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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The CountryMouse manly man to Stinky's paranoid sensitive guy, and the simple-minded sensitive guy to Harold's brash manly man.

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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The CountryMouse manly man to Stinky's Sid's paranoid sensitive guy, and the simple-minded sensitive guy to Harold's brash manly man.
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!! Joey

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!! Joey
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* DemotedToExtra: In the original pilot and first season, he seemed to be part of the core group, specifically Harold's inner circle. After this he has no lines and is just seen in the background.



!! Park
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* LastNameBasis: He's implied to be Korean-American, so Park is probably his surname. His given name is unknown.




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!! Robert
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* LivingProp: He's there to round out the sports teams.

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* LivingProp: He's Even moreso than Joey. He never has any lines and is there to round out the sports teams.

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!! Torvald
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->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MichaelBacall

A 13-year-old bully who has been held back several years.

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!! Torvald
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->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MichaelBacall

A 13-year-old bully who has been held back several years.
by:''' Marcus Toji

One of Arnold's friends.


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* ADayInTheLimelight: Had some plot relevance by offering a sanctuary to the fourth graders in "The Longest Monday".
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Peapod Kid.

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[[folder: Robert]]

A boy who often participates in sports and other activities with the boys.
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* LivingProp: He's there to round out the sports teams.

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!! Torvald
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->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MichaelBacall

A 13-year-old bully who has been held back several years.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: She's good friends with Eugene, but while she's happy about Rhonda's marriage prediction in the episode "Married", Eugene's response is...less than enthusiastic.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: She's good friends with Eugene, but while she's happy about Rhonda's marriage prediction in the episode "Married", Eugene's response is...[[AmbiguouslyGay less than enthusiastic.enthusiastic]].
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[[folder: Joey Stevenson]]
->'''Voiced by:'''\\
Creator/JustinShenkarow ("Field Trip")\\
Michael Fishman ("Pigeon Man")\\
Sam Gifaldi ("Heat")\\
Creator/TressMacNeille ("24 Hours to Live")\\

A kid in Arnold's class who sometimes hangs out with Harold and Stinky.
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* JerkassBall: One of his few speaking roles has him joining in Harold's destruction of Pigeon Man's home, though he isn't normally seen being a bully outside of this.
* LivingProp: Just one of the kids who fills out the class.
* OutOfFocus: In season one, he has some lines as one of Harold's lackeys. After that he doesn't do much.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: His bedroom is decorated with rainbows and unicorns and he seems to enjoy dancing and musicals. He also reacts with horror that he has to kiss a girl in "Romeo & Juliet". (The other boys do too, but Eugene specifically states, "I'd rather not kiss a girl," while the others just laugh) and seems to be displeased with the idea of marrying Sheena in "Married". Also, this dialogue from "Ghost Bride":

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* AmbiguouslyGay: His bedroom is decorated with rainbows and unicorns and he seems to enjoy dancing and musicals. He also reacts with horror that he has to kiss a girl in "Romeo & Juliet". (The other boys do too, but Eugene specifically states, "I'd rather not kiss a girl," while the others just laugh) and seems to be displeased with the idea of marrying Sheena in "Married"."Married" despite the two being close friends. Also, this dialogue from "Ghost Bride":


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* CharacterDevelopment: In "School Play", he rejects the role of Romeo because he's uncomfortable kissing a girl. But in "Eugene, Eugene", he's passionate enough about the story to kiss Lila even if he's [[WordOfGay "proto-gay"]].

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* {{Foil}}: Seems like he was initially meant to be one to Arnold, considering they've got similar attire (sweaters worn over long plaid shirts, with the latter's shirttails exposed), and Iggy's head's as long as Arnold's is wide.



* Jerkass: He shows no remorse in antagonizing Arnold in order to get back at him for accidentally revealing his embarrassing secret to the other kids.

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* Jerkass: {{Jerkass}}: He shows no remorse in antagonizing Arnold in order to get back at him for accidentally revealing his embarrassing secret to the other kids.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's notably the only boy at the Romeo and Juliet audition who doesn't look at the side provided, and proves to be the best actor out of the kids.

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** One of the more illustrative examples occurs in "The Haunted Train" after Brainy unintentionally frightens the trio. Helga throws Brainy out of the carriage, Gerald holds the door open for her and Arnold doesn't get involved.



* TheDogBitesBack: After being promoted to hall monitor and discovering that nobody takes her seriously, Phoebe hardens up and becomes a full-blown authoritarian. Even Helga gets reprimanded for breaking the rules.



* {{Foil}}: To Phoebe, being a sidekick to one of the more obnoxious girls in Arnold's class. The difference being that Phoebe is more distinct from Helga while Nadine is just an extension of Rhonda. Additionally, Phoebe has RavenHairIvorySkin while Nadine is a dark-skinned blonde.



* InnocentBetaBitch: For Ronda. She never acts stuck up compare to her and has eccentricities of her own.

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* InnocentBetaBitch: For Ronda.Rhonda. She never acts stuck up compare to her and has eccentricities of her own.



* BrilliantButLazy: He generally doesn't do well in school and is kinda ditzy but as Mr. Simmons points out at the end of "The Aptitude Test", he can actually be pretty smart if he applies himself.

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* BrilliantButLazy: He generally doesn't do well in school and is kinda ditzy but as Mr. Simmons points out at the end of "The Aptitude Test", he can actually be pretty smart if he applies himself. Harold states that he only got held back in school because according to the adults he's unmotivated, not stupid.



* SatelliteLoveInterest: On both ends of this trope in "Helga's Boyfriend". Helga bribes Stinky into publicly doting on her in the hopes it will make Arnold jealous. When that plan fails, Helga dumps Stinky and he starts hanging out with a new girl who looks like a daintier version of Helga.



* BornUnlucky: He was also born on a Friday the 13th.

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* BornUnlucky: He was also born on a Friday the 13th.



* EyeScream: At one point he needed to wear an eyepatch after getting jabbed by a half-chewed piece of hotdog.



* HiddenDepths: In "Roller Coaster" Eugene revelas that he knows the other kids see him as a jinx, but he doesn't let that get to him. In the same episode it's revealed that Eugene's also learned quite a bit from his various accidents. When a firefighter has a panic attack thanks to a technical error, Eugene is able to calm the guy down using some techniques he practices whenever he gets into these situations.



* BeadyEyedLoser: Given how small his lenses are, Brainy likely has the smallest eyes of the cast. He's also a raspy nerd that takes a beating in every appearance.



* TheChewToy: He nearly always gets knocked out by Helga in his main RunningGag.

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* TheChewToy: He nearly always gets knocked out by Helga in his main RunningGag. The one time Helga neglected to do so, Brainy was so stunned he punched himself.


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* PerpetualSmiler: His default expression is a corpse-like grin.

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* HeroicBSOD: When her family becomes poor in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Rhonda Goes Broke"]] - specifically, when everybody finds out that she's poor - Rhonda has a major one, spending all her time in her room miserably crying. Luckily, Arnold reboots her when he talks some sense into her and asks if being rich is ''all'' she's about.



* HeroicBSOD: When her family becomes poor in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Rhonda Goes Broke"]] - specifically, when everybody finds out that she's poor - Rhonda has a major one, spending all her time in her room miserably crying. Luckily, Arnold reboots her when he talks some sense into her and asks if being rich is ''all'' she's about.



* InnocentlyInsensitive: She tries to console Arnold over Dino's alleged death in "Dino Checks Out", she simply tells Arnold that Dino was an "old man" and "that's what old people do, they die" despite the fact that Dino was believed to have died in a boating accident as opposed to old age. She makes it worse by then saying "He wasn't that good of a singer anyway." which is negative continuity from a previous episode "School Dance" where she actually enjoyed Dino's music.
* JerkassBall: In the episode "Miss Perfect" when she teams up with Helga, Phoebe, Nadine, and Sheena to humiliate Lila in the cafeteria. Then again, she ends up feeling bad for what she did.

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* InnocentlyInsensitive: She tries to console Arnold over Dino's alleged death in "Dino Checks Out", she simply tells Arnold that Dino was an "old man" and "that's what old people do, they die" despite the fact that Dino was believed to have died in a boating accident as opposed to old age. She makes it worse by then saying "He wasn't that good of a singer anyway." which is negative continuity {{negative continuity}} from a previous episode "School Dance" where she actually enjoyed Dino's music.
* JerkassBall: In the episode "Miss Perfect" when she teams up with Helga, Phoebe, Nadine, and Sheena to humiliate Lila in the cafeteria. While Rhonda's not the nicest of characters, she generally doesn't go out of her way to be cruel. Then again, she ends up feeling bad for what she did.



* DependingOnTheArtist: Whenever Sid is shown hatless, the artists can't seem to decide if he has a full head of medium length black hair underneath, or just the stringy tufts we see anyway.

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* DependingOnTheArtist: Whenever Sid is shown hatless, the artists can't seem to decide if he has a full head of medium length black hair underneath, or [[CharlieBrownBaldness just the stringy tufts tufts]] we see anyway.



* CharacterExaggeration: During his early apparitions in the series, he already was shown to be an optimistic kid, but his optimism had limits (He broke down in tears in "Eugene's Bike" and got very depressed in "Eugene's Pet") In later episodes, he tends shown to be freakishly happy, always reacting to all the bad things happening to him with a big smile on his face.

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* CharacterExaggeration: {{Flanderization}}: During his early apparitions in the series, he already was shown to be an optimistic kid, but his optimism had limits (He broke down in tears in "Eugene's Bike" and got very depressed in "Eugene's Pet") In later episodes, he tends shown to be freakishly happy, always reacting to all the bad things happening to him with a big smile on his face.



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* CatchPhrase: Start off urban legend exposition with "The story of [blank], has been passed down from kid generation to kid generation, and our own Gerald is the keeper of the tale. Go ahead Gerald."

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* CatchPhrase: Start CharacterCatchphrase: Starts off urban legend exposition with "The story of [blank], has been passed down from kid generation to kid generation, and our own Gerald is the keeper of the tale. Go ahead Gerald."
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* PetTheDog: Despite the poor way he treats other people, he has a soft spot for animals; in "Geek Party", his plan is to liberate them from the zoo, and he later does so again in The Jungle Movie.

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* CatchPhrase:
** "You're a bold kid, Arnold. A bold kid."
** "Whatever you say."
** "Ain't nothing to it but to do it."
** "Mm-mm-''mm''" whenever someone (usually Helga) is acting foolish.
** "Arnold, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

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CharacterCatchphrase: When Arnold tries to set something/someone straight, he'll give a half-awed, half-concerned remark of "You're a bold kid, Arnold. A bold kid."
** "Whatever you say."
** "Ain't nothing to it but to do it."
** "Mm-mm-''mm''" whenever someone (usually Helga) is acting foolish.
** "Arnold, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
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* {{Catchphrase}}: In response to Helga asking her to do something: "[verb]-ing!"

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* {{Catchphrase}}: CharacterCatchphrase: In response to Helga asking her to do something: "[verb]-ing!"



* CatchPhrase:
** ''"Madame Fortress Mommy!"'' [[ThrowItIn Adlibbed]] by Justin Shenkarow once to Craig and everyone's amusement. They kept writing it in after.
** "Aah Mommy!"
** "I was hungry" can count, as he says it in several episodes when he eats something he isn't supposed to.

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* CatchPhrase:
** ''"Madame Fortress Mommy!"'' [[ThrowItIn Adlibbed]] by Justin Shenkarow once to Craig and everyone's amusement. They kept writing it in after.
** "Aah Mommy!"
** "I was hungry" can count, as he says it in several episodes
CharacterCatchphrase: "Aah! Mommy!" when he eats something he isn't supposed to.gets humiliated or overwhelmed.



* InelegantBlubbering: Is extremely prone to this, often in the midst of one of his meltdowns that begin with, [[CatchPhrase "AHHHH! MOMMY!"]] In "Weighing Harold," he became so upset at being called fat that he wept onto the blacktop. In "What's Opera, Arnold?" he also sang a parody of "Vesti la giubba" from ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}'', bawling just as much as any hammy tenor, and in other episodes the music of that aria tends to underscore his blubbering fits.

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* InelegantBlubbering: Is extremely prone to this, often in the midst of one of his meltdowns that begin with, [[CatchPhrase [[CharacterCatchphrase "AHHHH! MOMMY!"]] In "Weighing Harold," he became so upset at being called fat that he wept onto the blacktop. In "What's Opera, Arnold?" he also sang a parody of "Vesti la giubba" from ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}'', bawling just as much as any hammy tenor, and in other episodes the music of that aria tends to underscore his blubbering fits.



* CatchPhrase: "This really bites" and variations of it was prevalent throughout the series. In seasons 3, 4, and 5, he also said "Willikers!"



* CatchPhrase:
** "Boy howdy."
** "The story of [blank], has been passed down from kid generation to kid generation, and our own Gerald is the keeper of the tale. Go ahead Gerald."

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* CatchPhrase:
** "Boy howdy."
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CatchPhrase: Start off urban legend exposition with "The story of [blank], has been passed down from kid generation to kid generation, and our own Gerald is the keeper of the tale. Go ahead Gerald."



* CatchPhrase: "ImOkay," said after something bad happens to him.

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* CatchPhrase: "ImOkay," CharacterCatchphrase: "I'm okay..." said after something bad happens to him.



* CatchPhrase: Many of her sentences will contain the phrase, ''"ever so sweet"''.

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* CatchPhrase: CharacterCatchphrase: Many of her sentences will contain the phrase, ''"ever so sweet"''.
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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The cool-headed manly man to Sid's paranoid sensitive guy.


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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The brash manly man to Sid's paranoid and Stinky's simple-minded sensitive guys.


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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The CountryMouse manly man to Stinky's paranoid sensitive guy, and the simple-minded sensitive guy to Harold's brash manly man.


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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The paranoid sensitive guy to Gerald's cool-headed, Harold's brash, and Stinky's CountryMouse manly men.
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** Of his siblings, he's the In-Between to Timberly's Nice and Jamie O's mean. He's not a bully like Jamie O, but he's more crafty than Timberly.

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** Of his siblings, he's the In-Between to Timberly's Nice and Jamie O's mean.Mean. He's not a bully like Jamie O, but he's more crafty than Timberly.
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** Of his siblings, he's the In-Between to Timberly's Nice and Jamie O's mean. He's not a bully like Jamie O, but he's more crafty than Timberly.

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* EpicFail: In "Weighing Harold" he becomes self-conscious about his weight after several people make fun of him for it and goes on a fitness cruise for obese kids who want to lose weight. Somehow he comes back even fatter than before! As a bonus, the commercial for the fitness cruise implied that only salads and other healthy foods were served, meaning that he somehow gained all of that weight from overeating salads.

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* EpicFail: EpicFail:
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In "Weighing Harold" he becomes self-conscious about his weight after several people make fun of him for it and goes on a fitness cruise for obese kids who want to lose weight. Somehow he comes back even fatter than before! As a bonus, the commercial for the fitness cruise implied that only salads and other healthy foods were served, meaning that he somehow gained all of that weight from overeating salads.salads.
** He stole a whole ham from the butcher shop. No bag or anything, just the ham. To top it off, he's ''Jewish''.

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* HiddenDepths: Usually with Harold what you see is what you get. But after a mix up in "The Aptitude Test" results in him believing he's a genius, he starts listening to classical music, correctly solves a math problem in his head, and designs a gazebo/bonsai garden for his family's rooftop.

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* HiddenDepths: HiddenDepths:
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Usually with Harold what you see is what you get. But after a mix up in "The Aptitude Test" results in him believing he's a genius, he starts listening to classical music, correctly solves a math problem in his head, and designs a gazebo/bonsai garden for his family's rooftop.rooftop.
** When his Rabbi makes him work for Mr. Green for a weak as punishment for stealing a ham, he latches onto meat as sort of a special interest; instead of just mindlessly eating, he appreciates the different cuts and methods of preparation, and even memories inventory.
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The tiny girl to Stinky's huge guy.

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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The tiny girl to Stinky's Gerald's huge guy.
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* JerkassBall: In "Jamie O In Love," he and Arnold have no problem using a lovestruck Jamie O to get stuff, though they do relent after seeing what an emotional wreck Jamie O's toxic relationship is turning him into.
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* JerkassBall: In the episode "Miss Perfect" when she teams up with Helga, Phoebe, Nadine, and Sheena to humiliate Lila in the cafeteria. Then again, she ends up feeling bad for what she did.


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* JerkassBall: In the episode "Miss Perfect" when she teams up with Helga, Phoebe, Rhonda, and Sheena to humiliate Lila in the cafeteria. Then again, she ends up feeling bad for what she did.


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* JerkassBall: In the episode "Miss Perfect" when she teams up with Helga, Phoebe, Rhonda, and Nadine to humiliate Lila in the cafeteria. Then again, she ends up feeling bad for what she did.

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