History Awesome / HEYArnold

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** And then Oskar finally does the route himself the following morning. No snooze button, no excuses, no waiting for Arnold to knock on his door, he's up at the sound of his alarm and does his job like clockwork. And the best part? As of his next focus episode, "Oskar Can't Read?", he's [[CharacterDevelopment still]] employed. Guess you might say it really was [[MeaningfulEcho a miracle]].

* Helga nonchalantly starts a conversation about painter Edward Hopper when she first goes into therapy with Dr. Bliss. Her deadpan expression and tone of voice imply that she doesn't even consider it a big deal that she's only nine and knows so much about fine art-- she's not bragging or anything of the sort. Just making small talk.

-->'''Phoebe''': (to the school) I'm not that one who has anything to be ashamed of. ''You'' are.

* In one episode, Phoebe is turned into a laughingstock when she accidentally farted during a school assembly and became a shut-in because no one would let her live it down. After her classmates and Mr. Simmons fail to cheer her up, Arnold manages to convince her to come back to school. That isn't the awesome part. The awesome part came when Phoebe marched on stage during another assembly and called out the entire student body for turning her into a one-dimensional joke, admitting that even she would've laughed if it had been someone else, but that it's not fair for all her hard work and accomplishments to be treated like nothing all with one simple, human response.

-->''I'm crazy, and you should never hit a crazy person.''

** [[FridgeBrilliance Certainly not]]; Helga has been shown to be ''very'' intelligent in many episodes. She could have achieved that even without being motivated by her love for Arnold.

* Speaking of the Spelling Bee episode, Arnold arguably has the bigger moment: as mentioned above, Bob tries to [[BribingYourWayToVictory bribe]] Arnold to lose with a paycheck. "If you lose, [[MakesSenseInContext you win]]. If you try to really win, ''[[BreakThemByTalking you'll lose]]''." How does Arnold respond when he returns to that stage? He [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules disgustedly]] crumples up the paycheck and correctly spells the word. And [[WhatYouAreInTheDark nobody is the wiser that Arnold turned down the bribe]]... barring ''Helga'', who promptly decides to throw the competition [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard once discovering the paycheck on the floor]].

* In one episode, Phoebe is turned into a laughingstock when she accidentally farted during a school assembly and became a shut-in because no one would let her live it down. After her classmates and Mr. Simmons fail to cheer her up, Arnold manages to convince her to come back to school. That isn't the awesome part. The awesome part came when Phoebe marched on stage during another assembly and called out the entire student body for turning her into a one-dimensional joke, admitting that even she would've laughed if it had been someone else, but that it's not fair for all her hard work and accomplishments to be treated like nothing all because of a simple, human response.

* Stoop Kid finally leaving his stoop, jumping off the stoop when Harold makes fun of him for being afraid to leave his stoop and chasing him while saying "COME HERE FAT BOY! [[PayEvilUntoEvil I'M GONNA ROLL YOU DOWNTOWN]]!" Also a funny moment. Harold's OhCrap expression just sells the awesomeness.

* The freakishly huge amount of character development! For one thing, Chocolate Boy starts out as just a chocolate junkie, but then he gets his own episode, where he goes from being comic relief to being a chocolate [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything addict]] with a back story (in an episode that perfectly parallels many real-life drug stories). There were characters like Tucker, who were one episode wonders, but still managed to get character development into just eleven minutes of airtime. Helga started the show out as a total douchebag who stalked Arnold, but her dysfunctional family made her into an epic tragic love story! Everyone living in the boardinghouse got their own episode at some point! Brainy is the only character who really never got character development, but his lack of character development totally worked because he is the ULTIMATE creeper! Ironically, the show's main character, Arnold, is the only character to really undergo any Flanderization (turning into the city's savior in later episodes), but even he had an epic backstory and to top it off, saving his entire neighborhood in the movie.

* In "Stinky Goes Hollywood", Stinky passes an audition over every other kid to be the mascot for Yahoo. He is excited about having supposedly found a talent at first, until overhearing a conversation that they only hired him because he's SoBadItsGood ("A yahoo advertising for Yahoo"). Hurt, Stinky decides to value his integrity and coldly refuses a contract, leaving the pompous director devastated and without a promotion. In spite of the [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunihsed scorn]] it earns from both family and peers (besides [[PetTheDog Arnold]]), Stinky is quite content that he valued his dignity over money and fame.

* In "Stinky Goes Hollywood", Stinky passes an audition over every other kid to be the mascot for Yahoo. He is excited about having supposedly found a talent at first, until overhearing a conversation that they only hired him because he's SoBadItsGood ("A yahoo advertising for Yahoo"). Hurt, Stinky decides to value his integrity and coldly refuses a contract, leaving the pompous director devastated and without a promotion. In spite of the scorn it earns from both family and peers (besides Arnold), Stinky is quite content that he valued his dignity over money and fame.

* In "Stinky Goes Hollywood", Stinky passes an audition over every other kid to be the mascot for Yahoo. He is excited about having supposedly found a talent at first, until overhearing a conversation that they only hired him because he's SoBadItsGood ("A yahoo advertising for Yahoo"). Hurt, Stinky decides to value his integrity and coldly refuses a contract, leaving the pompous director devastated and without a promotion. In spite of the scorn it earns from both family and peers (besides Arnold), Stinky is quite content that he valued his pride over money and fame.

** And then Oskar finally does the route himself the following morning. No snooze button, no excuses, no waiting for Arnold to knock on his door, he's up at the sound of his alarm and does his job like clockwork. And the best part?
** As of his next focus episode, "Oskar Can't Read?", he's still employed.

As of his next focus episode, "Oskar Can't Read?", he's still employed.

The fact that he made mistakes and went through hardships that very day proves to Arnold and co. that Oskar really ''did'' work. [[MeaningfulEcho It really is a miracle]]!

** And then Oskar finally does the route himself the following morning. As of his next focus episode, "Oskar Can't Read?", he's still employed.

* In the Veterans Day's episode, Grandpa Phil narrates how he beat up Hitler; although he admits it wasn't Hitler and states he actually beat up [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels Joseph Goebbels]], someone who was probably worse than Hitler. The rest of his story was even much more awesome, with Phil tricking several Nazi soldiers into eating spoiled meat, and opening a clear path for the Allies to invade Berlin. [[spoiler:Arnold doubts all of this, but Phil later proves the latter part by showing him a bust made in honor of his "single-handedly [winning] the Battle of the Bulge".]]

* Gerald's father, Martin, saving a soldier's life in the Vietnam War by bandaging him up which stops him from bleeding out. The soldier later meets the Johanssens at a Vietnam War memorial, where he tells Martin that he had been waiting for 20 years to thank him for his act of bravery.

* Gerald learning to ride a bike and winning the race in "Gerald's Secret".

[[caption-width-right:350:[[TechnologyPorn Who wouldn't kill for a room like Arnold's?]]]]

* Admit it: when you were younger, you totally wanted a bedroom just like Arnold's.

** And then Oskar finally gets off his lazy ass to do the route himself the following morning.

* In "Oskar Gets a Job", Arnold having enough of Oskar's lies after being manipulated into doing his paper route for him twice.
-->'''Arnold''': Mr. Kokoshka? I'm sorry, but you are a ''huge'' loser!
** This motivates Oskar to finally get off his lazy ass and do the route himself the following morning.

* The Jungle Movie has [[Awesome/HeyArnoldTheJungleMovie its own page of Awesome.]] Well deserved for a movie that was in production for 15 years.
* Towards the end of "Monkeyman!" Sid is mugged and has his beloved Beatle boots taken from him. He blames the titular Monkeyman for this due to the latter not coming to his rescue after he screamed for help. Monkeyman is left feeling ashamed for not being there to save Sid and decides it's best to quit being a superhero. Arnold urges him to reconsider, saying that the kids still need him to be there to protect them. The episode ends with Arnold coming home to find a package from Monkeyman, saying that he will be returning to his heroic duties. In the package are Sid's boots, showing he'd done what he'd failed to do before and helped the latter.

* Speaking of the Spelling Bee episode, Arnold has a bigger moment. Bob tries to [[BribingYouWayToVictory bribe]] Arnold to lose with a paycheck. He whispers to the boy "If you lose, [[MakesSenseInContext you win]]. If you try to really win, ''[[BreakThemByTalking you'll lose]]''." How does Arnold respond when he returns to that stage? He [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules disgustedly]] crumples up the paycheck and correctly spells the word. And [[WhatYouAreInTheDark nobody is the wiser that Arnold turned down the bribe]].