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Magic Show
Arnold finishes his magic act by making Helga, who's been heckling Arnold and yelling at Phoebe since she arrived,
disappear, but she sneaks away before he can bring her back, only to run into a pole and dream that she's really
gone, everybody's happy about it (including her parents), and Phoebe has a new best friend who's nice to everybody
Written by Glen David Gold
Storyboard Direction by Dan Povenmire (credited in the closing credits as "Don")
Animation Direction by Juli Murphy-Hashiguchi
Storyboard Artist: Sherm Cohen
Cast:
Arnold - Toran Caudell
Gerald - Jamil W. Smith
Helga, Gloria - Francesca Marie Smith
Phoebe - Anndi L. McAfee
Harold - Justin Shenkarow
Sid - Sam Gifaldi
Big Bob Pataki, TV interviewer - Maurice LaMarche
Miriam Pataki - Kath E. Soucie
- Miriam tells Helga to "bring in the mail", but there's a mail slot
in the door, so the mail is already "in"
- There's a pull-ring on the sheet that hides Helga in the box, but she doesn't
pull it; the sheet goes down (and back up) by itself
- If nobody could see "ghost" Helga, why did the person in the Helga
costume jump over her?
- The address of the boarding house, according to Arnold's fliers, is 4040 Vine
Street,but in "Sally's Comet" it's 4040
Vineland
- Somebody Call The Animators: in the scene with Phoebe and Gloria, the bit of
Phoebe's hair that sticks through whatever that is she wears in her hair turns yellow in some scenes, making it
look as if Phoebe is wearing a cap of some sort
- The names Arnold uses in his "spell" when he makes Helga disappear
are the last names of cartoon characters:
- (Ned) Flanders (The Simpsons)
- (Elmer) Fudd (Bugs Bunny)
- (Gerald) McBoing-Boing
- (Snidley) Whiplash (Dudley Do-Right)
- (Dick) Dastardly (first appearing in
Wacky
Races)
- (Dudley) Do-Right
- ("Monty") Burns (The Simpsons)
- (Barney) Rubble (The Flintstones)
- Glen Gold (the episode writer) tells me that one of those lines of names was
originally:
Wolf, Abzug, Steinem, Faludi
Helga come back and shake your booty!
(Naomi Wolf, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, and Susan Faludi are feminists. I only knew two of the names myself...)
- He adds: "Also, there was a great bit where we learn that because Helga
is gone, Harold isn't just nice, he's actually a brilliant scholar. I got to sit in
for take after take of Justin {Shenkarow, the voice of Harold} trying to say 'Carthaga delenda est' with a British accent. I don't think that
made the show. {It didn't.}
Also: when Helga is falling asleep, I had her fall past a white rabbit whom she sucker punches."
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24 Hours to Live
Arnold hits Harold with a baseball, who promises to beat Arnold up the next day - with Helga constantly reminding
Arnold of how long he has "until you die"
Written by Craig Bartlett, Steve Viksten, and Joe Ansolabehere
Storyboard Direction by Craig Bartlett
Animation Direction by Larry Leichliter
Storyboard Artists: Tuck Tucker, Derek Drymon, Dan Povenmire
Song "I'm Crazy" lyrics by Craig Bartlett and Joe Ansolabehere,
music by Jim Lang, performed by Gavin Christopher
Cast:
Arnold - Toran Caudell
Gerald - Jamil W. Smith
Helga - Francesca Marie Smith
Brainy, radio DJ - Craig Bartlett
Harold - Justin Shenkarow
Stinky - Christopher P. Walberg
Grandpa - Dan Castellaneta
Grandma, Iggy, (uncredited) Joey - Tress MacNeille
- This was the story used in the pilot (which is where I got
the credits for the song)
- Grandpa says that he's (at least) 80 years old (in "Grandpa's Birthday",
he turns 81)
- When Helga does her impression of Harold saying Arnold's name, one of her bottom
teeth sticks out, just like Harold
- There's a pay phone on the first floor of the boarding house, but a non-pay phone
on the second floor - and both are dial phones; meanwhile, Arnold has his own touch-tone phone in his room
- The boarding house has a downstairs bathroom, but in "Gerald Comes Over",
there's only one bathroom and it's upstairs
- There's a sign on the second floor; the only part that's visible is "(4)
No Loud Noises After 9 PM On Weekdays"
- Arnold takes his hat off when he goes to bed
- The digits on Arnold's digital clock-radio aren't seven-segment LEDs but roll
around on dials; also, both the buzzer and radio sound when the alarm goes off
- Immediately after Harold is knocked out by the ball, Iggy briefly removes his
glasses
- Sheena is one of the people at the fight...but in "School Play", Sheena
says she doesn't like violence
- Joey has a "line" after Iggy hits him
in their fight at the end, but nobody was credited for it.
-
Bad Hair Day: when Helga talks Harold into delaying the fight by a day, Nadine
has brown hair
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