Episode of Hey Arnold!
Pigeon Man
Season 1, Episode 15b
Air date: January 6, 1997
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Pigeon Man is an episode in the Hey Arnold! TV Series.

SummaryEdit

Arnold's carrier pigeon Chester is sick. The only one who can help is the Pigeon Man (Vincent Schiavelli). But nobody has seen this mysterious man, so that only rumors circulate about him. Gerald then tells the rest of the Legend of the Pigeon Man. The scary story does not intimidate Arnold and he goes to the Pigeon Man.

He turns out to be a lonely hermit who simply prefers the society of pigeons to that of humans. He asks Arnold to leave Chester at his place for a night, and to come back tomorrow. Back at the boarding house Arnold tells his friends about his trip. Nobody can believe that Arnold has actually met and spoken to the legendary Pigeon Man. Next day Arnold comes to the Pigeon Man to see Chester. He looks healthy again. The Pigeon Man, whose name is Vincent, gives Arnold some special berries Chester must be given every four hours.

Vincent tells Arnold of his childhood in the neighborhood, and how he was in Ms. Slovak's class. He also tells him how much he always was interested in birds. However, his friends thought it was weird and they stopped talking to him. In the end Arnold invites the Pigeon Man to eat a pizza at Antonio's Pizzeria. The two of them chat over their pizza.

Harold, who witnessed the scene with Stinky and Joey, comes up with an idea to go to the Pigeon Man's roof, while he's in the pizzeria sitting and make a little prank. The mischief turns out to be worse than originally planned, and the whole place is accidentally destroyed. As Arnold and the Pigeon Man come back to the roof, Arnold is totally appalled and Vincent is disappointed in humans.

Vincent then decides to leave the city, but reminds Arnold of how much his kindness has helped him regain faith in some people. Vincent's pigeons gather around him and finally take him away, flying toward the setting sun.

TriviaEdit

• Craig Bartlett does the voice of Chester the Pigeon. This is one of very few cartoons where Frank Welker doesn't do the animal voices.
• Pigeon Man flying away using a huge flock of pigeons is almost similar to when James using a huge flock of seagulls in the book James and the Giant Peach.
• The speech Pigeon Man makes at the end of the episode is a reference to Tom Joad's speech at the end of the 1940 film The Grapes of Wrath.
• Helga says "What did he say? Koo Koo ka choo?" This was a reference to The Beatles song "I am the Walrus", in which many people thought John Lennon said "Koo Koo ka choo", but in the song he sang "Goo Goo Gjoob".

GoofsEdit

• Helga, Phoebe, and Sheena's baseball gloves all disappear.

See alsoEdit

• Quotes from this episode
• Legend of Pigeon Man

External linksEdit

• Discussion of this episode in Hey Arnold! Rewatch community on LiveJournal

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