Hey Arnold! is a Nickelodeon cartoon first aired in autumn 1996. 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 half-witted 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.

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 (it was also supposed to finally reveal what Arnold's last name is), however contractual problems with Nickelodeon among other things have since led Craig Bartlett to leave the channel for the Cartoon Network.

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).

The show takes place in a fictional city resembling New York City. Some of the original clay animation shorts were shown on Sesame Street.

Contents

1 Characters 2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1 2.2 Season 2 2.3 Season 3 2.4 Season 4 2.5 Season 5 3 Movie 4 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 )
• Grandpa Phil (Dan Castellaneta)
• Grandma Gertrude (Tress MacNeille)
• Stella (Arnold's Mom) (Antoinette Stella )
• Miles (Arnold's Dad) (Craig Bartlett)

Episodes

Season 1

(1996 Season)

1. Downtown as Fruits / Eugene's Bike - A scene in the latter story where Arnold uses the Heimlich maneuver on Eugene has inspired three instances of it being used by a juvenile to help someone else
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

Season 2

(1997 Season)

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 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
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

Season 3

(1998 Season)

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

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 (this episode has an interesting story attached to it: The first time this ep was supposed to air was on October 11, 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 November 19, 2003 - and they started "Married" again! After about six minutes, they switched to "The Racing Mule", and on January 11, 2004, the ep 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 (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

Total Episodes: 100

External links

• Hey Arnold! area on nick.com http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/heyarnold/
• Hey Arnold! http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/G/Games_Animation/Hey_Arnold_/index.html at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Hey Arnold! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115200/ at the Internet Movie Database
• The Unofficial Hey Arnold! Site http://www.geraldfield.com/unofficial/craig.shtml
• Hey Arnold! fanpage by Don Del Grande http://www.hey-arnold.com/
• Hey Arnold! The Movie area on nick.com http://www.heyarnold.com/
• Hey Arnold! The Movie http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=37927&cartoon=Hey%20Arnold%21%20The%20Movie at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Hey Arnold! The Movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314166/ at the Internet Movie Database