Hey Arnold (unconfirmed banned episode) “The Big Bleeper”

it's on the hey arnold fanon wiki, which doesn't have real information.

yeah. like i said, it's a fanon wiki so even the believable stuff is not real.

I know no one's going to believe me...and I know that I'm bumping a two-year old thread. But, I swear, I vaguely remember this. Maybe it's just the Mandela Effect, maybe I just read the old entry on the fanon site years ago, but I actually think I have a lead for this.

As I remember it, this short aired during the very first Nickelodeon Worldwide Day of Play. I want to say around 11 am or Noon. That would make it October 2 2004. Just a few months earlier, on June 8 2004, the last episode of Hey Arnold aired. THAT'S why the listing says that it's "season 6" even though no such season exists. Technically, it aired after the series had wrapped.  

As I remember it, they were showing the Worldwide Day of Play loop...and as I was flipping through channels, I just noticed this Hey Arnold short I had never seen before on.  And after it ended, they went right back to the Worldwide Day of Play Loop.  I remember wondering if they were planning on doing something similar to that the NEXT Worldwide Day of Play and being disappointed that they didn't.

The following is speculation on how and why this would have happened: Given how the series ended a little abruptly, I think there MIGHT have been enough time for the animators to work on a short while waiting on news of a potential next season. I think it's possible this was made as a joke, a way for the animators to blow off steam, and someone sneaked it onto the actual broadcast at a time when NO ONE would be watching as a prank.  Maybe even as "revenge" for cancelling the show they were working on without much notice. What better time to sneak something by everyone, then a time when the network is showing nothing but kids jumping up and down on loop for hours? 

My memory of this is a little different than other peoples. I feel like I remember it being Gerald being the one who was swearing at Rhonda, instead of Harold, but I think he was in the group that took up swearing, too. And I remember ALL the swears being bleeped, even Arnold's at the very end where he swears because he got punished even though he was trying to stop the other guys.But, I do remember the ending with Arnold getting caught swearing around some cops and/or adults during a speech he's giving the other guys about how THEY shouldn't swear and ALL the students having to wash their mouths out with soap in a huge line in the bathroom or gymnasium together.  

It MIGHT have been a little shorter than a normal episode? And it MIGHT have been animated slightly differently?  I'm not even sure it was called "The Big Bleeper".  It's been 20 years, I don't remember too much about it.

But, I think if someone could track down that original Worldwide Day of Play broadcast, you might just be able to find this lost short. Unfortunately, I think that broadcast is ALSO lost media. But...maybe it's something?  I think most people no longer believe that this exists, and that's fair, I'm not 100% certain, either.  But, hopefully, this helps in some way, if it does exist.

: /

Totally Mandela effect. Maybe you are thinking of the episode of Rugrats where Angelica repeats a swear word from tv. 

The creation of the whole "The Big Bleeper" hoax was most likely inspired by the controversy surrounding "Dexter's Rude Removal" (which was a big deal back in the early 2010s), and/or the rumoured uncensored version of SpongeBob's "Sailor Mouth".