Helga Thread.
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Man I miss this show
>>153225333Heh hehUnibrow
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>>153225454Helga being 100% goofball in this epsiode was hilarious after her endless angst in every other episode.
>>153225454What if Helga got a Presidential spinoff?
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>that weirdly good sequel comic where they hook up
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>>153231150https://www.reddit.com/r/HeyArnold/s/Y2XxmLdoia
>>153231348https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/hey-arnold-8th-grade-fancomic/theres-something-going-on-between-arnold-and-helga-/viewer?title_no=966249&episode_no=1
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>>153225333Phoebe is better
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>>153231992Getting teen pregnant with Gerald's baby!Who was the father of that pitched story anyway? Did the white sheet mention one?
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>>153227187We almost DID get a Helga spin-off. It was going to be called "The Patakis" and supposed to be about Helga as a teenager in High School. Most of the cast is still around except Arnold moved away. It was supposed to be more adult than Hey Arnold!. They tried to get it on Nick and Nite but it was "too dark" for them and when they tried pitching it to MTV they passed on it too since they thought it was too similar to Daria.
>>153233518Within the "mini-Bible" for the show it says Helga's mom is on the "road to recovery" from her alcoholism but it sounds like a tough road so I'd expect relapses and such. Bob has expanded into more than just beepers with stuff like phones and DVDs. One of the more interesting things is Helga's sister ends up a struggling actress and doesn't seem so perfect anymore:>"With an increased level of neediness and a different boyfriend each and every week, Helga's actually begun to view her perfect sister as a bit of a loser. In fact, we sense that Bob and Miriam are getting a little sick of Olga's act."
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>>153233518Can understand why they didn't pick it up.>No Arnold romance>dark themes of alcoholism and the older sister being a failure after being the shining light of the family for people who watch the original as kids>Helga only being 15 limits how mature you can make the showIt's a show without a target market, too kiddy but also too mature.
>>153234460>No Arnold romance.Helga's obsession over Arnold would have carried over into the spin-off, even if Arnold had moved away. Pic-related. Sounds like it would have been kind of like how Doug episodes are framed around him writing in his journal.
>>153234515>>153234515my guess is the intended ending of Jungle movie was Arnold moving back with his parents to San Lorenzo. without Arnold in the city Helga becomes the protagonist ergo the Patakis series
>>153231863You forgot the best part
>>153225333Helga is amazing and I want more characters like her on tv. Girls are supposed to thirst for boys, and have flaws and need guidance sometimes, but still be able to function with independence and female instinct.
>>153231720imagine the kind of psychopath you'd have to be to say "the government has authorized me to interfere in your showing kindness to each other, despite that literally being protected by the constitution" as if anyone but you will know whether you did it.>>153231720i hope this is somewhere other than twatter
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>>153232024comic for ants? Oh nvm I found this on Webtoon.>>153232448I love that he's trying to make her admit it. Good on ya, Shortman.
>>153234460>being 15 limits how mature-it didn't back then
>>153235675>>153235665I found some art bulk uploaded to DA just today
>>153235706oh faskinatin'. well if it goes further than what's on webtoon, do give me a linkand if it doesn't, do anyway. I can actually follow people on there.
>>153235732https://www.deviantart.com/senspringOK I lied it wasn't uploaded just today. I was looking at the wrong date
>>153235770I took that to mean "today I found..."in any case, thank you!
>>153235976oooh the small lower face really works on her.. it really goes to show how we like funny lookin girls, but we have limits. In cartoons, we don't wanna see jowl lines, nostril corners, or simpson lips. Fanartists usually figure out how to smooth those out first.
good GOD this comic is cute. It's.. inspiring me.
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Helga would leave Arnold as a shriveled up husk with a shattered pelvis and you sick fucks are cheering
>>153236368I swear to God if this is jebbie...
>>153236659nope just, uh, shall we say, someone else working on comics that attempt to have a similar vibe and make an old cartoon way hotter and lovier... just game recognizing game, as the thugs say.Both of us are following another artist on DA who was my inspiration, so
>>153236648Eeeexactly
>>153236631I guess you could say Arnold is a shortman
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>>153234515>we end each episode with Helga finishing her letter to Arnold and then filing it away with a million other letters we see she has never mailed.Depressing and psychotic. Makes me wonder why they thought the female stalker theme was either popular or funny. Nowadays it just seems sad and deranged.
>>153236873It was sad and deranged back then. But creeper fem stalkers in training and foids took to it.Even giving the canon ugliest girl in their school,her, an improbable stalker didnt mske things better. It made her look worse.
>>153236873Anon here's a tipif something used to be one way, and "nowadays it just seems" different?well,.... ask yourself how many times that has ever helped. Ask if anyone is happier 'nowadays'.>>153236903it's sad because she should just tell him, and she's deranged because of the crushing weight of it. But girls are supposed to be stalkers. that is nature. Denying that is what led to the age of all attention being considered harassment, which directly led to the modern day where nobody is with ANYBODY
>>153236873Nowadays it just seems like the main character of bestselling tv show Miraculous Ladybug
>>153236873>>153236903>>153236927You have to remember that these are kids. A kid character having a crush on another kid character from school has been a common trope for a long time, like with Charlie Brown and the little red headed girl. But usually they're too shy to ask them out on a date and not mature enough to realize maybe it's not their "one true love" and maybe they can find somebody else. So it's not as creepy as if an adult was doing it.I remember some Chinese kid would write stories where he would get with his crush and literally kill me because he was jealous I would hang out with his crush often. That's just stupid kid/teenager shit. Anyway if we're talking about being weird and creepy, writing letters to Arnold is not as messed up in my opinion as Helga making that statue of Arnold out of his used chewing gum in the original series.
>>153236927>But girls are supposed to be stalkers. that is nature.Look I dont want to drift too off topic or go off on a tangent debate but this is only true in certain western cultures. Believe it or not but there are in fact cultures where its not only socially acceptable for women to approach men with romantic attention but also the expectation. Which sex does the approaching is more of a cultural trait than some inbuilt biological one.
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>>153237048>Helga making that statue of Arnold out of his used chewing gum in the original series.Well yeah thats what i mean. That clearly goes far and beyond the scope of a crush and she gets a pass because of gender double standards. If it had been a male character doing that it would be considered a serial killer tier red flag. But because its a girl it was played for laughs.
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>>153236873There are way worse outlets. Plus it's a fun way to start and end episodes.
>>153225333The focus on her in the last season low key ruined the whole show.
>>153232024I wish there would be more episodes about Nadine and Rhonda.
>>153234460The show was also developed around the second season of Hey, Arnold! And the studio hear about Daria, so they thought there would end competing for the same market.
>>153237048yeah the shrine is definitely meant to be the part where she goes over the top. But you can't blame her.>>153237069>believe it or not, the thing you claim is universal natural law is.. actually practiced by some humans!I believe it, anon. I'm aware.Sometimes it's not so much the female as the female's PARENTS, but same basic idea.'approach' is not really the point. The point is selection. The males would select ANY females if it was our job. Females are choosy, so we have to be the ones who show off. A female latching onto a male and choosing him, however that manifests, is how it is meant to be. Be it stalking or 'i choo-choo-choose you' cards.Then, having been selected, his job is to purchase a small gift for her to show he won't abandon her. Then they move on from there. Obviously there might be (should be) a lot of dating before that part, but that's the thing about choosing, there's tiers of it.
>>153237119the part you're not noticing is that something a girl did.. is played for laughs, at all.At the time, zero girl characters were given laughable flaws. nor would they be again for another decade and change. It was seen as beneath them. THAT was the double standard. And Helga didn't follow it.
Would she keep the unibrow when she's older or no?
>>153238041>Would she keep the unibrow when she's older or no?I could see it going either way, also nice art you do that yourself?
/a/ did a series of anime character archetype grids with example characters and the one character who typified each archetype the most in the giant center square For tsundere, they just put Helga in the middle
>>153238041I like to think her hormones kinda even out once she spends more time inhaling Arnold's pheromones. Her body's just a little confused right now, too much testosterone. Hence the hostility.Then again, she is eastern european, so she might just be naturally hairy.. in which case i'm sure that's not a REAL unibrow, just a little hair in between her brows, exaggerated in a cartoon (especially since she's blonde). No big deal, nothing compared to a football head.
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>>153238214dude not bad. I mean that is not exactly pretty, but it's the character, dead on. You're a fantastic artist.
wait is posting just fine now? testing
>>153238273okay the answer is KIND OF. but not really. but it's better than it was.
>>153238214>Yup.neat, got a page anywhere?
>>153231989Sheena is so cute.
>>153238284wait now i'm told the opposite is happening
>>153238337oh, nope. seems we're fine again
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>>153238379I want a Helga gf
>>153225760>>153238379Found it!>$49.99Eww...
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>>153238041In the future what-if we see in >>153225454 we can see that she doesn't have the unibrow. As an adult I can see her putting more effort into plucking it and trying to look nicer, if at least for Arnold. That's the type of thing older women do, not so much little girls.
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>>153225333Is funny how smug Helga was that her mom took her to school.
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>>153238317Loaves_my on X. Not much /co/ stuff tho
>>153231412This... is actually pretty readable. Maybe a bit heavy on Helga being inside her own head, but I get it's supposed to be ABOUT that, and not like a fan-written regular episode of the show.
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>>153232837No. Only that she gets pregnant and stops being friends with Helga.
