The BEST episodes of Hey Arnold!
Every episode of Hey Arnold! ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hey Arnold!!
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 - Curly's Girl
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/14/2002
Curly gets Rhonda to act like his girlfriend after something happens to Rhonda's Mothers' fur coat.
#2 - Rhonda Goes Broke
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/2001
Rhonda's family goes broke and they move into the boarding house.
#3 - Married
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/11/2002
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.
#4 - Polishing Rhonda
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/25/1999
After Rhonda and Patty get in a fight, both of their parents send them to polishing school, but it appears that Patty will graduate before Rhonda.
#5 - Crabby Author
Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 12/28/1998
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.
#6 - Eugene Goes Bad
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 1/4/1998
Eugene is gutted when he finds out that his favourite movie star doesn't do his own stunts. Arnold tries to cheer his mate up.
#7 - Arnold's Christmas
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/14/1996
Arnold tries to find Mr. Hyunh's daughter (who was separated from him during the final days of the Vietnam War) as he carries out his duty as Mr. Hyunh's secret Santa. Meanwhile, Helga must choose between a Christmas present for herself (Nancy Spumoni boots) and the perfect gift for Arnold.
#8 - Helga on the Couch
Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 12/4/1999
When a psychologist comes to PS 118, she notices Helga's behavior, so she calls Helga for a session. Reluctantly, she goes, and tells this psychologist about her life and how she behaved this way... Eventually, Helga ends up telling the psychologist her feelings about Arnold and gains a trust with Dr. Bliss.
#9 - Hey Harold!
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/21/1998
Harold is invited to Rhonda's party, though he does not want to go as he thinks nobody will dance with him. While there, he dances with and befriends the female bully, Big Patty, who also had nobody to dance with. The two spend the next day together hanging out, much to the teasing of Stinky and Sid, who begin to tease him by saying he has a crush on her. They already tease Big Patty for being "big and dumb", which upsets Harold.
#10 - Family Man
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 6/1/2002
Mr. Hyunh has Arnold pretending to be his son for his new employer.
#11 - Helga Sleepwalks
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/23/1999
Helga sleepwalks after eating pork rinds, making her confess her love to Arnold in her sleep.
#12 - Arnold's Valentine
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 2/10/1997
Arnold gets a date with both Ruth (The girl he likes) and Cecile (his pen pal, who's actually Helga in disguise), but later the real Cecile shows up.
#13 - Cool Jerk
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/16/1996
An older cool guy befriends Arnold, but Arnold realizes that he is really a shoplifter.
#14 - Quantity Time
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/30/1997
Miriam decides to visit her mum because Big Bob and Helga are on holiday at the same time. What that means is that father and daughter must spend some 'quantity time' together. Problem is that both of them just seem to rub each other up the wrong way.
#15 - Eugene, Eugene!
Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 1/28/2003
Eugene gets the lead role in the school musical 'Eugene, Eugene'. But the play director cuts the parts that Eugene is a hero, and makes the parts look like he is a loser.
#16 - Biosquare
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 12/7/1998
Helga and Arnold locked in a greenhouse together for 24 hours? Now THERE'S a science fair project! They should both get a great grade on it - if they don't kill each other first.
#17 - Ernie in Love
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/26/2000
Ernie starts dating a tall model, but she doesn't want to continue dating him because of his height.
#18 - Road Trip
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/30/1998
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.
#19 - Veterans Day
Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 11/6/1999
While Grandpa, Arnold, Mr. Johanssen, and Gerald go on a trip, Grandpa tells Arnold that he single-handedly won World War 1, and Gerald doesn't understand why his Father was only a paper-pusher in Vietnam.
#20 - Weird Cousin
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/9/1999
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.
#21 - Fishing Trip
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/27/2002
Arnold and his Grandpa, Gerald and his Father, and Sid and his Father all go on a fishing trip.
#22 - Heat
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1996
The city is suffering from a heatwave, and whatever he does, Arnold just can't seem to get cool.
#23 - Cool Party
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/2/1998
Rhonda has a party and only invites the cool kids. Arnold attends, but realises her party is only for snobs. He leaves and has his own party with his buddies and eventually Rhonda realises that 'geek' is cooler than 'cool.'
#24 - Rich Kid
Season 3 - Episode 35 - Aired 12/28/1998
There is a new kid at P.S. 118, but he isn't the playful type, and he doesn't know the definition of fun, so Arnold and the gang try to teach him to have fun and take a break off his busy schedual.
#25 - Suspended
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/26/2000
Harold is suspended and will do anything to get back into school.