old nickelodeon shows: S/D

post 1992:
"Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
"The Secret World of Alex Mack"

Fifteen was kind of silly, but i was sort of into it. young ryan reynolds as billy, the kid brother. that matt just wouldn't quit his drinking, no matter how much ashley whispered at him. and there was that awful brooke. so mean. but it was obviously a defense mechanism; she was reaching out.

Action league Now!

Starring: the Flesh. He's super strong and super naked.

THUNDER GIRL! She flies, like thunder.

Stinky Diver: A former Navy commando with an attitude as bad as his odour.

And Meltman, with the power to...melt!

the most insane Nickeldodeon game show was "Finders Keepers", whose sole point was apparently to fuck with children's heads. the host is some 80's standup reject who always seems just on the verge of taking out a gun and splattering his brains across the set.

Also, Ren & Stimpy cannot be destroyed!

But please destroy Guts, the kid version of American Gladiators.

-- howell huser (chaki.tim...), January 11th, 2006.

oh he was? boy was i projecting!

No waaaaayyyyy. Nick Arcade was da bomb. (I thought they actually went INSIDE THE VIDEO GAME.)

ummm....let's see.
Search: Salute Your Shorts, Pete & Pete, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Legends of the Hidden Temple, What would you do?, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern life.

Destroy: All That, Guts, Rugrats...and a few more.

also MR ERNST was hot.

You can't do that on television, Nick Rocks(helped bring back the Monkees), Lights! Camera! Action!, Ren & Stimpy(1st two years), Dangermouse, Count Duckula, Turkey TV, Kids Wrights, Today's Special, Out of Control(w/ cameos from pre-MST3k Joel Hodgson)

They'd also show The Tomorrow People, and weird little horror movies for kids that would freak me out(the one about the voodoo doll monster thing, etc)

The channel went to shit when they moved down to Universal Studios.

nickelodeon's live-action shows are silly pap for kids, but this show victorious is -- by far -- the best written and acted thing on the network.

wtf @ rugrats hate here

no mention of hey arnold either from what I can tell

i didn't even know those were nickelodeon shows.

i'm aware of those shows that my 9-year old daughter watches: victorious, icarly, big time rush, true jackson, spongebob, mighty b, and fairly oddparents. oh, there's some fine tv there.

ART . . .

search:

roundhouse
hey dude
you can't do that on television
doug
rocko's modern life
salute your shorts
clarissa explains it all
guts
double dare
wild and crazy kids
legends of the hidden temple
are you afraid of the dark
secret world of alex mack

destroy:

all that
ren & stimpy (too existential)
rugrats

most of those shows were the shit, didn't really dig r&s or clarissa back in the day tho

i literally wanted to be alex mack tho

Why isn't Kel on Saturday Nive now with Kenan?

That's "Saturday Night Live"

wait, you're saying a product of nickelodeon kid shows is a cast member of SNL?

I believe that Lorne Michaels confused Kel with Kenan, and to this day he's confused by the nature of the mistake.

u mad, Kenan is one of the better cast members right now

my favorite nickelodeon character ATM: boog, from fanboy & chum chum:

http://www.poptower.com/pic-14585/boog-fanboy-chum.jpg

Boogregard "Boog" Shlizetti [2] is a bully who is obsessed with the video game Chimp Chomp, which he plays at the Frosty Mart, often instead of working. He mentioned twice that he grew up in a plastic bubble (an homage to John Travolta, who starred in 'The Boy in the Plastic Bubble'). Boog even talks like Travolta's character, Vinnie Barbarino, in Welcome Back, Kotter. He has a car named Sandy that got destroyed in "Refill Madness". He very much enjoys the "Chimp Chomp" video game (spending most of his time playing it rather than working) and threatening the boys into giving him their quarters. He is the main antagonist of the show.

i love the barbarino homage.

What? Those early Rugrats seasons were hilarious! The episode when the creator of the Dummi Bears show comes to the neighbors' house for dinner still makes me lol.

One of the Rugrats' writers is the creator of MTV's Daria and a writer on the Colbert Report. Good show(s)

I believe that Lorne Michaels confused Kel with Kenan, and to this day he's confused by the nature of the mistake.

otm

Holy shit what's that one Nick puppet thing w/ the kids who work at the shitty fast food restaurant in the mall?? It's so wacky.

It is called Mr. Meaty:

http://www.nicknz.co.nz/content/3533/Mr%20Meaty.jpg

I mean just watch this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKONYd8XqUA

One of the Rugrats' writers is the creator of MTV's Daria and a writer on the Colbert Report. Good show(s)

― Cunga, Sunday, July 4, 2010 6:53 PM (Yesterday

Makes sense. I mean the kids are cute and all but the portrayal of the adults just seems to nail early-90s upwardly middle-class parents (most of the smartest bits revolve around Angelica's yuppie executive mother and Tommy's mother who seems to buy into every child advice book she comes across). All that was lost in the later seasons where every episode just revolved around the kids mispronouncing a word, and the stupid brother.

fuck nickelodeon nostalgia tbqh

what did nickelodeon nostalgia ever do to you?

caused my friends to have theme nights set up around watching are you afraid of the dark

see also: any conversation ever where ppl go off about pete and pete

Your friends sound like good natured people.

lol they are; i'm the jerk

this victorious show is by faaaaaaarrrrrr the best (tr: only non-wretched) live comedy on nickelodeon.

If you ain't down with iCarly, I don't wanna know you.

Nickelodeon's great achievement now and forever more will be You Can't Do That on Television, though.

wait, first you say john boehner seems like a nice guy, now you say icarly is a non-wretched show?

WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?

x-post I wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid which, of course, made me want to even more.

show went off the rails when freddie/carly dating story was derailed.

sad, really.

what, what show are you talking about ENBB?

oh sorry - You Can't Do That on Television. my mom thought it was too gross.

for a second i thought you were saying you weren't allowed to watch icarly when you were a kid, which was going to make me feel very, very old.

hahahaha, no

Things we've learned today about me:

1. I don't hate the next speaker of the house just on principle.
2. I watch iCarly and enjoy it, even when my niece isn't visiting.

actually john boehner's policy advisory staff is completely composed of 15-year old icarly fans, so it's a sensible connection

i became aware of justin beiber from an icarly episode, so that show is dead to me now.

i must be losing my mind, but . . . i actually kind of like?!? this song sung by ''cat'' and ''jade'' on victorious.

Who's the girl in the pink capri's?

http://www.hey-arnold.com/Ginger/atbg_pic/Courtney_Photo.jpg

It's Courtney...IT'S COURTNEY!

A buddy of mine d/led some old Nicktoons episodes. I can't believe how crude the animation/drawing is on shows like Doug or Rugrats. I always liked Doug. It's pretty awesome to hear how the same voice actor does almost the same voice for Fry on Futurama. Who knew.

One of the greats was Rocko's Modern Life, which I think straddled the same line Ren & Stimpy did but without making things too obvious. It was actually a pretty cruel show and a lot of it is still funny today. The scene where Rocko is working a sex line and gets called by Mrs. Bighead is awesome; I cannot believe that was in a kid's show, along with numerous references to "jacking". I believe that the "Wacky Delly" episode was at least partially responsible for Aqua Teen Hunger Force and most of Adult Swim's programming.

I HATE BALONEY

also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmAE6e6yVc

can't believe ilx has rugrats apologists

I hope you guys get slimed

Livewire was an amazing show, nothing like it then or now

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livewire_(talk_show)

Among all the other acts they presented a lot of early hip hop such as Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Flash/Melle Mel

hey fellow rugrats apologists, just an fyi they have a billion seasons of rugrats on netflix for your rugrats-viewing-party needs. i watched like five hours' worth with my little cousins last month and it was great. childhood nostalgia AND a new understanding of all the grown-up jokes.

i know nostalgia from a 22 year old is a corny look but man all this nick shows from the 90s were so so dope, kids tv will never be like that again

(prompted by "90s week" on teen nick - this shit should just be their whole channel tbh)

yo neal breannan wrote for "all that"!! that kinda blew my mind

kenan's been a genius since the age of 12

lol i was just thinking last night how much more i liked "kenal & kel" kenan than "SNL" kenan but there's probably some inescapable bias in there

IIIII

DROPPED THE SCREWWWWWW

IN THE TUNA

OTM

at one point can i legit pitch "an oral history of all that"

lol

i just watched a full two hours of "Adult Swim" and can re-iterate what I said above, the Rocko episode "Wacky Delly" was so incredibly OTM that they ought to collect royalties

Wacky Delly was unbelievably brilliant for children's tv programming.

sandwiches are good

^^^

http://nickreboot.com

Well that was fast