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The Best Episodes of Hey Arnold!

Every episode of Hey Arnold! ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Hey Arnold!!

The Best Episodes of Hey Arnold!

The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football.

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  1. 9.3/10(597 votes)

    #1 - Heat

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    S1:E11

    Arnold has a really bad day - the city is suffering from a heatwave, and whatever he does, Arnold just can't seem to get cool.

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  2. 8.8/10(358 votes)

    #2 - The List

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    S1:E15

    Arnold attempts to do something that no other kid has done before - completing the entire list of a kid's perfect Saturday! But, unfortunately, things don't go quite to plan.

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  3. 8.8/10(276 votes)

    #3 - Egg Story

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    S4:E16

    Arnold and Helga must care for an egg for a school project about parenting. Meanwhile, Rhonda and Harold are project partners and must also take care of an egg.

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  4. 8.6/10(200 votes)

    #4 - Big Sis

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    S5:E6

    Olga gets into a "Big Sis" program, but her "Lil' Sis" is Lila.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.6/10(232 votes)

    #5 - Beaned

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    S5:E19

    Helga gets amnesia, and Arnold starts acting nice to her.

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    Writer:N/A
  6. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Pigeon Man

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    S1:E29

    When Arnold's pigeon gets sick, he takes it to "Pigeon Man", a person surrounded by pigeons who lives in a rooftop.

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  8. 8.3/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Arnold's Christmas

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    S1:E21

    While Helga tries to find the perfect gift for Arnold, Arnold tries to find Mr Hyunh's long-lost daughter.

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  9. 8.3/10(177 votes)

    #8 - Arnold Betrays Iggy

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    S3:E19

    Arnold finds out Iggy wears bunny pajamas with feet in them, and Arnold accidentially spills the beans to Sid and Stinky, ruining Iggy's cool image.

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  10. 8.2/10(292 votes)

    #9 - Stoop Kid

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    S1:E6

    Arnold's hat lands on the stoop of "Stoop Kid," - a bully who has lived his whole life on his stoop, and is highly protective of it. But, when it's Arnold's fault that Stoop Kid becomes the joke of the city, he must help Stoop Kid face his biggest fear - leaving his stoop for the first time.

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  11. 8.2/10(235 votes)

    #10 - Longest Monday

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    S2:E7

    Schoolyard tradition has it that on the first Monday of June each year, the fifth graders throw the fourth graders into trash cans. So, Arnold and Gerald try to make a run for it. As more people are thrown into trash cans and the fifth graders know all the routes, Arnold and Gerald find out eluding the fifth graders is harder that they thought.

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  12. 8.1/10(276 votes)

    #11 - The Old Building

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    S1:E8

    Arnold is asked by his Grandma to help save an old building, and then asked by Ernie to help knock the building down! Who will Arnold decide to go along with? How can he get out of this tricky situation?

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  13. 8.1/10(180 votes)

    #12 - Helga Blabs It All

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    S3:E1

    While feeling the effects of laughing gas, Helga leaves a confessional message of love on Arnold's phone machine. She then has to get into the boarding house in order to erase the message.

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  14. 8.0/10(314 votes)

    #13 - The Little Pink Book

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    S1:E3

    When Helga loses her pink book, full of love poems about Arnold on the bus, it ends up in Arnold's hands. Now Helga must get it back before Arnold figures out who wrote the poems.

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  15. 8.0/10(248 votes)

    #14 - Helga's Makeover

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    S1:E7

    Helga is annoyed when Rhonda doesn't invite her to her slumber party - everybody assumes that "girly" parties aren't Helga's style. So, Helga is determined to prove her wrong, and gets a makeover.

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  16. 8.0/10(253 votes)

    #15 - Arnold as Cupid

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    S1:E20

    Oskar gets kicked out of Suzie's room when they get into an argument, so Arnold tries to get them back together when Oskar moves into Arnold's room.

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  17. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Benchwarmer

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    S1:E22

    Arnold has trouble with the basketball coach and his favored son.

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  18. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Wheezin' Ed

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    S1:E25

    Arnold and the gang set out on a quest to find the hidden treasure of the mysterious "Wheezin' Ed" on Elk Island.

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  19. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Arnold the Tutor

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    S1:E26

    Arnold is given the assignment to tutor Torvald, the meanest, toughest kid in Arnold's math class, for the big math test on Friday.

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  20. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Arnold's Valentine

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    S1:E38

    On Valentine's Day, Arnold manages to arrange two dates; one with Ruth, the sixth grader he likes, and one with his French penpal Cecile (actually, it's Helga in disguise) – only for the real Cecile to suddenly appear and Arnold to discover what Ruth is really like.

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  21. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Best Friends

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    S2:E21

    Rhonda and Nadine fall out over working on a project at school, leaving Arnold to work with both of them separately.

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  22. 8.0/10(206 votes)

    #21 - Road Trip

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    S3:E14

    When Bob has to go to a business meeting, Miriam and Helga are forced to go on the family road trip by themselves.

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  23. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Hey Harold!

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    S3:E22

    Harold is invited to Rhonda's party and befriends the female bully, Big Patty.

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  24. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Biosquare

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    S3:E33

    As a science assignment, Arnold and Helga have to work together, and get along with each other, for 24 hours in the Sunset Arms greenhouse.

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  25. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - School Play

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    S3:E38

    The school is doing the play "Romeo and Juliet". Arnold lands the role as Romeo so Helga will do anything to beat out other girls to get the part of Juliet, so that she can kiss Arnold in the final scene.

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    Director:Steve Socki
  26. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Weird Cousin

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    S4:E21

    Arnold's bland country cousin, Arnie, comes to visit. Arnold begins to notice that Arnie and Lila show interest in each other, making him jealous.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"Heat" is the best rated episode of "Hey Arnold!". It scored 9.3/10 based on 597 votes. Directed by Tuck Tucker, Juli Murphy and written by Jonathan Greenberg, it aired on 11/11/1996. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The List".