Top 5 DARKEST Hey Arnold Episodes 

But I don't think that as a kid, Bob with the same jerk he is now. Because nobody was born a jerk.

"Well that's obvious Bob" is the new "Okay, boomer" for 2020...pass it on😂

@@theeclassyfratboiii5495 Yeeees, I love it

What episode is it?

Back when Big Bob was a kid, therapy was just getting locked up in an asylum or just getting lobotomized.

Well don't worry. Cremation is getting popular now.

I myself will burn in Hell and on Earth too. I do not want my meat be wasted as worms food. I want the fire to waste me.

As funny as it is he’s not wrong lol

Fuckin' lol. Best comment I seen in a while.

@@laobok And cryonics to the health gurus.

The Ghost Train episode scared the piss out of me as a kid

They were always my favorite episodes

Today I am still bothered by the ghostly sound of Wheezin' Ed in the final shot of that episode.

Those episodes scared me as a kid, but I love them!

The headless cabbie was a good one too!

Back in the 90's we didn't have that much protection. By that logic, my father should have been arrested when I was a kid for psychological abuse to my mother and me, but he never was.

You're not wrong. "Hello, when I was 10, I showed my 8 year old brother my penis, and a porn website. I guess that means you have to arrest my entire extended family" That sounds like a joke, but I've seen CPS try and take a family members daughter away away, 20 years after the supposed "incident." It took everyone involved, including the "victim" aggressively insisting their overreaction to settle the issue. I'm not trying to demonize their job, as sexual abuse is among the most disgusting common crimes. But human sexuality is super complicated.

BeanBag343 shitty cops

If she's being fed, given clean clothes n a clean home n going to school it doesn't count as abuse or neglect, as far as an intervention is considered

There’s the common misconception that abuse can’t happen in households in which housing, clothing, and food are provided consistently.

I know right? Such a shame. Helga was an epic character.

You can see why Olga overreacts to getting a B+ when Helga changes the grade. Olga seems like she's always pressured to perform for her parents and envies Helga a little for being in the background.

@@ShadowBlazer3000 Was the scene you're showing all attention towards to even on this list? I think she wasn'tpressured she was just very intellectual and felt awful for Helga's disregard by her Parents.

It wasn't on the list I just thought of that might be the reason given the moment Olga talked with Helga. "You're lucky they don't even notice you" just my take on it.

@@ShadowBlazer3000 Oh I interpret what u mean now. Yeah I'd get the hint probably. :/

Hell yeah. No way around it.

Panamanian Muffin Garrison And it tought great morals like: 1. Famous people aren't always what they appear to be (Preteen Scream) 2. You should defend and protect your family no matter how much you despise them (Olga gets Engaged)

Joshua Lowe next to proud family

Tørian Häll I loved Proud Family too! Oscar Proud was my favorite character because he mad me laugh!

Joshua Lowe I agree. Nick classics is good, unlike nick now. Modern Nickelodeon is a dump.

K-Blue I’m a child of gen-z and there is a channel on my tv called nick splat and I love hey Arnold for the same reason you do.

I don't think it's "not babying" kids quite so much as disguising heavy adult topics in a way that's silly and also generally relatable to children. It makes it a pleasure for parents to watch with their kids and also for just adults in general. You get to exercise your crew's creativity and further broaden the demographic.

Most of those things are true except the backdrop (the creator was trying to aim for a West Coast city like Seattle or Portland). I think part of it was cartoons like Hey Arnold tried to talk to kids like they were adults and gave them the space to handle the bigger subjects like addiction and neglect. I feel like cartoons since have taken a step back, giving into the easy tropes and childish nature than giving kids the benefit of the doubt that they'll be able to handle tough subjects.

This show was on regularly when I was about 5-9 years old. You can figure out my age from that… Never picked up on half the stuff it was telling me, but I'll admit that I was a pretty sheltered tract house trash kid. Turned out my dad was an alcoholic, but I didn't really know that until I was a teen. Helga's mom hits me hard now that he's been dead for 8 years. He had similar ways of hiding it to how she did (the "cooking wine" all but disappeared while dad cooked dinner less and less). I don't really think that the show was trying to get the message out there for kids who might have been unable to see it, but just imply that Helga's at home life is really messed up. I'm curious, how do you see kids being treated now so differently from 20-ish years ago? Nickelodeon seems to be in a slump animation-wise (actually network tv is in a bit of a slump) but at the same time kids have a lot more options thanks to the internet. If anything, I worry about how much information they're going to find that isn't presented in such a careful way as shows like this did. There are no filters online.

I personally think that because children nowadays are so babied, they couldn’t handle something like this. My eleven year old sister and many others in her age group act rather young and immature for their age. I blame their access to the internet and the ignorance of parents for that, but maybe that’s just me

Right, why was the art so dark? Was it meant to have some effect on the mood of the viewer? And why were the cartoons dark in general during that time period?

@@MomoManimi The optimism of the early 90s faded a little by that time. Supposedly, Craig Barlett wanted it a bit darker, and was gonna make one of the boarders a pedophile. Her name is Lana Vail, she's the lady in purple who appears in season 1.

@@Wolfdragon92584 Holy geez!

You know what was really eerie to me was the first movie. I mean it just didn't seem like Hey Arnold. I think it was how gloomy it looked but I agree, the first season always had an affect of me too

@@Wolfdragon92584 WHAT?!

*con artist, *ultimately, *Miriam, *Olga's, *Helga's.

Another good one is when Helga saw Olga's report card with straight A's and changed one grade to a B and enjoyed watching her suffer. It took a lot for Helga to tell Olga the truth and apologize.

assassinwarrior yes and we also see that Olga feels she’s forced to perform for them like a wind up doll.

@@biancarose1992618 At least Olga didn't have to worry about getting married to that con artist he would've been much worse than her own dad.

Katelyn Bodiford Doug probably would have left Olga once he’d got what he wanted. Though I don’t know if his attitude would have been worse than Bobs.

Just for curiosity, why do you have "Jeffrey Epstein" as username?

Lol true

You got that right sweet baby. ;)

And let me guess u would say the same with Rick n morty

hellnoo

Sunny I didn’t have access to Disney but it sounds like I would have loved the show. I liked Arthur quite a lot, which is a PBS show not too dissimilar to Hey Arnold.

She enjoys her...smoothies 😂

@@johnsmith60 smoothies made with alcohol since smoothies can be made out of absolutely anything

Fun fact Helga's Mum is voiced by Kath Soucie who I know best as Princess Sally Acorn from the Sonic Satam Cartoon as well as Phil and Lil from Rugrats

Yeah and when Mr hynn reunited with his daughter in the end it makes me cry of happiness every time

Dang the Vietnam one was sad for sure. I was actually just thinking about that episode too. Man it's crazy that as a kid I was just entertained by this cartoon now I'm just stunned at how emotionally deep this show was.

I would say Arnolds Chirstmas is a dark episode, but rather a more real episode that shows the darker parts of life. It is the same with the Kenan and Kel Christmas episode. It too showed us how life isn't always sunshine and rainbows and both episodes showed us that one person really can make a major difference in someones life.

The ending of the Christmas episode always makes me cry

"Mugged" is the one in which Arnold gets assaulted at the beginning of the episode? I remember an early episode in which that happened, and the whole scene was really uncomfortable to watch. I still remember how Arnold was dead set to know how to defend himself next time because he was terrified of that same thing happening again.

Ha! I feel bad for you, my dude. But to be fair, that scene always creeped me out as a kid, especially since it was in an episode that for the most part was pretty lighthearted, just with a message about not letting minor arguments interfere with your friendship

That scene always gave me nightmares..ughh

Believe me I would hyperventaliate at night as a small kid because of zombie grandpa.

The ending though. "Uuuh...Boo!"

Four Eye Jack and Wheezing Ed's laugh at the end of that episode are the only one's that genuinely creeped me out as a kid.

Yeah it was scarier than the headless cabbie.

That was more comedic than scary. The only "scary" part was seeing the skeleton of Arnold's gramps during a flash of lightning.

@@cowokie2854 What? 4-eyed jack was funny. Uhh . . . boo

Like that old show "Are you Afraid of The Dark?" that Nick used to feature. That show legit scared me.

Ikr we have coffee now

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Unless there's a creepiest list, then that should make it.

I’m surprised Four Eyed Jack wasn’t on here too, as not only was it the first thing I thought of, but that episode fucked me up big time. The only other kids show to mess me up and literally terrify me was the “return the slab” guy from Courage

or the mole guy

I would legit get nightmares from that. Especially where he was watching Gerald sleep

Yeah Gerald's screaming kept me up that whole night!

I know right? Shit fucked me up as kid XD

It's still send chills down my spine

Same here, that episode had me shook for a while.

I mean if you actually think about it the type of murder could in fact happen along with motivation ...... That honestly makes it worse

I use to watch this cartoon all the time as a kid, forgotten most of it though. I do remember when helga eats pork rhines and has nightmares though

Right? I don’t remember any of these episodes.

The " haunted train " episode has nothing on "the ghost bride" episode.

@@stephj505 That one is a good one too! Both of them really scared me when I was a kid lol

@@alyssabrown3145 I was only slightly scared of the " haunted train " episode. But I was ten times more scared of "the ghost bride" .

@@stephj505 headless cabbie for me ending was scary af

Mind you the train's black and red colour scheme does actually remind me of the black and red colour scheme used on German steam locomotives

@Jacob Day I think the idea has been round longer than this besides this bride murdered fr being jilted by her ex while Constance 'Black Widow Bride' Hatchaway of HM was a gold-digger who murdered fr money

That's what the episode reminded me of.

The kicker is that Curly is *absent* from the rest following episodes, leading most fans to assume the bride killed him. It takes until The Jungle Movie for him to come back.

Maybe that was his ghost in the Jungle Movie.

Yes! I must say, that this cartoon has a vibe of old soviet cartoons, having deep message for kids, which can be one of explanations for the success of Hey Arnold in the post-soviet countries.

@@Moonberry94agree) as well as the guys were so cool and adventurous))

As a kid even I noticed the creepy tone of the episode, but the fact how Helga's parents didn't seem to care is what was really scary for me. You could argue because they are adults they know she has nothing to worry about and she is just being a paranoid kid, but I was the same age as Helga when I saw that episode and the idea of my parents not caring if I had some disease was terrifying.

Angelica was, in a way, neglected and misguided and kind of forced to grow up. Charlotte and Drew were not cut out to be parents at all.

I thought that episode was showing how the world work. Like he say after famous people died they for some reason end up being more famous when they were alive. Hell it even show how the people around him acted or show how they were kinda of better off without him being around.

Helga's Parrot was a messed up episode The ending was pretty dark

@Orange Blossom no he fake his death he even explains how he did and or why he did it.

@@jonwootton2181 And the lizard ate the parrot too.

@Ash Kitt well yeah i know that but thanks for the extra people i don't know.

Lowell Lucas Jr. Yeah....but it was darker episodes

@Dustin McNiel not many cartoons show an elementary school kid mugged though

Nah I wooped his ass later on.

@@douglassfunnie9959 you totally did! But what about Sid? He got mugged right in front of monkey man and got his go go boots stolen!

@@LowellLucasJr. That was a different episode. And he kind of deserved it. Have you seen how much of a dick that kid can be? Regardless, my boy Monkey Man helped him out so it's all good.

I mean... He flies off with his pigeons in the end. If that's not a story that a traumatized boy with a heart of gold would tell himself and others to avoid the guilt of not being able to do anything about it, then I don't know what would be.

@@briandaaranda9735 If I remember correctly, the Pigeon Man is seen in the Jungle movie alive and well. So no space for creepy mental theories .

The creator hated this theory so much. He had a whole rant about it. He put him in one of the movies to put this theory to bed

I think that is Four Eyed Jack.

Yeah the scariest moment in that episode is when Ernie said he heard some weird choking noises come from downstairs and the next immediate shot is a creepy painted image of the dark staircase with scary hard piano notes playing in the background

And at then, gerald sees the ghost staring at him

@@Spongebrain97 I remember when Ernie said he "Messed with the unknown" one time and nothing happened but he could have been "struck dead or turned to stone" I was about 7 when that episode aired and it played on my mind that night.

The sound was granpah on the toilet in his private bathroom lol.

I just watched your vid, awesome job! And yeah you're absolutely right about the Ghost Bride episode, it's baffling how that one got past the producers!

@@SteveReviews think about it, that episode was the last time we see curly until the jungle movie. They basically got away with murder in a kids cartoon

Because she has the organs

hers was a bit less extreme, plus she confesed

Because no onle likes curly hes a psychopath remember what he did. To Eugene for a freaking pencil

@@amberthesuperfox I had forgotten about that. Yeah he's kinda fucked up.

@@heathazezero3967 what

Same here

😂😂 I wasn't ready for that.

That scared the mess out of me the first time I watched it

Same wtf this is why my parents didn't let me watch hey Arnold

@@MysteryMowchi lol you're parents didn't let you watch Hey Arnold? 😂 Damn you missed out.

@@GeminiJo your*

I'd shit my pants when I saw that episode as a kid. I couldn't sleep for days. lol

Are you talking about the episode where they dressed as aliens? That wasn't war of the world's, that was a reference to "the twilight zone", specifically an episode where because the lights go out on one specific street, they start getting more and more paranoid, someone suggests aliens, and it ends with them killing someone accidentally because they thought he was an alien, and then it cuts to actual aliens. They didn't interfere at all, and they reminisced about how dangerous paranoia is, especially for humans. I can't remember the name though

I truly believe that. Curly is on his was to becoming a serial killer. He's already crazy

@@chibutlerdavis3822 Yeah, that kid has some serious issues. I'm surprised nobody put him in a mental institution. That's where he'd be nowadays. But, it's just a cartoon so logic doesn't always apply here.

luna the clown A year later, but yeah, the drool emoji is actually disturbing me. Why put a drool emoji? What could possibly be drool worthy about that kid possibly being a serial killer? I’m scared 😭

Same. Rugrats comes in 2nd for me.

I can understand, I'm still having doubts if I prefer Rugrats over Hey Arnold. I just wish Nickelodeon would bother to release both shows on DVD over here in the UK so I can watch them back to back without having to deal with stupid region coding or poor internet.

When Dil came into the picture rugrats was trash

@@mariekano9730 yep, it got corny around Dil. Basically the non bright episodes for me lol.

How does one character automatically kill a television series? I'm not the biggest fan of Dil but the hate he gets by some people is underserved.

Yes!!

Yes the one where Arnold tries to get grandpa's watch right?

Actually the episode was called Helga's Parrot Also, I agree with you about the ending

Murasaki Usagi I know right? Man 90s kids cartoons can be pretty dark