The BEST episodes of Hey Arnold! season 2

Every episode of Hey Arnold! season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hey Arnold! season 2!

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.

Last Updated: 8/10/2024Network: NickelodeonStatus: Ended
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Eugene Goes Bad
star
8.41
17 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Tuck Tucker
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Quantity Time
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7.70
20 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Steve Socki
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Rhonda's Glasses
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7.58
19 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Larry Leichliter
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Arnold's Halloween
star
7.55
20 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Jamie Mitchell
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Save the Tree
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7.41
39 votes

#5 - Save the Tree

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1997

Arnold and the gang must stop Big Bob from chopping down the oldest tree in town.

Writer: Joseph Purdy
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New Teacher
star
7.41
32 votes

#6 - New Teacher

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1997

When the kids make their new teacher, Mr. Simmons, quit his job; the replacement makes them realize what they lost.

Writer: Joseph Purdy
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Helga's Boyfriend
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7.40
15 votes

#7 - Helga's Boyfriend

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 12/14/1997

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!

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Harold's Bar Mitzvah
star
7.27
11 votes

#8 - Harold's Bar Mitzvah

Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 12/21/1997

It's time for Harold's Bar Mitzvah, but where is Harold? Nervous about the responsibilities of his faith, he panics and runs away. Can Arnold convince Harold that he has what it takes to be a man?

Writer: Joseph Purdy
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Longest Monday
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7.25
32 votes

#9 - Longest Monday

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/12/1997

Schoolyard tradition has it that on the first Monday of June each year, the fifth graders throw the fourth graders into trash cans. So, Arnold and Gerald try to make a run for it. As more people are thrown into trash cans and the fifth graders know all the routes, Arnold and Gerald find out eluding the fifth graders is harder than they thought.

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Hall Monitor
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7.17
12 votes

#10 - Hall Monitor

Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 12/21/1997

Hall monitor is a big responsibility, so when Helga passes the job down to Phoebe, she also gives Phoebe a crash course in How To Be Tough. But Phoebe learns the lesson a little too well...

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Four-Eyed Jack
star
7.14
14 votes

#11 - Four-Eyed Jack

Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 12/28/1997

Arnold and Gerald stumble upon an old pair of glasses which once belong to a deceased boarder named Four-eyed Jack. Now they're on a ghost hunt through the boarding house, and there's no turning back.

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Runaway Float
star
7.11
9 votes

#12 - Runaway Float

Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 1/18/1998

After creating an idea for a parade float, Arnold is confident of it showing up in a parade.

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What's Opera, Arnold?
star
7.07
15 votes

#13 - What's Opera, Arnold?

Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 1/4/1998

Arnold and the gang go on a class trip to the opera and have grand, musical dreams of their own.

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Gerald's Secret
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7.04
27 votes

#14 - Gerald's Secret

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1997

Gerald's secret is revealed; he doesn't know how to ride a bike so Arnold teaches him how.

Directors: Tuck Tucker
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Mudbowl
star
7.03
29 votes

#15 - Mudbowl

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/16/1997

Arnold and the rest of the fourth grade take on the might of the unbeatable fifth graders in a game of touch football. Who'll win this match of brains vs. brute strength?

Directors: Stark Howell
Helga's Love Potion
star
7.03
31 votes

#16 - Helga's Love Potion

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1997

Helga drinks a potion to lose all feelings for Arnold.

Directors: Dan Povenmire
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Teachers' Strike
star
7.00
11 votes

#17 - Teachers' Strike

Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 1/11/1998

The teachers are on strike, so there's no school! Arnold and Gerald are over the moon until they find out they'll have make up the missed days in summer school. Suddenly, it's time for action!

Tour de Pond
star
7.00
12 votes

#18 - Tour de Pond

Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 1/11/1998

History repeats itself when Arnold and Gerald enter the annual toy boat race against Rex the rich kid. The same race that Rex's grandfather cheated Grandpa out of winning years ago. Will the good guys win this time?

Harold's Kitty
star
7.00
26 votes

#19 - Harold's Kitty

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/1997

Harold becomes close to a kitty he finds on the streets. But when the real owner wants the cat back, it becomes a problem.

Directors: Steve Socki
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Gerald Moves Out
star
7.00
22 votes

#20 - Gerald Moves Out

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/16/1997

Being the middle child in his family, Gerald is feeling so neglected. So he decides to move into the Sunset Arms, where he learns that living alone isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Directors: Stark Howell
Freeze Frame
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6.96
26 votes

#21 - Freeze Frame

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/9/1997

Arnold and Gerald go around the city following 'Porkpie', a mysterious man caught on film. They suspect, because of the clues, that Porkpie and his accomplice are planning to kill 'Marty', who turns out to be Mr. Green.

Directors: Tuck Tucker
Writer: Joseph Purdy
Phoebe Cheats
star
6.96
24 votes

#22 - Phoebe Cheats

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/9/1997

In this variation of 'The Tell-Tale Heart', Phoebe plagiarizes from a poetry book and uses one of the poems as her entry in a poetry contest. She wins, with her prize being a trophy resembling poet Emily Dickinson. Then, the trophy haunts Phoebe into confessing.

Directors: Tuck Tucker
Ransom
star
6.95
21 votes

#23 - Ransom

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/26/1997

Gerald and Arnold get on the case when Timberly loses her Barney-esque doll.

Directors: Steve Socki
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Coach Wittenberg
star
6.92
12 votes

#24 - Coach Wittenberg

Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 12/28/1997

Clear the lanes! Helga's bowling against Arnold and Gerald! The stakes are high, so the boys bring in Coach Wittenberg to help with their game. But that only makes things worse...

Eating Contest
star
6.88
16 votes

#25 - Eating Contest

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 12/7/1997

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'.

Writer: Joseph Purdy