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Veterans Day
En route to a Veterans Day celebration, Arnold has trouble believing that Grandpa singlehandedly won World War
II, while Gerald has trouble understanding why his father was just a paper-pusher in Vietnam
Written by Steve Viksten
Storyboard Direction by Tim Parsons
Animation Direction by Christine Kolosov
Storyboard Artist: Carson Kugler
Cast:
Arnold - Spencer Klein
Gerald - Jamil W. Smith
Grandpa, Sergeant #2 - Dan Castellaneta
Martin (Gerald's father) - Rick Fitts
Ernie - Dom Irrera
Mr. Hyunh - Baoan Coleman
Oskar, Hitler - Stephen Viksten
Miller, soldier #1 - Joe Lala
Miller's son - Ben Diskin (credited as Disken)
German Major, soldier #2 - Joe Alaskey (credited as Alasky)
Martin's Colonel, Sergeant #1 - Danny Mann
Monique - (uncredited)
- For those of you outside of the USA, Veterans Day is November 11 - it was originally
"Armistice Day" (World War I ended November 11, 1918), but after World War II ended, it was changed.
A number of countries celebrate "Remembrance Day" on or near November 11; in the USA, "Memorial
Day" (originally "Decoration Day", when flags were planted on Civil War graves) is at the end of
May.
- The ice cream shop had "Freezerburn" ice cream - mint ice cream with
red hots (pieces of hot cinnamon candy)
- When Grandpa puts the flag on his car, it's on backwards - the blue part should
always be on the left
- Grandpa called a Sergeant "sir", but only officers are called that
- Martin has an inhaler
- Grandpa was a Private First Class, not just a "Private" - the insignia
he's wearing would be for just a Private today, but back in World War II (and up through at least 1970), "one
stripe" meant PFC
- They Didn't Use The Word "Dead", Either: none of the Nazis had swastikas
- instead, they had yellow "smiley faces" with the faces frowning
- Fortunately for us, Grandpa happened to get captured by a German officer who
spoke English
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Grandpa claimed to capture an entire Panzer division, but
that's almost 20,000 men
- In reality, the USSR got to Berlin before the USA
Repeat after me: the Soviets and the Americans were
on the SAME side in World War II
- The Capitol they went to looks a lot like Washington, DC, complete with a Washington
Monument, Iwo Jima/Marines Memorial, and Vietnam Wall (which is different from the one in Washington - the "real"
one is built into the side of a small hill, and the top edge is flat while the bottom slopes down towards the center
of the memorial - although it does look somewhat like the "moving wall", the three half-size "touring"
versions of the wall)
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One of Martin's sergeants could be a young Sergeant Goose -
now "Lieutenant Major" Goose from the Season 2 episode "New
Teacher".
- The statue listed Grandpa as "Private Steely Phil" - what, even the
Army didn't know his last name?
- What, nothing from Mr. Hyunh about the Vietnam War? He only lived through
it...
- There's another Hey Arnold! - World War II connection: in Saving Private
Ryan, the Captain who presents the papers of the three dead Ryan brothers
to his Colonel is David Wohl (Principal Wartz)
- "Dedicated To The Brave Veterans Who Really Won The Battle Of The Bulge"
- looks like it's time for:
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE - the short version
After the D-Day invasion in June, 1944, the "Western Allied" troops
(mainly USA and Great Britain, although many other countries were involved, like Canada and France) made their
way across France and into Belgium and the Netherlands. However, the northern part of the line was slightly
ahead of the others, causing a "bulge" - and on December 16, 1944, the Germans counterattacked in an
attempt to cut part of the Allied armies off. Thanks in part to surprise (nobody thought the Germans had
as many tanks as they did) and bad weather (preventing Allied planes from supporting the ground troops), the Germans
managed a gain of 60-70 miles or so by Christmas, but the weather got better and the Allies slowly pushed back;
one month after the Battle of the Bulge started, it was pretty much over, and the front lines were they were when
the attack started. However, with most of the available German tanks lost in the attack, and the Soviets
on the other side of Germany, it became a question not if the Allies would win, but when Germany would surrender
- and "when" was May 7, 1945.
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