Episode of Hey Arnold!
Curly's Girl
Season 5, Episode 92b
Air date: October 14, 2002
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Curly's Girl is an episode in the Hey Arnold! TV Series.

SummaryEdit

When Rhonda's father shows her a mink coat that's intended to be her mother's birthday present, she secretly takes the coat to wear at the school's art show, and accidentally gets it stained by a candy apple when Park knocks her over while holding his painting. Curly offers to clean the coat if Rhonda agrees to pretend she's dating him for a week. At first, she denies, but realizing her possible punishment is worse than "dating" Curly, she hesitantly agrees.

After a week of surprising her classmates saying Curly's her soulmate, at noon, she "dumps" his affections in front of everyone. Feeling sorry for a heartbroken Curly, one by one, Rhonda's popularity begins to decline. In order to win back her place as the most popular girl in school, she pretends to get back together with Curly. Yet, after Curly kisses Rhonda and he overhears her saying that if she doesn't go through with this everyone will hate her, he angrily breaks up with her in front of everyone.

After school, Rhonda kindly thanks him and said he's an okay guy.... at least until he wants a lock of her hair to keep under his pillow.

TriviaEdit

• Helga calls Rhonda "Cruella". Cruella De Vil was the antagonist character in the book 101 Dalmatians.
• This is a rare story where Arnold doesn't have anything to do with the main plot.
• This is the second time Curly and Rhonda have kissed.
• Curly's eyes are shown for the first time in this episode.
• There was a "Contributing Guest Artists" credit for this episode. Katie Bartlett, Madison and Morgan Buteyn, Danny Friemark, Grant and Justin Higa, Eric Keefer, Dan and Rachelle Lyman, Melissa and Michael Mark, and Helena and Paris Shaffer did the paintings shown at the art fair. Katie is Craig Bartlett's daughter, and the voice of pre-school Helga in the episode "Helga on the Couch", Younghee Higa and Dave Lyman are sheet timers, Brian Mark is a layout supervisor, and Karen Shaffer is the final checker.

See alsoEdit

• Quotes from this episode