Eating Contest

Eating Contest

December 7, 1997 TV Episode Hey Arnold!

Studio
Games Animation, Sae Rom Productions Co., Ltd.
Distributor
Nickelodeon.

Synopsis

Grandpa trains Arnold for the annual neighborhood eating contest, but Arnold's competition isn't called "the disposal" just because he stands in the kitchen sink and makes a lot of noise...

Characters

Brooke Lloyd, Brainy, Older Girl on Bus, Eugene Horowitz, School Nurse Shelley, Rhonda Wellington Lloyd, Harold Berman, Helga Pataki, Gerald Johanssen, Arnold, Oskar Kokoshka, Stinky Petersen, Principal Wartz

Credits

Directing

Director
Steve Socki

Producing

Producer
Steve Viksten
Executive Producers
Craig Bartlett, Mary Harrington

Voices

Voice
Lori Alan (Brooke Lloyd), Craig Bartlett (Brainy), Ashley Cafagna Ashley Cafagna-Tesoro (Older Girl on Bus), Ben Diskin (Eugene Horowitz), Mary Gross (School Nurse Shelley), Olivia Hack (Rhonda Wellington Lloyd), Justin Shenkarow (Harold Berman), Francesca Smith (Helga Pataki), Jamil Walker Smith (Gerald Johanssen), Phillip Van Dyke (Arnold), Steve Viksten (Oskar Kokoshka), Christopher Walberg (Stinky Petersen), David Wohl (Principal Wartz)

Music

Music
Jim Lang

Art Department

Storyboards
Kelly James
Layout Supervisor/BG Design
Brian Mark

Editing

Editor
Christopher Hink

Production notes

Hey Arnold! showed us that having a football-shaped head is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the struggles of being an orphaned fourth grader.

The title star of Hey Arnold! was an unkempt, wise-beyond-his-years blonde boy. Arnold's guardians were his senile Grandfather and his Grandmother, a former librarian with an active imagination. The family of three lived in the grandparents' urban boarding house, along with a cast of odd grown-ups who often acted more like children than adults.

Arnold was just like any other kid growing up in the city, assuming those kids also had a room operated by a remote-control and a pet pig. He liked to hang out with friends, play stickball with kids from the neighborhood, and get into trouble–like when he and his best friend Gerald accidentally wound up downtown, DRESSED AS FRUIT! Gerald was remarkably cool, calm, and collected for a ten year-old. Arnold's other friend (and sometimes enemy) was Helga, a thick-skinned girl who both hated Arnold and loved him.

Along with Phoebe, Brainy, and resident jinx Eugene, this amusing group of fourth-graders had what it took to survive life in the big city. They even managed to survive the rigors of a regular television series, as Hey Arnold! became yet another successful "Nicktoon."