Instead, we’re treated to a plot where a man known as Mr. Although “A Pinky and the Brain Halloween” (03×17) is one of those specials that’s really only a Halloween episode in spirit – aside from an introductory sequence where Brain infiltrates jack o’ lanterns to control children’s minds (only to be thwarted by Pinky, of course), the Halloween themes are minimal.
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Hey Arnold! can be fun when it needs to be, but in equal measures it can also just be dark as hell – which makes it perfect Halloween viewing, of course.Īnd now for yet another cartoon which made my Christmas TV specials list… although I’ll be talking about its Halloween episode, of course. Pataki (Helga’s father) from a plainly ignorant father to full-on militancy, to the point where he very near caused very real physical harm to his own daughter! I know this show is just a cartoon, but it’s also a testament to its ability to connect itself to real-life situations very effectively. Even more heartbreaking is the switch made by Mr. Watching these familiar, beloved adult characters suddenly turn on the children all over a ridiculous sense of paranoia and dissociation from reality is… honestly quite sad. In terms of dramatic structure, though, I think this sits comfortably within the rest of the top-tier episodes of the show (of which there are many). Stylistically, this episode is pretty much just like every other Hey Arnold! episode, with its simple animation and heightened emphasis on characters and plot over eye-catching sequences. So when Arnold and Gerald’s prank of fake alien invasion broadcast unfortunately coincide with the rest of the kids’ plan to go trick or treating dressed as aliens, things turn ugly. The stakes are cranked up a bit higher here, though, since Halloween night and an alien conspiracy TV show already have the city folk on high tensions. The most blatant example of this is the episode “False Alarm”, which is essentially a school-set version of 12 Angry Men, but there’s also “Arnold’s Halloween” (02×40), wherein the entire plot is based around Orson Welles’s infamous 1939 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. It’s also true, though, that the show doesn’t shy away from occasional references to more “adult” media, sometimes even using the basic premise of said media (usually a movie) as the general layout for the corresponding episode. I’ve already spoken elsewhere about Hey Arnold!‘s distinct lack of reluctance when it comes to covering very serious, real-life issues within the confines of their usually silly cartoon environment. Once again, a collection of some more Halloween TV specials I watched but don’t have a whole lot to talk about (comparatively speaking).
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