Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 | Main | Films: Hey Arnold!: The Movie / Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie

Hey Arnold!: The Movie is a 2002 animated film based on the Hey Arnold! television series. Arnold, Gerald, Helga, the three protagonists as in the series, set out on a quest to save their neighborhood from a greedy, sinister developer who wants to tear it down and put up a enormous mall. Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie was released as a TV sequel in 2017.

Directed by Tuck Tucker. Written by Craig Bartlett and Steve Viksten.

Arnold

  • It's not flat. It's just a little low on air. [The ball pops and deflates]
  • We can refuse to sell our houses.
  • That went well.
  • [stepping on to the roof] Deep Voice!

Helga Pataki

  • If only I could find the guts to tell you. If only I weren't such a coward. If only I had your strength.
  • [watching from a roof] Blockapalooza, hah! Please.
  • I was walking, until you knocked me down, football head.
  • So? What's your point?

Eugene Horowitz

  • This is our neighborhood!
  • How can they tear it down!?
  • How can they turn our smile into a frown!?
  • We may be just a few, but if me and you and you
  • But I thought the occasion called for it. [singing] We may be just a few

Dialogue

[First lines, we see the city's locations and Harold, Iggy and Lorenzo are playing baseball before Willie drives with his ice cream truck; A kid is giving money to Willie, having his ice cream and Willie reads the newspaper; Harold throws a baseball to Park; Park strikes out and the woman is at the window looks up to a baseball while putting clothes in the basket; we see Brainy and Harvey are at the market; Sid and Stinky are splashing water; the construction workers look up at the helicopter with a black wrecking ball; as the wrecking ball hits the apartments and pouring liquid on the family photo]
Gerald Johanssen: I'm telling you, Arnold, your ball is flat.
Arnold: It's not flat. It's just a little low on air. [The ball pops and deflates]
Gerald Johanssen: Like I said, your ball is flat. Hey, I still can't believe we let those fifth graders beat us.
Arnold: Well, the important thing is we tried our best.
Gerald Johanssen: The important thing is we got our buns whooped.
Arnold: Come on Gerald, we had fun. And we almost beat 'em.
Gerald Johanssen: Why do you do that Arnold? Why do you always have to look on the bright side?
Arnold: Somebody has to. [Arnold and Gerald notice FTi helicopters, and a crowd of citizens] Mr. Green, what's going on?
Mr. Green: It's Scheck. He wants to buy up the whole neighborhood so he can knock it down and put up a fancy mall.
Arnold: Who's Scheck? [The crowd is watching TV]
Reporter: [on TV] The plan, which was approved by the mayor just moments ago, would allow Future Tech Industries to redevelop a six-square-block area between 33rd and 39th Streets. Oh, I understand the president and CEO of Future Tech Industries, Mr. Scheck, is about to make a statement.
Mr. Scheck: [on TV; To the mayor] Thank you. I just want to say I'm delighted at the mayor's support of our renewal plan.
Gerald Johanssen: Nice suit.
Bystander: Sh!
Mayor Dixie: [on TV] I am behind Mr. Scheck's project one hundred percent. [camera flashes]
Mr. Scheck: [on TV] Although some of you in the affected area may have concerns about how this plan will impact your homes and businesses, let me assure you; change is good. This plan represents the end of urban decay, the end of your broken-down shops and apartment buildings, the end of antiquated and dilapidated storefronts. It's time for a new world. Out with the old, in with the new.
Arnold: What's wrong with old things? Some old things are great.
Harold Berman: Yeah, like Mrs. Vitello.
Mrs. Vitello: [hits Harold over the head with flowers] Whippersnapper.
Harold Berman: Ow!
Mr. Green: This has been goin' on for months. The city council recommended against it, but the mayor's lettin' him do it anyway. I never figured he could pull it off.
Gerald Johanssen: What does it mean?
Mr. Green: It means they want us to sell out, move away so this Scheck character and his big corporation can move in.
Crowd: No!
Harold Berman: No way!
Mr. Scheck: [on TV] It's time to put the past behind us. I have seen the future, and it's Future Tech Industries.
Phoebe Heyerdahl: But this is our neighborhood!
Rhonda Lloyd: They can't just tear it down.
Eugene Horowitz: [singing] This is our neighborhood! / How can they tear it down!? / How can they turn our smile into a frown!? / We may be just a few, but if me and you and you [Arnold switches off the stereo]
Arnold: No. No singing, Eugene.
Eugene Horowitz: But I thought the occasion called for it. [singing] We may be just a few
Arnold: No. This is serious. [A truck carrying a bulldozer is speeding down the street]
Crowd: Oh, my...
Mr. Green: We can't take this lying down. We should do something!
Harold Berman: Yeah, but what can we do?
Arnold: We can refuse to sell our houses.
Gerald Johanssen: Well, I'll sign a petition!
Arnold: Yeah. Let everybody know this is our neighborhood and we're not giving it up without a fight!
Helga Pataki: [watching from a roof] Hah! Arnold! What an annoying little goody two-shoes. What a dopey little dreamer. What a corny little cornball. Always going around trying to get everyone to look on the bright side and do the right thing. How I despise him. And yet... I love him! I love him! I love his unerring sense of right and wrong. I love his unfailing insistence on the needs of the many over the needs of the few. But most of all I love the way his hair smells when I get real close behind him and he doesn't know I'm there, but then he turns and looks at me funny and I scowl at him and make an excuse for being so close, and then I insult him just to cover up the secret, adoring feelings for which I have so long and painfully harbored. Oh, Arnold!
Arnold: Mr. Green can write the petition.
Mr. Green: Say no more, Arnold. I'm already working on it.
Helga Pataki: If only I could find the guts to tell you. If only I weren't such a coward. If only I had your strength.
Arnold: We'll take it around the neighborhood and get everybody to sign it.
Helga Pataki: But what if you lose? What if the neighborhood is torn down, and you have to move away, and we are separated, and we never see each other again, and I never, ever seize the chance to tell you how I really feel about you? Oh, Arnold, how I love you.
[Brainy appears from a chimney, dressed up as a chimney sweep. Helga smacks him]
[Helga comes home]
Helga Pataki: Dad! [To Miriam sleeping on a table] How's it going, Miriam?
Miriam Pataki: Oh. Molasses, it's you. [Helga hears voices and comes to see what's going on]
Big Bob Pataki: Okay, great, but where's the store go?
Nick Vermicelli: [Big Bob, Nick Vermicelli, and three other guys are seen gathered around a model of the neighborhood on a table] Alright. Right here. Big Bob's Beeper Emporium. Big sign, can't miss it from the freeway, and the overpass drops you big-bang-boom right in the parkin' lot.
Big Bob Pataki: That's good. Yeah, right in the stinkin' lot.
Helga Pataki: Dad?
Big Bob Pataki: What do you want, Olga?
Helga Pataki: It's Helga, Dad.
Big Bob Pataki: Right, Helga. That's what I said.
Helga Pataki: Could I talk to you?
Nick Vermicelli: We gotta split anyway, Bob. We'll talk.
Big Bob Pataki: Right, we'll talk. And send me the paperwork, I can't wait to get started. Hey, can I keep this pop-up thing? [He points at the model]
Nick Vermicelli: You got it. [Nick and the other men leave the room]
Helga: Well, I was just wondering if this whole tear-down-the-neighborhood Future Tech thing is really necessary.
Bob: Of course, it's necessary. It's more than necessary. It's progress. You can't have progress without pain. No pain, no gain.
Bob: I could get you that pony you've been wanting.
Helga: I wanted a pony when I was five, Dad.
Arnold: What if Scheck makes everyone else sell?
Grandpa: Then I guess they'll bulldoze down the neighborhood, short man. Pookie and I will have to move to an old folks' home and who knows what'll happen to you. You'll probably be sent to a foster home in some Midwestern state like Manitoba or… Wait. No, that's not a state, that's a province. Oh, no, Arnold! You'll be a Canadian!
Stinky: [about Scheck] He sure gives me the willies.
Gerald: Yeah, but he looks good in a suit.
Arnold [annoyed]: Gerald...
Gerald: I know, I know. I'm just saying.
Arnold: Grandma!
Ernie: She's still in jail.
Arnold: I thought they were keeping her one night.
Ernie: Yeah, but she keeps trying to escape, like she thinks it's a game, 4th time they've brought her back in.
Arnold: Von Scheck?
Grandpa: I wonder if he's related...? [Telling about the Tomato Incident] Anyway, Von Scheck's men attacked the neighborhood, but the locals used guerrilla warfare. They made a barricade of turned vegetable carts and fought with whatever they had. They had lots of tomatoes. They were British tomatoes, which were small and hard and really hurt if you got hit with one. That did it. The redcoats were in full, ignominious retreat. That's why we eat American tomatoes, Arnold. Although I had one recently from Chile. Very juicy.
Arnold: Grandpa, did that actually happen?
Grandpa Of course. I sliced it up and put it in a sandwich.
Arnold: No. Don't you see? This is our answer.
Grandpa Yes. Yes, Arnold! Juicy tomatoes from Chile! Why didn't I think of that?
Arnold: No, the Tomato Incident. If that battle took place right in the boarding house, this whole neighborhood should be a national landmark.
Arnold: [to the bus driver] You're going up to the peninsula?
Murray: Don't talk to the driver while the bus is in motion.
Gerald: But the bus isn't in motion.
Murray: [starts the bus] Now it is. Get behind the yellow line.
Scheck: "Sir. Sir. Yes, sir. Sir." Is that all you can say?
Guard: No, sir. I mean, yes, sir. Sir!
Bridget: Who'd touched my button? [Arnold and Gerald are smiling in a slightly perverse way]
Arnold and Gerald [in unison]: Me!
Gerald: [choosing spy equipment] Do these belts come in any other color?
Bridget: Black or pink?
Caillou: Me either, Arnold.
Arnold: Caillou, you know.
Bridget: Security guards, we're the neighborhood.
Arnold: Remember Scheck.
Gerald: Uh, we'll take black.
[Trying to think up a way to save the neighborhood.]
Oskar: Maybe we could paint the house with vanishing cream. Then it would be invisible.
Ernie: That is the stupidest idea I ever heard. What if it rains? Ding-dong! You ever think about that, Kokoshka? It'll wash the vanishing cream off, and then everyone'll see us.
Oskar: Oh boy, you're right.
Ernie: What we gotta do is build a dummy neighborhood one block over.
Ernie: Yeah? Just one little detail, Gramps. Where you gonna get the explosives?
Grandpa: From you, of course. Just go down to your job site and lift a couple hundred pounds of explosives when no one's looking. Huh?
Ernie: That's the craziest thing I ever heard, especially considering I got twice that much under my bed. [The rest of the boarders look at him incredulously] What? Hey, we all got our little peccadilloes.
Murray [continuous quote]: I drive 25 miles per hour. No exceptions, no discussion.
Gerald: [about the bus driver] I wonder what bee got in his boxers.
Murray: Hey, you'd have a bee in your boxers too if you were in my moccasins. My girlfriend left me 2 weeks ago. Her name is Mona, she said she wanted a whole man.
Gerald: "A whole man"? What's that mean?
Murray: [shows them his prosthetic leg] I lost the real one in the war.
[The men move TNT boxes from above into the tunnels]
Ernie Potts: That's the last of it, Gramps.
Grandpa Phil: Now all we have to do is run this wire up to the street and wait for the bulldozers to come. Then, we blow a huge hole, and they fall right in.
Oskar Kokoshka: Sounds great, Grandpa. Now let's get out of here.
Mr. Hyunh: Yes! It is still very creepy.
[Somebody bangs the door, waking Vermicelli up. He wearily gets to his feet, turns on the light and opens the door. It's Big Bob and he is furious]
Big Bob Pataki: WAKE UP, YOU WEASEL! I JUST READ THE FINE PRINT! SO IT'S GONNA BE SCHECK'S BEEPER EMPORIUM, IS IT?! YOU WERE TRYIN' TO DOUBLE-CROSS ME!
Nick Vermicelli: I don't know what are you talkin' about, Bob.
Big Bob Pataki: I READ THE CONTRACT, PALLY! I GET A NEW BEEPER EMPORIUM, BUT SCHECK GETS 51% OF MY COMPANY!
Nick Vermicelli: Okay, okay, so it's true. But you signed a contract, so there's nothing you can do about it. The ink's dry.
Big Bob Pataki: YOU WERE IN ON IT THE WHOLE TIME! YOU KNEW HE WAS GONNA SHAFT ME!
Nick Vermicelli: Yeah, so what if I did? It's a free country.
Big Bob Pataki: REALLY? WELL, THEN IF IT'S A FREE COUNTRY, I GUESS I'M FREE TO BEAT THE LIVIN' SNOT OUTTA YA!
Nick Vermicelli: Now, Bob, don't get crazy!
Big Bob Pataki: TOO LATE!
[Bob grabs Nick by the throat; Nick grabs a trophy and strikes it against Bob's head. Once they get in the kitchen, Nick pulls out an egg mixer that he uses for self-defense. Bob in turn uses a spatula. The two continue fighting each other until Nick splashes pickle juice on Bob, and he rips off his shirt, now looking and acting like the Incredible Hulk. Hulk-Bob lunges at Nick, but slips on the pickle juice and crashes against the fridge]
Nick Vermicelli: Uh, Bob? [Vermicelli slams the fridge door in Hulk-Bob's face, knocking him out. As Vermicelli goes to the sink to wash himself, he looks in the mirror and finally notices that the key is gone] The key. What happened? Oh, no. That dream I had, that angel... That wasn't no angel, it was that football-headed kid! It was really happening! He must've stole the stinkin' key! [phones to Scheck] Yeah, Mr. Scheck, it's me, Nick. Listen, I got bad news. I think I lost the key. Yeah, the key. I think that football-headed kid took it. I don't know, I was asleep. I think he snuck in and stole it. Yeah, I know. I'm stupid, stupid.
Arnold: I think I need to go lie down.
Helga: I'll go with you!
Arnold: [to Murray driving really fast] Is there anything we can do?
Murray: Yeah, you can get on your knees and pray this hunk of junk holds together long enough to get us uptown in one piece!
Arnold: Don't you wanna save all those people's homes?
Murray: Not my problem, kid.
Arnold: Don't you care that every building from 33rd to 39th street is going to be demolished?
Murray: [eyes widen] 33rd to 39th Street?
Arnold: That's right.
Murray: Hey, that's where Mona lives. [yanks a lever switching the bus from "Uptown" to "Express" mode, then pulls the gear shift] Hang on to your goodies, kids! We've got a neighborhood to save!
Grandpa Phil: [As he and the boarders prepare for the bulldozers] Hey, where's Arnold?
Scheck: Is the overpass wired?
Vermicelli: Yes.
Scheck: Blow it.
Vermicelli: Ehm, just so it would have been straight, boss, this is pretty serious.
Scheck: Serious?
Vermicelli: Yeah, you know, as in 15 to life.
Scheck [angry]: Just do it, you incompentent moron!
Bob: [discovering the trench the boarders have made] Hey, what's goin' on? 286-DX plunger, high-gauge wire, C-47 tubing. I know what you're up to - you're planning to blow the street up, make a hole big enough to stop the bulldozers from knocking down the neighborhood. You could do serious jail time for that.
Grandpa: Well, I...
Bob: You need any help?
Arnold: [sees Gerald praying in Hebrew] I didn't know you were so religious.
Gerald: Neither did I.
Scheck: [last words as he gets arrested] I would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for that meddling football-head, the kid with the weird stack of hair and that brat with the unibrow.
Helga: [slams the door of the prison truck] Tell it to the judge, you big donut hole!
Bob: Yeah, tell it to your cellmate in Holsom!
Arnold: You didn't really mean all that, did you? You don't really love me, right?
Helga: Right.
Arnold: You were caught up in the heat of the moment, right.
Helga: Right!
Arnold: You actually hate me, don't you?
Helga: Of course I hate you, you stupid football head, and don't you ever forget it! Ever!
[at the end of the movie]
Arnold: Now you're looking on the bright side.
Gerald: Somebody has to.

Cast

This article is issued from Wikiquote. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.