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 daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Hey Arnold!" is "Heat", rated 9.3/10 from 555 user votes. It was directed by Tuck Tucker, Juli Murphy and written by Jonathan Greenberg. "Heat" aired on 11/11/1996 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The List".
9.3/10 555 votes#1 - Heat
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1996
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.
Director: Tuck Tucker, Juli Murphy
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
8.8/10 340 votes#2 - The List
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/25/1996
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.
Director: Larry Leichliter, Mark O'Hare
Writer: Joe Ansolabehere
8.8/10 266 votes#3 - Egg Story
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 9/11/1999
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Viksten, Michelle Lamoreaux, Celia Bonaduce
- 8.7/10 187 votes
#4 - Big Sis
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/18/2001
Olga gets into a "Big Sis" program, but her "Lil' Sis" is Lila.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10 222 votes
#5 - Beaned
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 1/12/2002
Helga gets amnesia, and Arnold starts acting nice to her.
Director: Craig Bartlett
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 2 votes#6 - Pigeon Man
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 1/6/1997
When Arnold's pigeon gets sick, he takes it to "Pigeon Man", a person surrounded by pigeons who lives in a rooftop.
Director: Larry Leichliter, Jamie Mitchell
Writer: Joe Purdy
8.3/10 3 votes#7 - Arnold's Christmas
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 12/14/1996
While Helga tries to find the perfect gift for Arnold, Arnold tries to find Mr Hyunh's long-lost daughter.
Director: Jamie Mitchell
Writer: Steve Viksten
- 8.3/10 223 votes
#8 - Longest Monday
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/1/1997
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.
Director: Larry Leichliter, Derek Drymon
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
- 8.3/10 170 votes
#9 - Arnold Betrays Iggy
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 10/19/1998
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.
Director: Dan Povenmire
Writer: Steve Viksten
8.2/10 278 votes#10 - Stoop Kid
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1996
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.
Director: Kelly James, Juli Murphy
Writer: Steve Viksten
8.2/10 263 votes#11 - The Old Building
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/16/1996
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?
Director: Kelly James, Jamie Mitchell
Writer: Steve Viksten, Rachel Lipman
8.1/10 298 votes#12 - The Little Pink Book
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1996
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.
Director: Bert Ring, Don Judge
Writer: Craig Bartlett
- 8.1/10 172 votes
#13 - Helga Blabs It All
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/1998
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.
Director: Tuck Tucker
Writer: Craig Bartlett
8.0/10 238 votes#14 - Helga's Makeover
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/16/1996
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.
Director: Kelly James, Juli Murphy
Writer: Rachel Lipman
8.0/10 238 votes#15 - Arnold as Cupid
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 12/9/1996
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.
Director: Dan Povenmire, Dale Case
Writer: Steve Viksten
8.0/10 1 votes#16 - Benchwarmer
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 12/16/1996
Arnold has trouble with the basketball coach and his favored son.
Director: Stark Howell, Steve Socki
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
8.0/10 1 votes#17 - Wheezin' Ed
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 12/23/1996
Arnold and the gang set out on a quest to find the hidden treasure of the mysterious "Wheezin' Ed" on Elk Island.
Director: Dan Povenmire, Juli Murphy
Writer: Craig Bartlett, Steve Viksten, Rachel Lipman
8.0/10 1 votes#18 - Arnold the Tutor
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 12/30/1996
Arnold is given the assignment to tutor Torvald, the meanest, toughest kid in Arnold's math class, for the big math test on Friday.
Director: Larry Leichliter, Sherm Cohen
Writer: Joe Ansolabehere
8.0/10 1 votes#19 - Arnold's Valentine
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 2/14/1997
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.
Director: Jamie Mitchell
Writer: Steve Viksten, Rachel Lipman
- 8.0/10 1 votes
#20 - Best Friends
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 10/22/1997
Rhonda and Nadine fall out over working on a project at school, leaving Arnold to work with both of them separately.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
- 8.0/10 197 votes
#21 - Road Trip
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 9/30/1998
When Bob has to go to a business meeting, Miriam and Helga are forced to go on the family road trip by themselves.
Director: Tuck Tucker
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
- 8.0/10 2 votes
#22 - Hey Harold!
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 10/21/1998
Harold is invited to Rhonda's party and befriends the female bully, Big Patty.
Director: Kelly James, Steve Socki
Writer: Steve Viksten
8.0/10 1 votes#23 - Biosquare
Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 12/7/1998
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.
Director: Kelly James, Steve Socki
Writer: Jordana Arkin
- 8.0/10 2 votes
#24 - School Play
Season 3 Episode 38 - Aired 3/8/1999
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.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Steve Viksten
- 8.0/10 1 votes
#25 - Weird Cousin
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 10/9/1999
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A