The BEST Episodes of Hey Arnold!
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Aug 15, 2021
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.
9.70 
#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.
9.65 
#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.
9.50 
#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.
9.45 
#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.
9.09 
#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.
8.70 
#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.
8.57 
#8 - Hey Harold!
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired Oct 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.
8.33 
#9 - 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.
7.94 
#10 - Family Man
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired Jun 1, 2002
Mr. Hyunh has Arnold pretending to be his son for his new employer.
7.83 
#11 - Big Sis
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired Mar 18, 2000
Olga gets into a 'Big Sis' program, but her 'Lil' Sis' is Lila.
7.82 
#12 - Suspended
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired Apr 26, 2000
Harold is suspended and will do anything to get back into school.
7.80 
#13 - Principal Simmons
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired Apr 5, 2000
When Principal Wartz quits as Principal, Mr. Simmons takes his place.
7.80 
#14 - Beaned
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired Jan 12, 2001
Helga gets amnesia, and Arnold starts acting nice to her.
7.80 
#15 - 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.
7.76 
#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.
7.75 
#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.
7.73 
#18 - Grudge Match
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired Sep 25, 1999
After Grandpa and Big Bob give each other 'fenderbenders' on their cars, they try to settle who pays for the damages in a game of Golf.
7.71 
#19 - 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.
7.69 
#20 - Gerald's Game
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired Apr 27, 2002
Gerald is involved with his new favorite game which Arnold dislikes.
7.67 
#21 - Eugene, Eugene!
Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired Jan 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.
7.67 
#22 - 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.
7.64 
#23 - On the Lam
Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired Jun 1, 2002
Stinky, Harold, and Sid are on the run after they think they blew up a police station.
7.63 
#24 - Stoop Kid
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 14, 1996
Arnold's hat lands on the stoop of "Stoop Kid," - a bully who has lived his whole life on his stoop, and is highly protective of it. But, when it's Arnold's fault that Stoop Kid becomes the joke of the city, he must help Stoop Kid face his biggest fear - leaving his stoop for the first time.
7.62 
#25 - Helga's Boyfriend
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired Dec 14, 1997
Imagine a romantic triangle between Helga, Stinky, and Arnold! Helga hires Stinky as her boyfriend to make Arnold jealous. But the plan backfires, and now Stinky is getting help from Arnold to win Helga back!
7.62