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Hey Arnold!

Hey Arnold! is an American animated television series created by Craig Bartlett for Nickelodeon. The show aired from October 7, 1996, to June 8, 2004.[1] The show centers on fourth grader Arnold Shortman, who lives with his grandparents in an inner-city tenement in the fictional city of Hillwood, Washington.[2] Episodes center on his experiences navigating urban life while dealing with the problems he and his friends encounter. Many episodes however, focus on other characters, including major, secondary, supporting, and even minor characters.

Hey Arnold!
Genre
Created byCraig Bartlett
Based onArnold shorts
by Craig Bartlett
Developed by
Creative directorTuck Tucker
Voices of
Opening theme"Hey Arnold!" by Francesca Marie Smith
Ending theme"Stompin'"
ComposerJim Lang
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes100 (185 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Craig Bartlett
  • Mary Harrington
Animators
Running time23 minutes (two 11-minute segments each)
Production companies
DistributorViacom Media Networks
Release
Original networkNickelodeon
Picture formatNTSC
Original releaseOctober 7, 1996 (1996-10-07) –
June 8, 2004 (2004-06-08)[1]

Bartlett's idea for the show is based on a minor character named Arnold whom he created while working on Pee-wee's Playhouse. The executives enjoyed the character, and Bartlett completed the cast and setting by drawing inspiration from people and locations he grew up with in Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, and Brooklyn, New York. Bartlett created the pilot episode in his living room in 1994 and official production began in 1995. The animators worked to transform Arnold from clay animation to cel animation, leading to the series premiere in 1996. Production on the show concluded on December 7, 2001, after 5 seasons and 100 episodes, and its last episode aired unannounced on June 8, 2004. A feature film based on the series, Hey Arnold!: The Movie, was released in theaters on June 28, 2002. All five seasons have been released on DVD.

On March 2, 2016, a television film continuation of the series, Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie, was greenlit. It picks up from where the series ended and resolved the unanswered plotlines of the story.[3][4][5] The film premiered on November 24, 2017 on Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, TeenNick, NickRewind and on November 24, 2018, as an international theatrical release, wrapping up the series's storyline.

Premise

Setting

Hey Arnold! takes place in the urban fictional American city of Hillwood. Creator Craig Bartlett described the city as "an amalgam of large northern cities I have loved, including Seattle (my hometown), Portland (where I went to art school) and Brooklyn (the bridge, the brownstones, the subway)";[6] the city also contains inspirations from Chicago, such as a baseball field called Quigley Field (a reference to the real-life Wrigley Field).[7] Evan Levine of the Houston Chronicle commented on the series's "backdrop of dark streets, nighttime adventures and rundown buildings, all seen from a child's point of view."[8]

At the end of the episode "Road Trip", when Helga and Miriam are returning home after having car troubles en route to South Dakota, they pass a sign marking the Washington State border, implying that Hillwood is in Washington.[2][9] The Pig War, as re-enacted in the episode of the same title, took place on the boundary between what is now British Columbia and the state of Washington.[10] A bridge that leads to downtown Hillwood resembles Portland's Burnside Bridge, while Gerald's house was modeled after the Victorian houses seen in Nob Hill, Portland.[9] New York City (with landmarks such as the Empire State Building, Twin Towers,[7] and Statue of Liberty visible in the skyline) was also seen in Helga's dream in the episode "Married",[11] presumably as a separate city from Hillwood in-universe.

Characters

Hey Arnold! features nine-year-old Arnold Shortman (voiced by Lane Toran; Phillip Van Dyke; Spencer Klein; and Alex D. Linz) and his neighborhood friends: Gerald Johanssen (voiced by Jamil Walker Smith), a street-smart character who generally serves as the leader of the group; and Helga Pataki (Francesca Marie Smith), a girl who bullies Arnold in order to hide the fact that she is in love with him. Bartlett drew inspiration from people he grew up with when creating the characters for the show.[12]

Arnold lives with his eccentric but loving paternal grandparents, Phil Shortman (Dan Castellaneta) and his wife Gertrude Shortman (Tress MacNeille), proprietors of the Sunset Arms boarding house, in the fictional city of Hillwood. In each episode, he helps a schoolmate or boarding house tenant in solving a personal problem or encounters a predicament of his own. Many episodes involve urban legends (usually told by Gerald), such as superheroes or the Headless Horseman.

Other characters include students and faculty at P.S. 118, Arnold's school, and citizens of Hillwood. Certain episodes focus on the lives of supporting characters, such as the tenants of the boarding house that Arnold's grandparents own.

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
PilotJuly 10, 1996 (1996-07-10) (cinemas)
120October 7, 1996 (1996-10-07)February 12, 1997 (1997-02-12)
220January 6, 1997 (1997-01-06)February 5, 1998 (1998-02-05)
319August 31, 1998 (1998-08-31)December 21, 1998 (1998-12-21)
417March 10, 1999 (1999-03-10)December 11, 1999 (1999-12-11)
524March 4, 2000 (2000-03-04)June 8, 2004 (2004-06-08)[13]
Hey Arnold!: The MovieJune 28, 2002 (2002-06-28)
Hey Arnold!: The Jungle MovieNovember 24, 2017 (2017-11-24)

Production

Craig Bartlett, the show's creator, was born in Seattle, Washington, which he used as inspiration for the backdrop of Hey Arnold!. He graduated from Anacortes High School and obtained a degree in communications from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.[14] During high school and college, he studied painting and sculpture at the Museum Art School in Portland. Originally, Bartlett intended to become a painter "in the 19th-century sense", but he became interested in animation during a trip to Italy.[12] His first post-graduation job was at Will Vinton Productions, a claymation studio in Portland.[14]

In 1987, Bartlett relocated to Los Angeles, where he joined a team developing claymation cutaways for the television program Pee-wee's Playhouse. The short segments centered on a character named Penny and her friend Arnold. Bartlett later made three Arnold shorts: Arnold Escapes from Church (1988),[15] The Arnold Waltz (1990),[16][17] and Arnold Rides a Chair (1991), the latter aired as a filler short on Sesame Street in 1991. The same year, Arnold comic strips also appeared in Simpsons Illustrated magazine by Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, who was also Craig Bartlett's brother-in-law.

Bartlett later joined the staff for Rugrats, where he served as story editor for three years. In 1993, he teamed up with five writers from Rugrats to develop animated projects for Nickelodeon.[14] These meetings were generally difficult and the writers became frustrated; Bartlett recalled: "Our ideas were OK, but such a large and motley group couldn't get far at pitch meetings. Network execs got migraines just counting us coming in the door."[14] As a last resort, Bartlett played the Penny tapes, intending to highlight the Penny character. However, the executives were more impressed by Arnold, despite his status as a minor character.[14] After the meeting, the group began developing Arnold, creating his personality. Bartlett stated: "We did a lot of talking about who Arnold is. We came up with a reluctant hero who keeps finding himself responsible for solving something, making the right choices, doing the right thing."[14] After creating ideas for Arnold, Bartlett began work on the supporting characters, drawing influence from his childhood: "A lot of the characters are an amalgam of people I knew when I was a kid. The girls in Hey Arnold! are girls that either liked or didn't like me when I was in school."[12]

In 1994, Bartlett began work on the pilot episode of Hey Arnold!. A year later, the network decided to begin work on the series.[12] The ten-minute pilot episode, titled Arnold, was shown in theaters on July 10, 1996, before Nickelodeon's first feature-length film, its adaptation of Harriet the Spy.[14] Apart from the animation style, Nick's Arnold wears a sweater, with his plaid shirt untucked (resembling a kilt). Only Arnold's cap remains unchanged from his original clay-animation wardrobe.

Hey Arnold! was Nickelodeon's first animated series to feature kids voiced by actual children instead of adults. As a result of this, many of the boy characters, including Arnold himself, were recast at least once throughout the show's run, due to the child actors reaching puberty. One notable exception to this was Jamil Walker Smith, the voice of Gerald. After Smith's voice changed, auditions for a new actor were held, but the crew felt none of them were suitable replacements. As a result, Smith was kept on as the voice of Gerald, whose voice subsequently changed in-universe with the episode Gerald's Tonsils. This would last until The Jungle Movie, which featured Benjamin Flores Jr. as the voice of Gerald instead.

Production of Hey Arnold! wrapped on December 7, 2001.[18] A dispute over a second then-planned Hey Arnold! movie, The Jungle Movie, resulted in Bartlett leaving Nickelodeon. The last season's episodes were released over four years, beginning on March 4, 2000. The series aired its final episode, unannounced, on June 8, 2004.[1] The Jungle Movie was eventually released as a television film on November 24, 2017.

Broadcast

United States

Hey Arnold! originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States from October 7, 1996, until June 8, 2004, with reruns until September 1, 2006. In 2002, Nicktoons Network began broadcasting the show, and aired reruns of Hey Arnold! until May 30, 2007, when the show was taken off its nightly schedule. The show aired in reruns on the now-defunct Nick on CBS programming block for two years, from September 14, 2002, to September 4, 2004.

International

Hey Arnold! premiered on October 30, 1996, in the United Kingdom, originally on CITV. Hey Arnold! aired in reruns on Canadian Nickelodeon from September 5, 2011, to August 29, 2022. In 2017, the Kenya Film Classification Board banned Hey Arnold!, together with the cartoon series The Loud House, The Legend of Korra, Steven Universe, Clarence and Adventure Time, from being broadcast in Kenya. According to the Board, the reason was that these series were "glorifying homosexual behavior".[19]

Critical Reception

Retrospective

In an article for Vox, Caroline Framke praised Hey Arnold’s depiction of adolescence and urban life, stating: "Hey Arnold wove urban legends into its empathetic narrative of how hard it can be to grow up — and how rewarding the process can be when you have some friends and a whole lot of imagination."[20] Rafael Motamayor of /Film echoed that sentiment, writing "Rather than show it as a scary place where every cop show in America is set, Arnold and his friends demonstrated that the city is also a place with endless possibilities, myths, and characters. Not that the show encouraged anything bad; the kids always knew where to go and where not to go. But it showed the reality of millions of kids who grew up in urban areas, and challenged the idea of the perfect American life".[21] Bustle’s Marie Grace Goris suggested the series as the "best Nickelodeon cartoon of all time" and cited sixteen reasons why, such as its diverse characters and its ability to "emotionally stir" viewers.[22]

Home media

Nickelodeon released all five seasons on DVD in Region 1 via Amazon.com through its CreateSpace Manufacture-on-demand program in 2008 and 2009. Season 1 was released on August 21, 2008, Season 2 on August 29, 2008, Season 3 on December 8, 2009,[23] Season 4 on November 27, 2009, and Season 5 on December 4, 2009.[24]

CreateSpace Releases Release Date Discs Episodes
Season 1 August 21, 2008 4 20
Season 2 August 29, 2008 4 19
Season 3: Volume 1 & Volume 2 December 8, 2009 6 20
Season 4 November 27, 2009 4 17
Season 5 December 4, 2009 4 24

On May 9, 2011, it was announced that Shout! Factory had acquired the rights to the series.[25] They subsequently released Season 1 in a 4-disc set on August 9, 2011.[26] Season 2, Part 1 was released in a 2-disc set on March 20, 2012,[27] followed by Season 2, Part 2 in a 2-disc set on July 24, 2012.[28] Season 3 was released in a 3-disc set on January 29, 2013, as a "Shout Select" title.[29] On May 14, 2013, Season 4 was released in a 2-disc set as a Shout exclusive followed by Season 5 released in a 3-disc set on October 15, 2013, also as a Shout exclusive[30] making the entire series available on DVD. On August 19, 2014, the complete series was released in a 16-disc set through Shout! Factory as a Walmart exclusive. On November 20, 2018, Paramount Home Entertainment released Hey Arnold!: The Ultimate Collection DVD containing all of the previously released episodes and movies now packaged into one set.[31]

In Australia, all five seasons have been released by Beyond Home Entertainment under license from Nickelodeon. A 16-disc collector's edition was released on September 1, 2016, containing all five seasons.

DVD Name Episodes # of Discs Release Date
Region 1 Region 4
Season 1 20 4 August 9, 2011 (2011-08-09) April 3, 2013
Season 2, Part 1
Season 2, Part 2
19 4 March 20, 2012 (2012-03-20)
July 2, 2012 (2012-07-02)
April 3, 2013 (complete)
Season 3♦ 20 3 January 29, 2013 (2013-01-29) June 3, 2015
Season 4♦ 17 2 May 14, 2013 (2013-05-14)[32] June 3, 2015
Season 5♦ 24 3 October 15, 2013 (2013-10-15)[33] September 1, 2015
The Complete Series 100 16 August 19, 2014 (2014-08-19)[34] September 1, 2016
The Ultimate Collection 100, 2 Movies 18 November 20, 2018 (2018-11-20)[35]

♦ – Shout! Factory select title sold exclusively through Shout's online store.

Films

2002 feature film

In this 2002 feature film, Arnold, Helga and Gerald set out on a quest to save their old neighborhood from a greedy developer who plans on converting it into a huge shopping mall. This film was directed by Tuck Tucker, and featured guest voice talents of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Sorvino and Christopher Lloyd.

In 1998, Nickelodeon gave Craig Bartlett the chance to develop a feature adaptation of the series.[36] As work on the fifth season was completing, Bartlett and company engaged in the production of Arnold Saves the Neighborhood, which would eventually become Hey Arnold!: The Movie.[36] The Neighborhood project was originally made for television and home video,[36][37] but executives at Paramount Pictures decided to release it theatrically after successful test screenings.[37] According to animation historian Jerry Beck (in his Animated Movie Guide), the decision was buoyed by the financial success of the first two Rugrats movies, The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie.[36]

2017 television film

In an interview with Arun Mehta, Craig Bartlett announced that he was working with Nickelodeon on a Hey Arnold! revival.[38] In September 2015, Nickelodeon president Russell Hicks announced that the company was considering revivals for a number of their older shows, including Hey Arnold!.[39] According to an announcement by The Independent, a Hey Arnold! revival is "very much on the cards".[40] On November 23, 2015, Nickelodeon announced that a TV movie is in the works and will pick up right where the series left off.[41] The film will also answer unanswered questions about the fate of Arnold's parents.[41] On March 1, 2016, it was announced that the TV film, The Jungle Movie, would be divided into two parts and would air in 2017.[5] On March 6, 2016, voice actress Nika Futterman confirmed on Twitter that she and her character Olga Pataki would appear in the two-hour film.[42] In June 2016, it was confirmed that the TV film would be titled The Jungle Movie, and that 19 of the original voice actors from the series would lend their voices in the film.[43] New cast-members included Mason Vale Cotton as Arnold; Benjamin "Lil' P-Nut" Flores as Gerald; Gavin Lewis as Eugene; Jet Jurgensmeyer as Stinky; Aiden Lewandowski as Sid; Laya Hayes as Nadine; Nicolas Cantu as Curly; Wally Wingert as Oskar; Stephen Stanton as Pigeon Man; and Alfred Molina as the villain Lasombra.[44] The film debuted on November 24, 2017, on Nickelodeon.

Possible reboot

Before the premiere of The Jungle Movie, Nickelodeon stated that if the ratings of the film would succeed they would consider rebooting the series. Though the ratings were a success with millennials, it ended up missing the mark with Generation Z so the idea of bringing back the show on Nickelodeon was scrapped. However, in August 2018, musical composer for the show Jim Lang revealed in a Tunes/Toons podcast that while Nick will not produce the show at the studio due to the poor ratings of The Jungle Movie, he had this to say: "Netflix, Amazon, Apple were all people that they were going to go out to with the idea of trying to make a season six of Hey Arnold!. We haven't heard anything yet but we've got our fingers crossed."[45] In October 2019, Craig Bartlett revealed in an interview with The Arun Mehta Show that Hey Arnold! could come back as a series with the characters aged up for season 6 if the Rugrats reboot is successful.[46]

Soundtrack

Hey Arnold! The Music, Volume 1 was released on July 3, 2020 as a vinyl record, marking the first-ever official release of the show's music. The soundtrack included 45 minutes of previously unreleased music that had been remastered from the original audio files by Emmy Award-winning sound engineer Dave Marino in conjunction with show composer Jim Lang, as well as new original exclusive artwork done by Bartlett.[47]

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This article is about the original series For the 2002 film see Hey Arnold The Movie Hey Arnold is an American animated television series created by Craig Bartlett for Nickelodeon The show aired from October 7 1996 to June 8 2004 1 The show centers on fourth grader Arnold Shortman who lives with his grandparents in an inner city tenement in the fictional city of Hillwood Washington 2 Episodes center on his experiences navigating urban life while dealing with the problems he and his friends encounter Many episodes however focus on other characters including major secondary supporting and even minor characters Hey Arnold GenreAnimated sitcom Comedy drama Slice of lifeCreated byCraig BartlettBased onArnold shortsby Craig BartlettDeveloped byCraig Bartlett Joe Ansolabehere Steve VikstenCreative directorTuck TuckerVoices ofLane Toran Phillip Van Dyke Spencer Klein Alex D Linz Jamil Walker Smith Francesca Marie Smith Dan Castellaneta Tress MacNeille Justin Shenkarow Anndi McAfee Sam Gifaldi Olivia Hack Dan Butler Maurice LaMarche Kath Soucie Craig BartlettOpening theme Hey Arnold by Francesca Marie SmithEnding theme Stompin ComposerJim LangCountry of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons5No of episodes100 185 segments list of episodes ProductionExecutive producersCraig Bartlett Mary HarringtonAnimatorsHong Ying Animation Company Limited Suzhou Jiangsu China Hung Long Animation Company Saerom Animation Wang Film Productions Toon Us In Animations U S AnimationRunning time23 minutes two 11 minute segments each Production companiesSnee Oosh Inc Games Animation 1996 1998 Nickelodeon Animation Studio 1998 2004 DistributorViacom Media NetworksReleaseOriginal networkNickelodeonPicture formatNTSCOriginal releaseOctober 7 1996 1996 10 07 June 8 2004 2004 06 08 1 Bartlett s idea for the show is based on a minor character named Arnold whom he created while working on Pee wee s Playhouse The executives enjoyed the character and Bartlett completed the cast and setting by drawing inspiration from people and locations he grew up with in Seattle Washington Portland Oregon and Brooklyn New York Bartlett created the pilot episode in his living room in 1994 and official production began in 1995 The animators worked to transform Arnold from clay animation to cel animation leading to the series premiere in 1996 Production on the show concluded on December 7 2001 after 5 seasons and 100 episodes and its last episode aired unannounced on June 8 2004 A feature film based on the series Hey Arnold The Movie was released in theaters on June 28 2002 All five seasons have been released on DVD On March 2 2016 a television film continuation of the series Hey Arnold The Jungle Movie was greenlit It picks up from where the series ended and resolved the unanswered plotlines of the story 3 4 5 The film premiered on November 24 2017 on Nickelodeon Nicktoons TeenNick NickRewind and on November 24 2018 as an international theatrical release wrapping up the series s storyline Contents 1 Premise 1 1 Setting 1 2 Characters 2 Episodes 3 Production 4 Broadcast 4 1 United States 4 2 International 5 Critical Reception 5 1 Retrospective 6 Home media 7 Films 7 1 2002 feature film 7 2 2017 television film 8 Possible reboot 9 Soundtrack 10 References 11 External linksPremise EditSetting Edit Hey Arnold takes place in the urban fictional American city of Hillwood Creator Craig Bartlett described the city as an amalgam of large northern cities I have loved including Seattle my hometown Portland where I went to art school and Brooklyn the bridge the brownstones the subway 6 the city also contains inspirations from Chicago such as a baseball field called Quigley Field a reference to the real life Wrigley Field 7 Evan Levine of the Houston Chronicle commented on the series s backdrop of dark streets nighttime adventures and rundown buildings all seen from a child s point of view 8 At the end of the episode Road Trip when Helga and Miriam are returning home after having car troubles en route to South Dakota they pass a sign marking the Washington State border implying that Hillwood is in Washington 2 9 The Pig War as re enacted in the episode of the same title took place on the boundary between what is now British Columbia and the state of Washington 10 A bridge that leads to downtown Hillwood resembles Portland s Burnside Bridge while Gerald s house was modeled after the Victorian houses seen in Nob Hill Portland 9 New York City with landmarks such as the Empire State Building Twin Towers 7 and Statue of Liberty visible in the skyline was also seen in Helga s dream in the episode Married 11 presumably as a separate city from Hillwood in universe Characters Edit Main article List of Hey Arnold characters Hey Arnold features nine year old Arnold Shortman voiced by Lane Toran Phillip Van Dyke Spencer Klein and Alex D Linz and his neighborhood friends Gerald Johanssen voiced by Jamil Walker Smith a street smart character who generally serves as the leader of the group and Helga Pataki Francesca Marie Smith a girl who bullies Arnold in order to hide the fact that she is in love with him Bartlett drew inspiration from people he grew up with when creating the characters for the show 12 Arnold lives with his eccentric but loving paternal grandparents Phil Shortman Dan Castellaneta and his wife Gertrude Shortman Tress MacNeille proprietors of the Sunset Arms boarding house in the fictional city of Hillwood In each episode he helps a schoolmate or boarding house tenant in solving a personal problem or encounters a predicament of his own Many episodes involve urban legends usually told by Gerald such as superheroes or the Headless Horseman Other characters include students and faculty at P S 118 Arnold s school and citizens of Hillwood Certain episodes focus on the lives of supporting characters such as the tenants of the boarding house that Arnold s grandparents own Episodes EditMain article List of Hey Arnold episodes SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedFirst airedLast airedPilotJuly 10 1996 1996 07 10 cinemas 120October 7 1996 1996 10 07 February 12 1997 1997 02 12 220January 6 1997 1997 01 06 February 5 1998 1998 02 05 319August 31 1998 1998 08 31 December 21 1998 1998 12 21 417March 10 1999 1999 03 10 December 11 1999 1999 12 11 524March 4 2000 2000 03 04 June 8 2004 2004 06 08 13 Hey Arnold The MovieJune 28 2002 2002 06 28 Hey Arnold The Jungle MovieNovember 24 2017 2017 11 24 Production EditCraig Bartlett the show s creator was born in Seattle Washington which he used as inspiration for the backdrop of Hey Arnold He graduated from Anacortes High School and obtained a degree in communications from The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington 14 During high school and college he studied painting and sculpture at the Museum Art School in Portland Originally Bartlett intended to become a painter in the 19th century sense but he became interested in animation during a trip to Italy 12 His first post graduation job was at Will Vinton Productions a claymation studio in Portland 14 In 1987 Bartlett relocated to Los Angeles where he joined a team developing claymation cutaways for the television program Pee wee s Playhouse The short segments centered on a character named Penny and her friend Arnold Bartlett later made three Arnold shorts Arnold Escapes from Church 1988 15 The Arnold Waltz 1990 16 17 and Arnold Rides a Chair 1991 the latter aired as a filler short on Sesame Street in 1991 The same year Arnold comic strips also appeared in Simpsons Illustrated magazine by Matt Groening the creator of The Simpsons who was also Craig Bartlett s brother in law Bartlett later joined the staff for Rugrats where he served as story editor for three years In 1993 he teamed up with five writers from Rugrats to develop animated projects for Nickelodeon 14 These meetings were generally difficult and the writers became frustrated Bartlett recalled Our ideas were OK but such a large and motley group couldn t get far at pitch meetings Network execs got migraines just counting us coming in the door 14 As a last resort Bartlett played the Penny tapes intending to highlight the Penny character However the executives were more impressed by Arnold despite his status as a minor character 14 After the meeting the group began developing Arnold creating his personality Bartlett stated We did a lot of talking about who Arnold is We came up with a reluctant hero who keeps finding himself responsible for solving something making the right choices doing the right thing 14 After creating ideas for Arnold Bartlett began work on the supporting characters drawing influence from his childhood A lot of the characters are an amalgam of people I knew when I was a kid The girls in Hey Arnold are girls that either liked or didn t like me when I was in school 12 In 1994 Bartlett began work on the pilot episode of Hey Arnold A year later the network decided to begin work on the series 12 The ten minute pilot episode titled Arnold was shown in theaters on July 10 1996 before Nickelodeon s first feature length film its adaptation of Harriet the Spy 14 Apart from the animation style Nick s Arnold wears a sweater with his plaid shirt untucked resembling a kilt Only Arnold s cap remains unchanged from his original clay animation wardrobe Hey Arnold was Nickelodeon s first animated series to feature kids voiced by actual children instead of adults As a result of this many of the boy characters including Arnold himself were recast at least once throughout the show s run due to the child actors reaching puberty One notable exception to this was Jamil Walker Smith the voice of Gerald After Smith s voice changed auditions for a new actor were held but the crew felt none of them were suitable replacements As a result Smith was kept on as the voice of Gerald whose voice subsequently changed in universe with the episode Gerald s Tonsils This would last until The Jungle Movie which featured Benjamin Flores Jr as the voice of Gerald instead Production of Hey Arnold wrapped on December 7 2001 18 A dispute over a second then planned Hey Arnold movie The Jungle Movie resulted in Bartlett leaving Nickelodeon The last season s episodes were released over four years beginning on March 4 2000 The series aired its final episode unannounced on June 8 2004 1 The Jungle Movie was eventually released as a television film on November 24 2017 Broadcast EditUnited States Edit Hey Arnold originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States from October 7 1996 until June 8 2004 with reruns until September 1 2006 In 2002 Nicktoons Network began broadcasting the show and aired reruns of Hey Arnold until May 30 2007 when the show was taken off its nightly schedule The show aired in reruns on the now defunct Nick on CBS programming block for two years from September 14 2002 to September 4 2004 International Edit Hey Arnold premiered on October 30 1996 in the United Kingdom originally on CITV Hey Arnold aired in reruns on Canadian Nickelodeon from September 5 2011 to August 29 2022 In 2017 the Kenya Film Classification Board banned Hey Arnold together with the cartoon series The Loud House The Legend of Korra Steven Universe Clarence and Adventure Time from being broadcast in Kenya According to the Board the reason was that these series were glorifying homosexual behavior 19 Critical Reception EditRetrospective Edit In an article for Vox Caroline Framke praised Hey Arnold s depiction of adolescence and urban life stating Hey Arnold wove urban legends into its empathetic narrative of how hard it can be to grow up and how rewarding the process can be when you have some friends and a whole lot of imagination 20 Rafael Motamayor of Film echoed that sentiment writing Rather than show it as a scary place where every cop show in America is set Arnold and his friends demonstrated that the city is also a place with endless possibilities myths and characters Not that the show encouraged anything bad the kids always knew where to go and where not to go But it showed the reality of millions of kids who grew up in urban areas and challenged the idea of the perfect American life 21 Bustle s Marie Grace Goris suggested the series as the best Nickelodeon cartoon of all time and cited sixteen reasons why such as its diverse characters and its ability to emotionally stir viewers 22 Home media EditNickelodeon released all five seasons on DVD in Region 1 via Amazon com through its CreateSpace Manufacture on demand program in 2008 and 2009 Season 1 was released on August 21 2008 Season 2 on August 29 2008 Season 3 on December 8 2009 23 Season 4 on November 27 2009 and Season 5 on December 4 2009 24 CreateSpace Releases Release Date Discs EpisodesSeason 1 August 21 2008 4 20Season 2 August 29 2008 4 19Season 3 Volume 1 amp Volume 2 December 8 2009 6 20Season 4 November 27 2009 4 17Season 5 December 4 2009 4 24On May 9 2011 it was announced that Shout Factory had acquired the rights to the series 25 They subsequently released Season 1 in a 4 disc set on August 9 2011 26 Season 2 Part 1 was released in a 2 disc set on March 20 2012 27 followed by Season 2 Part 2 in a 2 disc set on July 24 2012 28 Season 3 was released in a 3 disc set on January 29 2013 as a Shout Select title 29 On May 14 2013 Season 4 was released in a 2 disc set as a Shout exclusive followed by Season 5 released in a 3 disc set on October 15 2013 also as a Shout exclusive 30 making the entire series available on DVD On August 19 2014 the complete series was released in a 16 disc set through Shout Factory as a Walmart exclusive On November 20 2018 Paramount Home Entertainment released Hey Arnold The Ultimate Collection DVD containing all of the previously released episodes and movies now packaged into one set 31 In Australia all five seasons have been released by Beyond Home Entertainment under license from Nickelodeon A 16 disc collector s edition was released on September 1 2016 containing all five seasons DVD Name Episodes of Discs Release DateRegion 1 Region 4Season 1 20 4 August 9 2011 2011 08 09 April 3 2013Season 2 Part 1Season 2 Part 2 19 4 March 20 2012 2012 03 20 July 2 2012 2012 07 02 April 3 2013 complete Season 3 20 3 January 29 2013 2013 01 29 June 3 2015Season 4 17 2 May 14 2013 2013 05 14 32 June 3 2015Season 5 24 3 October 15 2013 2013 10 15 33 September 1 2015The Complete Series 100 16 August 19 2014 2014 08 19 34 September 1 2016The Ultimate Collection 100 2 Movies 18 November 20 2018 2018 11 20 35 Shout Factory select title sold exclusively through Shout s online store Films Edit2002 feature film Edit Main article Hey Arnold The Movie In this 2002 feature film Arnold Helga and Gerald set out on a quest to save their old neighborhood from a greedy developer who plans on converting it into a huge shopping mall This film was directed by Tuck Tucker and featured guest voice talents of Jennifer Jason Leigh Paul Sorvino and Christopher Lloyd In 1998 Nickelodeon gave Craig Bartlett the chance to develop a feature adaptation of the series 36 As work on the fifth season was completing Bartlett and company engaged in the production of Arnold Saves the Neighborhood which would eventually become Hey Arnold The Movie 36 The Neighborhood project was originally made for television and home video 36 37 but executives at Paramount Pictures decided to release it theatrically after successful test screenings 37 According to animation historian Jerry Beck in his Animated Movie Guide the decision was buoyed by the financial success of the first two Rugrats movies The Rugrats Movie and Rugrats in Paris The Movie 36 2017 television film Edit Main article Hey Arnold The Jungle Movie In an interview with Arun Mehta Craig Bartlett announced that he was working with Nickelodeon on a Hey Arnold revival 38 In September 2015 Nickelodeon president Russell Hicks announced that the company was considering revivals for a number of their older shows including Hey Arnold 39 According to an announcement by The Independent a Hey Arnold revival is very much on the cards 40 On November 23 2015 Nickelodeon announced that a TV movie is in the works and will pick up right where the series left off 41 The film will also answer unanswered questions about the fate of Arnold s parents 41 On March 1 2016 it was announced that the TV film The Jungle Movie would be divided into two parts and would air in 2017 5 On March 6 2016 voice actress Nika Futterman confirmed on Twitter that she and her character Olga Pataki would appear in the two hour film 42 In June 2016 it was confirmed that the TV film would be titled The Jungle Movie and that 19 of the original voice actors from the series would lend their voices in the film 43 New cast members included Mason Vale Cotton as Arnold Benjamin Lil P Nut Flores as Gerald Gavin Lewis as Eugene Jet Jurgensmeyer as Stinky Aiden Lewandowski as Sid Laya Hayes as Nadine Nicolas Cantu as Curly Wally Wingert as Oskar Stephen Stanton as Pigeon Man and Alfred Molina as the villain Lasombra 44 The film debuted on November 24 2017 on Nickelodeon Possible reboot EditBefore the premiere of The Jungle Movie Nickelodeon stated that if the ratings of the film would succeed they would consider rebooting the series Though the ratings were a success with millennials it ended up missing the mark with Generation Z so the idea of bringing back the show on Nickelodeon was scrapped However in August 2018 musical composer for the show Jim Lang revealed in a Tunes Toons podcast that while Nick will not produce the show at the studio due to the poor ratings of The Jungle Movie he had this to say Netflix Amazon Apple were all people that they were going to go out to with the idea of trying to make a season six of Hey Arnold We haven t heard anything yet but we ve got our fingers crossed 45 In October 2019 Craig Bartlett revealed in an interview with The Arun Mehta Show that Hey Arnold could come back as a series with the characters aged up for season 6 if the Rugrats reboot is successful 46 Soundtrack EditHey Arnold The Music Volume 1 was released on July 3 2020 as a vinyl record marking the first ever official release of the show s music The soundtrack included 45 minutes of previously unreleased music that had been remastered from the original audio files by Emmy Award winning sound engineer Dave Marino in conjunction with show composer Jim Lang as well as new original exclusive artwork done by Bartlett 47 References Edit a b c Hey Arnold Nickelodeon Animation Studio Nickanimationstudio com Archived from the original on July 5 2017 Retrieved July 19 2016 a b Road Trip Hey Arnold Season 3 Episode 7 November 9 1998 Nickelodeon Barsanti Sam March 2 2016 Nickeldoeon Wraps Up 14 Year Cliffhanger Greenlights New Hey Arnold Movie AV Club Onion Archived from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved March 4 2016 Nickelodeon is making a Hey Arnold movie because the 90s never ended November 25 2015 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