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Arnold's Halloween
Arnold attempts to scare Grandpa on Halloween by broadcasting an "alien invasion" message over his radio,
but when a TV reporter picks up the signal, the city goes into a panic - and Big Bob gets the chance to settle
a 20-year-old alien score
Written by Craig Bartlett, Joseph Purdy, and Antoinette Stella
Story by Craig Bartlett, Joseph Purdy, and Steve Viksten
Storyboard Direction by Tuck Tucker and Kelly James
Animation Direction by Jamie Mitchell
(Only Jamie Mitchell received a "Directed By" credit)
Storyboard Artists: Derek Drymon, Kurt Dumas
Cast:
Arnold - Phillip Van Dyke
Gerald - Jamil W. Smith
Helga - Francesca Marie Smith
Phoebe - Anndi L. McAfee
Curly - Adam Wylie
Harold - Justin Shenkarow
Stinky - Christopher Walberg
Grandpa - Dan Castellaneta
Grandma - Tress MacNeille
Oskar, Smitty - Steven Viksten
Suzie - Mary Scheer
Ernie - Dom Irrera
Mr. Green, EBN Announcer - James Keane
Harvey - Lou Rawls
Mr. Hyunh - Baoan Coleman
Big Bob Pataki, Douglas Cain - Maurice LaMarche
Miriam Pataki - Kath E. Soucie
Principal Wartz - David Wohl
Uncredited: Monkeyman
- If you're wondering if Douglas Cain was supposed to sound just like The Brain
on Pinky and the Brain: "yyyYes!"
- For those of you who don't get that last comment: Douglas Cain is supposed to
sound like actor/director Orson Welles, who really did cause a very large panic with a radio story about aliens,
but his version was planned as a story all along instead of a prank. What happened was, on October 30, 1938, he
did a radio version of the H.G. Wells story The War of the Worlds (I think the radio version left off the "The" in the title), which is about
an invasion of Earth by Martians.
Right when the part of the story where a radio announcer is describing the landing aliens takes place, another
popular radio program (starring ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, father of the star of Murphy
Brown) reached a point where someone started singing, and quite a few
listeners changed stations, heard what they thought was a real radio announcer describing a real alien invasion,
kept listening to the program while the "aliens" started landing with poison gas and "death rays",
and panicked rather than listen to the rest of the story, which ends with the Martians dying from Earth germs.
- (Speaking of Orson Welles, he later starred in Citizen
Kane, but the Welles-sounding character in this episode spells his last
name "Cain")
- If Arnold needed to connect Grandpa's radio to his "transmitter" with
cable to be heard, how did the man in the van hear the broadcast?
- The wheel on the show Big Bob was watching had spaces marked OOPS!, Bye-Bye,
No Cigar, New Car, See Ya, Winner, Whole Enchilada, Sucker, Loser, Spin Again, and S.O.L.
- In keeping with the Halloween theme, all of the credits (except in the show's
opening) were orange instead of yellow
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