Bartlett met the Nickelodeon execs while story editing "Rugrats" in its first three seasons. He pitched "Hey Arnold!" to them in the fall of 1993 and produced a pilot the next spring. The series was greenlit in January 1995. "Hey Arnold!" was in production continuously from 1995 to 2001, made by Bartlett's own production company, Snee-Oosh, Inc, which he founded in 1986. The series culminated in a TV movie originally titled "Arnold Saves the Neighborhood", but Nickelodeon decided to release it theatrically as "", in June 2002.