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Phoebe - Season 1

Season 1

Season 4

Phoebe is the brains of the outfit. She always tries to be the first one with the answer, and isn't exactly thrilled when someone else does better ("Ms. Perfect", "Phoebe Cheats"). She's also pretty good at handling a fencing sword ("Phoebe Cheats"), even when it's a flashlight ("Wheezin' Ed").  There is some evidence that she is musically inclined as well; she's carrying what appears to be a string bass in "Helga on the Couch" and is practicing some sort of large horn in "School Dance".  (However, music is one of those disciplines where you need creativity, and that seems to be one of few things that Phoebe lacks, if "Phoebe Cheats" is anything to go by.)
Just as Gerald hangs around with Arnold, Phoebe hangs around with Helga, who considers Phoebe her best friend (she even says so in "Magic Show", after yelling at her), mainly because Phoebe is probably the only person who likes Helga the way she is ("Helga's Makeover"). At first, Phoebe was Helga's "shadow", right down to the point where seeing Helga cry made her cry as well ("Downtown As Fruits"), but she's starting to "let go", and it may be in part because she's developing a noticeable crush on Gerald ("Operation Ruthless", "Wheezin' Ed"), although there weren't any "Gerald and Phoebe" moments in the second season, except when they shared a desk ("Teachers' Strike", and that was one of the "first season holdover" episodes).
I may have spoken too soon; Phoebe gets that look after Gerald's solo in "Gerald's Tonsils", they spend pretty much all of Rhonda's party together in "Hey Harold!", they look at each other (while holding hands) in "Arnold's Thanksgiving", and she has his picture in her locker (for example, in "Phoebe Breaks A Leg").
Then again, she may not be impressed by Gerald as much as she is by anyone with some talent; she has the same look at one of the drivers at the end of "Grand Prix".
Still, Phoebe is around when Helga needs someone to talk to ("Operation Ruthless", "Helga's Love Potion", "Monkey Business")...and although Phoebe is smart enough to have figured out how Helga really feels about Arnold ("Helga Sleepwalks"), she's also smart enough that she wouldn't let anybody know that.
There seems to be some question as to how her last name is spelled; her school record says "Hyerdahl", but the credits to "Phoebe Cheats" and the award she gets in "Phoebe's Little Problem" say "Heyerdahl".

Voice: Anndi L. McAfee
A Day In The Life Of A Classroom
April Fool's Day
Arnold Visits Arnie
Arnold's Christmas
Arnold's Halloween
Arnold's Thanksgiving
Best Friends
Biosquare
Buses, Bikes, and Subways
Career Day
Cool Party
Curly's Girl
Das Subway
Dinner for Four
Downtown As Fruits
Egg Story
Eugene, Eugene!
Eugene's Pet
False Alarm
Gerald's Tonsils
Girl Trouble
Grand Prix
Hall Monitor
Helga And The Nanny
Helga On The Couch
Helga Sleepwalks
Helga vs. Big Patty
Helga's Love Potion
Helga's Makeover
Helga's Parrot
Helga's Show
Hey Arnold!: The Movie
Hey Harold!
It Girl
Magic Show
Married
Monkey Business
Monkeyman!
Ms. Perfect
Mudbowl
New Teacher
Olga Gets Engaged
Operation Ruthless
Phoebe Breaks A Leg
Phoebe Cheats
Phoebe Skips
Phoebe Takes the Fall (uncredited)
Phoebe's Little Problem
Pigeon Man
Pre-Teen Scream
Quantity Time
Road Trip
Roller Coaster
Roughin' It
School Play
Teachers' Strike
The Aptitude Test
The Beeper Queen
The Big Scoop
The Flood
Tour de Pond
What's Opera, Arnold?
Wheezin' Ed
World Records


 

Kyo Heyerdahl

Phoebe's father; I think it's safe to assume he's of Japanese descent.  ("So how did he get the name 'Heyerdahl'?", you ask?  Maybe he's Japanese on his mother's side.)

Voice: George Takei
Phoebe Cheats
Phoebe's Little Problem


 

Reba Heyerdahl

Phoebe's mother; she's probably from Kentucky, since that's where Phoebe was born ("Phoebe Cheats").

Voice: Jean Smart
Phoebe Cheats
Phoebe's Little Problem