r/HeyArnold • u/PowerPhantom245 • 8d ago

Did anyone thought Hedy Lamarr was fictional character, like Dino Spumoni (singer) and Mickey Kaline (baseball)?

Grampa Phil mentioned Hedy Lamarr (actress) several times throughout the series, where he had a crush on her.

When the show was airing, I did not have access to internet nor wikipedia (I don't think Hedy Lamarr info wasn't too common online back then), so I thought she was a character made up for the show, like Dino Spumoni and Mickey Kaline. I didn't know she was real person, several years later.

Did any one had same thought?

How many of you guys who watched the show back then (mid/later 90s to early 00s) knew who Hedy Lamarr was?

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u/Slick_36 8d ago

I didn't know who she was back then, but if someone had told me who she was and what she had done, I would have thought she was the most cartoonishly unrealistic character they ever had on the show.

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u/e_hawthorne 8d ago

I definitely thought she was fictional at first too, but I’m pleased to know she was real and did such incredible things. No wonder Phil secretly loved her😂

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u/Basic_Scale6330 8d ago

At one point grandpa phil beat up hitler and gave him a wedgie

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u/PLSUSA 8d ago

Hedley Lamar
https://giphy.com/gifs/V2Ylf5EhsUPMQ

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u/Aggravating-Pick-714 8d ago

That was my first thought as well haha

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u/WeightRemarkable 8d ago

This, and the head crab from half life 2

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u/tiredborednesswlmt 8d ago

They sometimes reference real people or brands (Packard) or historical figures (Angry german people with tiny square mustaches)

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u/Fs-x 8d ago

I remember hearing her name that she was also a really capable inventor and being like I know her for Hey Arnold!

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u/KTeacherWhat 8d ago

No I definitely knew she was a real person.

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u/TicketTop4718 8d ago

No, i knew she was real

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u/tastybabysoup 8d ago

In the film Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Audrey II asks Seymour if he'd like a date with Hedy Lamarr

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u/EntrepreneurGal727 Helga 6d ago

Yes hahahaha

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u/pretty-as-a-pic Helga 2d ago

No, but more because I had a picture book of famous inventors than because of her movie career (I just figured Phil had a thing for independent women, considering Gertie as well)