in the 90s there was token diversity quotas but otherwise colorblindness. Gerald being black never came up once in the series. Today it'd be his main character trait.
He'd probably get shot and it would be a whole thing about Arnie having to burst into the courtroom and says "Wait I saw duh cop a-aaaa---aaan an an an you know what? He shot GerladEdede while he was watching Channel DeDeDe
you mean non white fictional characters had an identity that was not based in the color of their skin, frickin crazy dude
imagine recognizing characters by their skills, characters and lore, OUT OF THIS WORLD
Doug needs to be higher. Spongebob was good in the first few seasons, but went to shit and became the face of Nick for years to come. Never got into Fairly Odd Parents. I pretty much can agree with the rest.
Going back and watching Doug recently it’s hilarious because of how much of a genuine sperg he was. But I remember finding a lot of the actual episodes to be kind of boring.
>tfw a Danny Phantom obsessed moron
I loved that show more than I should >All those Sam faps until she turned into a b***h. Then I started jerking to Desiree and Ember.
They're similar in that they're shows full of wacky characters and conflict but at the same time tend to be light-hearted and optimistic.
Most cartoons either have every character be an butthole and run on mean-spirited humor or it's cotton candy sweet and made for literal babies. Hey Arnold and Bob's Burgers are some rare examples that try to walk the tight rope, the world sucks and a lot of people act like jerks but you can tough through the bad times and you'll be surprised at how many jerks have good in them if you try to reach them.
You can still enjoy it for what it is. There's just no merit behind anyone getting their positions in entertainment. Nepotism is everywhere, but it's harder to stomach when it comes from a Satanic sex cult.
future white supremacist mass shooter. Everyone thought it'd be Curly.
Brainy will get some boring job like an accountant or actuary but his years of getting beat up by Helga gave him a femdom fetish and he ends up dating a dominatrix.
Curly becomes a professional Broadway Dancer who is well-known for his Jared Leto-tier backstage antics.
I'm a 23 year old zoomer who grew up on Spongebob and man I wish I'd seen this show as a kid, it's far less ADHD. There's an episode where Sid studies with his new friend at Arnold's house because he's ashamed of his own apartment. I used to live in a tiny apartment because my dad was unemployed and I was always ashamed to have friends over, it would only happen occasionally. Little did I realise that kids don't really give a shit. It's weird to enjoy a kids show so much but it reminds me of playing on the street with my friends and cousins, you don't see kids playing on the street that much these days.
The Covid scamdemic lockdowns was such a cruel thing to do to children.
The problem is that popular culture has become way too derivative of what came before, mainly because the TV writers of old used to actually have life experience, now they're all fat couch potatoes who view the world through the lense of pre-existing media. It wouldn't be so bad if this decline in quality lead to less people watching TV but unfortunately they're just becoming dumber and more tasteless instead.
>Smartphone proliferation didn't really become a problem until 2013.
This. iPhones were expensive as frick, there's a reason only wealthy business men and hipsters had them for the first few years. Around 2012 they became a lot more affordable mainly thanks to competition from Samsung, then everyone had one and began to change their lifestyles to accommodate for their new computer companions.
As kids, the moment Hey Arnold started playing on TV everyone got sad and realized that the good shows were over for the day and that we had to go back outside.
I watched two episodes of this show recently with friends in an apartment while sobering up from a night of drinking and I've come to the realization that I have become oskar kokashka
Did any of you have a “Helga” when you were in school?
There was a girl who would pretty much treat me like Helga treated Arnold and fricking everyone was like “haha that means she secretly likes you” even the teachers and my parents. But it was fricking annoying and I was glad when I finally changed grades and she wasn’t in my class anymore.
Yes, and I had a crush on her to. On the last day of 6th grade she confessed her crush on me and asked if she could kiss me and I assumed it was some some of joke and rand away. F.
I never saw the show because I didn't have the Disney channel but I used to always rent the School's Out movie from Blockbuster, this shit was my childhood.
Interesting that the initial premise of the show was about a boy who daydreamed all the time, all the season 1 episodes begin with Arnold fantasizing about going on some grand adventure, in the later seasons they stopped doing that.
Would Bartlett’s planned and more mature Pataki focused sequel have been good or shit? If the writing was even half as good as Arnold it probably would’ve been pretty good imo.
The Helga episodes were always the best so I'm sure it would've been good for at least a season.
I agree. You could even argue the show was just as much about Helga as it was Arnold. She had more character development than anyone by far.
Helga's life was fricking depressing and the show focused on it to an appropriate degree. A full blown Helga show wouldn't have the bittersweet tone that Hey Arnold tended to have. Its premise would have devolved into pure misery porn rather quickly.
>token black
How was this acceptable?
nadine was also black, as was the mailman
Okay we get it you watch Hey Doug
in the 90s there was token diversity quotas but otherwise colorblindness. Gerald being black never came up once in the series. Today it'd be his main character trait.
He'd probably get shot and it would be a whole thing about Arnie having to burst into the courtroom and says "Wait I saw duh cop a-aaaa---aaan an an an you know what? He shot GerladEdede while he was watching Channel DeDeDe
Memes aside, in all seriousness it'd be about him getting hassled by the police for having a new bike or w/e
What
you mean non white fictional characters had an identity that was not based in the color of their skin, frickin crazy dude
imagine recognizing characters by their skills, characters and lore, OUT OF THIS WORLD
ayo gerald where you going.....
Doug needs to be higher. Spongebob was good in the first few seasons, but went to shit and became the face of Nick for years to come. Never got into Fairly Odd Parents. I pretty much can agree with the rest.
Doug was shit, fricking have a nice day boring Douggay.
Calm down, Roger.
Going back and watching Doug recently it’s hilarious because of how much of a genuine sperg he was. But I remember finding a lot of the actual episodes to be kind of boring.
I hated Doug. Even as a kid I thought he was shitty.
no Grim Adventures? Come on.
>invader zim
gay
>Grim Adventures
not nick, nice digits tho
Invader Zim is ridiculously overrated
Kablam! was God Tier
>tfw a Danny Phantom obsessed moron
I loved that show more than I should
>All those Sam faps until she turned into a b***h. Then I started jerking to Desiree and Ember.
Tbh I never really liked this cartoon. It's bland in the same way bobs burgers is.
Sounds like you don't have the attention span for slow-paced character driven cartoons.
Also this show and Bob's Burgers do not having the same pacing at all, you zim zam zoomer
They're similar in that they're shows full of wacky characters and conflict but at the same time tend to be light-hearted and optimistic.
Most cartoons either have every character be an butthole and run on mean-spirited humor or it's cotton candy sweet and made for literal babies. Hey Arnold and Bob's Burgers are some rare examples that try to walk the tight rope, the world sucks and a lot of people act like jerks but you can tough through the bad times and you'll be surprised at how many jerks have good in them if you try to reach them.
-LESS SHIT LIKE MOST OF NICKELODEON
But don't geniuses live in a lamp?
>Gerald wears 33
>Arnold and Gerald do a Masonic handshake
it's not even subtle
Great, another wholesome cartoon ruined.
You can still enjoy it for what it is. There's just no merit behind anyone getting their positions in entertainment. Nepotism is everywhere, but it's harder to stomach when it comes from a Satanic sex cult.
It was very deep for a kid's show. Loved it when I was little.
The frick was this chud's problem?
future white supremacist mass shooter. Everyone thought it'd be Curly.
Brainy will get some boring job like an accountant or actuary but his years of getting beat up by Helga gave him a femdom fetish and he ends up dating a dominatrix.
Curly becomes a professional Broadway Dancer who is well-known for his Jared Leto-tier backstage antics.
The show's OST really shaped my musical tastes
Same, those jazz soundtracks were kino
which on were you?
in school people used to say I was like curly
Yeah gimme a combo of fat & moronic with alcoholism?
I'm more of a Wheezin Ed type of guy
bottom row
lila or lilac whatever the frick her name was is definitely a BPD bawd
Lila is a prostitute who likes anal sex.
But does she like like it?
I'm a 23 year old zoomer who grew up on Spongebob and man I wish I'd seen this show as a kid, it's far less ADHD. There's an episode where Sid studies with his new friend at Arnold's house because he's ashamed of his own apartment. I used to live in a tiny apartment because my dad was unemployed and I was always ashamed to have friends over, it would only happen occasionally. Little did I realise that kids don't really give a shit. It's weird to enjoy a kids show so much but it reminds me of playing on the street with my friends and cousins, you don't see kids playing on the street that much these days.
The Covid scamdemic lockdowns was such a cruel thing to do to children.
34 year old who remembers the original pilot to Hey Arnold being premiered in theaters alongside the movie Harriet the Spy. Yeah you missed out
everything was great in this country at almost every level until around 2007.
The problem is that popular culture has become way too derivative of what came before, mainly because the TV writers of old used to actually have life experience, now they're all fat couch potatoes who view the world through the lense of pre-existing media. It wouldn't be so bad if this decline in quality lead to less people watching TV but unfortunately they're just becoming dumber and more tasteless instead.
I remember seeing Harriet the Spy at the theater and this the pilot coming on before the movie. I remember really enjoying it.
Why did it go to shit in 2007?
iPhones I'm guessing?
the economy imploded that year. Smartphone proliferation didn't really become a problem until 2013.
>Smartphone proliferation didn't really become a problem until 2013.
This. iPhones were expensive as frick, there's a reason only wealthy business men and hipsters had them for the first few years. Around 2012 they became a lot more affordable mainly thanks to competition from Samsung, then everyone had one and began to change their lifestyles to accommodate for their new computer companions.
and normies ruined the internet. frick.
As kids, the moment Hey Arnold started playing on TV everyone got sad and realized that the good shows were over for the day and that we had to go back outside.
Frick this show
I watched two episodes of this show recently with friends in an apartment while sobering up from a night of drinking and I've come to the realization that I have become oskar kokashka
It's not so bad.
Heh-eh-eh
I liked that Grandpa and Oskar were friends out of necessity just because one was a bored retiree and the other was a lazy NEET. Very funny dynamic.
this show had such a confy atmosphere. on top of the amazing characters, writing and plotlines
Did any of you have a “Helga” when you were in school?
There was a girl who would pretty much treat me like Helga treated Arnold and fricking everyone was like “haha that means she secretly likes you” even the teachers and my parents. But it was fricking annoying and I was glad when I finally changed grades and she wasn’t in my class anymore.
Yes, and I had a crush on her to. On the last day of 6th grade she confessed her crush on me and asked if she could kiss me and I assumed it was some some of joke and rand away. F.
Cool.
>it's an /x/ episode
The Old cartoons had it. Recess and hey Arnold were two of my favorites
I never saw the show because I didn't have the Disney channel but I used to always rent the School's Out movie from Blockbuster, this shit was my childhood.
Remember when Arnold was on Sesame Street?
Interesting that the initial premise of the show was about a boy who daydreamed all the time, all the season 1 episodes begin with Arnold fantasizing about going on some grand adventure, in the later seasons they stopped doing that.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/search?work_search%5Bquery%5D=Rhonda+Gets+Broke
https://archiveofourown.org/works/search?work_search%5Bquery%5D=Phoebe%27s+Wrong+Turn
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Phoebe%20Heyerdahl*s*Rhonda%20Wellington%20Lloyd/works
What's my best Hey Arnold story?
Would Bartlett’s planned and more mature Pataki focused sequel have been good or shit? If the writing was even half as good as Arnold it probably would’ve been pretty good imo.
yes, but daria killed it
The Helga episodes were always the best so I'm sure it would've been good for at least a season.
I agree. You could even argue the show was just as much about Helga as it was Arnold. She had more character development than anyone by far.
Yes definitely, they were both equal main characters.
Shit. Look at the Jungle Movie. Now look at the Helgacels who will harass him if it came out now.
Helga's life was fricking depressing and the show focused on it to an appropriate degree. A full blown Helga show wouldn't have the bittersweet tone that Hey Arnold tended to have. Its premise would have devolved into pure misery porn rather quickly.
Out of the way. SOVL coming through!
the most unrealistic scene from the show
>Black person in the city
>DIVERSITY QUATA
I'm honestly getting tired of you.