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Eating Contest
Grandpa trains Arnold for the annual neighborhood eating contest, but Arnold's competition isn't called "the
disposal" just because he stands in the kitchen sink and makes a lot of noise...
Written by Joseph Purdy
Storyboard Direction by Kelly James
Animation Direction by Steve Socki
(Steve Socki is listed first in the "Directed By" credits)
Storyboard Artist: Kelly James
Cast:
Arnold - Phillip Van Dyke
Gerald - Jamil Smith
Helga - Francesca Marie Smith
Harold - Justin Shenkarow
Stinky, (uncredited) Young Phil - Christopher Walberg
Grandpa, Grandpa's father, the Jolly Olly man (uncredited) - Dan Castellaneta
Oskar - Steven Viksten
Mr. Green, the 1920s contest judge - James Keane
- Grandpa says "no one in our line has ever failed to distinguish themself
in the neighborhood eat-off", yet he never mentions how either of Arnold's parents did
- ...and there's no such word as "themself" (I assume Grandpa meant "his
or her self")
- Another new meaning of "fair and square": Arnold won the contest by
not eating! He just sat there
while Seymour ate most of the ice cream, then Arnold just ate a tiny bite
(most eating contests are either "how much can you eat in a
certain time" (for example, the Nathan's Hot Dogs contest on
Coney Island every July 4) or "who can eat a certain amount
of food the fastest")
- Up until now, the voice of Gerald was credited as "Jamil W. Smith";
in this episode, it's "Jamil Smith"
- Does Mr. Simmons' class have a different lunch time than everybody else?
Just about everybody in the lunch room was from his class
- At lunch, Helga is sitting with Sheena, while Phoebe is sitting with Brainy
- In the first scene of the festival day, Chocolate Boy is in the crowd...eating a vanilla ice cream cone!
- Helga is nowhere to be seen at the contest before she makes her comment about
Grandma's peppers - and then she disappears again (of course, the contest scenes aren't "continuous action",
so maybe she "dropped by" at that moment)
- At the end, Grandpa says he had saved half of the herring sandwich, but he pulls
out an entire sandwich
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Rhonda's Glasses
Rhonda, P.S. 118's trendsetter and walking fashion statement, becomes a geek when she has to get glasses, but a
taste of how "the other half" lives leads her to stage a "revenge of the geeks"
Written by Antoinette Stella
Storyboard Direction by George S. Chialtas
Animation Direction by Larry Leichliter
(Only Larry Leichliter received a "Directed By" credit)
Storyboard Artists: Rob Porter, Kurt Dumas
Cast:
Arnold - Phillip Van Dyke
Helga, Sheena (uncredited) - Francesca Marie Smith
Brainy - Craig Bartlett
Eugene - Ben Diskin
Rhonda - Olivia Hack
Principal Wartz - David Wohl
Rhonda's mother - Lori Alan
Older girl on bus - Ashley Cafagna
School nurse (Shelley) - Mary Gross
- If Rhonda is such a trendsetter, why does she wear the same outfit every day?
(Well, except for the French outfit in "Ms. Perfect")
- If the only thing that made Rhonda a geek was her glasses, why didn't she just
take them off before getting on the bus?
- Arnold didn't seem to mind the "geeks to the back" system before Rhonda
made her stand; then again, Arnold never had to sit in the back
- There's something you don't see every day: Helga pays someone (Rhonda, in her
newer glasses) a compliment
- Rhonda seemed to be doing well enough in school so far despite not being able
to see very well
- If Rhonda takes the bus to school every day, why doesn't she have a bus pass
like Arnold (and Sid, in "Arnold Saves Sid")?
- Now we know why Helga calls Rhonda "Rhondaloid" (see "Arnold's
Christmas" for an example) (and note that "Wellington" is her middle name, rather than "Wellington-Lloyd
being her last name; she refers to herself as "Rhonda Lloyd", and her finishing school teacher calls
her this in "Polishing Rhonda")
- I assume four-square is still actually played like it was when I was that age,
and you're supposed to bounce the ball, yet when the bigger kids played it, they just toseed the ball to each other
- In "Phoebe Cheats", Phoebe removes her glasses and looks a little like
Rhonda; Rhonda returns the favor here by wearing glasses like Phoebe's, although the frames are red
- In the last scene, Rhonda is seen through the bus's rear window as sitting in
the back of the bus - but just before that, she's talking to the girl with the frizzy hair in a seat closer to
the front
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