Creator: Craig Bartlett
Air Dates: October 7th, 1996 - June 8th, 2004 (8 years)
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 100 (185 segments)
Episode Time: 23 minutes (two 11 minute segments)
Hey Arnold! is a cartoon that ran on Nickelodeon, and it starred a 9-year-old boy named Arnold who lives with his grandparents in their boarding house. He's known for his football-shaped head and big anime-like blond hair.
The show had a full cast of characters that consisted of kids in Arnold's class, his grandparents, boarding house tenants, and other characters.
However, episodes tended to focus on Arnold, his best friend Gerald, and Helga, a girl in his class who constantly picks on Arnold in order to cover up her secret crush on him. The show originally started out as a claymation series that was changed to cel-animation.Like a lot of cartoons at the time, many episodes had 2 eleven-minute segments. Here's one of the episodes to show an example. It's an episode from early Season 1 which contains "Arnold's Hat" and "Stoop Kid" segments.
Most kids who watched the show envied the really awesome bedroom he had with stereo, couch that collapsed into the wall, and a large sunroof.
It was a typical slice-of-life comedy cartoon, but there were moments where the show would go into more mature themes, like Arnold's missing (and possibly dead) parents, Helga's parents ignoring her over her seemingly perfect, successful big sister, or Helga's mom drinking "smoothies".
I very much enjoyed this show as a kid because it was fun seeing what kind of stuff the kids could get into and how, despite how some of them seem "bullyish", they all seem like good friends. I've always enjoyed shows with a big friendship theme, and this was no different. I like seeing that there's more to Helga G. Patatki than just a rough-n-tough girl who picks on Arnold a lot. I like that the adults in the show get some spotlight. Arnold's Grandparents run the boarding house they live in. I like seeing the tenants in Arnold's boarding house with their own problems they have to deal with.
According to an article on Variety, Nickelodeon plans on rebooting a lot of it's older shows, including Hey Arnold! They will launch the reboot with a TV movie that will pick up where the cartoon left off and will hopefully answer some questions that many fans have been wondering since the show ended, like the whereabouts of Arnold's parents and the status of Arnold and Helga's relationship. Perhaps, this could be the long-awaited "Jungle Movie" that fans have been asking for but never got made. I look forward to see what becomes of this and I hope this reboot will still have to same charm the original had.
Hey Arnold! Complete Series DVD Box SetSeasons: 5
Episodes: 100 (185 segments)
Episode Time: 23 minutes (two 11 minute segments)
The show had a full cast of characters that consisted of kids in Arnold's class, his grandparents, boarding house tenants, and other characters.
However, episodes tended to focus on Arnold, his best friend Gerald, and Helga, a girl in his class who constantly picks on Arnold in order to cover up her secret crush on him. The show originally started out as a claymation series that was changed to cel-animation.Like a lot of cartoons at the time, many episodes had 2 eleven-minute segments. Here's one of the episodes to show an example. It's an episode from early Season 1 which contains "Arnold's Hat" and "Stoop Kid" segments.
Most kids who watched the show envied the really awesome bedroom he had with stereo, couch that collapsed into the wall, and a large sunroof.
It was a typical slice-of-life comedy cartoon, but there were moments where the show would go into more mature themes, like Arnold's missing (and possibly dead) parents, Helga's parents ignoring her over her seemingly perfect, successful big sister, or Helga's mom drinking "smoothies".
I very much enjoyed this show as a kid because it was fun seeing what kind of stuff the kids could get into and how, despite how some of them seem "bullyish", they all seem like good friends. I've always enjoyed shows with a big friendship theme, and this was no different. I like seeing that there's more to Helga G. Patatki than just a rough-n-tough girl who picks on Arnold a lot. I like that the adults in the show get some spotlight. Arnold's Grandparents run the boarding house they live in. I like seeing the tenants in Arnold's boarding house with their own problems they have to deal with.
According to an article on Variety, Nickelodeon plans on rebooting a lot of it's older shows, including Hey Arnold! They will launch the reboot with a TV movie that will pick up where the cartoon left off and will hopefully answer some questions that many fans have been wondering since the show ended, like the whereabouts of Arnold's parents and the status of Arnold and Helga's relationship. Perhaps, this could be the long-awaited "Jungle Movie" that fans have been asking for but never got made. I look forward to see what becomes of this and I hope this reboot will still have to same charm the original had.
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