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 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#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 - Suspended
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/26/2000
Harold is suspended and will do anything to get back into school.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Big Sis
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/28/1998
Olga gets into a 'Big Sis' program, but her 'Lil' Sis' is Lila.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Family Man
Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 6/1/2002
Mr. Hyunh has Arnold pretending to be his son for his new employer.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Arnold's Halloween
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/27/1997
Arnold and Gerald send the neighborhood alien crazy as they broadcast a mock Halloween radio show.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Rhonda's Glasses
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/7/1997
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.
#21 - A Day in the Life of a Classroom
Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/15/2003
After Mr. Simmons wins an award, a TV station does a documentary on how he teaches.
#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 - 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.
#24 - Friday the 13th
Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/30/1999
Arnold and Gerald really believe that they are cursed after doing a bunch of Friday The 13th legends, but it is really Wolfgang and Edmund following them and making them think that they are.
#25 - New Bully on the Block
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/12/2000
The kids must face two bullies when a new kid, Ludwig, returns and wants the vacant lot for himself.
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