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Hey Arnold!

Hey Arnold!

If you've turned over to Nickelodeon you would have seen this T.v show.

This show follows the fourth-grade boy who lives's with his grandparents, Arnold, who experiences trials and experiences with his friends.

doesn't seem like much of a theory huh? well, here it is.

Accept it, the real protagonist is the antagonist, Helga G. Pataki, a unibrowed bully who constantly makes fun of Arnold's hideous deformity by calling him "football head."

Why doesn't this surprise us? because who shouts "Hey Arnold!" (repeatedly) during the show's intro? Helga. And who is the only character who gets to have a monologue (about how much she secretly loves Arnold) in every episode? Helga. Everything that unfolds then is recounted to the viewer, by her, in her opinion.

This all makes sense because yes she is a bully but that's because her father neglected her and her mother that needs to attend a AA meeting, this makes her life more dramatically interesting then Arnold's life.

Helga is the 'black sheep' of the family, unlike her older sister Olga, Olga is adored while her younger sister is scolded. In several episodes Helga is refereed to by her father as 'the girl' and to put the cherry on top of the ice-cream, she has feelings for a boy but doesn't know how to express it to him so instead she picks on him.

So coming to a conclusion, Helga's obsession with a strange-headed boy, and how she finds meaning in her otherwise bleak life through him. Hence the title, and the disproportionate amount of screen time for Arnold, a secondary character. It's no wonder that the creators wanted to make a spin off that was openly about Helga, but it was shot down for being too depressing.