Hey Arnold!

Yeah, I think it's the principle of not showing it onscreen and leaving it to the viewer's imagination.

Wheezin' Ed is my favorite. I haven't seen Hey Arnold in ages but that episode sticks in my mind.

Headless Cabbie is probably my favorite, but the Haunted Train is a close second. Plus I've got a soft spot for the Haunted Train Blues.

edited 18th Apr '18 7:57:36 PM by KnownUnknown

That's a nice way to get the most out of a GIF.

I watched The Jungle Movie recently and... Well, it's a thing, I guess? I honestly didn't care for it. I never cared about Arnold's parents, never liked Helga and Arnold together, and the Big Damn Movie tone didn't do it for me. I prefer slice of life.

It was more true-to-form than I expected, though. That's nice. It looked pretty similar to the original show, the voices were spot on, and it didn't seem like a Sequel Gap had passed. The only little issue I had was the Comic-Book Time; I would have preferred a '90s Period Piece.

I wonder how it did with kids, though. It's a bit weird making a film sequel to a cartoon that doesn't even get reruns on Nick anymore.

edited 1st May '18 8:18:22 AM by MsCC93

I'm rewatching the series slowly but surely because it was "one of those things that was on when I was but a wee lad."

I'd forgotten why I was so addicted to this show, but hearing that jazzy beat in the opening and the credits was enough. I'm weirdly excited to experience this cartoon again. I haven't watched an episode of HA in years but I was recalling moments from Eugene's Bike and Downtown Fruits unconsciously. Makes me wonder how many times I must have watched those episodes as a kid.

Anyway, tl, dr, nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

For a moment I thought you were right and I'd forgotten about this. So I looked up her page on the Wiki and she seems flat as a board to me◊. Her mom is a different story◊ but that's to be expected.

Then I found this◊, and I'm not what episode this is from or if it's from the films.

So, eh, shrug.

That's definitely not Rhonda's standard character design, so my guess is it's from the one or two episodes that imagines the kids as adults, like Married.

Edit: Yeah, the page that's on lists it as being from Married.

For reference, here's Rhonda in a dress in her final design in the middle of the last season. Still flat as a board.

edited 16th May '18 4:30:15 PM by KnownUnknown

I was talking about the movie specifically. In particular she's drawn bizarrely curvy in the shot where everyone is lining up for the trip and saying goodbye to their parents.

Mind you fifth and sixth graders looking like high schoolers is routine for this series.

Rhonda might have using padding or a push-up bra of some kind as other pictures in her specific gallery in the wiki have her flat as a board in the Jungle Movie shots.

Eh, people are developing faster than they used to.

could we maybe discuss something other than the size of a child's breasts

They were commenting on how she was drawn,that's all

I felt really dirty for noticing if that makes you feel better, Wackd.

Dont be,Wacked is the one who brought up subject

Not cool man

It was a thing people brought up on this thread in regards to Helga too, iirc.

And as for Rhonda, yeah, I guess she is.◊ I think it being more dramatic in some shots than others is more the result of the art style being a bit more simplistic, though.

edited 17th May '18 3:55:28 PM by KnownUnknown

On a related note, always found it weird that this series has eleven-year-olds built like high school football players, ex. Wolfgang.

It's an example of Reality Is Unrealistic. There are kids about that age built like that.

Boys may go into puberty later than girls, but boys can start their's early as well and can get huge.

More to the point, it's basically there to overemphasize the older kids being older. The 5th graders are built like high schoolers because the 4th graders are built like middle schoolers.

People are shocked there are HINTS of boobs in a kids' cartoon.

Guess none is french.

My puberty kicked in early. Even grew a mustache at school.

I never got around to watching "The Jungle Movie" but one thing I have to say about this show is that it was really good at making the viewer feel afraid. Each ghost story is beautifully executed more or less. I thought that having grown up, I would be able to view the Haunted Train episode without having any nightmares about it. I was dead wrong. That's the mark of a group of writers who understand that the purpose of the horror genre is to be frighten and that you don't need things like blood or gore or an extremely gruesome death onscreen to pull that off.

edited 21st Jun '18 8:08:57 PM by Benthelame

The show was very good at capturing the point of view from the kids, whose imaginations made them unsure what was real and what wasn't. One of the reasons the Headless Cabbie is one of my favorite ghost story episodes is that it uses that perspective to make everything seem ethereal, even though it's really just a regular old walk through the park and everything had a completely mundane explanation.

edited 21st Jun '18 8:12:37 PM by KnownUnknown

It looks like the sixth season has been pitched to Nickelodeon

An update: Nick have passed on a possible sixth season, though some streaming services are looking into potentially picking it up

In the meantime, there's a new book coming out themed around relationships