Hey Arnold!, Season 4

Principal Wartz:
Don't think of it as being a snitch. Just think of it as being a good citizen. [gives a box of chocolate to Arnold as an offer] Chocolate cream? [Arnold rejects] You know, Albert.

Arnold:
Arnold!

Principal Wartz:
You know, Arnold. It's not easy to do the right thing.

Harold:
[looking at Arnold talking to Principal Wartz outside with his binoculars] He's gonna rat! He's gonna rat!

Principal Wartz:
When I was a boy, I found myself in the situation very similar to the one you're in right now.

Arnold:
Really?

Principal Wartz:
Mmm-hmm? You see, I witnessed several of my fellow classmates placing a frog in our teacher's desk. When she came back and discovered the frog, she singled me out and demanded that I tell her who was responsible.

Arnold:
What did you do?

Principal Wartz:
I did the right thing. I sang like a canary, I tattled on every single one of them.

Arnold:
What happened?

Principal Wartz:
The culprits were severely punished and I was rewarded with a gold star. Oh, sure my classmates were pretty mad at me at first. They called me a weasel, they refused to eat lunch with me, and beat me up on a regular basis. in fact, my reputation as a weasel followed me all the way into high school and college. I was stuffed into lockers, and "Kick me" signs taped to my back. I can't tell you the abuse I suffered from practically every person I ever came and contact with. I didn't have a date 'til I was twenty three. But I didn't care about those things, because I knew I had done the right thing. And in the end, I overcame all that abuse and I grew up to become an elementary school principal. Wouldn't you like to become an elementary school principal?

Arnold:
Not really.