Hey Arnold ! Is actually all about Helga and her depressing life.
You'd think that a show called Hey Arnold is about, you know, Arnold, but Redditor iSmokeTheXS has pondered whether it's secretly about antagonist Helga G Pataki, the angry bully who always picked on Arnold by calling him "football head" but was also secretly in love with him.
Before you dismiss that as a silly thought, remember that it's actually Helga that shouts "Hey Arnold!" repeatedly in the intro, and she's the only person that has her own monologue in every episode.
Everything that we see is told via her viewpoint.
Helga's life is a pretty depressing one, hence her need to be a bully to the one person she loves the most.
Her father is neglectful (he refers to her simply as "the girl"), her mother is an alcoholic and her older sister Olga is adored.
And so, maybe the show is all about Helga's obsession with Arnold, and how she manages to get through her horrid life through her love for him, explaining the show's title and the weird amount of screen time for Arnold despite being a secondary character.
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