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