Staff Beef: Why Hey Arnold Deserves the Championship Belt for Nickelodeon MVP

Staff writer Omar Holmon has been provoking me with claims that the television show Doug was superior to Hey Arnold, and was the Nickelodeon MVP. Claims that are outrageous given the fact that Douglas Yancy Funnie was swagless human being which was probably the cause of Nickelodeon letting you down when they proved that they’ll air anything. Now I maybe nitpicking, but you can’t be the Nickelodeon MVP when you were dropped from the team.

So allow me to disregard Omar’s claims that Disney’s Doug was the Nicktoons MVP, and break down exactly why Hey Arnold was the better show in general. Here are the top 5 reasons Hey Arnold is better than Doug. 5. The Entire Ensemble

Arnold was fortunate enough not to carry the entire show by himself. Whether Arnold’s fun-loving and eccentric grandparents Phillip & Gertie, his best friend and resident token (this I will admit) Gerald, part-time aspiring writer and full-time torturer and crush Helga G. Pataki (the “G” stands for Gawdess), or many more including Harold, Stinky, Eugene, Mr. Potts, the Kokoshkas, Mr. Hyunh, Mr. Smith, Rhonda, Phoebe, Big Bob Pataki, Lila, Syd, Olga, Torvald, Chocolate Boy, Stoop Kid, and Pigeon Man — all who all had their own distinct personalities that separated themselves from everyone else — no character felt unimportant. Unlike Doug, Arnold didn’t always need to be the star in order to make the show interesting, as many characters were held their own with spotlight episodes over the course of the seri…