37 episodes · first aired 1997-09-22
| Still | # | Title | Overview | Air date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 01 | Save the Tree 1997-09-22 | Arnold and the gang must stop Big Bob from chopping down the oldest tree in town. | 1997-09-22 | 7.0 |
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| 02 |
New Teacher 1997-09-22 |
When the kids make their new teacher, Mr. Simmons, quit his job, the replacement makes them realize what they lost. |
| 1997-09-22 |
| 7.0 |
 | 03 | Helga's Love Potion 1997-09-24 | Helga drinks a potion to lose all feelings for Arnold. | 1997-09-24 | 0.0 |
 | 04 | Gerald's Secret 1997-09-24 | Gerald's secret is revealed; he doesn't know how to ride a bike, so Arnold teaches him how. | 1997-09-24 | 0.0 |
 | 05 | The Big Scoop 1997-09-29 | Arnold and Gerald compete against Helga for the school newspaper. | 1997-09-29 | 8.0 |
 | 06 | Harold's Kitty 1997-09-29 | When Harold is walking in the street, he finds a kitty that belongs to an old lady and he takes it, but then everybody appears, and Harold has to surrender the kitty to the old lady. | 1997-09-29 | 7.0 |
 | 07 | Longest Monday 1997-10-01 | Schoolyard tradition has it that on the first Monday of June each year, the fifth graders throw the fourth graders into trash cans. So, Arnold and Gerald try to make a run for it. As more people are thrown into trash cans and the fifth graders know all the routes, Arnold and Gerald find out eluding the fifth graders is harder that they thought. | 1997-10-01 | 7.0 |
 | 08 | Eugene's Pet 1997-10-01 | After Arnold accidentally kills Eugene's fish with a yo-yo, he must do something to make up for it. | 1997-10-01 | 0.0 |
 | 09 | Monkey Business 1997-10-06 | An organ grinder's monkey kisses Helga, who's convinced she has caught 'monkeynucleosis'. | 1997-10-06 | 7.0 |
 | 10 | Big Caesar 1997-10-06 | Arnold and Gerald do a spot of fishing, determined to catch the pond's biggest fish, the legendary "Big Caesar". | 1997-10-06 | 8.0 |
 | 11 | Ransom 1997-10-08 | Gerald and Arnold get on the case when Timberly loses her Barney-esque doll. | 1997-10-08 | 7.0 |
 | 12 | Ms. Perfect 1997-10-08 | The new girl is teased at school by Helga and the other girls, but she's soon accepted by everyone. | 1997-10-08 | 8.0 |
 | 13 | Arnold's Halloween 1997-10-27 | Arnold and Gerald send the neighborhood alien crazy as they broadcast a mock Halloween radio show. | 1997-10-27 | 0.0 |
 | 14 | Arnold Saves Sid 1997-10-13 | After Arnold saves Sid from an injury, Sid devotes himself to paying Arnold back with unending kindness. | 1997-10-13 | 6.0 |
 | 15 | Hookey 1997-10-13 | Arnold and Gerald bunk off school, but their day is ruined by their fear of being found out. | 1997-10-13 | 0.0 |
 | 16 | Freeze Frame 1997-10-15 | Arnold and Gerald go around the city following "Porkpie", a mysterious man caught on film. They suspect, because of the clues, that Porkpie are planning to kill "Marty", who turns out to be Mr. Green. | 1997-10-15 | 9.0 |
 | 17 | Phoebe Cheats 1997-10-15 | In this variation of "The Tell-Tale Heart", Phoebe plagiarizes from a poetry book and uses one of the poems as her entry in a poetry contest. She wins, with her prize being a trophy resembling poet Emily Dickinson. Then, the trophy haunts Phoebe into confessing. | 1997-10-15 | 0.0 |
 | 18 | Mud Bowl 1997-10-20 | Wolfgang and his gang of fifth graders challenge Arnold and his friends to a football game, but he has to first persuade them that his plays are good enough for them to win. | 1997-10-20 | 7.0 |
 | 19 | Gerald Moves Out 1997-10-20 | Gerald, getting tired of his family bugging him, moves out of his home and into Arnold's boarding house, only to realize emancipation is not all it is cracked up to be. | 1997-10-20 | 8.0 |
 | 20 | The High Life 1997-10-22 | Gerald becomes an entrepreneur out of selling watches until the market becomes saturated. | 1997-10-22 | 0.0 |
 | 21 | Best Friends 1997-10-22 | Rhonda and Nadine fall out over working on a project at school, leaving Arnold to work with both of them separately. | 1997-10-22 | 8.0 |
 | 22 | Steely Phil 1997-10-29 | Arnold's Grandpa enters a Chinese Checkers tournament to reclaim his pride lost forty years ago. Robby Fisher's name is a parody of Bobby Fischer. | 1997-10-29 | 7.0 |
 | 23 | Quantity Time 1997-10-29 | Helga's mother tries to let her and her father, Bob, bond. | 1997-10-29 | 7.0 |
 | 24 | Eating Contest 1997-11-03 | Arnold follows in his Grandpa's footsteps and competes in the annual block party eating contest. After much munching Old Football Head goes stomach to stomach with eating legend Seymour 'The Disposal'. | 1997-11-03 | 7.0 |
 | 25 | Rhonda's Glasses 1997-11-03 | Rhonda gets glasses and finds out what it is like to be a "Geek". | 1997-11-03 | 7.0 |
 | 26 | Helga's Boyfriend 1997-11-05 | Helga uses Stinky as her boyfriend to try to make Arnold jealous. | 1997-11-05 | 7.0 |
 | 27 | Crush on Teacher 1997-11-05 | Arnold develops a crush on Miss Felter, a substitute teacher, thinking he is having dinner at her house. | 1997-11-05 | 7.0 |
 | 28 | Hall Monitor 1997-11-10 | Phoebe becomes hall monitor and asks Helga for tips. She becomes overwhelmed by the "power" and soon everyone wants the old Phoebe back, even Helga once she realizes Phoebe's also giving her detentions. | 1997-11-10 | 7.0 |
 | 29 | Harold's Bar Mitzvah 1997-11-10 | Harold runs away from his Bar Mitzvah, thinking he will retain his childhood this way. | 1997-11-10 | 0.0 |
 | 30 | Coach Wittenberg 1997-11-12 | Arnold and his friends get Coach Wittenberg to be their new bowling coach. | 1997-11-12 | 0.0 |
 | 31 | Four-Eyed Jack 1997-11-12 | The ghost of a former boarding house resident is believed to have been causing strange occurrences in there when Arnold and Gerald find an old pair of glasses believing to have belonged to him. | 1997-11-12 | 0.0 |
 | 32 | Eugene Goes Bad 1997-11-17 | After finding out that his idol is a haughty, primped actor, Eugene sets out to become bad. | 1997-11-17 | 7.0 |
 | 33 | What's Opera, Arnold? 1997-11-17 | Helga and Arnold fall asleep and have their own "parody/dream" of the opera Carmen. | 1997-11-17 | 7.0 |
 | 34 | Tour de Pond 1997-11-24 | Arnold and a descendant of his grandpa's arch enemy, Rex Smythe-Higgins, compete in a boat race. | 1997-11-24 | 0.0 |
 | 35 | Teachers' Strike 1997-11-24 | Teachers of Arnold's school go on strike because of inadequate funding; He and his friends are on cloud nine, only to find out that every lost school day will be taken from their summer vacation. | 1997-11-24 | 7.0 |
 | 36 | Runaway Float 1997-12-01 | After creating an idea for a parade float, Arnold is confident of it showing up in a parade. | 1997-12-01 | 7.0 |
 | 37 | Partners 1997-12-01 | A lounge singer moves into the Sunset Arms after renouncing his songwriter, who also moves there. | 1997-12-01 | 7.0 |
