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Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastSeason 5 Recap + A Look Back at the Entire SeriesThere’s still so much to say about Hey Arnold!, so the Kidz are taking one last look back at Season 5 and the entire five-season Hey Arnold! run, from the 1996 pilot to the final episode in 2004. Along the way, they discuss their favorite character moments, highlights from the series, and the impact this podcast has had on our lives.
Speaking of which, it’s been an absolute dream to make this podcast and discuss this beloved show with you all. From the bottom of our little yellow hearts, thank you so much for listening to Stoop Kidz!: A He...
2023-07-011h 12Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast99 + 100 The JournalHere we go. It’s the final episode of Hey Arnold! as a TV show – not including the movies – and it’s a doozy of a Stoop Kidz! episode, too. Arnold learns more about his parents’ mission to help save the Green-Eyed People of San Lorenzo – the mission that would take them away from him seemingly forever. Join Cody, Emily, and Harry as they dive one last time into an episode of the cartoon that gave them so many beloved childhood memories. If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Te...
2023-06-2459 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast98 April Fool's Day (with Dylan Guerber)King of the Fools Dylan Guerber returns to the stoop for one final time! Arnold and Helga’s April 1 prank one-upmanship mirrors the secrets they keep from each other in “April Fool’s Day,” where Helga’s not-so-innocent practical jokes escalate tension between the two. In our discussion of this half-hour special, we discuss its place in the story of Arnold and Helga, its development, and the pranks we pulled in our own youth! Follow Dylan on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/quiverwingquack/ Listen to Dylan’s other episode of Stoop Kidz!: - 72A Back to School/72B Egg Story If you...
2023-06-1748 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast97A Timberly Loves Arnold/97B Eugene, Eugene!Arnold has to face his on-again off-again crush on Lila once and for all when he starts getting attention from an unexpected source: Gerald’s little sister! “Timberly Loves Arnold” is a bit all over the place (didn’t we close the book on #LilArnold? Why’s Gerald so absent? Why’s Sid gotta be so creepy?), but it does get the Kidz a bit nostalgic for the social awkwardness of childhood crushes and sibling tag-alongs. Timberly’s good people. “Eugene, Eugene!” dramatizes the relationships among the kids of P.S. 118 when theater director (and Mr. Simmons’s archrival) Mr. Leichliter brings a...
2023-06-1059 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast96 Married (with Seth Zarate)Seth’s back on the stoop and he’s got COOTIES in this very special episode of Stoop Kidz! Rhonda’s origami game predicts each kid’s perfect matrimonial pair in “Married”. That’s right – she knows exactly who’s gonna tie the knot with whom, somewhere down the line: Peapod Kid and Nadine; Sheena and Eugene; Arnold and Helga… wait, WHAT??? The rest of the episode plays out in opposing dream sequences: Helga’s vision of her perfect married life and Arnold’s depressingly dour subconscious. But even more interesting than the things we get to see (the kids of PS 118 “all growed up...
2023-06-0346 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast95A A Day in the Life of a Classroom/95B Big Bob's Crisis“A Day in the Life of a Classroom” questions the definition of “perfect” at P.S. 118 when a documentary crew wants to capture an exemplary day in Mr. Simmons’s classroom! Mr. Simmons takes it a little too literally – think cinéma vérité with less of the vérité. Big Bob tries a little too hard to change his ways after a close call with a gas attack(?) in “Big Bob’s Crisis.” But is selling your earthly possessions and moving your entire family to an Oregon commune better than just going to therapy and listening to your children? The answer may shock yo...
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Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast94A Phoebe's Little Problem/94B Grandpa's Packard (with Allegra Frank)Allegra gets back in front of the mic and DOESN’T embarrass herself on this episode of Stoop Kidz! Phoebe, however, DOES embarrass herself when her nervous flatulence gets picked up on mic in front of a large audience. (Podcast editor’s note: That’s one heck of a microphone.) Can Arnold help Grandpa get back his precious Packard after it’s pilfered by some punk playing at payback? Can the automobile’s many quirks help the duo prove it was stolen? How many Dashiell Hammett references can they stuff in an episode of Hey Arnold!? These questions and more in “Grandp...
2023-05-2058 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast93A On the Lam (with Erica Csuy)/93B Family Man (with Ellie DeMuth)Erica Csuy and Ellie DeMuth are back on the Stoop! “On the Lam” sees Harold, Stinky, and Sid on the run after assuming they blew up the police station (ACAB) with science project rockets. (They didn’t. L.) In “Family Man”, Mr. Hyunh tries so hard to get a promotion at his restaurant job that he pretends Suzie is his wife, Arnold is his son, and Grandpa is his father to appease the boss, Mr. Camacho. But the boarders at Sunset Arms kind of already ARE his family, in a way! Listen to Erica and Ellie’s other Stoop Kidz! episode: - 5...
2023-05-1251 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast92A The Racing Mule/92B Curly's GirlGlueboy – Arnold, Oskar, and Mr. Hyunh’s new racing horse – is no racing horse. So it’s their job to get the mule(!) up to racing shape in “The Racing Mule”! The Kidz! are a lot less ambivalent about “Curly’s Girl”, where Curly’s childish, more than mildly creepy notions of “liking someone” take center stage with Rhonda as the victim. When Curly does Rhonda a solid by covering her when she ruins her mom’s expensive coat, he more or less blackmails the little aristocrat into pretending to be his girlfriend. Ew! If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show an...
2023-05-0644 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast91A Harold vs. Patty/91B Rich GuyHarold loses to Patty in an arm-wrestling match – twice – before asking her for some training in “Harold vs. Patty”. A pretty weird version of the father/son dynamic appears in “Rich Guy,” when Arnold catches a hockey puck bound for wealthy team owner Sammy Redman’s head and becomes. Here’s a REAL million-dollar idea, Sammy: Repair your relationship with your own dang son first! If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www...
2023-04-2959 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast90A Arnold Visits Arnie/90B Chocolate Boy (with Hannah Borenstein)If today’s guest had an Arnie, she might be named Anna: Hannah Borenstein returns for another Stoop Kidz! double-header! We meet more of Arnie’s friends, who look and sound suspiciously like the kids of Hillwood, in “Arnold Visits Arnie”: Lulu, Hilda, and Arnie reflect some of Arnold’s deepest anxieties. Hot tip: Maybe don’t go see a movie called Evil Twin 3 when you have a weird cousin who kinda looks like you. Then, Arnold puts his do-goodery to work helping Chocolate Boy address his well-known vice in “Chocolate Boy”! Find Hannah on Twitter and Instagram at @hborenstein23 and find her wor...
2023-04-2255 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast89A Suspended/89B Ernie in Love (with Charlie Mackin)Charlie realized that not being a guest on Stoop Kidz! isn’t so cool after all, so she climbed up to our window, built a giant slingshot, put on a pizza delivery disguise, and straight-up BEGGED to be back on! Actually, that’s just what Harold does to get back into school in “Suspended”. Not even the school constitution can help lift Harold’s weeks-long ban from school! Short guy Ernie just wants a tall wife in “Ernie in Love,” but he gets a little overzealous in dating Lola. She’s just not that into him, and they’d look strange together...
2023-04-1458 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast88A Ghost Bride/88B Gerald vs. Jamie O (with Niky Horowitz)It all started a hundred years ago, in 1923… actually, it started in March 2023 when we recorded this episode with Niky Horowitz! Hillwood’s urban legends take a turn for the tragically romantic when Arnold and friends learn of the Ghost Bride (and her philandering sister!) in “Ghost Bride”. Nike’s back for their second Jamie O.-centric episode with “Gerald vs. Jamie O.,” which pits brother against brother in Gerald’s bid for the attention of pretty teenager Chloe. Listen to Niky’s music at https://horowizard.bandcamp.com/releases If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us...
2023-04-061h 09Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast87A Beaned/87B Old Iron Man (with Ryan Csuy)Welcome yet another Csuy to the podcast – Ryan Csuy makes his debut on the stoop! In “Beaned,” Helga develops traumatic amnesia (watch out for that baseball!), igniting Arnold’s caretaker instincts. It’s so nice that even after she recovers, Helga pretends she’s still out of it just to get more attention from Arnold without having to say she wants it. An old rivalry is given new life in “Old Iron Man” when former coworker and friend-turned-boss man Jimmy Kafka resurfaces in Grandpa’s life. Can they put aside their differences or will they succumb to old man anger? Find Ryan: - On Tw...
2023-04-011h 08Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast86A Helga's Locket/86B Sid and Germs (with Dan Nagan)YOU FORGOT YOUR MOUSTACHE!!! Dan Nagan (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman) is back! “Helga’s Locket” is a lot like “Helga Blabs It All,” except instead of a voicemail, she’s trying to prevent Arnold from reading the confessional inscription on a love locket she made! Grandpa gets ahold of it but can’t open it, leading to a convoluted series of events that keeps it JUST out of Helga’s reach. Depending on how you look at it, it’s either too plain or it reaches Simpsons levels of goofy cartoonishness! In “Sid and Germs”, the Beatle-booted boy develops a sudden germophobia on...
2023-03-231h 09Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast85A Stuck in a Tree/85B Rhonda Goes BrokeArnold, Harold, and Eugene get stuck in a tree in “Stuck in a Tree” and Chocolate Boy may be their only hope. Heaven help them! Rhonda gets a taste of working class living conditions (Sunset Arms) when Daddy Lloyd’s stocks go bunko in “Rhonda Goes Broke”! It all wraps up pretty conveniently, before Rhonda has time to learn a whole lot, which is kind of how it works for rich people in real life, too. Stick around between episodes for our conversion on the neat little Helga x Arnold supercut that they put between these episodes to fill airtime! If you lik...
2023-03-1858 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast84A New Bully on the Block/84B Phoebe Breaks a LegDUDE! Wolfgang meets his match when the new kid, Ludwig, attempts to take over his turf – the hallowed vacant lot – in “New Bully on the Block”. Phoebe’s finally had it with Helga’s bossing around in “Phoebe Breaks a Leg,” leading the people-pleasing mathlete to take drastic measures just to get out from under Helga’s thumb – faking a broken leg! Her secret can’t last forever, of course. In this episode, we discuss where Helga and Phoebe’s relationship is before and after the incident! If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Pod...
2023-03-1050 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast83A Bag of Money/83B Principal Simmons (with Drew Tenenbaum)Drew’s back and he’s carrying exactly $3,937 cash in a bag! (Or is it just a bunch of birdseed?) When Arnold, Gerald, and Sid find a bag filled with thousands of dollars in “Bag of Money”, it kicks off a nightmarish plot of distrust and cynicism among the friends. It’s one of the most infamous episodes of Hey Arnold!, up there with “Arnold Betrays Iggy” as an episode nobody really likes! Why’s that? Tune in! Mr. Wartz is OUT and Mr. Simmons is IN – as principal! – in “Principal Simmons”! When the crochety principal finally caves to criticism, the genteel educator ste...
2023-03-031h 21Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast82A Gerald's Game/82B Fishing TripGerald gets a little bit too into The King Rules, a card game, in “Gerald’s Game”. It becomes a bit of a point of shame, prompting Arnold to (you guessed it) intervene to get his friend back. How necessary was that? Why couldn’t two best friends just learn to play a game together? Listen in to find out! It’s a boys’ weekend in “Fishing Trip” when Arnold, Gerald, Sid, Harold, and Eugene get together with their fathers and Grandpa for some lakeside bonding. It’s a fun, flatulent episode of Hey Arnold! that ALMOST becomes a smart critique of mascul...
2023-02-2555 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast81A Sid the Vampire Slayer/81B Big SisVelcome back to Season 5 of Stoop Kidz! and Hey Arnold! Ze final season kicks off vith a vonderfully vacky tale of… mistaken identity. Is Stinky a creature of ze night just because he vears sunglasses, hates garlic, and looks forvard to ze blood drive? In “Sid the Vampire Slayer,” Sid certainly seems to think so! Can Arnold talk his beetle-booted buddy out of his delusion? The ever-charming Olga is back in “Big Sis,” only this time, she’s taken Lila under her wing. Helga barely has time to revel in her newfound distance from her sister before she develops a jealousy for...
2023-02-1753 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastSeason 5 Coming Feb. 16!Set your talking alarm clocks ‘cause it’s almost time to talk about the final season of Hey Arnold! We’ll return with new episodes, returning guests, fresh faces, and hot takes on Feb. 16, 2023. Until then, get hyped by following us on Twitter and Instagram @stoopkidzpod (that’s “kidz” with a “Z”): - https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod - https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch! And if you’re already a longtime listener, tell a friend about our show and leave u...
2023-01-2801 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastSeason 4 Recap: The Best Season Yet?Helga on the Couch. Monkeyman. Principal Wartz. Mr. Hyunh's "very creepy" laugh. Stinky, Harold, and Sid’s buttcheeks. Summer Love. In this special season-ender, we reminisce on all the highs, lows, memories, and things we wish we could forget from Season 4! Thanks for sticking around with the Kidz! Get ready for Season 5… soon! If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice...
2023-01-211h 13Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast80 Summer LoveArnold and Helga end up at the same beach resort for what’s supposed to be a relaxing summertime getaway. But before Helga can put Operation Be Nice to Arnold into action, Summer (the girl) comes calling for Arnold, threatening to ruin Helga’s whole summer (the season). Helga warns a smitten Arnold that the bombshell isn’t all that she seems, but given their contentious relationship, Arnold isn’t quite ready to believe Helga. Some episodes of Hey Arnold! feel cursed – like despite top-tier writing talent and a great premise, they still miss the mark and leave a terrible taste behi...
2023-01-1446 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast79 Dino Checks Out“Here lies Dino Spumoni,” lies a lying tombstone for the low-rent Sinatra himself! Hoping to see a postmortem popularity bump, Dino Spumoni fakes his death and moves back to Sunset Arms, where he grew up. The spoof works arguably too well, and in typical Hey Arnold! fashion, Dino gets exactly what he wants in the exact way he doesn’t want it: Impersonators fill the Dino-shaped hole, leaving Dino second-guessing his simulated suicide. If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitte...
2023-01-0743 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast78 Helga on the Couch (with Charlie Mackin)Charlie Mackin stops by to discuss one of the most important episodes of Hey Arnold! and a classic in its own right! “Helga on the Couch” is remembered as an episode that changed everything for Helga. An outburst like any other turns into school-mandated therapy sessions with Dr. Bliss, a child psychologist assigned to PS 118. On the couch (and in the chair and behind the dart board and pacing the room), Helga comes to terms (almost accidentally) with the love she feels for Arnold, tying it directly to the love Big Bob and Miriam gave to Olga instead of her. It’s...
2022-12-311h 06Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast77A Helga's Masquerade/77B Mr. Green Runs (with Hannah Borenstein)Hannah Borenstein is back to tackle two more classic eps with the Kidz! Helga’s ruse goes awry in “Helga’s Masquerade” when she mimics Lila to earn Arnold’s affection, only to earn it for the wrong reasons. Local politics have kept necessary road repairs at bay for too long, so Mr. Green seeks a seat on the Hillwood City Council in “Mr. Green Runs.” It’s an episode that highlights the types of people who become powerful at a local level, being a self-styled voice of the people, and what it means to become part of the civic machine. Find Ha...
2022-12-241h 10Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast76A Grandpa's Sister/76B Synchronized SwimmingGrandpa Phil and his twin sister, Mitzi, don’t get along. Like, at all. With beef that goes back decades, can Arnold insert himself as mediator before the fraternal feud boils over into disaster in “Grandpa’s Sister”? In “Synchronized Swimming,” Coach Wittenberg wants to show Arnold, Gerald, Harold, Stinky, and Stinky that synchronized swimming isn’t just for girls. (And save his job.) In the process, he gives them a place to express themselves and their emotions through water-based dance. If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they...
2022-12-1754 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast75A Monkeyman!/75B Buses, Bikes, and Subways (with Seth Zarate)Our own superhero Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate) is back to assist the weak and downtrodden with another guest appearance! It wouldn’t be another day in Hillwood without another vigilante realizing he doesn’t fit in with “normal” society! In “Monkeyman!,” Monkeyman gets a taste of everyday life with Arnold’s help – but the simian superhero finds it hard to let go of his apelike adventurousness. In “Buses, Bikes, and Subways,” Helga and Harold have to find a way back to town after the bus strands them on a field trip. It’s called “intermodal transportation,” kids, and Helga will leverage any me...
2022-12-101h 09Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast74A Helga Sleepwalks/74B Fighting FamiliesIn “Helga Sleepwalks,” a poor choice (eating only pork rinds for days on end) has bad consequences for Helga – namely, her somnambulant confessions of love for Arnold! It’s one of the first episodes where she really starts to recognize how holding in her feelings is affecting her. In “Fighting Families,” Arnold, Grandpa, Grandma, and a couple of the boarders make a game show appearance and they don’t compare favorably to the prim and proper nuclear family on the other team. This being Hey Arnold!, though, you know it’s gonna end well for Arnold and his weird found family. If you l...
2022-12-0338 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast73A Weird Cousin/73B Baby Oskar with Dan NaganWelcome Dan Nagan of Everything We Learned (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman) back to the stoop! Arnie, Arnold’s country bumpkin cousin, is a bit of a chad. Such is Arnold’s plight in “Weird Cousin,” which has big ENEMY (2013) vibes. In “Baby Oskar,” there’s a baby named Oskar and Oskar Kokoshka, who is not a baby but often acts like one, has to take care of the baby named Oskar. Hope that’s clear enough for ya. Can Adult Man Oskar overcome his immaturity and dependence long enough to care for an immature, dependent baby? Find Dan and listen to his movie pod...
2022-11-181h 14Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast72A Back to School/72B Egg Story (with Dylan Guerber)New kid Dylan Guerber shows up on time for his first episode of Stoop Kidz! Grandpa never finished grade school, so the ever-helpful Arnold brings him to PS 118 for some remedial education in “Back to School”. In “Egg Story,” Arnold goes on the defensive before Helga can lay into him during a class project, unaware she was going to give the whole ‘being nice’ thing a try. Follow Dylan on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/quiverwingquack/ If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us...
2022-11-111h 01Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast71 Veterans DayIn this special half-hour episode of Hey Arnold!, Grandpa recounts his time in World War II, Gerald’s dad Martin remembers Vietnam, and Hitler gets a wedgie. It’s… a weird episode. If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see yours among them, so get in touch! All Stoop Kidz sho...
2022-11-0536 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast70A Grudge Match/70B Polishing RhondaGrandpa has until Sunday to train for a game of golf against Big Bob, and the loser’s on the hook for damages after their contentious fender bender. With a big bill on the line, can Arnold whip Grandpa into golfing shape before tee time in “Grudge Match”? Big Patty and Rhonda get some facetime in “Polishing Rhonda,” where the young socialite risks getting kicked out of finishing school for her self-centeredness. And who should she run into at that same finishing school than humble brute – and frequent target of Rhonda’s derision – Big Patty? If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend ab...
2022-10-2952 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast69A It Girl/69B Deconstructing ArnoldFashion designer Johnny Stitches discovers Helga’s hidden talent for the runway and makes her the new “It Girl”. The more she leans into her prickly persona, the more the crowd loves it. But she’s not a fan of having her ‘natural’ meanness, nastiness, and insensitivity co-opted by everyone in town, so she starts looking for an out. Arnold is separated from his own essential self (a nosy, do-gooder fount of advice) in “Deconstructing Arnold,” when his friends implore him to stop being such a kibitzer (that’s Yiddish for ‘big, fat buttinski’). It’s not long before several moments of crisis have t...
2022-10-2252 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast68A Love and Cheese/68B Weighing Harold (with Drew Tenenbaum)Drew "Not a Himbo" Tenenbaum returns to Stoop Kidz! Helga seeks to ruin Arnold and Lila’s time at the Cheese Festival in “Love and Cheese,” a sort of slant-sequel to “Operation Ruthless.” Then Harold’s size is suddenly the talk of the town in “Weighing Harold,” in which he gains weight on a trip where he was trying to lose it. Follow Drew on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AshCoolBro Play Drew’s indie games at https://drewbys-games.itch.io/ Buy Décorum, the tabletop game Drew and Harry and Charlie created: https://floodgate.games/products/decorum If you like Stoop Kidz!, t...
2022-10-141h 02Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast67A Helga's Parrot/67B Chocolate TurtlesIt’s a weird pair of episodes on this edition of Stoop Kidz! Helga’s pet parrot might squawk her deepest secrets in “Helga’s Parrot,” leading her on a wild bird chase across Hillwood that ends in the most natural, traumatizing way possible. As ‘future Chocolate Lads,’ Arnold and Gerald make money hand over fist to raise money for a go-kart in “Chocolate Turtles,” only to find themselves on the losing end of their own capitalist charade. If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us o...
2022-10-0755 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast66A Headless Cabbie/66B Friday the 13th (with Dan Nagan)Dan Nagan (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman) is lurking in the background, ready to getcha when you least expect it! The kids of Hillwood start to wonder if a local myth is real as the coincidences pile up in “Headless Cabbie”. If you haven’t seen it, imagine the Hash-Slinging Slasher from SpongeBob. In “Friday the 13th,” Arnold and Gerald investigate another string of coincidences that seem just too perfect to be real… Find Dan and listen to his movie podcast, Everything We Learned, at the links below: - https://twitter.com/adapperdanman/ - https://letterboxd.com/adapperdanman/ - Everything We Learned on A...
2022-09-301h 07Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast64A Big Gino/64B Jamie O in Love (with Niky Horowitz)Niky Horowitz comes back for a Season 4 debut! Sid has to choose between Arnold and a shady-but-friendly mob boss in “Big Gino.” In “Jamie O in Love,” Gerald’s older brother drops the antagonistic act when he falls for a girl, but it turns out her interest isn’t genuine, leaving Gerald to decide if he should let the phony tryst go forward. Listen to Niky’s music at https://horowizard.bandcamp.com/releases Also, tell a friend about Stoop Kidz! and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/st...
2022-09-161h 00Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast63A Full Moon/63B Student TeacherWhen Sid, Harold, and Stinky are accused (correctly) of mooning Principal Wartz in “Full Moon,” Arnold could get a permanent mark on his record for keeping his trap shut. “Student Teacher” sees the return – and weird, unceremonious departure – of Helga’s least favorite sister-turned-sub. If you like Stoop Kidz!, tell a friend about our show and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Tell them they can also find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. We get a lot of really nice messages from our great listeners, and we’d love to see your...
2022-09-091h 00Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastInterview: Craig Bartlett on What Changed Between Seasons 1 and 4 of Hey Arnold!NOTE: This is an 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙙 episode of Stoop Kidz! Keep in mind you’ll hear some naughty words in this episode that we bleep on our regular episodes. Thanks! He’s back! Craig Bartlett, the creator of Hey Arnold! himself, stops by the stoop once more to catch up, discuss what we’ve seen of the show so far, and share memories of what it was like to help turn Hey Arnold! into the show we know and love today. In this special interview episode, Craig talks about the big differences between Season 1 and the rest of the series, how Helga and Arnold’s relationship came to th...
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Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastThe Sound of 1998: Reviewing "Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 1" (with Seth Zarate)Hopefully this season of Stoop Kidz! has helped you get into the 1998 mood! To get us the rest of the way there, we’re taking an episode to reminisce about one of the heavy-hitting tastemakers of the compact disc-based, pre-streaming age: Now That’s What I Call Music! The first U.S. volume of Now came out the same year as season 3 of Hey Arnold!, so we invited friend of the show and pop music fan Seth to go track-by-track through the sound of 1998. We recall memories associated with these songs, all the hits, all the misses, and then pick...
2022-07-091h 23Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastSeason 3 Recap: Don’t You Forget About GiuseppeWith another season of the show under our belts, it’s time to look back with a quick recap! Season 3 was full of surprises, laughs, new characters, and some of the most heart-wrenching episodes of Hey Arnold! yet. In this episode, we unpack our personal highlights from the entire season – from individual moments to whole episodes – along with our favorite podcast discussions. Also, Cody gets to thirst over Lorenzo’s mom a little more and we all remember everyone’s favorite flirtatious, pizza-loving go-kart king, Giuseppe. Thanks for tuning in to another season of Stoop Kidz! Keep an eye on this feed...
2022-07-021h 15Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast60 Parents Day (with Charlie Mackin)Returning guest Charlie Mackin (https://twitter.com/charliemander13) helps us close out Season 3’s episode discussions – and boy, it’s a doozy! “𝙊𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙠𝙞𝙙.” Big Bob’s name-calling at the Parents Tournament Weekend gets Arnold thinking of the mom and dad he doesn’t remember in “Parents Day,” leading Arnold to ask Grandpa to tell him what really happened to his parents. What follows is an emotional revelation that adds context to some of Arnold’s best features: his altruism, his optimism, and his desire to see only the best in everyone. But it’s also a catharsis for Arnold as he comes to terms with the family he has – and for u...
2022-06-241h 10Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast59 School Play (with Wayne Stainrook)Give a round of applause for Wayne (https://twitter.com/stainwaynerook), who’s putting on his best stage makeup and rehearsing his lines to talk about a special double-length episode of Hey Arnold! In “School Play,” Arnold is set on playing the part the right way – a true artiste. Helga, recognizing the unique opportunity before her, muscles into the role of her dreams: the Juliet to her football-headed Romeo. Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy posts? Follow us on https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ between episodes for more fun stuff from the Kidz...
2022-06-181h 05Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast58A Helga's Show/58B The Flood (with Dan Nagan)Dan Nagan (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman) returns to the Stoop for a double-header! We get a front-row seat to Helga’s short-lived stand-up career in “Helga’s Show” and Hillwood ends up underwater in “The Flood”! Find Dan and listen to his movie podcast, Everything We Learned, at the links below: - https://twitter.com/adapperdanman/ - https://letterboxd.com/adapperdanman/ - Everything We Learned on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everything-we-learned/id1184071273 - If you play Final Fantasy XIV, find Dan on the Diabolo server as “Hulk Smashworth” Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy...
2022-06-111h 01Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast57A Girl Trouble/57B School Dance (with Seth Zarate)At long last, Seth (https://twitter.com/snzarate) is back on the stoop! Arnold and Helga dance around their complicated relationship yet again in “Girl Trouble,” where Helga’s thinly veiled love for the football headed kid comes to a head during a group project in history class. Helga’s ribbing pushes Arnold to his breaking point, earning him detention and some much-needed humility, as Grandpa parallels their tumultuous relationship with one he had with a young girl named Gertie back in the day… Arnold’s in charge of entertainment for the school dance in “School Dance,” and much to the chagrin of h...
2022-06-021h 06Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast56 Arnold's Thanksgiving (with Jason Dafnis)We’re thankful, all right – for Hey Arnold!, for our listeners, and for superproducer Jason Dafnis (https://twitter.com/nintendufus), who’s stepping out from behind the soundboard to celebrate Thanksgiving in May with the rest of the Stoop Kidz! Hey Arnold! kind of has its knives out for Turkey Day. At Sunset Arms, the boarders all go along with Grandma’s delusion that it’s actually the Fourth of July, and Arnold doesn’t love that it doesn’t look like a traditional Thanksgiving. At the Pataki household, on the other hand, it couldn’t be a more traditional affair: the whol...
2022-05-281h 14Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast55A Arnold & Lila/55B Grand Prix (with Niky Horowitz)Niky Horowitz is back on the stoop! Helga, queen apparent of leaving the right messages in the wrong places, confesses her love for Football Head on an alleyway wall in “Arnold & Lila” only to change it to “Arnold Loves Lila” a hurried scrawl before anyone can see. When Lila gets wind of the supposed back-alley confession, Arnold himself is left wondering if there’s some truth to the writing on the wall. There’s strength in numbers in “Grand Prix,” where the kids form an unlikely alliance to take down a common enemy. WIth each of their go-karts trashed in the qualifyin...
2022-05-2159 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast54A Grandpa's Birthday/54B Road Trip (with Drew Tenenbaum)Drew is back on the stoop to shoot the breeze about more Hey Arnold! Grandpa’s convinced his 81st birthday will be his last in “Grandpa’s Birthday,” despite being told by the doctor that he’s so healthy he could live another lifetime. Seriously, medical science can’t explain how healthy he is for his age. All the same, Arnold treats every minute with Grandpa like it’s his last… even though he knows it isn’t. Helga and Miriam hit the road in “Road Trip” and quickly fall into a spiraling series of mishaps, left gasless and directionless until they find out th...
2022-05-131h 10Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast53A Sid's Revenge/53B Roller Coaster (with Dan Nagan)Dan Nagan of Everything We Learned makes Stoop Kidz! history as the first guest to join for an episode in all three seasons! “Sid’s Revenge” is a downright psychological horror episode: Sid carves an effigy of Principal Wartz to get back at him for detention, but is SHOOK when the principal ends up in the hospital. Assuming he’s killed his principal, Sid descends into anxious, sleepless nights. Can his friend Arnold save him from his own paranoia? In “Roller Coaster,” Eugene “The Jinx” is still a magnet for bad luck. Despite his reputation, Arnold extends an olive branch by hopping on a...
2022-05-071h 09Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast52A Best Man/52B Cool Party (with Wayne Stainrook)It’s been two seasons and more than 40 episodes since Wayne Stainrook joined the Kidz, but he’s back for a stoop encore (https://twitter.com/stainwaynerook)! Arnold finds himself between rocks and hard places in this double (football) header: First, he’s compelled to help coach Coach Wittenberg through his marital struggles and ends up sharing a bit of sage fourth-grader advice in “Best Man”; in “Cool Party,” he’s happy to join Rhonda’s bash – until he realizes why not everyone was invited. Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy posts? Follow us on https://twitter.com...
2022-04-281h 02Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast51A Phoebe Takes the Fall (with Erica Csuy)/51B The Pig War (with Ellie DeMuth)Featuring special guests (and Emily’s cousins) Erica Csuy and Ellie DeMuth! To get one over on Olga (and maybe earn Big Bob’s affection), Helga risks her friendship with Phoebe by asking her to throw a school contest in “Phoebe Takes the Fall”. In “The Pig War,” the students are treated to a bit of local history when Grandpa signs them up – along with Arnold’s pet pig, Abner – to participate in a reenactment of a British-American conflict. What Grandpa forgot to tell them was that the winner gets to make bacon out of the volunteer pig! Wanna see more Hey Arnold! s...
2022-04-2151 min
Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast51A Phoebe Takes the Fall (with Erica Csuy)/51B The Pig War (with Ellie DeMuth)Featuring special guests (and Emily’s cousins) Erica Csuy and Ellie DeMuth!To get one over on Olga (and maybe earn Big Bob’s affection), Helga risks her friendship with Phoebe by asking her to throw a school contest in “Phoebe Takes the Fall”. In “The Pig War,” the students are treated to a bit of local history when Grandpa signs them up – along with Arnold’s pet pig, Abner – to participate in a reenactment of a British-American conflict. What Grandpa forgot to tell them was that the winner gets to make bacon out of the volunteer pig!Wanna see more Hey Arnold! s...
2022-04-2151 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast50A Casa Paradiso/50B Gerald's Tonsils (with Hannah Borenstein)PhD Candidate and writer Hannah Borenstein (https://twitter.com/hborenstein23) stops by the stoop to talk about two classically nuanced, more-mature-than-they-seem episodes of Hey Arnold! The boarders at Sunset Arms rally to convince Grandpa he shouldn’t sell their home and move to a tropical resort in “Casa Paradiso,” an exemplary Hey Arnold! episode about how communities are made and broken. (It also shows up in Hannah’s recent article for Slate – check out the link below!) “Gerald’s Tonsils” – in which Gerald’s voice deepens after having his tonsils removed just before the school play – was written to keep Jamil Walker Smith, Ge...
2022-04-161h 01Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast49A Career Day/49B Hey Harold!“Career Day” again exposes the kids of PS 118 to the working class of Hillwood, but The Jolly Olly Man isn’t so jolly to be working for his profiteering dad. While the other kids fight fires, jiu jitsu criminals, and demolish buildings, Arnold helps the Jolly Olly Man smooth over some rough edges to make the best of a job he doesn’t love so he can get back at his dad. Yeah, it’s got some muddled messaging – and we talk all about it! “Hey Harold!” cooks up an unlikely romance between Harold and Big Patty that mirrors Helga’s obsession with A...
2022-04-0957 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast48A Arnold's Room/48B Helga vs. Big Patty (with Drew Tenenbaum)With returning guest Drew Tenenbaum (https://twitter.com/AshCoolBro), the Kidz talk about two episodes that focus on social performance and maintenance of appearances! When Sid and Lorenzo become study buddies in “Arnold’s Room,” the class division between the kids of PS 118 comes to a minor head. Lorenzo’s house is decked out, while Sid is ashamed of his meager digs. So Sid cons Arnold into letting him pretend Arnold’s cool “urban post-industrial rebop batcave” is actually his own bedroom – one too many times. Then Helga discovers a hidden side of one of the school’s most misunderstood girls in “Helga vs...
2022-04-011h 10Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast47A Dangerous Lumber/47B Mr. Hyunh Goes Country (with O'Dell Harmon, Jr.)Writer, podcaster, gamer, and all-around fan of ‘90s stuff O’Dell Harmon, Jr. (https://twitter.com/ODellHarmonJr) joins the Kidz to chat about two of his favorite Hey Arnold! episodes! Arnold comes to grips with his true strength in “Dangerous Lumber” and thinks he has to decide between the love of the game and the safety of his team. But some sound advice from retired Hillwood Black Sox player (and current stadium janitor) Mickey Kaline brings Arnold back around. In “Mr. Hyunh Goes Country," Arnold and Gerald see dollar signs when Mr. Hyunh’s ineffable twang makes him a radio hit – but wh...
2022-03-261h 03Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast46A Arnold Betrays Iggy/46B Helga and the Nanny (with Charlie Mackin)Charlie Mackin (https://twitter.com/charliemander13) is “Really Back In” for another episode of Stoop Kidz! We're about to make a statement that may SHOCK long-time listeners: as it turns out, Hey Arnold! is a good television show. We like it an awful lot. Therefore, most of these episodes are… enthusiastic, to say the least. Sometimes, we even joke about it: "is it fun listening to us gush week after week?" We say, "I wonder what it would be like if we DIDN'T like every episode?!" Then Arnold betrayed Iggy, and Helga got a nanny. First, join us as we discus...
2022-03-1954 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast45A Helga Blabs It All/45B Harold the ButcherHelga’s in a race against time (and herself) in “Helga Blabs It All’ when, zooted on laughing gas from getting a filling, she confesses her love for Football Head on the answering machine at Sunset Arms! Then, in “Harold the Butcher,” Harold is forced to work at Mr. Green’s butcher shop for trying to steal from it – and unexpectedly discovers a new passion. Wanna see more Hey Arnold! stuff? How about some fun, goofy posts? Follow us on https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ between episodes for more fun stuff from the Kidz! While you’re at it, rate u...
2022-03-1255 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast44A Crabby Author/44B Rich KidWARNING: the episode you are about to listen to was recorded in the absence of super producer Jason, and when the cat is away… the stoop kidz must play. And, as if on cue, two episodes appeared that seem tailor-made to get us a little unhinged. First, we litigate Hey Arnold's take on "don't meet your heroes" (It's ok if you're Arnold) in a discussion on how Arnold so frequently manages to avoid didacticism despite its obvious moral bent and how this one falls short. Then, we (poorly) try to conceal our infatuation with Lorenzo's hot mom seething antipathy for th...
2022-03-0447 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast43A Stinky Goes Hollywood/43B Olga Gets Engaged“Yahoo Soda® – Just Drink It!™” In “Stinky Goes Hollywood,” everyone’s favorite hillbilly discovers the dark side of fame when he finds out his big break as Yahoo Soda spokeskid came at the cost of his dignity. Despite it all, Stinky has no trouble staying true to himself, giving up a million-dollar TV contract to find the self-respect that’s worth much more. “Olga Gets Engaged” starts out like a typical ‘Helga’s jealous’ setup: the too-perfect Doug LeSham asks for Olga���s hand in marriage, much to Helga’s jealousy and dismay. But that’s only the start, as the episode slowly reveals LeSham’s t...
2022-02-2451 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast42A Curly Snaps/42B Pre-Teen ScreamThaddeus Gammelthorpe – also known as Curly, “a real bon vivant” – finally gets his turn as ball monitor on the playground at PS 118… but is unjustly denied his rightful title the day of his coronation! In retaliation, Curly stages a grand brouhaha in Principal Wartz’s office in “Curly Snaps,” occupying it with a horde of dodgeballs until Mr. Simmons gives in to Curly’s demands. It’s a really fun, referential episode that also inspired Harry’s choice of Twitter avatar! Phoebe is a big fan of Ronnie Matthews, so naturally, she’s heartbroken to find out he doesn’t write, sing, or play his o...
2022-02-1744 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast41A The Aptitude Test/41B Oskar Gets a JobWE’RE BACK with a rousing episode to kick off Season 3 of Hey Arnold! In “The Aptitude Test,” the kids of PS 118 get a glimpse into their possible career paths – and Harold and Helga are stunned at the results. The episode questions the true value of prescriptive standardized testing while pointing out the innate flaws of the American public schooling system – plus, we talk about what WE got on our aptitude tests in elementary school. “Oskar Gets a Job” is a somewhat muddier episode. After finally exhausting the goodwill of his housemates, Mr. Kokoshka does what nobody thought he could do: he tries m...
2022-02-121h 00Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastSeason 3 Starts Feb. 10!CAN YOU BELIEVE IT’S ALREADY SEASON 3??? Thank you so much for staying tuned (or tuning in for the first time!). Come on back to the stoop Thursday, February 10, to continue the discussion into Season 3 of Hey Arnold! with us. In the meantime, keep an eye on our Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod) for more fun Hey Arnold! stuff from us. If you like the show, leave us a review wherever you listen! It’s a big help in getting us heard by more people who love the show as much as we do...
2022-01-2201 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastSeason 2 Recap: The Best Urban Legends, One-Offs, Surprises & MoreThank you for listening to another season of Stoop Kidz! It’s a new year, and that means it’s time to clean out the (tastefully wallpapered) attic on Season 2. Join us as we look back at the highs and lows that defined Hey Arnold!’s sophomore season: everything that complicated Arnold and Helga’s relationship, all the setups that showed us new sides of our favorite places and characters, and the stuff that just won’t leave our football-shaped heads. Keep an eye on our podcast feed, Twitter, and Instagram this year for Season 3 and more from the Kidz! Whether yo...
2022-01-091h 33Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast40 Arnold’s Halloween (with Dan Nagan)Dan Nagan of Everything We Learned returns to help us close the last Hey Arnold! episode of season 2 with a SPOOKY bang! Arnold, Gerald, and Helga launch plans to scare the pants off the adults on Halloween by staging separate fake alien invasions. But when their plans accidentally merge, the town runs away with the idea that they really ARE being invaded. It’s reminiscent of Orson Welles’ 1938 The War of the Worlds broadcast, SIGNS (2002), and more mass hysteria classics – but at the same time, it also feels uniquely Hey Arnold! because all your favorite characters get so much to do in...
2022-01-011h 00Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast28A Arnold Saves Sid/28B HookeyIn “Arnold Saves Sid,” we see a new sycophantic side of Sid when he dotes on Arnold as repayment for saving his life – kinda. In “Hookey,” Arnold and Gerald skip school to play hookey (no, not hockey! HOOKEY!) only to find themselves caged by their own fear of being caught. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey...
2021-10-0942 min
Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast27A The Big Scoop/27B Harold's KittyWelcome to Season 2 of Stoop Kidz! Season 2 of Hey Arnold! kicks off with a one-two punch. Helga stretches the truth a little too far for stories in the school newspaper, and Arnold and Gerald are tempted by the idea of going low to stop her. Harold’s Kitty – a truly “pawesome” episode – is surprisingly sad, showing Harold’s softer side when he fosters a lost cat and isn’t quite ready to give him up. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and...
2021-10-0243 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastSeason 2 Starts Sept. 30!Welcome, new Kidz and longtime listeners alike! We’ve been bowled over by the response to our interview with Craig Bartlett, and we wanted to take a minute to thank you for listening and for all the wonderful feedback! Be sure to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts if you loved it. We’re taking a quick reset before starting Season 2 of Hey Arnold!, so keep an eye out on September 30 for the first episode. In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. See you then! All Stoop Kidz show...
2021-09-1901 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastAn Interview with Craig Bartlett, Author of Hey Arnold!Note: Unlike our regular episodes, this episode is un-bleeped! On this very, very special episode of Stoop Kidz!, the kidz interview Craig Bartlett himself, animator extraordinaire and author of Hey Arnold! In this packed discussion, we dig into Craig’s storied career, unpack the pseudo-autobiographical origins of Arnold and his friends, chat about what the show means to an entire generation, and hear how the man himself feels knowing his labor of love was and continues to be such an indispensable part of our lives. When asked how he managed to make something as "realized" as the show, Craig Bartlett im...
2021-09-111h 08Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastClay Arnold!: The Claymation Shorts Where Arnold Was BornThe Kidz go back – WAY back – to the origins of Hey Arnold! in this special episode of Stoop Kidz! No, not the pilot episode. Even further back to the three stop-motion shorts Craig Bartlett used to pitch the show that became Hey Arnold! These vignettes aren’t long (just a few minutes each), but they’re a little slice of the distinct vibe Hey Arnold! would become known for, as well as the creativity of its showrunners and a fun introduction to the title character. Watch all three claymation shorts here (total runtime 5:54): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZ1Xc4xFjc...
2021-09-0338 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastSeason 1 Recap: Our Favorite Episodes, Characters, Surprises & MoreAnd that’s a wrap on the historic first season of Hey Arnold! We’re really jazzed about the reception to our podcast so far, and we’ve got HUGE things planned, so we wanted to put a cap on a season of watching and talking with a list of our favorite parts of Hey Arnold! and of our own show! In this recap episode, we rank our favorite Hey Arnold! episodes, our favorite one-off characters, our favorite episodes of Stoop Kidz!, and more! Sit back, reminisce, and look forward to another season of Stoop Kidz! soon – thanks again to everyone...
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Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast26A Runaway Float/26B PartnersThis week, the Kidz discuss a true classic in "Runaway Float," a thrilling episode that demonstrates Arnold's creativity, the power of community, and – of course – the evils of the commercialization of art. In Part 2, the great Dino Spumoni returns to his roots (in more ways than one) in "Partners," and the gang discusses their complementary strengths, weaknesses, and idiosyncrasies. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Em...
2021-08-2040 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast25 Arnold's ValentineWhether you’re listening on Feb. 14 or anytime, Episode 25 of Hey Arnold! is one to remember for a lot of good reasons! In “Arnold’s Valentine,” Arnold’s titular Valentine isn’t who she seems – and his longtime crush isn’t who he thought she was. In this smooch-tastic episode of Stoop Kidz!, we discuss the weird, double-long pacing of episode 25, how the plotline complicates Arnold and Helga’s relationship, its surprisingly somber tone, and the fact that Arnold is confirmed as a himbo by the end of the episode. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! I...
2021-08-1332 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast24A Tour de Pond/24B Teachers' Strike“Tour de Pond” pits Arnold and Gerald against Rex Smythe-Higgins III – and seven decades of bad blood – in a boat race where there’s more than a first-place trophy on the line. “Teachers’ Strike” unfortunately turns the kids of PS 118 into scabs after the teaching staff leverages collective action against Principal Wartz’s abusive budget cuts. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagra...
2021-08-0440 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast23A Coach Wittenberg/23B Four-eyed JackEveryone's favorite(?!) coach returns for "Coach Wittenberg," just in time for "Arnie" to teach him – and us! – the role of "psychocoholgy" in coaching and the real value of being part of a team. After the game, we head back to the boarding house to hear the harrowing tale of "Four-eyed Jack," get to know the house's colorful residents a little better, and even gain a little more insight into Grandpa's unorthodox but heartwarming parenting style. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopk...
2021-07-2946 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast22A Hall Monitor/22B Harold's Bar Mitzvah (feat. Drew Tenenbaum)Featuring special guest Drew Tenenbaum (https://twitter.com/AshCoolBro)! In “Hall Monitor,” Phoebe learns how to be a COP from Helga, and we wonder what it says about the school that everyone in PS 118 wants to be a hall monitor. “Harold’s Bar Mitzvah” introduces religion as a significant part of the Hey Arnold! plot for the first time, telling a story of a boy who doesn’t realize he’s ready to be a man. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod...
2021-07-221h 02Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastSpecial Episode! ASTROLOGY: Zodiac Signs as Hey Arnold! CharactersIn this special episode, we get to know our favorite Hey Arnold! characters a little better by guessing their zodiac signs and comparing them to our own. Emily’s a Sagittarius, but what about Pigeon Man? Which characters seem to share the same sun sign? What on Earth is Arnold’s moon sign? Find out in this fun, offbeat episode! If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our ow...
2021-07-1635 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast21A Helga's Boyfriend/21B Crush on TeacherIt’s not easy to make Arnold jealous, but Helga tries her hardest with some arm candy in “Helga’s Boyfriend,” and we talk about how her own jealousy undercuts the tenderness of youthful romance with a sharp cynicism. “Crush on Teacher” is BIG CRINGE, but Arnold’s catastrophic misread of his teacher’s friendly disposition is a great excuse for us to talk about some of our own teacher crushes. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoo...
2021-07-1049 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast20 Arnold's Christmas (feat. Charlie Mackin)Featuring special guest Charlie Mackin (https://twitter.com/charliemander13)! One of the most emotional, warmhearted, and talked-about episodes of Hey Arnold! sets the titular holiday fool on a mission to reunite Mr. Hyunh with his daughter after 20 years of separation. With a plot that hinges on the refugee families broken in the Vietnam War and the ones that build themselves around the gaps, “Arnold’s Christmas” is a legitimate gut-punch and an incredibly moving episode year-round. Hey Arnold! Arnold’s Christmas - Transcript: https://heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/Arnold%27s_Christmas/Transcript If you love the show, we’d love for you to...
2021-07-0245 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast19A Part Time Friends/19B BiosquareArnold and Gerald add an uncomfortable new dimension to their friendship when they both get jobs at Mrs. Vitello's flower shop in “Part Time Friends.” Then, in “Biosquare,” Arnold and Helga are locked in a greenhouse for 24 hours. What could go wrong? If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “Groove...
2021-06-2557 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast18A Magic Show/18B 24 Hours to LiveOn today's episode, we dig into two iconly strange, character-centric episodes that have more in common than we originally thought. In "Magic Show," Helga is forced to reconcile with the consequences of her bullying - and her own guilty conscience - when "the Great Arnoldini" makes her "disappear." In "24 Hours to Live," Harold gives Arnold one day to set his affairs in order after the football head beans him with a baseball. As Helga continuously reminds him over the next 24 hours, Arnold is forced to find a creative solution to his problem. If you love the show, we’d love fo...
2021-06-1854 min
Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast17A False Alarm/17B World Records (feat. Dan Nagan)Featuring Dan Nagan (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman) of the podcast Everything We Learned! In “False Alarm,” Helga has tickets to WrestleMania and a bold kid seeks exoneration for an innocent nerd. In “World Records,” the kids from PS 118 set a world record – just not the one they thought. At least they do it together. Subscribe to Dan’s wonderful movie podcast, Everything We Learned, wherever you get podcasts, including on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everything-we-learned/id1184071273 If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https...
2021-06-101h 03Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast16A Abner Come Home/16B The Sewer King“Abner Come Home” proves Abner’s personhood by appealing to his animal nature, and we share our favorite pet stories. In “The Sewer King,” the kids dig all the way to China – almost – to find an heirloom and a lonely king. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “Groove Remote” by Jim...
2021-06-0346 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast15A Olga Comes Home (feat. Jason Dafnis)/15B Sally’s Comet (feat. Seth Zarate)Featuring special guests Jason Dafnis and Seth Zarate! Introducing us to more of Helga’s family, “Olga Comes Home” paints a portrait of sisters in a relationship defined as much by their environment as each other. In “Sally’s Comet,” the community comes together to stare at the skies, just like we have for generations, and promises to do it again for the next generation. Follow Jason on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nintendufus Follow Seth on Twitter at https://twitter.com/snzarate If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with u...
2021-05-271h 01Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast14A Spelling Bee/14B Pigeon Man“Spelling Bee” contrasts Arnold’s support system with Helga’s self-reliance, but without the J-U-D-G-M-E-N-T. Time, patience, and the right berries might be the salve for what ails Arnold’s pet pigeon Chester in “Pigeon Man,” but it takes more than that for us to learn to trust again after trauma. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “He...
2021-05-2044 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast13A Tutoring Torvald/13B Gerald Comes OverIn “Tutoring Torvald,” Hey Arnold! speaks to the very real issues with American public education and the importance of family support. In “Gerald Comes Over,” Gerald comes over and gets a good look at life inside Sunset Arms. Maybe too good a look. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ . All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “Groove...
2021-05-1445 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast12A Das Subway (feat. Sophie Blumenstock)/12B Wheezin’ Ed (feat. Evelyn Frick)Featuring special guests Sophie Blumenstock and Evelyn Frick (Friends Like Us Podcast)! In “Das Subway,” a freak accident brings together metropolitan denizens from every walk of life for one paranoid day. “Wheezin’ Ed” is another urban myth that piques the gang’s curiosity so strongly that they leave the mainland to scope it out. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. Listen to Friends Like Us, a podcast Evelyn Frick helps make, wherever you get podcasts. Find and follo...
2021-05-071h 01Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast11A Benchwarmer/11B Cool JerkArnold plays Grandma to the coach’s son in “Benchwarmer,” and we talk about the highs and lows of middle school basketball. In discussing “Cool Jerk,” an episode about a cool jerk, we dig up the cool jerks from our youth. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “Groove Remote” by...
2021-04-3041 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast10A Door Number 16/10B Arnold as Cupid (feat. Wayne Stainrook)Featuring special guest Wayne Stainrook (https://twitter.com/stainwaynerook)! “Door Number 16” uses a missing package to introduce the boarders of Sunset Arms to the family member they met too late. In “Arnold as Cupid,” Susie should definitely not be with Mr. Kokoshka... or maybe anyone… but Arnold gets over it long enough to play matchmaker. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (www.instagram.com/emilycsuy...
2021-04-2359 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast9A Mugged/9B Roughin' It (feat. Drew Tenenbaum)With special guest Drew Tenenbaum (https://twitter.com/AshCoolBro), we’re reminded of Grandma’s sage advice in “Mugged”: there’s a difference between standing up for yourself and being the aggressor. Then in “Roughin’ It,” a camping trip takes Arnold and Helga’s families out of their element – and nobody survives it alone. (It’s a lot like A Goofy Movie.) If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily...
2021-04-141h 00Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast8A The List (feat. Charlie Mackin)/8B Haunted Train (feat. Kyle Olson)What’s on your list today? In our first guest episode, we’re joined by Charlie Mackin to discuss how “The List” recontextualizes the ways we used to spend weekends and how we do that as adults in 2021. Then good friend and resident rail guy Kyle Olson hops aboard for some “Haunted Train” chat, adding coal to the fire as we talk about the terrifying titular train. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. Follow Charlie on Twi...
2021-04-0854 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast7A Operation Ruthless/7B The Vacant LotHi, Ruth. Hi, Ruth. Hi, Ruth. Hi, Ruth. Hi, Ruth. In “Operation Ruthless,” we see Arnold and Helga at their most vulnerable, while they see both warped and idealized reflections as they pursue the people they want. “Vacant Lot” is a Marxist parable with a Backyard Baseball spin. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Them...
2021-04-0138 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast6A Heat/6B SnowWho doesn't remember their first snow day? Even before watching, the Kidz fondly recalled "Heat" and "Snow" as two of the first Arnolds we remember loving. On this episode, we unpack what exactly makes this legendary double header so memorable by discussing how both episodes manage to leverage Arnold's inimitable visuals, music, and community world-building to evoke special moments of childhood both so specific and so universal that no one ever really forgets how they feel. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.co...
2021-03-2336 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast5A 6th Grade Girls/5B The Baseball“6th Grade Girls” sees Gerald and Arnold at their funkiest, freshest, and maybe least mature. We reminisce about how “The Baseball” is all about saying hello and goodbye to your hero at the same time. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/). Intro music: “Hey Arnold! Theme” by Jim Lang. Intermission music: “Groove Remote” by Jim Lang. Outro music: “Stompin’”
2021-03-1637 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast4A Helga's Makeover/4B The Old BuildingGender takes center stage in “Helga’s Makeover,” and we discuss how the episode doesn’t talk down to its audience. Then we dig into the generational gap into which Arnold finds himself thrown in “The Old Building” and how a nine-year-old could mediate conflict better than two grown adults. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy, and you can find more of her excellent...
2021-03-0933 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast3A Arnold's Hat/3B Stoop KidIn “Arnold’s Hat,” we learn how external self-expression can be as important as who you are inside and talk about the clothes that defined us as kids. In “Stoop Kid,” our namesake episode, Stoop Kid's afraid to leave his stoop – so Arnold is determined to make it a little bigger for him. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our own Emily Csuy (www.instagram.com/emilycsuy). In...
2021-03-0234 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast2A The Little Pink Book/2B Field TripIn discussing “Little Pink Book,” Emily, Cody, and Harry question who’s the real main character of Hey Arnold!, the line between teasing and bullying in childhood romance, and where the show takes Helga over the next few seasons. Then we head to ‘the big house for fish’ with “Field Trip,” meeting anarcho-communist queen Grandma for the first time as Arnold learns a valuable lesson about why eco-terrorism is good, actually. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/st...
2021-02-2237 min
Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast1A Downtown as Fruits/1B Eugene's Bike“Do vegetables have souls?” This and other shocking questions in the first episode of Stoop Kidz! “Downtown as Fruits” unites our hero, suitor, and other crucial cast members for a school play while establishing the postmodern vibes that would come to define Hey Arnold! Then, in “Eugene’s Bike,” we see Arnold try to take responsibility for his actions with, uh… mixed results. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/. All Stoop Kidz show art is created by our...
2021-02-1633 minStoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! PodcastWelcome to Stoop Kidz! A Hey Arnold! PodcastWelcome to Stoop Kidz!, a Hey Arnold! Podcast where Cody Narveson, Emily Csuy, and Harry Mackin tackle one of their favorite childhood cartoons episode by episode to rediscover Hillywood and the fourth-graders who inhabit it through adult eyes. In this introductory episode, we explain what Hey Arnold! means to us, examine how we’ve changed with it, and what it's like to learn more about each other through shared formative media. If you love the show, we’d love for you to leave a review! In the meantime, keep up with us at https://twitter.com/stoopkidzpod and https://www.inst...
2021-02-1020 min