Top 10 Worst Things Helga Pataki Has Done on Hey Arnold

While Helga's life isn't easy especially considering how terrible her parents are towards her but that still does not excuse some of the more reprehensible things she has done over the course of the series, for this list we will be looking at the worst things that Helga Pataki has done on the show.
The Top Ten
1 Pranked Lila Leaving Her Humiliated - Ms. Perfect

She and the other girls should have had a way harsher punishment, Lila didn't deserve such horrible treatment.

2 Got Inga Fired as Their Nanny - Helga and The Nanny
3 Horribly Mistreated Phoebe - Phoebe Breaks a Leg

Through out the first half of the episode Helga awfully mistreats Phoebe by ordering her to do several errands like return all of her overdue library books as well as her own as she asks Helga to hold the bus which she couldn't be bothered to do which leaves her to walk home in the rain, and while being forced to carry all of Helga's stuff Phoebe gets hit by a truck that she was unable to see coming thanks to all the stuff she was forced to carry which leads to her having a broken leg and Helga actually feels guilty for what happened.

4 Got Nadine to Let Her Cockroaches Loose in the Restaurant to Get Out of Paying - Dinner for Four

Let this be a lesson always check which restaurant your certificate is good for, just how in the hell did Helga not do that before this.

5 Convinced Phoebe to Take the Fall - Phoebe Takes the Fall
6 Changed Olga's Grade - Olga Comes Home

Personally I didn't feel that bad for Olga who was being such a crybaby over getting a B+.

7 Starting Her Own Newspaper and Printing False Stories - The Big Scoop

Helga starts her own school newspaper and begins printing false news headlines with pasted together pictures like Arnold is love with a tree and Gerald playing with his sisters dolls and everyone instantly believes everything she says.

8 Instigates a Fight Between Arnold and Harold and Repeatedly Reminds Arnold How Long He Has until He Dies - 24 Hours to Live

After Arnold beams Harold with a baseball he is ready to beat Arnold up until Helga stops him telling him they should postpone the fight until tomorrow and from then spends the rest of the day reminding Arnold how long he has left before Harold is set to cream him.

9 Has Her Monitor Lizard Devour Arnold's Parrot from Helga's Parrot

While Helga didn't directly order her new Monitor Lizard to eat Arnold's parrot which originally belonged to her father who overheard her confessing her love for Arnold she was still satisfied with the lizard eating the parrot and preventing it from revealing her name from the poem.

10 Drops The Christmas List - Arnold's Christmas

She ran outside to run around with her snow boots. In the midst of her joy, she drops Mr. Bailey's Christmas list.

The Contenders
11 Threatened an Animal with a Chainsaw - Helga’s Parrot
12 Called Arnold "Football Head" - Hey Arnold! Unaired Pilot
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