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Hey Arnold! was an American animated television series that ran on Nickelodeon from October 1, 1996 through June 8, 2004. Created by The Simpsons creator 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 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 Brooklyn of New York City and San Francisco, California. 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 (as part of CITV) 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 [link], 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

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

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Characters and voice actors

*The only Vietnamese character in the show, excluding Mr. Huynh's daughter that appeared in the episode "Arnold's Christmas"
  • Oskar Kokoshka
  • *a reference to Oskar Kokoschka, the modern painter
  • Suzie Kokoshka
  • Ernie Potts (Dom Irrera)
  • Dino Spumoni (Rick Corso)
  • *a reference to Frank Sinatra and/or Dean Martin
  • Ruth McDougal
  • Mickey Kaline
  • *a reference to Mickey Mantle and Al Kaline, the famous baseball players

    • Recurring Jokes

    Examples of the Gilligan Cut

    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 [link]. For example:

    ("Arnold as Cupid", Oskar has just gambled Arnold's CD player, and lost on an unlikely hand from his opponents)

    ("Das Subway")

    ("Big Caesar", all the rental boats have been taken, and Arnold has just spotted a swan boat)

    ("Dinner For Four", Helga talks to Nadine about releasing a cockroach into a French restaurant so that Helga can get out of having to pay for a dinner; she discovered on the bill that they were eating at the restaurant opposite from where she had won a voucher for)

    ("Grand Prix", Arnold decides to take parts from Eugene's totalled go-kart to fix his go-kart)

    Brainy Gag

    Another recurring gag involves Brainy:

    Arnold's Name-teaser Gag

    Contest Lady: And the winner is Arnold... there seems to be a smudge over the last name.
    Stinky: I reckon she means you, Arnold, on account of you're the only Arnold in school.

    Episodes

    Movies

    Trivia

    External links

     

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