HEY ARNOLD!

'''Hey Arnold!''' was an American animated television series that aired from October 7, 1996 until June 8, 2004 on Nickelodeon.

Contents

Premise

Production

Characters

Main voice cast

Episodes

Film

Location

Controversy

External links

Premise

The show stars 4th-grader Arnold, who lives with his grandparents Phil and Gertrude, proprietors of the Sunset Arms boarding house. (His doctor parents Stella and Miles went missing while on an international rescue mission).

Production

''Hey Arnold!'' was created by Craig Bartlett, and based on his clay animation shorts on Sesame Street and comics starring Arnold, whom he created in 1986. The familiar, cell-animated Arnold came about in the mid-1990s when Nickelodeon picked up the new series. Apart from the animation style, Nick's Arnold now wears a sweater, with his plaid shirt untucked (resembling a kilt). Only Arnold's beloved cap remained from his original clay-animation wardrobe.
"Hey Arnold!" debuted as an animated short for the Nickelodeon film "Harriet The Spy" in 1996.
The show also aired on the "Nick on CBS" in 2002 until September 2004.
Since the series was canceled before the release of the second movie, it's unknown whether Arnold saves his parents or not.

Characters

Main voice cast

'Characters'	'Image'	'Voice actor'
Arnold Shortman		Toran Caudell
Gerald Johanssen		Jamil Walker Smith
Helga Pataki		Francesca Marie Smith
Grandpa Phil		Dan Castellaneta
Grandma Gertie		Tress MacNeille

Episodes

Main articles: List of Hey Arnold! episodes

Film

Main articles: Hey Arnold!: The Movie

In the 2002 theatrically released film, Arnold and Gerald Johanssen set out to save their neighborhood from a villain who plans on converting it into a shopping mall.

Location

The series takes place in Hillwood City, a fictional locale resembling parts of Brooklyn, New York and Seattle. Many viewers believed that the city was actually New York City. In many season 1 episodes, and later on, the Brooklyn Bridge was seen as a massive prominent landmark in the city. Other episodes showed the overview of Arnold's Neighborhood, with the New York City skyline in the horizon, complete with the Empire State Building, suggesting the neighborhood was Brooklyn. But later on in the series, the city was revealed to be named Hillwood City, located in Washington.

Controversy

A Spanish version of Hey Arnold, dubbed Hey Arnoldo, was run for a short period of time, however, it was pulled from the air because it was deemed too controversial for Spanish television.

External links

★ ''Hey Arnold!'' area on Nick.com

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