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Season guide

Hey Arnold!: Season 2

37 episodes Premiered Sep 22, 1997
Previously on Hey Arnold!

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Hey Arnold! Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (34): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Save the Tree

Sep 22, 1997

Arnold and the gang must stop Big Bob from chopping down the oldest tree in town.

S2·E2 Core

New Teacher

Sep 22, 1997

When the kids make their new teacher, Mr. Simmons, quit his job, the replacement makes them realize what they lost.

S2·E3 Core

Helga's Love Potion

Sep 24, 1997

Helga drinks a potion to lose all feelings for Arnold.

S2·E4 Core

Gerald's Secret

Sep 24, 1997

Gerald's secret is revealed; he doesn't know how to ride a bike, so Arnold teaches him how.

S2·E5 Core

The Big Scoop

Sep 29, 1997

Arnold and Gerald compete against Helga for the school newspaper.

S2·E6 Core

Harold's Kitty

Sep 29, 1997

When Harold is walking in the street, he finds a kitty that belongs to an old lady and he takes it, but then everybody appears, and Harold has to surrender the kitty to the old lad

S2·E7 Core

Longest Monday

Oct 1, 1997

Schoolyard tradition has it that on the first Monday of June each year, the fifth graders throw the fourth graders into trash cans. So, Arnold and Gerald try to make a run for it.

S2·E8 Core

Eugene's Pet

Oct 1, 1997

After Arnold accidentally kills Eugene's fish with a yo-yo, he must do something to make up for it.

S2·E9 Core

Monkey Business

Oct 6, 1997

An organ grinder's monkey kisses Helga, who's convinced she has caught 'monkeynucleosis'.

S2·E10 Core

Big Caesar

Oct 6, 1997

Arnold and Gerald do a spot of fishing, determined to catch the pond's biggest fish, the legendary "Big Caesar".

S2·E11 Core

Ransom

Oct 8, 1997

Gerald and Arnold get on the case when Timberly loses her Barney-esque doll.

S2·E12 Core

Ms. Perfect

Oct 8, 1997

The new girl is teased at school by Helga and the other girls, but she's soon accepted by everyone.

S2·E13 Core

Arnold's Halloween

Oct 27, 1997

Arnold and Gerald send the neighborhood alien crazy as they broadcast a mock Halloween radio show.

S2·E14 Core

Arnold Saves Sid

Oct 13, 1997

After Arnold saves Sid from an injury, Sid devotes himself to paying Arnold back with unending kindness.

S2·E15 Core

Hookey

Oct 13, 1997

Arnold and Gerald bunk off school, but their day is ruined by their fear of being found out.

S2·E16 Core

Freeze Frame

Oct 15, 1997

Arnold and Gerald go around the city following "Porkpie", a mysterious man caught on film. They suspect, because of the clues, that Porkpie are planning to kill "Marty", who turns

S2·E17 Core

Phoebe Cheats

Oct 15, 1997

In this variation of "The Tell-Tale Heart", Phoebe plagiarizes from a poetry book and uses one of the poems as her entry in a poetry contest. She wins, with her prize being a troph

S2·E18 Core

Mud Bowl

Oct 20, 1997

Wolfgang and his gang of fifth graders challenge Arnold and his friends to a football game, but he has to first persuade them that his plays are good enough for them to win.

S2·E19 Core

Gerald Moves Out

Oct 20, 1997

Gerald, getting tired of his family bugging him, moves out of his home and into Arnold's boarding house, only to realize emancipation is not all it is cracked up to be.

S2·E20 Core

The High Life

Oct 22, 1997

Gerald becomes an entrepreneur out of selling watches until the market becomes saturated.

S2·E21 Core

Best Friends

Oct 22, 1997

Rhonda and Nadine fall out over working on a project at school, leaving Arnold to work with both of them separately.

S2·E22 Core

Steely Phil

Oct 29, 1997

Arnold's Grandpa enters a Chinese Checkers tournament to reclaim his pride lost forty years ago. Robby Fisher's name is a parody of Bobby Fischer.

S2·E23 Core

Quantity Time

Oct 29, 1997

Helga's mother tries to let her and her father, Bob, bond.

S2·E24 Core

Eating Contest

Nov 3, 1997

Arnold follows in his Grandpa's footsteps and competes in the annual block party eating contest. After much munching Old Football Head goes stomach to stomach with eating legend Se

S2·E25 Core

Rhonda's Glasses

Nov 3, 1997

Rhonda gets glasses and finds out what it is like to be a "Geek".

S2·E26 Core

Helga's Boyfriend

Nov 5, 1997

Helga uses Stinky as her boyfriend to try to make Arnold jealous.

S2·E27 Core

Crush on Teacher

Nov 5, 1997

Arnold develops a crush on Miss Felter, a substitute teacher, thinking he is having dinner at her house.

S2·E28 Core

Hall Monitor

Nov 10, 1997

Phoebe becomes hall monitor and asks Helga for tips. She becomes overwhelmed by the "power" and soon everyone wants the old Phoebe back, even Helga once she realizes Phoebe's also

S2·E29 Core

Harold's Bar Mitzvah

Nov 10, 1997

Harold runs away from his Bar Mitzvah, thinking he will retain his childhood this way.

S2·E30 Core

Coach Wittenberg

Nov 12, 1997

Arnold and his friends get Coach Wittenberg to be their new bowling coach.

S2·E31 Core

Four-Eyed Jack

Nov 12, 1997

The ghost of a former boarding house resident is believed to have been causing strange occurrences in there when Arnold and Gerald find an old pair of glasses believing to have bel

S2·E32 Core

Eugene Goes Bad

Nov 17, 1997

After finding out that his idol is a haughty, primped actor, Eugene sets out to become bad.

S2·E33 Core

What's Opera, Arnold?

Nov 17, 1997

Helga and Arnold fall asleep and have their own "parody/dream" of the opera Carmen.

S2·E34 Core

Tour de Pond

Nov 24, 1997

Arnold and a descendant of his grandpa's arch enemy, Rex Smythe-Higgins, compete in a boat race.

S2·E35 Core

Teachers' Strike

Nov 24, 1997

Teachers of Arnold's school go on strike because of inadequate funding; He and his friends are on cloud nine, only to find out that every lost school day will be taken from their s

S2·E36 Mytharc

Runaway Float

Dec 1, 1997

After creating an idea for a parade float, Arnold is confident of it showing up in a parade.

S2·E37 Mytharc

Partners

Dec 1, 1997

A lounge singer moves into the Sunset Arms after renouncing his songwriter, who also moves there.

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