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Hey Arnold! Season 4 (4 Disc Set)

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I was so happy to purchase Hey Arnold! seasons one and two from Amazon's Made On Demand Create-a-space. I wasn't sure if they would continue with the releases but am very excited to see that they have released Hey Arnold! seasons four and five (and after I initially wrote this the third season became available!!!). It's great to have two more seasons of this great series being made available on DVD for fans. Season four contains the following nineteen episodes, some consisting of two eleven minute halves and others being a full twenty-two minutes which makes 33 stories in all:

67 Back to School/Egg Story
68 It Girl/Deconstructing Arnold
69 Grudge Match/Pollishing Rhonda
70 Weird Cousin/Baby Oskar
71 Grandpa's Sister/Synchronized Swimming
72 Helga Sleepwalks/Fighting Families
73 Friday the 13th/Headless Cabbie
74 Veterans day
75 Helga on the Couch
76 Dino Checks Out
77 Monkeyman!/Buses, Bikes and Subways
78 Helga's Masquerade/Mr. Green Runs
79 Sid the Vampire Slayer/Big Sis
80 Bag of Money/Principal Simmons
81 New Bully on the Block/Phoebe Breaks a Leg
82 Parents Day
83 Helga's Locket/Sid and Germs
84 Suspended/Ernie in Love
85 Summer Love (a.k.a. Beach Story)

The show found their niche in these later seasons with episodes focusing more on Helga's unexplained adoration of Arnold and the dissection of her complicated character, as well as episodes that frequently found her character's secret at risk of being revealed. Great episodes this season focusing on those ideas are Helga's Masquerade, Helga's locket and fan favorite Helga on the Couch. Summer Love is also a great twenty two minute long episode with multiple fun stories. Other episodes continue with the entertaining idea of branching out the series focus to not just be on Arnold but on his various classmates and sometimes to great comedic affect, the tenants in his grandparents apartment building.

The sense of humor in these 'older' shows can play to a more immature childish sense of humor, guy gets hurt or bodily function, but for the most part what I respect about nineties television is that children were never told when to laugh. The jokes were simply presented to us and the character's played things pretty straight, never hitting us over the head, helping our generation understand irony and the actual art of sarcasm. Something I feel is lost in most children's television nowadays where children are told when to laugh by laugh track or by the characters playing it so over the top, it leaves youth today not understanding the subtlety of good humor.

I own the first two seasons of this show as well as seasons of Rugrats and Doug on Amazon DVD-R and they play great on all my DVD players. I tend to be uptight about things being quality and have never been bothered by these sets. The show looks as good as when it originally aired in the nineties. The sets have simple DVD menus, packaging and artwork but it all looks nice enough and gets the job done. My only issue with these sets, me being a purist, is that I'd prefer the option of watching the opening theme before every episode but it only plays before the first on each disc. They do this to preserve the quality of the episodes due to compression issues that could start arising and I'm aware most people skip openings anyway, so it's forgivable. Also, don't expect any sort of special features, just the episodes themselves.

While it's upsetting that these older Nickelodeon series aren't being released on proper studio made DVD sets I thank Amazon for at least making it possible for fans like me to own these episodes on DVD in decent quality and proper order. Hopefully good sales on these Amazon Made On Demand sets can still convince Nickelodeon to consider proper season releases of their old series with special features, but until the day Nickelodeon realizes the cash to be made in the remarketing of their nineties shows on DVD I'm more than happy to give my business to Amazon and buy these sets. FIVE STARS for the fourth season on DVD-R. I miss growing up in the nineties, thanks for your time.

Hey Arnold! Season 4 contains four dvd's,

If you're a fan of Hey Arnold!, Rocko's modern life,the Rugrats and Doug like I am then show your support and buy these Dvd sets from Amazon ^^

Disc-1
1.Back to school- Arnold convinces Grandpa Phil to go back and graduate grade school
2.Egg story- The students are paired together and given eggs to care for
3.It girl- A fashion designer picks Helga to be his "It girl" because of her angry attitude
4.Deconstructing Arnold- The kids beg Arnold for his advice after they get themselves into deep trouble
5.Grudge match- Big Bob and Phil have a golfing match to settle who pays for car repairs after their accident
6.Polishing Rhonda- Rhonda is in danger of failing polishing school so she begs Patty for help
7.Weird cousin- Arnolds very ugly and dumb cousin Arnie comes to visit and Lila falls in love with him
8.Baby Oskar- Oskar covinces Arnold to help him take care of a baby while his wife is at work
9.Grandpa's sister- Phil's sister comes to the boarding house
10.Synchronized swimming- Coach Wittenberg gets the boys to join his synchronized swimming team

Disc-2
1.Helga sleepwalks- Helga starts sleep walking to Arnolds so she can confess her love to him after eating pork rinds
2.Fighting families- Arnold, Phil, Ernie, Mr. Hyunh and Gertrude compete in a game show with another family.
3.Headless cabbie- During a sleep over Arnold tells everyone a story about the Headless Cabbie
4.Friday the 13th- Wolfgang and Edmond trick Arnold and Gerald into believing that they're cursed
5.Veterans day- Grandpa Phil recalls his adventures as a soldier in the Second World War
6.Helga on the couch- Helga opens up and tells a psychologist her true feelings about Arnold
7.Dino checks out- Dino Spomoni hides out in Arnolds boarding house while everyone believes he's dead

Disc-3
1.Monkeyman- Once Monkeyman gets a taste of normal life with the help of Arnold, he's much too busy to help people in need anymore
2.Buses,Bikes and subways- Harold and Helga get left behind after a school field trip to the chocolate factory
3.Helga's masquerade- To get Arnold to like her, Helga tries to act like Lila
4.Mr.Green runs- Mr.Green decides to run for city council
5.Sid the vampire slayer- Sid is convinced that Stinky is a vampire
6.Big sis- Helga's older sister Olga gets into the "Big Sis" program and gets paired with Lila
7.Bag of money- Arnold,Gerald,and Sid find a bag filled with money
8.Principal Simmons- Mr. Simmons becomes the new principal when Wartz decides to resign
9.New bully on the block- A new bully challenges Wolfgang
10.Phoebe breaks a leg- Helga feels guilty that Phoebe fractures her leg after being hit by a bus while running her errands

Disc-4
1.Helga's locket- Helga tries every way she can to get her locket of Arnold out of the boarding house before Arnold opens it
2.Sid and germs- Sid develops a fear of germs
3.Parents day- Arnold finds out from Phil what really happened to his parents
4.Suspended- Harold gets suspended and tries everything to get back into school
5.Ernie in love- Ernie's new girlfriend wants to quit dating him because of his height
6.Summer of love- While at the beach Arnold gets involved with a girl that uses him to try winning a sandcastle competition

I loved watching Hey Arnold as a child in the late nineties/early two thousands. Hey Arnold is so much better than Cat Scratch or Penguins of Madagascar, or quite frankly any recent Nickelodeon shows. I miss these shows. They should also put the Wild Thornberries out of DVD as well, that was a good one too. In regards to the Hey Arnold DVD set, I was very pleased with it, it's perfect. Everything arrived in one piece and I have no complaints in regards to shipping or anything like that. You'll love these.

The packagingin is great and the picture and sound quality is amazing, I'm so happy to have Hey Arnold! on DVD, this show reminds me of my childhood

I never had any problems before this one... The disc's are messed up, they are skipping and causing double dialog... Hard to understand... I want to exchange them or return them for a full refund including shipping. I just received this order on or about 26 March 2011, as you can see by my shipping address I am over seas and mail some times takes a lot longer then normal to reach us. Please advise

The packaging, like in the others, is fantastic, and the picture and sound quality is great.

The actual season is one of my favorites with a multitude of great episodes such as:

Egg Story: With Helga and Arnold having to babysit an egg for a school project.
Deconstructing Arnold: When everyone turns on Arnold for being such a "goody goody" always giving advice, when this turns on them.
Polishing Rhonda: Rhonda has to attend a school where she must learn to be polite, only she'll need the help of Big Patty to get through it.

Definitely worth buying for the kids of 2000. It has things kids can relate to without being inappropriate. Its a shame they had to take it off the air.

Hey Arnold season 4 is classic Hey Arnold. It is a region 1 dvd but it plays on my Australian PlayStation2. Great news for fans DOWN-UNDER. Shipping to Sydney took about 2 weeks.

I preordered seasons 4 and 5 of Hey Arnold and received them on schedule. I've tried them in my Panasonic BD60 bluray player, and they work fine. The images are sharp and the colors bright. No problems whatsoever. I love finally being able to see shows I missed from the last two seasons, and eagerly await the chance to order season three, with my all-time favorite episode, School Play (where Helga must confess her secret love for Arnold to be able to play opposite him as Juliet in the school play!) I love the wry, subtle humor and the strong characterizations that really make you care about the characters of this series, even the "bully" Helga. I also own the first two seasons, which I watched on an old Toshiba dvd player with no problems. The only thing I would wish for is subtitles, for those times when you don't quite catch everything people say--although the voice track of Hey Arnold is much better in general than a lot of shows when it comes to clarity. I just bought a long-awaited favorite old movie of mine from Amazon called The Flight of Dragons (burn-on-demand) and while the movie itself is a magnificent quest, you have to have your remote ready to adjust the volume between the grand, loud background music and shouting scenes, and other scenes where the characters are speaking very softly.