Hey Arnold!

Hey Arnold! was a Nickelodeon cartoon which first aired in autumn 1996, and ended in summer 2004. Created by Matt Groening's brother-in-law Craig Bartlett, and based on his clay animation shorts, the central character is Arnold, who lives with his grandparents Phil and Gertrude (his parents Stella and Miles have gone missing) that run a boarding house. A quality of the series is that it isn't much about Arnold, but rather about the neighborhood, his friends at school, and even the boarders at the Sunset Arms. Most notable are the eccentric Grandma (she has been known to walk around in the rain wearing a scuba outfit) and Helga G. Pataki, who presents a guise of hating Arnold, but secretly loves him. In Great Britain, the show airs on Tuesdays on ITV, while also airing on Britain's NickToons network. Some of the original clay animation shorts were shown on Sesame Street. The television series was produced by Snee-Oosh, Inc. for Nickelodeon.

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Nickelodeon - Cartoon - 1996 - 2004 - Matt Groening - Craig Bartlett - Clay animation - Miles - Boarding house - Helga G. Pataki - Great Britain - Tuesday - ITV - NickToons - Sesame Street - Snee-Oosh, Inc. - Nickelodeon

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Nick had earlier turned down plans to spinoff the Helga character (and her family) into her own series, The Patakis (like All Grown Up!, the characters would have been older than when they were on Hey Arnold!: Helga would have been 15, for example).

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Hey Arnold! is the second longest-running Nicktoon behind Rugrats. Also, there was a movie made in 2002 about the main characters' exploits to save their neighborhood from an unpopular redevelopment project. The much-derided animated feature-length film was originally intended to be a made-for-TV movie, but Nick decided to make it a theatrical release. It grossed a paltry $13 million at the box office. There had been plans for a second movie, based on Arnold's search to find his parents (and also meant to finally reveal Arnold's last name), however contractual problems with Nick among other things have since led Bartlett to leave the channel for the Cartoon Network.

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Rugrats - Movie - 2002 - Cartoon Network

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The show takes place in Hillwood City, a fictional city resembling New York City with the triangular building and bridge that looks like the Brooklyn Bridge. Hillwood City is in actually in Washington state, evident by the episode where Helga and her mother take a road trip, when they come back the left half of a sign saying "WELCOME TO WASHINGTON STATE" can be seen. Bartlett has also made it known he's from Seattle.

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New York City - Brooklyn Bridge - Washington - Seattle

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