The Hal Linden Special (Unresurfaced 1979 ABC TV Special)

Heard of the show, Hey Arnold? It was a show about a football headed kid named Arnold who got picked on by Helga. It was my favorite show, until a strange episode came on that ruined my childhood. Hopefully nobody else saw it. Here is how it all began.

In 2004, I was watching simple shows like Hey Arnold on Nickelodeon. There was a marathon of Hey Arnold, showing episodes like Grandpa's Birthday, Helga's Play, Pigeon Man, and more. Eventually, as I was watching the marathon, a new episode came on. I swore, that they didn't tell about new episodes anywhere. It played the normal opening, then, the tv froze for a minute or two. That must've been my old 1970s tv. The episode started with the little caption thing saying "Helga's Love".

It was zooming into Helga's apartment, as you notice. It spent the time doing nothing but zooming in. It was getting boring, and has been doing this for three minutes by now. I eventually saw a shadow that looked like Helga's shadow pass by, then it went into the house. Helga was doing her obsession with Arnold again, saying "One day, I will ask you out." And some more poetry. It eventually soon show Helga sleeping, and the apartment again at night.

The next day, they were at school. What was strange was that Gerald was not with Arnold while Arnold was shown walking down the hall, and some of the characters like Phoebe was acting uncharacteristic. Phoebe wasn't really that smart. Harold kinda looked less fat, and was more of the bully type.. Sid was just a complete asshole.

Helga was like "Today's the day I admit to Arnold and ask him out," along with more poetry crap, which was going on for a while. When Helga left, it shown her walking up to Arnold, then soon, she said "Arnold, I need to tell you something I always wanted to tell you for years." Arnold said "What do you wanna tell me?" Helga eventually said "For all of the times I have been mean to you, all of my rude stuff to you, I actually love you the entire time. Will you, take me?" Arnold eventually denied in some rude tone and said "You've done all of this bad stuff for me? You're stupid." Helga said "But I really love you." Arnold soon said "Well you should've thought about being rude before actually doing it." Helga soon started looking depressed. Arnold then knocked over her books and left to the next class.

The next moment, she was home, on her bed, upset about what happened that time. She broke her heart thing with the picture of Arnold in it, then started crying for a while. As she was crying she kept on shattering that heart thing. She then kept on hitting that shrine of Arnold.

This took place for a while more before the screen blacked out. Eventually, it came back, slowly, with Helga hung on a noose. She had cuts all over her that said "I will always love you." There was scissors with blood on them as well. Blood was coming from her eyes. It was showing that for a good 10 seconds.

There was some strange sad/creepy music on. It eventually cut like that, and headed off of the show with the credits. The music was creepy instead. Also, the credits just looked dark. The credits were somewhat faster than original, and it didn't show any writers I know of. Afterwards, the TV turned off. I jumped back when the TV just turned off out of nowhere. I was shivering and I was paranoid for days as well. I decided to look on the guide whenever Hey Arnold was on, just to make sure it's not that episode. I am still scared of it to these days, and I decided to share this on here. I really hope nobody else finds this episode. They might get as disturbed as me.

Quote "There will be times when your crush hates you, and you will not get your crush ever again. Just get over it, before you choke to bits" The Episode Returns Hey Arnold came on again. The episode said "Helga's Love" again. My brother had the remote, and I was too scared to go get it. This time, the episode just shown Helga hung on a noose for like 20 seconds, with everything looking the exact same. It then blacked out and shown a quote in some cursive. "There will be times when your crush hates you, and you will not get your crush ever again. Just get over it, before you choke to bits."

It then just ended out of nowhere.

I slowly got paranoid again, and started feeling sad as well.

My TV turned off again, and I decided to rest to get that out of my head.

The End