This is all around my favorite Helga episode from Hey Arnold! In this episode, after catching an encounter with a monkey in the park from an organ grinder, Helga starts to believe that she's suffering with fear from monkeynucleosis. Apparently a parody of mononucleosis.
Symptoms of this sort of disease includes
- Itching and Puffiness
- Sweaty Palms
- Lack of Appetite
- Irritability
and finaly
- Expiration.
You do have to remember by the way that Helga always has a tendency to be irritable, mostly due to her dark secrets about her love for Arnold and bully personality.
What I like about this episode is the fact that it's mostly about Helga fearing she's going to expire, and no, they never say the word die, because apparently, you can't say "die" on a kids show, despite the fact she said it in "Haunted Train" but that's another story. Anyways, to get back on track, this is an occasional instance where Helga would indeed get scared. The only thing in the episode that kind of freaked me out was the nightmare she had about being a monkey and too late to confess her love for Arnold. The episode could be like an opposite of "A Case of Ed" from Ed, Edd n Eddy in a sense, except that in that episode, Double D worried about having Lack-a-Daisy-Cathro Disease mainly due to the fact that Ed and Eddy where tricking him whereas here, Helga worries about it because she's so delirious, oh, and she didn't get teased at. Overall, a solid episode. You get sucked into Helga's dilemma, you feel bad for what she's going through, and you want to see her come out okay. P.S. This episode felt like something that Helga's voice actress, Francesca Marie Smith wrote.
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