Runaway Float

Runaway Float

January 18, 1998 TV Episode Hey Arnold!

Studio
Games Animation, Wang Film Productions.
Distributor
Nickelodeon.

Synopsis

P.S. 118 doesn't have enough money to build Arnold's idea for a float for the City Day Parade, but Helga gets her father to sponsor it- and changes the float into a giant beeper which gets out of control during the parade.

Characters

Arnold, Eugene Horowitz, Rhonda Wellington Lloyd, Big Bob Pataki, Nadine, Harold Berman, Helga Pataki, Gerald Johanssen, Oskar Kokoshka, Stinky Petersen

Credits

Directing

Director
Larry Leichliter, Alan Smart

Producing

Producer
Steve Viksten
Executive Producers
Craig Bartlett, Mary Harrington

Writing

Writer
Jonathan Greenberg

Voices

Voice
Toran Caudell (Arnold), Christopher Castile (Eugene Horowitz), Olivia Hack (Rhonda Wellington Lloyd), Maurice LaMarche (Big Bob Pataki), Lauren Robinson (Nadine), Justin Shenkarow (Harold Berman), Francesca Smith (Helga Pataki), Jamil Walker Smith (Gerald Johanssen), Steve Viksten (Oskar Kokoshka), Christopher Walberg (Stinky Petersen)

Music

Music
Jim Lang

Editing

Editor
Christopher Hink

Crew

Creator
Craig Bartlett
Developed by
Craig Bartlett, Joe Ansolabehere, Steve Viksten
Layout Supervisor/BG Design
Brian Mark
Storyboards
Rob Porter

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."