The Best Episodes of Hey Arnold! Season 2

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