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

Monkey Business

Phillip Van Dyke

Francesca Marie Smith

Jamil Walker Smith

Anndi McAfee

Justin Shenkarow

Steve Viksten

Tuck Tucker

Big Caesar

Eugene's Pet

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.

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

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

The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football.

Monkey Business

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