Character of Hey Arnold!
Lila Sawyer
Occupation	Fourth-Grade Student
Family	Father Mr. Sawyer
Best friends	Olga Pataki
Relationships	Arnold Arnie
Voiced by	Ashley Buccille

Lila Sawyer is a fictional character in the Hey Arnold! TV Series.

BiographyEdit

Lila made her first appearance in the episode "Ms. Perfect ". She is one of P.S. 118's "new kids". She's new to "the big city", having moved with her father from Pleasantville, a farming community.

Lila is, as Helga puts it, "little miss perfect". She's as smart as Phoebe, as stylish as Rhonda, and the most popular girl with the boys. At first, the other girls were jealous, but when they learned about her poor home life, they decided they could live with it.

Helga would later dislike Lila again in the episode "Arnold & Lila", even though it would be through her own making. Lila decided that she likes Arnold after finding "Arnold & Lila" written on an alley wall while walking home from school. Arnold himself would later like her back, however, Lila reveals she doesn't "like him like him".

In the episode "School Play", she is assigned the penultimate understudy, making her the last person Helga has to get through in order to play Juliet opposite Arnold as Romeo. However, all of her attempts to get Lila to quit fail. Lila suddenly begins to hint she knows why Helga wants to play Juliet, and says she would be willing to quit if Helga admitted she liked Arnold. Helga confesses her love for Arnold, and Lila willingly relinquishes the part. This makes Lila one of only four other people to know Helga's secret; the others being Dr. Bliss, Phoebe and possibly Brainy, and is possibly the biggest reason why she only "likes" Arnold.

In the episode "Timberly Loves Arnold", after Arnold gets turned down again by Lila, he finally decides that he is through with trying to get Lila to "like him, like him".

Lila did make an appearance in Hey Arnold!: The Movie. However, she did not play a huge role in the film. It was also unlikely that she would have made an appearance in Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie as she was never mentioned in the any of the pre-production material.

TriviaEdit

• In the episode "Weird Cousin", we learn she does not like scary movies.
• In the episode "Love And Cheese", we learn Lila can't swim and that she's allergic to stuffed animals.
• In the episode "Eugene, Eugene!" (which is her favorite musical) she shows she's a good, if plain, singer.
• In the episodes "Love and Cheese" and "Timberly Loves Arnold" she gets sick on roller coasters.
• In the episode Big Sis, Lila and Olga Pataki evidently have similar personalities and interests. They have a tickle fight and both are very ticklish. 
• In her first four appearances, her hair was red. Starting with the episode " Love and Cheese", her hair is brown.
• In personality, she may be inspired by Becky Thatcher from, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", by Mark Twain. Her last name also may be a reference to Tom Sawyer.
• She has a tendency to add the words "ever so" to just about every sentence she speaks.
• Despite her kindness and sweetness in just about every episode, in the last episode, Phoebe's Little Problem, Lila makes a rude and bored face with the other kids while Phoebe is giving a speech.

Appears inEdit

• Arnold & Lila
• Arnold Visits Arnie
• Big Sis
• Dinner for Four
• Eugene, Eugene!
• Helga's Masquerade
• Helga's Parrot
• Hey Arnold!: The Movie (no cues)
• Hey Harold (no cues)
• It Girl
• Love And Cheese
• Married
• Ms. Perfect (first appearance)
• Phoebe Skips
• School Play
• Synchronized Swimming (no cues)
• Timberly Loves Arnold
• Weird Cousin