7.7/10182 votes#1 - Save the Tree
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1997
Arnold and the gang must stop Big Bob from chopping down the oldest tree in town.
Director: Dan Povenmire
Writer: Joe Purdy
7.6/10178 votes#2 - New Teacher
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1997
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
- 7.5/10168 votes
#3 - Helga's Love Potion
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1997
Helga drinks a potion to lose all feelings for Arnold.
Director: Dan Povenmire
Writer: Craig Bartlett
- 7.6/10164 votes
#4 - Gerald's Secret
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/1997
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
7.5/10157 votes#5 - The Big Scoop
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/29/1997
Arnold and Gerald compete against Helga for the school newspaper.
Director: Stark Howell
Writer: Joe Purdy
- 7.5/10164 votes
#6 - Harold's Kitty
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 9/29/1997
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
- 8.3/10233 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.4/10155 votes
#8 - Eugene's Pet
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/1/1997
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
- 7.5/10157 votes
#9 - Monkey Business
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/6/1997
An organ grinder's monkey kisses Helga, who's convinced she has caught 'monkeynucleosis'.
Director: Tuck Tucker
Writer: Steve Viksten
- 7.5/10159 votes
#10 - Big Caesar
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 10/6/1997
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
- 7.5/10143 votes
#11 - Ransom
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/8/1997
Gerald and Arnold get on the case when Timberly loses her Barney-esque doll.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Jonathan Greenberg
- 7.4/10154 votes
#12 - Ms. Perfect
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 10/8/1997
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
- 7.6/10155 votes
#13 - Arnold's Halloween
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 10/27/1997
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
- 7.4/10179 votes
#14 - Arnold Saves Sid
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 10/13/1997
After Arnold saves Sid from an injury, Sid devotes himself to paying Arnold back with unending kindness.
Director: Stark Howell
Writer: Steve Viksten
7.7/10157 votes#15 - Hookey
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/13/1997
Arnold and Gerald bunk off school, but their day is ruined by their fear of being found out.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Jim Ryan
- 7.7/10167 votes
#16 - Freeze Frame
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 10/15/1997
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
- 7.8/10177 votes
#17 - Phoebe Cheats
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 10/15/1997
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
7.5/10150 votes#18 - Mud Bowl
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 10/20/1997
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
- 7.6/10145 votes
#19 - Gerald Moves Out
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 10/20/1997
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
- 7.6/10134 votes
#20 - The High Life
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 10/22/1997
Gerald becomes an entrepreneur out of selling watches until the market becomes saturated.
Director: Derek Drymon
Writer: Lesa Kite
- 8.0/101 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.0/101 votes
#22 - Steely Phil
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 10/29/1997
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
- 7.0/101 votes
#23 - Quantity Time
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 10/29/1997
Helga's mother tries to let her and her father, Bob, bond.
Director: Steve Socki
Writer: Steve Viksten
- 7.0/101 votes
#24 - Eating Contest
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 11/3/1997
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
- 7.0/101 votes
#25 - Rhonda's Glasses
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 11/3/1997
Rhonda gets glasses and finds out what it is like to be a "Geek".
Director: Larry Leichliter
Writer: Antoinette Stella
The Best Episodes of Hey Arnold! Season 2
Every episode of Hey Arnold! Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Hey Arnold! Season 2!
The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football.
Genres:FamilyAnimationComedyKids
Network:Nickelodeon
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Save the Tree" is the best rated episode of "Hey Arnold!" season 2. It scored 7.7/10 based on 182 votes. Directed by Dan Povenmire and written by Joe Purdy, it aired on 9/22/1997. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "New Teacher".