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"False Alarm" is an episode of Hey Arnold!.

Synopsis[]

Eugene is suspected and accused of pulling the fire alarm, and it's up to a student jury to vote on the verdict, but Arnold's the only one who believes Eugene's totally innocent.

Plot[]

One day at P.S. 118, as students were going to their classes, someone pulls the fire alarm. Everyone runs out of the school in a panic, thinking there's an actual fire, but Principal Wartz runs out telling them it was just a false alarm. He searches the hallways and finds peanut butter smeared all over the fire alarm pull station and notices footprints from sandals on the floor, leading to the janitor's closet where Wartz finds Eugene Horowitz inside, thinking he was the suspect who pulled the fire alarm.

In the cafeteria, which has been set up to look like a courtroom and Principal Wartz presiding, he tells Eugene he's been caught pulling the fire alarm, but Eugene said that he didn't do it. Principal Wartz tells Eugene and his "attorney" Stinky Peterson that according to the school district by-laws, Eugene could only be expelled from school after being found guilty by a jury of his student peers.

In the library, as Helga went over the votes, she finds one vote stating "not guilty". Arnold reveals that he voted not guilty because he had reasonable doubt. Arnold was convinced that Eugene was innocent. Despite Helga's lack of patience because she has tickets to Wrestlemania, the student jury carefully goes over the evidence. But eventually, they find one piece of evidence that does not belong to Eugene: The Wankyland pencil. Arnold tells the student jury that Eugene has been in more accidents in the current school year than the entire student body put together. Arnold states that everyone knows that Eugene was banned last fall from Wankyland, when he tripped off the bandstand and caused the whole Thanksgiving Day parade to crash. Back to the task at hand, Arnold says that even though Eugene loves Wankyland, it's unlikely for him to have one of their pencils, since Eugene hasn't been near Wankyland since. Arnold asks the jury why would Eugene have a Wankyland pencil, the answer, someone planted it outside the broom closet with the motive to frame him. Arnold asks who's got the motive: someone who hates Eugene and with a reason to harm him.

Curly confesses that he's the one who set Eugene up. When Arnold asks Curly why did he do it, Curly explains that because exactly 3 months, two weeks and four days ago, Eugene borrowed his favorite pencil, the one that Curly got last summer at Wankyland. And when Curly got it back from Eugene, it had chew marks all over it and Eugene sharpen the pencil all the way down to the ferrule. Curly claims that he couldn't sleep or eat, all he could think about Eugene writing with his pencil, chewing on the eraser and sharpening it all the way to the ferrule. And when Eugene finally gave the pencil back to Curly, he said "Oh here, Curly." like it was no big deal (to Curly). Not wanting to take it laying down, Curly gets his revenge by pulling the fire alarm and frame Eugene for the crime. All that Curly needed to do was to plant the right clues: the peanut butter, the glasses and to top it all off, the pencil. Curly yells "Bingo, he be branded for life!" Curly laughs manically as the student jury looks at him and each other dumbfound.

Back in the cafeteria, Principal Wartz announces the student jury's verdict. Wartz says that in light of recent evidence and the request by the student jury, the "court" finds Eugene innocent. As the students cheer, Gerald commends Arnold for standing up to the student jury. Arnold tells Gerald that he had to. Gerald calls Arnold a bold kid as they give each their signature handshake. Principal Wartz takes Curly away to his office for admitting he pulled the fire alarm. As Curly is taken away, he not only pulls the fire alarm again, but pulls the other fire alarm stations on the way, all the while laughing dementedly.

Home Media[]

DVD[]

  • Hey Arnold!: Season 1
  • Hey Arnold!: The Complete Seres
  • Hey Arnold!: The Ultimate Collection

iTunes[]

  • Hey Arnold!: Volume 2

External links[]

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