If Torvald and Harold are indicative sample sizes of what's happening in the rest of the school, then a relatively high percentage around Clearly, the public education system in Hey Arnold! Everyone loved Arnold's affectionate and kooky grandparents, but do you remember why he lived with them in the first place?
His parents left him when he was an infant. In fact, Arnold is constantly daydreaming about them and their adventures. He never got conclusive proof of their deaths, so he's forced to spend his life speculating. Clearly, he has a lot of unresolved feelings wrapped up in his parents' disappearance. It is later revealed that the hat was given to him by his parents as a baby. Really stop and think about that. He's been wearing the same hat every single day since he was a baby. If you saw a year-old doing that in real life, you'd probably suggest some sort of psychiatric counseling.
Arnold is generally an all-around nice guy who usually tries his best not to let things get him down. In the episode titled "Mugged," however, Arnold finds himself a victim of a mugging. This prompts him to learn self-defense from his grandmother, which helps him gain confidence and teaches him how to protect himself. However, Arnold starts using his new martial prowess to start harassing other people in turn, perpetuating the cycle of violence. This episode is messed up on a few levels.
Seeing a little kid getting beat up by teenage male is pretty disturbing, and it suggests a frightening level of institutionalized violence. He ostensibly kicks Arnold's ass for some change and a bus pass, but he's clearly mostly doing it for the thrill. Secondly, the episode explores the ways in which a violent incident can alter someone's life.
Often, victims of crimes will, like Arnold, respond by becoming more threatening than the thing that scared them. Frankly, the guy who assaults Arnold was probably a victim himself at one point or another. Violence begets violence. And that's really saying something. When the chance arises for Helga to talk about her anger issues, in an episode titled "Helga On the Couch," her therapist gets an inside look of how deeply neglectfully Helga's family has been towards her.
In a heartbreaking scene, the Pataki parents praise their eldest daughter over her latest achievements and ignore a pre-school aged Helga, who is pleading with them for attention. Also, to be fair, they really messed up Olga's head too. Olga is the pristine older sister of Helga Pataki. While she lavishes attention on her little sister, Helga is generally kind of a brat to Olga. To be fair, Olga is academically talented, pretty, well-mannered, and popular.
She's also clearly her parents favorite. It's easy to see why she'd be anathema to Helga. Olga, however, is clearly has her fair share of issues and neuroses. This is perhaps most clearly illustrated in the episode "Olga Comes Home.
Olga locks herself away in her bedroom, broken, tearful, and miserable. Can you imagine the kind of pressure you'd have to be under for one grade to do that to you? Apparently, Olga has a lot going on underneath her glittering exterior. In the episode "Rhonda Goes Broke," the show breaks down the cavernous class divide in Arnold's city. Rhonda is a rich kid who loves to flaunt how rich she is. She's actually kind of a brat, but whatever that's not the point.
When she learns her family has gone broke, she becomes instantly devastated and perplexed about being poor. See, when her dad's stocks tank, Rhonda and her family move into the Sunset Arms.
That's the boarding house that Arnold's grandparents run AKA the place that Arnold lives in even though his life isn't in shambles. Rhonda spends most of the episode bitching non-stop about the terrible quality of life that Arnold lives with every day.
Despite living in a massive city, she's clearly had zero exposure to how the other half lives. It's a pretty disheartening look into the culture of the Hey Arnold!
Okay, to get this right out of the way, Harold is kind of a bully. He's loud, he's obnoxious, and he picks on kids smaller than he is. However, like a lot of bullies, he's actually desperately insecure. This 'ship could have sailed so much sooner if she could talk through her feelings like a mature adult.
As a clumsy, accident-prone person by nature, I can't help but notice Eugene's ability to go on living despite encountering near-death experiences basically every day. Lila is not someone I would be friends with these days. All of her "ever so lovely"s and "ever so wonderful"s would kind of ruin my natural state of cynicism, and I can't have that!
Pretty sure my mom wouldn't have been that cool with me running around the city with my friends when I was that age. They could have been kidnapped so easily. So, there you have it. Rewatching Hey Arnold as an adult can be an eye-opening experience, but there's one more thing we all think for sure: This show is still as amazing as it was when we were kids. It's the reason he has a distaste towards Christmas. Because one year on the holiest of holidays, he was forced to give up his infant daughter to the American military as war raged all around him.
Someone actually did the math on this one: two Torvald and Harold of Arnold's classmates are 13 years old Even if you ignore the fact that the mom may be a drunk, the way they treat Helga is just brutal. At first, when she goes broke, she makes up sensationalized stories about the strange things poor people get up too.
Then, when she does eventually have to live the life of a poor person, she complains the whole time! But there are times in the show when you feel for Harold, like when full-grown adults make fun of his weight. There's this episode where when he's walking home, Arnold gets mugged by some teenager. He's pretty badly beaten too. The city he lives in is going to hell, and it's taking Arnold with it.
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