| rdfs:comment | - Grandpa Phil is the major character of the Nickelodeon animated series Hey Arnold!. He is Arnold's paternal grandfather and Gertie's husband. He runs a Sunset Arms boarding house. He provides good wisdom and often gives Arnold for advices and tells him great story of his past experience. He is authentic and healthy in his age. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who is best known for voicing Homer Simpson.
- Grandpa Phil is Arnold's cheery, fun-loving, 81-year-old grandfather on Hey Arnold!, whom Arnold often comes to for advice. He often tells Arnold stories about his past experiences, although he has a tendency to stretch the truth. Despite responding frivolously to Arnold's problems, he will often provide good wisdom. While his advice is not usually the most helpful, his heart is always in the right place. Phil was also a master at Chinese checkers in his youth, which earned him the nickname "Steely Phil".
- Phil is Arnold's cheery, good-natured, paternal grandfather, Pookie/Gertrude's husband, and father of Miles. His nickname is "Steely Phil". He runs the Sunset Arms boarding house, assuming he can get the boarders to pay the rent, which is no guarantee when you remember that, with the possible exception of Mr. Smith, none of these people apparently make enough money to be able to live anywhere where they have ever seen, stating that he has the strength of an ox, but he could theoretically live to be 150.
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| abstract | - Grandpa Phil is the major character of the Nickelodeon animated series Hey Arnold!. He is Arnold's paternal grandfather and Gertie's husband. He runs a Sunset Arms boarding house. He provides good wisdom and often gives Arnold for advices and tells him great story of his past experience. He is authentic and healthy in his age. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who is best known for voicing Homer Simpson.
- Phil is Arnold's cheery, good-natured, paternal grandfather, Pookie/Gertrude's husband, and father of Miles. His nickname is "Steely Phil". He runs the Sunset Arms boarding house, assuming he can get the boarders to pay the rent, which is no guarantee when you remember that, with the possible exception of Mr. Smith, none of these people apparently make enough money to be able to live anywhere where they have their own bathroom. In accordance with the unwritten "everybody in the boarding house has to have some sort of musical talent" policy, Grandpa plays the drums (in the movie, at Blockapalooza). Although he gives often poor advice, and is rather goofy, Phil is a very great grandfather, and wishes ill-will to anyone who doesn't love Arnold. He calls Arnold by the nickname "Short Man". In the episode "Grandpa's Sister" Phil claimed to have several grandsons, when he responded disagreeing to a claim Arnold made about being his only grandson. Phil has accomplished many things during his lifetime. In "Veterans Day", it was revealed that he was a private in World War II, and through a strange chain of events, took out a company of German troops and made way for the American forces going to the Battle of the Bulge, and was "supposedly" the person who beat up Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels. He was also a champion Chinese checkers player and tied for first place with his long time checkers rival in the last city tournament (which gave him his nickname "Steely" Phil). In "Haunted Train" he stated that he worked for the Great Northern railway. It was also revealed Phil never graduated from elementary school as a youth, having no choice but to drop out in order to aid his family during the Depression. In the episode "Back to School", he attended Arnold's school and successfully completed the sixth grade. Though Phil has come across many people who has been considered his rival, his archenemy is the rich Rex Smythe Higgins. Their lifelong feud began at a boat competition when the two were children. Grandpa also is in peak physical condition for his age and can bench over 210 according to Gerald, and he can also do a one hand push-up. In many episodes, Phil goes out of his way in order to please Arnold, but knows that he can never replace Arnold's parents. In the episode "Helga's Locket", he even took an awkward affection to Helga's infamous locket of Arnold ("Helga's Locket"). However, Phil loves to prank people and never passes up a chance for a good laugh at his grandson's expense. In the episode "Girl Trouble", it is revealed that he and Gertrude were in the same class as children during the Great Depression (there were no jobs back then). She had a huge crush on Phil, but could only express it by picking on him, very similar to how Helga does with Arnold. This is a further hint of an eventual relationship for Arnold and Helga. In the episode "Grandpa's Birthday", Phil claims that every man in his family is cursed to die at 81, which he will be in several days. Though he goes about life as if he's going to die, he does not die when he turns 81, when Arnold figures out that the family curse is 91, not 81. So, presumably, he will have 10 more years to live. His doctor however after prompting from Arnold to get a checkup tells him that not only is he the healthiest 80 year old that he has ever seen, stating that he has the strength of an ox, but he could theoretically live to be 150. Grandpa drives an old green Packard that he has apparently owned since it was new. The Packard is Grandpa's daily driver, and he is very attached to it, calling it his "one true love" in "Grandpa's Packard". It is also shown that the Packard's radio is stuck on Hillwood's local jazz radio station. Grandpa took Arnold and Gerald on a camping trip in the Packard in "Roughin' It", and Grandma once took it (more than likely without Phil's knowledge) when she and Arnold went to rescue Lockjaw from the aquarium in "Field Trip", despite her apparent lack of a driver's license. The Packard was involved in a minor fender bender with Big Bob Pataki's car in "Grudge Match" and Grandpa inadvertently drove it into a large hole a few times in "Mr. Green Runs". After accidentally running the Jolly Olly Man off the road when not paying attention to his driving, the unstable ice cream vendor disguised himself as an attractive older woman and tricked Grandpa into giving him his address, then stole the car during the night. He actually repainted the Packard red, and drove it around for a couple days until Grandma and Arnold tracked him down. Grandpa decided not to press charges if the Jolly Olly Man repainted the car green. The car was returned to its original color, and was last seen driving over a bridge with Arnold and his Grandparents inside. In the episode "The Flood", Grandpa states that he remembers the "Great Flood of 1916", though him remembering it would be impossible because he was born in 1917, a year after the flood.
- Grandpa Phil is Arnold's cheery, fun-loving, 81-year-old grandfather on Hey Arnold!, whom Arnold often comes to for advice. He often tells Arnold stories about his past experiences, although he has a tendency to stretch the truth. Despite responding frivolously to Arnold's problems, he will often provide good wisdom. While his advice is not usually the most helpful, his heart is always in the right place. Phil is a World War II veteran and claims to have single-handedly won the Battle of the Bulge by tricking a large troupe of Nazi soldiers into eating numerous cans of spoiled CHAM, thereby poisoning them and creating a hole in the enemy line for the American troops to break through. Arnold does not believe his story at first, but it is later proven when Phil shows him a small monument of him hidden in some bushes in a park in Washington D.C. Phil was also a master at Chinese checkers in his youth, which earned him the nickname "Steely Phil".
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