Thirty years after its 1996 debut,
Hey Arnold! still stands out for its portrait of childhood in the city, shaped by a diverse neighborhood and a bluesy, funky score.
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| (Photo illustration by Tate Rudisill / Los Angeles Times; photos by Paramount Pictures and Viacom International Inc.) |
The animated Nickelodeon series’ commitment to authenticity gave young viewers stories about the immigrant experience and unconventional families.
The show continues to have a dedicated fan base years later.
One of Craig Bartlett’s profoundest childhood memories involves a despondent turtle.
In a pet store hidden away in Seattle’s Chinatown, he and his friend Joan came across one in a murky little tank. They took pity on it, bought it and took it home to Portland, Ore. It didn’t come out of its shell for two weeks.
They knew what they had to do. They took the turtle to Square Lake, on Sauvie Island, and laid the turtle down on the shore. The creature’s head emerged from its shell to consider its new circumstances. Slowly but surely, it eased its way into the water and swam away. “We were jumping up and down with a kind of weird joy,” Bartlett recalled to
The Los Angeles Times.
Much later, when Bartlett was creating his own animated series, he knew that the poetry of that moment, the strange cinematic magic of it, was something he wanted to tap into.
Thirty years ago, on Oct. 7, 1996, Hey Arnold! premiered on the kids’ cable network Nickelodeon. With its offbeat, lyrical, sometimes painfully honest portrayal of the feeling of childhood in the city, it quickly set itself apart as a new kind of kids’ show, attracting a dedicated fandom that endures to this day.
An urban ‘Little Rascals’
Arnold was a 9-year-old boy with an elongated ovoid head who enjoyed listening to jazz fusion under the skylight of his attic bedroom. According to Bartlett’s show bible, he was “philosophical, idealistic, romantic and hard to rile.” His best friend was Gerald. He was, in short, a chill little dude.
Bartlett had created the character almost a decade earlier, after a stint producing claymation segments for
Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Back then, one of the cookie cutters that Bartlett used to cut shapes out of clay happened to be shaped like a football; from the work of his brother-in-law, Matt Groening, he’d also observed the importance of a striking silhouette. The result, in Bartlett’s short claymation films, which played the animation festival circuit and appeared on
Sesame Street, was a daydreamer with a football-shaped head.
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| Arnold was created by Bartlett almost a decade before the show was made, after a stint producing claymation segments for “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” (Nickelodeon) |
In 1993, Nickelodeon was looking to expand its original animation lineup. Toward the end of a long, fruitless pitch meeting with a gaggle of writer-animators, Nickelodeon executive Mary Harrington put on Bartlett’s show reel. She was taken with Arnold right away, and intrigued by Bartlett’s visual style and imagination.
“I liked the way it looked,” she said simply. “I liked the quirkiness of it.”
Bartlett developed the show with Steve Viksten and Joseph Ansolabehere. The trio had previously worked together on Nickelodeon’s
Rugrats — Bartlett as a story editor, Viksten and Ansolabehere as writers. (One of Bartlett’s contributions to
Rugrats was Angelica’s stoic, wild-haired doll Cynthia.)
Instead of the suburban setting common to so many cartoons — including Nickelodeon’s
Doug —
Hey Arnold! was set firmly in the inner city, a vibrantly gritty amalgam of Seattle, Portland and Brooklyn. As part of his preparations for the series, Bartlett went on a photo-taking expedition through Seattle and Tacoma, collecting imagery of Pacific Northwest grunge to share with his artists: crumbling walls, fire escapes, water towers.
As for Arnold, he lived with his grandparents in an old boarding house under a freeway overpass. The show’s diverse cast also represented what Bartlett called the “multiethnic gumbo” of American cities. The urban aesthetic was augmented with a bluesy, funky score by composer Jim Lang, inspired by Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi and Beck.
There were fantastical elements, but what set Hey Arnold! apart was how invested it was in depicting what life is like for a fourth grader. The writers had in mind the intimacy of character-driven cinema of the ‘70s and the French New Wave; The Little Rascals was as much of an influence as The 400 Blows and My Life as a Dog. Ansolabehere and Viksten, who had attended UCLA and tried for years to break into Hollywood, would channel their cinematic storytelling instincts into the show.
Bartlett purposely wanted to steer away from the wacky
Looney Tunes antics of cartoons like
Animaniacs. Instead, the melancholy and ennui of
A Charlie Brown Christmas, which had captivated Bartlett as a 6-year-old, would be a major touchstone.
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| Craig Bartlett, the creator of Nickelodeon’s “Hey Arnold!” in 2002. (Paramount / Viacom) |
“That was our real rebellion,” Bartlett said, “to make it not a gag show but more kind of moody.”
That stylistic rebellion extended to Arnold as well. “Arnold wasn’t your typical type-A personality lead character,” Harrington said. “He was quieter, he was thoughtful, he was really smart, more creative. But we thought kids could relate to him.”
Writing meetings revolved around discussion of childhood memories and experiences. Hey Arnold! built on the narrative foundation the group had established on their previous show.
“Rugrats opened up to us this idea that you could actually make a show about humans, about the human experience and about childhood,” Ansolabehere said. “The episodes I was proudest of were where you dug something out from inside of your history and your heart.”
Apart from the turtle story, which made it into the episode “Field Trip,” very few of Arnold’s adventures were directly borrowed from Bartlett’s life. Instead, “it was about capturing a feeling,” he said.
Going where no cartoon had gone before
Thematically, too, there was a determination to venture into more adult territory than any kids’ cartoon had previously. The show was frank in its portrayal of, among other subjects, social isolation, economic disparity, the immigrant experience and unconventional families. In “Arnold’s Christmas,” one of the most celebrated and audacious episodes of the show, Mr. Hyunh, a Vietnamese immigrant and resident of Arnold’s boarding house, tells the story of being separated from his daughter Mai during the Vietnam War. In the episode “Helga on the Couch,” Helga’s emotionally neglectful household was on poignant display.
The commitment to authenticity extended to the show’s voice cast, which was made up of child actors. This meant that a succession of actors played Arnold over the years, until their voices changed with the onset of puberty. Spencer Klein, who voiced Arnold in Episodes 61 to 100 and in the first movie in 2002, had the strange experience of joining a show he was already a fan of. “It was a special show,” he said. “It was a show you could really learn valuable life lessons from.”
Klein remembers that the actors recorded in the same room together, allowing them to interact more naturally. “Usually a number of the animators were there too,” he said. “They’d have sketch pads, and we were encouraged to be physically animated when delivering our lines. The animators would incorporate some of the physical aspects of our line deliveries into the animation.”
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| The show’s voice cast featured child actors, including Spencer Klein, who voiced Arnold in Episodes 61-100 and the first movie. “It was a special show,” he said. “It was a show you could really learn valuable life lessons from.” (Paramount / Viacom) |
In a deft bit of narrative maneuvering, Gerald’s voice breaking was written into the show; Jamil Walker Smith played the character for all five seasons and one movie. Similarly, Francesca Marie Smith voiced Helga G. Pataki for the entirety of Hey Arnold! and up to The Jungle Movie in 2017.
Conceived as a relentless bully of Arnold, Helga was one of the richer, more complex characters to come out of a kids’ cartoon in its or any era. At first, Ansolabehere said, the writers struggled with her motivation. They didn’t want a repeat of Angelica, the cackling 3-year-old schemer of Rugrats. Why did she pick on Arnold?
In Ansolabehere’s memory, Bartlett’s then-wife, Lisa, overheard the writers’ deliberations and casually suggested, “Maybe she’s in love with Arnold.”
“It was like a light bulb went off,” said Ansolabehere. “We were like, that’s it. That’s young love. When we don’t know what to do with it.” In minutes, Bartlett had sketched the makeshift shrine that Helga builds for Arnold in her closet.
Helga’s unrequited love for Arnold became one of the driving forces of the show. “She was a sort of villain who you related to and rooted for,” said writer Rachel Lipman, who joined the show as the first season was coming together. “However much she tortured Arnold, she was far more tormented herself on the inside. She also had this unending internal conflict — she really didn’t want to be in love with Arnold … but she just couldn’t fight the feeling. I hadn’t seen a show where the unrequited love this girl felt for a boy got to be explored to such deep levels.”
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| Arnold, Gerald and Helga, who was voiced by Francesca Marie Smith. Helga’s unrequited love for Arnold became one of the driving forces of the show. (Paramount / Viacom) |
It didn’t hurt that Smith gave the performance of a lifetime, putting her heart and soul into the melodramatic contradictions of the character, antagonizing Arnold one second and swooning over him the next. Smith’s firecracker performance inspired the writers to give Helga even more to do.
Smith remembers, even as an 8-year-old, feeling very strongly that she didn’t want to sit down while recording. “It was important to me to get the full power of my voice, the physicality of it,” she said. “I certainly remember that after a couple hours of recording, I would just absolutely crash. It’s amazing to me today how much energy I poured into that microphone.”
In 2024, Smith revealed that she was living with the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis. After a major relapse, and at Bartlett’s urging, she set up
an online fundraiser to ease the financial strain of medical treatment. The page was shared widely among
Hey Arnold! fans; Bartlett also helped raise funds by auctioning off original
Hey Arnold! cels and hand-painted backgrounds.
It was an indication of the warm and tender feelings viewers still had for Helga and “Hey Arnold!” that Smith’s funding goal was surpassed in a matter of days. “No one is stronger than Helga G. Pataki,” one Reddit user wrote.
“It made such a real impact,” said Smith, emotional at the memory of it. “I’m so grateful.”
Still groovin’ after all these years
The fandom for
Hey Arnold! hasn’t wavered and remains as strong as ever three decades later. There have been 10 vinyl pressings of
Hey Arnold! music tracks since 2020. More recently, the show’s composer Jim Lang and his group, the PS 118 All Stars, announced a
string of concert dates, playing music from the show around the country, with Bartlett as a special guest vocalist.
Bartlett has also been approached by Paramount Global Publishing to write a novel version of his Helga spinoff idea The Patakis and is currently in talks about a Hey Arnold! graphic novel.
The concerts are a great showcase of Lang’s groovy, down-tempo tunes — Hey Arnold! undoubtedly turned a bunch of young viewers onto jazz — but they’re also a chance for millennial fans to bask in their memories.
Juan Escalante, who attended a concert in August, was transported right back to his childhood bedroom in Venezuela, “when I wished I had a cool room like Arnold’s!”
“Hey Arnold! felt like a kids’ show that allowed kids to see themselves,” he said, “and their imaginations reflected back at them.”
As ‘Hey Arnold’ Turns 30, Its Creator Reflects On Show’s Portrayal of Real, Raw Topics
“Everyone was trying to figure out how to make their cartoon have its own unique corner,” showrunner Craig Bartlett says. “And for me, it was emotional authenticity.”
Between its iconic jazzy saxophone intro music, the wacky personalities at P.S. 118 and Football Head’s teenage dream of a bedroom, “Hey Arnold!” has charmed millennials for decades, uniting ‘90s kids of all backgrounds.
But ask anyone for the most memorable part of the Nickelodeon program and they’ll likely point to the show’s depth — the episodes that bore into loss, the struggle to fit in and the undeniable complexity of childhood.
As fans wrap their minds around the show’s 30th anniversary in October, creator Craig Bartlett is reflecting on the enduring love for “Hey Arnold!,” particularly for the cartoon’s refusal to shy away from the raw and real. Bartlett tells TODAY.com that it’s all been rewarding as that’s exactly what the show set out to do.
“You know, everyone was trying to figure out how to make their cartoon have its own unique corner, where it was different from everything else,” Bartlett says. “And for me, it was emotional authenticity.”
Anchored around friendly fourth-grader Arnold Shortman, the show, which premiered on October 7, 1996, ran for five seasons across nearly eight years. While the program had no shortage of laughs, it was the cartoon’s handling of issues like depression, addiction, poverty and more that, many viewers say, made it stand out.
Episode “Arnold’s Christmas” from Season 1, for example, looks into the backstory of character Mr. Hyunh, who, it’s revealed, is a refugee who was tragically separated from his infant daughter amid the Fall of Saigon, the historic event that marked the end of the Vietnam War.
In another episode later on in the series, character Chocolate Boy attempts to get over his addiction to chocolate. As Arnold helps him throughout his journey, Chocolate Boy reveals that his attachment to the candy stems from a beloved nanny he had when he was young, who gave him a bag of chocolate upon her departure from the family.
And who could forget the episode in which the gruff and tough Helga sits down with a school psychologist. It’s through the therapy sessions that it’s revealed that under her hard exterior is a girl from a dysfunctional household who’s felt largely forgotten by her parents. Helga’s obsession with Arnold, the episode shows, goes back to a moment on her first day of preschool. While her parents paid her no mind, leaving her to walk alone in the rain, Arnold, it turns out, is the first to notice Helga that day and display any semblance of kindness to her.
The showrunner explains that the franchise actually started off as claymation shorts that appeared on “Sesame Street.” In those shorts, Arnold was five years old. But Bartlett “grew him up” for Nickelodeon, he says.
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| "Hey Arnold!" started out as a claymation. Courtesy of Craig Bartlett |
“He was meant to be like me when I was little, and I was kind of bored with everything, and a daydreamer that was not present in some ways,” Bartlett says. “By the time we got him into growing him up into ‘Hey Arnold!’ he was a fourth grader who did things with friends, but he still was a dreamer — you’d imagine he had a real kind of freeform imagination, and that was how it started.”
Bartlett says that much of his inspiration was drawn from the 1965 animated classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” In it, main character Charlie Brown fails to feel the holiday cheer, despite the warmth and celebration of the season. Bartlett says that the film’s acknowledgement of its main character’s melancholy was deeply comforting to him as a kid.
“I was so affected by ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ — that he was bummed and he knew he was supposed to love Christmas and be happy, but it wasn’t there,” Bartlett explains.
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| The iconic voice cast of "Hey Arnold!" Courtesy of Craig Bartlett |
It’s reflective, he adds, of the sense of “yearning” often felt in those younger years.
“That describes childhood to me. You’re … hoping for cool things, and not necessarily having it,” he says “That, I think, was really key. It was what I was trying to convey.”
Bartlett says that as he created the show, he aimed to reflect some of those heavier emotions that children naturally feel. While many of the topics that were told through the eyes of the show’s characters were often serious in nature, Bartlett explains that he and his staff weren’t worried about whether kids would get it.
“We trusted that kids were living lives like that,” Bartlett says, raising Helga’s story as an example. “Some were living lives like they felt unseen like Helga.”
The show was also one of the first cartoons to feature kids voicing kids. And the young, tween actors at the time who provided the oh-so-memorable voices of the cast, from Lane Toran as Arnold to Francesca Marie Smith as Helga, also inspired much of the writing and injected personality into the characters, Bartlett says.
The storylines weren’t the only aspect that gave the show its authentic feel. Bartlett says that the music from composer Jim Lang was essential to conveying the show’s raw emotions.
“The music went hand in hand. Jim took all those ideas and turned them into really good, bummed-out music,” Bartlett says. “It’s about being bummed. And I just thought Jim, he really intensified that feeling. I can’t picture those episodes without the music.”
Bartlett adds that the freedom that the crew had to experiment with themes and storylines played a big part in bringing those meaningful lessons on screen. At the time, Bartlett says, Nickelodeon essentially gave the group free-reign to play.
“It’s hard to believe that the network let us operate that way, but they did. They just left us alone, mostly to do our thing,” he says.
The moment, he says, was perfect.
“You really got the vibe it was time for us to do our own thing, and that they were really going to let us do it,” he says. “It was just such good times for everybody. Nick was making tons of money, and so they were like, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix.’”
While the show ended in 2004, it got one final curtain call with the 2017 television flick, “Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie.” Since then, there’s been no shortage of love for the show. Lang has even taken the music back on the road with project PS 118 All Stars, in which the band behind the iconic songs plays the tracks live for audiences across the U.S. Bartlett is a special guest for many of the dates.
Though fans have long called for a “Hey Arnold!” revival, Bartlett says he isn’t certain whether there will be anymore Arnold Shortman stories on our future screens.
For now, he says he’s happy to be joining shows as part of the PS 118 All Stars, comparing the tour experience to that of Mr. Hyunh in the episode “Mr. Hyunh Goes Country.”
“I’m super grateful I got to do 100 half-hours and two movies eventually,” Bartlett says. “If there’s no more Arnold TV or movies, I’m glad that it ended so, so nicely.”
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Craig Bartlett reveals the heart behind ‘Hey Arnold’ and clears up a long standing fan theory
More than two decades after its debut, Hey Arnold! continues to hold a special place in the hearts of animation fans. The Nickelodeon series became known for its memorable characters, emotional storytelling, and a city that felt both gritty and magical. While many viewers still remember Arnold's distinctive football shaped head, creator Craig Bartlett says every design choice was made with purpose. Looking back on the beloved series, Bartlett recently shared the creative inspirations behind the show and addressed one of its most debated fan theories.
Bartlett explained that Arnold's unusual appearance was designed to make the character instantly recognizable. Inspired by advice from Simpsons creator Matt Groening, he wanted Arnold to stand out even as a simple silhouette on screen. The original design began as a clay character with an exaggerated football shaped head, creating a look unlike any other television cartoon at the time. That bold artistic decision helped transform Arnold into one of Nickelodeon's most iconic animated characters and gave the series an instantly recognizable identity that remains popular with audiences today.
The interview also gave Bartlett the chance to settle a theory that has circulated online for years. One of the show's most emotional episodes follows the lonely Pigeon Man, whose mysterious departure led some fans to speculate that the story symbolized suicide. Bartlett firmly rejected that interpretation, explaining that the ending was always intended to be hopeful. In his vision, Pigeon Man simply flew away with his feathered companions to begin a peaceful new life, eventually imagining him caring for pigeons in Paris. By addressing the theory directly, Bartlett reaffirmed the optimistic message that has always been central to the series.
Beyond its memorable characters, Hey Arnold! stood out because of its unique setting. Bartlett revealed that the fictional city was inspired by places that shaped his own life, including Seattle, Portland, and Brooklyn. The result was a fictional neighborhood that blended urban realism with warmth and imagination. Arnold's famous attic bedroom, complete with its skylight and rooftop escape, became one of the show's most admired locations. Bartlett also credited the novels of Gabriel García Márquez as a major influence, drawing on the literary style of magical realism to make ordinary city life feel quietly extraordinary without losing its emotional authenticity.
For Bartlett, the greatest reward has never been the show's popularity but its lasting impact on viewers. He believes children's television carries tremendous responsibility because young audiences often remember its messages for life. Many fans have written to him describing how the series gave them hope during difficult moments and encouraged them to make the best of challenging circumstances. Those heartfelt stories confirm that Hey Arnold! was always about kindness, resilience, and empathy. Years after its original run, the series continues to inspire new generations while reminding longtime fans why its gentle optimism has endured for so long.
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Hey Brooklyn! Borough’s influence on “Hey Arnold!” lives on 30 years later
Brooklyn was one of several cities that inspired the setting of “Hey Arnold!,” according to creator Craig Bartlett.
Thirty years after “football head” first wandered the streets of fictional Hillwood, Brooklyn is still hiding in plain sight all over “Hey Arnold” — in its brownstones, stoops, playgrounds, schoolyards and even its jazz-heavy soundtrack.
The Nickelodeon cartoon, which debuted 30 years ago, was technically set in the fictional city of “Hillwood,” which the show’s creator, Craig Bartlett, said was based on Brooklyn, Seattle and Portland. But to many viewers and fans, it was always all about Brooklyn.
Justin Shenkarow, who played the show’s somewhat beloved bully, Harold, remembers that connection well.
“We took inspiration from Brooklyn, from P.S. 118 where all of us kids, the characters in the show, went to school,” Shenkarow said. “The classrooms, with our principal, friendships, talking about our life, getting into trouble. Going on the playground, the baseball field we created on our own.”
The buildings, blocks and building blocks of this world were Brooklyn, often seen through the eyes of creatives in California who knew Kings County.
“The whole ‘Hey Arnold!’ set — the brownstones, the buildings — they all were from Brooklyn,” Shenkarow added. “The neighborhood. We have a little baseball field close to an alley. It feels reminiscent of kids in Brooklyn.”
The show was recorded far from Brooklyn in Burbank, but the beauty of it was, if sometimes somewhat idealized, a bit of the borough.
“It wasn’t technically set there, but it was inspired by Brooklyn. It’s funky, creative, colorful and cool,” Shenkarow, who still spends time in New York City, said. “Even the soundtrack of ‘Hey Arnold!’ is jazz.”
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| Justin Shenkarow, who voiced Harold on “Hey Arnold!,” said the show’s Brooklyn influence was apparent in everything from its buildings to its soundtrack. |
Although Shenkarow grew up in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, he also went back and forth to Brooklyn and Manhattan when he grew up.
“It was Fort Greene, Bed-Stuy, Williamsburg,” he said. “I had a lot of friends when we graduated from college who moved there. They lived around there.”
If there was ever an episode that felt like it could have been pulled straight from a Brooklyn block, it was “Stoop Kid,” about a character who never left his stoop.
Shenkarow’s character Harold says, “Stoop Kid’s afraid to leave his stoop,” after which Stoop Kid yells back, “I’m going to roll you down the hill, fat boy.”
“People quote those lines all the time,” Shenkarow said.
Harold, voiced by Justin Shenkarow, often played the bully but had a “huge heart,” according to Shenkarow.
But the Brooklyn influence was more than brownstones and stoops. The characters themselves were part of what made the show feel like a real neighborhood.
Shenkarow said “Hey Arnold!” was done differently than most shows, creating an ensemble feel.
“What was cool and unique about recording [was that] typically when you go in for a cartoon, you go in as one actor, read your lines and you’re done,” he told Brooklyn Paper. “With ‘Hey Arnold!’ they would bring in the entire cast.”
Each cast member would read from the script at a music stand with a microphone in a big room.
“We would get notes from the director and be able to infuse our charisma and character into performances,” he said. “We would read the script again. They would have two full tapings. They would choose the best dialogue per character.”
The process, he said, was a great way to create relationships between characters, as well as actors.
“We were able to look at each other while we performed and see the behavior,” Shenkarow said. “We’re moving our hands, gestures with our faces. It was really helpful to enhance our performances, being in the room with each other.”
The cast developed relationships, getting to know each other off-screen in ways that may have benefited their on-screen performances.
“We became great friends,” he said. “We recorded once a week together. I think that friendship showed up in the show as well.”
P.S. 118, the fictional school attended by Arnold and his classmates in “Hey Arnold!,” appears alongside an elevated roadway reminiscent of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
That chemistry helped make the characters feel less like cartoon archetypes and more like kids growing up together.
Shenkarow believes the people and plots became part of viewers’ world, providing the fuel to keep the show fresh.
“The characters were rich and layered, not one-dimensional,” he said. “Harold was a bully from the outside. When you got to discover him, you realized he was a sensitive kid with a huge heart. He wanted to be in the friend group.”
Shenkarow said although Harold was a bully on the playground, he learned a lot of lessons and still had a soft side.
“He would get into trouble and have to work at Mr. Green’s butcher shop and learn how to be a butcher. He enjoyed that,” he said, also remembering the episode where Harold had a Bar Mitzvah. “Arnold told me, ‘This is important. I respect what you’re doing. You’re becoming a man.’”
Elliott Gould played the rabbi in that episode, as Shenkarow called his character possibly the “number one Jewish animated character in the history of cartoons,” ahead of others such as Tommy Pickles in “Rugrats.”
The “Hey Arnold!” cast developed a close friendship while recording the show together, with Justin Shenkarow recalling the ensemble as feeling like a group of real-life friends.
Shenkarow worked on the show from age 12 in 1994 through age 37, including the 2002 film “Hey Arnold!: The Movie” and the 2017 “Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie.” He has continued working in animation and television, including roles on “Spidey and His Amazing Friends” and “Recess,” but “Hey Arnold!” remains the role that continues to connect him with fans.
“Nineties nostalgia is massive now,” Shenkarow said. “It’s the number one Nickelodeon cartoon from the 90s.”
Three decades later, Arnold and his friends haven’t exactly disappeared. The show continues to attract millions of fans on social media and through streaming on Paramount Plus, as well as on demand through Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and other services.
Some cast members recently reunited at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles to attend the MultiCon fan pop culture convention.
Rumors of a cast reunion surfaced before being swatted away, but the gathering was another reminder that “Hey Arnold!” hasn’t lost its hold on viewers more than two decades after its five-season run, which aired from Oct. 7, 1996, to June 8, 2004.
As for a possible reboot, Shenkarow isn’t sure whether it will happen, though he likes the idea.
“I don’t know. That’s above my pay-grade in terms of what studios decide,” he said.
Shenkarow’s take, however, is clear.
“The fans want it back. I want it back.”
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