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🎶 this Christmas feels like the very first Christmas to me!” 🎶🎄

Storyboards and backgrounds from the SpongeBob SquarePants Christmas special, “Christmas Who?”

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Inside the Nick Archives | Rocket Power 💥

Riders on a MISSION!

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“Hey Arnold! was ahead of its time. When I watch it now, the issues and the things that Craig and Steve [Viksten] and Joe [Purdy] and everyone else who was writing on the show, the things that they were able to deal with and confront, when I watch it now I’m like, wow, that’s social commentary, that’s critique, that’s real stuff. But they were able to do it in such a way that they weren’t pushing issues in your face, they were just talking about life and it just so happens that those are things, if you’re honest, that you don’t typically see in cartoons.” – Jamil Walker Smith, voice of Gerald Johanssen in Hey Arnold!

In honor of Black History Month, our archives team uncovered this original character art for Gerald, one of our first African-American Nicktoon characters, and his first scene in the pilot episode, which premiered October 7th, 1996.

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Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! The Nick Archives helped us find some original drawings of one of our favorite characters, Maurice ‘Twister’ Rodriquez from Rocket Power! 🚀💥 Twister, voiced by Ulysses Cuadra, made his debut August 16, 1999. Did you love Twister and his totally rad footage as much as we did? 📹 Let us know! 

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"We decided that if we're going to take young people to all these marvelous places and expose them to such a wide variety of nature, we'd better portray every indigenous plant, every animal and all the natives as accurately as possible." -Arlene Klasky, Co-Creator of The Wild Thornberrys 🧡🐘🐅

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Happy National Ice Cream Day! 🍦🍨🎉

We’re celebrating with this bop and behind-the-scenes Nick Archives art of our favorite temperamental ice cream man, the Jolly Olly Man from Hey Arnold!

Voiced by the legendary Dan Castellaneta 🍩

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As we continue our tribute to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Nick Archives team uncovered these touching storyboards from Hey Arnold! of the unforgettable Mr. Hyunh, voiced by Baoan Coleman, from his flashback in “Arnold’s Christmas” showing the depth of his story and character. 

(View the full clip from this episode on our YouTube channel.)

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On this day 18 YEARS AGO, Dora the Explorer premiered on Nick Jr. 🧡¡Feliz cumpleaños, Dora! 🎉🎂🎒Watch our interview above with show creators Valerie Walsh Valdes and Chris Gifford and peep the behind-the-scenes art from the Nick Archives!