
Hey Arnold! — Season 2
Adventure is never more than a bus stop away.
About this season
The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football.
Episodes (37)

1. Save the Tree
7.0Aired 22 September 1997 • 11 min
Arnold and the gang must stop Big Bob from chopping down the oldest tree in town.

2. New Teacher
7.0Aired 22 September 1997 • 11 min
When the kids make their new teacher, Mr. Simmons, quit his job, the replacement makes them realize what they lost.

3. Helga's Love Potion
Aired 24 September 1997 • 11 min
Helga drinks a potion to lose all feelings for Arnold.

4. Gerald's Secret
Aired 24 September 1997 • 11 min
Gerald's secret is revealed; he doesn't know how to ride a bike, so Arnold teaches him how.

5. The Big Scoop
8.0Aired 29 September 1997 • 11 min
Arnold and Gerald compete against Helga for the school newspaper.

6. Harold's Kitty
7.0Aired 29 September 1997 • 11 min
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 lady.

7. Longest Monday
7.0Aired 1 October 1997 • 11 min
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. As more people are thrown into trash cans and the fifth graders know all the routes, Arnold and Gerald find out eluding the fifth graders is harder that they thought.

8. Eugene's Pet
Aired 1 October 1997 • 11 min
After Arnold accidentally kills Eugene's fish with a yo-yo, he must do something to make up for it.

9. Monkey Business
7.0Aired 6 October 1997 • 11 min
An organ grinder's monkey kisses Helga, who's convinced she has caught 'monkeynucleosis'.

10. Big Caesar
8.0Aired 6 October 1997 • 11 min
Arnold and Gerald do a spot of fishing, determined to catch the pond's biggest fish, the legendary "Big Caesar".

11. Ransom
7.0Aired 8 October 1997 • 11 min
Gerald and Arnold get on the case when Timberly loses her Barney-esque doll.

12. Ms. Perfect
8.0Aired 8 October 1997 • 11 min
The new girl is teased at school by Helga and the other girls, but she's soon accepted by everyone.

13. Arnold's Halloween
Aired 27 October 1997 • 23 min
Arnold and Gerald send the neighborhood alien crazy as they broadcast a mock Halloween radio show.

14. Arnold Saves Sid
6.0Aired 13 October 1997 • 11 min
After Arnold saves Sid from an injury, Sid devotes himself to paying Arnold back with unending kindness.

15. Hookey
Aired 13 October 1997 • 11 min
Arnold and Gerald bunk off school, but their day is ruined by their fear of being found out.

16. Freeze Frame
9.0Aired 15 October 1997 • 11 min
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 out to be Mr. Green.

17. Phoebe Cheats
Aired 15 October 1997 • 11 min
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 trophy resembling poet Emily Dickinson. Then, the trophy haunts Phoebe into confessing.

18. Mud Bowl
7.0Aired 20 October 1997 • 11 min
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.

19. Gerald Moves Out
8.0Aired 20 October 1997 • 11 min
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.

20. The High Life
Aired 22 October 1997 • 11 min
Gerald becomes an entrepreneur out of selling watches until the market becomes saturated.

21. Best Friends
8.0Aired 22 October 1997 • 11 min
Rhonda and Nadine fall out over working on a project at school, leaving Arnold to work with both of them separately.

22. Steely Phil
7.0Aired 29 October 1997 • 11 min
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.

23. Quantity Time
7.0Aired 29 October 1997 • 11 min
Helga's mother tries to let her and her father, Bob, bond.

24. Eating Contest
7.0Aired 3 November 1997 • 11 min
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 Seymour 'The Disposal'.

25. Rhonda's Glasses
7.0Aired 3 November 1997 • 11 min
Rhonda gets glasses and finds out what it is like to be a "Geek".

26. Helga's Boyfriend
7.0Aired 5 November 1997 • 11 min
Helga uses Stinky as her boyfriend to try to make Arnold jealous.

27. Crush on Teacher
7.0Aired 5 November 1997 • 11 min
Arnold develops a crush on Miss Felter, a substitute teacher, thinking he is having dinner at her house.

28. Hall Monitor
7.0Aired 10 November 1997 • 11 min
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 giving her detentions.

29. Harold's Bar Mitzvah
Aired 10 November 1997 • 11 min
Harold runs away from his Bar Mitzvah, thinking he will retain his childhood this way.

30. Coach Wittenberg
Aired 12 November 1997 • 11 min
Arnold and his friends get Coach Wittenberg to be their new bowling coach.

31. Four-Eyed Jack
Aired 12 November 1997 • 11 min
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 belonged to him.

32. Eugene Goes Bad
7.0Aired 17 November 1997 • 11 min
After finding out that his idol is a haughty, primped actor, Eugene sets out to become bad.

33. What's Opera, Arnold?
7.0Aired 17 November 1997 • 11 min
Helga and Arnold fall asleep and have their own "parody/dream" of the opera Carmen.

34. Tour de Pond
Aired 24 November 1997 • 11 min
Arnold and a descendant of his grandpa's arch enemy, Rex Smythe-Higgins, compete in a boat race.

35. Teachers' Strike
7.0Aired 24 November 1997 • 11 min
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 summer vacation.

36. Runaway Float
7.0Aired 1 December 1997 • 11 min
After creating an idea for a parade float, Arnold is confident of it showing up in a parade.

37. Partners
7.0Aired 1 December 1997 • 11 min
A lounge singer moves into the Sunset Arms after renouncing his songwriter, who also moves there.