I liked (choose one: Toran Caudell, Phillip Van Dyke, Spencer Klein) as Arnold. Why did they replace him with (Phillip Van Dyke, Spencer Klein, Alex Linz)?
Most animated shows use adult women to do the “kids parts” (including boys). (For example, Tommy, Chuckie, and Phil on Rugrats are voiced by women, as is Bart on The Simpsons.) This is because it is very hard for a man to do a voice that sounds like a boy, as men’s voices change from high-pitched to lower-pitched, usually when they’re about 13. Somewhere between the first and second season, Toran’s voice changed to the point where he could no longer sound like Arnold, so they had to replace him with Phillip; two years later, the same thing happened with Phillip, so they had to replace him with Spencer. If you don’t think their voices can change that much, watch “New Bully on the Block” and tell me that you can tell that the voices of Wolfgang (Toran) and Ludwig (Phillip) were Arnold at one time. Arnold is not the only character replaced; there have been a number of Eugenes, and Sam Gifaldi is replaced by his brother Taylor in “April Fool’s Day”. Also, Hey Arnold! is not the only show t
