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Das Subway
When the last crosstown bus leaves without the kids, they take the subway home, despite Gerald's warning of "sun
goes down, stay above ground" - advice they may have been better off listening to when the train stops
in an underwater tunnel
Written by Chris Simmons
Storyboard Direction by Tuck Tucker
Animation Direction by Steve Socki
Storyboard Artists: John Mathot, Cullen Blaine
Cast:
Arnold - Toran Caudell
Gerald - Jamil W. Smith
Helga - Francesca Marie Smith
Phoebe - Anndi L. McAfee
Harold - Justin Shenkarow
Grandpa, conductor - Dan Castellaneta
Grandma - Tress MacNeille
Grubby man on subway - Mark Hamill
Two women on subway - Kath E. Soucie
Doctor on subway - Tony Jay
Blind man, newscaster - Kevin Michael Richardson
- Phoebe must not watch too many movies (or mainly watches animated ones, which
tend to run under 90 minutes) if she thinks two hours is too long for one
- The sun is well above the horizon when they leave the theater, but it sets less
than 30 seconds later
- If you look at the streetlights carefully, the light beam of at least one of
them (the farthest one away from the kids, on the left) is barely visible before the light it is turned on
- The pay phone Arnold uses has 3 rows of 4 buttons each
- Next to the pay phone is a sign for the "Tucker Railroad"; Tuck Tucker
was one of the story's directors
- Arnold called Grandpa to tell them they were on the subway; why couldn't Grandpa
pick them up in his car? He drives at night in other episodes (in "The Haunted Train", it's after midnight
- and he's taking Gerald and Helga home as well), so that's not a problem.
- For that matter, why couldn't they call, say, Helga's (or Gerald's) parents?
If they explain the situation (and mention that the only alternative is the subway), maybe they can get somebody
to pick them up. (Then again, do they all live near each other? In "The Vacant Lot", Arnold lives across
the street from the lot, but Helga has to take a bus. Maybe Helga did call home but couldn't get a ride, which is why she was on the subway with the others.)
- Don't try this at home: there's no way Grandma could have connected two "live"
wires with her bare hands without electrocuting herself, and there's certainly no way the wires could have stayed
connected
- People not getting along on a broken-down subway until they get together to help
a dog deliver puppies; does that story sound familiar? Maybe you were watching "Nick At Nite" to recognize
it as happening on an episode of The Odd Couple
- Unless there's more than one person by that name, Mark Hamill (Col. Christopher
Blair in Wing Commander III and
IV...oh, and wasn't he in the
Star Wars movies somewhere?) was
the voice of the poor man on the subway
Song Lyrics - the song at the end
Let's all hold hands,
Here on the subway,
'Cause we've been stuck here in the dark for way too long;
Oh, it's hot, and it stinks
And the train is on the blink;
They lock the doors - We've got no choice - Let's get along!
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Wheezin' Ed
Arnold leads an expedition to Elk Island to find the legendary treasure of "Wheezin' Ed", but stumble
upon a counterfeit penny operation
Written by Craig Bartlett, Rachel Lipman, and Steve Viksten
Storyboard Direction by Dan Povenmire
Animation Direction by Juli Murphy-Hashiguchi
Storyboard Artist: Debbie Baber
Cast:
Arnold - Toran Caudell
Gerald - Jamil W. Smith
Helga - Francesca Marie Smith
Phoebe - Anndi L. McAfee
Brainy - Craig Bartlett
Harold - Justin Shenkarow
Rhonda - Olivia Hack
Sid - Sam Gifaldi
Earl - Dan Castellaneta
Policeman - Mark Hamill
Vic and Morrie (the crooks) - John Mariano
- Something you don't see every day: Phoebe is wrong about something - she said there wasn't any hole in the cave which they could fall through
- When Sid takes off his hat (something else you don't see every day), his hair
is stringy (like it is in "Helga's Makeover", but unlike his full head of hair in "Heat")
- The two crooks are Oskar's two poker-playing buddies from "Arnold As Cupid"
- Pennies haven't been made with that much copper since 1982; now they are mostly
zinc
- No wonder Harold didn't remember what he was told about the jelly beans; he wasn't
told anything about them
- The drawings Arnold discovered looked a little like Brainy
- Another escape for Brainy without running afoul of Helga's fists
- The policeman (voice of Mark Hamill - see "Das Subway") had three
toes on each foot
- "Marumba Rights" refers to "Miranda Rights" (the name comes
from the Miranda vs. Arizona Supreme
Court decision which made the reading of rights mandatory) - the ones that begin "You have the right
to remain silent"
- There could be an explanation for that wheezing at the end; Brainy wasn't on
the boat with the other kids - but who was doing the laughing?
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