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Not looking forward to performing in Helga's "The Four Food Groups" musical, Arnold and Gerald decide to take the bus a few stops too many, but end up stuck downtown.

Downtown as Fruits

When Arnold accidentally ruins Eugene's new bike, he takes Eugene out on a day of fun, thinking that "every geek deserves his day".

Eugene's Bike

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.

The Little Pink Book

The kids are really looking forward to their field trip to the aquarium - especially when they remember the scary Lock Jaw from their last trip. But, when they get there, they see that Lock Jaw isn't really that scary. Arnold notices how neglected the old turtle looks, and returns later with Grandma to set it free.

Field Trip

An obsessed Helga steals Arnold's hat to complete her shrine to Arnold, which is hidden in the back of her closet. But, she notices how miserable Arnold is without his hat, and decides to give it back to him.

Arnold's Hat

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.

Stoop Kid

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.

Helga's Makeover

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?

The Old Building

Two girls from the sixth grade who are tired of the way that their boyfriends treat them, decide to take Arnold and Gerald to the school dance, but only to make their boyfriends jealous.

6th Grade Girls

Arnold's favorite baseball player is playing his last game, so he decides to go and see his last game. The only problem is that he winds up with terrible seats.

The Baseball

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.

Heat

Snow hits the city and Arnold can't wait to get out and have some fun... but wait, there's chores to be done... and when there done Arnold has the time of his life playing Hockey with the "crew."

Snow

At the Annual Cheese Fair, Helga tries her best to keep Arnold well away from Ruth - a girl who Arnold has a crush on.

Operation Ruthless

Arnold and friends decide to clear out a vacant lot to play baseball on, but the adults take over it, and use it for their own reasons.

The Vacant Lot

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.

The List

When the kids complain of being bored, Grandpa tells the story of the Haunted Train. So, the kids decide to go and see if the train exists for themselves.

Haunted Train

When Arnold gets mugged in the street, Grandma teaches him how to defend himself, but the training and fighting starts to get to his head.

Mugged

Grandpa, Arnold, and Gerald are all going on an old fashioned camping trip... until Big Bob, Helga, and Phoebe show up with luxurious camping equipment.

Roughin' It

All of the boarders get very curious to what is inside the very personal Mr. Smith's package.

Door #16

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.

Arnold as Cupid

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

Arnold's Christmas

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

Benchwarmer

An older cool guy befriends Arnold, but Arnold realizes that he is really a shoplifter.

Cool Jerk

Arnold and the gang have no choice but to take the subway home after dark.

Das Subway

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

Wheezin' Ed

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

Arnold the Tutor

Gerald goes to Arnold's place to meet the other residents.

Gerald Comes Over

Arnold and Helga compete on a Spelling Bee contest.

Spelling Bee

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

Pigeon Man

Helga decides to give her talented sister Olga a taste of reality by changing her grade in her report card.

Olga Comes Home

Arnold and Gerald must turn off all the lights in the city if they want to see Sally's Comet.

Sally's Comet

Arnold must find a way to recover his pig pet Abner after he runs away.

Abner Come Home

Arnold loses Grandpa's watch inside the sewers, so he must retrieve from The Sewer King.

The Sewer King

Eugene is accused of pulling the fire alarm. In the school court, the jury thinks Eugene is guilty except for Arnold, who believes there is a shadow of a doubt.

False Alarm

The kids try to get in the book of world records so much that they would do anything, including most people on a one-person bike and the longest game of Crack-The-Whip.

World Records

Arnold has a magic show and he makes a disappearing act and uses Helga as the person disappearing. Helga decides to play a trick and literally disappears. She bumps into a pole and has a dream on how the world would have been if she's gone.

Magic Show

Arnold hits Harold with a baseball, so Harold promises Arnold that he'll beat him the next day.

24 Hours to Live

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.

Arnold's Valentine

Arnold and the gang must stop Big Bob from chopping down the oldest tree in town.

Save the Tree

When the kids make their new teacher, Mr. Simmons, quit his job, the replacement makes them realize what they lost.

New Teacher

Helga drinks a potion to lose all feelings for Arnold.

Helga's Love Potion

Gerald's secret is revealed; he doesn't know how to ride a bike, so Arnold teaches him how.

Gerald's Secret

Arnold and Gerald compete against Helga for the school newspaper.

The Big Scoop

When Harold is walking in the street, he finds a kitty that belongs to an old lady and he takes it, but then everybody appears, and Harold has to surrender the kitty to the old lady.

Harold's Kitty

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.

Longest Monday

After Arnold accidentally kills Eugene's fish with a yo-yo, he must do something to make up for it.

Eugene's Pet

An organ grinder's monkey kisses Helga, who's convinced she has caught 'monkeynucleosis'.

Monkey Business

Arnold and Gerald do a spot of fishing, determined to catch the pond's biggest fish, the legendary "Big Caesar".

Big Caesar

Gerald and Arnold get on the case when Timberly loses her Barney-esque doll.

Ransom

The new girl is teased at school by Helga and the other girls, but she's soon accepted by everyone.

Ms. Perfect

Arnold and Gerald send the neighborhood alien crazy as they broadcast a mock Halloween radio show.

Arnold's Halloween

After Arnold saves Sid from an injury, Sid devotes himself to paying Arnold back with unending kindness.

Arnold Saves Sid

Arnold and Gerald bunk off school, but their day is ruined by their fear of being found out.

Hookey

Arnold and Gerald go around the city following "Porkpie", a mysterious man caught on film. They suspect, because of the clues, that Porkpie are planning to kill "Marty", who turns out to be Mr. Green.

Freeze Frame

In this variation of "The Tell-Tale Heart", Phoebe plagiarizes from a poetry book and uses one of the poems as her entry in a poetry contest. She wins, with her prize being a trophy resembling poet Emily Dickinson. Then, the trophy haunts Phoebe into confessing.

Phoebe Cheats

Wolfgang and his gang of fifth graders challenge Arnold and his friends to a football game, but he has to first persuade them that his plays are good enough for them to win.

Mud Bowl

Gerald, getting tired of his family bugging him, moves out of his home and into Arnold's boarding house, only to realize emancipation is not all it is cracked up to be.

Gerald Moves Out

Gerald becomes an entrepreneur out of selling watches until the market becomes saturated.

The High Life

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

Best Friends

Arnold's Grandpa enters a Chinese Checkers tournament to reclaim his pride lost forty years ago. Robby Fisher's name is a parody of Bobby Fischer.

Steely Phil

Helga's mother tries to let her and her father, Bob, bond.

Quantity Time

Arnold follows in his Grandpa's footsteps and competes in the annual block party eating contest. After much munching Old Football Head goes stomach to stomach with eating legend Seymour 'The Disposal'.

Eating Contest

Rhonda gets glasses and finds out what it is like to be a "Geek".

Rhonda's Glasses

Helga uses Stinky as her boyfriend to try to make Arnold jealous.

Helga's Boyfriend

Arnold develops a crush on Miss Felter, a substitute teacher, thinking he is having dinner at her house, only to realize that the one she invited was her fiance, whose name is also Arnold.

Crush on Teacher

Phoebe becomes hall monitor and asks Helga for tips. She becomes overwhelmed by the "power" and soon everyone wants the old Phoebe back, even Helga once she realizes Phoebe's also giving her detentions.

Hall Monitor

Harold runs away from his Bar Mitzvah, thinking he will retain his childhood this way.

Harold's Bar Mitzvah

Arnold and his friends get Coach Wittenberg to be their new bowling coach.

Coach Wittenberg

The ghost of a former boarding house resident is believed to have been causing strange occurrences in there when Arnold and Gerald find an old pair of glasses believing to have belonged to him.

Four-Eyed Jack

After finding out that his idol is a haughty, primped actor, Eugene sets out to become bad.

Eugene Goes Bad

Helga and Arnold fall asleep and have their own "parody/dream" of the opera Carmen.

What's Opera, Arnold?

Arnold and a descendant of his grandpa's arch enemy, Rex Smythe-Higgins, compete in a boat race.

Tour de Pond

Teachers of Arnold's school go on strike because of inadequate funding; He and his friends are on cloud nine, only to find out that every lost school day will be taken from their summer vacation.

Teachers' Strike

After creating an idea for a parade float, Arnold is confident of it showing up in a parade.

Runaway Float

A lounge singer moves into the Sunset Arms after renouncing his songwriter, who also moves there.

Partners

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.

Helga Blabs It All

As punishment for shoplifting a ham, Harold is forced to work for Mr. Green at his butcher shop for a week. Later, after his work shift to pay for it is over, he soon learns that he actually likes his new after-school job and doesn't want to stop working there, much to the dismay of Mr. Green.

Harold the Butcher

Arnold becomes a hot (and dangerous) hitter. He keeps injuring people everytime he swings the bat. Afraid of hurting more people, Arnold refuses to play ball. Mickey Kaline helps him out.

Dangerous Lumber

Mr. Hyunh has a talent for country singing, so Arnold and Gerald, after recording a CD with him at the local studio, become his managers and make him a big star, much to his dislike.

Mr. Hyunh Goes Country

Grandpa becomes tired of dealing with the boarding house and decides to sell. Arnold has to convince him how important it is for everyone to remain in the boarding house and what they would lose if it was sold.

Casa Paradiso

Gerald's voice is deepened after having his tonsils out, just a few days before the school recital.

Gerald's Tonsils

Sid pretends that Arnold's room is his, since he's ashamed of showing his real room to Lorenzo.

Arnold's Room

Patty challenges Helga to a fight after Helga gets on her last nerves by picking on her once too many.

Helga vs. Big Patty

Stinky's simple life changes after he becomes the surprise new spokesman for Ya-Hoo Soda.

Stinky Goes Hollywood

Olga gets engaged to a con man who does not exactly woo Helga as he did the rest of her family, but she decides to let the marriage happen so Olga can be miserable. But she is given a change of heart from Arnold, and attempts to stop it.

Olga Gets Engaged

Curly gets enraged after a minor playground mix up. He locks himself in the principal's office and refuses to come out.

Curly Snaps

Phoebe wins a chance to meet her favorite singer, only to find out that he doesn't write or sing his own songs.

Preteen Scream

Grandpa thinks he's going to die soon because no one in his family ever made it past his age. He prepares to die, and Arnold tries to convince him that life is still worth living.

Grandpa's Birthday

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

Road Trip

Principal Wartz gives Sid a detention believeing he placed fake vomit so he could trip over, even though it wasn't Sid who put it there. As a result, Sid seeks revenge and reates ""Revenge Doll"" of Wartz's face, like they do in tribes. He thinks he killed Wartz with the curse. Arnold thinks he's paranoid, even though there are a few clues hinting out that Wartz is dead.

Sid's Revenge

A roller coaster breaks down while Eugene and Arnold are at the top of its tallest drop.

Roller Coaster

After the results of an aptitude test are announced, Harold gains self-confidence and Helga feels dumber.

The Aptitude Test

Oskar gets a job as a newspaper carrier but uses Arnold as cover for his laziness.

Oskar Gets a Job

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.

Arnold Betrays Iggy

Bob hires a nanny to help Miriam around the house, much to Helga's dismay. From this moment on, Helga attempts to scare the nanny away.

Helga and the Nanny

A. All the kids are paired with adults with interesting jobs except Arnold, who is forced to spend time with the Jolly Olly, the Ice Cream Man.

Career Day

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

Hey Harold!

The Coach wants to remarry Tish and asks Arnold to be his best man. Along the way, Arnold teaches the coach a thing or two about love and sacrifice.

Best Man

Rhonda holds a cool-people-only party at her house. In retaliation, Arnold and his friends hold a "geek" party on the roof of his boarding house further up the street, leaving Rhonda's party deserted.

Cool Party

Helga, lost in a love reverie, writes 'Arnold loves Helga' on a wall, but changes the name to 'Lila' when the kids approach. Lila thinks that Arnold loves her until he explains the mistake. Then he falls for Lila and she is forced to break up with him.

The Best Seasons of Hey Arnold!

The Best Seasons of Hey Arnold!

Season 1

Season 2

Season 5

Season 4

Season 3