The BEST Episodes of Hey Arnold!
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Dec 1, 2020
Network: Nickelodeon
The adventures of a daydreaming, jazz-loving, football-headed 9-year-old, who lives in a boarding house with his grandparents and some eccentric boarders, encounters life in the city with his best friend Gerald, a loofah-haired kid, who is the keeper of the urban tales and coolest kid in class; and Helga, who torments him, but loves him secretly.

#1 - Rhonda Goes Broke
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired Jan 5, 2001
Rhonda's family goes broke and they move into the boarding house.

#2 - Rhonda's Glasses
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired Dec 7, 1997
Rhonda fails her eye test and has to wear glasses, a major fashion no no in her books. Immediately, she is labelled a geek and hangs out with the geeky kids.

#3 - Curly's Girl
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired Oct 14, 2002
Curly gets Rhonda to act like his girlfriend after something happens to Rhonda's Mothers' fur coat.

#4 - Crabby Author
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired Dec 28, 1998
Arnold has to do a book report, and he decides to do it on his favorite author, Agitha Cawfield, but he sees her bad side when she is very crabby & rude to him.

#5 - Married
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired May 11, 2002
Rhonda uses a folding paper fortune teller to see who will marry who, and Arnold and Helga get paired up, causing them to both dream what life would be like married to each other.

#6 - Dino Checks Out
Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired Dec 11, 1999
The rock legend Dino Spumoni is pronounced dead, but when he comes to hide in the boarding house, Arnold convinces him to tell the truth. He does reveal that he is still alive, and puts on a concert.

#7 - What's Opera, Arnold?
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired Jan 4, 1998
Arnold and the gang go on a class trip to the opera and have grand, musical dreams of their own.

#8 - Principal Simmons
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired Apr 5, 2000
When Principal Wartz quits as Principal, Mr. Simmons takes his place.

#9 - Suspended
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired Apr 26, 2000
Harold is suspended and will do anything to get back into school.

#10 - Ernie in Love
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired Apr 26, 2000
Ernie starts dating a tall model, but she doesn't want to continue dating him because of his height.

#11 - Beaned
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired Jan 12, 2001
Helga gets amnesia, and Arnold starts acting nice to her.

#12 - Family Man
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired Jun 1, 2002
Mr. Hyunh has Arnold pretending to be his son for his new employer.

#13 - Stinky Goes Hollywood
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired Sep 16, 1998
Stinky's simple life changes after he becomes the surprise new spokesman for Ya-Hoo Soda.

#14 - Arnold As Cupid
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired Dec 9, 1996
Oskar gets kicked out of Suzie's room when they get into an argument, so Arnold tries to get them back together when Oskar moves into Arnold's room.

#15 - Big Sis
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired Mar 18, 2000
Olga gets into a 'Big Sis' program, but her 'Lil' Sis' is Lila.

#16 - Weird Cousin
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired Oct 9, 1999
Arnold has to hang around with his boring and odd cousin, Arnie, but Arnold starts to get angry when Lila and Arnie fall in love with each other.

#17 - Das Subway
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired Dec 23, 1996
Everyone decides to take the subway home, but disaster strikes when they find themselves trapped in it.

#18 - 24 Hours To Live
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired Feb 3, 1997
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.

#19 - Heat
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired Nov 11, 1996
The city is suffering from a heatwave, and whatever he does, Arnold just can't seem to get cool.

#20 - New Bully on the Block
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired Apr 12, 2000
The kids must face two bullies when a new kid, Ludwig, returns and wants the vacant lot for himself.

#21 - Eating Contest
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired Dec 7, 1997
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'.

#22 - Arnold Visits Arnie
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired Jan 26, 2001
Arnold visits his cousin Arnie, whose friends look remarkably familiar to Anrold's

#23 - Wheezin' Ed
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired Dec 23, 1996
Arnold convinces the gang to go to Elk Island, where, unknown to them, two men are plotting a counterfeit coin scheme.

#24 - Road Trip
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired Sep 30, 1998
Helga and Miriam get stuck on the road together with no money. They get to know one another and Miriam saves the day when she wins a mechanical bull-riding competition.

#25 - Casa Paradiso
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired Sep 7, 1998
Grandpa becomes tired of dealing with the boarding house and decides to sell. Arnold has to convince him how important it is for everyone to remain in the boarding house and what they would lose if it was sold.