The BEST episodes written by Joe Ansolabehere
#2 - Cool Jerk
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 23
An older cool guy befriends Arnold, but Arnold realizes that he is really a shoplifter.
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Mission Force One - Season 1 - Episode 6
While vacationing on the dry planet of Alarbus, Miles and Loretta uncover an ancient secret.
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#4 - The Good, the Bad and the Yo-Yo
Sheriff Callie's Wild West - Season 2 - Episode 1
A tough looking stranger named the Twirler Kid comes to town looking for "El Yo-Yo."
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#6 - Catch that IOTA!
Mission Force One - Season 1 - Episode 9
Miles' attempt to fix Leo's latest gadget sends a diplomatic dinner into complete chaos.
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#7 - Tutoring Torvald
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 26
Arnold must tutor a 13-year-old, fourth-grade bully in math, much to his dismay.
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#8 - World Records
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 35
The kids try to get in the book of world records so much that they would do anything, including most people on a one-person bike and the longest game of Crack-The-Whip.
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#10 - The Baseball
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 10
Arnold's favorite baseball player is playing his last game, so he decides to go and see his last game. The only problem is that he winds up with terrible seats.
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#14 - Downtown as Fruits
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 1
Not looking forward to performing in Helga's "The Four Food Groups" musical, Arnold and Gerald decide to take the bus a few stops too many, but end up stuck downtown.
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#15 - Field Trip
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 4
Field Trip: The kids are really looking forward to their field trip to the aquarium - especially when they remember the scary Lock Jaw from their last trip. But, when they get there, they see that Lock Jaw isn't really that scary. Arnold notices how neglected the old turtle looks, and returns later with Grandma to set it free.
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#16 - Ride of the Quarkons
Mission Force One - Season 1 - Episode 16
The Callistos encounter a pod of Quarkons blocking the Photon Superhighway.
#19 - Eugene's Bike
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 2
When Arnold accidentally ruins Eugene's new bike, he takes Eugene out on a day of fun, thinking that "Every geek deserves his day".
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#20 - Stu-Maker's Elves
Rugrats - Season 1 - Episode 25
Stu has received an order from Mucklehoney Industries for 15,000 "Patty Pants" dolls. However, he is having trouble with the machine. Tommy and Chuckie fixed it while fetching the "Zippo-Glider", which Chuckie accidentally tossed into the basement.
#21 - Spelling Bee
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 28
Arnold and Helga compete on a Spelling Bee contest.
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#22 - The List
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 15
Arnold attempts to do something that no other kid has done before - completing the entire list of a kid's perfect Saturday! But, unfortunately, things don't go quite to plan.
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#23 - Abner Come Home
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 32
Arnold must find a way to recover his pig pet Abner after he runs away.
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#24 - 24 Hours to Live
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 37
In this remake of the original pilot, Arnold accidentally knocks Harold out during a baseball game, and the bully gives Arnold 24 hours to live before he beats him to a pulp.
#26 - Grandpa's Date
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 16
After 40 years, Grandpa's long, lost love, Morgana, pays a visit. Morgana broke up with Grandpa over his affair with another woman named Trixie McGee, but never knew the real story. Also, Grandpa doesn't want her to know that he's a grandfather, so he rushed Tommy & Chuckie to bed. In any case, everyone had to contend with Stu's new remote-controlled couch, which is more like a mechanical bull for 2.
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#28 - The Santa Experience
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 27
After Angelica finds out that Santa Claus is a fake she decides to take away Phil and Lil's presents. Meanwhile Tommy tries to convince Chuckie that Santa Claus isn't a scary man. The adults take them all for a trip in the mountains for Christmas and there is where the Christmas spirit strikes Angelica and she decides to give Phil and Lil back their presents so she won't get coal for Christmas. Chaz decides to dresss up as Santa and when Chuckie sees him he loses his fear of Santa Claus.
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#30 - Touch-Down Tommy
Rugrats - Season 1 - Episode 20
While Didi and Betty go shopping, Stu and the guys babysit the Rugrats while watching the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Oilers (now Tennessee Titans, see note below) duke it out on the gridiron in "Ultra Bowl XXXVII". Later, Grandpa gives Tommy a bottle of chocolate milk; Angelica, who normally thinks she's too old for baby bottles, fights Tommy over it.
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#31 - Not So Easy Riders
Duckman - Season 1 - Episode 8
Duckman receives a letter from the IRS. The IRS agent is tough and Duckman is given 24 hours to pay $29,587.42 in back taxes. After asking his family for help and being rejected and lectured, Duckman tries anything. When he can't raise the funds, he and Cornfed go on the run and then on the road. Bernice falls for the IRS agent who's staying at the house waiting for Duckman to call.
#35 - Chuckie is Rich
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 32
When Chaz wins a clearing house sweepstakes, Chaz and Chuckie are rich, and Chuckie lives the high life until Chaz blows all his fortune in a bad investment.
#37 - Angelica Breaks a Leg
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 14
Charlotte and Drew go on a power rafting trip. Angelica has to stay with Uncle Stu and Aunt Didi. She gets mad for not giving her attiention, so she fakes breaking a leg. It drives Stu and Didi nuts, but she eventually gets caught and in the end she gets it back double as Charlotte breaks her leg.
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Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 13
Tommy gets really mad at Angelica for ruining his "3 Baby's and a Guitar" statue. So Tommy wishes for the worst thing to happen for Angelica. She turned stone, but the babies don't know it's Drew's annivesry present for Charlotte.
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#41 - The Mysterious Mr. Friend
Rugrats - Season 3 - Episode 22
Stu invents a new toy: a scary walking, talking, heat-seeking clown doll. The babies encounter it, and are horrified. Eventually, it all comes down to a final battle royale between Tommy and friends and an army of "Mr. Fiends." The babies win the day...or do they?
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#43 - Real or Robots?
Rugrats - Season 1 - Episode 14
Tommy and Chuckie see a Frankenstein horror movie, the want to know if Stu is a Robot. Stu, however is sleepwalking and dreaming he was a host of a cooking show. Tommy and Chuckie try to hurt him, thinking he was a robot, which wakes him up and scares them.
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#44 - Meet The Carmichaels
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 34
New neighbors the Carmichael's come to town and the Pickles help them get settled in. There Tommy meets all the kids: Alisa, Buster, Edwin, and Susie Carmichael. Susie tells Tommy all about her great room, but she can't find it so Tommy and Susie search all around Susie's new house for her brand new room.
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#45 - Special Delivery
Rugrats - Season 1 - Episode 15
Stu ordered a doll from Eggbert Toys, his competitor, so he could check out their doll, "Tina Trousers", as a comparison to the doll he's making, "Patty Pants". Thinking that Tommy is getting a new baby in a mail, he hitches a ride with the postman to the post office.
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#46 - Momma Trauma
Rugrats - Season 1 - Episode 13
Didi and Stu take Tommy to Dr. Lepetomaine, a psychiatrist (who mainly says nothing more than "I see", which, at one point, angered Stu), after Tommy was found drawing on walls. Tommy ended up wandering around the office building, while Stu ended up being psychoanalysed.
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#47 - Down The Drain
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 36
After his toy dissapers down the bathtub drain, Tommy worries that he'll get sucked down the drain, too. After Angelica assures Tommy and Chuckie that yes, babies can and do get sucked down the drain, the boys do everything they can think of to avoid taking a bath.
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#48 - Let Them Eat Cake
Rugrats - Season 2 - Episode 37
Didi's half brother, Ben, gets married. All Tommy and Chuckie can think about is the fact that they'll get cake after the ceremony. Things take a turn for the worst, though, when Elaine, Ben's bride, gets cold feet and dissapers. In the end Tommy and Chuckie, on their search for the wedding cake, are the ones that find her.
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#50 - Graham Canyon
Rugrats - Season 1 - Episode 24
The Pickles experience car trouble en route to the Grand Canyon. Eddie & Ace, a couple of crooked auto mechanics working at "Twin Cactus Auto Repair", try to make a simple, cheap thing more expensive, but Angelica and Tommy inadvertantly stopped them from further damage while playing in a "canyon" of tires.
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