The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football.
The best episode of "Hey Arnold!" season 2 is "Save the Tree", rated 7.7/10 from 174 user votes. It was directed by Dan Povenmire and written by Joe Purdy. "Save the Tree" aired on 9/22/1997 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "New Teacher".
Arnold and the gang must stop Big Bob from chopping down the oldest tree in town.
Director: Dan Povenmire
Writer: Joe Purdy
When the kids make their new teacher, Mr. Simmons, quit his job, the replacement makes them realize what they lost.
Director: Dan Povenmire
Writer: Joe Purdy
Helga drinks a potion to lose all feelings for Arnold.
Director: Dan Povenmire
Writer: Craig Bartlett
Gerald's secret is revealed; he doesn't know how to ride a bike, so Arnold teaches him how.
Director: Tuck Tucker
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
Arnold and Gerald compete against Helga for the school newspaper.
Director: Stark Howell
Writer: Joe Purdy
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.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Steve Viksten, Jordana Arkin
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
After Arnold accidentally kills Eugene's fish with a yo-yo, he must do something to make up for it.
Director: Derek Drymon, George Chialtas
Writer: Antoinette Stella
An organ grinder's monkey kisses Helga, who's convinced she has caught 'monkeynucleosis'.
Director: Tuck Tucker
Writer: Steve Viksten
Arnold and Gerald do a spot of fishing, determined to catch the pond's biggest fish, the legendary "Big Caesar".
Director: Dan Povenmire
Writer: Craig Bartlett, Jonathan Rosenthal
Gerald and Arnold get on the case when Timberly loses her Barney-esque doll.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
The new girl is teased at school by Helga and the other girls, but she's soon accepted by everyone.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Steve Viksten
Arnold and Gerald send the neighborhood alien crazy as they broadcast a mock Halloween radio show.
Director: Jamie Mitchell
Writer: Craig Bartlett, Joe Purdy, Antoinette Stella
After Arnold saves Sid from an injury, Sid devotes himself to paying Arnold back with unending kindness.
Director: Stark Howell
Writer: Steve Viksten
Arnold and Gerald bunk off school, but their day is ruined by their fear of being found out.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Jim Ryan
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.
Director: Tuck Tucker
Writer: Joe Purdy
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.
Director: Tuck Tucker
Writer: Antoinette Stella
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.
Director: Stark Howell
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
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.
Director: Stark Howell
Writer: Steve Viksten, Danica Ivancevic
Gerald becomes an entrepreneur out of selling watches until the market becomes saturated.
Director: Derek Drymon
Writer: Lesa Kite
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
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.
Director: Larry Leichliter, Stark Howell
Writer: Steve Viksten
Helga's mother tries to let her and her father, Bob, bond.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Steve Viksten
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'.
Director: Kelly James, Steve Socki
Writer: Joe Purdy
Rhonda gets glasses and finds out what it is like to be a "Geek".
Director: Larry Leichliter
Writer: Antoinette Stella