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| - Mr. Hyunh (pronounced like the surname "Wynn") is a character on Hey Arnold!, a resident of the Sunset Arms boarding house. An immigrant from Vietnam, he is one of the few Asian characters on the show. Voiced by Baoan Coleman, Mr. Hyunh eventually obtains a position as manager of a Mexican restaurant, and has a hidden talent as a country singer who when he performs sounds a lot like Randy Travis. He had a short-lived career as a country music star, achieving minor celebrity status with his hit single, “The Simple Things,” however he eventually chose to stay true to his song and give up a life of fame and fortune to return to his previous modest lifestyle.
- Mr. Hyunh is a fictional character in the Hey Arnold! TV Series. Mr. Hyunh is an immigrant from Vietnam. He originally planned to raise a family in there, but by the time his daughter was born, the Vietnam War had come to its dramatic climax. At the conclusive battle of the war (the Battle/Fall of Saigon), the United States sent helicopters to evacuate South Vietnamese citizens. Mr. Hyunh and many others attempted to board the last helicopter, but the pilot claimed only one more was allowed on board. Mr. Hyunh offered his daughter and she was taken aboard, never to be seen again for many years.
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| - Mr. Hyunh is a fictional character in the Hey Arnold! TV Series. Mr. Hyunh is an immigrant from Vietnam. He originally planned to raise a family in there, but by the time his daughter was born, the Vietnam War had come to its dramatic climax. At the conclusive battle of the war (the Battle/Fall of Saigon), the United States sent helicopters to evacuate South Vietnamese citizens. Mr. Hyunh and many others attempted to board the last helicopter, but the pilot claimed only one more was allowed on board. Mr. Hyunh offered his daughter and she was taken aboard, never to be seen again for many years. It is unknown what Mr. Hyunh did in the following years prior to the series, but he eventually came to Hillwood from Vietnam to look for his daughter, whom he sent there at the end of the Vietnam War over 20 years ago; it took him 20 years after he sent his daughter here before he could come here himself. (In "Arnold's Christmas", he finds her, although she hasn't appeared on the show since then, though it's assumed they have maintained contact with each other.) Mr. Hyunh works at the "El Patio" restaurant. He had a shot at stardom as a country singer, but being simple man, Mr. Hyunh was uncomfortable with the publicity and graciously put aside his star status after his first and only concert. Mr. Hyunh, like just about everybody else at the Sunset Arms, strongly dislikes Oskar because he thinks he is a slacker. He is also musically inclined; he plays the cello in "Arnold as Cupid", the trombone (in a flashback) in "The Journal", and the guitar (both acoustic and electric). In the episode "Gerald Comes Over", Mr. Hyunh says that he has a cousin who is a good divorce attorney. In the episode "Gerald Moves Out", Mr. Hyunh doesn't like lint.
- Mr. Hyunh (pronounced like the surname "Wynn") is a character on Hey Arnold!, a resident of the Sunset Arms boarding house. An immigrant from Vietnam, he is one of the few Asian characters on the show. Voiced by Baoan Coleman, Mr. Hyunh eventually obtains a position as manager of a Mexican restaurant, and has a hidden talent as a country singer who when he performs sounds a lot like Randy Travis. He had a short-lived career as a country music star, achieving minor celebrity status with his hit single, “The Simple Things,” however he eventually chose to stay true to his song and give up a life of fame and fortune to return to his previous modest lifestyle. Although Huynh (which would also be pronounced h-"win") is a common Vietnamese name, this appears to be a deliberate misspelling, probably to make absolutely clear that he is a fictional character. The Hyunh spelling is kept consistent within Hey Arnold! cast credits and closed-captioning. Hyunh does not speak much about his past, but his emotive backstory receives some treatment in Arnold's Christmas: He did not have any contact with his daughter Mai since the Fall of Saigon of 29-30 April 1975 when, unable to be evacuated himself, he gave her as an infant to a U.S. helicopter crew to be evacuated. It is possible that Mr. Hyunh's year of birth was some time between 1950 and 1957, because in Snow, when Grandpa Phil mentions the year 1949, Mr. Hyunh says he had not been born yet, and was old enough to have had a baby daughter in 1975. In his recollection of the past, Hyunh does not speak much about any involvement he had in the war, but it could be theorized that he was in a position to act on the "White Christmas" alert because he was connected on some level to South Vietnamese intelligence or law enforcement, or to Western news media. This would seem to account for Hyunh losing track of his daughter (and others in his family) and leaving Vietnam some years afterward, possibly after a period of incarceration or 're-education'. Hyunh Mai, now a grown woman in her mid twenties and voiced by Vietnamese actress Hiep Thi Le, is eventually located by Arnold in another part of the town with the reluctant help of a U.S. Government bureaucrat, and is reunited with her father for Christmas.
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