Principal Simmons (Hey Arnold!)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| This article was copied (instead of imported) from the now-deleted Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki, with a few edits. |
| "Principal Simmons" | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 While having Mr. Simmons as the principal can be a nice change, we wish it could've been long enough to save this episode from turning out bad.
| ||||||||||||||||
|
Principal Simmons is the second half of the second episode from the fifth season of the Nickelodeon show Hey Arnold! and the one-hundred-fifty-second episode overall.
Plot
When Principal Wartz leaves after being criticized for being too harsh with the students, Mr. Simmons is elected as principal in his place, only to discover it's not as easy as he thought.
Why It's Very Stressful
- This episode is pretty mean spirited, as after Principal Wartz leaves, Mr. Simmons steps up as Principal, but no one (aside from Arnold and Gerald) respect his rules and motivations and pretty much make the school a mess.
- Principal Wartz was unlikable at the beginning of the episode, as he was being a too strict Principal to the students.
- While having a nice principal sounds really great, Mr. Simmons is just too nice and not strict enough when it comes to handling with students causing trouble.
- This is pretty much a torture episode for Mr. Simmons, as while he did ok as principal at first, it soon spun out of control, with the students taking over the school and causing chaos, leaving him stressed.
- The students (except for Arnold and Gerald) are unlikable in this episode, as they cause trouble when Mr. Simmons became principal, knowing he’s not as strict as Principal Wartz.
- The scenes where the most of the students ignore the school’s anthem and mess around are mean-spirited, as they were very rude and disrespectful.
- The worst mean-spirited scene in this episode is when the school was in chaos, and the students (except for Arnold and Gerald) cause trouble all around the school and Mr. Simmons panics.
- Like the episode "Full Moon", this episode makes Principal Wartz even more extremely unlikable.
- To add another insult to injury he didn't apologize again especially to Mr. Simmons like on "Full Moon" he didn't apologize to Arnold either.
Not So Stressful Qualities
- Some of the characters are still likable in this episode. Mr. Simmons, being a very nice principle, despite not being strict enough. Arnold and Gerald, for being the only ones not joining the chaos, and Arnold helping out Mr. Simmons and giving him advice. After quitting his job, Principal Wartz is actually likable for the rest of the episode.
- The dream Mr. Simmons has about being a good principal is nice.
- The school did fine with Mr. Simmons the first 2 days, but then things went quickly downhill.
- The scenes of Principle Wartz having a nice time without the stress of his job was good to watch, especially the scenes where he sings at the karaoke place, and the scene where he realizes he misses being principal, as well as missing the students and other staff, that he redecorated a room in his house to be like his usual principal’s office.
- The scene here Principal Wartz pretended to be principle at home was very funny.
- The ending was good as Arnold and Mr. Simmons get Principal Wartz to come back, much to Wartz’ joy. Wartz has his strictness help the school, but also acts more kinder to the students at the same time, which shows good growth in his character. There was also the ending scene where both Wartz and Simmons sing together at the karaoke place, which was good to see.
Reception
Many fans considered this episode to be a very stressful episode of the series, due to Princpal Wartz going too far with assigning unfair punishments in a state of outbursts, the kids causing destruction on School grounds all over the School and Mr. Simmons having to suffer the torture throughout the rest of the episode.
Comments
Loading comments...