Eugene Horowitz How can they tear it down!?
Played by Blake McIver Ewing 
Hey Arnold!: The Movie (2002) · 54 quotes
Hey Arnold!: The Movie (2002) · 54 quotes
Tied for 4th most-quoted character in Hey Arnold!: The Movie (2002): in 8 of its 54 quotes
Most scenes with: Arnold (3), Gerald Johanssen (2)
This is our neighborhood!
More lines from Eugene Horowitz
4 quotes Eugene Horowitz Eugene Horowitz How can they turn our smile into a frown!?
Eugene Horowitz We may be just a few, but if me and you and you
Eugene Horowitz But I thought the occasion called for it. [singing] We may be just a few
Scenes with Eugene Horowitz
3 scenes[First lines; The movie begins with we see the city's locations and Harold, Iggy and Lorenzo are playing baseball before Willie drives with his ice cream truck; A kid is giving money to Willie, having his ice cream and Willie reads the newspaper; Harold throws a baseball to Park; Park strikes out and the woman is at the window looks up to a baseball while putting clothes in the basket; we see Brainy and Harvey are at the market, Sid and Stinky are splashing water, the Construction Workers look up at the helicopter with a black wrecking ball; as the wrecking ball hits the Penthouses and pouring liquid on the family photo]
I'm telling you, Arnold, your ball is flat.
It's not flat. It's just a little low on air. [The ball pops and deflates]
Like I said, your ball is flat. Hey, I still can't believe we let those fifth graders beat us.
Well, the important thing is we tried our best.
The important thing is we got our buns whooped.
Come on Gerald, we had fun. And we almost beat 'em.
Why do you do that Arnold? Why do you always have to look on the bright side?
Somebody has to. [Arnold and Gerald notice FTi helicopters, and a crowd of citizens] Mr. Green, what's going on?
Mr. Green
It's Scheck. He wants to buy up the whole neighborhood so he can knock it down and put up a fancy mall.
Who's Scheck? [The crowd is watching TV]
Reporter
[On TV]
The plan, which was approved by the mayor just moments ago, would allow Future Tech Industries to redevelop a six-square-block area between 33rd and 39th Streets. Oh, I understand the president and CEO of Future Tech Industries, Mr. Scheck, is about to make a statement.
[On TV; first words as to the mayor]
Thank you. I just want to say I'm delighted at the mayor's support of our renewal plan.
Nice suit.
Mayor Dixie
[A man with a white mustache shushes him] [on TV]
I am behind Mr. Scheck's project one hundred percent. [camera flashes]
[on TV]
Although some of you in the affected area may have concerns about how this plan will impact your homes and businesses, let me assure you; change is good. This plan represents the end of urban decay, the end of your broken-down shops and apartment buildings, the end of antiquated and dilapidated storefronts. It's time for a new world. Out with the old, in with the new.
What's wrong with old things? Some old things are great.
Harold Berman
Yeah, like Mrs. Vitello.
Mrs. Vitello
[hits Harold over the head with flowers]
Whippersnapper.
Harold Berman
Ow!
Mr. Green
This has been goin' on for months. The city council recommended against it, but the mayor's lettin' him do it anyway. I never figured he could pull it off.
What does it mean?
Mr. Green
It means they want us to sell out, move away so this Scheck character and his big corporation can move in.
Crowd
No!
Harold Berman
No way!
[on TV]
It's time to put the past behind us. I have seen the future, and it's Future Tech Industries.
Phoebe Heyerdahl
But this is our neighborhood!
Rhonda Lloyd
They can't just tear it down.
Eugene Horowitz [singing]
This is our neighborhood! / How can they tear it down!? / How can they turn our smile into a frown!? / We may be just a few, but if me and you and you. [Arnold switches off the stereo]
Stop! Stop singing, Eugene. This is serious. [A truck carrying a bulldozer is speeding down the street]
Crowd
Oh, my gosh.
Mr. Green
We can't take this lying down. We should do something!
Harold Berman
Yeah, but what can we do?
We can refuse to sell our houses.
Well, I'll sign a petition!
Yeah. Let everybody know this is our neighborhood and we're not giving it up without a fight!
[watching from a roof]
Hah! Arnold! What an annoying little goody two-shoes. What a dopey little dreamer. What a corny little cornball. Always going around trying to get everyone to look on the bright side and do the right thing. How I despise him. And yet... I love him! I love him! I love his unerring sense of right and wrong. I love his unfailing insistence on the needs of the many over the needs of the few. But most of all I love the way his hair smells when I get real close behind him and he doesn't know I'm there, but then he turns and looks at me funny and I scowl at him and make an excuse for being so close, and then I insult him just to cover up the secret, adoring feelings for which I have so long and painfully harbored. Oh, Arnold!
Mr. Green can write the petition.
Mr. Green
Say no more, Arnold. I'm already working on it.
If only I could find the guts to tell you. If only I weren't such a coward. If only I had your strength.
We'll take it around the neighborhood and get everybody to sign it.
But what if you lose? What if the neighborhood is torn down, and you have to move away, and we are separated, and we never see each other again, and I never, ever seize the chance to tell you how I really feel about you? Oh, Arnold, how I love you.
[Brainy appears from a chimney, dressed up as a chimney sweep. Helga smacks him]
Monkeyman
[Arnold, and other citizens of the neighborhood are trying to organize protests against tearing down the neighborhood. Helga is not sympathetic to them. The days on the Scheckvision screen are cointing down] [after receiving a leaflet from Arnold]
Monkeyman!
Jolly Olly Man
[The Scheckvision screen shows: "6 DAYS UNTIL CONSTRUCTION BEGINS"]
Yeah, six days to go, and then sayonara, suckers!
Six days. Enough time to try maybe one last big... thing. But... but what?
Rhonda Lloyd
How about a party? You always throw the most outré parties, Arnold.
Yeah, a party. A block party. With music and food.
Rhonda Lloyd
And finger sandwiches. Ooh!
Harold Berman
Yeah, and food!
We'll have a concert! The music will be so loud that we'd end up on the news. And then people will get excited about it, and the mayor will have to change her mind. And she'll stop the bulldozers.
Friends
Yeah!
Stinky Peterson
What do we call it?
Rhonda Lloyd
How about the "Save the Neighborhood Debutante Ball".
Kids
Nah...
Block Power, baby.
Stinky Peterson
Blockenanny.
Eugene Horowitz Block Till You Drop. [Falls down] Ow.
It's a Block Thing. I would know.
Sid
A Block Party... Party?
How about... Blockapalooza?
Kids
Yeah!
Wait a minute. Now you're looking on the bright side.
Somebody has to.
Eugene Horowitz [Eugene shows up] [singing]
We saved our neighborhood / They could not tear it down / They could not turn our smile / Into a frown...
[switches off the stereo]
The show's over, Eugene.
[Helga dances away happily as the movie fades out]
