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{{Infobox television
|show_name = {{PAGENAME}}
|image = Hey Arnold! Title Card.jpeg
|genre = Comedy-Drama<br/>Slice-of-life<br/>Animated series
|creator = [[Craig Bartlett]]
|starring = [[Toran Caudell]]<br/>[[Phillip Van Dyke]]<br/>[[Alex D. Linz]]<br/>[[Spencer Klein]]<br/>[[Jamil Walker Smith]]<br/>[[Francesca Marie Smith]]<br/>[[Justin Shenkarow]]<br/>[[Christopher P. Walberg]]<br/>[[Christopher Castile]]<br/>[[Jarrett Lennon]]<br/>[[Benjamin Diskin]]<br/>[[Sam Gifaldi]]<br/>[[Anndi McAfee]]<br/>[[Olivia Hack]]<br/>[[Dan Castellaneta]]<br/>[[Tress MacNeille]]<br/>Craig Bartlett<br/>[[Maurice LaMarche]]
|music_composer = [[Jim Lang]]
|opening_theme = [[Theme from Hey Arnold!]]
|country = United States
|seasons = 5
|episodes = 100 (185 segments)
|producer = Rachel Lipman<br/>[[Steve Viksten]]<br/>Joseph Purdy<br/>Joe Ansolabehere<br/>Michelle Lamoreaux
|executive_producer = Mary Harrington<br/>Craig Bartlett
|runtime = 24–46 minutes
|company = [[Games Animation, Inc.]]<br/>[[Snee-Oosh|Snee-Oosh, Inc.]]<br/>[[Nickelodeon Animation Studios]]
|picture_format = 480i (SDTV)
|audio_format = Stereo
|first_aired = [[1994]] ([[Arnold (pilot)|pilot]])<br/>October 7, [[1996]]
|last_aired = June 8, [[2004]]
|preceded_by = 
|followed_by = 
|related = 
|nick_name = hey-arnold 
|imdb_id = 0115200
|tv.com_summary =
|paramountplus_id = hey-arnold
| previous_nicktoon = ''[[Aaahh!!! Real Monsters]]''
| next_nicktoon = ''[[KaBlam!]]''}}[[File:"Hey Arnold!" Theme Song (HQ) Episode Opening Credits Nick Animation|thumb|250px]]
[[File:HeyArnold promotional poster.jpg|thumb|250px|From left to right: Helga, Arnold, and Gerald.]]
[[File:Hey_Arnold_The_Main_Characters_with_Background.jpeg|thumb|250px|The main characters. From left to right: Sid, Gerald, Stinky, Arnold, Harold, Eugene, Brainy, Sheena, Rhonda, Helga, Phoebe and Nadine.]]
'''''Hey Arnold!''''' is a [[Nicktoons|Nicktoon]] created by [[Craig Bartlett]] for [[Nickelodeon]], which originally ran from [[1996]] to [[2004]]. The show's premise focuses on a fourth grader named [[Arnold Shortman|Arnold]] who lives with his grandparents in a large city. Episodes center on his experiences navigating big city life while dealing with the problems he and his friends encounter, including urban legends.

The series' pilot, which was later reworked into the episode "[[24 Hours to Live]]", was shown before ''[[Harriet the Spy]]'' in theaters. The series debuted on Nickelodeon on October 7th, [[1996]] with the episodes "[[Downtown as Fruits]]" and "[[Eugene's Bike]]".

The show spun off a theatrical film, ''[[Hey Arnold!: The Movie]]'' (which was actually originally produced as a 3-part episode), and a made-for-TV movie, ''[[Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie]]'' (which, ironically, was supposed to originally be a theatrical film).

==History==
Animator [[Craig Bartlett]] graduated from Anacortes High School and obtained a degree in communications from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. During high school and college, he studied painting and sculpture at the Museum Art School in Portland, and his first job after college was at Will Vinton Productions, a claymation house. Originally, Bartlett intended to become a painter "in the 19th-century sense", but he became interested in animation during a trip to Italy. In [[1987]], while working on ''Pee-wee's Playhouse'', he created claymation cutaways about a character named Penny and her friend [[Arnold Shortman|Arnold]].

Six years later, Bartlett was teamed up with five writers from ''[[Rugrats]]'' to develop animation projects for Nickelodeon. 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." As a last resort, Bartlett played the "Penny" tapes, intending to highlight the Penny character. However, the executives were more impressed by Arnold, despite him being a minor character.

==Synopsis==
The show stars fourth grader [[Arnold Shortman]], a boy who lives with his paternal grandparents, [[Phil Shortman|Phil]] and [[Gertie Shortman|Gertrude]], proprietors of the [[Sunset Arms Boarding House]], in the fictional city of [[Hillwood]]. In each episode, Arnold, often accompanied by his best bud [[Gerald Johanssen|Gerald]], often helps a schoolmate solve a personal problem, or encounters a predicament of his own. The show also frequently focuses on Arnold's classmate, [[Helga Pataki]], who often treats Arnold cruelly and bullies him constantly. However, a recurring theme of the show is the fact that Helga only pretends to dislike Arnold to hide the fact that she has possessed a profound, Shakespearean-in-magnitude love for him for years.

==Cast and Characters==
{{Main|List of Hey Arnold! characters}}

==Episodes==
{{Main|Hey Arnold! episode list}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"|Season 
! rowspan="2"|Episodes 
! colspan="2"|Originally aired
|-
! First aired
! Last aired
|-
|  style="background:#ffcf05;" | '''[[Hey Arnold! (Season 1)|{{color|#77cbed|1}}]]'''
| 26
| October 7, [[1996]]
| December 7, [[1998]]
|-
| style="background:#6fcefe;" | '''[[Hey Arnold! (Season 2)|{{color|yellow|2}}]]'''
| 14
| September 21, [[1997]]
| November 3, 1997
|-
| style="background:#a87bb2;" | '''[[Hey Arnold! (Season 3)|{{color|yellow|3}}]]'''
| 20
| August 31, 1998
| May 10, [[2000]]
|-
| style="background:#5dc4a7;" | '''[[Hey Arnold! (Season 4)|{{color|yellow|4}}]]'''
| 20
| March 10, 1999
| June 21, 2000
|-
| style="background:#ffcf05;" | '''[[Hey Arnold! (Season 5)|{{color|#4e76b3|5}}]]'''
| 20
| March 18, 2000
| June 8, 2004
|}

==Broadcast history==
[[File:1997 Buckeye CableSystem Hey Arnold! ad.jpg|thumb|250px]]
{|class=wikitable
!Country
!Channel
|-
|{{Flagicon usa}}United States
|
*Nickelodeon
**Original run: October 7, 1996-June 8, 2004
**Reruns, June 9, 2004-December 6, [[2007]]
*NickToons (May 1, 2002-November 24, 2007, February 22, [[2018]]-September 20, 2020)
*TeenNick (September 2011-present/United States)
|}

==Home media==
{{Main|Hey Arnold! videography}}

In the United States, [[Paramount Home Video]] released five VHS tapes of the series from July 1997 to June 1998. One episode, "Part Time Friends", was notably released on the ''Partners'' VHS before airing on television. Five years later, the series' Halloween special, "[[Arnold's Halloween]]", was included the ''Nicktoons Halloween'' DVD in 2003.

The first two seasons were released as manufacture-on-demand DVD sets exclusively sold on Amazon.com in August 2008, with the later three seasons following in November and December of 2009. Afterward, in [[2011]], ''Hey Arnold!'' was among the Nicktoons licensed to [[Shout! Factory]], who re-released the five seasons across six sets (the Season 2 set was split into two releases) from August 2011 to October 2013. The last three seasons were initially released as Shout! Select DVDs that could only be purchased on Shout! Factory's website, but a Complete Series box set was released in [[2014]]. In [[2018]], the show's home video rights reverted back to Paramount, who reprinted Shout!'s season sets in an "Ultimate Collection" box set which also included the DVDs of the two movies.

== Videos ==
<gallery widths=200 spacing=small>
Hey Arnold! Bumper|Bumper
Nicksclusive Hey Arnold! Part 1 The Splat|Nicksclusive #1
Nicksclusive Hey Arnold! Part 2 The Splat|Nicksclusive #2
</gallery>

==External links==
* {{interwiki|nickstory|Nickstory Archives}}
* {{interwiki|nicktoonstory|NickToonstory Archives}}
* {{interwiki|teennickstory|TeenNickstory Archives}}
* {{imdb title|id=0115200|title=Hey Arnold!}}
* {{TVtropes link|WesternAnimation/HeyArnold}}
* [http://www.geraldfield.com/unofficial/craig.shtml The Unofficial ''Hey Arnold!'' Site]
* [http://www.hey-arnold.com/ ''Hey Arnold!'' fanpage by Don Del Grande]
* [http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/303-hey-arnold/ RetroJunk Section]
* [[w:c:heyarnold|''Hey Arnold!'' Wiki]]

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