Hey Arnold!

by Craig Bartlett / Nickelodeon

Explore the sun-dappled streets and crowded tenements of a vibrant urban neighborhood where a football-headed kid with an enormous heart navigates friendship, bullies, and the quiet dramas of everyday city life.

23 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Arnold — A compassionate, football-headed fourth-grader who lives with his eccentric grandparents and has a knack for helping people work through their problem
• Big Bob Pataki — Helga's blustery, self-important father — a beeper mogul who is too busy being loud to notice how little he actually sees his daughter.
• Gerald Johanssen — Arnold's tall, confident best friend, self-appointed keeper of the neighborhood's urban legends, and the coolest kid on the block.
• Grandma Gertie — Arnold's fierce, eccentric grandmother — a martial-arts enthusiast, costumed adventurer, and inexhaustible force of nature who co-runs the Sunset Arms
• Grandpa Phil — Arnold's warm, rambling grandfather who runs the Sunset Arms boarding house and dispenses life advice through wildly tangential stories that somehow a
• Helga Pataki — The block's loudest, most aggressive bully who harbors a passionate and obsessive secret love for Arnold that she masks with cruelty.
• Miriam Pataki — Helga's spacey, checked-out mother — a former competitive swimmer who retreated into a haze of smoothies and vague distraction that obscures a sadder
• Nadine — Rhonda's best friend and devoted entomologist — a cheerful, intelligent girl whose passion for insects is at mild odds with her fashionable social cir
• Phoebe Heyerdahl — Helga's gentle, brilliant best friend — a bookish overachiever who is quieter than her intelligence deserves and braver than anyone gives her credit f
• Pigeon Man — A reclusive rooftop hermit who tends hundreds of pigeons above the city and offers Arnold one of his most profound encounters with adult loneliness an
• Rhonda Wellington Lloyd — The self-appointed arbiter of fourth-grade fashion and social status — wealthy, confident, occasionally cruel, but occasionally surprising.
• Sid — A neurotic, superstitious member of Arnold's friend group who is always the first to imagine the worst possible interpretation of any situation.
• Stinky Peterson — A lanky, good-natured kid from a rural background who has never quite acclimatized to city life and says exactly what he thinks, which is usually simp

Locations

• Gerald Field — The neighborhood's unofficial outdoor gathering place — a vacant lot turned stickball court and de facto town square for the kids of the block.
• P.S. 118 — The public elementary school where Arnold and his friends spend their days — a slightly worn institution presided over by the perpetually harassed Pri
• The Corner Store — The neighborhood's essential retail node — a small shop selling everything from soft pretzels to newspapers to whatever the kids need on any given aft
• The Neighborhood Rooftops — The elevated world above the neighborhood streets — private, quiet, wind-swept, and offering a different view of the same city.
• The Neighborhood Streets — The beating heart of the show — a dense, vibrant urban neighborhood somewhere in an unnamed American city, where every block has a personality and eve
• The Pataki House — Helga's home across the street from the Sunset Arms — a comfortable but emotionally cold house that explains a great deal about who Helga is.
• The Sunset Arms Boarding House — Arnold's home — a rambling, warm boarding house run by his grandparents Phil and Gertie, filled with eccentric tenants and the feeling that something

Items

• Gerald's Stickball Bat — Gerald's personal stickball bat — a worn, taped-handled stick that is his instrument of authority at Gerald Field and a symbol of neighborhood kid cul
• Helga's Arnold Locket — A small locket containing a photo of Arnold — created and obsessively treasured by Helga as the centerpiece of her secret devotion.
• Helga's Secret Shrine — A hidden altar to Arnold built inside Helga's bedroom closet — a monument to obsessive love made from photographs, drawings, and a sculpted gum bust.

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