Oh, my god, this episode is fucking amazing. Just putting some spotlight on a character who isn't Arnold or Helga is pretty good, but this one takes this character way beyond the stereotype she otherwise embodies and gives her a believable dark side that isn't resolved away in 11 minutes.
Feel free to gush about the best parts of Hey Arnold ITT.
![hey arnold! - 1x20 - arnold's valentine.avi_snapshot_14.42_[2015.10.17_19.21.54].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CS7wyog.jpg "hey arnold! - 1x20 - arnold's valentine.avi_snapshot_14.42_[2015.10.17_19.21.54].jpg")
I think Ruth and Arnold shouldve ended up together but the creators had to suddenly make her the ditzy type so Arnold wouldn't go after her anymore.
CHEATER!
>>83433116
I'm pretty she wasn't ditzy, she was just older than Arnold so of course it wouldn't have worked out at their age.
>>83433224
Despite Arnold's memory of her giving up her seat for some old lady on the bus or something, she was shallow. They had nothing in common and I think she flirted with the waiter over breadsticks.
"The boy with the cornflower hair"
Also, Phoebe was always my favorite character. The kid who's always on the sidelines, accepting of her place in the world, but still wanting more.
![hey arnold! - 1x18 - magic show ~ 24 hours to live.avi_snapshot_09.40_[2015.10.17_19.15.18].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rVelIeV.jpg "hey arnold! - 1x18 - magic show ~ 24 hours to live.avi_snapshot_09.40_[2015.10.17_19.15.18].jpg")
>>83433116
>>83433333
In every episode except the valentine's day she showed some level of mystique or interest in arnold. I just feel like it was a copout to have her be shallow just so they can get rid of her character
Does anyone actually like Lila?
>>83433510
Ever so much
![hey arnold! - 5x12 - arnold visits arnie ~ chocolate boy.avi_snapshot_05.10_[2015.10.17_19.23.32].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JahPsrT.jpg "hey arnold! - 5x12 - arnold visits arnie ~ chocolate boy.avi_snapshot_05.10_[2015.10.17_19.23.32].jpg")
>>83433565
bizzaro lila did things to me as a kid
>that off-tune ice cream truck melody that played
i love how mental the jolly olly man was. 1st season was the best by far
>>83433116
they stopped the pairing because it was forbidden /ss/ love
>>83433588
I wasn't used to watching such a physical approach to flirting in a cartoon.
>>83433510
>Does anyone actually like Lila?
She's cute, I like how polite she was but I always had a bad impression of her, like something wasn't okay with her, it kinda seemed like a facade.
>>83433588
>>83433696
>that moment she wrapped her leg around his and touched his thighs in the theater
>>83433621
I like the later seasons better. The artstyle got much better.
But season 1 has some good shit, like the christmas episode. Man, to think a Nickelodeon show once showed the vietnam war and its effects on common folk. I dont think any kids show was so down to earth and realistic as HA.
>>83433425
Or was it just Arnold's child crush romantizing her actions of just being nice to the cute 3rd grader.
Lila was molested by her own dad; she has mental issues like crazy. Do not touch.
>>83433588
Me and my friend started calling it shattered glass Arnold...heh.
>And now for what we all came for.
>>83433779
But molested girls will do butt stuff...
>>83433696
>>83433746
And now, we will never again get to see shows like this again sadly.
>>83433073
Recently rewatched a big chunk of the series. The music is even more powerful than I remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeM4lWhr39M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS9RDJJxdfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIiRRvFWxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gkTcfZ1ww4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOOwY5z3z8
>>83433116
the character of ruth is about idolising a girl from afar when you really no nothing about. Constantly putting her a pedestal.
Then when you actually get to know her you find out that you have nothing in common with her and anything you though what special about her was all in your head.
Have you not done this before?
>>83433777
yeah this. also nice trips
>>83433779
Proof, my dear boy?
>>83433978
I think it wouldve been better if she rejected him outright instead of him just leaving and not coming back.
>>83433975
if you're in the mood for more hey arnold jazz, check out brecker brothers, or any early 90s jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ufv-SWoxWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vz2Gm6KcZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCSMqKLzrX8
>>83434075
nice man ever since i rewatched the series and heard the end credit music again i've been looking for stuff like this.
>>83433073
My favorite episode with Phoebe was when she won the contest to hang out with her favorite, shallow pop musician and he turned out to be the fakest fraud and she was distraught that he wasn't who she envisioned him to be. It really showed that she was a regular person capable of being wrong and not a stereotype.
>>83433510
I do, because I'm not a rabid shipper.
>>83434419
Who were everyone's favorite characters? Everyone loves Helga, but I was also a fan of Grandpa, Miriam, Big Bob, Harold, Principal Wartz. All of the characters with obvious personality flaws were the most interesting, I guess
>>83434419
>Boys and Girls in the same sex-ed class
I find this image unrealistic
I rewatched the Hey Arnold! Christmas special last year and cried like a little bitch desu. One of my favorite specials now.
>>83434507
I always liked Sid for some reason. Never could quite figure out why.
>>83434419
>sex ed class
>teacher is on the subject of benis
>whole class isn't giggling
immersion broken
>>83434514
Its only realistic for high school health class, but the sex ed I took in elementary and middle school was separated by gender.
>>83434657
Hes a combination of a bro and paranoia.
>>83433073
I was cool hearing George takei as her dad
>>83433721
DELETE THIS.And post the full version.
Arnold was a really good model for kids.
>>83434632
cute
just a oneshot?
>>83434632
heh. i like it.
>>83434892
***ROLE MODEL ROLE MODEL
>>83434632
Fuck everything about this rape culture promoting garbage.
>>83434892
>>83434922
Yeah, that's why he karate'd the clothes off of a man who was just looking for the bus stop.
>>83433116
I wanna fuck Ruth
>>83434503
I was expecting Brainy to be peeking out of the backseat in the third panel
>>83433510
yes. she has very slutty feet.
>>83433073
episodes like that are always interesting. smart kids arent smart because theyre smart, but because theyre good at patterns. they get in the PATTERN of getting good grades.. and disrupting that pattern can be devastating. your goal isn't learning (you probably arent learning shit you didnt know already), it's maintaining the pattern.. so you almost cheat without thinking
>>83434797
in my day they were together by 7th grade or earlier, and we didn't GET them in highschool
>>83435345
In my day we had Sex Ed for 1 week, 1 time in 6th grade, separated by gender and we never had it again. After that Health Class was all about nutrition and physiology and shit.
>>83435054
are these from the same person who does a lot of hey arnold comics where arnold and helga are potheads?
>>83433975
damn this is gold
thanks anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ofxMLaHneE
If i had to pick a theme to represent my adolescence and my first taste of romance it'd be this
>>83435602
i'm sure that'll always be how i imagine my first taste of romance too. certainly nobody older than that seems to get it right or have any idea what love is.
>>83435458
Took sex aid specifically in 3rd and fourth, once in middle school for like a day or two and then it was mixed in with regular health class after that.
>>83433073
I watched Hey Arnold a lot as a kid and I really loved it. I didn't watch it much as a teen or early adult but at 26 I watched a couple of episodes and went back and watched everything again because of how great it was. It's very bittersweet.
I think the episode that best embodies the way Hey Arnold works is the episode where Grandpa Phil plays Robbie Fischer in Chinese Checkers, and by any standard TV show trope you'd expect lovable old Grandpa to win.
Nope, he was one step away from losing but managed to swing it to a draw. And everybody was super happy because Grandpa didn't lose. He didn't win, but he didn't lose - and that's a really important lesson to teach kids that kids shows almost never teach.
I'm sure a lot of people watching that episode wanted Grandpa to win, too, and were disappointed that he didn't, but then thought "Eh, at least he didn't lose".
Or like how in the Christmas special with mister Nguyen, how Arnold tried everything to help him and just couldn't do it. It took HELGA giving up her favorite shoes to make it work. So in the end, Helga, the person who made the right choice to sacrifice something to make somebody else happy and by every TV Trope should have been rewarded, wasn't given some last-minute super gift or anything. She did the right thing, and that made her lose her present. Very rare for a kids show to show a true sacrifice.
Everything about this show is amazing.
>>83433965LENI?!
>>83435912
>Nguyen
Pretty sure it's Huynh.I used to joke about the show's mispronunciation with a girl I took to SDCC once.
>>83435912
I think I actually appreciate the show more now than I did as a kid. It also aged a lot better than other kid-centered shows from that time, which I've gone back and watched as an adult and they still feel very... well, childish.
>>83436075
theyre both pronounced as a vague syllable
fucking southeast asians. what did france DO to you?
>>83433721
I'd make her girlhood tremble, if you know what I mean
>>83436110
this. i didnt appreciate it at all as a kid, it bored me. humor seemed corny and i couldnt get over how ugly it was and what stupid names everyone had.
>>83436075
>>83436375
I dont know anything about Korean names, I apologise.
>>83436585
and hyunh's vietnamese anyway right
I found myself watching the episode where Harold was a butcher the other day. Maybe it's just because I like meat. Never knew Elliott Gould was on the show.
>>83436645
No Hyuhn was from Korea, the whole Christmas episode thing was about him not being able to leave the country because of a war. They never explicitly call it Korea, but it was an obvious Korean war reference.
Or is the name Hyuhn Vietnamese and thats the joke?
>>83436809
He's Vietnamese, dude. Him giving his daughter to the soldiers in the helicopter is a specific reference to the Fall of Saigon.
>>83436809
i guess it's just that when you see a korean war reference in the 90s you just assume it's actually a vietnam war reference. everyone in comics was retconned because it was basically a sequel war, and it allowed everyone to be 20 years younger.
a korean war baby would have been too old. though.. hey arnold does exist in a weird timeless state
>>83436972
actually a vietnam war baby would have been too old too
>>83436738
that episode was great
>firstly, you stole. that's wrong. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
>Secondly, you stole a ham. ham is not kosher! our people haven't eaten ham in 5000 years and we don't need to start now.
>>83436989
A Vietnam baby would've been about 30 at the time the show aired
>>83433073
Question.
HOW THE FUCK DOES SHE NOT GET FOUND OUT WHEN PLAGIARIZING EMILY FUCKING DICKINSON. She's literally one of the most famous poets of her generation. You'd probably stand a better chance at nicking Robert Frost
>>83436972
>>83436966
Oh my god I cant believe I got Vietnam and Korea mixed up. Of course it was Vietnam. Its 1.30am I need to go to bed.
>>83437010
Principal Wartz likely never read it and Mr. Simmons was only into a very different Dickinson.
>>83437010
The teachers aren't that well read. Come on it's a public school k-6.
>>83437071
hehehe
>>83437014
i mean, you're supposed to.
>>83437091
this
wait was it really k-6? damn.
>that 12 angry men episode
>>83437241
>Any episode that lets Curly be full insane.
Always a delight
>>83437071
>Mr. Simmons was only into a very different Dickinson.
10/10
Chocolate Boy had a hard life.
>>83437362
Curly was best boy
Still mad I never got to find out the true identity of Fuzzy Slippers. It haunts me to this day.
>>83434503
>>83434632
This made me laugh.
>>83437899
Stoop boy was afraid to leave his stoop.
Remember when Arnold went down the sewer and fought the Sewer King in chess to get back Phil's pocketwatch despite him having several of them?
So surreal, but so magical.
>>83433073
Remember how one of Arnold's neighbors was going to be a woman who had a crush on him? /ss/ indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjgLFcpFw4
>>83439061
>who had a crush on him?
no, she was an actual pedophile. craig has said this himself in an interview. she got cut out of the plot immediately, for obvious reasons.
>>83434935meme magic
>>83434503
>>83434632
>>83435054
>Arnold X Helga
I know the creators of this show was aggressively pushing this as all fuck, but man I always hated it, even as a kid.
>>83435504
No, theyre different people.
I wonder how Craig would feel about this.
ugh
>>83433510
She was a useless addition and just annoying.
>>83437362
>>83438639
Curly Snaps was a god tier episode
>>83440641
Rather than her being an actual pedo, I heard that she was just going to flirt a lot with Arnold and she'd go too far and make him uncomfortable.
Hey guys, OP here. Confession time.
Ive actually been trying to make a nice HA thread for a while now, but those never really take off, for whatever reason. The OP for this thread is actually an exact copy of a thread from 2013, I wanted to see what are the conditions for a thread to take off, but now that it has kinda delivered, I want to get something off my chest.
You see, I rewatched HA for the first time since it aired a couple of months ago, and the show just completely resonated with me. That aspect of childhood that I dearly miss was represented on the screen in quite the realistic fashion, with a realistic setting but more importandely realistic characters. Hey rnold features some of the most human characters in a kids show ive ever seen, and particularly Helga hits very close to home.
Helga may have had a troubled childhood and a disfunctional family, but a lot of her unhappiness is completely her own fault. I feel that, throughtout my life, Ive commited the same mistakes Helga did. I missed a lot of opportunities because of my attittude, and I look back at those with regret. You can imagine what I felt when I decided to feed my nostalgia a little by rewatching a sho from my childhood, and then seeing basically myself and my mistakes.
The lack of proper closure for Hega and the series honestely breaks my heart, because I feel that I might be able to move on once I get it. I might be able to accept that my adult life can be as fulfilling as my childhood, but I need closure. I need to see how Helga ends up. The heavens may have answered my prayers with the confirmation of the Jungle movie, and right now theres really nothing I look foward to more than that.
I havent realy told anyone this, not even my therapist. Im embarassed to talk about how a kids cartoon had such a powerful effect on me, but I feel that I can get this off my chest. Of all people, I imagine /co/ would understand my passion, so thank you for hearing me out, and have a nice day.
>tfw Clarence feels like it has a little bit of Hey Arnold's style in there in terms of childhood slice of life
Anybody else watch Clarence for this reason too?
>>83441903
I actually see clarence as a younger ,less extreme EEnE
>>83434507
Sid and Curly. Both of them have the most batshit insane mental breaks for episodes.
>>83441551
lol what a fag
>>83436809
You fail history. It was pretty obviously supposed to be like the Americans leaving Vietnam and his name is Vietnamese and he has a Vietnamese accent.
>>83437362
>tfw you were a slightly less crazy curly in middle school
>>83436026
Who?
is Pigeon man flying off into the sunset an allegory for him committing suicide?
>>83441551
It's good to let it off your sholders....here.
Did yall know that "The Patakis" had a bible? As in, a written collection of episode ideas and such.
I wonder if he would leak it if we asked nicely enough.
>>83441209
Top is better.
>>83442862
You gotta get you a girl who can do both.
>>83433073
remember when hey Arnold ended on an episode about phoebe farting
>>83443482
Not anymore, with the Jungle movie coming.
>>83437006
>1975-1996
>21 years
Mai is 23-24 at most during the Christmas episode.
>>83444293
This show had a decent slice of life feel, where the characters had RL problems that could be solved intelligently, even through some comical means.
And yes, morals were spoon fed but didn't give that annoying feeling of shoving it down your throat.
>How better the episode could have been.
So, what episode gave you the most feels?
Mine has to be either Christmas or Helga on the couch
>>83433588
This tho
>>83441551
In 2013 we were having threads like every other day for a month. It was a great time.
>>83445252
Helga on the Couch was extremely relatable as a kid in therapy in elementary school, but I think the feelsiest episode for me is Road Trip.
>>83445450
I'm sure that the movie will spark another wave of discussion.
>>83445450
>It was a great time.
>>>83445537 #
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
>>83445563Can't you read, mister, can't you read?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOlJixJAhPM
So was the setting supposed to be some mix of Brooklyn and Seattle?
>>83445637
Oscar was such a lovable scumbag. Too bad his VA died a while back.
>>83436075
It's Hyunh. In one episode (Fighting Families, maybe?) someone misprounounced it as "Mister Hee-uhn!".
>>83437153
Dude, they were NINE. They were in 4th grade.
So was Mr. Simmons flying the rainbow flag?
>>83445907
I always felt you could double the kids' grade level and it wouldn't change anything. Might even make more sense.
>>83445997
For sure.
>>83437899
that file name, so underrated
>>83445252
>>83445516
You're all wrong, even though you have great tastes. The most feels episode is Parent's Day or Pigeon Man
>>83446228
I honestely didnt care much for them. Theyre all fantastically written, but theyre a bit too fantastical.
Arnolds parents as a whole are a bit unbelievably good people. But I guess the Jungle movie would delve deeper into that.
>>83446228
Pigeon Man was really good, but I have personal reasons for reacting to Road Trip the way I do.
>>83446228
Pigeon man is probably mine as well. It was pretty sad seeing some dumb kids fuck with an old man. I didn't really understand why people seem to attach the suicide thing to his character. He doesn't seem suicidal. All I got from it was that he really was leaving
MONKEYMAN
I saw your face
Andeh
>>83447225
One of those episodes that made you wonder why anyone thought it needed to be made
I'm just gonna leave this here...
>>83433621
>that episode where he disguised as an old lady and tried to kill grandpa Phil for hitting his truck
>>83447522
Was this the most controvertial episode?
>>83444534
Lilah starts singing
>Every seed turns into a flower
>Every minute turns into an hour
>>83433721
SAUCE DAMMIT! Paheal has nothing.
>>83441903
It's almost an exact replica of my childhood,i too had a healthy mixture of trashy and know it all friends
>>83447644
Apaprently. So much so that Bartlett disowned it.
>>83433116
>>83435091
I saw Ruth as Arnold after a sex change in his teen years
>>83447644
stoop kid left his stoop to laugh at arnold, nothing makes any sense
>>83448136
But the point of Stoop Kid's episode is that he's no longer afraid to leave his stoop
>>83445252
The Jolly Ollie Man episode. It's depressing because of how realistic it is. I lived in the homeless shelter for a while when I was between apartments, and it's a pretty accurate portrayal of people who end up there. They're awful human beings who don't want to stop doing stupid shit, then can't figure out why their lives are so terrible.
>>83447311
This episode got me through a fair few work days. I had a really repetitive job that didn't allow listening to music so I would just sing the whole episode to myself to pass the time.
>>83448112
Fuck you ruined it for me
>>83433073
I think the one episode that made me really take a moment to realise how great HA was, was "phoebe Skips"
That one episode was fucking brutal; Phoebe and Helga breaking up was sad enough, but watching Phoebe get eaten alive by the other kids was a whole different kettle of fish, just watching her get used and becoming more and more miserable was heartbreaking. Simultaneously we saw Helga realising that in fact, everybody hates her and nobody wants to trust her.
And then by the end they both end up crying on each others' shoulders and realise they desperately need each other and it's beautiful.
>>83448112
I wonder how that would affect Helga.
>>83447311
BULLFIGHTS AND SWORDFIGHTS
ROLLING IN MANURE
ONCE ON THE HEAD,
I CAN ENDURE
>>83445883
It was the Ol Opry episode, the floorboy said it wrong
![hey arnold! - 1x06 - heat ~ snow.avi_snapshot_22.25_[2014.09.18_19.00.14].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rwF8yyV.jpg "hey arnold! - 1x06 - heat ~ snow.avi_snapshot_22.25_[2014.09.18_19.00.14].jpg")
>>83448112
hi ruth hi ruth hi ruth hi ruth hi ruth hi ruth hi ruth hi ruth
>that snow episode where arnold had to do chores all day and couldnt play and finally at the end he gets to skate and sees ruth off in the distace
>>83449635
Your interpretation is a little too dramatic IMO. Its not like the other kids hate Helga, its just that they arent willing to endure her bullshit like Phoebe, because they dont know Helga as well as Phoebe does. Also, I dont think the point was that they desperately need each other, but that they were being foolish into thinking that they could just as well do without one another, or that they could be replaced.
>>83447721
DLToon...
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>>83447704
>Have an Olga happy dance..
>>83441551
talk to your therapist. I talked to mine how All Star Superman made me cry and I felt better after
Man, I had a crush on an older girl and she kinda looks like Ruth. Now I understand...
>>83433978
>the character of ruth is about idolising a girl from afar when you really no nothing about. Constantly putting her a pedestal.
Basically every girl i've ever been interested in.
Its not great.
AU
>>83442395
I dont think so, tim.
>>83452578
I wish foot fetishists tried to be subtle.
Anyone ever notice just how similar Phoebe is to Olga? They're both academic overachievers that have a hard time coping with even the slightest bit of failure.
>>83453877
You don't notice the subtle ones.
>>83446106
I have never in my life seen elementary schoolers act like this, I always felt like this took place in middle school.
>>83454457
Portland/New York is weird as shit.
>>83454104
No, but now I will never not notice it.
>>83441551
It's okay, anon.
>>83454104
That's why Helga likes Pheobe. She's like Olga, but Helga actually sees Pheobe's flaws.
I need porn of Emily Dickinson sharply whispering "cheater" in Anon's ear as she rides his dick while he's on the phone with his gf
>>83441551
screencapped
>>83434797
My school did co-ed sexual education in FIFTH grade. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but have since learned that that was considered very odd.
>>83433224
She was pretty ditzy. Thought all those poems were written by Anonymous... Seriously.
>>83434507
I liked Miriam a lot, and also Rhonda and strangely I quite enjoyed Harold. I found him to be a flawed character that I understood. His parents and friends and size haven't allowed him to learn good social interaction skills.
>>83441551
How embarrassing, didn't you watch the movie?
>>83435019
That was season 1, when they were still finding their footing. Interestingly, from what I have been told, Craig the creator started out season 1 of Hey Arnold as a bit more of his head in the clouds, above all the struggles and anxieties. Only around midway through season 1 did he start acting more like the Arnold we all know and like.
>>83435504
Nope, that one is from none other that Limey404 aka DoublePines, back before Gravity Falls existed and she still used DeviantArt. She didn't do a lot of them though.
I don't know about that pot-obsessed person.
>>83435458
I had Sex Ed I think one or two days each year and that was all. We were separated by gender. That picture in question is definitely from high school because we weren't taught about condoms until then.
>>83435681
Wow that's early.
>>83435912
The writing in Hey Arnold! was generally very good.
>>83436110
Same here. I rediscovered it in my 20s and it is great. Rewatched it again last year and it still holds up after 20 years solid and great as ever.
>>83441551
>a lot of her unhappiness is completely her own fault.
It pains me to agree with you because I freakin' love Helga, but you are sadly right. Her family doesn't help, AT ALL, but yeah, her own psychosis are her own worst enemy. Her dad may be a blowhard workaholic, her mom an ACTUAL alcoholic, and her sister is so wrapped up in her own point of view she can't see Helga as a real person nor anything more than her baby sister. But all those don't directly stop her from confessing her love.
But Arnold has become so important, so integral to her life, that she is too afraid to change things lest she love him. He is, for her, the one stabilizing good point her life. The rest is too hard for her to handle.
Okay, maybe not completely her own fault. But her situation illustrates how you need to have friends and family to help you learn to deal with yourself and deal with problems. If left alone with no one to talk to, it is very very difficult to grow and overcome your own mind.
And friend, there's nothing wrong with finding deeper meaning in ANYTHING, let alone a kids cartoon. Firstly, Hey Arnold! is probably a masterpiece of animation and story telling. It IS trying to teach life lessons while being entertaining. I remember when I learned from a moment in another cartoon when was 22 about the importance of being thankful, instead of bitter and unhappy.
>>83433650
>forbidden /ss/ love
>2 years difference
TWO fucking years for crying out loud!
Considering that they had to remove an actual pedo character, this one is rather tame.
The problem also is, that cartoons have always the difficulties of depicting "children" way more mature than they actually are.
Arnold is probably one of the worst offenders in the history of /co/, as even the adults came to him to ask for advice.
>>83434514
We had coed sex-ed when I was 9.
Dunno what grade I would be when I was in the US.
>>83434632
>hey BB, wan sum fugg :DDDD
Smooth as a motherfucker!
>>83459842
I read that as coed sex and wondered why you had to specify but then I remembered where I was.
Are they actually doing that jungle movie finally?
>>83460158
yep
>>83459555
>>83433073
Did Phoebe have a thing for Gerald?
>>83459555
Perhaps the best episode to illustrate how Helga sabotages herself is "Helga and the nanny".
>>83461288
Yeah. They were the hip minority couple.
>>83462457
is limey some sort of HA obscessed?
>>83463500
Probably, but its also not a very hard artstyle to do, which lends itself well to fanart.
so...how bout that movie, huh
>>83433333
checked
>>83433835
WHAT THE FUCK, NICK
How did no one catch that?
>>83434632
I don't care if I'm a day late, tell me it continues.
>>83441551
cool facebook post man
So, what was your favorite episode?
>>83454104
The academic push is the only similarity.
Where Olga is demonstrably touchy-feely, Phoebe is downright taciturn by comparison. Whether it's due to her Japanese heritage or just her own personality quirk, Phoebe very rarely lets her emotions show, let alone rule her actions.
This is why the consequences of "Pre-Teen Scream" are so mortifying to her - she actually acted like a preteen girl and was utterly humiliated by it. "Phoebe Skips" also shows she's vulnerable to peer pressure and gets taken advantage of by the 6th-grade girls, also resulting in humiliation.
Phoebe is nothing like Olga.
>>83433975
I found this recently. Thought it was pretty neat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hJKhiew2O0
>>83433975
Shit, a lot of weirdly strong emotions came flooding back from the Parents Day ending theme...
Hey Arnold was really fucking good.
>>83437899
He's a heroin addict.
>>83433650
Heh, you know in an alternate universe we could've gotten some of that. Apparently Lana Vail was supposed to have a crush on Arnold. I've never seen an interview proving it though.
"Cecile" is best HA girl
>>83460540
I want to bury my face in the front of that skirt
>>83433975
>The music is even more powerful than I remember
"Jim Lang, give us some of that school shooter theme shit mang"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSzEUR7h-Ew
>>83453877
It's a vidcap.
Go blame the artists
>>83434417
I SAW
I SAW
YOUR FACE
AND WOW!
Pheobe is the best Hey Arnold girl
>>83470465
RIGHT THEN I TOOK A VOW
THAT WE'D BE TOGETHER GIRL
JUST YOU AND ME
THAT'S THE MEANING OF ETERNITY
>>83453644
>not unibrow
DELETE THIS
>>83447831
Exactly this, Clarence is a more accurate representation of my childhood than any other kid's show has been able to achieve
>>83442733
Now that he's back with Nickelodeon, it's highly unlikely.
I will never not feel bad for this turtle
>>83471080
I liked that Hey Arnold stretched things to increase a coolness factor. Like there's very little possibility that a 9 year in the 90's would have a room as awesome as Arnold's with their own computer and Internet connection, sound system, controllable lighting system, roof access, music collection and video editing software, but it was fun to imagine yourself with those things. Clarence is far more realistic and relatable, which is good in its own way too, but it's not as cool a show.
>>83471228
Wouldn't surprise me if he died upon being released into the ocean due to un-acclimated shock or some shit
>>83471267
Of course. I totally lusted after Arnold's room as a kid.
>That episode where it's implied Ernie is killed by a ghost shortly after it ends
>>83471305
Or more likely, got hit by a boat
Looking back, they did a lot of same episodes twice.
>Arnold making Helga temporarily blind and get amnesia only for Helga to keep faking it to spend more time with Arnold (then did the same thing when Helga caused Phoebe to break her leg),
>the camping trip and fishing trip gone wrong
>like three different urban legends about a ghost story that end up being real
>Helga's diary and then locket ending up in Arnold's hands and her trying to get them back
>>83471861
That fucking diary one where she just collapses through the ceiling in the middle of their sleepover.
Jesus.
>>83441903
The episode where his grandmother tears the house apart is 100% genius
>>83471875
>the parrot one where she was going to beat it to death in front of the whole class until the Komodo dragon ate it.
do you DARE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9v_Gfmq1g
>>83465042
I said the same thing...darq sent them to me...
>>83446323
>Arnolds parents as a whole are a bit unbelievably good people
That's usually the case for the parents of orphan MCs, mostly because when the MC learns about them he only gets to hear about how awesome they were and how sad it is that they are dead.
Harry Potter did a cool twist with it after he spent 5 books idealizing his parents as the most awesome people that ever existed.
>>83465390
not bad
>>83433835
>>83472899
She's just wearing skin colored leggings.
Now this is an interesting one.
>>83465316
But it still doesnt invalidate that they both are really bad at coping with the fact that they werent perfect or the best in class. Whats different about them is the reason why:
Phoebe is prideful of her grades, and she wants to be the best.
Olga, though, was trained to be the best. Her parents basically made it so being the best was an integral part of Olgas identity, and whenever she fails to reach these standards, she has a serious mental breakown. To Olga, being perfect isnt a matter of pride, but the bare minimum.
>>83475029
Remember Phoebe's surprise at being bested by Sheena. This pushes her to cheat to maintain her status as the best - it's part of her identity.
Olga, however, sinks into a melodramatic depression when she believes she has made her first B. No scheming, no mad plans to remove the blemishing grade from her records. She just shuts down.
That's what separates her from Phoebe. Olga accepts her fate, if somewhat histrionically. Phoebe actually is willing to change her fate. Remember that we also see this in "Hall Monitor" - she will act outside her projected behavior pattern to maintain control over her surroundings if pushed. (Even Helga's fantasy world in "Married" shows that she recognizes Phoebe doesn't tolerate deviation from her plans.)
I listened to this song so much as a kid. I still have this Nicktoons CD too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0wpPJUiyas
>>83437899
>filename
>>83475434
But that's what I said. Phoebe wants to be the best, while Olga needs to be the best. To them, the reasons are different, but to everyone else, they would appear quite similar.
It's been awhile since I've seen the show but did the show keep the character development?
Like Rhonda becoming a better person after befriending Patty. I thought the episode was great one of my favorites really. But I can't remember if she actually stayed being a better person
>>83473515
Nice try, my friend told me it was lasy animators.
Same thing can be said for the 80's Transformers G1.
>Why AIN'T there more R34 of them together.
>>83476125
I know that Harold became less of a bully.
>>83476125
The show did have a lot of repetitive character development.
Rhonda usually goes back to being a rich smug cunt in the episodes focused on her then learns back her lesson, just like Oskar going back to being a lazy sleazebag or that singer becoming a dick again. The episodes that didn't focus on her though had her being on good terms with everybody else in school.
>>83476440
That was more of him originally being conceived as the bully character (eventually the 5th graders took the role) while Harold became the fat friend/token jew.
>>83475839
Well, I still think that Olga's drive to be the best is obviously a function of her showmanship, while Phoebe's is much more internalized. Anyone giving them something beyond a passing glance would pick this up immediately. Olga would be seen as a flashy showoff, while Phoebe would be seen as just another diligent Asian overachiever.
Remember how Olga brags about the grades on her latest report card while Phoebe quietly expects her next top grade on the latest assignment? They both come from pride, but one is flaunted by its recipient while the other one is downplayed.
Also remember the reactions to less-than-best grades: one is consolation for a perceived loss while the other is teasing for slipping performance. Even if both are expected to be the best, the responses to each shows that each audience understands the underlying motivations and adjusts their response accordingly.
>>83476920
The difference everyone misses is that Olga knew she earned that A+. She knew she worked her ass off and she knew she aced every assignment in that class. So how's she supposed to take her grade? That despite working as hard as she could have and doing everything expected of her it wasn't good enough and she has no idea what she could have done wrong because she knows she went above and beyond what was expected of her.
And yet there's that grade. It's probably the cruelest thing Helga has ever done.
>>83476697
Rhonda has mellowed out a bit over time. The times she has to learn to be more tolerant have gone from generalized (cool vs. geek) to more specific (Patty, Curly), and each time she learns a bit more.
Is she perfect? No don't expect her to be yet - she's nine. Is she improving , though? Yes, she is.
As for Oskar? I'm still surprised that an unemployed illiterate leech like him bagged such a cutie as Suzie. I don't think he'll ever change his ways completely.
(I have this fantasy that Suzie finds out the preacher who did their wedding turns out to be fake. When the judge presiding over the annulment finds out the immigrant Oskar is not in the country legally due to this, he gives Suzie the chance to marry him for real to keep him here - and she says no.)
Harold mellows out with good influences (Arnold, Patty, Marty Green). He'll be okay as soon as he moves away from his enabling mom.
>>83477086
Graded on a curve. perhaps? Or maybe she just never questions authority.
And, yes, it was evil on Helga's part, because she knew this would happen - yet even she succumbed to her conscience eventually. She's not as evil as she thought (and Olga still forgives her, because she knows that even though Helga isn't a slave to performance like she is, she still gets short shrift in other ways).
>>83476920
Eh, maybe you're right. But there's definitely something very amiss in Olga's character for her to have such a breakdown. That reaction of hers wasn't due to her dissapointing her parents, but due to her head just not computing how she could have been less than perfect. It's clear that the idea of her being the best is deeply rooted in her character, and she cannot function if she fails.
Phoebes reaction is much more due to her own vanity.
>>83477412
In all likelihood she would have believed she would have had to have bombed the final and that's how she got her grade.
>>83477287
I think Suzie eventually left him, at some point later in the series the only tennants in the house were Hyunh, Oskar and Ernie while Suzie was nowhere to be seen.
>>83477575
I can agree with both of your conclusions here.
>>83477621
It really wouldn't have mattered how it happened. The incongruity of a non-A grade on her report card just made her brain BSOD.
>>83477646
No Oskar. He'd never make the rent payments.
So everyone has a favorite character. But what is the worst character?
I never really liked Eugene.
Grandpa Phil is best character. He gave Hitler a wedgie.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29x7hm_grandpa-phil-gives-hitler-a-wedgie_fun
>>83471228
You just reminded me of this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ72HJcrdd8
