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-->'''Helga:''' No subwya for me. Not no way, not no how. I am NOT taking the subway. ''(cut)'' I can't ''believe'' I'm taking the subway.

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-->'''Helga:''' No subwya subway for me. Not no way, not no how. I am NOT taking the subway. ''(cut)'' I can't ''believe'' I'm taking the subway.
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-->'''Helga:''' There is no way I'm taking the subway. I can't ''believe'' I'm taking the subway.

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-->'''Helga:''' There is No subwya for me. Not no way I'm way, not no how. I am NOT taking the subway. ''(cut)'' I can't ''believe'' I'm taking the subway.
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* At the end, after Grandpa Phil and Oskar save the students and Mr. Simmons, Principal Wartz opts to stay behind and "go down with his school" while cheerfully and [[LargeHam somewhat hammishly]] bidding them farewell.

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* At the end, after Grandpa Phil and Oskar save the students and Mr. Simmons, Principal Wartz opts to [[GoingDownWithTheShip stay behind behind]] and "go down with his [his] school" while cheerfully and [[LargeHam somewhat hammishly]] bidding them farewell.

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* Stoop Kid's deranged, exaggerated cry after everyone makes fun of him.

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* Stoop Kid's deranged, exaggerated cry after everyone makes fun of him. The guy sounds like he's being tortured.



** Rhonda eagerly forcing Harold to ride the swan with her, much to his displeasure.
** Sid attempts to flirt with Ruth, who sports an irritated look on her face. Unlike Arnold, who she occasionally smiles at, she clearly finds Sid to be quite annoying.




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* When the kids question the "horrible" hellish sound that they heard, the engineer irritably reveals that he was playing polka music on his accordion.




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* At one point Helga blames the subway breaking down on Harold swinging around on the poles.




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* Mr. Purdy and Arnold arguing about whether or not he's hiding a chicken in his room. When Arnold finally gets to the point and asks about his rent:
-->'''Mr. Purdy:''' Listen, can I pay you tomorrow?







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* Arnold yelling through the city for Abner, only to catch the attention of a GrumpyOldMan whose name is apparently also Abner.



* The Sewer King is pleased when one of the rats brings him the "royal icon" and coos at it for a second.
-->'''Sewer King''': Now get out of here.\\
* The Sewer King mentioning that the rats occasionally do play chess with him.




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* Ms. Felter hears Gerald attempting to call Arnold on his walkie-talkie, only for Arnold tell her that [[EpicFail his pants sometimes talk.]]



** When Arnold and Harold get off the bus, the bully watches them looking absolutely terrified.



* YMMV, but the fact that Harold is old enough in Jewish culture to be a man, but can't rent a canoe.

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* YMMV, but the fact that Harold is old enough in Jewish culture to be a man, but can't rent a canoe. Granted, that was probably just his excuse.




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* Ernie ominously warns Arnold and Gerald about a time where he apparently messed with "the unknown".
* Four-Eyed Jack scaring Gerald with an "Uh, boo."




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* Arnold somehow doesn't see through Helga's PaperThinDisguise.




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* During the montage of Harold bonding with the kitten, we see Harold cleaning its droppings off the floor while his mother and the kitten watch, his mother looking rather irritated.



* Sid forces a guy on the city bus to move so Arnold can have a window seat.

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* Sid forces a guy an older kid (Burt from 6th Grade Girls) on the city bus to move so Arnold can have a window seat.



-->'''Guy:''' ''(gets up)'' You're talking to me?

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-->'''Guy:''' -->'''Burt:''' ''(gets up)'' You're talking to me?



-->''(The guy frowns and goes to another seat.)''

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-->''(The guy -->''(Burt frowns and goes to another seat.)''



* Torvald casually shoving away the fifth graders as they try to stop him from scoring.



* Emily asking Phoebe where they are going and if she (a trophy) will need a sweater.




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* Helga mockingly joking to Phoebe that soon Rhonda will become such a geek that she'll start reading computer magazines...only to cut to Phoebe doing just that.
* Despite no longer being forced to, Brainy still chooses to sit in the back of the bus.




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* Sid once again tries to flirt with Ruth, only for her to walk away annoyed.




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* Edmund approaches a frustrated Wolfgang and insists that he should've driven instead and that he wouldn't have crashed, much to Wolfgang's annoyance.




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* Harold, upon seeing Arnold dressed as Benjamin Franklin, refers to him as a "bald old lady with little rectangle glasses", before running down the street announcing it.



* Helga getting hit in the face with an egg because she's too busy making fun of Arnold.



* The fact that Harold was somehow able to gain 100 extra pounds from a cruise that only served salad. Just how much of it did he eat?




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* The fact that Grandma and Mitzi were best friends in their youth. One has to wonder what hell the two must've put Phil through.
* Grandpa tested his trap on Oskar, who is briefly shown stuck in the tree surrounded by angry hornets.



* Rhonda's ''interesting'' attempt to comfort Arnold after Dino's alleged death.
--> '''Rhonda:''' Don't be sad. He was an old guy, and that's what old people do. They die.



--->'''Herald:''' Eleven cents?! Boy howdy, that's completely outrageous! It's unacceptable!\\

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--->'''Herald:''' --->'''Gerard:''' Eleven cents?! Boy howdy, that's completely outrageous! It's unacceptable!\\
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-->'''Bully:''' Hey, you're weirding me out with that gibberish. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHereI'm outta here!]] ''(He moves to the front of the bus)''

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-->'''Bully:''' Hey, you're weirding me out with that gibberish. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHereI'm [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm outta here!]] ''(He moves to the front of the bus)''
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* After the race, Eugene is happy to have finished, but Stinky [[SoreLoser complains that they didn't win]]. Eugene cheerfully points out that they still got second place, but Stinky again [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers remarks that they didn't win]].

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* After the race, Eugene is happy to have finished, but Stinky [[SoreLoser complains that they didn't win]]. Eugene cheerfully points out that they still got second place, but Stinky again [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers pessmistically remarks that they didn't win]].
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* After the race, Eugene is happy to have finished, but Stinky [[SoreLoser complains that they didn't win]]. Eugene cheerfully points out that they still got second place, but Stinky again [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers remarks that they didn't win]].
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* The cover for the storyboard book of "Arnold Betrays Iggy" has a drawing of Arnold and Iggy acting out the climax of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', with an unusually manic-looking Arnold ''stabbing Iggy in the back Brutus-style!''

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* The ending with Stinky stuck in a garbage can.
--> '''Stinky''': This really bites! Help me help me! ah! [rolls away]
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* For the reenactment, British team members are all wearing period appropriate attire. On the other hand, the Americans wear a wide assortment of inappropriate costumes (ex. Stinky wears a Confederate solder's uniform, Sid is dressed like UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett, and Harold looks like Franchise/{{Rambo}}).

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* For the reenactment, British team members are all wearing period appropriate attire. On the other hand, the Americans [[GroupCostumeFail wear a wide assortment of inappropriate costumes costumes]] (ex. Stinky wears a Confederate solder's uniform, Sid is dressed like UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett, and Harold looks like Franchise/{{Rambo}}).
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-->'''Oskar:''' ''(off-screen)'' Ow! You hurt my hand. I'm going to sue you.

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-->'''Oskar:''' ''(off-screen)'' Ow! You hurt my hand. hand! I'm going to sue you.you!
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-->'''Suzie:''' I ''gave'' you $100 2 days ago.

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-->'''Suzie:''' I ''gave'' you $100 2 two days ago.



-->'''Suzie:''' ''Oskar,'' they cut off our phone service this morning.
-->'''Oskar:''' I know, it's a terrible mistake; we should sue.

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-->'''Suzie:''' ''Oskar,'' Oskar, they cut off our phone service this morning.
-->'''Oskar:''' I know, it's know. It's a terrible mistake; we mistake. We should sue.



-->'''Oskar:''' How about 25?
-->'''Suzie:''' ''(madly) OSKAR! (She slams the refrigerator door shut)''

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-->'''Oskar:''' [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder How about 25?
25?]]
-->'''Suzie:''' ''(madly) OSKAR! (She slams the refrigerator fridge door shut)''
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[[caption-width-right:334:"Are you attempting to dance the Flamenco, Principal Wartz?"]]

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[[caption-width-right:334:"Are you attempting to dance the Flamenco, 'The Flamenco', Principal Wartz?"]]
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[[caption-width-right:334:"Are you attempting to dance the Flamenco, Principal Wartz?"]]
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** Earlier, there was this little gem:
-->'''Helga:''' And it's okay for me to keep socking Brainy?
-->'''Dr. Bliss:''' [[NoJustNoREaction No, that's what got you here in the first place.]]
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-->'''Grandpa''': Aha! Gotcha! Ya two-timin' swindlin' thief imposter of a charlatan!\\

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-->'''Grandpa''': Aha! Gotcha! [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Ya two-timin' swindlin' thief imposter of a charlatan!\\charlatan!]]\\
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* The [[{{Pun}} cherry on top]] is the man on the lawnmower driving past the screen one last time. And yes, he's ''still'' unconscious.
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** He also [[TheAgeless hasn't aged]] ''a single day'' since Eugene accidentally knocked him out. What the hell is in those cherries?!
** Hell, the image of the three just watching the same man ride back and forth for seventy years and no one coming to help either the guy or the trio is quite hilarious in itself.
** In a hilarious case of DramaticIrony, all of their friends have all become deaf in old age, so their calls to them literally fall on deaf ears.
** [[BrickJoke Harold married the squirrel]] and they're apparently having relationship issues.

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-->'''Sid''': [[OhCrap W-W-We just blew up the police station]]!\\

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-->'''Sid''': [[OhCrap W-W-We We just blew up the police station]]!\\station]]!\\
'''Harold''': We-we-\\
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-->'''Phoebe''': This is not safe.\\

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-->'''Phoebe''': --->'''Phoebe''': This is not safe.\\



** "[[HilarityEnsues Most kids riding a single bicycle]]": Harold starts pedaling so early that some kids have to run to catch the bike. Arnold just stands there and yells "[[BigNo No!]]" as the bike pulls out of view. The kids then scream and [[SecurityCling hang onto each other]] with Brainy covering Harold's eyes. [[RuleOfThree Eugene]], still recovering from the last attempt, is directly in the bike's path. He screams, [[CrossesTheLineTwice throws his crutch]] and runs before the bike plows into him.

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** "[[HilarityEnsues Most "Most kids riding a single bicycle]]": bicycle": Harold starts pedaling so early that some kids have to run to catch the bike. Arnold just stands there and yells "[[BigNo No!]]" as the bike pulls out of view. The kids then scream and [[SecurityCling hang onto each other]] with Brainy covering Harold's eyes. [[RuleOfThree Eugene]], still recovering from the last attempt, is directly in the bike's path. He screams, [[CrossesTheLineTwice throws his crutch]] and runs before the bike plows into him.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8CBrZfwVzY "Slippage"?]]
** Or the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcVW6Me7y0o Slippage]]" StupidStatementDanceMix?

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* %%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8CBrZfwVzY "Slippage"?]]
** Or the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcVW6Me7y0o Slippage]]" StupidStatementDanceMix?%% Weblinks are not examples. Please add context.
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-->'''Rhonda''': (horrified) [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU. ATE. OUR. BABY?!]]
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** In the morning she gets caught behind the couch, then breaks through the floor falling onto the kitchen table where Arnold's Grandparents are eating breakfast. Without a word she gets up, limps the door, and takes an umbrella.

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** In the morning she gets caught behind the couch, then breaks through the floor falling onto the kitchen table where Arnold's Grandparents are eating breakfast. Without a word she gets up, limps to the door, and takes an umbrella.
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** In the morning she gets caught behind the couch, then breaks through the floor falling onto the kitchen table where Arnold's Grandparents are eating breakfast. Without a word she gets up, limps the door, and takes an umbrella.
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** While Helga is chasing the parrot around town she runs past Mr. Green's butcher shop. There's a sign in the window that says "Special on poultry."

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* While reading the jury votes:
-->'''Helga''': Guilty, guilty, Fudgey Nut-Nut Bar?
-->''Harold''': It's on the back, Madam Fortress Mommy!
* When Harold starts choking on a banna, Helga jumps to the rescue, confusing the iniitals CPR with CPU.
-->'''Helga''': Out of the way, I'm a certified CPU!
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* When Arnold hits his homerun, the ball busts through a large sign that reads Holywood Cow Farm. The ball busts out the "Wood" and "Farm" writing leaving the sign to say Holy Cow.
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!!19A – Part Time Friends
* Gerald's JawDrop at seeing Arnold create a topiary of Sandro Botticelli's ''Birth of Venus''.

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!!19A – Part Time Part-Time Friends
* Gerald's JawDrop at seeing Arnold create a topiary of Sandro Botticelli's ''Birth Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus''.
Venus|Botticelli}}''.
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* The boys encounter a history teacher working at a bowling alley. When he asks them when the War of 1812 was, they just give him [[IsThisAJoke blank stares in exasperation.]]
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-->'''Bully:''' Hey, you're weirding me out with that jibberish. I'm outta here! ''(He moves to the front of the bus)''

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-->'''Bully:''' Hey, you're weirding me out with that jibberish. I'm gibberish. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHereI'm outta here! here!]] ''(He moves to the front of the bus)''

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