Arnold's Hat

"Arnold's Hat" is the first segment of the third episode of Hey Arnold!
==Synopsis==
Helga has made herself a sculpture in Arnold's likeness, made out of used gum, that she keeps in her closet shrine, and finds that all it needs to be complete is his hat. At the park, as Arnold and Gerald are trying to fly a kite, Helga tries to swipe Arnold's hat with a fishing pole, but ends up catching a delivery truck instead, which drags her across the roof until she crashes into a pigeon coop. Then, just as Arnold has gotten the kite to fly by tying a balloon to it, a gust of wind blows his hat off of his head and into Helga's hands. Delighted, Helga runs home with the hat and puts it on her sculpture.
Arnold, depressed over the loss of his hat, walks home and mopes into his bedroom. He reminisces how his parents first gave him his hat when he was a toddler. He then hears Gerald calling him to come outside, because the Jolly Olly Man is giving away free ice cream. But Arnold refuses, saying he is not going outside without his hat. Helga, who is among the kids accepting the free ice cream, overhears this and runs home to her closet, only to discover that her Arnold sculpture has gone missing. After learning that her mother, Miriam, threw it away, Helga rushes to the city dump to retrieve the hat.
Meanwhile, Arnold is still moping inside his bedroom moping until his grandfather Phil comes in and tells him that even though his hair fell out, he was the same person that he always was inside. As Phil leaves, Arnold thinks about what his grandfather says and finally regains his confidence. Shortly after Arnold finally goes back outside, he literally bumps into Helga, having just retrieved his hat from the dump. Arnold hugs Helga out of gratitude, which gives her a happy feeling, only for her to then revert back to her normal, rude self and demand Arnold to leave, which he complies to happily.
==Note==
* This episode includes the first appearance of Arnold's parents, Miles and Stella, briefly seen (albeit with only their hands being shown onscreen) in Arnold's flashback.
==Home video releases==
;VHS
* Hey Arnold!: The Helga Stories
;DVD
* Hey Arnold!: Season 1 (both versions)
* Hey Arnold!: Stoop Kid and Other Stories
* Out of the Vault Collection
;iTunes
* Hey Arnold!: Volume 1
==External links==
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