What's Opera, Arnold? is an episode in the Hey Arnold! TV Series.
Summary
Mr. Packenham takes the 4th grade class on a field trip to see the opera "Carmen", and while Arnold falls asleep and dreams of him and Ruth, Helga dreams of getting rid of Ruth and having "Don Arnold" for herself.
Trivia
- This episode may have been inspired by the 1957 Warner Bros. cartoon, "What's Opera, Doc?". The Michael Maltese story features Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny through a 6:11 operatic parody of 19th century classical composer Richard Wagner's operas, particularly Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) and Tannhäuser.
- In Helga's dream sequence, where she parodies Elmer Fudd's character in "What's Opera, Doc?", she reveals her weapon to be a "golden magic slingshot". A little later, Gerald mentions that he thought the weapons were suppose to be a "spear and magic helmet"; these were what Elmer Fudd claimed as his weapons in the Looney Toons short.
- Toran Caudell plays Arnold's singing voice even though he already left the show. This is because Pillip Van Dyke was uncomfortable with singing and Toran still sounded like Arnold when he sang. Craig Bartlett says it just worked out!
- Creator, Craig Bartlett says this was his favorite episode to make because it was so much fun to record.
- Mr. Packenham takes the 4th graders on their field trip. But in Teachers' Strike, Gerald claims that Mr. Packenham was a 5TH grade teacher.
Goofs
- In the last episode of Season 1 (Arnold's Valentine), Arnold clearly loses all the feelings that he had for Ruth; however, in "What's Opera, Arnold?" (end of Season 2 ), Arnold is suddenly depicted as having a crush on Ruth again.
- Robert's hair changes color from blonde to black and back several times throughout the episode.
- Robert also vanishes during the Carm Helga scene.
- During Carm Helga's Song at the pharse "We're Touring Fifty Cities", Stinky's head is facing backwards while his body is facing the wall
- At Arnold and Curly's fight scene, when Curly runs away, he steps on Rhonda's head like it was part of the background
See also
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