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HIDDEN AGENDA (2023) // Joke & Zo ↳ what a clumsy guy

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When Helga finally gets her foot-popping-kiss from Arnold <3 which took over 15 years to happen xD

HILLWOOD: THE SERIES ↳ a Hey Arnold! sequel concept

Helga Pataki has spent the past seven years since the final collapse of Big Bob’s Beepers bouncing from place to place, never spending very long in any one spot. Just long enough for Bob to get a new job, move the family into a new apartment, get comfortable -- and then get fired, the cycle timed almost perfectly with Miriam’s drinking binges. But the summer before her senior year of high school, she gets an offer from perfect Olga to move back to the old neighborhood and finish out her public school career where it started: Hillwood.

The names are familiar -- the people, the streets, the bus lines. But almost nothing remains the same after half a decade. But, Helga figures, scribbling in her well-worn journal, not much about her is familiar to Hillwood anymore either -- certainly not since she’s been hit (correction: beaten) by the puberty stick. For Helga, the task set forth seems simple: get good grades, get into a good college, apply for scholarships, and then get the hell out Olga and her overbearingly nice husband’s apartment. Maybe even rekindle some friendships (or rather, friendship, Phoebe) -- but definitely not her elementary school obsession with Arnold Shortman. She walks into her first day of school with her ponytail and head held high, and is shocked when some people -- Rhonda, Geraldo, Brainy? -- appear to have fond memories of her. After her third invitation to a back to school party (including one from Arnold, whose mere presence can still liquefy her knees into jelly) Helga concedes that maybe, just maybe, this school year won’t be torture.

But Hillwood is in trouble. There’s a darkness bubbling underneath the once-quaint neighborhood’s wholesome facade. When the body of their former fourth grade teacher is found in the river, the PS 118 gang is forced to dredge up memories from a class trip many had willingly forgotten, forced to confront the legacy of San Lorenzo and that La Sombra may very well be alive, this time hidden behind corporate branding and well-funded politicians -- and that he’s coming for revenge on the Shortman family and everyone associated with that fateful excursion into the jungle.

However, it remains true that anyone who wants to mess with Arnold Shortman better be prepared to get past Ol’ Betsy and the Five Avengers. Not Helga doesn’t admit that it’s nice to have help from her old classmates.