All of the boarders get very curious to what is inside the very personal Mr. Smith's package.

Arnold has trouble with the basketball coach and his favored son.

Helga decides to give her talented sister Olga a taste of reality by changing her grade in her report card.

Arnold and Gerald compete against Helga for the school newspaper.

After Arnold saves Sid from an injury, Sid devotes himself to paying Arnold back with unending kindness.

Wolfgang and his gang of fifth graders challenge Arnold and his friends to a football game, but he has to first persuade them that his plays are good enough for them to win.

Gerald, getting tired of his family bugging him, moves out of his home and into Arnold's boarding house, only to realize emancipation is not all it is cracked up to be.

Arnold's Grandpa enters a Chinese Checkers tournament to reclaim his pride lost forty years ago. Robby Fisher's name is a parody of Bobby Fischer.

Arnold develops a crush on Miss Felter, a substitute teacher, thinking he is having dinner at her house, only to realize that the one she invited was her fiance, whose name is also Arnold.

Arnold and his friends get Coach Wittenberg to be their new bowling coach.

As punishment for shoplifting a ham, Harold is forced to work for Mr. Green at his butcher shop for a week. Later, after his work shift to pay for it is over, he soon learns that he actually likes his new after-school job and doesn't want to stop working there, much to the dismay of Mr. Green.

Mr. Hyunh has a talent for country singing, so Arnold and Gerald, after recording a CD with him at the local studio, become his managers and make him a big star, much to his dislike.

After the results of an aptitude test are announced, Harold gains self-confidence and Helga feels dumber.

The kids compete in a grand prix race against each other.

Helga tells jokes about her classmates, who take offense to it.

Arnold is okay with working with Gerald at Mrs. Vitello's flower shop after she's injured and puts Gerald in charge, but not with working for Gerald, which causes the friendship to hit a snag and Arnold quits.

Arnold is in charge of the school dance. He books has-been singer Dino Spumoni, and when he sings a depressing "good-bye" song, all fingers point at Arnold.