The BEST episodes of Hey Arnold! season 5

Every episode of Hey Arnold! season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hey Arnold! season 5!

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: 11/5/2024Network: NickelodeonStatus: Ended
Rhonda Goes Broke
star
9.64
91 votes

#1 - Rhonda Goes Broke

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/2001

Rhonda's family goes broke and they move into the boarding house.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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Curly's Girl
star
9.60
85 votes

#2 - 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.

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Married
star
9.26
27 votes

#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.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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Family Man
star
8.15
13 votes

#4 - Family Man

Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 6/1/2002

Mr. Hyunh has Arnold pretending to be his son for his new employer.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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Suspended
star
8.00
17 votes

#5 - Suspended

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/26/2000

Harold is suspended and will do anything to get back into school.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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Big Sis
star
7.88
17 votes

#6 - Big Sis

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/28/1998

Olga gets into a 'Big Sis' program, but her 'Lil' Sis' is Lila.

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Eugene, Eugene!
star
7.79
14 votes

#7 - 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.

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Ernie in Love
star
7.76
21 votes

#8 - 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.

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Fishing Trip
star
7.70
10 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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A Day in the Life of a Classroom
star
7.60
10 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: Frank Weiss
Writer: Joseph Purdy
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Summer Love
star
7.59
22 votes

#11 - Summer Love

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/25/2000

When Arnold, the boarders and the Patakis go to the beach, a girl uses Arnold to win a sandcastle competition. Ernie gets buried in the sand. Miriam and Suzie start taking dancing lessons. Grandpa thinks he's stuck on an island. Oscar starts using a metal detector to find ""treasure."" Big Bob gets a bad sunburn. Helga tries to warn Arnold that he's just being used.

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New Bully on the Block
star
7.52
21 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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Stuck in a Tree
star
7.50
20 votes

#13 - Stuck in a Tree

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/2001

Arnold gets stuck in a tree with Harold and Eugene.

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Monkeyman!
star
7.41
32 votes

#14 - Monkeyman!

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/4/2000

When Arnold gives the superhero Monkeyman a taste of normal life, he's far too busy to bother helping the weak and downtrodden.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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Sid the Vampire Slayer
star
7.39
23 votes

#15 - Sid the Vampire Slayer

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/18/2000

Sid thinks Stinky is a vampire.

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The Journal
star
7.36
11 votes

#16 - The Journal

Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/11/2002

On the anniversary of his parents' disappearance, Arnold decides to give up hoping that they will ever return home. But while packing away their keepsakes in the attic, Arnold finds his father's old journal.

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Ghost Bride
star
7.36
11 votes

#17 - Ghost Bride

Season 5 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/11/2003

In his urban legend, he tells the story of the ghost bride, and how she murdered her husband after he left her for her sister. Turns out she's buried in the cemetery near the gang's neighborhood. She comes back from the dead every anniversary of the murders. Arnold, Gerald, Eugene, Harold, and Stinky are scared twice by Helga and Curly, by them pretending to be the ghost of Cynthia Snell, the Ghost Bride.

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Beaned
star
7.35
17 votes

#18 - Beaned

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/12/2001

Helga gets amnesia, and Arnold starts acting nice to her.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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On the Lam
star
7.33
12 votes

#19 - On the Lam

Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 6/1/2002

Stinky, Harold, and Sid are on the run after they think they blew up a police station.

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Old Iron Man
star
7.33
12 votes

#20 - Old Iron Man

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/12/2001

Grandpa and his old friend Jimmy Kafka compete on a triathlon.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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Chocolate Boy
star
7.32
19 votes

#21 - Chocolate Boy

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/26/2001

Chocolate Boy wants to give up chocolate.

Directors: Frank Weiss
Writer: Joseph Purdy
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Arnold Visits Arnie
star
7.31
13 votes

#22 - Arnold Visits Arnie

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/26/2001

Arnold visits his cousin Arnie, whose friends look remarkably familiar to Anrold's

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Helga's Masquerade
star
7.23
22 votes

#23 - Helga's Masquerade

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/11/2000

Helga decides to act like Lila so Arnold will like her.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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Harold vs. Patty
star
7.21
14 votes

#24 - Harold vs. Patty

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/3/2002

P.S. 118 is having an Arm Wrestling contest, but Harold get humiliated when he loses to Patty before the contest, so he asks Patty for some pointers on winning.

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Timberly Loves Arnold
star
7.11
9 votes

#25 - Timberly Loves Arnold

Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 1/28/2003

Arnold does something for Timberly, causing Timberly to have a crush on Arnold. She makes Lila start to like Arnold because he has been helping Timberly.

Directors: Frank Weiss
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