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"I knew I should've stayed home today!"

—Arnold whenever he feels uncomfortable at school or during a field trip.

Arnold Matthew ^[1] Perlstein is one of the main students in the class at Walkerville Uncomplicated School.

Groundwork/Personality

Arnold in particular, usually has a dislike on field trips. Most of the fourth dimension, he is usually an unwilling participant. Despite his usually timid moments and some nervous breakdowns, he has shown to have a dauntless personality when he's needed to, and he's very loyal when it comes to his classmates, even taking upwardly a leadership part a number of times. He has a huge interest in rocks and minerals, and is the youngest member of GRANITE (the Great Rock Admirers' National Institute of Tectonics Due eastxperts), an system for amateur geologists. He besides mentions an interest in colors. He has shown interest in conserving the environment, as he wanted to salve the rotting log in "Meets the Rot Squad" and have the course collect stuff for recycling in role i of the Holiday Special.

Despite his paranoia for field trips, he does love having the Frizzles as teachers, and deep down, enjoys the adventures, merely is too nervous to show it and he doesn't usually like surprises. He even stood in her defense force when the class went on trial during the original series episode "In a Pickle" and when his cousin, Janet, tried to evidence off and say that her teacher is better than his, Arnold interrupted her before she could finish and said, "Nobody is better than Ms. [Professor] Frizzle" during "Gets Lost in Space". When it comes to riding the Bus, Arnold but likes to stay prophylactic because of all the dangerous happenings, simply he genuinely and deeply does care for his friends and the Frizzles, and enjoys a wonderfully wild ride on the Magic School Bus (but not as well wild).

In CD-roms, Arnold appears to be somewhat shy. He'south seen isolated from his classmates sitting in a corner of the classroom. If you click on him, he'll but crawl behind an object to hide.

Appearances and dress

In the original series, Arnold's appearance is similar to his book counterparta. Arnold is a bespectacled male child who wore a yellow-and-white striped polo. He wore blue jeans and blue sneakers for leg- and footwear. but in this canon, he has curly red hair instead of curly blond hair. The light-blueish circular-framed eyeglasses, the yellow and white striped long-sleeved polo shirt, blue jeans and navy and white sneakers are the same equally in the books. In the Rides Once more series, his hair was cut into a bowl. He wears rectangular glasses instead of circular-framed glasses, and he wears a green sweater over his trademark striped shirt. His facial features are shown much more than clearly, and he is revealed to accept freckles and light-green eyes.

In artwork and books of the original series, he had blond pilus.

In the original serial, his signature colors are yellow and blue, but in Rides Again, the yellow is replaced with green. His newer blueprint is most likely based on Phil, another character from the book series.

Storyline

The Magic School Jitney

Season 1

Arnold introduces his cousin, Janet, to his class in "Gets Lost in Infinite", and he tries to go along the peace when Janet's arrogance sours the remainder of the class. It's when Janet talks downward on Ms. Frizzle that he shows his loyalty to his teacher and suggests a field trip to the "bigger" planetarium, showing Janet that "nobody is amend than Ms. Frizzle." Arnold unknowingly eats the class in "For Lunch". He'southward happy to take stayed behind while the others go on a field trip, but after finding out where they went, he swears never to miss a field trip...at least, not until later the "next one" (Ms. Frizzle'due south dinosaur dress foreshadowing the next season). He and Keesha find themselves in a difficult situation when they forget their partner report in "Gets Eaten". He loses Wanda's bullfrog, Bella, in "Hops Home" and tries to keep her out of impairment when they look for Bella, as Wanda's too distracted to realize she's nigh to walk off of a tree or get swept down a river. In "Meets the Rot Squad", he tries to convince everyone to exit the rotted-out log on the abandoned lot the style information technology is. Everyone is shocked when he suggests that they take a field trip to the desert in "All Dried Up" after Phoebe declares they need to help the animals there. He feels confident about the trip, cheers to his Field Trip Survival Guide.

Flavour 2

While on a field trip to a dinosaur dig in "The Busasaurus", Dr. Carmina Skeledon lets Arnold run into the fossilized egg Ms. Frizzle found. He notwithstanding has it when they become back in fourth dimension, and when he lets Phoebe wait at information technology, she loses it to an Ornithomimus. He ends upwards squaring off with a Tyrannosaurus Rex after Ms. Frizzle makes him giant-sized, saving the class. In "Butterfly and the Bog Beast", he'due south the only one not to side with Janet against Phoebe when the former suggests "Bog Animal" for the school mascot. His main reason is considering he doesn't know what a bog beast is. He's caught by his crush, Tiffany, when he and Wanda get h2o from the girls' bathroom in "Wet All Over". Despite the embarrassment, information technology's implied at the terminate that Tiffany likes him, too. He serves every bit Ms. Frizzle'south defense attorney in "In a Pickle". While in the jitney' gas tank, Arnold says that he hates the odor of gasoline and was out on the engine telling the course what was going on while they were in the cylinder in "Revving Up".

Flavor 3

After losing the heat from his hot cocoa, Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the Arctic ("In the Arctic"). When Ralphie, Phoebe, Liz, and the passenger vehicle get stranded on an ice menstruation, Arnold makes it his responsibleness to save them while also trying to proceed everyone else warm. He and Dorothy Ann compete in the 10th Annual International Show and Tell Competition in "Shows and Tells", but instead of bringing a rare collection of rocks, he brings some artifacts he found in his attic that belonged to his great-aunt, the famous archeologist Arizona Joan (a parody of the film character Indiana Jones). In "Rocks and Rolls", he fears that the statue he was supposed to cleave (non by hand) is ruined, just instead, the rock slide the class caused on the side of a mountain carves a monument of the town founder. For the grade' last day before winter pause in "Vacation Special", Arnold fabricated the suggestion they collect recycled goods to take to the recycling centre. He accidentally puts Wanda's beloved toy soldier in the pile, causing her to blame his "crummy idea" and wish that recycling had never been invented.

Season 4

Ralphie teases Arnold in "Meets Molly Cule" after the famous rock star, Molly Cule, calls him "Sugar.", this caused Arnold to blush. All the same, this is what helps him effigy out that her hood ornament was made of saccharide. In "Cracks a Yolk", Arnold helps hatch the chick the class planned to replace Mr. Ruhle's lost rooster, Giblets, and the success prompts Dorothy Ann to osculation him. When Giblets returns, Mr. Rhule gives the chick to Dorothy Ann and Arnold, the latter suggesting they name it "Arnold Jr." In "Goes Cellular", he's completely orange on the night he'due south to receive GRANITE's Rocky Accolade. The class tries to compare his peel to Phoebe's, only to learn his favorite snack food made him turn orange. He'due south happy when Ms. Frizzle's electrician wants to buy all the lite bulbs the class was trying to sell for Valentine's Day ("Gets Charged"). He becomes a fox along with Phoebe and Tim in "In the Urban center", and he'south partners with Phoebe in "Takes a Swoop".

The Magic Schoolhouse Bus Rides Again

Season ane

In "Frizzle of the Futurity", Arnold was unhappy to run across that his favorite teacher, Valerie Frizzle, has become a enquiry professor with a Ph.D and a new teacher, her sister, has replaced her. In "Pigs in the Wind", he plays the part of pig 3 in The Three Little Pigs 2. In "Hides and Seeks", he joins Dorothy Ann and the remainder of the kids in the rainforest to help Jyoti, Tim, and Ralphie win a game of Walkerville Uncomplicated School'southward annual Ultimate Hibernate and Seek.

Season two

In "Making Magic", Arnold is so excited to continue a field trip to the embankment, but instead they terminate upwards going to the bodily sun with Mr. Ruhle to charge the Bus's battery. In "Kids in Infinite", Arnold takes on the role of safety officeholder during a field trip to the International Space Station. In "The Frizz Connection", it'due south his altogether and he decides to attend the International Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, NM as his "birthday field trip" on the Magic School Passenger vehicle. Along the way, a strike of magic lightning affects Ms. Frizzle, causing her to split into three emotions: Goofy, Reliable, and Audacious. The class (including Liz) is sent to different parts of the world, and he, DA, and Liz end upward in Nova Scotia, Canada, with the reliable-teacher side of Ms. Frizzle. In ''In the Zone", he and the class join some other cousin of the Frizzles, Maven, on her world tour for New year's Eve.

Relatives

His parents first announced in "Going Batty," his begetter voiced by Elliott Gould. They brand some other appearance in "Rocks and Rolls" and "Goes Cellular". Mr. Perlstein also appears in "Vacation Special". Arnold seems to take after him, since in "Going Derailed", he said "Maybe we should've stayed habitation tonight."
His merely cousin is his paternal i, Janet Perlstein, whose personality mirrors his.
His bully-aunt is the famous archaeologist Arizona Joan ("Shows and Tells").
He mentions his grandmother in "Holiday Special", and later in Janet's Mystery Gene. Assuming because his female parent is already with her, she'due south his maternal grandmother.
His granddaddy was mentioned in Janet's Mystery Gene during the Freckle Gene Car, merely he never appeared in person.
His paternal grandmother was also mentioned in Janet's Mystery Gene.
His son, Arnold Perlstein Jr., is shown in "Frizzle of the Future" when the form travels thirty years into the hereafter. He appears with the other students' children and their teacher.

Producer Says segments

As the caller

Makes a Stink/Producer Says
Frizzle of the Future/Producer Says

Trivia

He is the third student to have a birthday within an episode. It was celebrated in "The Frizz Connection", and happens on the outset full calendar week of October (his birthday is celebrated during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta)^[2].
In the television canon, he has been the most-explored human body, behind Ralphie. ("For Lunch", "Goes Cellular", "I Spy with My Animal Eyes")y
In Tim's comic-book universe, The Adventures of Weatherman, he is named Captain Rock Man. ^[three] ^[4]
Arnold's favorite color is orange ^[5].
In the Arabic dub of TMSB, his proper noun is Fareed.
He is Jewish. ^[half-dozen]
- His surname, Perlstein, is Ashkenazi (German/Yiddish).
Bruce Degen mentioned that a friend of his son'south was the original model for Arnold.
He has ii allergens: pollen and pepper. ^[7] ^[8]
Arnold'due south favorite drink is hot cocoa, because he enjoys the wintertime. ^[9]
While crushes are only hinted at, Arnold's had affection shown to him for and from iv girls: Wanda ("For Luncheon" (him fantasized himself breaking a tape and her hugging him), "Holiday Special" (she was his secret Santa), "Hops Dwelling" (they teamed up), "Meets the Rot Squad" (she imagined herself sitting under a tree with him) and "Gets Charged" (they were cupids at the end of the producer segment)), Phoebe (The opening credits (he held onto her shoulders and she smiled while they were rafting a river of lava) "The Busasaurus" (she swooned over his bravery) and "Goes Cellular" (she helped him when he was orange)), Tiffany ("Wet All Over" (he helped her upward and held her hands at the stop and blushed)), and even Dorothy Ann ("Gets Ready, Set, Dough" (he hugged her later she and Carlos got them out of the cake), "Shows and Tells" (They were supposed to practise a testify and tell together, simply he managed to do it without her help, and they held up the bays upon winning the Testify and Tell competition) and "Cracks a Yolk" (she kissed him out of gratitude and he proceeded to blush).
While oft cautious and nervous virtually field trips, he has never had a phobia revealed, unlike Carlos and Phoebe.
Arnold flew on an eagle. ^[10]
Arnold's been shown to be a big eater with Cheezie Weezies, Sea Wheedies, and Mallowblasters being among his favorite snacks. ^[11]
It's possible he had some fight lessons, considering the boxing opinion and martial arts he uses in "The Busasaurus", this was as well implied in the volume "Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Imperial China".
Arnold despises the smell of gasoline ^[12] and the taste of pickle juice ^[13]
His and Janet'due south book counterparts have blonde, curly hair instead of red, straight pilus.
- Also, it is implied that the Perlsteins use hair curlers.
He is mentioned a lot of times in the producer segments.
In the Spanish dub, his name is Arnoldo. In the German dub, his name is Andy.
He and Tim are the only main kids in the original series to have had their voice actors inverse in the 2nd flavour. He had been voiced by Amos Crawley in the 1st season. He was voiced past Danny Tamberelli in the second-4th seasons due to Amos going through puberty after production for the 1st season concluded and sometime before the 2nd season was in voice production, his voice was already too deep for him to proceed voicing him. The divergence betwixt the two voices is that Amos is Canadian, and Danny is American.
His 2nd voice actor, Danny Tamberelli, also played the grapheme Little Pete in The Adventures of Pete & Pete. He would later move on to working as a cast fellow member of the sketch one-act show All That, and even later on voiced/mocapped Jimmy De Santa in the 2013 Open up-earth Gamble game Grand Theft Auto Five.
In the last few episodes of the original serial, Arnold'southward voice was noticeably getting deeper and near teenager-like despite being ten like everyone else in his class. The reason for this is considering Danny was starting to get through puberty at the time.
He broke the fourth wall in "For Tiffin", maxim he would never miss another field trip, starting right after the adjacent 1, facing the viewers as he said information technology.
He was the get-go character to permit the class enter his mouth and explore his body, which happened in the volume Within the Human Body.
Whenever he is seen in the dark such as "In The Haunted Firm" and "Gets a Bright Idea" (along with Janet), his shirt would sometimes turn light-green and his hair sometimes turn dark-brown.
Arnold has an aunt who is a nurse. ^[xiv]
Arnold is the first major graphic symbol to change vox actors due to his voice actor going throughout puberty. His original voice actor, Amos Crawley, was swapped in for Danny Tamberelli, and later Miles KV and Roman Lutterotti.
Arnold is the only student who wears glasses.
Arnold likes rock operas. ^[fifteen]
Arnold is bad at sports. ^[xvi]
Arnold is the fourth major graphic symbol revealed to have grandparents, mentioned in Janet's Mystery Gene and Holiday Special. The first beingness Ralphie in Inside Ralphie, the second being Keesha in Going Derailed, and the third beingness Tim in In a Beehive.
Arnold, Carlos, Keesha, and Phoebe all have vi letters in their English language names:
- Arnold has six letters in his French name (Arnaud), only vii in his Latin American and Russian names (Arnoldo and Арнольд)
In the game Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs, he is one of two kids to appear in all three time periods with Keesha beingness the other.
He is one of only iv students to also have book counterparts appearing in all 13 original books, the others being Dorothy Ann, Wanda, and Tim.
Arnold is one of the 7 students known to make a pun along with Tim, Ralphie, Carlos, Phoebe, Keesha, and Wanda.
Arnold appears to be ambidextrous, or else his dexterity differs betwixt the book and blithe canons. ^[17]
Arnold's catchphrase has been referenced, unknowingly or not, in popular culture.

In the YouTube spider web-series, SMG4 (2011–present), Meggy Spletzer uses his catchphrase in the episode, "The Pursuit of Happiness". In this iteration of the catchphrase, it is worded as "I knew I should've just stayed home today!"
In the English language version of the 2020 RPG video game, Genshin Impact, Lisa uses his catchphrase whenever she is is knocked out. However, "today" is omitted.
Arnold is one of the few male person characters to fall victim to the "Carlos!" gag.

External links

↑ Revealed in Ms. Frizzle'due south Adventures: Medieval Castle
↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albuquerque_International_Balloon_Fiesta
↑ The Battle for Stone Mount
↑ In the Zone
↑ Makes a Rainbow, Goes Cellular
↑ Holiday Special
↑ Goes to Seed
↑ Come across the Form
↑ In the Arctic
↑ Taking Flying
↑ For Lunch
↑ Revving Upwardly
↑ In a Pickle
↑ Gets Ants in Its Pants
↑ Waste material Not, Want Not
↑ Ready, Set, Fail!
↑ The Magic Schoolhouse Autobus at the Waterworks, In the Zone

On Wikipedia

Arnold's folio on the Tagalog version of Wikipedia

Walkerville Elementary School
Staff
Mr. Ruhle (primary) • Mr. Wilde (assistant main) • Mr. Quiggin (librarian) • Mr. McClean (janitor) • Ms. Frizzle (fifth form teacher) • Professor Frizzle (retired)
Ms. Frizzle's grade
Arnold Perlstein • Carlos Ramón • Dorothy Ann Hudson • Jyoti Kaur • Keesha Franklin • Ralphie Tennelli • Tim Wright • Wanda Li • Book Extras
Other students
Janet Perlstein • Tiffany • Mikey Ramón • Harry Arm • Seeker
At other schools
Phoebe Terese

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