Having kid actors voice kid characters really gave Hey Arnold! Plus, as Francesca Marie Smith noted Helga , the cast really grew up together off set, which was a special time. Since the characters were voiced by actual kids, Nickelodeon had to come up with a solution for how to handle their apparent changing voices.
Voice actor Lane Toran voiced a majority of Arnold's scenes but when his time ran short, Nickelodeon opted for actors J. Linz the Hey Arnold! Going through six actors for one character seems like a lot of work but it's the price you pay when you want kids acting the part. As fans of the show know, Helga had a deep-rooted crush on Arnold. Instead of flirting with him as normal people do, Helga acted out with hatred. Everyone knew Helga's relationship with Arnold was an unhealthy one, including the voice of Helga, Francesca Marie Smith.
Francesca admitted that she didn't really love Arnold, rather she loved the idea of him. Nevertheless, it was a hilarious fake relationship. When the show's creator was creating Hey Arnold! The girl squad that hung out with Arnold and co. Does this mean he actually knew someone like Helga Pataki who worshiped another person from their closet!
It doesn't take long to notice that the characters on Hey Arnold have some funky looking hair. I mean, just look at Arnold!
With two large bushes of blonde hair coming from Arnold's head, he has a very small blue hat in the center. However—if you take a closer look—when Arnold removes his hat he has a small bald spot.
Is that just the way Arnold parts his hair or is he already balding at such a young age? But then this week, BuzzFeed writer Lauren Yapalater wrote an article about the news.
In the BuzzFeed article, Yapalater, a native New Yorker, recognized her own city in the cartoon, and she has some compelling arguments about why Hey Arnold! There are yellow cabs in the city, and the kids' stoop sitting habit is quintessentially Brooklyn.
Plus, the cartoon skyline could easily have been inspired by New York's skyline. Yapalater makes some convincing points, and it's easy to see why so many fans of the Nickelodeon show thought it was about New York City. So, if Hillwood is in Washington state, why does it resemble Brooklyn so much? Well, according to Hey Arnold!
Because Hillwood is a fictional city, Bartlett was able to pull inspiration from multiple places, including his hometown of Seattle, as well as Portland and, yes, Brooklyn. In an interview with CityLab published last November, Bartlett revealed that he was influenced by multiple cities when creating Hey Arnold!
Speaking about Hillwood, Bartlett told the outlet,. The series takes place in the late s and exists in a floating timeline, where time passes and past events are remembered, but almost no characters age and none of the 4th-grade students ever move on to the 5th grade. The only exception to this is Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie , which explicitly takes place approximately a year after the original series' run, during the summer between 5th and 6th grade.
While nearly every episode of the series is standalone, there's subtle continuity between episodes, and new recurring characters are sometimes introduced, such as in " New Teacher " and " Ms. Perfect ". Even though the show takes place in the late s, old cars are a very common sight. Grandpa Phil drives a green s or s Packard, the Pataki family car is a blue s Lincoln Continental, and Gerald's older brother Jamie-O drives a Pontiac Firebird, just to name a few.
The local police drive around in patrol cars resembling the s Dodge Polara sedans. The city buses resemble s models of an unknown make and model, and they have manual transmissions, which wasn't common on buses in North America even during this time period. Despite the presence of old cars and some older-style appliances like console television sets and beepers which in real life were made obsolete by smartphones and tablets by the mids , modern technology is also present.
This includes computers, video games, VCRs, camcorders, modern bicycles, microwaves, laptops, and Arnold's high-tech bedroom with its remote-controlled hideaway couch and track lighting. As of Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie , which takes place roughly a year after the original series, even more mids technology is present, with flat-screen monitors and smartphones being commercially available, but not yet being an integral part of life.
Contrary to popular belief, the city is not New York City , though it did contain inspirations from it. Craig Bartlett has officially stated that the city the show takes place in is somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, and is an amalgam of three cities mostly Northern that he lived in: Seattle, Brooklyn, and Portland. Many of the show's events were based on his own experiences growing up in the big city. The original Arnold was made out of clay and created after Bartlett finished working on the Penny cartoons from Pee-Wee's Playhouse in The familiar, 2D Arnold came about in the mids.
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