CraigBartlett

Okay, everyone, when you see a question for "will there be a season 6" refer the asker to this. I want to do a season 6. My crew wants to do a season 6, and the cast wants to do a season 6. Nickelodeon knows this, we have been talking about it for a long time. I've put together a proposal about what would happen in a season 6. Now it is up to Nickelodeon if it will happen or not. I don't control it; Nickelodeon does. If they decide to do a season 6, they will tell me, and as soon as I know I will tell the fans on my social media. Meanwhile, until I know something, I won't say anything about it, because I simply don't know. I don't want to jinx it by speculating, and besides, nothing is real until "the ink dries and that ship has sailed," as Big Bob likes to say.

1a) I just thought it was time for an ethnically/gender diverse cast on a cartoon show. I knew I wanted to set it in the big city, and my experience living in LA in particular was like that: a big gumbo of different cultures, all living side by side. 2a) I hoped for the best when I made HA! but didn't know if it would resonate internationally. I think in storytelling you aim for the personal, and hope it will be universal. 3a) little kids are so cool -- they have amazing intuition and absorb our messages like sponges. I feel like those details may fly under the radar, but the kids will pick them up somehow. 3b) same answer: the personal becomes universal!

I think it's a great idea. Write to Nick and ask!

I think "Helga on the Couch" most of all. It was really fun to show her back story and build more sympathy for her. I feel that way now more than ever, because so many people have told me how much they love that one.

Jim and I go WAY back, to the end of the 80s. He is the best, period. He is such an integral part of the Hey Arnold vibe that I honestly can't picture the series without him. When he wrote the new cues for the Jungle Movie it was as if we had never stopped making it. The piece that goes under Gerald's "Arnold the hero" video, the score for The Kiss, and the Jungle Movie end credits are essential Arnold music. We will sit and "spot" the episodes together and talk about what goes where, and for me mostly I point out where music should tell us how to feel.