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Old 04-09-2013, 12:31 AM   #1
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Default Why did Kimberly and Arnold feel the need to hitchhike in Manhattan?????

Was the subway not working that day?

No cabs?

No Buses?


This was a stupid episode idea by the writers
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Was the subway not working that day?

No cabs?

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This was a stupid episode idea by the writers
Was this the episode when they were kinda kidnapped? I haven't seen it in years.
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one thing about the hitchhiker ep that makes it seem dated is the fact that creepy bill lured them to his apartment by promising to let arnold watch his tapes of rocket launchings but today with youtube arnold could just type in a computer search and watch space stuff for hours on end
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one thing about the hitchhiker ep that makes it seem dated is the fact that creepy bill lured them to his apartment by promising to let arnold watch his tapes of rocket launchings but today with youtube arnold could just type in a computer search and watch space stuff for hours on end
Arnold wasn't very bright was he? Taken in by pedophile bike shop owners and rocket launching tapers.
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Arnold wasn't very bright was he? Taken in by pedophile bike shop owners and rocket launching tapers.
thats for sure you would have thought he would have learned his lesson after that whole thing with mr horton
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Was this the episode when they were kinda kidnapped? I haven't seen it in years.

Yes that's the one, that was my first time seeing it since 1989
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thats for sure you would have thought he would have learned his lesson after that whole thing with mr horton

And add to the fact that he saw nothing wrong with watching those rockets with the door shut


It never once dawned on him....."Hey why does the door need to be shut?
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thats for sure you would have thought he would have learned his lesson after that whole thing with mr horton
Arnold should have learned his lesson from that cautionary tale of the pervert who drugged Dudley and lured Arnold in to his pervert web. And where was Kimberly's brain? She was almost an adult. You think she would know better.
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Arnold should have learned his lesson from that cautionary tale of the pervert who drugged Dudley and lured Arnold in to his pervert web. And where was Kimberly's brain? She was almost an adult. You think she would know better.

The guy who played BILL did a good job of playing a WEIRDO LOL
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I think that the writers had a fascination with kidnapping plots. A year or so later Sam was kidnapped by a crazy couple.
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I think that the writers had a fascination with kidnapping plots. A year or so later Sam was kidnapped by a crazy couple.

2 kidnapping episodes and 1 child molestation............


Maybe one of those was fine but that's it
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If Kimberly was with Willis instead of Arnold, that weirdo would never have put his kookoo plan into action.
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If Kimberly was with Willis instead of Arnold, that weirdo would never have put his kookoo plan into action.

I guess the episode was trying to send the message that criminals prey on

women or children or both.


Because we both know that the man would have never stopped his car if Arnold with Willis or Mr. D.
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The guy who played BILL did a good job of playing a WEIRDO LOL
his name was woody enry and the weird this is i saw him in a rice a roni commerical about a year after that ep aired and i still saw him as billl
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his name was woody enry and the weird this is i saw him in a rice a roni commerical about a year after that ep aired and i still saw him as billl

CREEPY A$$ BILL
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