe Cheats
4. Mud Bowl / Gerald Moves Out
5. The High Life / Best Friends
6. Arnold's Halloween
7. 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

1. Eating Contest / Rhonda's Glasses
2. Helga's Boyfriend / Crush on Teacher
3. Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah

• Pheobea 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

1. Coach Wittenburg/Four-eyed Jack

• Arnold and his freinds get a new bowling coach/the ghost of a former bording hous resident is beleived to have been causing strange accurances in the boarding house

1. 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

1. Tour de Pond / Teachers Strike

• Arnold and a descendant of Arnold's grandpa's arch enemy, Rex Smight Higgins, compete in a remote-control boat race/Teachers of Arnold's school go on strike because of inadequate funding; Arnold and his freinds find things to do until the school reopens

1. Part-Time Friends / Bio Square

• (Unknown)/As a science assignment, Arnold and Helga have to live with each other for 24-hours in the Sunset Arms greenhouse

1. Runaway Float / Partners

• After creating an idea for a parade float, Arnold is confident of it showing up in a parade/(Unknown)

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

1. 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

1. Stinky Goes Hollywood / Olga Gets Engaged

• Stinky becomes the new Yahoo! poster child/Olga gets engaged(very explanitory title).

1. Curly Snaps / Pre-Teen Scream
2. Grandpa's Birthday / Road Trip
3. Sid's Revenge / Roller Coaster

• Sid swears vengence 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

1. The Aptitude Test / Oskar Gets a Job
2. Arnold Betrays Iggy / Helga and the Nanny
3. Career Day / Hey Harold!
4. 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

1. Arnold & Lila / Grand Prix
2. Arnold's Thanksgiving
3. Helga's Show / The Flood
4. Phoebe Takes the Fall / The Pig War
5. Crabby Author / Rich Kid
6. Girl Trouble / School Dance
7. School Play
8. Full Moon / Student Teacher

Season 4

(1999 Season)

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

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

• Hey Arnold!: The Movie

There was originally going to be a Hey Arnold 2 called "The Jungle". It was about Arnold finding his parents.

External links

• Hey Arnold! area on nick.com
• Hey Arnold! at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Hey Arnold! at the Internet Movie Database
• The Unofficial Hey Arnold! Site
• Hey Arnold! fanpage by Don Del Grande
• Hey Arnold! The Movie area on nick.com
• Hey Arnold! The Movie at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Hey Arnold Message Board
• Hey Arnold! The Movie at the Internet Movie Database

Nicktoons

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