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[Danidama]

Move it, FootballHead!

Helga's awesome.

Love this show. Very well done. It reminds me of the Simpsons sometimes with the subtle funny goodness.

You want a sammitch, shortman?

[Aussie In New Orleans]

I like this show too! I didn't even realize there was a movie until a recent trip to Mexico, and I watched it dubbed in Spanish. Very cute - same voices, especially Harold the bully!

[Danidama]

Hee. I bought the movie last week! It's really good.

I am loving Arnold's grampa right now. Too. Funny.

Harold's laugh is driving me *crazy*. I hate it! So irritating.

You know what's even more annoying? Oscar. "A-heh-heh-heh." I hate his laugh, too! And his incessant whiiiiiining.

Anyway. Besides those two, I really enjoy everyone else. :-D

Remember the weird pop-star dude who didn't really write or sing his songs? Have you seen that episode?

::singing:: "I saw your face and wow!" Heh.

Edited by Danidama, Jun 15, 2004 @ 5:03 PM.

[Uber Beaver]

I love the characters on this show so much. I wish I grew up with such a colorful cast of people. This show makes me laugh and touches me whenever I watch it. The episodes focusing on Arnold and his parents and "Helga on the Couch" always make me choke up.

Helga + Arnold 4 eva! (Sorry, I had to).

[Danidama]

Hey, Uber Beaver, I completely agree about the characters, and the laughing and the touching. Heh. It is just so well-written. I vaguely remember when it first came out (I was in HS) and I recall thinking that Meh, it's just going to be another new crappy cartoon, so I never watched it until a few months ago. And I'm still amazed at how great it is! I feel like I missed out. But I'm getting all the goodness now, and it's all new. Love it.

I saw the hour-long eppy about Arnold's parents the weekend before last and it was moving. Now I call Arnold a 'Volcano Baby.' :-p

I don't know the "Helga on the Couch" episode you referred to; what was that about? I haven't seen them all yet.

You know who's really awesome? Chocolate Boy. Hee. ("Yeah, yeah! Chocolate!" ... "Ooooo, ten pounds, ten pounds of chocolate!")

Helga is just to best. Oh Arnold, my love! Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!

The show is on every morning at 6:30 in DC, and I've got it for about an hour each weekend-day. Yay.

[amani]

Hee. I love Arnold's room and his kick-butt stereo system. I'm always amazed these kids are fourth graders. Especially Helga, with her boundless vernacular. Also, if Arnold were a few years older, I would have a cartoon crush on him. He's so sweet.

I love when all the kids gather around to listen to Gerald tell urban legends. I wish I had a neighborhood that cool.

[Uber Beaver]

Danidama, "Helga on the Couch" is a great episode with Helga featured as the main player. A school psychologist comes in and observes the class and sees that Helga was picking on Arnold a lot and bullying the other students. She asks Helga for an appointment and we learn why Helga loves Arnold and why she asserts herself that way.

Chocolate Boy rocks. He is the cutest character on the show. I loved when they went to the chocolate factory and he swam in the big vat. Too adorable.

[LTG]

Bump for Arista.

[texplant]

I absolutely love this cartoon. Pookie (Arnold's grandmother) is one of my favorite characters.

[Tabbyclaw]

These kids could so kick the "Recess" crew's collective ass.

What I love most about this show is how full and complex all the characters are. Volumes could be written on Helga alone. Most adult sitcom characters don't have as much personality as these kids do.

I can't remember much about it, but the episode that always gave me a chuckle was the one where they visited Arnold's cousin on the farm and Arnold, Helga, and Lilah all got to see what it's like to occupy another pole of a love triangle.

Speaking of Lilah, whatever happened to Ruth?

[YoungnHopeless]

I LOVE THIS SHOW!! I still watch it when I can. I love Arnold's room! His mad cool stereo, with the flip out couch, and just go right out to the roof! I think that's so cool! I also love Helga!

Arnold + Helga = LOVE 4 EVA!! Sorry, couldn't resist.

I love Helga's closet, how she just made the sculpture of Arnold. Does anyone know what it's made out of? Its just fascinating!

Speaking of Lilah, whatever happened to Ruth?

What did happen to her? I don't remember!

[tonkacat]

I love Helga's closet, how she just made the sculpture of Arnold. Does anyone know what it's made out of? Its just fascinating!

The sculpture in the episode I saw was made from bubblegum.

[Aussie Andrew]

If you've ever seen the deplorable movie for this cartoon, it will ruin any mild amusement or love you ever had for this show.

Its unbelievably unfunny, slow and dimwitted.

Hey Arnold - The Movie. I give it 1/2 a star.

Oh, the series was ok too, not my fav, but ok.

[Black Pastel]

Man, I loved everything about this show! What with Arnold's grandmother's eccentricness, and all the boarders (like that guy who is always trying to get stuff and money for free - what's his name?), and Arnold's parents, and that kid who's unlucky (why am I forgetting all the names?!), and Helga with her sensitive poetry, and always being compared to her sister, Olga. Everything about the show rocked.

I loved that classic episode with the unlucky kid being at the amusement park and him and Arnold getting stuck on the ride. And the one with Harold and Helga getting left behind on the field trip to the chocolate factory. And any episode with both Helga and that girl Arnold likes.

I never knew there was a movie. When did it come out, and what was it all about?

ETA: Woo! I got promoted to Channel Surfer!

Edited by Black Pastel, Jul 31, 2004 @ 11:35 PM.

[YoungnHopeless]

(like that guy who is always trying to get stuff and money for free - what's his name?), and Arnold's parents, and that kid who's unlucky (why am I forgetting all the names?!)

I think the guy who is always trying to get stuff free is Oscar, I'm not sure though. The unlucky kid is Eugene. I loved those episodes too! THe movie came out a few summers ago. It was okay, I prefer the tv show. I haven't seen the movie in a while, it was about saving something or another. Wasn't it?

[secretkitty]

Wait....if the unlucky kid is Eugene, who was the kid that always stood behind Helga breathing whenever she talked about how much she loved Arnold?

Edited by secretkitty, Aug 1, 2004 @ 10:34 PM.

[YoungnHopeless]

Wasn't his name like Brainy or something? I can't remember.

[Black Pastel]

Brian?

[amani]

According to IMDb, it's Brainy. *shudder* That boy is creepy.

[YoungnHopeless]

That's what I thought, but I couldn't remember. He scares, me. He seriously stalks Helga!

[secretkitty]

He is creepy, but I love the episode where he sneaks up behind Helga, and she doesnt punch him, so he punches himself. Just the look of panic on his face is hilarious.

[syphax]

One of my faves has to be the one with the Pigeon man. But the one I love the one where the kids haul ass to clean up the lot for baseball, and the big kids claim it, and then make them play football to see which of them keeps it. Seeing them all bruised and bloodied was so very sad.

[slaughteredlamb]

And it sadden me the producers decided to made a movie recycling an storyline of an old episode instead of a new story about the quest for Arnold's parents.

I remember stumbling across an interview with the creator, Craig Bartlett, where he said that he had been planning for the second movie (which I think he even had a script written for) being a class trip to the Amazon where the kids get loss and it turns into a search for Arnold's parents, but Nickelodeon wouldn't go for it. I'm also pretty sure the first movie wasn't originally supposed to be anything like it was (I've actually only seen the first half-hour, my 2 year old neice picked it up in Blockbuster and begged her father for it- then walked away while watching).

Honestly, I found the episode where Grandpa sits Arnold down and tells him all about his parents (not the Parents' Day episode) extremely cheesy and disappointing, I expected better. Although Dan Castellaneta did a great job narrating the episode.

On another note, I loved Helga. I loved that she wasn't just a bully or just a bully with a secret crush but an actual complex character with reasons for becoming the way she was. I also loved Patty, so maybe there's just something about the sympathetic girl bullies that was really interesting.

[AceBabeFire]

Hey Arnold!!! I love that show. On of Nick's best shows ever.

Helga, Olga, Bob, Maryann, Grandpa, Grandma, his pig, Geralf, Harold, Stinky. It was a great show. I wish they showed it more!

[McKay]

am I hearing things, or does Helga say "crap" occasionally ?

I love how complex all of the characters are. My father and I watch it whenever we happen to flip by it while channel surfing. He also brushes our foofy cat's fur out so that he has a football head with little tufts and yells "hey, Arnold!" at him. Or occasionally, just "football head!"

My father is weird. He loves Oscar (okay, so do I). But anyway. I love the complexities of all the characters' relationships...Arnold and Helga of course, and the Arnold/Helga/Lilah triangle, but also Helga's entire family, Arnold and his family, Helga and Phoebe, Harold and Patty, and really ALL of the kids with their parents. I like that the parents are almost as developed as the kids and all have really distinct personalities.

Brainy freaks me out, though. He's such a stalker.

I always, always, always cry at the Christmas special where Arnold has to get a gift for Mr. Hyunh (I hope I spelled that right, and I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it). It might be my favorite episode, but I can't really choose.

I didn't care for the movie, though.

[slaughteredlamb]

am I hearing things, or does Helga say "crap" occasionally ?

I'm absolutely positive she's said "crapola" at least once, because my jaw dropped in awe when she did it. And I'd think she's said "crap and/or other variations of it a few more times.

[McKay]

How in the world do they get away with that? I mean, people get wigged out over the silliest things in children's programming, but not the word "crap" in a cartoon theoretically meant for children?
I'm not complaining, just confused.

[Nflux Forever]

Remember when Helga drank that potion to remove her love for Arnold? After reading her own poetry, she said and I quote, "What is this crap?"