Arnold's Grandpa Did WHAT?!
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"You've still got plenty of brain cells!"
"No, not since Woodstock." 😂
This joke had me rolling lmaooo
@@DuskTillShawn may as well do a video on the relationship between Doug and Mr. Dink...
LOL
Oh know what 90s movie you should do a video on? Jack starring Robin Williams
@@leeeroyjenkins555 the fact that his name is dink is a crime
Not the thumbnail looking like grandpa got caught by Chris Hanson 💀
It's one of those jokes in a cartoon that did not age well.
i thought it was a photoshop cus i remember those 5th graders from that one episode where Arnold and Harold are acting too old for their age and those girls were messing with them to make their BFs jealous...
wow. Phil.... just. wow......
@@justacup8676why don’t you have a seat
@@justacup8676Handsome*
@@siyahseeker There is zero things wrong with this episode lol. I think too many people have dirty minds in this comment section.
"Melts in your mouth not in your hand"
"Pookie you're fired"
You could say Grampa Phil was grandfathered into his jobs. See you next week, Seattle.
And then years later and it made M&M's famous!
that's funny. I laughed when i heard that lol
I always liked how this show portrayed adults, that despite being grown-ups, they don't have everything figured out in their lives. Like with Grandpa Phil's education, or Oskar's illiteracy, Mr. Simon's family, or Dino Spumoni's many appearances, it's not like once you reach adulthood problems will stop to happen, but Arnold showed that it's not the end of the world, and that you can make a change if you believe in yourself.
PS. To help you sleep better, there are elementary and high education schools for adults. So, if that bizarre nightmare of yours came to life, you wouldn't be surrounded by kids.
Really, those exists? He wouldn't have to just go for his GED, which is pretty much worthless in the 21st Century.
I also love the trope that when an adult has to go back to school; they ALWAYS just join a literal kid's school. It's not an after school adult class or further learning (at home). You have to wear a scaled up uniform (or not in Grampa Phil's case), sit in a tiny desk & even forced to eat at the cafeteria & play with kids in recess. I would just be like "no, I'm going to sit in my car & eat my fast food I'll go out & buy". I know it's a show but is really funny.
@@Neku628 They do exists in my country (Peru). I assumed they have that too in America, but I don't really know.
@@Neku628how is a GED worthless it's the same as a highschool diploma?
@@bigmac10asmr58they’re being a bit extreme in how they say it, but high school diplomas and even sometimes college degrees don’t really get you a job with a high standard of living as they used to. Nowadays, for the equivalent of things as way back when (like before most of us in this thread were even born), it’s much better to either have high level degrees, or in some cases trade school degrees, if you want employment that gives a high standard of living by American and some Europeans, within said countries, and definitely in the case of “prestige jobs.” The concept is due to, unfortunately in part, college degrees themselves becoming relatively (key word) commonplace, and thus making a post-standard school degree of some sort a baseline for a lot of kinds of jobs and industries, and thus a high school diploma (and by extension a GED) being seen as below baseline for things. For example, in my local area at least, you need a degree for jobs as “small” as a museum tour guide. So the idea that it’s “worthless” is that it doesn’t get you very far, at least comparatively to before.
This reminds me so much of my Grandaddy! He was born and raised in Mississippi. He initially only had a 3rd grade education. He used to have to leave school to go work the cotton fields. During the depression, he left school permanently to pick cotton full time. It wasn’t until he was an adult and he went to theology school that he received a decent education and ended up with a doctorate degree 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Hell yeah
That’s a man you can be proud of 👍
LMAO theology 🙄
I’m so proud of him!
Theology really...
Yes I totally had the "had to go back to school as an adult to make up missed credits" dream multiple times
I forgot I have these dreams still until it was mentioned in the video I remembered I had one pretty recently
Same
Same
I think it's neat how Arnold takes after his mom visually, but Grampa Phil and Grandma Gertie are his paternal grandparents, makes me wonder where his maternal grandparents are and when they passed, as that's the most likely reason we've never seen them.
Also, this is random, but Arnold's Homework with the 3250 divided by 276 is technically right, but he gets it wrong after the 31 in the decimal places, after that it goes 884058, but really, who does long division for that many decimal places? going to the thousandths place is good enough for most stuff.
Maybe Arnold’s mom’s parents passed away young
I am very curious to know what state you moved to in the Midwest.
@@funsizedazzy6708 he said his mom's parents not his mom...meaning grandparents on Arnold's mom's side😂
Honestly, your not wrong that Phil hanging out with those kids doing delinquent actions was wrong. Then again, this is Arnold's grandad. As crazy as he is, he's not R. Kelly.
Those girls figured he could get them into movies that they couldn't and Phil was acting loopy.
This was a riff on a teenager delinquent who's having a hard time in school trope.
We know that, as the audience, Phil is not doing anything to those girls. Because again, he isn't R.Kelly. It's meant to come off as ridiculous since Phil is an old man acting like a teenage delinquent.
69👍 Nice🤌
Yeah, he also made friends with other kids in 4th and 5th but we draw the line at 6th because the girls we have seen using people use him to see a movie? Trying to stick what is essentially grooming allegations in hindsight onto Grandpa Phil just feels wrong even to think... They just needed some character(s) who were "bad" and in sixth grade. Those two just fit the bill. "but why not use the girls "boyfriends" who are also established?"??? because the boys in the girl's story were props just like how the girls are "props" in Grandpa's story... They are just better known 6th graders because of their episode with Arnold and Gerald...
@@SailorMyaI don't know if you guys are being dense but he's hanging out with 2 sixth grade girls outside of school hours hanging off his arms. It's a little weird
It's just a gag showing how he became rebellious as a 6th grader so he was portrayed becoming a literal 6th grader. Juxtaposing his maturity against the increasing immaturity he was demonstrating in class.
Mentally speaking, it might’ve been a way for him to ventilate his frustration. The leather jacket could’ve been when he was around 16 or 17, probably when he was still in the steel working business where all of the adults there must’ve been very gruff and hardened.
I think everyone understands this was the intention behind that moment. But the execution was just...weird- it doesn't come off the way it was intended at all.
@@Snakie747 I'm glad everyone knows that if that's the case, I'm sick of seeing people demonizing my childhood cartoons.
@@horsewings3561the only people taking it at face value have no media literacy, or are purposely doing it for attention.
Isn't it a bit of an overreaction of a dumb gag? I'm guaranteed it's not really supposed to be anything more then visually funny a 81 year old man acting like a stereotype bad boy lol
It’s interesting that when Phil was initially feeling intimidated by Arnold’s homework and he ran off to take his meds, they had him struggling with opening a child-proof. As if the long division put him back into his childhood so deeply he couldn’t open the childproof bottle.
Here's you a little theory about "Steely Phil" that the series has pretty much proven in tiny hints; Phil has an illigitmate German family. Arnie is either from Grandma Gerttie's side of the family, or from Arnold's mother's side, as Phil always thought Arnie was creepy but Phil told Arnold "You're my favorite grandson" to which Arnold replied, "I'm you're ONLY grandson" which got a less-than-confident "Sure you are" reply. When Phil went to Germany and gave Hitler the wedgie of a lifetime, he had a spicy little late nightrendezvou with a German farmer's daughter, which Gerald's father stopped him from going into detail about because the kids were still in the car with them.
reminds me of my grandpa. he never got a highschool diploma because his dad kept going "you're just an idiot quit school and get a job."
after a while he did quit school. then eventually after getting married and having kids he went back to school and graduated it. stayed at the desk studying with his kids and eventually passed.
I don't mean to be that guy but Arnold's grandma's name is Gertrude.
"Pookie" is just Grandpa Phil's pet name for her.
Also I want to point out a continuity problem: if Grandpa Phil never made it pass the 4th grade, how did he meet Grandma? Cause there's an episode that states they were in the same classes together (past 4th grade) growing up.
He does say "Grandma Gertie" at the end of the video.
@@ZimVader-0017 i know. Though he only said it once.
@@Zacman1123so why add that?
It doesn't matter what her name is. If a character is called another name more often, that's what most fans will know them by. How often was she referred to as Gertrude? Gertie is short for Gertrude, but it's best to refer to them as the names they're best known by. For her, it's Gertie/Pookie.
I still can't be comfortable with his head & chin shape 😔
This reminder about Phil's childhood was worth having. There are many individuals with life issues not too far from these examples. Especially the (seemingly endless) postponement of something important / dearly wanted
Thanks for these videos, man! I hope you and your family are well ✨
I mean he took to girls to the movies. They didn't go skinny dipping or something.
Imagine this happening in real life though. A offender is an offender.
Idk why, but that part at 10:28 where he said he's going to sneak into a pg13 movie, and Arnold said but your 81 😆.
or that part where the principal calls him “young man”
My own grandfather never got past the 6th grade. He was pulled out to work on their farm back then
I can confirm that fact about children & education during the Great Depression. My great grandparents were kids during the Great Depression. Both have just a grade school education. I never thought too much of it until they sometimes use to ask me to read them something. At first I’m like maybe it’s bc they’re old and probably can’t see as well as they use to? But now that I’m an elementary teacher I can see how not finishing elementary school can create some gaps with decoding in reading.
A couple of points: 1) sometimes kids are right and adults are definitely flawed too 2) I always thought it was weird how the 6th graders looked like they were 18-21
Exactly. Sometimes some kids look older and you wonder how much growth hormones were in their food ?
I think that's deliberate because when you are a kid; they DO always seem that much bigger & intimidating. It's only when you are an adult you realise that there isn't that much difference. A clever artist way to convey how scary they are to them. There was an episode where someone throws a football to Wolfgang who proceeds to jump, catch it & lands on a metal post-box which proceeds to get flattened by him. He gets up like nothing happened.
@@infjmale91 Some people really seem to be struggling with the idea that cartoons aren’t meant to be realistic and tend to exaggerate things for comedic effect. It’s like criticizing Rugrats for “normalizing neglect” because the entire premise revolves around babies getting into dangerous situations.
I’m guess they were left back like Harold
The cartoon is aimed for kids. To us, at Arnold's age, we do think that is what older girls look like.
French viewer here! I have never seen any of the show you talk about but I love the vibes of your videos! Glad you came back!
It’s weird he tried to go out with 6 grade girls but also find it weird that 6 grade girls wanna hang out with an 81yr old, and their parents let them???
I get the feeling that Connie and Mariea's parents are either like Helga's, or have no idea what sort of hooligans their babies are.
Yea but Grandpa Phil was cool for a grown up
Cartoon shenanigans in a nutshell.
They probably figure he can't get it up anyway
@@All5Horizons Considering that Connie and Maria are both like either 11 or 12, I should hope they aren't even considering anything about that at all.
Connie and Maria, generally, all the sixth grades, they act like they are in high school.
They look a lot more like high schoolers than grade schoolers. Like seriously, who lets their 11-12 year old daughters wear heavy make up?
@@queenrose2009yea it’s the makeup it makes a difference. But when you’re young you make mistakes with makeup and then you learn what works for you and what you like
@@queenrose2009 well girls do mature quickly than guys
@@marlonclark-ky6ub Yeah but that doesn't mean it's ok for 11-12 year old girls to be wearing heaving make up at that age. Maybe light make up like lip gloss is fine but not something as thick as lipstick.
@@marlonclark-ky6ub False. I know many many girls who were way less mature than guys.
My great grandfather on my mother's side experienced the same thing. Though his father died, so he had to drop school due to both reasonings. Though he was never able to go back
Welcome back Shawn! Yeah, Grandpa Phil did some insane things on this show.
Thanks, friend! It feels great to be back.
Can you phineas and ferd from Disney channel please 😊
Grandpa hanging out with those kids was a little strange but he is very child-like in his brain. Do I think what he did was appropriate? Nope. However, the magic of cartoons is that they can make the kids safe and show how innocent grandpa is. I think it's meant to show how he never lived through his rebellious preteen years.
You know those jokes in old cartoons that aged like rotting meat? This is one of them.
I couldn’t agree more! 🤮
I like that the Voice actor for Wolfgang is King Bob from Recess.
@@DuskTillShawn It aged just fine. It’s a cartoon that derives humor from absurdity. The idea that an elementary school would put an elderly man in a class of 6th graders as a student is inherently ridiculous, and seeing someone’s grandpa act like an immature idiot is funny. I guarantee there were zero kids who watched this episode and thought “Grandpa Phil is so hot. I can’t wait to find an old man to date and commit petty crimes with.”
@@artistfloor9Bro it’s the fact he’s 81 hanging out with 12 year olds and wrapping his arms around their shoulders and before you say anything yes I know it’s supposed to be ridiculous. It’s still weird as fuck though.
He was also the first voice of Arnold not including JD from the pilot Lane toran caudell @@infjmale91
Welcome back Shawn. Good to have you back. I remember this episode.
Always laughed at the banter between Phil and Principal Wartz.
Thanks, friend! It feels good to be back :D
Wow, good to have you back!
Yeah, Grandpa Phil did some things that flew over our heads as kids, but as adults, we understand them a lot more. I loved it.
Chicago, Illinois here!
I lovvveedd Hey Arnold growing up. My grandmother that raised me was a musician so the jazz in this children’s show really appealed to me. This was one of my chill shows for that reason. Hey Arnold was cool man. My kid loves it now. It had a lot of teaching points and cool animations 🙏🏽
Mississippi USA. Grew up watching Hey Arnold. I was and still am in a very very small town and all our schools have names instead of numbers. It was my window into how life was in a very large city. I love this show because it broadened my understanding and world view while I grew up in a town that isn't quite rural but not at all large.
I've had a similar recurring nightmare about being back in school. Specifically back in high school. In at least one of them i was in tears trying to explain to admin and teachers that i graduated over a decade ago and didn't understand why i had to be there again.
I live in pittsburgh and i remember being 8 and watching hey arnold during its premiere in 96. I Liked the show as much as any other show I watched regularly as a kid, but it is definitely one of the best series I rewatched as an adult. Glad you're back man.
Love Pittsburgh. I go there every year for a convention the first weekend of July. Probably can guess which one, lol.
I remember back in 2nd grade, there was this pencil dispenser in one of the 5th grade classes that, as long as we were quiet, the teacher would let us in during class to buy some pencils with cool designs. And yes, it felt like all the 5th graders were all grown adults. Now it's the opposite, whenever i pass by my old high school i think, they look like middle schoolers.
The 7th graders in my school looked like they were supposed to be in Kindergarten. They kept getting shorter and shorter every year I swear.
This is my favorite Grandpa episode, and the movie scene is ridiculous, but that's why I always found it funny even to this day. But it's also interesting to consider that he's putting on this bad persona to mask his insecurities that arose when he entered 6th grade. He more than likely knew deep down that these weren't the right things to be engaging in, but felt hopeless enough at school that he felt he no longer cared.
Watching from Australia and grew up with it.
One thing I want to point out that his grandparents aren't the only adults Arnold spends a lot of time around, he grew up surrounded by so many people from different backgrounds. While he probably takes the most from his grandparent's examples he has a lot of adults around him to learn from and that's probably part of why he's so well rounded.
Nikki here from Virginia! I loved Hey Arnold!!! My grandpa had to drop out of elementary school to work on the farm. He never learned to read, he’s 89 now. He worked hard and made a life for himself despite the fact he couldn’t read. I will forever be proud of him ❤
Yes!! When I get a notification “DUSKTILLSHAWN has uploaded a video” I drop everything and start TH-cam on my bedroom TV.
I always get a solid giggle from Grandpa Phil just being like “no, I can’t do that….not since Woodstock” 😂 as a kid it went right over my head, but as an adult it makes me smile. As does a lot of Grandpa Phil and Grandma Gertie’s shenanigans, because they were just very human about everything. They weren’t perfect, and owned their mistakes in the past and the present, but always did their best to do better for Arnold.
Ironically, I think one of the tenants at the boarding house was allegedly intended to be a female p#&@ who would make Arnold uncomfortable. Grandpa going out with those girls is on equally dark territory.
I am watching this while getting a bite to eat at a local place. I watched Hey Arnold a lot, but I had mixed feelings about it. I hated episodes that focused on love/crushes as the central plot, and I also wanted Helga to get aggressive with people everytime things got awkward for her. I know now that's not the answer, but as a kid I hated awkward scenes on TV because of second hand embarrassment.
The last thing Helga needed was to get aggressive with people, she already had enough anger issues as it was.
@@fatuusdottore that's where kid me was coming from. Kid me had anger issues just like Helga, and I used to hate when she didn't hit people in certain situations. I obviously know better now, but back then I really just wanted to see her hit people besides Brainy.
Yeah, some things can age pretty horribly. Just take Revenge of the Nerds circa 1984.
I have yet to see that movie.
Steely Phil!
Top 5 Hey Arnold Episodes
Eh, I think people are looking way too much into that for something that isn't there. Phil was clearly just trying to be the stereotypical rebellious kid, and sneaking into an R-Rated movie was the stereotypical act that tv shows in the 90's portrayed as kids being bad. It's supposed to be funny, with the joke being that Phil is old enough to get into the movie without sneaking. There was never any indication that it was anything more than that and if people see this scene and consider Phil a "creep" then they probably need to get off the internet for a while and rethink their lives.
New York & I loved Hey Arnold. A cartoon with substance was realized even then…
Awesome! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! I hope you’re having a great Friday, my friend! 😁
ayy same, was a big fan of Hey Arnold because it was relatable being in a big city and all that
New Jersey and I really enjoyed Hey Arnold as a kid.
I'm from New Jersey as well and Hey Arnold was one of my favorite shows
Shout out to my fellow Jersey People!!!!
@@johndeconqueroo2808 Here!
also from NJ :)
Watching from Virginia, Hey Arnold has a close place in my heart so many topics, the the stories, the memories it brings back. Just has a very special place.
I've also had dreams where I've had to return to high-school to keep my job or due to something being missed. So weird having those dreams.
Same
It’s kind of proves that you don’t have to be educated to be wise because Grandpa gives him a lot of good advice
I’m from New York originally, but I live in Germany now and I grew up loving this show!
I’m from Omaha NE. I love Hey Arnold! Arnold as a character has the kind of morals and values I try to strive for in my life and I have always seen him as a role model of a character. Gpa Phil and GMA Gertie are GREAT caretakers, they have always been there and supported Arnold, even given their eccentricities, their love and concern for Arnold shines through in their eyes and always makes me teary eyed, especially in “The Journal” parts 1 and 2. Thanks for all the vids, Shawn! I really enjoy your Hey Arnold vids and especially your BoJack Horseman vids. Thanks for being uniquely you and offering great commentary
I knew a guy who was young during that time period. He would cry about it a lot, when he would talk about it. He actually lost his parents and had to be the man of the family as a young teen. So freaking sad
I love granpa phil he joke like no tomrrow
He's got a great sense of humor, for sure lol. I always enjoyed his jokes
Commenting from Mississippi in the U.S. I loved Hey Arnold growing up. My favorite scenes were always the ones in his room. A couch that folds into and out of the wall and the skylight. I was mainly a Cartoon Network kid growing up but when there was nothing I wanted to watch on CN I’d switch over to Nickelodeon and watch cartoons there. This, SpongeBob, Rocket Power, Rugrats, so many good cartons on both channels.
An 81-year-old President? That's too old!
Im from buffalo NY [ America ] and I LOVED hey Arnold I still watch it everytime I go to bed and just lay in bed. It's such an amazing show. I wish they'd make more seasons after the recent 2017 movie. Or an all grown up version of hey Arnold would be neat.
I remember back in 2020 when I graduated highschool throughtout the months I was worried they'd call/email me saying "i'm sorry but after recaluating your credits from your data, even with your summer class credits, you still don't have enough to graduate."
I was a damn wreck until I received it
I could not be any happier
I am not doing highschool again
On the topic of that nightmare, I honestly thought it was just me. I got really sick those last two years of High School, and only got better at around the age of 22. I couldn't do the GED, but I did finish my studies thanks to a night school in my city. But I still was the eldest there by 4-5 whole years. I was also the only freshman in College that wasn't 17-18 years old. I got used to it and my life finally felt normal, but now I keep getting that dream in many variations, the worst being that I needed an extra credit to get my High School diploma and had to go back for a full year, NOW while in my 30's and n a classroom full of 16 year olds, not unlike Phil in this episode.
I graduated almost 10 years ago now, but that stupid nightmare keeps haunting me to this day...
It’s not illegal for adults to hang out with kids(as long as nothing sexual goes on, which it didn’t). Also, it was a kid’s TV show in the 90s. Pedos weren’t thought about nearly as much as they are now, by kids or adults.
It was subliminal to subconsciously make you use to seeing it you'd think nothing of it then ped0s can slide under the radar undetected 😂 just like you're thinking now. Whole time you think it's innocent but it's really not and they don't get caught.
TRy WatchinG "A better schedule for Nickelodeon's main block" by Evan Rosman
1:14 "Level headed Kid" couldn't help but chuckle 😅
There are two semi-regular dreams I have related to school.
1. It took me 10 years to get my bachelors, even though I earned it a couple years ago, I routinely have dreams where it appears my advisor was wrong about my course selection, and I’m not going to graduate.
2. I dream about getting my license in high school and driving to school, just to forget during the day and end up taking the bus home, leaving my car at school.
From New York, and Hey Arnold was my show as a kid. It was pretty much the only show I could talk my parents into watching with me on a regular basis.
I feel like past a certain point, we have to accept that cartoons aren't supposed to reflect reality. It was funny because it was ridiculous. Now, we know better, but back then it couldn't have been anything but a joke.
I am watching you from my childhood home in Woodruff South Carolina in the USA, and I watched Hey, Arnold very little as a little kid but in high school I started to watch it as much as I could when it was on Teen Nick late at night.
Shawn, I have been subscribed. Grew up watching it. It's crazy the world that Arnold lives in. Real ghosts, he is friends with a famous singer. He has a stalker, his grandmother knows Kung Fu, and his grandfather is a war hero. There is an ancient prehistory fish in their lake. Haunted trains. And Arnold is not corrupted by a lot of bad stuff around him. Moral compass intact. He does have his selfish moments but he is still human. What I liked about this show is even when he is a minor character or not in an episode at all it still feels grounded in the same world. I'm watching from fort worth Texas.
Phill is lucky he didn't get life life imprisonment for hanging out with underage girl's
I don't know if you'll see this but I just wanted to say thank you for making all this wonderful content man it's helped me a lot struggling being alone since I've moved to a new place. Im watching from Missouri and I used to watch hey Arnold a lot as a kid.
Watching from nyc, growing up here, hey Arnold was always super relatable and this show was an accurate depiction of being a city kid. Gotta love the nostalgia now in my adulthood
Swedish viewer here. I never thought so deeply about this show when I first saw it. And by that time, I was in my late teens. I grew up in a tiny village with around 100 inhabitants at most. And with the only real business there being a small store where you can not only groceries, but also to send and pick up parcels, leave your gambling tickets or to just sit and chat with your fellow villagers while sipping on a simple cup of coffee you bought there. Suffice to say, my family finally got more than three channels around 2000-ish when satellite TV became somewhat affordable. So even at my late teens, A LOT of things you discuss about Hey Arnold flew right over my head when I first saw it.
Arnold would be an amazing therapist .
I'm watching from San Diego, CA. I grew up on "Hey Arnold!". It was one of my favorite shows as a kid and I've only come to appreciate it even more now that I'm an adult.
While the writers definitely wove mature material into the show, I think the scene where Grandpa Phil hangs out with Connie and Maria was supposed to be just a light-hearted gag, not an implication that his past was even more sinister as a young man.
That said, your "Dark Side of 'Hey Arnold!'" series rocks, and the planned video on Arnold's grandparents sounds awesome. I would also LOVE to see one about Dino Spumoni. He's one of my favorite characters from the show, and got me into Frank Sinatra, and the news segment in "Dino Checks Out" that goes over his life and career is full of wonderfully dark content. I would genuinely watch a gritty, 1940s period piece TV show about Dino's rise to stardom written for us now-grown-up "Hey Arnold!" fans.
I watched Hey! Arnold a lot as a kid, it wasn’t one of my favorites, but it was always on, and it held my interest.
I graduated college over 10 years ago and I still have nightmares about school. Specifically, it's usually a test or project that I've forgotten about until the last minute, or it's the day of the final exam and not only did I not study, I can't even find the classroom.
Love your videos!
I think this was meant to be taken with full cartoon logic. I imagine the cops asked Phil what was going on, and he's like, "I was just breaking some rules with my classmates", and the cops would be like, fair enough, don't do it again. That's my take anyway. They very much have taken a comedic route like that before, and I'm sure that's all that was happening here. Phil was playing a game, and cuz it's a cartoon, everyone was in on it.
Im from San Antonio, Texas and I can say with all confidence that Hey Arnold is in my top 3 favorite cartoons as a child and now! I can still sit and binge watch the show and learn something new! Love your channel btw!
1 The Hey Arnold wiki says he was born in 1917. He was at least 12 when the Great Depression hit. And was already a young adult when it ended.
2 It is odd that Grandpa went to elementary school, instead of earning his GED. The Simpsons and King of the Hill are the only cartoons I know that have characters study for a GED.
You asked for a comment, and since this is the third video of yours that I’ve watched and enjoyed. I live in Idaho. Yes I watched Arnold as a kid. I watched this very episode, I’m sure several times. I just had the realization I’m now the uneducated adult who is too afraid of failure to get my GED. Wasn’t expecting heavy introspection mode on an Arnold video, but I appreciate your thoughtful approach to a thoughtful show.
Thanks for commenting, friend! I really appreciate it 😁
Idaho is so beautiful! A couple years ago I took my kids on vacation to a cozy little cabin in Garden Valley, Idaho and we had such a nice time. The wildlife out there is something else!
The fear of failure is a hard one, man. The thing is though, you never know until you try! Getting your GED is a process that you can totally take at your own pace too. If that’s something you want to do, you totally can! I believe in you 😁
Oh yeah I’ve definitely had nightmares similar to yours. Where for whatever reason I have to go back to high school, I think the worst parts about those nightmares are me feeling embarrassed since I am the odd one out and feeling lost, quite literally as the schools design would not make any sense at all and I would feel a rush of fear as I need to try to find my next class
The intro with the cops pulling up on grandpa Phill with the GTA sound effects lmaoo
He's called Steely Phill because He'll steal ya girl.
This episode will never be made today due to an old man hangs out with two 12 years old girls.
@10:50 🚨🚨🚨
PG-13 MOVIE
Missouri, USA, yes, I remember watching this show as a child. My grandparents did grow up during the Great Depression, and both of them didn't finish elementary school either. They never continued with their education. However, they were smart in real-life-experiences.
Hello, I am Robert. I’m from Michigan. I love the old Nickelodeon Nicktoons, and I’m so thankful to shout factory for releasing so many of them on DVD. I have them all, and Hey Arnold is one of them. I love this cartoon.
If Phil was about nine to ten around 1931 then in 1941 he’d be nineteen or twenty which is when the young Steely Phill persona would’ve been present.
It's doubly impressive considering that Naked Lunch wouldn't be written for about a decade, let alone any Steely Dan records.
I watched this show as a kid, but still love it! I used to think shows like this were gone forever until streaming was an option! And I definitely notice a lot more about the shows as an adult. I always knew it was funny and entertaining but didn't totally realize how deep it got.
Grandpa Phil: "If you don't want to wear that fork, you better keep your paws off my dessert Kokoshka..."
Im from Germany and did grow up watching hey Arnold. Till today it´s a sweetspot for me.
Love your Videos. Lots of love from Europe ❤
I think the whole point was that dark side Phil wasn't Grandpa but a persona he felt he was forced to develop in order to survive his surroundings. Being a young child who had to adopt a mature attitude to survive the great depression he probably never had the highschool rebellious phase and just jumped to the middle aged biker dad phase where dark side Phil was born until he mellowed out during his Woodstock phase.
Watching from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 Hey Arnold was a big part of my childhood and I related to Arnold so much. Love your videos
South Carolina and born in 90 so hey Arnold was a staple in my childhood. These videos are great time machine to escape the stresses of adulthood.
I can't stop laughing after you said the numb skull spray paints his own nickname on the school dumpster. Watching the episodes is funny as but hearing you explain it is pure gold 🤣🤣
Hey Arnold has always been that show I go back to in my head as an adult. It had lessons that really can improve a person, in my opinion.
I think the episode also highlights how difficult the education system is in the large cities, the 5th grade looked somewhat tame but the moment Phil got into 6th grade the entire atmosphere changed. This was just grade school so there’s no telling how crazy the higher grades would’ve been especially high school.
Watching in my room at 7:30am and I love Hey Arnold; the show is awsome and I love how it presses on deep subjects and still has a lighter side to it.
From rhode Island , I grew up watching hey Arnold, one of the best shows to still watch. Love your channel, it's great
After graduating college 10 years ago, I still occasionally have nightmares where I have an assignment due tomorrow 😂
My great grandfather was 8 or 9 when the great depression hit, he had to get a job in a shoe factory and the factory workers had to get him a box to stand on to reach the assembly line.
Hey! Watching from the Midwest, USA. Grew up with Hey Arnold, was in 4th grade actually around when it was first airing so it was super relatable. Love your vids!
I love series that are not bound by demographic. Adult stories that are more light hearted and kids stories that have mature moments. Feels so good
I don’t have nightmares of school, per se, but I have had enough “Back to High School” dreams that I actually graduated Dream High School.
20:20 I keep having dreams where I return to high school.
I had a similar dream where I thought I didn't meet my graduation requirements and wouldn't graduate, this was about a year after I graduated.
I’ve had enough back to school dreams that I graduated dream high school.