Phillip Shortman

Phillip Shortman (commonly known as Grandpa Phil) is a major character of the Nickelodeon animated series Hey Arnold!. He is Arnold's paternal grandfather and Gertie's husband. He runs a Sunset Arms boarding house.
He provides good wisdom and often gives Arnold for advices and tells him great story of his past experience. He is authentic and healthy in his age. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who is best known for voicing Homer Simpson.
==Biography==
Phil is Arnold's cheery, fun-loving grandfather. He is 94 years old, as of the episode "Grandpa's Birthday". Arnold often comes to him for advice. He often tells Arnold stories about his past experiences, although he has a tendency to stretch the truth. Despite responding frivolously to Arnold's problems, he will often provide good wisdom. While his advice isn't usually the most helpful, his heart is always in the right place. He's a World War II veteran and claims to have single-handedly won the Battle of the Bulge by tricking a large troupe of Nazi soldiers into eating numerous cans of spoiled CHAM (a spoof of Spam), thereby poisoning them and creating a hole in the enemy line for the American troops to break through. Arnold does not believe his story at first, but it's later proven when Phil shows him a small monument of him hidden in some bushes in a park in Washington D.C. Phil was also a master at Chinese checkers in his youth, which earned him the nickname "Steely Phil". He's very healthy and spry for his age, as well as athletic. He has an older twin sister named Mitzi. When he and Mitzi were kids they used to be really close and they owned a Scottish Terrier named Pooter but one day he got out of their backyard and was killed by a milk truck and after that day he and Mitzi stopped speaking to each other for 71 years.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*He is 81 years old.
*He has a best friend named Jimmy Kafka.
*He has an arch-rival named Rex Smythe Higgins.
*He has a pet Scottish Terrier named Pooter.
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