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The List
Arnold attemps to do "it all" - everything on "the list for a kid's perfect Saturday" -
but has only slightly more success than Grandma's attempts to get a large piano into the boarding house
Written by Joe Ansolabehere
Storyboard Direction by Mark O'Hare
Animation Direction by Larry Leichliter
Storyboard Artists: Derek Drymon, John McIntyre
Cast:
Arnold - Toran Caudell
Gerald - Jamil W. Smith
Park - Marcus Toji (credited as "Togi")
Sid - Sam Gifaldi
Harold (uncredited) - Justin Shenkarow
Grandpa, mover - Dan Castellaneta
Grandma - Tress MacNeille
Woman in the movie - Lisa Fuson
Man in the movie - Craig Bartlett
uncredited: Boy in the park
- Don't try this at home: Arnold tries to ride his bike down the steepest street
in the city - without a bicycle helmet
- When Arnold sets his alarm clock, it says 5:45 (a little early for bed), but
when he puts it on his desk, it's 10:30
- "I don't remember hearing Harold" -
if you listen carefully, you can hear his distinctive laugh
right after Gerald mentions riding down the steepest hill in
the neighborhood
Song Lyrics to "Look Up"
When life gets you down, wearing a frown, don't look away, look up,
'Cause memories true come of the blue; you know the way - look up!
When skies are gone gray, things gone astray, don't look away, look up;
Arnold: I had a bad day; nothing went right; I hate my dumb life; I'm down.
When you're feeling under the weather, and the dark clouds are getting
to you,
Keep your troubles light as a feather, and soon you'll be seeing a bright
patch of blue;
You....
Gotta look up, you gotta be strong, you gotta take things as they come,
'Cause everything new that happens to you is better when you...look up!
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Haunted Train
Arnold, Gerald, and Helga hear Grandpa's "legend of the Haunted Train" and head for the abandoned train
station where it's supposed to appear - and that train that pulls up to the station at midnight fits the description
Written by Josie Nericcio
Storyboard Direction by Tuck Tucker
Animation Direction by Juli Murphy-Hashiguchi
Storyboard Artist: John Mathot
Cast:
Arnold - Toran Caudell
Gerald - Jamil W. Smith
Helga - Francesca Marie Smith
Brainy - Craig Bartlett
Sid - Sam Gifaldi
Grandpa, engineer - Dan Castellaneta
uncredited: Singer at end
- Either somebody teach Helga how to skip rope, or somebody teach the animators
how to draw Helga skipping rope - Helga does one rope turn and then stops eaech time
Somebody heard me - she does better in "Girl Trouble"
- Helga says, "We're all gonna die!" -
apparently, Nickelodeon had no problems with words like
"dead" at the time
- How did Brainy get on the train, anyway?
Song Lyrics
Gerald's song
They say he lost his mind;
Went crazy on that day;
Ran his train right off the tracks
And drove it straight to - Hey!
Where's the engineer?
Been waitin' all night long;
Better show up soon
Or I'm have to say so long!
Whoo-whoo!
Been waitin' on the haunted train...
(it sounds like Gerald starts to sing "gonna" between "I'm" and "have to say" but
doesn't, which is why that line looks so strange)
The song in the closing credits (they're also in the closing credits of the
"Urban Adventures" tape)
Sometimes, late at night,
You can hear the whistle wail
With a spooky, screechy sound
Like a wheel gone off the rail;
And up in the smoky clouds,
You can almost recognize
The ghost of a crazy engineer
With fiery cinder eyes;
I say, Whoo-whoo!
Can't you hear the haunted train?
Whoo-whoo!
Waitin' on a haunted train
Crash that engine,
You know, only sticks and stones
And old conductors' bones remain...
At the end, the engineer says "Arnold, take me to the roundhouse"; on the Urban Adventures tape, he then
says "Spooky"
(and I'm not sure about that "fiery cinder eyes" line, but neither the broadcast nor the Urban Adventures
closed captions has anything that comes close to matching the line correctly)
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