Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast

Set your talking alarm clocks ‘cause it’s almost time to talk about the final season of Hey Arnold!

We’ll return with new episodes, returning guests, fresh faces, and hot takes on Feb. 16, 2023. Until then, get hyped by following us on Twitter and Instagram @stoopkidzpod (that’s “kidz” with a “Z”):

- https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod

- https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/

We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch! And if you’re already a longtime listener, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!

See you in a few weeks, bold kidz!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Music: “Wyze Gyze” by Jim Lang.

Helga on the Couch. Monkeyman. Principal Wartz. Mr. Hyunh's "very creepy" laugh. Stinky, Harold, and Sid’s buttcheeks. Summer Love. In this special season-ender, we reminisce on all the highs, lows, memories, and things we wish we could forget from Season 4!

Thanks for sticking around with the Kidz! Get ready for Season 5… soon!

If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.

Arnold and Helga end up at the same beach resort for what’s supposed to be a relaxing summertime getaway. But before Helga can put Operation Be Nice to Arnold into action, Summer (the girl) comes calling for Arnold, threatening to ruin Helga’s whole summer (the season). Helga warns a smitten Arnold that the bombshell isn’t all that she seems, but given their contentious relationship, Arnold isn’t quite ready to believe Helga.

Some episodes of Hey Arnold! feel cursed – like despite top-tier writing talent and a great premise, they still miss the mark and leave a terrible taste behind. “Summer Love” is one of those rare strange episodes that just doesn’t sit right. In this episode, the Kidz mull over the implications of this fateful summer vacation, the strange side-plots that litter the beach, and why this one feels worse than sand in your swim shorts.

If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Babewatch Theme” by Jim Lang.

“Here lies Dino Spumoni,” lies a lying tombstone for the low-rent Sinatra himself!

Hoping to see a postmortem popularity bump, Dino Spumoni fakes his death and moves back to Sunset Arms, where he grew up. The spoof works arguably too well, and in typical Hey Arnold! fashion, Dino gets exactly what he wants in the exact way he doesn’t want it: Impersonators fill the Dino-shaped hole, leaving Dino second-guessing his simulated suicide.

If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.

Charlie Mackin stops by to discuss one of the most important episodes of Hey Arnold! and a classic in its own right!

“Helga on the Couch” is remembered as an episode that changed everything for Helga. An outburst like any other turns into school-mandated therapy sessions with Dr. Bliss, a child psychologist assigned to PS 118. On the couch (and in the chair and behind the dart board and pacing the room), Helga comes to terms (almost accidentally) with the love she feels for Arnold, tying it directly to the love Big Bob and Miriam gave to Olga instead of her.

It’s a climactic episode that provides serious catharsis for Helga and the audience alike, while managing to keep the tension of Helga’s secret taut as ever.

Also, Baby Arnold forever.

Find Charlie’s work at https://charliemackin.com/

Follow Charlie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/charliemander13

Buy Décorum, the tabletop game created by Charlie, Harry, and Drew Tenenbaum: ​​https://floodgate.games/products/decorum

Listen to Charlie’s other episodes of Stoop Kidz!:

- 8A The List/8B Haunted Train

- 20 Arnold’s Christmas

- 46A Arnold Betrays Iggy/46B Helga and the Nanny

- 60 Parent's Day

If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Helga’s Love Theme” by Jim Lang.

Hannah Borenstein is back to tackle two more classic eps with the Kidz!

Helga’s ruse goes awry in “Helga’s Masquerade” when she mimics Lila to earn Arnold’s affection, only to earn it for the wrong reasons.

Local politics have kept necessary road repairs at bay for too long, so Mr. Green seeks a seat on the Hillwood City Council in “Mr. Green Runs.” It’s an episode that highlights the types of people who become powerful at a local level, being a self-styled voice of the people, and what it means to become part of the civic machine.

Find Hannah on Twitter and Instagram at @hborenstein23 and find her work at https://www.hannahborenstein.com/

“The Nickelodeon Cartoon That Taught a Generation to Hate Capitalism” by Hannah Borenstein for Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2022/03/hey-arnold-gentrification-capitalism-millennial-nostalgia-podcasts.html

If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.

Grandpa Phil and his twin sister, Mitzi, don’t get along. Like, at all. With beef that goes back decades, can Arnold insert himself as mediator before the fraternal feud boils over into disaster in “Grandpa’s Sister”?

In “Synchronized Swimming,” Coach Wittenberg wants to show Arnold, Gerald, Harold, Stinky, and Stinky that synchronized swimming isn’t just for girls. (And save his job.) In the process, he gives them a place to express themselves and their emotions through water-based dance.

If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang. Outro music from Episode 76B Synchronized Swimming by Jim Lang.

Our own superhero Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate) is back to assist the weak and downtrodden with another guest appearance!

It wouldn’t be another day in Hillwood without another vigilante realizing he doesn’t fit in with “normal” society! In “Monkeyman!,” Monkeyman gets a taste of everyday life with Arnold’s help – but the simian superhero finds it hard to let go of his apelike adventurousness.

In “Buses, Bikes, and Subways,” Helga and Harold have to find a way back to town after the bus strands them on a field trip. It’s called “intermodal transportation,” kids, and Helga will leverage any means she can to get back in time for WrestleMania.

Also, Cody’s never had a banana split??????????????

Find Seth at the following links:

https://twitter.com/snzarate

https://letterboxd.com/snzarate/

If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.

In “Helga Sleepwalks,” a poor choice (eating only pork rinds for days on end) has bad consequences for Helga – namely, her somnambulant confessions of love for Arnold! It’s one of the first episodes where she really starts to recognize how holding in her feelings is affecting her. In “Fighting Families,” Arnold, Grandpa, Grandma, and a couple of the boarders make a game show appearance and they don’t compare favorably to the prim and proper nuclear family on the other team. This being Hey Arnold!, though, you know it’s gonna end well for Arnold and his weird found family.

If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.

Welcome Dan Nagan of Everything We Learned (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman) back to the stoop!

Arnie, Arnold’s country bumpkin cousin, is a bit of a chad. Such is Arnold’s plight in “Weird Cousin,” which has big ENEMY (2013) vibes.

In “Baby Oskar,” there’s a baby named Oskar and Oskar Kokoshka, who is not a baby but often acts like one, has to take care of the baby named Oskar. Hope that’s clear enough for ya. Can Adult Man Oskar overcome his immaturity and dependence long enough to care for an immature, dependent baby?

Find Dan and listen to his movie podcast, Everything We Learned, at the links below:

- https://twitter.com/adapperdanman/

- https://letterboxd.com/adapperdanman/

- Everything We Learned on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everything-we-learned/id1184071273

- If you play Final Fantasy XIV, find Dan on the Diabolo server as “Hulk Smashworth”

If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch!

All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.