Leave a like if not for the video, for the fact I can still never pronounce Sudoku correctly! Thanks for watching and I hope you all have a good day! What other darker episodes of Hey Arnold do you find interesting?

Did anyone else find the episode where Arnold visits Arnie a bit unsettling as well? There were all the doppelgängers of Arnold’s friends and it got kinda weird.

I just love the look of the backgrounds in the earlier seasons. it really looks like it was done with colored pencils

The ghost singing at the end unsettled me SO damn much as a kid.

To this day, it still bugs me that this episode about a literal ghost train is more spooky than the actual Halloween special.

The Ghost Bride episode scared me to death when I was a child.

I owe Hey Arnold my love of Jazz and the whole urban aesthetic such a great show, done dirty by a Nickelodeon that didnt care

You know what was dark about Hey Arnold? Helga's shrine to Arnold. I know she is a kid...but that level of crushing is reminiscent of STALKERS....so yeah. Kinda dark.

Haunted Train, Four-Eyed Jack, and Weezin' Ed scared me so much as a kid! When you realize all of the urban legends in the show turn out to be true...that's pretty dark.

Someone actually tried to drive their train off the track. It didn't go very far. It just slid across the ground.

I loved this show growing up. More relatable. And they weren't afraid to introduce kids to more mature situations instead of making stuff sunshine and rainbows like they do now

I remember a few of these: the headless cabbie, that ghost within the bording house, etc.

"What did I tell ya Shortman?" *grandpa laughs like a demon corpse* always loved Hey Arnold haha

And every dark story that is told always end up being true at the end of the episode.

I actually remember this episode premiering, and it’s stuff like this, the Ghost Bride episode, and of course stuff like Are You Afraid of the Dark? that made me into a lifelong horror fan.

Theres an episode where Arnold is encouraged to break animals out of a shelter and when he says "isnt this illegal?" his (aunt? grandma? Im sometimes confused) says "probably" or something to that effect and the episode just ends. I was like "woah, what?" Whether it was right or wrong, im shocked how often Arnold 'goes there' with struggles and complications other shows wouldnt touch.

The episode that got to me as a kid was the one where he learns karate and beats up an innocent guy.

I'm not gonna lie the episode where Arnold was helping chocolate boy stop eating chocolate was unsettling mentally and heartbreaking

You should cover the Sewer King episode. And also the one where Arnold goes to visit a social recluse old lady who wrote a lot of mystery fiction books and lives on a little island by herself.

Remember that episode when Helga went to therapy? Yeah, that shit hit deep

They don’t make cartoons like they used too. Hey Arnold was one of a kind

I loved this episode. Wasn’t there another episode of a creepy man or ghost who live in the cellar of Arnold’s house? Another episode that lives in my head rent free, is the episode about grandpa and Gerald dad being war veterans.

Yeah, I remember this episode, and I always found the overall setting creepy. But, for a minute, I thought you were to talk about any episode involving cousin Arnie. Now those were very disturbing! Great video, Jordan, and congrats on 50K subs!

Dude I rewatched this about 6 months ago (I’m 30) and I was amazed at how well it held up. A few episodes I didn’t love but I loved almost the entirety of it as an adult. It made me realize where my love of melancholy jazz came from haha

"Hey Arnold" was one of my top 3 favorites for millenials' cartoons. The old world neighborhood, the distinct characters, the relatability, it was so influential to me, too. I related to Helga most, the odd one out as it were.

*I still laugh to myself when I think of the snow day episode when kids hit the bus windshield with snowballs and the driver looks back to just Arnold's grandma and her dogs and says "Ahhh I can't see, we're all gunna die!" Classic.*

This scared the **** out of me when I was a kid! Just the way the train is drawn with the red blending into the black made it look like it came from hell. Nothing else in the show looked like it

I’d say the darkest episode of hey Arnold is when he visits his cousin, but still good video

This takes me back. This episode really made my hair stand on end a bit as a kid.

I love that you covered this episode, it’s one of my favorite episodes of the show and one of the episodes that’s always stuck with me. I loved the haunted train story, so much so I remember looking to find movies about similar topics. And the thing that got me most, can we talk about the fire hose plan? These kids deadass thought they were in hell and about to come face to face with the devil-with literally satan-and they tried to put his ass out with a fire hose. That’s such a kid-logic way of being super brave and hopeful, and I loved it. Now I’m gonna listen to the haunted train song on repeat.

I thought you were gonna talk about that episode when Arnold gets mugged, that for me (and when Arnold visits his cousin and his friends and all was just a fever dream) were the most dark episodes.

This, and the episodes "Four Eyed Jack", and "The Headless Cabbie" were so GOOD! (I saw "Ghost Bride" later on, so it's never felt quite as nostalgic to me for some reason). I've always loved the creepier episodes of Hey Arnold more (and have a love of creepypastas and NoSleep stories now, so correlation? lol). I also love how at the ending of each episode the ghosts would make an appearance, to keep that bit of spookiness at the end; it just feels more satisfying to me, for some reason. (Though if we're comparing them to each other in terms of being "unsettling", Four Eyed Jack creeped me out WAY more then the others (not sure why), despite, ironically, being my favorite of the scary episodes haha.)

One thing I recently noticed was the backgrounds are done with colored pencils which is amazing. Also i loved Hey Arnold and this episode was darrrrrk

this episode nailed the creepy atmosphere!! hey arnold’s “scary” or “spooky” episodes were so effective to me as a kid!! i get nervous a lil watching them still too (but also i was afraid of who framed roger rabbit till i was 14 soooo maybe im a wimp lmao)

... I've been binge watching Hey Arnold retrospective videos all morning and now you post this? Are you psychic!?

This is Dark? No I Didn’t get scared... I am a Big Tough Person who Wants People to know how Big and Tough I am! LMFAOOOO!!! Nah, but this was a crazy episode! I remember seeing this and feeling uneasy when they were on the train! This brings back good memories :D

The haunted train episode scared me lifeless as a kid. Especially at the end when they showed the man's ghost on the train.

Hey Arnold always stuck with me. Other "dark" episodes I remember: - a bride that killed the groom with an axe and jumped the second floor to end her own life; - something about the ghost of a scientist with a little jumpscare right before the credits roll; - the headless coachman; - the pigeon guy.

The episode of Hey Arnold that always stuck with me as dark was called part time friends which wasn't really a dark a episode as this one but had a scene were Arnold had a nightmare Arnold and Gerald meet on the bus 70 years after a argument to not remember why they decided not to be friends anymore but had a undead Grandpa Phil afterwards that kinda scarred me. His jaw falls off and everything laughing at them.

Y’all remember those dark and sad episodes of courage the cowardly dog with Eustace’s childhood?

Your description of the show in the intro brought back so many good memories of how this show was, it really did feel like a truly fleshed out world with amazing characters with depth and heart

Hey Arnold was a gutsy kid show. That's why it is loved so much

One of my all time favorite episodes of Hey Arnold because I loved how dark it is.

One dark episode of this series I always remember is the Ghost Bride episode. It unsettled me when I first watched the premiere.

Finally! A good commentary KZfaqr that doesn’t cuss after every single word, Subbed!

I watch the Haunted Train episode of Hey Arnold every Halloween! It was an episode that absolutely scared the crap outta me as a kid. Hey Arnold was truly an iconic show, I love it so much. I'm glad the creator was able to complete the story the way it was meant to be completed. I also love Sudoku👍🏽

The appearance of the ghost conductor at the end actually jumpscared me as a kid, and I still have to look away when I know he's about to appear. Aside from that, even at 9 or 10 years old I was shocked at how explicitly they referenced hell without saying "hell." And I love the bit of mood-lightening at the beginning when Grandpa says the conductor drove the train "aaaall the waaaay dooooown" and Gerald goes "Whoa... he drove all the way to the SOUTH POLE?!"

I loved this episode!!! My favorite hey arnold episodes were the dark fun ones like this, the ghost bride, the mad scientist with the beans, and the woman looking for her lost dog in the park. They always answered everything by the end of the episode but then throw in one thing to make you unsure, like the ghost riding the train at the end.

"Living rent-free in their head" You just described my sensation when I read any of your video titles.

The best cartoons have at least SOME darkness. _Hey Arnold_ was such a good show. Shame the very late movie was so mediocre (blame Nickelodeon.)

Jordan I love your videos, out of my 200 youtubers Im subbed too, only a few I binge watch especially from their very first video. But the way talk about ood cartoons just perfectly represent how I feel about them. I dont think Ill ever grow up being 25, but to watch you talk about these cartoons gives me nostalgia. And you enjoyed everything I did. So every video is just a instant click. Ivr watched probably 65 percent and I found you maybe a week ago. Maybe alot sooner. And your channel 120% amazing. Keep up the good work!

This episode always felt a little eerie to me as well when I watched it as a kid. Great video as always!

This episode scared the hell out of me as a kid. It was already creepy, but the ending put it over the top.

Great channel! This is the creepiest and for me the most memorable Arnold episode. Love how they come to realize the logical explanation for the seemingly far fetched and almost mythical story Arnold’s grandpa told them

Totally forgot about this episode. Right when you mentioned and/or showed the train I remembered that there was an episode about a haunted train that was pretty haunting as a kid. But man, now I remember the whole thing. Cool!

Hey Arnold! is my favorite cartoon too. I love cartoons with good writing and great voice acting, which Arnold delivered. And the show had an emotional core that few other shows (animated or not) can compare to.

Loved the video! Hey Arnold was really something special. Four Eyed Jack was always the episode that scared me the most when I was younger.

I couldn't put it into words as a kid, but what disturbed me so much about this episode is that, in Grandpa Phil's story, the engineer is simply described as "going mad". Like he woke up that morning and went about his day perfectly fine until he literally went off the rails. It presented this unsettling notion that madness could set in at any time, with no warning, and that there was no going back from it to the point where not even death would be an escape, the person would just go on to be an insane ghost. Chilling stuff.

This episode traumatised me as a child and somehow I was able to burry it in the deepest part of my memory, until today. It's kinda interesting tho watching it now.

Four eyed jack episode always got me as a kid. Good vid Jordan glad you're back amigo. Congrats on 50 k

This show gets heavy some episodes feel like a short film from someone’s heart

yooooooooo this was the very first episode of hey arnold i ever saw!!!!!! great video man.

This episode and the one where they try to find the “ghost bride” and maybe “Four Eyed Jack” were the most terrifying for me. They all had an ending that suggested there was some level of truth to the horrific stories and then I couldn’t sleep for weeks.

I miss when cartoons used to make episodes that will send shivers down our spines

The Haunted Train is one of my favorite episodes. It’s so creepy and it did creep me out when I was little but now it’s one of my favorites. The ghost singing at the end used to make me so uncomfortable.

These videos are great - just found your channel. The one Hey Arnold episode that has always stayed with me is the one where Helga gets in trouble in school and is sent to a psychologist for therapy. It's not "dark" persay but seeing a kids show really delve into those issues of broken families and insecurity (which Helga clearly was grown from - unattentive/potentially alcoholic mother; uncaring father) was really powerful to me. Hey Arnold as a whole was so grounded in its characters and it was not afraid to show elements of day to day life that were not always happy or pleasant; I definitely respect this show a lot, and thank you for your videos! Just earned a new subscriber

I've always been a fan of the episodes of "Hey Arnold!" that involve spooky things, and some of my other favorites besides this one would also include "Wheezing Ed", "Four-Eyed Jack", "Headless Cabbie", and "Ghost Bride".

The headless cabby and woman with her scotty dog was the scariest hey arnold episode to me But this one got me the first couple times i watched it

I really loved nick back in the day..they had some really great cartoons and thank you for this channel and the work uv done

I don’t comment nearly enough as I should but I love this channel! And videos! They’re always great and I’m happy to see you’re back! Can’t wait for more !

Ha, I love how you mentioned in the beginning of the video that one day you’ll dona deep dive into hey Arnold and almost 2 years later you actually did it! Not only that, it’s seven hours! Hey Arnold is probably my favorite show of all time due to the same reasons we share. There’s something about this show that reminds us of our past, how life was pre 9/11. This show was more real than we ever knew

You guys remember what I said about Hey Arnold being the most wholesome Nicktoon ever? I take it back. Episodes like these are a great reminder as to why this show can get pretty dark at times!

This made me realize how little I actually remember about the show. Old Spongebob and cartoon network stuff were the ones that stuck with me. Though I do remember the episode now and I recall being a little spooked by it. I mainly recall bits and pieces of the movie, more so the guy saying “you take the high road and I’ll take the low road” followed by a malicious chuckle. That and the episode where Helga and Arnold got stuck in the greenhouse and something about ants.

Man you speaking so highly about this series makes me want to look some episodes up!

The episode that always got me as a kid was the Wheezing Ed one... something about that wheezing at the end and the pan to the 3 skulls while Gerald is telling the story always creeped me out as a kid.

this episode is a great demonstration of the principle of Occrams Razor where the most simple explaination is often the right one

This was my favorite episode of the show when I was a kid. The show used to air on the 5:00am EST time block, so I used to wake up and hope that the episode would be this one. The episode with the Sewer King was also one of my favorites.

Im so so glad people still remember and love this show

This is literally one of my favorite episodes because of the end with the ghost conductor at the end. One of my top five for the series, definitely.

Aww man, I remember this show! ❤️ Haven’t seen in it ages, but if I’m lucky enough, I’ll catch a re-run on late night tv 😂 Congrats on 50K, my friend! Much deserved! 💖 You are an incredibly well-spoken KZfaqr with a great insight on all the shows you cover! Can’t wait to see you grow to great heights and beyond! 😃

Oh yeah! Remember that episode with Four Eyed Jack? That’s a great horror episode too! I really liked that one. I love the ending of it. XD

I never really watched this show as a kid, just caught the occasional episode when it happened to be on, and as far as I can remember, I only ever caught 3 episodes, and this was one of them. I feel lucky to have caught this one. The darker episodes of kids' shows are always my favorite.

This episode aired just as much during the day, as a kid I could never stay up late but I have seen this episode SO many time.

The one that always gets me is the other ghost story one with the glasses with the ghost POV at the end and then Arnold wakes up and sees him, that one will still make me feel uneasy lol

I love Hey Arnold! I rewatched the entire series last year it really brought me back to when I 7 years old. Man how I wish I could rewind time

This show still holds up today. Great video!

This was always one of my favorite episodes of Hey Arnold. I always loved the episodes where the urban myths ended up being true because it always made me feel like anything was possible. They really sparked my imagination

I knew which episode you were on about the moment I saw the title 🤣 great video👍🏽

The infamous hey Arnold video has arrived! Great stuff as always sir. I actually have zero recollection of this episode but I know I must have seen it as a kid lol. Guess it's a trauma I buried deep down. I look forward to the next one!

This episode scared me so much as a kid and I wasn't expecting it, and I watched it right before bedtime, learned the hard way

this one and four eyed jack scared me still to this day haha awesome info dude!

His bedroom was and still is the coolest bedroom ever. I wanted to have my room exactly like his when I was a kid. The cool bed, the sky light, the pop out stereo. It was soooo cool.

Oh man, I remember this being on close to bedtime too. The episode of Hey Arnold that jumps out as spookiest for me though is the vampire one - it didn't scare me too badly, but my little brother was so terrified of it. For years he couldn't handle vampires because of that episode, it really spooked him

50k+ subs let's gooo. Congrats man

I remember watching this ep as a kid it was actually pretty good tbh. Theirs another childhood show i use to watch so much as a kid. It’s a show call CatDog not sure if you cover it or not.

The final scene with the ghost gave me nightmares as a kid. I'm 29 now, and still think of this episode to this day.

For some reason, I never felt afraid by this episodes, this one, the ghost bride and the other one where a cientist died in Arnold's house were my favorites! I loved them even back then and I still do

I always found the episode of the ghost bride to be kind of dark, and the ending to that episode in particular where they lock the psycho kid in the cemetery with the ghost to be disturbing. Always spooked me when I was younger, but made me feel like an adult because I could watch something as dark as this and still enjoy it!

Bigman Jordan smashed that 50k subs well done can't praise your success enough. I don't remember this episode. I sort of do but maybe it's a Mandela effect lol. One episode I vividly remember is when these kids force Arnold to break into a building because his head is the shame shape of the window. I don't know why I always remembered that one.

Nice man! I honestly thought you would talk about the dark episode where both Arnold and Gerald get in a fight with each other in a flower shop, don't want to be friends anymore, and Arnold has a bad dream when both he and Gerald are old and grown up. Man did that episode scare me 11-12 years ago as a kid. Can you please talk about that episode next double please?! The episode is in season 1 and is titled Part Time Friends.