r/HeyArnold

Just got back from the show and this is the thread to discuss and share your thoughts, experiences, and news regarding the upcoming tour.

Loved the show and it was an amazing experience, especially with these small venues. They announced the tour and that tickets will be on sale today (8/19). Also, they announced that they will continue to tour next year and go to cities that they missed for this upcoming tour.

Got this shirt from the merch store for $40. Other than that, can’t wait to catch them again in LA when they close out the tour!

I posted an LA show awhile back, but just checked and Jim Lang and his band are doing a whole US tour now. I would check out their IG and see if they’re going to your city!

I’m just saying, there’s ample space there for a couch to just be. And who installed this thing? Grandpa?

Also, now it’s bothering me that the only gif I can find has the couch on the wrong side of the door. Tawk amongst yourselves.

Hello Football head fans,

Earlier a user (who I won't name) posted a link to a revival Hey Arnold article by "The Direct"

Unfortunately rumors are flying from one single article. There is a lot people closest to Craig Bartlett who are saying these rumors are not true.

I deleted the other Reddit post because I don't want people to get their hopes up and to believe in the rumor.

However, if something does change and we get a real confirmation that it's the real deal. I or one of the other mods will post it.

Hey Football head Fans,

I've been seeing a lot of discussions about people not wanting Hey Arnold to ever be "woke" and since the rumor about a revival came out (which the voice actor of Harold has stated is just a rumor for now) I decided to throw my two cents on the subject.

Not sure if we watched the same show but I will break down some things:

★ Arnold grows up in a multicultural, boarding house, surrounded by immigrants and people from very different backgrounds and yet he treats them as family, not as “outsiders.”

★ Poverty and struggling are normalized in the show than having someone simply being lazy or deserving their situation.

★ Arnold is basically a humanitarian: empathetic, compassionate, and constantly trying to help people even when he gets nothing out of it. (Sure it's due to his abandonment issues and people pleasing tendencies but still it is what Arnold has become especially in the later seasons)

★ The show regularly tackled immigration, homelessness, bullying, LGBQ+, disability, family dysfunction, poverty, addiction without turning every episode into a lecture or shoveling things down your throat.

Examples:

Addiction:
Miriam's Smoothies / Chocolate boy

Disability:
Murray (Hey Arnold the movie)

Poverty:
Arnold lives in a run down boarding house, we constantly see what they eat, the repairs they have to do around the house. We see all the apartments and plumbing issues. In the episode "Rhonda goes broke" you can see the state of the boarding house. It's very run down and there are rats in the house.

I'm not going to list everything here but you get my point.

★ Arnold’s worldview is almost Buddhist in spirit: compassion, patience, forgiveness, nonviolence, and trying to understand why people behave the way they do.

★ Even characters who behave badly are often given context and humanity rather than being reduced to 1 dimensional bullies or villains (a quote from Harold in the jungle movie even proves this. "I use to be a 1 dimensional bully")

★ Hey Arnold has and will always be "woke" and again, maybe we weren't watching the same show. I saw a nine year old who was wise beyond his years do something most adults don't do. Understand people and their struggles despite who they are, where they come from. He helped them, give advice and listened to their problems.

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Rules before you comment: (because last few posts got too heated and we aren't here for drama. We are here because we like love the show and like discussing things)

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The overpass in Arnold’s neighborhood that passes over/behind the boarding house is a subtle but wonderful piece of urban architecture that really gives the show a ton of its unique charm. It’s featured in so many classic scenes and episodes. One of my favorite scenes is in Little Pink Book when onlookers standing on the overpass look down and laugh about Gerald’s reading of a love poem.
The overpass quietly signifies when a scene is somewhere in Arnold’s neighborhood. It gives the urban setting a sense of verticality, like there is life going on all around and even above Arnold and his friends that adds to the cozy lived-in feeling of the show’s setting. The overpass almost feels like a beloved character in itself.

TL;DR
The overpass is a great signature piece of Hey Arnold’s cozy urban atmosphere

This is the only show I've ever watched that was semi therapeutic to watch. The music was relaxing and the characters has those slow down reflection moments that we don't see a lot in modern cartoons. I don't watch hey Arnold very often (maybe like 2-3 times a year) but every time I do I feel like I went to a heavy therapy session. Idk if I'm weird for this.

Was able to score a ticket!

He just seems sweet, gentle and lovable. And greedy of course 😋🥰 But I think he's a great animal character