Yo back then cartoons used to deal with some real shit.
I remember this episode. It was the Christmas special.
Arnold is Mr. Hyunh’s Secret Santa and learns that he was separated from his daughter, Mai during the Fall of Saigon in 1975 in Vietnam. Mr. Hyunh planned to find her when he got out of Vietnam but with all the political turmoil it took him 20 years to get to America and by then no one new how to find her.
Arnold decides to find Mai as a Christmas gift for Mr. Hyunh and succeeds thanks to Helga’s help.
It was a really emotional episode. Talking about the politics and the trials of being separated from family for so long that happened so often at the time.
Don’t give me one-sided unrequited love, give me two-sided unwanted love. Both sides are deeply in love with the other and both sides are like ‘fuck, really?? them??? really?’