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The Other Sister

Even though this moment is shown on screen for only about three seconds, it still brings out my annoyance at and great dislike of Olga.

We Hey Arnold! fans know that Helga can’t stand Olga because the latter is her exact antithesis: popular, beautiful, and flawless in almost every way, from her perfect behavior to her exemplary grades. For those reasons, their parents always direct their attention at Olga when she is home, and rarely at Helga, just because she is not acting the way or doing the things her sister does.

In the Thanksgiving episode, everything is going bad for Helga, not only because her parents are at their worst, as usual, but because Olga is home, making her slave away over helping prepare the food, and all their parents care about is what Olga wants to do. When she returns home after being out with Arnold for hours, she finds her family in a panic over her disappearance. Olga even makes missing posters to help, but even though she is doing it to find Helga, once you catch a glimpse of one, it doesn’t appear to be that way.

First of all, look at what the poster says: “Missing-Award Winning Olga Pataki’s Sister.” There is no mention of the name “Helga Pataki” on the poster; she is merely referred to as “Olga Pataki’s Sister.” Second of all, while the picture does contain a scowling Helga, who is the missing girl, it more prominently features the aforementioned award-winning girl Olga, who has her eyes closed, a big smile on her face, and one hand on her head while the other is on her hip.

Now why does this moment bug me since Olga is supposed to be doing it to find her sister? Well, why do you think? Olga has claimed and claims to care about Helga very much, but there are times when she seems to be as neglectful of her as their parents. The fact that she chose this kind of picture and what she wrote on the flyer supports my point. Helga is the girl who is missing, but she’s not even mentioned by name, much like how her father sometimes doesn’t call her by name or absent-mindedly calls her Olga. AND Olga is the one with more prominence in the picture, looking she’s having the time of her life, while Helga only glances towards her sister with a frown.

It just bugs me so much that, even though Olga thinks she is doing something useful to find Helga, she still simultaneously (though maybe unconsciously) makes herself the real attention-getter on the poster. It’s as if she’s so used to and fixated on being the center of attention that she HAS to do something that emphasizes the attention on her, even when it isn’t supposed to be. She may have claimed in her first episode that she doesn’t like performing so much for their parents’ attention and that Helga is lucky to not be noticed, but this picture clearly proves that Olga DOES enjoy the limelight, even hogging it from Helga now and then. Obviously, when the picture was taken, she was completely ignorant, to the possible point of denial, that Helga was angry and looking towards her with that look, and she probably still didn’t take time to notice when she chose it for the flyers.

So to me, this picture choice does not show that Olga truly loves Helga like she says she does; it shows her as a selfish, self-absorbed narcissist who just loves being the center of attention, always wants to be the center of attention, and is in complete denial about how it makes Helga feel.

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Fried Pumpkin Spice Donuts

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Strawberry Chocolate Cake

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Last Light , Summer - John Dowd , 2021.

American , b. 1960 -

Oil on linen , 12 x 16 in.

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