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• Adventitious Aesop:
  • "Mugged" is near not using self-defence force for revenge. There'south another lesson to be learned, though: since Arnold was wearing headphones and listening to a Walkman at the time, the aesop here could exist seen equally "E'er be aware of your surroundings." It could also be "never let your kids out alone afterwards dark" given that Arnold'due south age and the time of twenty-four hours besides made him more vulnerable.
  • Episodes where Arnold tries to become through to jerks who accept advantage of him, such as Helga, Oskar and Wolfgang: Y'all tin can't actually change someone or reason with them unless they actually do desire to reform.
  • "Total Moon". While obviously it is an aesop about guilt, it instead comes off every bit "Snitches get Stitches". Being unfairly punished for something you lot didn't do? Suck it upward and take it - considering information technology's more than important to not be a rat than to stand for what'south right. Justice will somewhen be served considering people volition feel guilty for seeing someone else take the autumn for them.
• Accidental Innuendo: Harold'south threats to "pound", as in beat up, people often come beyond every bit this.

  Harold: (later discovering Helga tricked them about the Ghost Bride) I say we pound her!

• Accommodation Displacement: The show started life as a segment on Sesame Street. There was also a serial of comic strips ◊ featuring the character in Simpsons Illustrated around the aforementioned time. (Matt Groening, creator of Simpsons, is Craig Bartlett's brother-in-constabulary.)
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Does Arnold coincidentally meet Helga all the time, or...
  • Is Olga genuinely trying to be a expert sister to Helga, or is she only a passive-ambitious version of Jamie O? It doesn't assistance that at least i Olga episode ("Educatee Teacher": when she tells the story of Helga wetting in the bed and gives her detention afterward she gets angry at other kids teasing her) almost seems to be written with this interpretation in heed.
    • And so there's this comment from the episode "Large Sis"...

      Olga: I just love having a little sis, Lila. Especially one equally perfect as you.

  • Exactly how much of Pookie's behavior is senior senility and how much is Obfuscating Insanity? And how much of it is influenced past what happened to her son and daughter-in-constabulary?
  • Lila creates a lot of unlike interpretations. There are elements to support her being either a manipulative Bitch in Sheep's Clothing hiding behind a mask of sweetness, or a Stepford Smiler trying to be as sweet and smart as can be while having a difficult life. Or peradventure it's both, and the latter lead to the erstwhile. Her beliefs in "Timberly Loves Arnold" suggests the sometime, while her audition scene in the post-obit "Eugene Eugene" suggests the latter. Word of God is that she has a repressed darker side (which was never shown in the serial); nonetheless, this only adds fuel to the fire. And so there's the Unrequited Love Switcheroo between her and Arnold, and Lila being the Principal of the Mixed Message. Some propose that she intentionally led Arnold on and gave him simulated hope (see: the end of "Dear and Cheese"), while others suggest that she genuinely got over him while still caring for him deeply, and turned Arnold'due south advances down to stay out of the fashion for Helga's sake.
    • Her attraction to Arnie. Is it a example of Birds of a Plume (Since he comes from the land like herself and can relate to him)? Or does she actually recognize that Arnie has Autism, while nobody else does, and sees some Hidden Depths? She does treat him nicer than she does Arnold, as in that location are no subtle manipulations in play.
  • How innocent are Helga's intentions with Arnold? Does she really love him? Or is her "love" really just an unhealthy stalker-like obsession? She always maintains a cruel, bullying persona whenever she confronts him considering she'due south terrified of him rejecting her. While it's understandable, it's not really excusable and there'south very lilliputian for Arnold to beloved if all he'south ever known is a petty, mean bully. She does selflessly do things for Arnold every now and so, only mostly she only helps Arnold out if it means he might render her angel, which ofttimes comes across as the Entitled to Have You mentality.
  • Large Bob Pataki. Abusive jerkass or just an ignorant boor who just doesn't understand how much trouble he'due south caused for his family? The latter characterization became steadily more than common from Season 2 and onward. In the first flavour, he was portrayed as pretty much devoid of redeeming qualities, only even in the later seasons he had more than a few Kick the Domestic dog moments.
  • A disturbingly common theory amongst fans is that the ending of "Pigeon Man" actually has the titular grapheme commit suicide, usually arguing that the scene of him being carried away by his loyal flock is really a traumatized Arnold reinventing things in his head to cope with seeing his new friend jump off of the roof. This was thoroughly, thoroughly jossed by show creator Craig Bartlett, and officially jossed in Hey Arnold! The Jungle Picture, which showed the Dove Man live and well, happily living with his flock...in Paris.
  • Is Eugene really jinxed? Every 1 of the misfortunes that befalls him are all in Arnold's presence, and sometimes fifty-fifty acquired by Arnold. Is Arnold inadvertently causing bad things to happen to Eugene? The episode "Eugene'southward Birthday" even examined this.
  • Did Arnold refuse to rat in "Full Moon" considering it "wouldn't exist right", or did he go along his mouth close considering he wanted Harold, Sid, and Stinky to come up make clean by themselves? So again, considering Wartz was existence a petty jerk to Arnold, even getting Arnold's proper name incorrect several times, and doesn't fifty-fifty offering him bounty for the time he's had to spend, mayhap he refused to snitch just to spite Wartz.
  • Does Arnold really want his peers to be better people or is he merely annoyed with them and wants them to modify? Some people would even get so far as to say his communication is but bluffing and he doesn't really practice what he preaches.

• Animation Historic period Ghetto: Very nicely averted, in that it did eventually deal with heavier themes, but ones that young children would still be able to chronicle to, and in an optimistic (if non sometimes odd) way. Its urban setting is said to be a huge contributing factor.
• Writer's Saving Throw: Iggy beingness re-Demoted to Extra after "Arnold Betrays Iggy", mainly to erase said episode from memory.
• Awesome Music: Pretty much the unabridged musical soundtrack, courtesy of Jim Lang.
  • In particular, the music tracks at the cease of "Arnold'southward Christmas", "Parents Day" and "Pigeon Man" are all amazing.
  • The iconic theme song likewise deserves a mention. Subsequently in the series run, they used a newer rendition of the theme vocal, which, while different, is just as jamming and archetype equally the original.
  • The endmost theme as well. In the credits to "The Baseball game", information technology was played on a stadium organ.
• Base of operations-Breaking Character:
  • Harold. You've got i one-half of the fanbase that will find him annoying and obnoxious. The other one-half will see him as the hilarious lovable loser.
  • Rhonda. Some find her to be an annoying Rich Bitch while others like her for her Pet the Dog moments she gives in "Rhonda's Spectacles" and "Polishing Rhonda."
  • Mr. Simmons. Most seem to similar him for being genuinely interested in the well-existence of his students and more interesting than Miss Slovak was. Others criticize him for being the ultimate case of Adults Are Useless since, despite having the qualities that are desirable in a good teacher, he demonstrates a complete disability to control his students and while he does mean well, his actions and advice often hurt the children more than they aid.
  • Erudite. Some fans call back his interactions with Helga are amusing, while others notice him weird and creepy, even for this evidence.
  • Curly is a like case. He'southward either hilariously cool because of his craziness, or he'due south just disturbingly insane, especially when it comes to his fixation on Rhonda.
• Broken Base:
  • Seasons 4 and v. Either they're considered a case of Growing the Beard for producing some more genuinely mature and heartfelt episodes while giving much needed Character Development to the supporting cast, or considered a instance of Seasonal Rot for turning Arnold into an Out of Focus Flat Character, overexposing Helga and focusing too much on the Arnold/Helga/Lila Dear Triangle.
  • For some, Arnold's Grapheme Development. Some call up information technology's him showing his maturity and condign wise beyond his years - while others call up he started becoming quite slow since in the afterwards seasons he was never wrong and essentially became the metropolis's adviser. It doesn't help that Spencer Klein'due south voicework is often monotonous (though he could pull off existent emotion when necessary.) and Arnold's facial expressions tend to exist express to looking moody and deadpan.
• Character Rerailment: The postal service-movie episodes are this for Arnold. He is once again the truthful focus and he's facing issues a existent child would face up the fashion a real kid would react to them. However, there are only three post-movie episodes and they aired Out of Order, then it can be tough to tell at first.
• "Common Knowledge":
  • Arnold wears a skirt or a kilt. It's so widespread a belief that the series itself mentioned it, with Rhonda mistaking Arnold for wearing a skirt. He'southward actually but wearing a long plaid shirt underneath his sweater.
  • Many swear that the series takes identify in NYC. Hillwood is inspired by many places merely information technology really takes place in Washington.
• Crazy Is Absurd:
  • Arnold's Grandma and Grandpa.
  • Also Arnold himself at the end of the episode "24 Hours to Live".
  • Curly, with the emphasis on crazy (and not a "cool, kooky" crazy either. More like a "This kid needs serious mental help" crazy). To elaborate, he once broke some animals out of a zoo - lone. Only because he wanted to.
  • Chocolate Boy can be this, too. Plainly, he's spent so much fourth dimension effectually chocolate that he can be used to literally sniff out Helga and Harold later on they get separated post-obit a tour at a chocolate tour (fabricated all the more impressive, because this was several hours after the duo had been lost). Made funnier considering he's literally put on a leash.
• Critical Research Failure:
  • A few on Romeo and Juliet in "Schoolhouse Play":
    • Everyone (including Mr. Simmons) acts every bit though the Concluding Kiss is the just kiss the lovers share and at that place's a lot of tension nigh it. Romeo and Juliet actually buss multiple times in the play ^note and have sex, but, similar virtually school productions of controversial plays, that was most likely omitted to keep things family-friendly. Additionally, in an attempt to persuade the potential Romeo actors, Simmons claims that said last kiss is "merely one pocket-size scene". If by "small" he means "pivotal and plot-relevant" so he'south correct.
    • Most glaringly, Lila claims that the moral of the play is "truthful love conquers all". Funny matter to say near a tragedy where the lovers are Driven to Suicide.
    • The play's performance too ends with Romeo and Juliet's deaths, when the actual play goes on to show the discovery of the bodies and the two grieving families' reconciliation. Even bold that a school product would exist cut for time, you wouldn't expect a kids' product to make the tragedy more than bleak and less hopeful than Shakespeare's original.
  • In "Roughin' Information technology" Phil claims moss e'er grows on the north side of trees. In reality moss doesn't care what direction of the tree it's on, it grows where the tree is the nigh moist.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • "Baby Oskar":
    • Oskar trying to bet Infant Oskar on a poker game.
    • Then, Oskar keeps knocking down an old lady when trying to get Babe Oskar to the hospital. And so, he does it again when he makes it there.
  • A scene in "Field Trip" has a security guard mocking a great white shark and and so falling into the tank.
  • "Oh expect, a dead owl. Breakfast!"
  • Harold eating the egg that he and Rhonda were supposed to nurture every bit their own young.
  • The monitor lizard eating the parrot in forepart of whole class. Disturbing? Yes! But in the middle of a poem? Hilarious!
  • In "Racing Mule", Oskar suggests that they should ship the donkey they bought to a glue factory. Mr. Hynuh says that'due south downright cruel and then asks how much the factory would be willing to pay them.
• Crossover Transport:
  • In the Nicktoon Summer commercials, Arnold was shipped with Debbie from The Wild Thornberrys. An unconfortable pairing if you lot know Arnold is 9, and Debbie 16 years old.
  • In the Nicktoon Summer commercial also had Plankton have a beat with Helga. Still unconfortable since Plankton is written as an adult as old every bit Mr. Krabs, while Helga is a child.
• Designated Hero: Arnold in the Lila episodes. We are supposed to experience bad for him because he never gets the girl, just his actions make him come off as a bit of an entitled jerk.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Helga. In the series she is a Jerkass Woobie who is horribly neglected by her parents, but who as well tin exist mean, selfish, rude (and fifty-fifty fell in some instances) does many things moved past jealousy and constantly bullies other kids (non only Arnold). However, despite that, many fanfics (peculiarly romantic fanfics) portray her about equally a saint. This happens more often than not because a lot of viewers encounter themselves in her, a sentiment amplified by her master character condition.
  • Curly to an extent, is this to fans also.
• Die for Our Ship: Lila gets this a lot from Arnold/Helga shippers.
  • In a way, Helga herself seems feel like this nearly her. She's mostly okay with Lila (she finds her ever-so-abrasive, not much more) as long every bit Arnold'south not around.

• Ensemble Dark Equus caballus:
  • Arnold's parents, Miles and Stella, are much more popular than you lot'd retrieve, because that they but appeared in two episodes for the longest fourth dimension.
  • One Shot Characters Stoop Kid, Dove Man and Dr. Bliss get mentioned very frequently, for having but 1 episode each.
  • Some of the other, less focused on kids such as Lorenzo, Nadine, Sheena, and Patty are fairly popular with the fans likewise.
• Epileptic Trees: There's a theory that has been thrown effectually that supposedly comes from someone with a psychiatric background who watched the serial and felt that Lila had signs of having been sexually driveling in the past. The reasons are cited as her speech patterns, way of dressing, and her politeness. It's ordinarily assumed her Missing Mom did it. Most fans don't honestly believe information technology but information technology's still cited frequently, though no i knows the exact source of the theory.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception:
  • Hillwood is not in New York Metropolis. The boondocks does have elements of NYC but it's in Washington land.
  • Arnold doesn't wear a skirt. It's just a long plaid shirt that's united nations-tucked and hangs below his sweater. This was mentioned in an official comic and he even takes off his sweater in a few episodes to reveal this (as seen here in "Cool Party"), but most people, specially non-fans, still remember he wears a skirt. Perhaps in response to this, Arnold'south redesign for The Jungle Flick makes it more obvious that it's a shirt.
• Fanfic Fuel: Craig Bartlett revealed enough details well-nigh the Jungle Movie and The Patakis, that many fanfic writers have written their own versions. Now that the Jungle Movie itself finally happened in 2017, it will be interesting to run across how much the fanfic authors got right.
• Fanon Discontinuity: The viii episodes that most fans can't stand up are "Daughter Trouble", "Bag of Money", "New Bang-up on the Cake", "Curly's Girl", "Egg Story", "Helga and the Nanny" ^note which is paired with the adjacent example and "Arnold Betrays Iggy", the final of which is almost unanimously considered to be the worst episode of the series.
• Friendly Fandoms: With fans of other Slice of Life shows, and particularly 90's Nicktoons.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • The bear witness actually has a Latin American following, with many fans of the prove from that part of the earth. You'll be likely to see comments, fanart, and more than from these fans in the region, but luckily they're about the same amount every bit their United states counterparts.
  • Information technology is one of the fondly remembered Nicktoons in Vietnam, mostly due to Mr. Hyunh.
• Growing the Bristles:
  • For the first half of season 1, the character designs weren't as detailed or consistent, and many characters such as Phoebe didn't have very divers personalities. By the second half of the flavor, nigh all characters had their "permanent" designs, and the writing got better, with fan-favorite episodes similar Pigeon Man and Arnold'southward Christmas. By the end of Flavor 2, the series had decided which characters to focus on, and seemed to accept a better idea of what it wanted to do.
  • To an extent, the latter one-half of the series is an improvement over the first one-half, due to further improvements to the animation, and the product crew getting the dark-green light to delve into some darker and more emotional stories, with episodes similar Helga on the Couch, Parents Day, and Arnold'due south Thanksgiving.
• Hard Truth Aesop: In the episode "Full Moon", Arnold sees Stinky, Sid, and Harold moon the principal, and ends up getting a month detention because he doesn't want to be 'a rat' for telling.

  Harold: Y'all told him, didn't you?!
  Arnold: (deadpan) No.
  Harold: (in atheism) Well, why non?!?!
  Arnold: Because it wouldn't be correct.

• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • At the cease of "The Flood", every bit floodwaters surroundings PS 118, Principal Wartz stands on the roof of the school singing, "Way down yonder, in New Orleans..." This became a lot less funny later on Hurricane Katrina caused extensive flooding and harm in New Orleans in 2005.
  • In "Casa Paradiso", Suzie shows anybody a slideshow of all the practiced times she and Oskar had at the boarding firm in an effort to convince Grandpa not to sell it. One of the pictures is the day they moved in which happened to be their wedding ceremony day. Suzie asks "Come across how happy we were?" prompting Ernie to quip "That didn't last, did it?" In The Jungle Moving picture, Suzie is non shown in any of the boarding house scenes. Give-and-take of God all merely confirmed that the Kokoshkas are divorced and that Suzie moved out, unable to stand Oskar anymore.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In "Eating Competition," Grandpa declares "By Odin's bristles!" in cliffhanger after seeing Seymour aka the Disposal, Arnold's principal competition in the titular competition, in action. Granted, this was a common utterance of The Mighty Thor's long before the episode aired, but it didn't experience a memetic resurgence until Marvel vs. Capcom 3 came forth.
  • "Olga Gets Engaged" revolves around Olga falling in love with and getting engaged to a guy Helga disapproves of and who happens to be a Jerkass. Frozen (2013) would do the exact same thing years later on, merely with the seniority of the sister reversed.
  • "The Old Edifice" opens with Arnold dreaming about swinging across the city, coming in on a wrecking ball.
  • The stop of "The Listing" has Grandma sing a pep-up vocal to Arnold after he spent the residue of the episode as The Chew Toy. Arnold's office has him say "I had a bad day, nothing went right, I detest my dumb life, I'm downward," with the same melody as Daniel Powter'southward "Bad Solar day". The episode came out in 1996, while the song was recorded in 2002. Makes you wonder if the latter got information technology from the former, or if information technology'south simply an amazing coincidence.
  • Mr. Simmons bears a very uncanny resemblance to Kevin Sutherland, another character in a Slice of Life show who is implied to be gay.
  • In "Quantity Time", Helga and her dad go to see Rats, a parody of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, and they laugh at it, calling information technology the stupidest matter they ever saw. Then the film version came out, and everyone had the same reaction every bit them.
• Idiot Plot: "Arnold Betrays Iggy". The entire conflict rides on Arnold accidentally letting slip that he saw Iggy wearing bunny pajamas. Not just was the sole reason it got out because of a expressionless lucky gauge by Sid and Stinky based on Arnold's reaction, no one had physical proof yet anybody took Sid's and Stinky's discussion equally fact, with Iggy not doing much to convince anyone that it was simply a hoax or something. Furthering this, Iggy holds the Conflict Brawl and places the blame solely on Arnold even later Iggy realizes the truth (by overhearing Sid and Stinky explicitly admit they were at fault and Arnold did nothing incorrect).
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Oh, Helga. Where practise nosotros start? "Helga on the Couch" shows us that her ill-tempered nature has terribly saddening origins— her parents neglect her in favor of Olga, and have since she was 5 or six years onetime (possibly longer), the other kids in pre-schoolhouse were mean to her for no reason, and pretty much no i except Arnold treats her nicely. As a result, she starts bullying the other kids to avoid being bullied herself and falls in love with Arnold, only bullies him too so no one will detect out how she feels (this is because A) she doesn't think she's attractive enough for Arnold to return her feelings and B) because prepubescent children are oftentimes repulsed by love and mock people for it). Essentially, she treats people desperately because that'south how people accept always treated her. Many episodes where she tries to antagonize other characters end with Helga humiliated and miserable; showing that while she doesn't deserve to get away with what she was trying to exercise, it'southward yet easy to feel distressing for her.
  • While she's not much better than her married man, it's hard non to feel at least a little bit sorry for Miriam once y'all find out about her past. She's unsaid to have been The Ace when she was younger, a world-class swimmer, a mechanical bull-riding champion and knows enough about business organization that she can run the Beeper Emporium much ameliorate than Big Bob. Nonetheless, somewhere along the line she flushed all her hopes and dreams downward the drain and married Bob for whatever reason. Everyone treats her like clay and not even her own daughter has whatever respect for her, so she becomes an alcoholic just to cope. She fifty-fifty tells Olga during her date episode not to brand the same mistakes she did.
  • Jolly Olly Human being, the ice cream vendor though some had a hard time understanding his frustration acquired past only a tiresome chore, and his problems keeping it which may have something to practice with his jerkassery which delves into Nightmare Fuel. It's not skillful for the business organisation if you deed like a raging psychopath even with your customers. And he had no thought what'southward incorrect with his behavior. Arnold had to teach him the nuts of common courtesy. And there's as well the fact he has a horrible father who constantly gives him crap for their business. Even the episode ends with the two not resolving their issues.
    • "Phil's Packard" shows that he conspicuously has some kind of genuine mental affliction as he believes that his dog was laughing at him and that Phil deliberately ran him off the road. Yep, he's probably the biggest jerk in the series, but it's hard not to see that he's a human being in existent need of some kind of mental assistance.
  • Harold has his moments too in some episodes such as "Weighing Harold", where he's constantly ridiculed by everyone, including his own friends of all people, for being overweight. Non to mention Mr. Green being style as well cruel to him in "Harold the Butcher" one time he realized that Harold really liked working in the butcher shop.
  • Sometimes, Oskar Kokoshka gets his moments, as he's oftentimes implied to be enlightened of his many, many flaws and the negative impact they have on people he cares about (especially his wife), merely just can't seem to improve himself, even when he wants to.
  • As widely disliked as Sid is, seeing him weep subsequently his beatle boots were stolen in "Monkeyman!" really tugs at the center strings.
  • In "Crabby Writer", Arnold speculates in-universe that his favorite writer, Agatha Caufield, may be one, suffering from something that made her lose religion in both her writing and herself. The story she ends upwards writing afterward implies that he may not be that far off the mark.
  • As much as Iggy deserved what he got by the end of his episode, the fact that he all the same realized his mistake and will accept to live with it can get in hard to fully enjoy what he's been brought down to, or at worst, have Arnold come up off as being almost as bad as him.
• Memetic Mutation:
• Love to Detest: Sid's tendency to ham it up makes him fun to watch, fifty-fifty if he is an unlikable character.
• Memetic Psychopath:
  • Helga's detractors (and the internet in general) take a field day exaggerating her Stalker with a Crush tendencies.
  • Lila also has a trend to be portrayed every bit this due to her over-the-top sweet, unintentional manipulative behavior and the fact that Craig Bartlett confirmed that she has a repressed dark side due to her hard life.
• Misaimed Fandom: Some fans' Dice for Our Transport sentiments for Lila count as this. Lila tends to get hate for existence Arnold'southward crush throughout the final part of the series and "getting in the fashion of Arnold/Helga". Which is odd, considering Lila did zero but gently and repeatedly turn Arnold down (and information technology was Arnold who kept trying to get close to her, and ended up disappointed as a result. Lila never tried to intentionally injure his feelings), and is nothing merely helpful to Helga, letting her osculation Arnold and keeping her hugger-mugger rubber.
• My Existent Daddy: A vocalism actor variation. The evidence's cast was great and extremely memorable, so this was jump to happen. And while some of the boys were voiced by multiple actors, in a few cases, one would last long enough or have a big enough impact in the function that they're remembered as the player who voiced him, despite having just been one of several:
  • Ben Diskin is normally remembered equally the Eugene, despite having been the third actor to voice him; he lasted three seasons in the part, and was the but one of the four boys who played him to have connected with voice interim subsequently hit puberty, thus establishing Eugene as one of the "quantum" roles of his career.
  • Adam Wylie was so memorable equally Curly that he was brought back to the office after having been replaced - twice. In fact, of the four actors to vocalization Curly, two of the others merely lasted for one episode each, and the third (Michael Welch) appeared in only 2.
  • Arnold himself is unclear. There have been a total of seven Arnolds (counting the theatrical pilot and the Time-Shifted Actor). Out of those seven, two accept a pretty good claim to being the "real" Arnold:
    • Lane Toran (and then known and credited as Toran Caudell) was the first Arnold on the show proper ^note J.D. Daniels voiced him in the pilot, which was only shown in theaters and but lasted one season in the office (though he subbed in for Phillip Van Dyke in the season 2 Musical Episode "What'south Opera, Arnold?" because Van Dyke wasn't a confident vocalizer). He is also as such often linked to the before more emotive and flawed characterisation of Arnold. Even after his voice bankrupt, he remained with the show for its entirety as the bully Wolfgang, a part created specifically for him. Due to First Installment Wins, he'south oftentimes remembered as "the" Arnold by the media - in 2015, a widely-reported story (with pictures!) noted how "the phonation of Arnold" was all grown up. Toran is as well oft invited to fan conventions and panels reminiscing nigh his time on the show, alongside Francesca Marie Smith; he even appeared on the official Hey Arnold! console at the 2022 SDCC alongside the current Arnold (Mason Vale Cotton), the but past Arnold to practice so. He also returned to provide voice piece of work for The Jungle Moving picture ^annotation as a new grapheme, Che, who is office of Eduardo's men and a 2d beloved interest for Olga and is, in one case again, the only past Arnold who made an appearance in the movie even though both Phillip Van Dyke and Spencer Klein played the role longer than Toran did (though to be off-white, those 2, forth with Alex Linz, accept long since retired from show biz).
    • Spencer Klein, unlike both Toran and Van Dyke, appeared merely every bit Arnold (he was replaced very late into the show's run, so Craig Bartlett didn't take time to recast him as somebody else, equally he had done for the other two), and fabricated the most appearances every bit the Football Caput ^note He's Arnold for 37 of the show'due south 100 episodes plus the starting time pic, as opposed to 34 for Van Dyke, 26 for Toran, 3 for Alex D. Linz and the second movie for Mason Vale Cotton. Each of the iv voice actors portrayed Arnold slightly differently, only Klein's overtly romantic, serious, sensitive, and somewhat exaggerated goody-goody take on the graphic symbol is how he is commonly depicted in fanfiction.
• Narm Charm: Helga'southward dream in "Married", particularly the hilariously corny love talk. Simply information technology's as well rather sweet at the same fourth dimension.
• Never Alive Information technology Down:
  • Iggy. In most episodes, he's simply a background character, with but i or two notable lines at nigh. "Arnold Betrays Iggy", his 24-hour interval in the Limelight, volition forever accept him be known for all of the (well-deserved) negative tropes on this page.
  • Skillful luck finding anyone who will forgive Harold for wrecking Pigeon Man's home.
  • Besides, skillful luck finding someone that will forgive Big Bob for calling Arnold an orphan in "Parents Solar day", even though he's arguably done worse than that in other episodes.
  • Detractors of Helga frequently cite "Daughter Trouble", "Love and Cheese" and "Helga and the Nanny" equally reasons why they dislike her.
• Older Than They Think: "Helga vs. Big Patty" centers around Patty challenging Helga to a fight and Helga being scared shitless and trying to back out of information technology. Patty already beat her up twice in "Ms. Perfect" and so while information technology would still be painful, she should at least know what to expect by now.
• One-Scene Wonder: Hitler's cameo in "Veterans Day".
• Popularity Polynomial: The prove was quite pop among kids when it was airing, simply due to a combination of the poor reception of the first Film, and the cancellation of both The Jungle Movie (which was meant to serve as a Thou Finale for the series) and The Patakis spinoff show, the series quietly ended (with several shelved episodes being released sporadically for a few years) and its fanbase went dormant. But in 2009, around the fourth dimension when the kids who grew up with the show became adults, a fan effort to save the never-produced Jungle Moving-picture show was started. The launch of NickRewind in 2011 further increased the involvement in the serial. By 2012, talk on social networks near the series had dramatically increased. Nowadays, the series is fondly remember equally one of Nick's top 90s shows. Nickelodeon is very aware of the boost in popularity the series experienced in the early 2010s. This eventually led to them announcing that the long-awaited Jungle Motion picture would exist finally made, in an attempt to Win Back the Crowd after some rough years, while also introducing the show to a new generation of kids.
• Realism-Induced Horror: The episode "Mugged". At the outset of the episode, Arnold is assaulted and robbed by a random hoodlum while walking dwelling house. And it's a frighteningly realistic delineation of what it'south like to be in that situation. And worse, this happens all the time in real life.
  • Paranoia Fuel kicks in because that Arnold was listening to his walkman with headphones when he was assaulted. In existent life, people who wear headphones/earbuds are peculiarly vulnerable to assaults or robberies since they can't hear someone sneaking up on them.
• Ron the Death Eater:
  • While Lila is portrayed in the series as a nice girl, many fanfics tend to demonize her, portraying her every bit a fell, Manipulative Bitch (or in T-rated fics, as a slut) who deliberately gets in the way of Arnold and Helga. The fact that Craig Bartlett says that Lila had a repressed dark side simply adds fuel to these types of fanfics, even though he also clarified that she's non a bad person, her trying besides hard to repress her dark side is meant to parallel Helga who tries likewise hard to repress her good side.
  • While non to the extent of Lila, Rhonda ofttimes has her Rich Bitch qualities cranked Up to Xi.
  • Many of the more grimdark fanfictions portray Large Bob as a physically abusive father, despite that in the series, he was horrified that he nearly hurt Helga in "Arnold'south Halloween". Near of his redeeming moments, such as in "Arnold's Thanksgiving" and "Quantity Fourth dimension" are likewise ofttimes ignored.
  • Much similar how some of her fans portray her as nearly flawless, some of Helga's haters exaggerate her bad qualities and ignore her good ones, turning her into a full-blown, stereotypical Yandere who wants to seriously harm Arnold and his friends. Rather than the Tsundere with some mild Yandere qualities that she's portrayed as in the show.
• The Scrappy:
  • Lila toward the finish of the series. While she's not universally hated by any means, you'd be hard-pressed to find people that are honestly fans at this fourth dimension. Her being an irritating parody Purity Sue didn't end her from having a fanbase in Seasons 2 and 3, (hell, she was really The Woobie when she first debuted!) It was mainly due to the Romantic Plot Tumor love triangle of Seasons 4 and 5 (and the inevitable Die for Our Ship sentiments accompanying it) that pushed her into Scrappydom.
  • Similar to Lila is Olga, Helga'due south older sister. The show established some Hidden Depths with her, however it also fabricated her a hypocrite who goes out of her way to get her parent'due south attending. Not to mention she doesn't seem to grasp the extent of Helga'due south Parental Neglect nor does she seem to follow through with promises she made to Helga. For example, in "Student Instructor", Helga pleaded with her to keep any embarrassing stories out. Olga either forgets, or deliberately tells an embarrassing story to the class after Stinky fails a exam. And sends Helga to detention afterwards.
  • Iggy from the episode "Arnold Betrays Iggy". It doesn't help that the episode itself ends on the note that Iggy has gone beyond Arnold'due south forgiveness.
  • Gerald's picayune sister Timberly gets a lot of hate in fandom mainly for being really abrasive and whiny and is normally hindering Arnold and Gerald's plans in any episode where she plays a cardinal role. The best case of this is the "Chocolate Turtles" episode.
  • Sid from flavor three onward. During this time he Took a Level in Jerkass and became a Poisonous Friend who betrays everyone at the drop of a hat, makes fun of Harold and Patty like a Jerkass, and everyone forgets he pulls the aforementioned thing over, and over, and over again. Whenever Sid gets A Mean solar day in the Limelight, it highlights how weird and off-kilter he is, and not in a likable way either. "Pocketbook of Money" is the almost notable example of why Sid is oft disliked. The crew actually took note of this and made him more likable in The Jungle Pic.
  • For the aforementioned reasons equally Sid, Stinky is also this. Like Sid, he was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap in The Jungle Moving picture.
  • Principal Wartz also has quite a few haters for acting similar a tyrannical douchebag and being far too cruel to both the students and the teachers when giving out punishments. (See: "Instructor's Strike", "Full Moon", "Chief Simmons" and "Suspended")
  • Similar only to a lesser extent is Passenger vehicle Wittenburg, who seems to suffer from Aesop Amnesia regarding his hyper-competitive nature in every appearance he makes.
• Self-Fanservice: Very common in fan art, especially Helga (who will ordinarily exist older, lacking her monobrow, wearing her hair downwards and having feminine curves) and Arnold (who will also be older, his hair often slicked back and volition be wearing more stylish clothing). This is 1 of the many examples you lot'll find through a quick Google search ◊. (though Arnold has his normal hairstyle in this one).
• Transport-to-Ship Combat:
  • Lila/Arnie vs Lila/Stinky vs Lila/Brainy vs Lila/Eugene.
  • Stinky/Lila vs Stinky/Gloria.
  • Rhonda/Curly vs Rhonda/Harold vs Rhonda/Sid.
  • Harold/Patty vs Harold/Rhonda.
• Signature Scene:
  • Whenever fans think of the episode "Pigeon Human being", they call back of Vincent'south speech communication and have-off at the end.
  • The ending of "Parents 24-hour interval".
  • "Helga on the Couch" is mostly remembered by the preschool flashback.
  • The concluding line of "The Journal" ("Grandma! Grandpa! I establish a map!") is remembered for the... incorrect reasons. Thankfully, with the release of The Jungle Movie in 2017, that wrong was finally righted.
• Special Effects Failure: At that place are several scenes in the start several episodes where a character talks and their mouth doesn't move.
  • In "Arnold'due south Hat" after Grandad finishes telling his story, Arnold can be seen with his hat in one frame, despite the fact that the episode is supposed to be nigh how he lost it.
  • In "Wheezin' Ed" and "Phoebe Skips", nosotros get some egregious views under her sweater, she's not wearing annihilation and permit's just say something'southward missing. Give-and-take of God says she doesn't wearable anything under that sweater, but it was quite clear that these were mistakes.
• Squick:
  • Arnie's snorting is pretty gross.
  • Erudite making those wheezing noises isn't too much amend.
  • It understandably never made it into the show, but an early idea past Craig Bartlett was that there was supposed to exist an adult female boarder named Lana who was supposed to exist constantly trying to seduce Arnold while Arnold is understandably uncomfortable with her advances. She can be seen in the background of early episodes and has a speaking part in "Heat".
  • The monitor lizard eating the parrot at the stop of "Helga's Parrot" is incredibly agonizing, specially for younger viewers.
• Stock Parody Jokes:
  • Arnold's grandparents are actually his parents considering of his football-shaped head.
  • Grandpa Phil's head looks like a penis.
  • Helga is an farthermost Tsundere.
  • Arnold is Child Jesus and redeems everyone, fifty-fifty the evilest people.
• Take That, Scrappy!:
  • In "Gerald's Game", Iggy is put in stockades during the big carte du jour game, and actually gets a speaking function (same VA as in "Arnold Betrays Iggy", in fact) shouting at Arnold "No, Arnold! Don't do it! Y'all'll become a dungeon pawn!", at which bespeak Big Gino tells him to shut up and throws a material over the stocks, completely covering Iggy'southward face.
  • Anytime Big Bob is put through a Humiliation Conga: such equally in "Roughin' It", "Parents Mean solar day" and "Summertime Beloved."
  • Stinky beingness told by Arnold to close up in "Weird Cousin."
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Grapheme:
  • Though many of Arnold'south classmates accept A Day in the Limelight, Sheena never received her ain episode.
  • Nadine was pretty much ignored unless she was around Rhonda despite having an established personality in her few appearances and being featured prominently in the show's opening sequence. According to the leaked plot details of the original Jungle Pic, Nadine would finally be fleshed out a little more than, but the revived film did not do this, equally Nadine only has a couple of lines, though her bugs prove useful when escaping from the pirates' clutches.
  • Poor Brainy never got a chance to actually polish either, despite Discussion of God establishing that he and Helga have more in common than we might think.
  • Many of the boarders who appeared but in season 1 such equally Lana Vail, Mr. Purdy, and Mr. Smith could've been good characters had they lasted the show'southward run. Later seasons imply that they all moved out. The former was supposed to be more fleshed out, but considering what Bartlett supposedly had planned for her (an implied pedophile who would frequently flirt with Arnold), it'southward lucky that information technology never happened.
  • Ruth has this condition with some fans, particularly those who preferred her over Lila. She even had some transport teasing with Sid in "Operation Ruthless" and "Hey Harold!", it'southward a shame that information technology never amounted to annihilation.
  • Torvald only made two appearances despite apparently still existence in Arnold's class (he isn't usually seen in classroom scenes). What's worse is that his role as the older kid Held Back in Schoolhouse was given to Harold despite existence in preschool with the other kids and clearly looking younger than Torvald.
  • Suzie never really played much of a role in the series other than as a Satellite Beloved Interest to Oskar.
  • Nosotros never found out who was Fuzzy Slippers, Gerald's mysterious informant.
  • Chloe from "Gerald Vs Jamie-O" could take been a potentially interesting graphic symbol if the reasons backside her desire to be seen every bit "mature for her historic period" enough to snag an older guy for a beau were explained, simply the episode ended without any such explanation and Chloe never reappeared except for a cameo in the Film.
  • After all the trouble Arnold and Helga went through to find her, Mai Hyunh never appears after "Arnold's Christmas" and is only mentioned once again in "Family Homo", which was in Flavor 5. She does return in The Jungle Movie, but simply as a background character.
  • Word of God mentions that Lila has a dark side she keeps repressed, much like how Helga represses her good side, but this is never actually explored, even though doing and so would have made Lila a more interesting character and a more sympathetic one since how and why her night side was born would be very obvious to anyone who had watched her debut episode. Merely sadly we're stuck with but a directly Pollyanna rather than a deconstruction of one. Simply in "Timberly Loves Arnold / Eugene Eugene", her last appearance in the testify before she was Demoted to Extra, do we become any hints at Hidden Depths, and, you lot know, it was her last major role, and then it was too little, besides late.
  • Dr. Elation never makes another appearance later on "Helga on the Couch" even though finally providing an aversion to There Are No Therapists and giving Helga much-needed psychiatric help. Their sessions might take provided even more grapheme development for Helga, eventually resulting in her dropping her Jerkass facade in favor of a more salubrious approach to her struggles. What makes her example stand up out is that, different many Darkhorses who disappeared without caption, she did not come up Dorsum for the Finale (non that there would have really been a reason for her to do so). She does, notwithstanding, promise Helga more sessions at the end of the episode, implying that Helga however sees her offscreen.
  • The only time that Iggy ever got a spotlight was in the hated "Arnold Betrays Iggy". He was never used again after that episode, most probable due to negative fan reaction to the character afterwards this episode. Nonetheless, some feel similar they wasted a opportunity to try to redeem the character after that episode, especially since they thought that information technology was more than Sid and Stinky's fault for the incident rather than Iggy'southward.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The rare times we meet Sid's business firm, it's shown to exist unkempt and broken down, implying that his family unit struggles financially. This was never brought upwardly or used as a plot bespeak in any of the testify's episodes. In fact, information technology would've done a good job of explaining Sid'south attitude towards Arnold after losing the purse of money they establish in the titular episode and making him seem like less of a Jerkass.
• Toy Ship: Every aircraft in the serial. The most pop ones are Arnold/Helga and Gerald/Phoebe. Although they're canonically children in the show, fanfiction writers unremarkably creepo up their ages to brand the story more appropriate. Averted in The Jungle Movie, where Arnold/Helga and Gerald/Phoebe both officially assemble, but as they're inbound the sixth grade at the terminate of the film, they're just old enough to be at the age where a lot of kids have their start romantic relationships, albeit usually non ones with the intensity of the epic and passionate Arnold/Helga send.
• Ugly Cute: Helga to many. In fact, nearly of the characters could qualify due to the whacky art manner.
• Uncanny Valley: Arnie is an intentional embodiment of this. Paleness, blank eyes, Creepy Monotone vocalization, more realistic facial features than Arnold and odd quirks.
• Unintentional Menstruation Piece:
  • While the show has managed to stay relatively timeless, in that location are spots where information technology does show that it is a product from The '90s. Information technology'southward not too uncommon to run across audio cassettes, VHS tapes, VCRs, boomboxes, and former TV sets (plus, the show'southward artists seems to take a weird obsession with old cars and rotary phones). One episode has Helga mentioning Court TV which was rebranded into truTV in 2008. The nigh telling sign that this show takes place in the late 90s is Big Bob's Beeper Emporium. Toward the end of the show's run, beepers — the very foundation of Bob's business empire — were already being supplanted past cellphones. ^note Though In-Universe, cellphones exercise exist. Helga and Lorenzo are seen with flip phones. This is after lampshaded in one of the first scenes in The Jungle Movie where it'south shown Bob is having trouble selling his beepers considering, every bit Helga points out, anybody has cellphones now.
  • The episode "Arnold'south Christmas" clearly happened earlier the cyberspace became a affair. Nowadays, with the power of social networks, finding lost relatives and people you haven't seen in decades is much easier (though there might exist some added difficulty, every bit non everyone has an account on a social network for a diversity of reasons: limited access to a computer, afraid of being bullied/stalked/harassed online, thinks social media is overrated, is a recluse, etc).
  • Additionally, one episode has Gerald telling Arnold that he'll call him after, proverb that he'll ring twice ^note (ring, hang upwardly after one band, immediately re-telephone call, a Truth in Tv set technique for phones without caller IDs) to let Arnold know it's Gerald calling. Caller IDs are standard for phones nowadays.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • The Running Gag of Brainy appearing behind Helga and breathing down her neck only to exist punched is Played for Laughs - just "Helga on the Couch" has her called out for it being Troubling Unchildlike Behavior. And while it is indeed, Brainy is also pretty much stalking Helga - in fact Helga even asks how he tracked her down to that specific alleyway, and Erudite doesn't answer. Her punching Brainy may not so much exist double standard violence, but her only defending herself from a Stalker with a Shell. Something she has every right to.
  • In "Rhonda Goes Broke" we are supposed to see Rhonda's reaction to having to live in the boarding house equally Wangst, and while she is way too whiny near how she tin can't become on vacation and non having new dress, her and her parents at present had to share a tiny room with a single mattress that was in disrepair. Plus, despite the rest of the rooms in the house looking fine this was apparently the worst room in the house, was infested with mice and the food Arnold's Grandma cooked already was unclean and had bites taken out of it. Whether or non they could beget better, the fact is the room they were forced into because of their financial situation was not just not glamorous, but dangerous. Rhonda and her parents had every right to be upset that their spare room had no upkeep done on it.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • In "Helga and the Nanny", Big Bob hires a new nanny to assistance around the business firm. Helga evidently finds this annoying since she'due south pretty much been taking care of herself since kindergarten, but the nanny goes down a striking with her parents, the kids at school like her and Helga is given the What the Hell, Hero? treatment for getting her fired. But the thing is, Inga constantly embarrasses Helga and treats her like a dumb child, similar forcing her into a dress that gets her teased by the other kids, overall trying to command all aspects of her life. Though information technology was wrong for Helga to go frame her for theft, information technology's understandable why she would want Inga out of her life.
  • Arnold in "Egg Story". He immediately assumes Helga is going to get-go picking on him and lays downward the law and tells her she'due south the terminal person he'd like to be paired up with, which makes Helga (understandably) angry. This leads to both of them arguing until the terminate of the episode, where they admit they were both incorrect. All the same, Arnold had no good reason for existence so harsh on her, since Helga did nothing to him in the beginning of the episode, and at this point in the series, they've gotten along and worked together several times, and he already knows she's not every bit bad as she acts. Not to mention information technology only feels Out of Character for Arnold to say those things to anyone at all. On the other paw, with how many times Helga has been mean to him in the by, it's debatable whether she'southward totally undeserving.
  • Pretty much every child in "Curly's Girl". Everyone immediately hates Rhonda after she dumps Curly in public (which, admittedly, was cruel on her part, though she had a proficient reason for wanting to do then — he blackmailed her into being his girlfriend in the starting time place) and makes him depressed. However, no one bothers to ask for her side of the story (not even Squeamish Guy Arnold or her best friend Nadine) and they have Curly's side instead, despite (or mayhap fifty-fifty considering of) the fact that Curly is clearly mentally unstable. Not to mention Curly pretty much TV-Y7 sexually harasses Rhonda by blackmailing her into kissing him, which she is clearly not comfortable with.
  • Gerald in "Gerald vs Jamie-O". While he's understandably annoyed at his Big Brother Corking Jamie-O constantly steals his stuff, when Chloe starts showing more involvement in Jamie-O than him, he rants nigh how Jamie-O is "trying to steal Chloe, just similar he stole my shirt!" as if Chloe is an object with no free will of her own. While information technology'south truthful Chloe was leading him on, Chloe eventually has to step in and tell Gerald she was merely hanging out with him to get close to Jamie-O and apologises, only nobody calls Gerald out on acting like he was Entitled to Take You where Chloe was concerned.
  • Suzie can come off as this to some. While the audience is supposed to sympathise with her having an young, slacker married man in Oskar, it tin be hard to feel sorry for her when she continuously forgives him (||at least until *The Jungle Movie*||) in spite of information technology being abundantly articulate that he regresses to his conman ways at the end of each episode. Additionally, the fact that she's been shown to throw plates at Oskar, while he's never been shown or implied to do the aforementioned affair, can make her seem even crueler than him.
  • Helga and Brainy can come up off as this fashion for their stalking behaviour. While it never goes into full on Stalking Is Funny If It Is Female After Male territory, neither of them are truly called out for their Troubling Unchildlike Behavior save for one line in "Helga on the Burrow". (Dr. Bliss hears near Helga's Stalker Shrine but and so asks "Wait, did you say 'used gum'?")
• Unpopular Popular Character:
  • Eugene'south peers (bar Arnold) ostracize him for being a jinx and existence all around unlucky. Nevertheless, he has a lot of fans for his charming personality.
  • Helga is widely disliked by the same peers for being a cracking, but due to her grapheme evolution she'south arguably the most popular character in the show as well as the Breakout Character.
• Values Dissonance:
  • The whole "back of the jitney" episode didn't make sense for some kids that didn't however learn almost Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement, since they lived in places where the back of the bus is where the cool kids sit and have the less popular ones sit down up front.
  • Grandpa Phil dating two 6th-class girls in "Back to Schoolhouse". Harmless joke in the 90s, Squick today. If the episode aired today, Phil would probably non be allowed inside 100 feet of a school.
• Vanilla Protagonist: Arnold is the But Sane Man to contrast his quirky classmates and eccentric non-traditional family unit.
• Wangst:
  • Olga is a master of this. In "Olga Comes Dwelling house", she spends days sobbing in her room about getting a low course, with dramatic music in the background and a serious case of Your Makeup Is Running. Fifty-fifty Big Bob starts to go tired of her histrionics and whining — she but snaps out of it when Helga admits she changed her grades out of spite.
  • Invoked in "Rhonda Goes Broke" when she spends most of her fourth dimension crying when she has to live in the boarding house after her family unit lose all their money. Arnold eventually talks some sense into her and Rhonda gets a She's Back moment.
• What Practice You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The original claymation shorts.
• The Woobie:
  • Arnold is definitely this in "Parents 24-hour interval" and "The Journal" when you see how much not having his parents around really bothers him.
  • Chocolate Boy in his self-titled episode. The reason why he became fond to chocolate was because it was his favorite treat given to him by his nanny. After said nanny moved abroad, he ate more chocolate to cope with losing her. He clearly loved her a lot and breaks downwards crying about how much he misses her.
  • Lila in her debut episode. She'due south the new student, having only moved to town from the country. Despite being very polite and sweet, she unintentionally ends up pissing off the other girls because she is getting a lot of attention from the other students and teachers. So they dandy her to the point that she runs dwelling house in tears. After like-minded to bring over her homework, they come across that Lila is non as perfect every bit they thought. She lives in a run-downward flat with her unmarried, unemployed male parent who is completely broke and whom she often has to emotionally back up, and nosotros see her crying about how she just wanted to have friends. The girls all realize the fault of their ways and endeavor to gear up everything.
  • Poor Arnie. Everyone hates him and openly mocks and ridicules him, even genuinely nice kids like Arnold, to his confront simply because he happens to exist a little peculiar. He never does annihilation to deserve that kind of treatment either, and he is likely suffering from some form of autism, pregnant that he can't assist his behavior. Perhaps Lila liking him isn't such a bad thing after all, since she'southward about the simply 1 who shows him any genuine affection.
  • Phoebe, due to being taken reward of not only by Helga only by everyone else around her.
  • Eugene because he was Born Unlucky, although dissimilar the other examples he doesn't let it get to him.
  • Pigeon Homo. Seen as a freak by others, and as some sort of monster by the kids, it'south revealed that he's actually annihilation but. In reality, he'southward a gentle and nurturing homo who lives to wait after the pigeons who he lives with on the rooftop. His love for birds made his friends see him as "weird" and made him exile himself from gild because he feels that the pigeons are the simply ones who truly understand him. If at that place's ever been a grapheme in this show that yous merely want to hug in the hopes that it would help them feel just a tiny bit better, it'due south him.
  • Mr. Hyunh, a Vietnam War survivor who reluctantly made the choice to stay behind and give his immature daughter to the American soldiers, who were evacuating children away to safety on a helicopter. Seeing him reunited with his grown-up daughter on Christmas Eve has to be ane of the best moments on the show.
• WTH, Casting Agency?: Alex D. Linz, Arnold's last voice actor during the series, isn't well liked by the fanbase for two reasons. 1, while Arnold had many actors during the serial, Toran Caudell, Philip Van Dyke ^note Though he likewise started out a scrap high before his voice eventually deepened to a pitch like to Caudell's vocalism, and so the aforementioned might have happened to Linz were he able to stay on longer, and Spencer Klein all had similar sounding voices while Linz's was noticeably higher-pitched than the others, making Arnold audio as well young. 2, he replaced Spencer Klein, who, every bit noted above, is considered by many fans to be the Arnold. Information technology doesn't help that Linz'due south portrayal of Arnold seemed like almost a complete rejection of Klein's have by making Arnold more than immature and Troll-ish when it came to Helga. Fortunately for them, Linz only voices Arnold in the last three episodes and when they recast the role for The Jungle Film, the crew selected Mason Vale Cotton, whose vox is much more than like sounding to the first 3 actors.

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