Have With Snow Merry Arnold Christmas

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Get ready to warm up for Christmas together fun as it did with the whole gang. It talks about where it was cold probably fun as it did with 2 frosty stories. Fun title, outro two.

Catalogue Number: 7864

Title Date: September 6, 1997

Four previews in the beginning.


 * 1) Nicktoons
 * 2) Paramount Family Favorites
 * 3) It Was My Best Birthday Ever Charlie Brown
 * 4) A Rugrats Vacation

Christmas. School is out for the kids of P.S. 118 due to the holidays and everyone is in a frenzy to go home. Phoebe and Helga then discuss what the two love most about Christmas. Phoebe says she enjoys how the city is transformed by the decorations, while Helga says she is only interested in how presents she'll receive. They soon stop and Helga then reveals what she wants the most for Christmas: Nancy Spumoni Signature Snowboots. Unfortunately, Rhonda tells the greedy Helga that all stores in the city are sold out, but this does not deter Helga, who is determined that she will get those boots. While exiting a store, Arnold asks Gerald what he is giving his family for Christmas, to which he says he is giving them all ties. Arnold then convinces Gerald that Timberly has no need for a tie considering she is a "4-year old girl." Arnold then explains that every gift you give should be unique and should mean something. Convinced, Gerald decides to give Timberly a toy and his uncle the tie intended for his sister. As the two friends depart, Helga spots Arnold and goes on a mission to find the "perfect gift for her beloved." Meanwhile at the boarding house, the boarders are assigned a Secret Santa (but have to draw again when Oskar tampers with the names as a "Christmas Joke"). Arnold's Secret Santa is shown to be Mr. Hyunh has to get a present for Mr. Hyunh, who is normally very forlorn during this time. While engaging in a snowball fight, Gerald suggests to Arnold that he should get Mr. Hyunh a tie for his gift, but Arnold believes that is not "special" enough. So Gerald suggests that he should just ask him straight-up, to which Arnold agrees. Arnold is then awkwardly trying to find out what Mr. Hyunh wants for Christmas without exposing himself as his "Secret Santa." Arnold soon hears the story about Mr. Hyunh's lost daughter: 20 years ago, Mr. Hyunh lived in a small village in South Vietnam with his daughter named Mai. Despite his optimism, he was well aware of the war in the North growing closer and closer to his village, that he knew eventually the two had to leave home for a better life in America. During the mass chaos of refugees trying to escape the country, the U.S. soldiers could only make room for one more passenger on the helicopter. So Mr. Hyunh allowed Mai to escape to America for a better life, separating the family indefinitely. According to Mr. Hyunh, it took him about 20 years for him to immigrate to America and specifically chose this city since he heard the soldier say that he was taking Mai to that specific city. Unfortunately, the two have yet to meet and Mr. Hyunh's only desire is to see his daughter again to know that she is safe and happy. Meanwhile, Helga is in a toy store ready to buy a skateboard for Arnold, only for Stinky to sadly say that Arnold already has that type of skateboard and hopes Helga's Christmas doesn't bite. Arnold and Gerald attempt to locate Mai through government records, but is rebuffed by the city archivist, Mr. Bailey. Eventually he and Gerald work out a deal; they do all Mr. Bailey's Christmas shopping and he will give him the information. They nearly complete the list, but fall short in getting a pair of Nancy Spumoni Signature Snow boots, which Mr. Bailey wants to give his daughter. Without the critical item, he refuses to help the boys in their search despite all the stores in the city being sold out of the boots. Helga eavesdrops on Arnold and Gerald, who is distraught that they failed in their mission to find Mai. However, Gerald assures Arnold that his effort alone was what Christmas was really all about. Helga then takes the Christmas list and sees the missing item they were looking for. Once she is back home to seeing Big Bob, Miriam, and Olga singing Christmas carols and drinking eggnog, Helga returns back to her moody disposition. Seeing Helga's long face, Miriam then allows Helga to open only one present: the Nancy Spumoni Signature Snowboots, which Miriam stood in line for over 18 hours to get for her daughter. Helga puts the snow boots on and thanks her mother. Helga runs outside and dancing in the snow. In the midst of her joy, She drops the Christmas list and then delivers a "Moral Dilemma" on Christmas. As Arnold lays on this bed, Helga approaches Mr. Bailey who is ready call a taxi straight home. Helga offers her boots to Mr. Bailey, but he disagrees considering it is very late and he is expected to be home right now. After Helga convinces Mr. Bailey that doing this search on Mai Hyunh would make Arnold believe in miracles, the two then go back inside the building and look up the missing woman. On Christmas Day, Arnold is downtrodden over not getting Mai and her father back together. Mr. Hyunh is revealed to not receive a Secret Santa present, but understands. Arnold starts to tell Mr. Hyunh of what he was trying to do, but then the door bell rings and Phil answers it, only to find Mai at the door. Mai comes in and is reunited with her father. Arnold cannot understand how the reunion happened, but Gerald tells him that it was a "Christmas Miracle" that needs no explanation, and maybe a "Christmas Angel" was looking out for him. After Arnold dismisses this, Helga is seen outside the boarding house wishing Arnold a Merry Christmas. Snow. It is the start of Winter and it is the first snowstorm of the season! Arnold wakes up and looks outside and feels joyful when he sees that the cars and everything covered in snow! He listens to the radio for the list of school closures and finds that PS 118 is also on the list of closed schools, however, Grandpa is unamused about the snow and suddenly two kids throw snowballs at Grandpa which infuriates him and he scolds at the kids who threw the snowballs. After getting excited as he found out that his school was closed, Arnold Slides down the railing and runs to his grandpa while he was reading a list of chores to do. Arnold already has a list of things to do of his own: Fun things to do perhaps with Gerald and his class. Grandpa stops him and asks Arnold if he can help him shovel show on his sidewalk. Gerald arrives and asks Arnold to come have fun with he and the rest of his classmates. Arnold informs that he will be there as soon as he is done. Meanwhile, The rest of Arnold's classmates are joyfully enjoying the snow day, Helga and Phoebe are building snowmen, Helga builds a snowman of Arnold then sudden has second thoughts and karate chops it's head. Harold and a group of young men are throwing snowballs when a woman opens the window seeing what the young were up to, she angrily scolds at Harold and tells him not to throw snowballs at city buses again, Harold lies and tells her that they weren't throwing snowballs at city buses. Suddenly they see a bus approaching them, and the boys ready themselves and throw snowballs at the bus hitting the windshield disabling the driver's vision Causing the bus to crash and Grandma and Abner and other animals exit the wrecked bus and is found on a dog sled team. Meanwhile, Arnold gets finished with the chore and attempts to grab his sled and join Gerald on the fun. Suddenly, The furnace explodes and stops working, causing steam to exhale from the bottom of his house, The borders complain and Grandpa disgusted by the borders complaints asks Arnold to help him with fixing the furnace, suddenly Arnold feels disapproved about his Grandpa asking him to do another chore. While the rest of his classmates were still having fun. Meanwhile, Eugene is on a bobsled sliding down an incline as he was about to crash into a telephone pole he stops his sled and assumed to be relieved that he avoided hitting the pole, but he hits it with his hand causing a pile of snow to fall on him. Meanwhile, Arnold is suddenly dragged into the chores with his grandpa Gerald again again arrives but Arnold tells him that he can't go and that he is stuck doing chores. Gerald Tells him that Arnold has been doing chores all day, Arnold becomes frustrated and repeats the same line he learned from his grandpa. Grandpa suddenly starts to feel guilty that he feels like that he is overworking Arnold. He picks up a snowball, and remembers His childhood. Back to reality, Phil gets an idea of grabbing some hoses and turning the street into an ice rink for the kids, even he is joining in on the fun as well as Grandma and the the rest of Arnold's family, Arnold is still working on his chores by stacking up small logs and putting them in a storage container. Grandpa stops Arnold from working and encourages him to join in on the fun. Arnold explained what Grandpa taught him by no work ethic, but Grandpa tells him that we have no play ethic, he throws another snowball at Arnold and Arnold finally gets a chance to have fun with his classmates and his family by joining their hockey game. He sees Ruth and smiles at her as she skates by. At night, the cast sit by a bonfire as it begins to snow again, hinting that their adventures in the snow has just begun, ending the episode.

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