Helen

Helen is a fourth grader who made her debut in the episode "Arthur's Eyes". She has always been seen in the background in most of the episodes.

While she has not been heard speaking, she has been seen speaking to other characters in the background of a number of episodes. She appears to be nice to all the other kids at school.

She is also seen in other places around Elwood City like the library and ice cream shop. Most of the time when she appears she's often with her best friend, Nancy.

Physical appearance
Helen is a cat with brown skin. She wears a cream colored collared shirt, yellow sweater with long sleeves over her cream colored shirt, purple overalls with pink pockets, long pink socks, and pink and white sneakers.

She has brown hair in a Bob cut. She use to wear a yellow backpack or green backpack. Later on in the series she was seen with a blue colored backpack. Helen also wears an orange sweater with a yellow "P" on it.

She's been seen wearing yellow, green, and blue colored backpacks in other episodes. When she was in kindergarten she wore a sweater with sleeves and buttons, a gray dress, and white Mary Jane type shoes.

In the episode "Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn" she wore a beige shirt, pink shorts, long white socks, and pink and white sneakers during the basketball game.

She was seen wearing the same clothes during the puppet show later on in the same episode. In the episode, "Love Notes for Muffy" she is seen wearing pink shorts and a light pink shirt.

After Season 15, she now has auburn hair. She wears a pink shirt with long sleeves and blue overalls with pockets over her shirt. She also wears green and white sneakers. Her skin complexion is now pink.

Episode Appearances

 * Season 1
 * Arthur's Eyes 101a
 * Francine's Bad Hair Day 101b
 * Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn 102a
 * D.W.'s Imaginary Friend 104a
 * Arthur Bounces Back 108b
 * Bully for Binky 123a
 * I'm a Poet 128a
 * The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club 128b
 * Season 2
 * Love Notes for Muffy 116a
 * Season 3
 * And Now Let's Talk to Some Kids 304b
 * Dad's Dessert Dilemma 307b
 * Season 4
 * D.W.'s Library Card 401a
 * Arthur's Big Hit 401b
 * Season 5
 * Arthur and the Big Riddle 501a (Arthur's imagination)
 * Kids are from Earth, Parents are from Pluto 502a
 * Bitzi's Beau 508b
 * Season 6
 * Prunella's Special Edition 603a
 * Citizen Frensky 606a
 * Season 7
 * D.W.'s Time Trouble 707a
 * Season 8
 * Bugged 803b
 * Vomitrocious! 805a
 * Sue Ellen Chickens Out 805b
 * Season 9
 * Tipping the Scales 901b
 * Francine's Big Top Trouble 902a
 * A is for Angry 907b
 * Season 10
 * Fern and Persimmony Glitchet
 * D.W., Bossy Boots
 * Binky vs. Binky
 * What's Cooking?
 * Buster's Special Delivery
 * Season 11
 * Prunella Packs It In
 * Brain's Shocking Secret
 * Dancing Fools
 * Season 12
 * On This Spot
 * Do You Believe in Magic
 * Season 13
 * Arthur's Number Nightmare (name appeared on a list)
 * Prunella and the Haunted Locker
 * Season 15
 * I Wanna Hold Your Hand
 * Prunella the Packrat
 * Season 18
 * D.W. and Bud's Higher Purpose
 * Shelter from the Storm 1810
 * Season 20
 * Buster's Second Chance 2001a

Quotes
"Someone get my barf bags!" in D.W. and Bud's Higher Purpose.

Trivia

 * Helen is in the same class as Prunella Deegan.
 * She is a fan of Henry Skreever.
 * She most likely met her friend Nancy at some point during kindergarten or at the Elwood City Preschool.
 * During her year as a third grader she was in Miss Sweetwater's class as seen in the episode Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn.
 * It was revealed however in the episode "Tipping the Scales" she was seen with Binky during last year's performance at Crown City, which means she was most likely in Mr. Ratburn's class during her third grade year along with Luke.
 * While Helen has never spoken before she, Nancy, and 3rd Grade Male Dog can be heard laughing at the information D.W. gave them about Arthur.
 * According to what Arthur said in the episode "D.W.'s Imaginary Friend" Helen is apparently D.W.'s friend. As to how or why that is the case is a complete mystery, but it can be assumed she is Arthur's friend as well and met D.W. through Arthur.
 * In the episode, Love Notes for Muffy she was incorrectly mistaken as a 5th grader along with some or all of her classmates.
 * Helen, Steve, Nancy, and Patrick were all seen in the commercial for Moon Boots. She would be seen in another commercial for the t.v. show Let's Talk to Some Kids, which took place during the episode And Now Let's Talk to Some Kids. This could mean she or her family in general maybe involved with commercials and advertising in some way.
 * She is a fan of Persimmony Glitchet's Horrendously Horrible Happenings books.