Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast

Helga’s scheme to impress her friends by taking them out for some fine dining goes wrong when she runs up a bill at the wrong restaurant in “Dinner for Four”. Luckily, her beloved Football Head is there to steer her out of the moral quandary – even if it means a night of washing dishes to pay it all back.

Helga and Phoebe rediscover just how inseparable they are when the brainiac decides to advance to the sixth grade in “Phoebe Skips”: Helga is left sidekick-less, Phoebe is adrift without Helga’s brash defensiveness, and they’re both left without a best friend.

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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.

Birthdays, pumpkins, jinxes, and prophetic dreams galore help us kick off Season 4! Thanks for tuning in. We’re in for a wild ride this season!

In this discussion, we cover the ongoing role-trading Eugene and Arnold do as ‘the jinx’ and how Arnold’s best intentions always seem to backfire with his fallible friend. We also turn to the pride of Stinky Farms and what Stinky learns about hard times, hard work, and a hard-won sense of self.

In the meantime, 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.

NOTE: This is an 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙙 episode of Stoop Kidz! Keep in mind you’ll hear some naughty words in this episode that we bleep on our regular episodes. Thanks!

He’s back! Craig Bartlett, the creator of Hey Arnold! himself, stops by the stoop once more to catch up, discuss what we’ve seen of the show so far, and share memories of what it was like to help turn Hey Arnold! into the show we know and love today.

In this special interview episode, Craig talks about the big differences between Season 1 and the rest of the series, how Helga and Arnold’s relationship came to the forefront of the show, the inside scoop on Parents Day, and how some of these episodes still make people tear up after all this time – even the people who wrote them.

And this is just the beginning of Season 4 of Stoop Kidz! Get ready for more by subscribing, telling a friend about our show, and leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts! You 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.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Craig Bartlett on What Changed Between Seasons 1 and 4 of Hey Arnold!

2:16 - The differences between Season 1 and Seasons 2 and 3

37:43 - Working with performers to bring iconic tunes to life

50:05 - How Helga's crush on Arnold became legendary

57:15 - How Craig's globetrotting inspired Hey Arnold!

1:06:23 - How Parents Day came together and why it even made Craig’s kids cry

1:35:43 - How Parents Day ties the series together

Get ready for the twists, turns, loves, losses, laughs, and drama coming to Hillwood in Season 4 of Hey Arnold! We’ll be back with new episodes starting on schedule Thursday, August 18, so mark your calendars and turn on your notifications. We can’t wait to show you all we’ve got in store, so don’t miss a single episode!

In the meantime, 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/). Music: “The A Game” by Jim Lang.

Hopefully this season of Stoop Kidz! has helped you get into the 1998 mood! To get us the rest of the way there, we’re taking an episode to reminisce about one of the heavy-hitting tastemakers of the compact disc-based, pre-streaming age: Now That’s What I Call Music!

The first U.S. volume of Now came out the same year as season 3 of Hey Arnold!, so we invited friend of the show and pop music fan Seth to go track-by-track through the sound of 1998. We recall memories associated with these songs, all the hits, all the misses, and then pick our favorites and least favorites from the whole volume.

Songs discussed in this episode:

Janet Jackson - “Together Again”

The Backstreet Boys - “As Long as You Love Me”

Fastball - “The Way”

Harvey Danger - “Flagpole Sitta”

The Spice Girls - “Say You’ll Be There”

K-Ci & JoJo - “All My Life”

All Saints - “Never Ever”

Tonic - “If You Could Only See”

Hanson - “MMMBop”

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies - “Zoot Suit Riot”

Imajin - “Shorty (You Keep Playin’ With My Mind) (feat. Keith Murray)”

Brian McKnight - “Anytime”

Aqua - “Barbie Girl”

Radiohead - “Karma Police”

Everclear - “I Will Buy You A New Life”

Lenny Kravitz - “Fly Away”

Marcy Playground - “Sex & Candy”

Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy posts? Follow us on https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ between episodes for more fun stuff from the Kidz! While you’re at it, rate us on Apple or Spotify and leave us a review if you love the show – not only does it help us grow, we read every single one!

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. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.

With another season of the show under our belts, it’s time to look back with a quick recap!

Season 3 was full of surprises, laughs, new characters, and some of the most heart-wrenching episodes of Hey Arnold! yet. In this episode, we unpack our personal highlights from the entire season – from individual moments to whole episodes – along with our favorite podcast discussions. Also, Cody gets to thirst over Lorenzo’s mom a little more and we all remember everyone’s favorite flirtatious, pizza-loving go-kart king, Giuseppe.

Thanks for tuning in to another season of Stoop Kidz! Keep an eye on this feed and our social media for our Season 4 plans. We’re super psyched about what’s coming next, so don’t miss it!

Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy posts? Follow us on https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ between episodes for more fun stuff from the Kidz! While you’re at it, rate us on Apple or Spotify and leave us a review if you love the show – not only does it help us grow, we read every single one!

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: “Groove Remote” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.

Returning guest Charlie Mackin (https://twitter.com/charliemander13) helps us close out Season 3’s episode discussions – and boy, it’s a doozy!

“𝙊𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙠𝙞𝙙.”

Big Bob’s name-calling at the Parents Tournament Weekend gets Arnold thinking of the mom and dad he doesn’t remember in “Parents Day,” leading Arnold to ask Grandpa to tell him what really happened to his parents. What follows is an emotional revelation that adds context to some of Arnold’s best features: his altruism, his optimism, and his desire to see only the best in everyone. But it’s also a catharsis for Arnold as he comes to terms with the family he has – and for us as we join Arnold in yearning for closure in the wake of trauma.

In this episode, we talk about how “Parents Day” came into each of our lives, what sticks out now that went over our heads as kids, why it reminds Harry of The X-Files, and how a show that’s so innocent can be so deeply, deeply emotional.

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

Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy posts? Follow us on https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ between episodes for more fun stuff from the Kidz! While you’re at it, rate us on Apple or Spotify and leave us a review if you love the show – not only does it help us grow, we read every single one!

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: “Groove Remote” by Jim Lang. Outro music from “Parents Day” by Jim Lang.

Give a round of applause for Wayne (https://twitter.com/stainwaynerook), who’s putting on his best stage makeup and rehearsing his lines to talk about a special double-length episode of Hey Arnold!

In “School Play,” Arnold is set on playing the part the right way – a true artiste. Helga, recognizing the unique opportunity before her, muscles into the role of her dreams: the Juliet to her football-headed Romeo.

Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy posts? Follow us on https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ between episodes for more fun stuff from the Kidz! While you’re at it, rate us on Apple or Spotify and leave us a review if you love the show – not only does it help us grow, we read every single one!

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: “Groove Remote” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.

Dan Nagan (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman) returns to the Stoop for a double-header!

We get a front-row seat to Helga’s short-lived stand-up career in “Helga’s Show” and Hillwood ends up underwater in “The Flood”!

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”

Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy posts? Follow us on https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ between episodes for more fun stuff from the Kidz! While you’re at it, rate us on Apple or Spotify and leave us a review if you love the show – not only does it help us grow, we read every single one!

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: “Groove Remote” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’” by Jim Lang.

At long last, Seth (https://twitter.com/snzarate) is back on the stoop!

Arnold and Helga dance around their complicated relationship yet again in “Girl Trouble,” where Helga’s thinly veiled love for the football headed kid comes to a head during a group project in history class. Helga’s ribbing pushes Arnold to his breaking point, earning him detention and some much-needed humility, as Grandpa parallels their tumultuous relationship with one he had with a young girl named Gertie back in the day…

Arnold’s in charge of entertainment for the school dance in “School Dance,” and much to the chagrin of his schoolmates, he’s picked oldhead favorite and crooner Dino Spumoni for one last swing. Will the kids come around to see that his choice is so out he’s actually in? School Dance King Seth weighs in!

Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy posts? Follow us on https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ between episodes for more fun stuff from the Kidz! While you’re at it, rate us on Apple or Spotify and leave us a review if you love the show – not only does it help us grow, we read every single one!

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: “Groove Remote” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Back in the Swing” sung by Michael Levin from Episode 57B School Dance.