WEBVTT - Episode 21: 80's Nickelodeon 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.080 Hello, and welcome to another edition of their Difficent I 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.560 am one half of your host, Danny Fernandez, and sitting 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:20.000 across for me is yet again always here and forever 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.599 holding it down. What is Gucci? Well, we heard y'all, 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.720 we heard you, We heard you. And if you and 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:33.400 I's bias nineties, he's got called out. Wait, that's probably 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.720 gonna get bleeped our nineties booties. We are on the 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.800 tip end of the eighties there, And you know, I 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.559 would like to say that in my research with a 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:47.120 lot of the Nickelodeon research, the golden age of Nickelodeon 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:49.960 is known as the nineties. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.920 could you can hit up you know, all of the 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.840 blogs and if he's just laughing over here, like listen, 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:03.200 we heard you. Though. We skipped over the eighties too 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:08.360 quickly and it wasn't fair, and we're circling back. This 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.200 is the first time where we had so many people 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.560 write as that we're like, we better circle back now. Yeah, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.920 this is this really is the quickest we've rep and 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.720 there's still so many on the docket. Yeah, we do 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.800 have a full docket of there's so many fandoms and 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.039 nerd things to get into. I do want to say, though, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.920 just really quickly, that even even for a show like 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.640 The Twilight Zone, which is one of my favorite things 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.959 in the world, we're just not going to be able 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.080 to talk about every episode. I also think that would 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.080 be boring. I have listened, I mean I have listened 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.080 to other people's podcasts that do kind of go into 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.720 every single thing, And if you want that, that's out there. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.840 But that's not really what we're trying to do. We're 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.760 just trying to give you the rundown of each topic. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.840 But here we are in the eighties with Nickelodeon. I'm 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:03.520 scroll deep into if you put together the entire research 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.200 document for this, and I got deep into the eighties 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:08.880 finding out about a lot of shows that I didn't 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.160 even know exist, and I think you might also not 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.960 know exists. No, nothing seems familiar. No, But I think 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.480 people listening that even where like the eighties, and they're 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.400 gonna be like, what that was a thing? It was 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.880 because some of these were in black and white. I 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.080 actually in my research found out that a lot of 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.560 the shows came from Canada and um and from other 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.200 countries as what like Nickelodeon was kind of you know, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.680 as a baby wasn't really able to make a lot 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.760 of their own shows, so they would pull from successful 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.320 shows from other countries. Yeah, yeah, that's that's kind of 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.960 like with Nagen what they did with the Grassy. It 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.000 was this big hit in Canada and they're like, let's 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.359 put it on nin So yeah, it seems like it 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:55.040 becomes a strong part. So let's officially go into the eighties. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:03:00.280 Nickelodeon launched on April first, nineteen seventy nine. Almost there, 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.920 April fools. Oh yeah, that's a good that's good for nick. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.640 That fits. It was the first ever all children's network 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.240 on Warner Cable system in Buffalo, New York. It quickly 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.280 expanded its audience reach, first to other Warner Cable systems 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.960 across the country and eventually two other cable providers. So 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:25.840 it's initial programming block had let me count one, two, three, four, five, six, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:33.720 seven shows every day. So the first show was Video 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.240 Comic Book, which was a show that scanned Silver Age 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.480 d C comics. Yeah, yeah, and we covered some of 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.880 the Silver Age comics during our flash episode in the 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.520 Silver Age. So definitely if you're not if you're unfamiliar, 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.360 what that was with DC Comics. Go check out that episode. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.280 So Video Comic Book. The show's opening shows kids writing 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.360 their bicycles to get a to a comic bookstore, to 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.400 the tune of Right of the Valkyries. That's actually really cool, 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.120 like getting straight off the bat, like already getting kids 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.160 interested in comics. That's actually really dope, I know, And 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.400 it's kind of like a foreshadowing as to what kids 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.600 will be rocking out to for centuries to come. Yeah, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.320 So our next show up was called pop Clips, and 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.359 some of that you can also look up on YouTube 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.479 a lot of these if you're unfamiliar with them and 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:21.920 just kind of want to do a deep dive of 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:26.040 Nickelodeon further, you can just google pop Clips into YouTube 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.159 and check out some of that. It was a music 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:32.599 video television program, which was the direct predecessor of MTV, 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.520 which is interesting because it's like, man, this show is 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.120 so popular, let's make it a whole channel, you know, 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.560 I know, and you know. Nickelodeon and MTV actually worked 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.440 very closely with each other and had a lot of 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.440 lapovers because some of the people that were famous for 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.480 the MTV logo and music for that channel. The channel 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.440 I d S the channel. I d S actually ended 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.479 up working on Nickelodeons to make them cool and hip 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.880 for kids. I can't believe I just said that. Let's 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.640 move on because Focus was another the show it was 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.920 featured an apprentice wizard who magically time traveled forward from 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.360 the Middle Ages named Crispin, who worked in the film 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.760 department of a public library, who, along with his shape 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:16.000 shifting pet named Ulak, played short films. Crispin's friends included 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.960 the absent minded professor Rhombus, a young woman named Daisy, 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.599 and a talking book. You know this sounds like what 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.800 am I thinking of the McCauley Culkin. Oh yeah, the 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.640 page Master, the page Master. Yeah, that book. That means 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.520 that movie. I don't know why, but that I thought 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.039 it was so tight. Oh my god. It is like 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.120 because it had those books and they had faces and 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:43.680 the personalities. Yeah. Remember was yes the Mobe Dick when 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.640 the Horror One scared the crap out of me. I 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:52.200 still remember it, Like Sanctuary, Remember that Jacqueline Hyde he 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.479 ran into I'm going to go home? YEA, go back 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.960 and check that out. Uh So, Hocus Focus only last 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:05.840 did one year. I mean, it seems very fantastical. I mean, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.640 you got, you know, a shape shifting pet named Oolock, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.280 and you've got Crispin spelled k r y sp n. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.880 That was too much for the eighties. They're like, let's 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.200 get out of here. And then you had Pinwell, which 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.479 was reformatted as a daily hour long series that ran 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.080 in a three to five hour block format and was 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.720 the precursor to Nick Jr. Which replaced in When I 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.160 Was Born they knew. They're like, if he's gonna like this. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.000 I was also born during that year, yes, established, but 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.159 they're like, if he you know, February, If if he's coming, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.560 I feel, I feel the thickness of this child, and 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.600 we must prepare for him. But the show was similar 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.680 to Sesame Street, with live action skits mixed with animation 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.880 shorts and action scenes took place in around the large 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.960 Victorian style boarding house called the Pinwheel House with a 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.640 pinwheel on one of the peaks, and live actors would 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:03.800 interact with puppets to cussing various concepts familiar to children's programming, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:08.120 like sharing, being considerate, basic learning skills like colors, numbers, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.960 and letters, and all of the characters lived and worked 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.160 in various areas in and around the house. This sounds 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.720 like a mix between Mr. Rogers and Sesame. Yeah. Yeah. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.760 Actually a lot of their formatting, which you'll see when 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.920 we continue, was kind of like that, but it was 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.480 a formula that worked. Oh yeah, so I guess that's 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.200 why UM. And to be honest, Mr Rogers didn't like 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.480 one of their like clearly that was kind of I 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:32.960 don't want to say it was ripping them off, but 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.640 he was like, no, I don't like that show, which 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.960 we're we'll get to um. Next up on the docket 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.240 is America Goes Bananas with a Z, so you know 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:45.040 there were zany It was a It was a teenager 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.440 oriented variety show presented by Michael Young and Randy Hamilton's. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.120 It had hip hop music sessions focusing on mature subjects 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.280 such as drugs and birth control. That's that is something 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.400 that I see we saw Nickelodeon tackle, like we talked 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.040 about with Linda Ellerby in the news segments that she 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.280 would do for Nickelodeon. But like Nickelodeon was notorious for 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.120 tackling some of those which MTV did as well. So 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.840 I do think that they worked alongside each other to 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:16.280 provide content for teenagers. Um, So America Goes Bananas was 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.920 also regularly shown in an effort to interest and educate 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:23.120 a teenage target audience. Yeah, and then they had kind 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:28.200 of like their namesake with nickel Flicks, which was technically 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.360 from the seventies, but they replayd in the eighties and 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.520 a showcase cereals from the twenties and the forties in 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.280 addition to early Comic one reelers and short films, and 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.280 was largely in black and white. Can you imagine, like 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.839 would your daughter watch this? Like that's the thing though. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.160 So they used to play these these short black and 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.760 white films and some of them silent from the twenties 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.839 and forties on Nickelodeon. And you're right, it was their 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.720 namesake because the network's original logo incorporated a man looking 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.440 into a Nickelodeon machine that was placed in the uh 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.400 and those were, as you all know, the little like 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.560 movie players that in the olden daisies to look into. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.320 And so this was this is supposed to be a 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.120 young man. He's wearing like a top hat and then 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:14.960 he's dressed like basically like Abraham Lincoln um looking into 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:19.400 the end of Nickelodeon that was later replaced by their 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.199 pinwheel logo typeface. And then the final thing was a 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.520 show called By the Way, which by the Way, I 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.640 could not find a single thing on I like, Yes, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.240 I looked up Nickelodeon's By the Way, um and it 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:32.880 brought me up a ton of other shows that they 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.360 had and on YouTube. I just couldn't find what that was. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.520 So I guess if you find it, please tweet at us, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.720 or if you watched it, tell us what it was. Yeah, yeah, okay. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.600 So at the time of its launched, Nickelodeon's programming aired 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.480 for thirteen hours each weekday from eight am to eleven pm. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.040 That's that's a pretty hefty block, and for fourteen hours 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.640 on weekends from eight am to midnight. Wow. So then 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.520 they added these new shows in include Dusty st tree House, 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.440 which was like a Mr. Rogers style show, and it 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.440 featured a character named Dusty who was played by Stuart 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.960 Rosen and his amazing custom built treehouse where anything and 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.480 everything could happen. Often, Dusty had conversations with his puppet 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.840 animal friends, including Max and the Cow, Scooter the Squirrel, Stanley, 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.719 the Red Haired Spider, and sneakers, and Dusty also went 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.719 on tree trips, phil trip via balloon and basket to 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.720 factories to see how products were made, and or to parks, zoos, 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.920 aquariums and so on, and it won eight Emmy. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:34.760 I was like, I need a threat. We have to 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:39.160 include Dusty's treehouse because it won Nickelodeon eight Emmy's so damn. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.840 That's insane. Also, it's funny to see how children's program 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.440 and kind of has it changed. It's always like a 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.600 person talking to puppets and let's see what different you know, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.839 jobs there are. It's so cute and so innocent. Moving 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.400 on to first Row Features, that was an anthology series. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.200 It mainly carried British television films for children, and so 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.640 this is again a popular theme that you'll see with 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.120 Nickelodeon buying up or essentially rerunning things that were showed 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.360 in other countries. The Times actually described the show as 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.600 a collection of one hour feature films for children, ranging 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:19.440 from comedies and adventures to dramas and semidocumentaries. That's pretty cool. Yeah, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.120 that's super dope. And then there was Special Delivery, which 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.720 is also an anthology series, and it had consisted of 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.120 like both live action and animated episodes. Much of the 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.280 programming was made up of children Focus made for TV movies. Yeah, 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.960 that was possibly before Disney Channel original movies. Remember Oh yeah, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.160 children Focused made for TV movies. It was a big thing. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.680 Oh yeah, I remember. Let me see it was Shila 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:53.360 buff Um. Yes, yes, where he played huh a mentally 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.800 challenged kid and it made me cry. Um. That was 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.120 a really popular movie. And let me see. I'll find 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.440 it in two seconds. True Confessions. Yes, why isn't it? 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.280 This is wild? I'm on his IMDb. What year did 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:15.080 it come out? Oh? Here, it is True Confessions. I 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.839 was in high school. I think, oh boy, um, look 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.320 at his curly head. He was so cute. When I 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.240 say this thing wrecked me like I was. I was. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.040 This was two thousand three, so I was like sixteen 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:34.480 and I was just crying my eyes out. So yeah, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.280 and then we would get I love that we're talking 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.120 about a different network. And then we would get the 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.800 biggest Disney Channel movie of all time, high school musical. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.840 I'm only saying that, like via sales. Well, I thought 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.160 you meant you were going to say xenon or whatever. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.360 You know, people can argue with me, but I'm just 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.360 talking about popularity wise, um, and you can't can't argue 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.040 with numbers. Moving on, What will they think of Next? 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.120 Which was originally tiled Science International, and each episode featured 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:09.040 approximately twenty short segments on scientific developments in and trivia. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.520 Nice and You had Live Wire, which series was designed 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.800 for kids of all ages and the show's main focus 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.280 discussed true current events and stories during those times. It 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.080 was taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.000 through Reeves Teletape Studios of Sesame Street Fame, so you know, 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.640 still rocking, Rocking it Down, and it was film live 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.160 on tape with the participate in audience of about twenty 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.079 to thirty teenagers and Live Wire was the number one 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.920 rated show on Nickelodeon Ino and never went below number 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.560 seven in the ratings during the five years span of 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.880 the show. Show was most famously known for giving relatively 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.520 unknown bands and singers their first television appearance because like 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:53.280 the Conan of for kids a lot like um Show, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.160 and then in one the network introduced a new logo 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.680 consisting of a silver pine overlaid by multicolored Nickelodeon text, 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:09.520 and later that year, the Canadian sketch comedy series You 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.640 Can't Do That on Television made its American debut that 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.719 on Nickelodeon. You Can't Do That on Television? Where do 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.640 I remember that? For? Oh? Maybe everyone who tweeted it 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.400 at us this show. Well, guess what, you don't get 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.640 to hear us talk about it until after these messages 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:39.400 and we're back, and I think we were talking about this, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.920 this show that I guess a lot of people wrote 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.040 us about that we skipped over. Technically, if I want 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.920 to say that, I did mention it's where the slime 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.040 came from when I talked about where the green slime 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.480 came from, but I didn't actually talk about the show itself. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.440 So let's talk about you can't. Actually, let's skip it 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.880 in and talk about the third Eye. I do not 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.200 need more people my inbox, y'all. I did a lot 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.080 of research for the and also watched You Can't Do That. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.440 Thank you for exposing it to me, because it was 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.520 definitely before my time and it wasn't something you know, 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.880 when I came into the factor. It was all that 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.680 I watched, all that sketch comedy, and so yeah, we 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.880 also had what would you do instead of you go 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:25.680 what what? What? What? What? Good? You do way better 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.720 than you Now you're gonna get so many people writing you. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:33.200 So you can't do that on television. Featured preteen and 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:37.240 teenage actors in a sketch comedy format similar to that 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.600 of Rowan and Martin's Laughing and Saturday Night Live. Each 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.480 episode had a specific theme that I didn't know about, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.600 normally relating to pop culture of the time. The show 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.800 was notable for launching the careers of many performers, including 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.520 I don't know hop if you know this, Ivy alternative 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:58.200 rock singer songwriter Atlantis Moore set can go back and look, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.240 you can shut it's not actually ironic because if we're 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.520 talking about ironic, who, No, I'm just kidding. I think 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.760 I heard Zach laughing from the booths. Some pat myself 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.600 on the back. No, I'm just saying that everybody that 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:15.040 always corrects like, well, actually, that's not what irony is. Um, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.040 don't you go play magic the gathering put some put 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.080 some of that like pedantry into good use. Um. And 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:27.120 also screenwriter Bill Prady. So before Nickelodeon, you can't do 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.560 that on television debut on February third, nineteen nine on 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.040 c j o H TV in Ottawa as a one hour, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.240 low budget variety program with some segments performed live. So 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.840 the show consisted of comedy sketches, music videos, usually thirty 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.880 per episode in live phone, and contests in which the 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.640 viewers could win a variety of prizes. I feel like 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.880 that era of TV is gone. I feel like there 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:58.240 was in the eighties nineties there was this huge like 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.040 you can win stuff from watching this thing, and I 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.840 feel like that's so that's gone. Do you feel though 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.960 like that could make a comeback or slowly making a 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.400 comeback on Twitch? Yeah, I feel like big time that's 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.520 where it's coming in and I definitely see people excited 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:20.359 for that. And so the short answer is yes. But 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.680 it's so interesting where there was a lot of incentivizing 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.600 for television to try and get you to watch because 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.399 it's like, oh, you can check this out, or you 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.080 can you know, get a chance to win, or you 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.119 can get a chance to come on the show. And 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.000 now it's kind of like, oh, we're just gonna do 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:39.520 our thing. But also one thing that's really cool about 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.120 you can do that on you can't do that on television, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.880 and even when we were talking about earlier with like 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:51.640 Live Wire is just um like and even like America 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:56.560 Goes Bananas? Is this recurrent theme of like variety shows, 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.119 sketch shows four kids and how well it ends up doing. 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.200 And it's so interesting that there isn't one currently for 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:09.280 on television right now for kids. But we had All That, 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.000 which follow up and that was successful. Yeah, there was 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.520 also you know, because so you had the All That 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.080 show and then you had a Cartoon Networks sketch show 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.840 Incredible Crew, which currently sits at three point nine out 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.520 of ten on i MDV and two point nine out 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.720 of ten on TV dot Com. So I guess, uh, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:32.680 you know who's leaving those reviews, Iffie adults, parents, Parents 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.960 ruined everything. That's true. Kids aren't kids, aren't logging, going 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:41.680 on rotten tomatoes, Oh my gosh. Um. So moving back 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.720 to you can't do that on television. The opening sequence, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.840 which featured the children's television Sausage Factory, which you haven't 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.240 seen it please YouTube. It was a reference to Terry 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:58.159 Gilliams of Monty Python, Fames Gillamations. So the success in 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.719 Canady thing doesn't have to be a portman, don't you 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.520 can just leave it at the door, you know. But 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.159 this was back in the eighties, if e, before everyone 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.840 was doing it. UM. The success in Canada got nixt 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.800 interest and Nickelodeon aired a handful of episodes and they 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.600 edited down to a half hour format during one as 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:23.160 a test run. This is something that I find very fascinating. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.080 So over the next few years, the ratings gradually declined 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:31.359 in Canada, so by you can't do it, you can't 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.800 do that on television was seen only once a week 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.360 and a Saturday morning time slot on CTV, but continue 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.520 to go to go strong in the US on Nickelodeon, 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.399 where it aired at first five times a week and 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:49.920 eventually every day. They mocked every day. Also, I think 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:54.440 it was because they started to change their format, their topics, 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.280 like once they knew that they were going over to 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:01.320 the US airways into a Nickelodeon audience, in an American audience, 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.480 I think they kind of lost their Canadian viewership. Oh yeah, 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:09.879 I think so too, because you know, there there's like 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:14.840 a slight difference to the two different styles of comedy. UM. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.040 Last episode we mentioned the origin of the green slime. Yeah, 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.080 and the green slime originally featured on You Can't Do 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.720 That on Television was later adopted by Nickelodeon as a 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:29.200 primary feature of many of its shows. So they basically 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.120 was like, oh you like that, Okay, we're just gonna 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:35.479 put that in everything. Yeah, that's we got the slim 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.400 we're known for the slime Um. Viewers in the US 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.640 were given the opportunity to enter the Slime in, which 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.120 was a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:45.800 to the set of You Can't Do That on Television 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:47.960 to be slime So here again is kind of them 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.240 being like, oh no, we're us now, because this was 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:55.680 only open to US contestants. There is actually a two 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.199 thousand four documentary on the show called you Can't Do 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.400 That on Film Real. Yeah, so all of you Can't 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:05.600 Do That on Television heads that wrote us watch the documentary. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.120 You'll love it. Tell them, we tell them we sent you. 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:10.399 And by them, I mean the guy who's working at 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:14.360 the Blockbuster that you're going to talk to so much. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.560 You can't go to Blockbuster because their clothes. Try Hollywood videos. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.800 Did you see that there's still a Blockbuster open in Alaska? Yeah, 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:25.600 that's that's cool. Interesting it's because they can't go home, 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:30.040 they're snowed in. I just people are gonna hate. I 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.480 don't really buy DVDs anymore, even if Hector Navarro was 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:38.840 obsessed with buying blue rays and I just don't care. Yeah, 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.800 it's it's kind of hard to do because you gotta 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.480 open up that case, put it in the thing, and 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.560 watch it. When I can just press buttons and wash stuff, 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.560 it's not even that well. And even on ones that 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.439 I've had to buy because I wanted to see Cocoa, 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:55.960 like right when it came out, and like, I got 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.000 to own Coco just in case they take it off 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:00.159 Netflix or whatever is it on net? It's on Netflix now, 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.119 but it wasn't, and so I bought it. Yeah, but 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:05.679 I bought it, and so I was like, yeah, I'll 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.199 have it digitally forever like that. I'm fine with that. 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:10.760 I don't need the blue ray of it anyways. If 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.720 your head, if your house catches on fire, you get 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:17.640 you still have yours. Hector, My main thing is that 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:20.600 it just takes up space. Like him and a lot 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.119 of our special effects friends just have walls of blue ray. Yeah, no, 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.760 I just have already too much stuff. Yeah, you can't 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.199 do that. Oh yeah, so I actually have a couple 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.520 of you can't do that on television, or as I 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.000 like to say, y C D T O T facts. 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:42.000 That's the long Well just say it when it's that long, Okay. Here. 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:45.960 So one of the episodes, which was titled Adoption, proves 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:50.200 so controversial that it was banned after being shown twice. 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.640 It had a do not air sticker placed on the 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:58.240 master tape of it. Adoption is the only episode that 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:01.520 was banned in the US and Canada. The Divorce episode 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:05.160 was banned, but the Adoption episode was shown with one 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.680 part cut. In the sketch where Senator pre Vert I'm 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:12.400 guessing calls the adoption agency to send his son Adam back, 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:15.399 but that's really funny actually after using him to do 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:18.960 chores all day. The part where he calls adoption agency 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:23.200 officer a damn bureaucrat after learning that adoption is forever 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:25.679 was bleeped out. So I guess the word damn and 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:30.320 not the actual topic itself the divorce one, I don't know. 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:36.840 So another fun Canadian show comes to America. Band situation. 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:41.119