Dream Of the Lost Summer - Intro

[…unWARP!!!]

Good evening.

The long-awaited Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie finally answered the question of what happened to Arnold’s parents. However, when paying closer attention, many elements of the movie seemed a bit odd, or didn’t coincide with, or downright contradicted what had already been established as canon in the series. Whether this was accidentally done by the writers, or Craig Bartlett, or even if it was deliberately done by both or either of them, the points that did not agree with the series very much inspired this fanfic.
Hence, this story is very much a deconstruction of HA:TJM, as it will deal with all those contradictory elements and reaffirm what we all have known—but perhaps forgot—from the series. This is an Alternate Universe story that takes place after HA:TJM, so there WILL be spoilers here, and plenty of them. As to whether the events of HA:TJM will be fully established as canon in what may be an upcoming sixth season, we’ll see when it happens.
Now, some of you may complain that HA:TJM is fine like it is, and you might say that I am not allowing for enough suspension of disbelief, given the level of “fantasy” that was allowed in the series. And perhaps I’m not, but the reason I wrote this was precisely because the movie went beyond the level of suspension of disbelief that was established in the series. I’m glad that the movie wasn’t based on the episode “Sally’s Comet”, otherwise there WOULD be a lot more to complain about!!! (Comets are visible for several weeks, up to three months in some cases, and they’re not a one-night event.)
I started working on this story the moment after I finished seeing HA:TJM back in November, and it has been a lot of fun to write, with all the research that had to be done, finding all the right references, but with the point of very much undoing everything that was established in the movie.

So, if you truly loved Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie and consider it fully canon, then this story is not for you. Close this tab/window or hit the backspace button while you still can!!!

Oh? You decided to give this story a chance? Okay, just be warned that this will not be an Indiana-Jones-type adventure like what we saw in the movie; it will, sadly, be mostly talking heads, and will have many points of deep thought and introspection.

Still, I hope you enjoy this fanfic.

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Spencer Klein

Francesca Marie Smith

Jamil Walker Smith

Anndi McAfee

analyse the


DREAM OF THE LOST SUMMER


with


Dan Castellaneta

and Tress MacNeille as Gertie


Special appearance by Hugh Laurie


Edited by Lord Malachite