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Patricia "Big Patty" Smith is a fictional character on the TV series Hey Arnold!.

Personality[]

Despite her tough and aggressive demeanor, Patty is a polite, well-mannered, and helpful young girl. Though generally considered a bully, she only gets aggressive towards students (particularly Helga and other girls) who pick on her or say mean things about her. Nontheless, she takes pride in her tough reputation, as seen when she smirked mischievously upon seeing a video of her putting another kid in their locker, and insisted on fighting Helga even after forgiving her in order to maintain this status.

Appearance[]

Patty wears a light blue hairbow with a white hairclip and her hair down, light blue sweater, blue plaid skirt, black and white saddleshoes and light blue socks on her feet. But in the episode “Hey Harold!” she wears a light blue dress with puffy sleeves, her hair is in a bun tied with a dark red hairbow, a small light blue hairclip and brown sandals to Rhonda’s party. Her regular outfit is similar to Ruth P. McDougal’s outfit only she doesn’t wear a light blue hairbow in her hair and doesn’t wear jewelry.

Biography[]

She’s a 6th grader and the female counterpart to Harold. It’s hinted that he might have a crush on her. She's often referred to as 'Big Patty' by other students, but she doesn’t like this nickname at all and is very self-conscious about her size. She once stated how it hurts when others speak nasty things about her behind her back. Although she has a gruff exterior, she’s actually a very patient and polite young lady. Because she’s very big and tough looking, Patty became a bully to live up to the reputation given to her by other students that judge her based on her appearance and antagonistic towards any student who picking on her or saying mean things about her. Most of her "business" is done in a broom closet (she did beat up Helga twice in "Ms. Perfect"), although she has been known to dish out beatings outside after school. Patty is the city arm wrestling champion (at the end of "Harold vs. Patty").

Her parents are very supportive of her, and both of them possess the medical condition of dwarfism, which Patty obviously didn’t inherit as she’s literally more than twice the size of both of her parents despite still being a child. Though she loves her parents dearly, her parents condition seems to have had a negative effect on her self image. Although Patty has been shown to be just as kind hearted and nurturing as her parents, she isn’t able to see these similarities because of their obvious differences in her appearance.

It's possible that Patty may have been adopted. Though it isn’t uncommon for children of little people to be born average sized, childbirth can be risky for the women with dwarfism especially for someone as small as Patty's mother. Though, once again, it is not impossible. The smallest mother on record is 2ft 4in.

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Gallery[]

See Patricia “Big Patty” Smith/Gallery

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