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"Student Teacher" is an episode of Hey Arnold!.

Synopsis[]

Helga's sister Olga comes home for spring break and becomes a classroom aid in Helga's class, much to Helga's chagrin.

Plot[]

Olga comes home for spring break and surprises Helga when she shows up at her school, P.S. 118, and announces that she decided not to move to Alaska but to instead be the new student teacher for Helga's class.

After Olga humiliates Helga by revealing to the class that she used to wet the bed until age 7, she threatens Harold on account of his ridiculing her, prompting Olga to give her detention for the rest of the week. During dinner, Helga hears someone ringing the doorbell and decides to go see who it is. She sees Arnold and asks him what he was doing at her house then Olga tells Helga that Arnold was here for his tutoring lesson. Finally fed up, Helga tries to get Olga into trouble by giving Olga's car a flat tire. Helga becomes angry when Olga meets her on the bus and tells her about the flat tire, unaware that it was done by Helga. Helga tries again, this time by putting a worm inside an apple, hoping it would freak Olga out. Unfortunately, the next day, the plan backfires when Mr. Simmons bites into the apple and faints at the sight of the worm. Her last attempt to take Olga's work papers also backfires, leaving Olga to declare a field trip. With the last straw reached, Arnold (who has a developed a crush on Olga) persuades Helga to have a talk with her sister.

Helga confronts Olga. She tells a surprised and perplexed Olga that it isn’t working out because she doesn't know her, and spending time together isn't making them closer. This makes Olga upset and cry because all she wanted to do was be closer to Helga and now is sad that there's nothing, she can do to make her and Helga close. However, Helga says there’s one thing Olga can do to fix their relationship.

At the airport, Helga persuades Olga to become a student teacher in Alaska and explains that the further apart in distance they are, the closer they'll be emotionally. Olga complies even though she’s sad that she won't see Helga for a year. At the very end of the episode, Helga is writing a postcard in response to the one that she received from Olga.

Initially Helga signs it with the word "From", but then looks at a picture of Olga and the children she’s teaching in Alaska and instead signs "Love, Helga".

Reception[]

Many fans considered this episode as the most annoying episode and the beginning to the downfall of the entire series, due to Helga getting annoyed and embarrassed by Olga in the entire episode and getting detention for the rest of the week after being called a bedwetter by Harold.

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