Spoilers for Hey Arnold!The Jungle Movie ahead. Building a love shrine almost entirely out of chewed gum is one of Helga Pataki’s most iconic accomplishments, but the unlikely heroine in the ...

is the one to thank for Helga’s secret crush. At times, it even made her a character that viewers could sympathize with. Fans of Hey Arnold! hoped that the two would eventually get together ...

Even though Nickelodeon’s classic slice-of-life of cartoon Hey Arnold ... that [the show] is about Arnold, but you could also argue that it’s about Helga,” said creator Craig Bartlett ...

yelling little girl from Hey Arnold!, but, there was much more to Helga than a lot of us 90s kids remember. She was actually a dynamic character who was equally as flawed as she was smart and funny.