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False Alarm / World Records

Season 1, Episode 17, Aired Dec 23, 1996

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False Alarm:
Eugene is accused of pulling the fire alarm. In the school court, the jury thinks Eugene is guilty except for Arnold, who believes there is a shadow of a doubt.

World Records:
The kids try to get in the book of world records so much that they would do anything, including most people on a one-person bike and the longest game of Crack-The-Whip.

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Dan Butler

Mr. Simmons/Lila's Dad (1997+)
Francesca Smith

Helga G. Pataki/Camp Fire Lass/Gloria/Sheena
Tress MacNeille

Arnold's Grandma/Miss Slovak/Arnold's Mother
Dom Irrera

Ernie
Christopher Castile

Eugene (First episodes)
Sam Gifaldi

Sid/Robert/Billy

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Good episode that was well written.

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By dumb_person1, Apr 04, 2007

This episode was a good one because the kids want to break a world record in which is a good thing and I really liked the part when they made that giant pizza that it looked good and it was great, but some people didn't helped like Harold and Brainy that decided to break their own record horse quarter machine that seemed funny the way they rode the horse but anyway Arnold and the people that helped him did finally the pizza but it exploded in which was funny because everybody was covered in pizza sauce. But they are called to be in the book of World records and the kids get happy in which was the best part in the episode. The other episode was also good but I liked "World Records" better because it was more fun to watch. In conclusion for being a great episode I give this episode a 9.6 superb rating for my review.moreless
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- Goof: When Ruth is first shown (when the trial begins), she's wearing a red top and a blue skirt, but suddenly she's wearing her usual clothes again.
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- Nadine's hair is brown throughout "False Alarm".
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- There's a Yahoo Cola machine in the cafeteria; The Angry Beavers have a Yahoo clock in their home.
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- In "False Alarm," when Gerald is telling his version of the story, Eugene is seen going to into the broom closet without socks on. When he is found by Principal Wartz, he has socks on.
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- In "World Records," Rhonda's shirt is more orange than red.
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- Eugene usually says, "I'm okay." But in "World Records," that changes to "I'm fine."
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- In "World Records," at one point, an orange H appears on Herald's blue jacket. Later, when Herald says he isn't having fun and wants to break his own record, the H is gone.
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- In "False Alarm," the clock in the backround changes times. Once, it's 7:20. One minute later, it's 3:40.
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- Phoebe: What did you think TSP stood for? Sid: (With everyone looking at him) Uh... ten square pounds?
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- Curly: (Dementedly) I did It! I pulled the fire alarm! And I'd do it again, too! See? (Laughs dementedly as we hear the fire bell ringing and Curly pulling the levers down) Principal Wartz: Stop that!
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NOTES (4)
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- When these two episodes originally aired, they did not have closed-captioning. Recently, the WGBH Educational Foundation finally added closed-captions to these episodes, and are seen when reran. This explains why the captions here are all in lowercase, unlike other first-season episodes, which had the dialogue captions in all-capital letters.
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- Eugene's last name is Horowitz.
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- "False Alarm" marks the first and only appearances of one of Stinky's relatives, Squeaky Peterson. She does not have dialogue, but she has the same distinctive nose, ears, etc. that the other Petersons have.
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- One of the records in Arnold's book is set by a fictional person named Frannie Caudell. The voice of Helga is Francesca Smith, and the voice of Arnold at the time was Toran Caudell.
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- 12 Angry Men: Parody The episode "False Alarm" seems to parody the movie 12 Angry Men, which was about a Jury of 12 men who had to figure out if a young boy was guilty, there was only one man who said not guilty in the 12 and that man slowly gets the other men to change their minds. Various other references to 12 Angry Men include the anonymous votes, Helga accuses the wrong person to change their vote, one of the jurors has tickets to a sporting event; it was baseball in the movie, but in this episode it was wrestling, and when Arnold stabs the pencil in the table (a juror does this with a knife in the movie).
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