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Show: hey Arnold
Episode S1 E16b
Year: 1997

Writer(s): Joseph Purdy

Hey Arnold is often known for some extremely heartwarming and tearjerking episodes like "Helga on the Couch", "Parents Day" and "The Journal". This episode proved that even a more subtle story can be just as powerful as something that emotionally punches you in the heart while not as big and grand. This episode also manages to do the plot of "Waiting" better within just two minutes. One thing that episode did really wrong was that SpongeBob basically threw all that cereal away for the box tops like a wasteful prick, whereas Arnold tells Helga off about that idea saying there are starving children all over the world, being nice and subtle and not preachy. The Angry Beavers episode "Box Top Beavers" does this plot perfectly so I'm not gonna go into details about it here, rather, I'm gonna focus on the main plot.

Back to this episode being very heartwarming, it's plot is fairly simple, but that's ok, you don't always need an episode to be big and spectacular. Arnold and Gerald basically wanna see a comet similar to Halley's Comet that only appears once every 75 years, and they also wanna help Arnold's Grandpa Phil see it one more time as well. Problem is, nobody in the whole city will turn off their lights so the sky will be dark enough to see any stars, let alone a comet. They even try going to a mountain to see it but, needless to say nothing remains a secret for very long Phil. The flashback from when Phil saw the comet when he was Arnold's age is very heartwarming but subtle, it even gets echoed in the very end. Whenever I see that comet each time I see the episode, I imagine a mighty and legendary Pokemon soaring across outer space, similar to when Ash first saw Ho-Oh.

Back on topic, the way Arnold and Gerald manage to convince all of Hillwood to turn off their lights is extremely funny, and Phil defintiely agrees with me on that, it's also the proper way you do a contrived coincidence. "Nocturnal Ned" just so happens to drop his donut at the right moment, allowing Arnold to turn on the broadcast signal at the MJZZ tower while Gerald gives him his "demonstration" of how their message "would've" gone down. Bottom line is this is a must-see episode for anyone whose wanted to make someone else's dream come true, and proof that even a simple idea can leave a big impact.

Hey Arnold is owned by Nickelodeon and Viacom.

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Description
Show: hey Arnold
Episode S1 E16b
Year: 1997

Writer(s): Joseph Purdy

Hey Arnold is often known for some extremely heartwarming and tearjerking episodes like "Helga on the Couch", "Parents Day" and "The Journal". This episode proved that even a more subtle story can be just as powerful as something that emotionally punches you in the heart while not as big and grand. This episode also manages to do the plot of "Waiting" better within just two minutes. One thing that episode did really wrong was that SpongeBob basically threw all that cereal away for the box tops like a wasteful prick, whereas Arnold tells Helga off about that idea saying there are starving children all over the world, being nice and subtle and not preachy. The Angry Beavers episode "Box Top Beavers" does this plot perfectly so I'm not gonna go into details about it here, rather, I'm gonna focus on the main plot.

Back to this episode being very heartwarming, it's plot is fairly simple, but that's ok, you don't always need an episode to be big and spectacular. Arnold and Gerald basically wanna see a comet similar to Halley's Comet that only appears once every 75 years, and they also wanna help Arnold's Grandpa Phil see it one more time as well. Problem is, nobody in the whole city will turn off their lights so the sky will be dark enough to see any stars, let alone a comet. They even try going to a mountain to see it but, needless to say nothing remains a secret for very long Phil. The flashback from when Phil saw the comet when he was Arnold's age is very heartwarming but subtle, it even gets echoed in the very end. Whenever I see that comet each time I see the episode, I imagine a mighty and legendary Pokemon soaring across outer space, similar to when Ash first saw Ho-Oh.

Back on topic, the way Arnold and Gerald manage to convince all of Hillwood to turn off their lights is extremely funny, and Phil defintiely agrees with me on that, it's also the proper way you do a contrived coincidence. "Nocturnal Ned" just so happens to drop his donut at the right moment, allowing Arnold to turn on the broadcast signal at the MJZZ tower while Gerald gives him his "demonstration" of how their message "would've" gone down. Bottom line is this is a must-see episode for anyone whose wanted to make someone else's dream come true, and proof that even a simple idea can leave a big impact.

Hey Arnold is owned by Nickelodeon and Viacom.

1001 Animations is from

Artisanking101