He's also slightly taller, as his plaid shirt no longer looks like a skirt. In The Jungle Movie, Arnold wears a dark blue jacket on top of his previous outfit, and his shoes are now red and white Converse sneakers. His normal attire consists of a teal sweater over a long-length red plaid shirt (which often is confused for a skirt), blue jeans, and black shoes.Īrnold has green eyes, as stated by Helga in " The Little Pink Book" and shown in Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie.Īrnold is the only child of Stella and Miles and the only grandson of Phil and Gertie. He has yellow hair with a tiny blue hat in the middle. In earlier episodes, his head looked longer and more like a blimp, before settling for the current design. His most notable physical quality is his head is shaped like a giant American football (or a rugby ball), thus earning him the nickname " Football Head". ![]() Now he wears a dark blue jacket to go with his outfit.Įven for a kid, Arnold is notably small in stature compared to most people his age, being shorter than a good deal of his school friends and classmates. He no longer wore a school uniform in the TV series because he attends a public school. ![]() Only Arnold's beloved cap remained from the original wardrobe. Apart from the animation style, Nick's Arnold now wears a sweater, with his plaid shirt untucked (often mistaken for a kilt). ![]() In the TV series, Arnold is an optimistic, chill, nonchalant 4th grader who lives in a boarding house with his paternal grandparents, Phil and Gertrude. The familiar, cel-animated Arnold came about in the mid-1990s when Nick picked up the new series. In 1991, the Hey Arnold comic stories, written and drawn by Bartlett (who's also a comic book artist), were published in Simpsons Illustrated magazine (Bartlett is the brother-in-law of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons). ![]() The original Arnold was visualized as a rich, prep school kid with a vivid imagination, who always wore a prep-school uniform and his signature cap and was rendered in clay in a series of shorts, one of them televised in 1991 on PBS Kids Children's Television Program, Sesame Street, and continued to air there, even after the Nick version debuted. Arnold was created in 1985 by Craig Bartlett, who was also responsible for the clay-animated Penny shorts on CBS's Pee-wee's Playhouse.
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