Once You See This Alleged Sex Scene In 'Hey Arnold!,' You Can't Unsee It
Hey... Arnold?
For a hot second, the internet thought "Hey Arnold!" wasn't actually as PG as our parents hoped.
Some pervy dude on the Internet released a Vine this week that changed the way we think about "Hey Arnold!," the cartoon featuring our favorite football-headed nerd.
The clip closes in on what seems to be two characters doing, well, butt stuff. The show's creator, Craig Bartlett, put an end to the madness yesterday, clarifying what was really being eaten at that Thanksgiving dinner.
Take a cringeworthy look.
Bet you didn't think twice about this scene when you were ten.
In an e-mail exchange with The A.V. Club, Bartlett said he was notified about the dirty clip earlier this week.
He said he's seen the Thanksgiving episode clip "a hundred times" but he admits he, like many of our adolescent selves, never noticed what was going on behind Arnold and Helga.
Bartlett said this Thanksgiving dinner was nothing but innocent.
"The scene is from Arnold's Thanksgiving," Barlett said. "The kids are leaving Mr. Simmons' apartment, where his family is arguing at the table. That's Uncle Chuck eating a turkey with his hands. I assure you it was never intended to be what the guy tweeted it was."
There we have it, folks. While our minds were in the gutter, Uncle Chuck was just trying to innocently nom on a turkey leg in a nonsexual way.
But that didn't stop everyone on the internet from freaking out, fearing their favorite childhood show contained soft porn and they had no idea about it.
Chill, guys.
We heard from the creator himself that the clip is as innocent as Arnold toe-tapping to his cassette player on a bus.
We can now move our attention from this sexually-frustrated freakout to anxious anticipation of the impending "Hey, Arnold!" movie, which Bartlett confirmed is set to be released in the near future.