August 21, 2018 • 48 mins
You asked for it, we listened! The gang goes back to the '80s to revisit the early days of Nickelodeon. This week, Dani and Ify dive deep into the nooks and crannies of all the shows that made up '80s Nick. Been waiting to hear about Eureka's Castle? Hey Dude? You Can't Do That on Television? Wait no longer as the Nerdificent team Slimes you head to toe with '80s Nick facts!
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1. Nickelodeon Archives: The Free Lance-Star - Jul 16, 1979
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hello, and welcome to another edition of their Difficent I
am one half of your host, Danny Fernandez, and sitting
across for me is yet again always here and forever
holding it down. What is Gucci? Well, we heard y'all,
we heard you, We heard you. And if you and
I's bias nineties, he's got called out. Wait, that's probably
(00:33):
gonna get bleeped our nineties booties. We are on the
tip end of the eighties there, And you know, I
would like to say that in my research with a
lot of the Nickelodeon research, the golden age of Nickelodeon
is known as the nineties. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You
could you can hit up you know, all of the
(00:53):
blogs and if he's just laughing over here, like listen,
we heard you. Though. We skipped over the eighties too
quickly and it wasn't fair, and we're circling back. This
is the first time where we had so many people
write as that we're like, we better circle back now. Yeah,
this is this really is the quickest we've rep and
(01:16):
there's still so many on the docket. Yeah, we do
have a full docket of there's so many fandoms and
nerd things to get into. I do want to say, though,
just really quickly, that even even for a show like
The Twilight Zone, which is one of my favorite things
in the world, we're just not going to be able
to talk about every episode. I also think that would
(01:37):
be boring. I have listened, I mean I have listened
to other people's podcasts that do kind of go into
every single thing, And if you want that, that's out there.
But that's not really what we're trying to do. We're
just trying to give you the rundown of each topic.
But here we are in the eighties with Nickelodeon. I'm
(01:58):
scroll deep into if you put together the entire research
document for this, and I got deep into the eighties
finding out about a lot of shows that I didn't
even know exist, and I think you might also not
know exists. No, nothing seems familiar. No, But I think
people listening that even where like the eighties, and they're
gonna be like, what that was a thing? It was
(02:20):
because some of these were in black and white. I
actually in my research found out that a lot of
the shows came from Canada and um and from other
countries as what like Nickelodeon was kind of you know,
as a baby wasn't really able to make a lot
of their own shows, so they would pull from successful
shows from other countries. Yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of
(02:41):
like with Nagen what they did with the Grassy. It
was this big hit in Canada and they're like, let's
put it on nin So yeah, it seems like it
becomes a strong part. So let's officially go into the eighties.
Nickelodeon launched on April first, nineteen seventy nine. Almost there,
April fools. Oh yeah, that's a good that's good for nick.
(03:04):
That fits. It was the first ever all children's network
on Warner Cable system in Buffalo, New York. It quickly
expanded its audience reach, first to other Warner Cable systems
across the country and eventually two other cable providers. So
it's initial programming block had let me count one, two, three, four, five, six,
(03:26):
seven shows every day. So the first show was Video
Comic Book, which was a show that scanned Silver Age
d C comics. Yeah, yeah, and we covered some of
the Silver Age comics during our flash episode in the
Silver Age. So definitely if you're not if you're unfamiliar,
(03:46):
what that was with DC Comics. Go check out that episode.
So Video Comic Book. The show's opening shows kids writing
their bicycles to get a to a comic bookstore, to
the tune of Right of the Valkyries. That's actually really cool,
like getting straight off the bat, like already getting kids
interested in comics. That's actually really dope, I know, And
it's kind of like a foreshadowing as to what kids
(04:08):
will be rocking out to for centuries to come. Yeah,
So our next show up was called pop Clips, and
some of that you can also look up on YouTube
a lot of these if you're unfamiliar with them and
just kind of want to do a deep dive of
Nickelodeon further, you can just google pop Clips into YouTube
and check out some of that. It was a music
video television program, which was the direct predecessor of MTV,
(04:33):
which is interesting because it's like, man, this show is
so popular, let's make it a whole channel, you know,
I know, and you know. Nickelodeon and MTV actually worked
very closely with each other and had a lot of
lapovers because some of the people that were famous for
the MTV logo and music for that channel. The channel
I d S the channel. I d S actually ended
up working on Nickelodeons to make them cool and hip
(04:55):
for kids. I can't believe I just said that. Let's
move on because Focus was another the show it was
featured an apprentice wizard who magically time traveled forward from
the Middle Ages named Crispin, who worked in the film
department of a public library, who, along with his shape
shifting pet named Ulak, played short films. Crispin's friends included
(05:16):
the absent minded professor Rhombus, a young woman named Daisy,
and a talking book. You know this sounds like what
am I thinking of the McCauley Culkin. Oh yeah, the
page Master, the page Master. Yeah, that book. That means
that movie. I don't know why, but that I thought
it was so tight. Oh my god. It is like
because it had those books and they had faces and
(05:38):
the personalities. Yeah. Remember was yes the Mobe Dick when
the Horror One scared the crap out of me. I
still remember it, Like Sanctuary, Remember that Jacqueline Hyde he
ran into I'm going to go home? YEA, go back
and check that out. Uh So, Hocus Focus only last
(06:00):
did one year. I mean, it seems very fantastical. I mean,
you got, you know, a shape shifting pet named Oolock,
and you've got Crispin spelled k r y sp n.
That was too much for the eighties. They're like, let's
get out of here. And then you had Pinwell, which
was reformatted as a daily hour long series that ran
(06:20):
in a three to five hour block format and was
the precursor to Nick Jr. Which replaced in When I
Was Born they knew. They're like, if he's gonna like this.
I was also born during that year, yes, established, but
they're like, if he you know, February, If if he's coming,
I feel, I feel the thickness of this child, and
(06:42):
we must prepare for him. But the show was similar
to Sesame Street, with live action skits mixed with animation
shorts and action scenes took place in around the large
Victorian style boarding house called the Pinwheel House with a
pinwheel on one of the peaks, and live actors would
interact with puppets to cussing various concepts familiar to children's programming,
(07:03):
like sharing, being considerate, basic learning skills like colors, numbers,
and letters, and all of the characters lived and worked
in various areas in and around the house. This sounds
like a mix between Mr. Rogers and Sesame. Yeah. Yeah.
Actually a lot of their formatting, which you'll see when
we continue, was kind of like that, but it was
a formula that worked. Oh yeah, so I guess that's
(07:25):
why UM. And to be honest, Mr Rogers didn't like
one of their like clearly that was kind of I
don't want to say it was ripping them off, but
he was like, no, I don't like that show, which
we're we'll get to um. Next up on the docket
is America Goes Bananas with a Z, so you know
there were zany It was a It was a teenager
oriented variety show presented by Michael Young and Randy Hamilton's.
(07:49):
It had hip hop music sessions focusing on mature subjects
such as drugs and birth control. That's that is something
that I see we saw Nickelodeon tackle, like we talked
about with Linda Ellerby in the news segments that she
would do for Nickelodeon. But like Nickelodeon was notorious for
tackling some of those which MTV did as well. So
I do think that they worked alongside each other to
(08:11):
provide content for teenagers. Um, So America Goes Bananas was
also regularly shown in an effort to interest and educate
a teenage target audience. Yeah, and then they had kind
of like their namesake with nickel Flicks, which was technically
from the seventies, but they replayd in the eighties and
a showcase cereals from the twenties and the forties in
(08:33):
addition to early Comic one reelers and short films, and
was largely in black and white. Can you imagine, like
would your daughter watch this? Like that's the thing though.
So they used to play these these short black and
white films and some of them silent from the twenties
and forties on Nickelodeon. And you're right, it was their
namesake because the network's original logo incorporated a man looking
(08:56):
into a Nickelodeon machine that was placed in the uh
and those were, as you all know, the little like
movie players that in the olden daisies to look into.
And so this was this is supposed to be a
young man. He's wearing like a top hat and then
he's dressed like basically like Abraham Lincoln um looking into
the end of Nickelodeon that was later replaced by their
(09:19):
pinwheel logo typeface. And then the final thing was a
show called By the Way, which by the Way, I
could not find a single thing on I like, Yes,
I looked up Nickelodeon's By the Way, um and it
brought me up a ton of other shows that they
had and on YouTube. I just couldn't find what that was.
So I guess if you find it, please tweet at us,
or if you watched it, tell us what it was. Yeah, yeah, okay.
(09:42):
So at the time of its launched, Nickelodeon's programming aired
for thirteen hours each weekday from eight am to eleven pm.
That's that's a pretty hefty block, and for fourteen hours
on weekends from eight am to midnight. Wow. So then
they added these new shows in include Dusty st tree House,
which was like a Mr. Rogers style show, and it
(10:03):
featured a character named Dusty who was played by Stuart
Rosen and his amazing custom built treehouse where anything and
everything could happen. Often, Dusty had conversations with his puppet
animal friends, including Max and the Cow, Scooter the Squirrel, Stanley,
the Red Haired Spider, and sneakers, and Dusty also went
on tree trips, phil trip via balloon and basket to
(10:24):
factories to see how products were made, and or to parks, zoos,
aquariums and so on, and it won eight Emmy. Yeah, yeah,
I was like, I need a threat. We have to
include Dusty's treehouse because it won Nickelodeon eight Emmy's so damn.
That's insane. Also, it's funny to see how children's program
and kind of has it changed. It's always like a
(10:46):
person talking to puppets and let's see what different you know,
jobs there are. It's so cute and so innocent. Moving
on to first Row Features, that was an anthology series.
It mainly carried British television films for children, and so
this is again a popular theme that you'll see with
Nickelodeon buying up or essentially rerunning things that were showed
(11:08):
in other countries. The Times actually described the show as
a collection of one hour feature films for children, ranging
from comedies and adventures to dramas and semidocumentaries. That's pretty cool. Yeah,
that's super dope. And then there was Special Delivery, which
is also an anthology series, and it had consisted of
like both live action and animated episodes. Much of the
(11:30):
programming was made up of children Focus made for TV movies. Yeah,
that was possibly before Disney Channel original movies. Remember Oh yeah,
children Focused made for TV movies. It was a big thing.
Oh yeah, I remember. Let me see it was Shila
buff Um. Yes, yes, where he played huh a mentally
(11:53):
challenged kid and it made me cry. Um. That was
a really popular movie. And let me see. I'll find
it in two seconds. True Confessions. Yes, why isn't it?
This is wild? I'm on his IMDb. What year did
it come out? Oh? Here, it is True Confessions. I
(12:15):
was in high school. I think, oh boy, um, look
at his curly head. He was so cute. When I
say this thing wrecked me like I was. I was.
This was two thousand three, so I was like sixteen
and I was just crying my eyes out. So yeah,
and then we would get I love that we're talking
(12:37):
about a different network. And then we would get the
biggest Disney Channel movie of all time, high school musical.
I'm only saying that, like via sales. Well, I thought
you meant you were going to say xenon or whatever.
You know, people can argue with me, but I'm just
talking about popularity wise, um, and you can't can't argue
with numbers. Moving on, What will they think of Next?
(13:00):
Which was originally tiled Science International, and each episode featured
approximately twenty short segments on scientific developments in and trivia.
Nice and You had Live Wire, which series was designed
for kids of all ages and the show's main focus
discussed true current events and stories during those times. It
was taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York
(13:21):
through Reeves Teletape Studios of Sesame Street Fame, so you know,
still rocking, Rocking it Down, and it was film live
on tape with the participate in audience of about twenty
to thirty teenagers and Live Wire was the number one
rated show on Nickelodeon Ino and never went below number
seven in the ratings during the five years span of
the show. Show was most famously known for giving relatively
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unknown bands and singers their first television appearance because like
the Conan of for kids a lot like um Show,
and then in one the network introduced a new logo
consisting of a silver pine overlaid by multicolored Nickelodeon text,
and later that year, the Canadian sketch comedy series You
(14:09):
Can't Do That on Television made its American debut that
on Nickelodeon. You Can't Do That on Television? Where do
I remember that? For? Oh? Maybe everyone who tweeted it
at us this show. Well, guess what, you don't get
to hear us talk about it until after these messages
(14:34):
and we're back, and I think we were talking about this,
this show that I guess a lot of people wrote
us about that we skipped over. Technically, if I want
to say that, I did mention it's where the slime
came from when I talked about where the green slime
came from, but I didn't actually talk about the show itself.
So let's talk about you can't. Actually, let's skip it
(14:55):
in and talk about the third Eye. I do not
need more people my inbox, y'all. I did a lot
of research for the and also watched You Can't Do That.
Thank you for exposing it to me, because it was
definitely before my time and it wasn't something you know,
when I came into the factor. It was all that
I watched, all that sketch comedy, and so yeah, we
(15:15):
also had what would you do instead of you go
what what? What? What? What? Good? You do way better
than you Now you're gonna get so many people writing you.
So you can't do that on television. Featured preteen and
teenage actors in a sketch comedy format similar to that
(15:37):
of Rowan and Martin's Laughing and Saturday Night Live. Each
episode had a specific theme that I didn't know about,
normally relating to pop culture of the time. The show
was notable for launching the careers of many performers, including
I don't know hop if you know this, Ivy alternative
rock singer songwriter Atlantis Moore set can go back and look,
(15:58):
you can shut it's not actually ironic because if we're
talking about ironic, who, No, I'm just kidding. I think
I heard Zach laughing from the booths. Some pat myself
on the back. No, I'm just saying that everybody that
always corrects like, well, actually, that's not what irony is. Um,
don't you go play magic the gathering put some put
some of that like pedantry into good use. Um. And
(16:22):
also screenwriter Bill Prady. So before Nickelodeon, you can't do
that on television debut on February third, nineteen nine on
c j o H TV in Ottawa as a one hour,
low budget variety program with some segments performed live. So
the show consisted of comedy sketches, music videos, usually thirty
per episode in live phone, and contests in which the
(16:44):
viewers could win a variety of prizes. I feel like
that era of TV is gone. I feel like there
was in the eighties nineties there was this huge like
you can win stuff from watching this thing, and I
feel like that's so that's gone. Do you feel though
(17:06):
like that could make a comeback or slowly making a
comeback on Twitch? Yeah, I feel like big time that's
where it's coming in and I definitely see people excited
for that. And so the short answer is yes. But
it's so interesting where there was a lot of incentivizing
for television to try and get you to watch because
(17:26):
it's like, oh, you can check this out, or you
can you know, get a chance to win, or you
can get a chance to come on the show. And
now it's kind of like, oh, we're just gonna do
our thing. But also one thing that's really cool about
you can do that on you can't do that on television,
and even when we were talking about earlier with like
Live Wire is just um like and even like America
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Goes Bananas? Is this recurrent theme of like variety shows,
sketch shows four kids and how well it ends up doing.
And it's so interesting that there isn't one currently for
on television right now for kids. But we had All That,
which follow up and that was successful. Yeah, there was
(18:12):
also you know, because so you had the All That
show and then you had a Cartoon Networks sketch show
Incredible Crew, which currently sits at three point nine out
of ten on i MDV and two point nine out
of ten on TV dot Com. So I guess, uh,
you know who's leaving those reviews, Iffie adults, parents, Parents
(18:32):
ruined everything. That's true. Kids aren't kids, aren't logging, going
on rotten tomatoes, Oh my gosh. Um. So moving back
to you can't do that on television. The opening sequence,
which featured the children's television Sausage Factory, which you haven't
seen it please YouTube. It was a reference to Terry
Gilliams of Monty Python, Fames Gillamations. So the success in
(18:58):
Canady thing doesn't have to be a portman, don't you
can just leave it at the door, you know. But
this was back in the eighties, if e, before everyone
was doing it. UM. The success in Canada got nixt
interest and Nickelodeon aired a handful of episodes and they
edited down to a half hour format during one as
(19:18):
a test run. This is something that I find very fascinating.
So over the next few years, the ratings gradually declined
in Canada, so by you can't do it, you can't
do that on television was seen only once a week
and a Saturday morning time slot on CTV, but continue
to go to go strong in the US on Nickelodeon,
(19:41):
where it aired at first five times a week and
eventually every day. They mocked every day. Also, I think
it was because they started to change their format, their topics,
like once they knew that they were going over to
the US airways into a Nickelodeon audience, in an American audience,
(20:02):
I think they kind of lost their Canadian viewership. Oh yeah,
I think so too, because you know, there there's like
a slight difference to the two different styles of comedy. UM.
Last episode we mentioned the origin of the green slime. Yeah,
and the green slime originally featured on You Can't Do
(20:23):
That on Television was later adopted by Nickelodeon as a
primary feature of many of its shows. So they basically
was like, oh you like that, Okay, we're just gonna
put that in everything. Yeah, that's we got the slim
we're known for the slime Um. Viewers in the US
were given the opportunity to enter the Slime in, which
was a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner
(20:44):
to the set of You Can't Do That on Television
to be slime So here again is kind of them
being like, oh no, we're us now, because this was
only open to US contestants. There is actually a two
thousand four documentary on the show called you Can't Do
That on Film Real. Yeah, so all of you Can't
Do That on Television heads that wrote us watch the documentary.
(21:05):
You'll love it. Tell them, we tell them we sent you.
And by them, I mean the guy who's working at
the Blockbuster that you're going to talk to so much.
You can't go to Blockbuster because their clothes. Try Hollywood videos.
Did you see that there's still a Blockbuster open in Alaska? Yeah,
that's that's cool. Interesting it's because they can't go home,
they're snowed in. I just people are gonna hate. I
(21:30):
don't really buy DVDs anymore, even if Hector Navarro was
obsessed with buying blue rays and I just don't care. Yeah,
it's it's kind of hard to do because you gotta
open up that case, put it in the thing, and
watch it. When I can just press buttons and wash stuff,
(21:50):
it's not even that well. And even on ones that
I've had to buy because I wanted to see Cocoa,
like right when it came out, and like, I got
to own Coco just in case they take it off
Netflix or whatever is it on net? It's on Netflix now,
but it wasn't, and so I bought it. Yeah, but
I bought it, and so I was like, yeah, I'll
have it digitally forever like that. I'm fine with that.
I don't need the blue ray of it anyways. If
(22:10):
your head, if your house catches on fire, you get
you still have yours. Hector, My main thing is that
it just takes up space. Like him and a lot
of our special effects friends just have walls of blue ray. Yeah, no,
I just have already too much stuff. Yeah, you can't
do that. Oh yeah, so I actually have a couple
of you can't do that on television, or as I
(22:33):
like to say, y C D T O T facts.
That's the long Well just say it when it's that long, Okay. Here.
So one of the episodes, which was titled Adoption, proves
so controversial that it was banned after being shown twice.
It had a do not air sticker placed on the
(22:53):
master tape of it. Adoption is the only episode that
was banned in the US and Canada. The Divorce episode
was banned, but the Adoption episode was shown with one
part cut. In the sketch where Senator pre Vert I'm
guessing calls the adoption agency to send his son Adam back,
but that's really funny actually after using him to do
(23:15):
chores all day. The part where he calls adoption agency
officer a damn bureaucrat after learning that adoption is forever
was bleeped out. So I guess the word damn and
not the actual topic itself the divorce one, I don't know.
So another fun Canadian show comes to America. Band situation.
(23:37):
Uh that happened later. As with Degrassi, I'm always going
to bring it back to Degrassi when we talk about
Nick had an episode that had to deal with abortion
that never aired in the US, And so what was
weird was there was a kind of like aftermath drama
that kind of people touched on, but it just was
(23:57):
weird because the episode never aired. So like, what are
you talking about? Oh, I see what you mean? Like
I just picked up why is Lisa crying? Got it?
I didn't really watch Degrassi. I watched a little bit
of it. Then in Fears, Worries and Anxieties, episode had
to be modified in one scene. This is insane. So
(24:19):
the scene, there's so much lore to this show. The
scene had Ellistair mom and dad talking about a bully
at school called Killer Curtis. When it was discovered that
there actually was a murderer named Killer Curtis in the US,
they decided that the bully's name should be changed, so
the words Killer Curtis were changed to Crusher Willis. This
(24:42):
was done very badly because between the time that the
episode was shot and when they were recording, ellis Stairs
voice had changed. I just can't believe that. Lord, see,
this is what happens when you bring Canadian shows to America.
They used terms like killer Curtis when we all know,
all of us knew that Killer Curtis was a real
person here who affected the lives of many people, So
(25:05):
damn killer. Can you imagine having like the Zodiac Killer?
Moving on, so the kid this is actually really cool fact.
The kids on the show got paid extra for episodes
in which they were doused with water or green slime.
So they got seventy five for water in a hundred
and fifty dollars for slime. And h I found out
that they would get water on them if they ever
(25:28):
said the word water or if they said wet, yeah,
and then it would just come down on them. Um
Christine Mclad, known as Moose, had no intention of trying
out for the show's cast. She went to the audition
solely to keep a friend company. And this also kind
of happened to uh in a different way, but kind
of happened to Mark Hamill that his friend was actually
(25:50):
auditioning for Luke. And then also, what how Kyle he
Bear ended up? Is it? It was either yeah, because
it has to be, because it's not how Um Savage
or Chris gott it. Kylie Bear was going like his
friend was auditioning. Maybe you're right, might be wrong. I
(26:11):
just know I'm pretty wrong. I just know that somebody
that Mark Hamill's friend, right was I know that that's right,
But I don't know if his friend was Harrison Ford.
But that's the part I feel like people are going
to correct me if his friend was like a really
famous person. But I do know that Mark Hamill was
not originally meant to audition for Luke, but was suggested correction.
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Robert England was auditioning for a role in Apocalypse Now
when he walked across the hall where auditions were taking
place for George Lucas's Star Wars after This is like
probably the most well known fact with all Star Wars people,
But here I am giving it to the rest of you. Um,
you can learn along with me. After watching auditions for
a while, he realized that Hamill, his friend, would be
(26:52):
perfect for the role of Luke Skywalker. He suggested to
Hamill that he auditioned for the role. Hamill did and
won the role, So there you go. So I guess
you know he wasn't intended to moving back. So Christine mcglad,
not as Moose, had no intention this show is going
off the rails and no intention of trying that we're
gonna get slimed at any moment. She didn't play into audition.
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Producer Roger Price told her she had to audition or leave.
Oh I kind of like that she auditioned and was
made host of the show. You never know, you know
how salty her friend probably is that that happened. Like
I would be so mad if I was like, all right,
coming to this audition, I need you and then they
(27:37):
get the role, I'd be like, don't ever in your
life come around. That's like the type of person she
She like, goes to your wedding as a bride'smaid, ends
up getting married. She ends up marrying your husband. Um
les Lie, who actually was the only cast member to
appear in every single episode so again These Are Children,
was in so many sketches that he frequently had difficult
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to remembering all his lines. So whenever he was seen
holding his clipboard it had a script on it, and
actually watched them the episodes and he's so cute and
he's just like, you know, a great actor, but like
is holding his script and kind of glancing down at
it here and there. MM hmm yep, yeah, And I
just did some quick math, and by math, I mean
(28:22):
put it into the side of a inflation calculator. For
if you were wondering how much those kids made for
the Slime, one fifty bucks in is equivalent to four
hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty five cents in two
thousand and eighteen. Holy crap, what Yeah, they're making five
slime Slimy Daddy. No, So, there was a reboot that
(28:47):
was reported by a V club. In fact, they were
the only ones that reported because all the other articles
were referencing a V club and this was from last August.
So A V Club said that Fox has teamed up
with series creator Roger Price and his Penny Arcade studios,
which are pretty popular for the revived series, which will
expand beyond the original sketch format to include musical performances,
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celebrity cameos, and interactive elements across multiple platforms, according to
a press release and Slime. Yeah, but the new you
Can't Do That on television has yet to announce a
network and it's been a year, so I know what's
going on normally in our industry. That means uh um,
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but it was being produced by Fox in main event media. Yeah,
but you know, it wasn't just you can't do that
on television. It was also show I tried to mention earlier,
The Third Eye, which was an anthology series on Nickelodeon,
and it consisted of several English language science fiction serials
from the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and all the
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program's featurettes focused on characters with psychic abilities. It's pretty cool, yeah,
which also explains the title. I feel like that you'd
out of psychic stories after what would you probably not?
I feel like that would be pretty neat to see
kids psychics. Oh that's terrifying. Well, they would learn so
much about the adult world. Yeah, I mean that's literally
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a Twilight Zone episode. It is. It is, But um,
I think what would be fascinating is the way that
it would probably be written is that like they would
look into their mom and dad's heads, and their mom
and dad would be talking like about the stork or something,
you know, like it wouldn't actually would be something fake.
Another eighties Nick show was Standby Lights, Camera Action. This
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one was actually pretty big. It was an educational television
series hosted by Leonard hosted by Leonard Nimoy. Yes spa himself,
So episodes of the series with host Leonard Nimoy at
the Nickelodeon studio introducing himself and announcing the episodes focus
such as performing stunts, special effects or animation. I think
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that is so cool that they kind of showed you
the behind the scenes, not just the actors, but like
the stunt people. How how are these special effects made?
How is this stop motion? You know, animation? Um. Then
he leaves the studio to visit a filming location where
he describes how different films incorporate the episode's topic, and
he typically examines three upcoming movies in each one hour
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segment before returning to Nickelodeon studio and signing off, that
sounds really cool and I wish they would do that again.
Oh yeah, that No, that's super dough. Patrick Stewart please
can fill in. No, nice casting choice. So then you
had Mr Wizard's World, which demonstrates the science behind ordinary things.
Mr Wizard always had some kind of laboratory experiment going
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on that taught something about science, and the experiments, many
of which seemed impossible at first glance, were usually simple
enough to be recreated by viewers. Nickelodeon struggled at first,
operating at a ten million loss by four Yeah. Yeah,
these shows they got in means and all that, but
it seems like they still will run down of money
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and network had lacked successful program shows on the network
had failed to gain tractions during the first few years.
Uh and it included against the odds and going great
shows that focused on kids of all ages who did
very amazing feats in the world and some people couldn't do,
which stagnated viewership and finishing dead last amount of all
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the US cable channels and well. Then, after firing its
management staff, MTV Networks President Bob Pittman turned to Fred
Siebert and Alan Goodman, who created MTV's iconic ideas a
few years earlier, to reinvigorate Nickelodeon, leading to what many
believe to be the channel's golden age. I mean they
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said it. I mean they said they said it like
that you went and you went and added that made
sure that research. Um No, if you do research the
history of Nickelodeon, you will see that the nineties is
known as its golden age. Whatever. The in ball logo
was replaced with a logo featuring buried orange backgrounds, most
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notably and famously the splat design with the Nickelodeon name
overlaid in the balloon typeface, which was used in hundreds
of different variations over the next twenty five years. So
Fred and Allen also enlisted the help of animators, writers, producers,
and doo wop group The Give Five The Give Five,
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which are best known for their nine one hit My
True Story, to create new Channel I d S, and
within six months of the rebranding, Nickelodeon would become the
dominant channel in children's programming, and remained so for twenty
six years, even in the midst of increasing competition in
more recent years from other kids oriented to cable channels,
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such as the Disney Channel in Cartoon Network, it also
began promoting itself as the first kids networks due to
its status as the first American television network aimed at children.
I love that they just kind of took over and
we're like, no, no, no, we're the first kids network
and yeah, and the fact that it's true probably made
it even sting so much more. It is funny, though,
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that they had that do Op group, because I do
remember a lot of Nickelodeon's Channel I d s, like
their logo and entrance and stuff, had a lot of that.
Oh yeah, yeah, just the Jive five. Oh my gosh.
But there were some really big, really famous nineties Nick
shows that we're going to get into right after, and
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we're back right off the top. We didn't really touch
on this, I think at all, even though it was
something that I watched religiously. Eureka's Castle, Oh that was
your jam huh. Well, it was co created, written by
popular goose Bumps author R. L. Stein. That's a little
(35:04):
known fact. I had no idea that he was involved
in it, and that maybe that's why you liked it,
your big Goosebumps it was. I was, well, that's because
goose Bumps is a lot like um, the Twilight Zone.
I mean, they have some of this similar It's funny
because some of the movies coming out now I've seen
people there's one like where the camera takes your picture
in it, like like shows your future whatever. That was
(35:25):
a goose bump So people like that was a goose
Bumps book and I was like, that was actually a
Twilight Zone episode first. But yeah, so your Kids Castle
was a charming, family friendly outing that relied on puppets
and wizardry, again to present some pretty clever characters in situations.
It was set in a wind up castle. They had
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a couple of these Setton castles that doubles as a
music box that also was owned by a lovabule giant.
Eureka's Castle focused on wizard and training Eureka and her
pack of wacky friends, most notably the tale challenge Dragon Magellan.
Oh man, this is sounding way familiar. Oh if he did,
(36:07):
you not what here? And you may remember this dum
dumb dum dum dum dumb dum Eureka's Castle. Yeah mm
(36:30):
hmm yeah yeah. When I saw like the puppet winding
up the castle, it seems so familiar. So I'm very
curious about that. Hmm. Has a lot of Gola Gola
island vibes. Yeah, buddy, I love me some Golagala Island.
Oh my gosh. So then after that, you know, we
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also had Finders Keepers, which was a game show where
contestants ransacked a massive dollhouse like for prizes, trashing stuffy
old libraries, staring through kitchens, pilfering, and garages all to
find a prop that would answer a riddle. Now this
I do kind of remember. Really, that sounds like what
our friends do now in escape rooms the Bay fifty
(37:16):
Yeah dance very excited about escape rooms. Actually wasn't what
we almost we almost got out. We almost did. I
had a lot of things I have. I already lived
with a lot of anxiety, So doing that is not fun.
It's not fun. Moving on Danger Mouse. Danger Mouse actually
had originated a few years earlier in the UK. It
was a spoof of James Bondum the Avengers and secret
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Agent the other Avengers, not the Marvel Avengers. There were those.
There was those which you might see pop up when
you search IMDb for the Avengers. That was a British Avengers,
which were these dapper secret agents. Yes, so Danger Mouse
was actually the biggest animated hit for early Nick and
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it spawned a spinoff, Count Ducula. I don't know if
you remember Count Ducula and the other you would recognize.
If I showed you the Google what he looks like,
you would be like, oh, yeah, I remember this guy. Um.
It's so funny how many things are like blurring together
as we try to go back to when we were
like four um and that he also had so danger
(38:24):
Mouse also had. Oh yeah, I remember Count Ducula. He
had a trusty hamster sidekick, Penfold. Yeah. And then you
had the World of David the Gnome, which was a
Spanish animated television series based on the children's book The
Secret Book of Gnomes and David is three years old,
making him the oldest gnome around and since most gnomes
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live no more than four hundred years exactly, although he
possesses exceptional constitution. David is a doctor and he uses
his knowledge of many fields, such as hypnosis and acupuncture
to heal his patients, usually animals such as his faithful
friend Swift the Fox or other gnomes. Did you watch
David the Gnome? Watch My older brother's name was David,
(39:10):
and I was a little creeped out by David the
Nome are the animation is a little bit creepy. It's
a little David the Nome being, you know, an elderly
man was a little bit creepy. I mean also, like,
based on everything we just read an elderly man getting
ready to die, David the Nome as a meme now too. Yeah,
(39:31):
he's in a lot of me, Oh, shoot, you're right, yeah, um, okay. So,
moving on to another nineteen technically eighties Nickelodeon show because
it aired on Nickelodeon was Inspector Gadget uh so from Deek.
We had a lot of people correct us, which we
asked for. We were like, how do you say this?
(39:52):
D I C. Deek Entertainment. Thanks for everyone that kindly
wrote us. The franchise followed the adventures of a powerful,
bit dim witted cyborg police inspector who played him in
the movie again ah farious Bueller the actor. Yeah, why
can nobody in this office recall anything because we're doing
(40:14):
this late at night? Yeah, it is Ferris Bueller was
played by Matthew Matthew Broderick. I was gonna say, simba
adult simba. I'm just gonna you know, married to Seth
Sara Jessica Parker or was I don't know if they're
still together. Matthew Broderick, right, he played Inspector okay, so,
and he also was in election and he had a
(40:36):
problem with the way that Whe's Witherspoon was running for
Don't worry, you'll be able to cut that fact that
huge little known factum. Also in modern family. So Inspector
Gadget would try to stop the criminal schemes of Dr
Claw and his organization MAD as they fruitlessly Dan our
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producer is just petting an imaginary can as they fruitlessly
attempt to stop him. However, neither side is aware that
Gadget's niece Penny and her dog Brain, who are truly
responsible for thwarting Mad. Is that true? Fun fact? Election
you're still on That election is the role he did
(41:24):
right before Inspector Gadget. So election was that? Do you
remember election? Yea with Reese Witherspinish. She was this over
obsessive and dating teachers and Matthew Brauneriki talks like this
and he's like, he's got so much going for you,
but you need a step on everyone to get there.
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And I had to do that scene in my acting class.
That's why That's why it's stuck in my head. Anyway, Oh,
I want to go back, circle back about David. David
the Gnome kind of actually just looks like Santa Claus,
so not as creepy as we suspected if you look
at some of the memes. He's creepy, but he also
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I think has a wife that's no, that's adorable. Oh
he's so cute. He looks like Santa Claus, like fused
with an ewak um. Moving on to another sitcom that
I loved, which was Hey Dude, Hey, yeah, now this
is the now we're talking about stuff? I remember. Yeah,
(42:29):
it was sent around a dude ranch in Arizona and
bringing back the feel of classic comedies like petticoat Junction.
You know everyone like everyone watched petticoat Junction and hehaw um,
I remember, Hey Dode and I remember salute your shorts,
but your shorts was the nineties. Hey dude, we're only
talking about the eighties right now, I know. And also
(42:50):
what start in the eighties was something we did talk
about a lot, which was Double Dare. Mm hmm we did.
I like that. It just stopped like, yeah, we only
did you know? Double Dare went on to pass the
torch of the eighties generation to the nineties, which ran
burned bright did way better than any era of Nickelodeon.
(43:14):
And that's the eighties it is. Yeah, we covered we
covered most of the did we cover enough? Y'all? Let
us know what what what is your show that we
we missed? And tell us. Why, Yeah, Nickelodeon, eighties. This
is eighties Nickelodeon. If we missed your show this time,
you need to tell us what it is, what it
was about, and why you loved it. What if it
(43:36):
was by the way it goes, by the way of it,
oh man. But yeah, No, the eighties were great, And
it's funny to go back and do this and see
towards the end how much stuff I actually do remember.
So it was fun to actually dip it into this
revisiting some of this. And I'm definitely gonna have to
bounce back and actually watch some of these old shows
(43:57):
because I'm so curious. I want to watch the page
Master to night. That's unrelated. I will say there was
a show apparently that aired on Nickelodeon called Doctor Snuggles.
Um even creepier if he even creepier than David the Gnome,
because it's like David the Gnome, but you see him.
He has his he has his animal friends, but he
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kind of looks like a like a dollar store Willy Wonka. Um.
You know it. This might have been someone's childhood right here.
It's a little bit creepy. His name was Dr Snuggles.
Never see a doctor named snaps Um. Yeah, so we
did it. We actually circled back. We always we're going
to circle back, and we did it. So how do
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you feel you won? Did no appreciate you? We? You
know what? That's the whole reason why, because I'm normally
like I don't always when people write us. Sometimes I'm like,
we just look, I love the thing too. We can't
cover it in an hour. But we had so many
people that wrote us about you can't do that on
television that it truly meant that it was a of
(45:00):
their childhood that I wanted to take the time to
go back and look at it. Yeah, and it was
real fun and I can't wait to go back and
watch old episodes. But thanks for listening seriously, and definitely
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(48:09):
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Hello, and welcome to another edition of their Difficent I
am one half of your host, Danny Fernandez, and sitting
across for me is yet again always here and forever
holding it down. What is Gucci? Well, we heard y'all,
we heard you, We heard you. And if you and
I's bias nineties, he's got called out. Wait, that's probably
(00:33):
gonna get bleeped our nineties booties. We are on the
tip end of the eighties there, And you know, I
would like to say that in my research with a
lot of the Nickelodeon research, the golden age of Nickelodeon
is known as the nineties. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You
could you can hit up you know, all of the
(00:53):
blogs and if he's just laughing over here, like listen,
we heard you. Though. We skipped over the eighties too
quickly and it wasn't fair, and we're circling back. This
is the first time where we had so many people
write as that we're like, we better circle back now. Yeah,
this is this really is the quickest we've rep and
(01:16):
there's still so many on the docket. Yeah, we do
have a full docket of there's so many fandoms and
nerd things to get into. I do want to say, though,
just really quickly, that even even for a show like
The Twilight Zone, which is one of my favorite things
in the world, we're just not going to be able
to talk about every episode. I also think that would
(01:37):
be boring. I have listened, I mean I have listened
to other people's podcasts that do kind of go into
every single thing, And if you want that, that's out there.
But that's not really what we're trying to do. We're
just trying to give you the rundown of each topic.
But here we are in the eighties with Nickelodeon. I'm
(01:58):
scroll deep into if you put together the entire research
document for this, and I got deep into the eighties
finding out about a lot of shows that I didn't
even know exist, and I think you might also not
know exists. No, nothing seems familiar. No, But I think
people listening that even where like the eighties, and they're
gonna be like, what that was a thing? It was
(02:20):
because some of these were in black and white. I
actually in my research found out that a lot of
the shows came from Canada and um and from other
countries as what like Nickelodeon was kind of you know,
as a baby wasn't really able to make a lot
of their own shows, so they would pull from successful
shows from other countries. Yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of
(02:41):
like with Nagen what they did with the Grassy. It
was this big hit in Canada and they're like, let's
put it on nin So yeah, it seems like it
becomes a strong part. So let's officially go into the eighties.
Nickelodeon launched on April first, nineteen seventy nine. Almost there,
April fools. Oh yeah, that's a good that's good for nick.
(03:04):
That fits. It was the first ever all children's network
on Warner Cable system in Buffalo, New York. It quickly
expanded its audience reach, first to other Warner Cable systems
across the country and eventually two other cable providers. So
it's initial programming block had let me count one, two, three, four, five, six,
(03:26):
seven shows every day. So the first show was Video
Comic Book, which was a show that scanned Silver Age
d C comics. Yeah, yeah, and we covered some of
the Silver Age comics during our flash episode in the
Silver Age. So definitely if you're not if you're unfamiliar,
(03:46):
what that was with DC Comics. Go check out that episode.
So Video Comic Book. The show's opening shows kids writing
their bicycles to get a to a comic bookstore, to
the tune of Right of the Valkyries. That's actually really cool,
like getting straight off the bat, like already getting kids
interested in comics. That's actually really dope, I know, And
it's kind of like a foreshadowing as to what kids
(04:08):
will be rocking out to for centuries to come. Yeah,
So our next show up was called pop Clips, and
some of that you can also look up on YouTube
a lot of these if you're unfamiliar with them and
just kind of want to do a deep dive of
Nickelodeon further, you can just google pop Clips into YouTube
and check out some of that. It was a music
video television program, which was the direct predecessor of MTV,
(04:33):
which is interesting because it's like, man, this show is
so popular, let's make it a whole channel, you know,
I know, and you know. Nickelodeon and MTV actually worked
very closely with each other and had a lot of
lapovers because some of the people that were famous for
the MTV logo and music for that channel. The channel
I d S the channel. I d S actually ended
up working on Nickelodeons to make them cool and hip
(04:55):
for kids. I can't believe I just said that. Let's
move on because Focus was another the show it was
featured an apprentice wizard who magically time traveled forward from
the Middle Ages named Crispin, who worked in the film
department of a public library, who, along with his shape
shifting pet named Ulak, played short films. Crispin's friends included
(05:16):
the absent minded professor Rhombus, a young woman named Daisy,
and a talking book. You know this sounds like what
am I thinking of the McCauley Culkin. Oh yeah, the
page Master, the page Master. Yeah, that book. That means
that movie. I don't know why, but that I thought
it was so tight. Oh my god. It is like
because it had those books and they had faces and
(05:38):
the personalities. Yeah. Remember was yes the Mobe Dick when
the Horror One scared the crap out of me. I
still remember it, Like Sanctuary, Remember that Jacqueline Hyde he
ran into I'm going to go home? YEA, go back
and check that out. Uh So, Hocus Focus only last
(06:00):
did one year. I mean, it seems very fantastical. I mean,
you got, you know, a shape shifting pet named Oolock,
and you've got Crispin spelled k r y sp n.
That was too much for the eighties. They're like, let's
get out of here. And then you had Pinwell, which
was reformatted as a daily hour long series that ran
(06:20):
in a three to five hour block format and was
the precursor to Nick Jr. Which replaced in When I
Was Born they knew. They're like, if he's gonna like this.
I was also born during that year, yes, established, but
they're like, if he you know, February, If if he's coming,
I feel, I feel the thickness of this child, and
(06:42):
we must prepare for him. But the show was similar
to Sesame Street, with live action skits mixed with animation
shorts and action scenes took place in around the large
Victorian style boarding house called the Pinwheel House with a
pinwheel on one of the peaks, and live actors would
interact with puppets to cussing various concepts familiar to children's programming,
(07:03):
like sharing, being considerate, basic learning skills like colors, numbers,
and letters, and all of the characters lived and worked
in various areas in and around the house. This sounds
like a mix between Mr. Rogers and Sesame. Yeah. Yeah.
Actually a lot of their formatting, which you'll see when
we continue, was kind of like that, but it was
a formula that worked. Oh yeah, so I guess that's
(07:25):
why UM. And to be honest, Mr Rogers didn't like
one of their like clearly that was kind of I
don't want to say it was ripping them off, but
he was like, no, I don't like that show, which
we're we'll get to um. Next up on the docket
is America Goes Bananas with a Z, so you know
there were zany It was a It was a teenager
oriented variety show presented by Michael Young and Randy Hamilton's.
(07:49):
It had hip hop music sessions focusing on mature subjects
such as drugs and birth control. That's that is something
that I see we saw Nickelodeon tackle, like we talked
about with Linda Ellerby in the news segments that she
would do for Nickelodeon. But like Nickelodeon was notorious for
tackling some of those which MTV did as well. So
I do think that they worked alongside each other to
(08:11):
provide content for teenagers. Um, So America Goes Bananas was
also regularly shown in an effort to interest and educate
a teenage target audience. Yeah, and then they had kind
of like their namesake with nickel Flicks, which was technically
from the seventies, but they replayd in the eighties and
a showcase cereals from the twenties and the forties in
(08:33):
addition to early Comic one reelers and short films, and
was largely in black and white. Can you imagine, like
would your daughter watch this? Like that's the thing though.
So they used to play these these short black and
white films and some of them silent from the twenties
and forties on Nickelodeon. And you're right, it was their
namesake because the network's original logo incorporated a man looking
(08:56):
into a Nickelodeon machine that was placed in the uh
and those were, as you all know, the little like
movie players that in the olden daisies to look into.
And so this was this is supposed to be a
young man. He's wearing like a top hat and then
he's dressed like basically like Abraham Lincoln um looking into
the end of Nickelodeon that was later replaced by their
(09:19):
pinwheel logo typeface. And then the final thing was a
show called By the Way, which by the Way, I
could not find a single thing on I like, Yes,
I looked up Nickelodeon's By the Way, um and it
brought me up a ton of other shows that they
had and on YouTube. I just couldn't find what that was.
So I guess if you find it, please tweet at us,
or if you watched it, tell us what it was. Yeah, yeah, okay.
(09:42):
So at the time of its launched, Nickelodeon's programming aired
for thirteen hours each weekday from eight am to eleven pm.
That's that's a pretty hefty block, and for fourteen hours
on weekends from eight am to midnight. Wow. So then
they added these new shows in include Dusty st tree House,
which was like a Mr. Rogers style show, and it
(10:03):
featured a character named Dusty who was played by Stuart
Rosen and his amazing custom built treehouse where anything and
everything could happen. Often, Dusty had conversations with his puppet
animal friends, including Max and the Cow, Scooter the Squirrel, Stanley,
the Red Haired Spider, and sneakers, and Dusty also went
on tree trips, phil trip via balloon and basket to
(10:24):
factories to see how products were made, and or to parks, zoos,
aquariums and so on, and it won eight Emmy. Yeah, yeah,
I was like, I need a threat. We have to
include Dusty's treehouse because it won Nickelodeon eight Emmy's so damn.
That's insane. Also, it's funny to see how children's program
and kind of has it changed. It's always like a
(10:46):
person talking to puppets and let's see what different you know,
jobs there are. It's so cute and so innocent. Moving
on to first Row Features, that was an anthology series.
It mainly carried British television films for children, and so
this is again a popular theme that you'll see with
Nickelodeon buying up or essentially rerunning things that were showed
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in other countries. The Times actually described the show as
a collection of one hour feature films for children, ranging
from comedies and adventures to dramas and semidocumentaries. That's pretty cool. Yeah,
that's super dope. And then there was Special Delivery, which
is also an anthology series, and it had consisted of
like both live action and animated episodes. Much of the
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programming was made up of children Focus made for TV movies. Yeah,
that was possibly before Disney Channel original movies. Remember Oh yeah,
children Focused made for TV movies. It was a big thing.
Oh yeah, I remember. Let me see it was Shila
buff Um. Yes, yes, where he played huh a mentally
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challenged kid and it made me cry. Um. That was
a really popular movie. And let me see. I'll find
it in two seconds. True Confessions. Yes, why isn't it?
This is wild? I'm on his IMDb. What year did
it come out? Oh? Here, it is True Confessions. I
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was in high school. I think, oh boy, um, look
at his curly head. He was so cute. When I
say this thing wrecked me like I was. I was.
This was two thousand three, so I was like sixteen
and I was just crying my eyes out. So yeah,
and then we would get I love that we're talking
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about a different network. And then we would get the
biggest Disney Channel movie of all time, high school musical.
I'm only saying that, like via sales. Well, I thought
you meant you were going to say xenon or whatever.
You know, people can argue with me, but I'm just
talking about popularity wise, um, and you can't can't argue
with numbers. Moving on, What will they think of Next?
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Which was originally tiled Science International, and each episode featured
approximately twenty short segments on scientific developments in and trivia.
Nice and You had Live Wire, which series was designed
for kids of all ages and the show's main focus
discussed true current events and stories during those times. It
was taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York
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through Reeves Teletape Studios of Sesame Street Fame, so you know,
still rocking, Rocking it Down, and it was film live
on tape with the participate in audience of about twenty
to thirty teenagers and Live Wire was the number one
rated show on Nickelodeon Ino and never went below number
seven in the ratings during the five years span of
the show. Show was most famously known for giving relatively
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unknown bands and singers their first television appearance because like
the Conan of for kids a lot like um Show,
and then in one the network introduced a new logo
consisting of a silver pine overlaid by multicolored Nickelodeon text,
and later that year, the Canadian sketch comedy series You
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Can't Do That on Television made its American debut that
on Nickelodeon. You Can't Do That on Television? Where do
I remember that? For? Oh? Maybe everyone who tweeted it
at us this show. Well, guess what, you don't get
to hear us talk about it until after these messages
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and we're back, and I think we were talking about this,
this show that I guess a lot of people wrote
us about that we skipped over. Technically, if I want
to say that, I did mention it's where the slime
came from when I talked about where the green slime
came from, but I didn't actually talk about the show itself.
So let's talk about you can't. Actually, let's skip it
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in and talk about the third Eye. I do not
need more people my inbox, y'all. I did a lot
of research for the and also watched You Can't Do That.
Thank you for exposing it to me, because it was
definitely before my time and it wasn't something you know,
when I came into the factor. It was all that
I watched, all that sketch comedy, and so yeah, we
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also had what would you do instead of you go
what what? What? What? What? Good? You do way better
than you Now you're gonna get so many people writing you.
So you can't do that on television. Featured preteen and
teenage actors in a sketch comedy format similar to that
(15:37):
of Rowan and Martin's Laughing and Saturday Night Live. Each
episode had a specific theme that I didn't know about,
normally relating to pop culture of the time. The show
was notable for launching the careers of many performers, including
I don't know hop if you know this, Ivy alternative
rock singer songwriter Atlantis Moore set can go back and look,
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you can shut it's not actually ironic because if we're
talking about ironic, who, No, I'm just kidding. I think
I heard Zach laughing from the booths. Some pat myself
on the back. No, I'm just saying that everybody that
always corrects like, well, actually, that's not what irony is. Um,
don't you go play magic the gathering put some put
some of that like pedantry into good use. Um. And
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also screenwriter Bill Prady. So before Nickelodeon, you can't do
that on television debut on February third, nineteen nine on
c j o H TV in Ottawa as a one hour,
low budget variety program with some segments performed live. So
the show consisted of comedy sketches, music videos, usually thirty
per episode in live phone, and contests in which the
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viewers could win a variety of prizes. I feel like
that era of TV is gone. I feel like there
was in the eighties nineties there was this huge like
you can win stuff from watching this thing, and I
feel like that's so that's gone. Do you feel though
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like that could make a comeback or slowly making a
comeback on Twitch? Yeah, I feel like big time that's
where it's coming in and I definitely see people excited
for that. And so the short answer is yes. But
it's so interesting where there was a lot of incentivizing
for television to try and get you to watch because
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it's like, oh, you can check this out, or you
can you know, get a chance to win, or you
can get a chance to come on the show. And
now it's kind of like, oh, we're just gonna do
our thing. But also one thing that's really cool about
you can do that on you can't do that on television,
and even when we were talking about earlier with like
Live Wire is just um like and even like America
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Goes Bananas? Is this recurrent theme of like variety shows,
sketch shows four kids and how well it ends up doing.
And it's so interesting that there isn't one currently for
on television right now for kids. But we had All That,
which follow up and that was successful. Yeah, there was
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also you know, because so you had the All That
show and then you had a Cartoon Networks sketch show
Incredible Crew, which currently sits at three point nine out
of ten on i MDV and two point nine out
of ten on TV dot Com. So I guess, uh,
you know who's leaving those reviews, Iffie adults, parents, Parents
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ruined everything. That's true. Kids aren't kids, aren't logging, going
on rotten tomatoes, Oh my gosh. Um. So moving back
to you can't do that on television. The opening sequence,
which featured the children's television Sausage Factory, which you haven't
seen it please YouTube. It was a reference to Terry
Gilliams of Monty Python, Fames Gillamations. So the success in
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Canady thing doesn't have to be a portman, don't you
can just leave it at the door, you know. But
this was back in the eighties, if e, before everyone
was doing it. UM. The success in Canada got nixt
interest and Nickelodeon aired a handful of episodes and they
edited down to a half hour format during one as
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a test run. This is something that I find very fascinating.
So over the next few years, the ratings gradually declined
in Canada, so by you can't do it, you can't
do that on television was seen only once a week
and a Saturday morning time slot on CTV, but continue
to go to go strong in the US on Nickelodeon,
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where it aired at first five times a week and
eventually every day. They mocked every day. Also, I think
it was because they started to change their format, their topics,
like once they knew that they were going over to
the US airways into a Nickelodeon audience, in an American audience,
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I think they kind of lost their Canadian viewership. Oh yeah,
I think so too, because you know, there there's like
a slight difference to the two different styles of comedy. UM.
Last episode we mentioned the origin of the green slime. Yeah,
and the green slime originally featured on You Can't Do
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That on Television was later adopted by Nickelodeon as a
primary feature of many of its shows. So they basically
was like, oh you like that, Okay, we're just gonna
put that in everything. Yeah, that's we got the slim
we're known for the slime Um. Viewers in the US
were given the opportunity to enter the Slime in, which
was a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner
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to the set of You Can't Do That on Television
to be slime So here again is kind of them
being like, oh no, we're us now, because this was
only open to US contestants. There is actually a two
thousand four documentary on the show called you Can't Do
That on Film Real. Yeah, so all of you Can't
Do That on Television heads that wrote us watch the documentary.
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You'll love it. Tell them, we tell them we sent you.
And by them, I mean the guy who's working at
the Blockbuster that you're going to talk to so much.
You can't go to Blockbuster because their clothes. Try Hollywood videos.
Did you see that there's still a Blockbuster open in Alaska? Yeah,
that's that's cool. Interesting it's because they can't go home,
they're snowed in. I just people are gonna hate. I
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don't really buy DVDs anymore, even if Hector Navarro was
obsessed with buying blue rays and I just don't care. Yeah,
it's it's kind of hard to do because you gotta
open up that case, put it in the thing, and
watch it. When I can just press buttons and wash stuff,
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it's not even that well. And even on ones that
I've had to buy because I wanted to see Cocoa,
like right when it came out, and like, I got
to own Coco just in case they take it off
Netflix or whatever is it on net? It's on Netflix now,
but it wasn't, and so I bought it. Yeah, but
I bought it, and so I was like, yeah, I'll
have it digitally forever like that. I'm fine with that.
I don't need the blue ray of it anyways. If
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your head, if your house catches on fire, you get
you still have yours. Hector, My main thing is that
it just takes up space. Like him and a lot
of our special effects friends just have walls of blue ray. Yeah, no,
I just have already too much stuff. Yeah, you can't
do that. Oh yeah, so I actually have a couple
of you can't do that on television, or as I
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like to say, y C D T O T facts.
That's the long Well just say it when it's that long, Okay. Here.
So one of the episodes, which was titled Adoption, proves
so controversial that it was banned after being shown twice.
It had a do not air sticker placed on the
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master tape of it. Adoption is the only episode that
was banned in the US and Canada. The Divorce episode
was banned, but the Adoption episode was shown with one
part cut. In the sketch where Senator pre Vert I'm
guessing calls the adoption agency to send his son Adam back,
but that's really funny actually after using him to do
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chores all day. The part where he calls adoption agency
officer a damn bureaucrat after learning that adoption is forever
was bleeped out. So I guess the word damn and
not the actual topic itself the divorce one, I don't know.
So another fun Canadian show comes to America. Band situation.
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Uh that happened later. As with Degrassi, I'm always going
to bring it back to Degrassi when we talk about
Nick had an episode that had to deal with abortion
that never aired in the US, And so what was
weird was there was a kind of like aftermath drama
that kind of people touched on, but it just was
(23:57):
weird because the episode never aired. So like, what are
you talking about? Oh, I see what you mean? Like
I just picked up why is Lisa crying? Got it?
I didn't really watch Degrassi. I watched a little bit
of it. Then in Fears, Worries and Anxieties, episode had
to be modified in one scene. This is insane. So
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the scene, there's so much lore to this show. The
scene had Ellistair mom and dad talking about a bully
at school called Killer Curtis. When it was discovered that
there actually was a murderer named Killer Curtis in the US,
they decided that the bully's name should be changed, so
the words Killer Curtis were changed to Crusher Willis. This
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was done very badly because between the time that the
episode was shot and when they were recording, ellis Stairs
voice had changed. I just can't believe that. Lord, see,
this is what happens when you bring Canadian shows to America.
They used terms like killer Curtis when we all know,
all of us knew that Killer Curtis was a real
person here who affected the lives of many people, So
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damn killer. Can you imagine having like the Zodiac Killer?
Moving on, so the kid this is actually really cool fact.
The kids on the show got paid extra for episodes
in which they were doused with water or green slime.
So they got seventy five for water in a hundred
and fifty dollars for slime. And h I found out
that they would get water on them if they ever
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said the word water or if they said wet, yeah,
and then it would just come down on them. Um
Christine Mclad, known as Moose, had no intention of trying
out for the show's cast. She went to the audition
solely to keep a friend company. And this also kind
of happened to uh in a different way, but kind
of happened to Mark Hamill that his friend was actually
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auditioning for Luke. And then also, what how Kyle he
Bear ended up? Is it? It was either yeah, because
it has to be, because it's not how Um Savage
or Chris gott it. Kylie Bear was going like his
friend was auditioning. Maybe you're right, might be wrong. I
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just know I'm pretty wrong. I just know that somebody
that Mark Hamill's friend, right was I know that that's right,
But I don't know if his friend was Harrison Ford.
But that's the part I feel like people are going
to correct me if his friend was like a really
famous person. But I do know that Mark Hamill was
not originally meant to audition for Luke, but was suggested correction.
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Robert England was auditioning for a role in Apocalypse Now
when he walked across the hall where auditions were taking
place for George Lucas's Star Wars after This is like
probably the most well known fact with all Star Wars people,
But here I am giving it to the rest of you. Um,
you can learn along with me. After watching auditions for
a while, he realized that Hamill, his friend, would be
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perfect for the role of Luke Skywalker. He suggested to
Hamill that he auditioned for the role. Hamill did and
won the role, So there you go. So I guess
you know he wasn't intended to moving back. So Christine mcglad,
not as Moose, had no intention this show is going
off the rails and no intention of trying that we're
gonna get slimed at any moment. She didn't play into audition.
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Producer Roger Price told her she had to audition or leave.
Oh I kind of like that she auditioned and was
made host of the show. You never know, you know
how salty her friend probably is that that happened. Like
I would be so mad if I was like, all right,
coming to this audition, I need you and then they
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get the role, I'd be like, don't ever in your
life come around. That's like the type of person she
She like, goes to your wedding as a bride'smaid, ends
up getting married. She ends up marrying your husband. Um
les Lie, who actually was the only cast member to
appear in every single episode so again These Are Children,
was in so many sketches that he frequently had difficult
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to remembering all his lines. So whenever he was seen
holding his clipboard it had a script on it, and
actually watched them the episodes and he's so cute and
he's just like, you know, a great actor, but like
is holding his script and kind of glancing down at
it here and there. MM hmm yep, yeah, And I
just did some quick math, and by math, I mean
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put it into the side of a inflation calculator. For
if you were wondering how much those kids made for
the Slime, one fifty bucks in is equivalent to four
hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty five cents in two
thousand and eighteen. Holy crap, what Yeah, they're making five
slime Slimy Daddy. No, So, there was a reboot that
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was reported by a V club. In fact, they were
the only ones that reported because all the other articles
were referencing a V club and this was from last August.
So A V Club said that Fox has teamed up
with series creator Roger Price and his Penny Arcade studios,
which are pretty popular for the revived series, which will
expand beyond the original sketch format to include musical performances,
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celebrity cameos, and interactive elements across multiple platforms, according to
a press release and Slime. Yeah, but the new you
Can't Do That on television has yet to announce a
network and it's been a year, so I know what's
going on normally in our industry. That means uh um,
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but it was being produced by Fox in main event media. Yeah,
but you know, it wasn't just you can't do that
on television. It was also show I tried to mention earlier,
The Third Eye, which was an anthology series on Nickelodeon,
and it consisted of several English language science fiction serials
from the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and all the
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program's featurettes focused on characters with psychic abilities. It's pretty cool, yeah,
which also explains the title. I feel like that you'd
out of psychic stories after what would you probably not?
I feel like that would be pretty neat to see
kids psychics. Oh that's terrifying. Well, they would learn so
much about the adult world. Yeah, I mean that's literally
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a Twilight Zone episode. It is. It is, But um,
I think what would be fascinating is the way that
it would probably be written is that like they would
look into their mom and dad's heads, and their mom
and dad would be talking like about the stork or something,
you know, like it wouldn't actually would be something fake.
Another eighties Nick show was Standby Lights, Camera Action. This
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one was actually pretty big. It was an educational television
series hosted by Leonard hosted by Leonard Nimoy. Yes spa himself,
So episodes of the series with host Leonard Nimoy at
the Nickelodeon studio introducing himself and announcing the episodes focus
such as performing stunts, special effects or animation. I think
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that is so cool that they kind of showed you
the behind the scenes, not just the actors, but like
the stunt people. How how are these special effects made?
How is this stop motion? You know, animation? Um. Then
he leaves the studio to visit a filming location where
he describes how different films incorporate the episode's topic, and
he typically examines three upcoming movies in each one hour
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segment before returning to Nickelodeon studio and signing off, that
sounds really cool and I wish they would do that again.
Oh yeah, that No, that's super dough. Patrick Stewart please
can fill in. No, nice casting choice. So then you
had Mr Wizard's World, which demonstrates the science behind ordinary things.
Mr Wizard always had some kind of laboratory experiment going
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on that taught something about science, and the experiments, many
of which seemed impossible at first glance, were usually simple
enough to be recreated by viewers. Nickelodeon struggled at first,
operating at a ten million loss by four Yeah. Yeah,
these shows they got in means and all that, but
it seems like they still will run down of money
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and network had lacked successful program shows on the network
had failed to gain tractions during the first few years.
Uh and it included against the odds and going great
shows that focused on kids of all ages who did
very amazing feats in the world and some people couldn't do,
which stagnated viewership and finishing dead last amount of all
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the US cable channels and well. Then, after firing its
management staff, MTV Networks President Bob Pittman turned to Fred
Siebert and Alan Goodman, who created MTV's iconic ideas a
few years earlier, to reinvigorate Nickelodeon, leading to what many
believe to be the channel's golden age. I mean they
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said it. I mean they said they said it like
that you went and you went and added that made
sure that research. Um No, if you do research the
history of Nickelodeon, you will see that the nineties is
known as its golden age. Whatever. The in ball logo
was replaced with a logo featuring buried orange backgrounds, most
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notably and famously the splat design with the Nickelodeon name
overlaid in the balloon typeface, which was used in hundreds
of different variations over the next twenty five years. So
Fred and Allen also enlisted the help of animators, writers, producers,
and doo wop group The Give Five The Give Five,
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which are best known for their nine one hit My
True Story, to create new Channel I d S, and
within six months of the rebranding, Nickelodeon would become the
dominant channel in children's programming, and remained so for twenty
six years, even in the midst of increasing competition in
more recent years from other kids oriented to cable channels,
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such as the Disney Channel in Cartoon Network, it also
began promoting itself as the first kids networks due to
its status as the first American television network aimed at children.
I love that they just kind of took over and
we're like, no, no, no, we're the first kids network
and yeah, and the fact that it's true probably made
it even sting so much more. It is funny, though,
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that they had that do Op group, because I do
remember a lot of Nickelodeon's Channel I d s, like
their logo and entrance and stuff, had a lot of that.
Oh yeah, yeah, just the Jive five. Oh my gosh.
But there were some really big, really famous nineties Nick
shows that we're going to get into right after, and
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we're back right off the top. We didn't really touch
on this, I think at all, even though it was
something that I watched religiously. Eureka's Castle, Oh that was
your jam huh. Well, it was co created, written by
popular goose Bumps author R. L. Stein. That's a little
(35:04):
known fact. I had no idea that he was involved
in it, and that maybe that's why you liked it,
your big Goosebumps it was. I was, well, that's because
goose Bumps is a lot like um, the Twilight Zone.
I mean, they have some of this similar It's funny
because some of the movies coming out now I've seen
people there's one like where the camera takes your picture
in it, like like shows your future whatever. That was
(35:25):
a goose bump So people like that was a goose
Bumps book and I was like, that was actually a
Twilight Zone episode first. But yeah, so your Kids Castle
was a charming, family friendly outing that relied on puppets
and wizardry, again to present some pretty clever characters in situations.
It was set in a wind up castle. They had
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a couple of these Setton castles that doubles as a
music box that also was owned by a lovabule giant.
Eureka's Castle focused on wizard and training Eureka and her
pack of wacky friends, most notably the tale challenge Dragon Magellan.
Oh man, this is sounding way familiar. Oh if he did,
(36:07):
you not what here? And you may remember this dum
dumb dum dum dum dumb dum Eureka's Castle. Yeah mm
(36:30):
hmm yeah yeah. When I saw like the puppet winding
up the castle, it seems so familiar. So I'm very
curious about that. Hmm. Has a lot of Gola Gola
island vibes. Yeah, buddy, I love me some Golagala Island.
Oh my gosh. So then after that, you know, we
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also had Finders Keepers, which was a game show where
contestants ransacked a massive dollhouse like for prizes, trashing stuffy
old libraries, staring through kitchens, pilfering, and garages all to
find a prop that would answer a riddle. Now this
I do kind of remember. Really, that sounds like what
our friends do now in escape rooms the Bay fifty
(37:16):
Yeah dance very excited about escape rooms. Actually wasn't what
we almost we almost got out. We almost did. I
had a lot of things I have. I already lived
with a lot of anxiety, So doing that is not fun.
It's not fun. Moving on Danger Mouse. Danger Mouse actually
had originated a few years earlier in the UK. It
was a spoof of James Bondum the Avengers and secret
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Agent the other Avengers, not the Marvel Avengers. There were those.
There was those which you might see pop up when
you search IMDb for the Avengers. That was a British Avengers,
which were these dapper secret agents. Yes, so Danger Mouse
was actually the biggest animated hit for early Nick and
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it spawned a spinoff, Count Ducula. I don't know if
you remember Count Ducula and the other you would recognize.
If I showed you the Google what he looks like,
you would be like, oh, yeah, I remember this guy. Um.
It's so funny how many things are like blurring together
as we try to go back to when we were
like four um and that he also had so danger
(38:24):
Mouse also had. Oh yeah, I remember Count Ducula. He
had a trusty hamster sidekick, Penfold. Yeah. And then you
had the World of David the Gnome, which was a
Spanish animated television series based on the children's book The
Secret Book of Gnomes and David is three years old,
making him the oldest gnome around and since most gnomes
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live no more than four hundred years exactly, although he
possesses exceptional constitution. David is a doctor and he uses
his knowledge of many fields, such as hypnosis and acupuncture
to heal his patients, usually animals such as his faithful
friend Swift the Fox or other gnomes. Did you watch
David the Gnome? Watch My older brother's name was David,
(39:10):
and I was a little creeped out by David the
Nome are the animation is a little bit creepy. It's
a little David the Nome being, you know, an elderly
man was a little bit creepy. I mean also, like,
based on everything we just read an elderly man getting
ready to die, David the Nome as a meme now too. Yeah,
(39:31):
he's in a lot of me, Oh, shoot, you're right, yeah, um, okay. So,
moving on to another nineteen technically eighties Nickelodeon show because
it aired on Nickelodeon was Inspector Gadget uh so from Deek.
We had a lot of people correct us, which we
asked for. We were like, how do you say this?
(39:52):
D I C. Deek Entertainment. Thanks for everyone that kindly
wrote us. The franchise followed the adventures of a powerful,
bit dim witted cyborg police inspector who played him in
the movie again ah farious Bueller the actor. Yeah, why
can nobody in this office recall anything because we're doing
(40:14):
this late at night? Yeah, it is Ferris Bueller was
played by Matthew Matthew Broderick. I was gonna say, simba
adult simba. I'm just gonna you know, married to Seth
Sara Jessica Parker or was I don't know if they're
still together. Matthew Broderick, right, he played Inspector okay, so,
and he also was in election and he had a
(40:36):
problem with the way that Whe's Witherspoon was running for
Don't worry, you'll be able to cut that fact that
huge little known factum. Also in modern family. So Inspector
Gadget would try to stop the criminal schemes of Dr
Claw and his organization MAD as they fruitlessly Dan our
(41:02):
producer is just petting an imaginary can as they fruitlessly
attempt to stop him. However, neither side is aware that
Gadget's niece Penny and her dog Brain, who are truly
responsible for thwarting Mad. Is that true? Fun fact? Election
you're still on That election is the role he did
(41:24):
right before Inspector Gadget. So election was that? Do you
remember election? Yea with Reese Witherspinish. She was this over
obsessive and dating teachers and Matthew Brauneriki talks like this
and he's like, he's got so much going for you,
but you need a step on everyone to get there.
(41:45):
And I had to do that scene in my acting class.
That's why That's why it's stuck in my head. Anyway, Oh,
I want to go back, circle back about David. David
the Gnome kind of actually just looks like Santa Claus,
so not as creepy as we suspected if you look
at some of the memes. He's creepy, but he also
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I think has a wife that's no, that's adorable. Oh
he's so cute. He looks like Santa Claus, like fused
with an ewak um. Moving on to another sitcom that
I loved, which was Hey Dude, Hey, yeah, now this
is the now we're talking about stuff? I remember. Yeah,
(42:29):
it was sent around a dude ranch in Arizona and
bringing back the feel of classic comedies like petticoat Junction.
You know everyone like everyone watched petticoat Junction and hehaw um,
I remember, Hey Dode and I remember salute your shorts,
but your shorts was the nineties. Hey dude, we're only
talking about the eighties right now, I know. And also
(42:50):
what start in the eighties was something we did talk
about a lot, which was Double Dare. Mm hmm we did.
I like that. It just stopped like, yeah, we only
did you know? Double Dare went on to pass the
torch of the eighties generation to the nineties, which ran
burned bright did way better than any era of Nickelodeon.
(43:14):
And that's the eighties it is. Yeah, we covered we
covered most of the did we cover enough? Y'all? Let
us know what what what is your show that we
we missed? And tell us. Why, Yeah, Nickelodeon, eighties. This
is eighties Nickelodeon. If we missed your show this time,
you need to tell us what it is, what it
was about, and why you loved it. What if it
(43:36):
was by the way it goes, by the way of it,
oh man. But yeah, No, the eighties were great, And
it's funny to go back and do this and see
towards the end how much stuff I actually do remember.
So it was fun to actually dip it into this
revisiting some of this. And I'm definitely gonna have to
bounce back and actually watch some of these old shows
(43:57):
because I'm so curious. I want to watch the page
Master to night. That's unrelated. I will say there was
a show apparently that aired on Nickelodeon called Doctor Snuggles.
Um even creepier if he even creepier than David the Gnome,
because it's like David the Gnome, but you see him.
He has his he has his animal friends, but he
(44:18):
kind of looks like a like a dollar store Willy Wonka. Um.
You know it. This might have been someone's childhood right here.
It's a little bit creepy. His name was Dr Snuggles.
Never see a doctor named snaps Um. Yeah, so we
did it. We actually circled back. We always we're going
to circle back, and we did it. So how do
(44:38):
you feel you won? Did no appreciate you? We? You
know what? That's the whole reason why, because I'm normally
like I don't always when people write us. Sometimes I'm like,
we just look, I love the thing too. We can't
cover it in an hour. But we had so many
people that wrote us about you can't do that on
television that it truly meant that it was a of
(45:00):
their childhood that I wanted to take the time to
go back and look at it. Yeah, and it was
real fun and I can't wait to go back and
watch old episodes. But thanks for listening seriously, and definitely
if you reminders you know you want you wanna rock
dope tees, go to tea public. We definitely have some
new shirts up. All of y'all who have been sending
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me you in the shirt, thank you. Please if you
buy the clothes, wear them, be our model so I
can show you off to the rest of my friends.
And uh, footnotes are now specifically in the episode description,
so you no longer have to go to the website,
So just go ahead and hit more info on wherever
you're listening to this, and you can have links to
(45:43):
all the different stuff. You can see all the research
that Danny did and uh, you know, as we close
out any anywhere, anything you wanna plug Danny coming up. Yes,
I do actually have a show September one at UCB Sunset.
It's called Hollywood for Ugly People. It's a very honored
that they asked me to beyond that show. Um it
(46:04):
is actually I think it's like a political show with
a bunch of comedians, a panel of comedians and improvisers
and stuff where we we talk about politics apparently in
a very funny way. Have you actually done that show, Iffie,
because I see you on the list. Okay cool, Um, Yeah,
it's a really dope, really funny show. So that'll be
(46:24):
UCB Sunset September one. I believe it's at seven pm.
You can catch me there. Follow me on my socials
at MS Danny Fernandez. It's M S D A and
I F E R N and D easy. I love
having polite discord with people. Yeah yeah, I know, yeah,
the discord. I'm gonna pin it because every time I
talk about it, people ask where it is and I
(46:45):
have to go dig up the tweets. I'm gonna pin it.
It should be pinned by now. But also just gut
you know, anyone in the d C or DC area
on the twenty nine September, white women will be coming
to the d C improv assible to do some himprov
So make sure you get yourselves a ticket as soon
(47:05):
as they dropped before they sell out. We just did
Portlands Portland was packed out so many NERD fan site
gangs came out to uh show show support Coult King's
uh cult royalty. Uh so thanks to everyone who came through.
Two picks definitely a few of y'all took picks and
didn't tag me in it when you posted it or something.
(47:27):
Please do that so I can RT because the amount
of picks and I mentioned don't add up to the
amount of picks I took. Let's share that love, And
if you're in the DC area or around it, come
meet you boys. You'll get two for one. You'll get
to see me, see t Z and a lot of
great folks from white women who I think are just
as funny. So uh definitely checked that out. And also
(47:49):
big shout outs to Zach McKeever and The Booth Big
Dog editor Dan Goodman. You heard his voice for the
first time last week. I hope you enjoyed that. Lots
of good rode from there. And uh, you know, like
we'd always always end me every time every week, you know,
I gotta send you off the way I always like
I would like to send you off. It's never going
(48:09):
to change because I always want you to stay nerdy,
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