The BEST episodes written by Joseph Purdy
#1 - Curly's Girl
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 30
Curly gets Rhonda to act like his girlfriend after something happens to Rhonda's Mothers' fur coat.
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#2 - Arnold's Halloween
Hey Arnold! - Season 2 - Episode 21
Arnold and Gerald send the neighborhood alien crazy as they broadcast a mock Halloween radio show.
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#3 - The Great Jungle Gym Stand Off
Recess - Season 1 - Episode 4
The kids stage a protest when Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.
#4 - Rich Kid
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 35
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.
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#5 - A Day in the Life of a Classroom
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 36
After Mr. Simmons wins an award, a TV station does a documentary on how he teaches.
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#6 - Fishing Trip
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 25
Arnold and his Grandpa, Gerald and his Father, and Sid and his Father all go on a fishing trip.
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#7 - Summer Love
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 15
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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#8 - Arnold's Thanksgiving
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 27
Arnold and Helga both think they are having the worst Thanksgivings ever. Arnold's Family are celebrating President's Day, and Olga is at the Pataki house. When Arnold and Helga go to Mr. Simmons' house, they discover he has a obnoxious family, so they think their families aren't so bad after all.
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#9 - Synchronized Swimming
Hey Arnold! - Season 4 - Episode 24
Coach Wittenberg talks Arnold, Eugene, Harold, and others to join a Synchronized Swimming team, and swim to the classic movie, 'Come Back Wayne'.
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#10 - Save the Tree
Hey Arnold! - Season 2 - Episode 1
Arnold and the gang must stop Big Bob from chopping down the oldest tree in town.
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#11 - Stuck in a Tree
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 16
Arnold gets stuck in a tree with Harold and Eugene.
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#12 - New Teacher
Hey Arnold! - Season 2 - Episode 2
When the kids make their new teacher, Mr. Simmons, quit his job; the replacement makes them realize what they lost.
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#13 - Harold's Bar Mitzvah
Hey Arnold! - Season 2 - Episode 29
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?
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#14 - The Journal
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 31
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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#15 - Pigeon Man
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 29
When Arnold's pigeon gets sick, he takes it to "Pigeon Man", a person surrounded by pigeons who lives on a rooftop.
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#16 - Helga and the Nanny
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 20
Big Bob and Miriam hire a Nanny around the house, but she's so perfect that Helga wants to get her out of there.
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#17 - Grudge Match
Hey Arnold! - Season 4 - Episode 19
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.
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#18 - Sally's Comet
Hey Arnold! - Season 1 - Episode 31
Arnold and Gerald must turn off all the lights in the city if they want to see Sally's Comet.
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#19 - Phoebe Takes the Fall
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 30
P.S. 118 is holding a Spelling Bee, and Helga wants to win one trophy to get out of Olga's shadow, but Pheobe has to back out of the competition for Helga to make it.
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#20 - Casa Paradiso
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 5
Grandpa becomes tired of dealing with the boarding house and decides to sell. Arnold has to convince him how important it is for everyone to remain in the boarding house and what they would lose if it was sold.
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#21 - Eating Contest
Hey Arnold! - Season 2 - Episode 24
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'.
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#22 - Fighting Families
Hey Arnold! - Season 4 - Episode 26
Arnold, Grandpa, Grandma, Ernie and Mr. Hyunh compete on a game show against a family that seems perfect in every way.
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#23 - Chocolate Boy
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 21
Chocolate Boy wants to give up chocolate.
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#24 - Headless Cabbie
Hey Arnold! - Season 4 - Episode 27
Arnold tells an urban legend about a Headless Cabbie, but when Arnold and they gang go through the park (for ice cream)where the legend supposedly happened, they have weird occurrences involving the legend their travels.
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#25 - Rich Guy
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 23
After Arnold saves the life of a rich man, the man invites Arnold and Grandpa to his house. He tells Arnold that he wishes Arnold was the son he never had, but he really does have a son, but they share nothing in common.
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#26 - Oskar Can't Read?
Hey Arnold! - Season 4 - Episode 8
When Oskar cannot read various things, Arnold tries to help him by teaching him and bringing him to the library.
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#27 - Gerald's Game
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 24
Gerald is involved with his new favorite game which Arnold dislikes.
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#28 - The Racing Mule
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 29
Mr. Hyunh, Oskar, and Ernie purchase a race horse, or so they think.
#29 - Freeze Frame
Hey Arnold! - Season 2 - Episode 15
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.
#30 - Teachers' Strike
Hey Arnold! - Season 2 - Episode 35
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!
#31 - Grand Prix
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 26
The kids all try to outdo each other in a city-wide go-cart race.
#32 - Arnold's Room
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 7
Sid pretends that Arnold's room is his, since he's ashamed of showing his real room to Lorenzo.
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#33 - Helga's Locket
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 11
Helga inscribes her name in her Arnold locket.
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#34 - Principal Simmons
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 8
When Principal Wartz quits as Principal, Mr. Simmons takes his place.
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#35 - Curly Snaps
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 11
Curly gets enraged after a minor playground mix up. He locks himself in the principal's office and refuses to come out.
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#36 - Part Time Friends
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 32
Arnold is okay with working with Gerald at Mrs. Vitello's flower shop after she's injured and puts Gerald in charge, but not with working for Gerald, which causes the friendship to hit a snag and Arnold quits.
#37 - Mr. Hyunh Goes Country
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 4
Arnold and Gerald manage the career of the most unlikely country-and-western singer, Mr Hyunh.
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#38 - Harold the Butcher
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 2
After Harold shoplifts some meat from the butcher shop, he is sentenced to work off his punishment. Harold realises he has discovered his calling and that he wants to become a butcher.
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#39 - Grandpa's Packard
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 39
Grandpa's Packard is stolen from an antique car show.
#40 - Roller Coaster
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 16
Eugene wants to ride with the gang, but they all think he's a jinx and won't go with him. Arnold decides to break the cycle of pain and rides with Eugene, but they get stuck.
#41 - Crush on Teacher
Hey Arnold! - Season 2 - Episode 27
Miss Slovak is sick, and Arnold has a major crush on Miss Felter, the substitute teacher. But what will he do now that Gerald has found out that Miss Felter has a major crush on HIM?
#42 - Stinky's Pumpkin
Hey Arnold! - Season 4 - Episode 6
Stinky is 'down in the dumps' because he doesn't think he's special and think's he isn't good at anything, but when there is a large Vegetable contest, Stinky tries growing a pumpkin in his backyard.
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#43 - Big Bob's Crisis
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 37
After Big Bob has a heart attack, he tries to become more nice.
#44 - The Big Scoop
Hey Arnold! - Season 2 - Episode 5
Arnold and Gerald compete against Helga for the school newspaper.
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#45 - Big Gino
Hey Arnold! - Season 4 - Episode 3
After paying his debt with Big Gino, Sid and him become friends, but Arnold believes that that friendship isn't good for Sid.
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#46 - Pre-Teen Scream
Hey Arnold! - Season 3 - Episode 12
Phoebe has a secret crush on a pop star.
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#47 - Mr. Green Runs
Hey Arnold! - Season 5 - Episode 4
Mr. Green runs for city council.
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