I mean you can't do that on television
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wait wasn't alannis morrisette from there?
She was!
Worth a watch, a five-part documentary television series called Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (2024)
It details the toxic behind-the-scenes world of children's television programs from the 1990s to the 2000s, with a special focus on Dan Schneider's tenure as a producer and showrunner at Nickelodeon.
Most of the people who watch Nickelodeon don't know where it came from either.
It would be great if they actually went around asking kids what slime is made of or why it became synonymous with Nickelodeon and then sliming them if they answer "I don't know."
I was there for it and even I barely remember You Can't Say That on Television.
I don't know.....
SLOOGE
I'm not a kid and haven't been for many decades. I've never watched nickolodeon. Can someone explain why slime is a thing?
One of Nickelodeon's first staple show was a program from the early 1980's called 'You Can't Do That On Television'. One of its recurring gags was when people got slimed whenever they said "I don't know".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Television
It has remained a trademark of the network ever since.
Funnily enough outside of the US (at least that was my impression as a German kid) Nickelodeon was first and foremost a company that made slime. You could buy that stuff here long before the TV channel made it over.
Even funnier is Nickelodeon bought the broadcasting rights to a Canadian kids program that did the slime gag. Slime wasn’t even “their” thing.
I have vivid memories of desperately trying to tell my dad that All That was just SNL but with kids, and it was hilarious. Now my five-year-old has found the All That reboot on YouTube, and I feel the pain that my father had felt.
And think how those of us who watched “You Can’t Do That on Television” felt hearing kids describe all that as SNL with kids when we knew it was just a rip off of YCDTOT
I had a crush on Christine when I was like 7. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
is no longer an audience member for anything Nickelodeon-related
moose was dreamy
I was always partial to Barth.
faint echoes of "I heard that!" in the distance
Do kids still watch slime tutorials? I remember that being a thing for a bit.
What do ya thinks in the burgers!?!?!?
barf
I often think about what happened to slime time live.
I've always dreamed of being in the game.
I desperately wanted to be on Figure It Out (With your host, Summer Sanders)
I reference the secret slime action fairly frequently, and it seems that maybe I'm the only person in my area who watched/enjoyed the show, because most people have no idea what I am talking about.
Don't even get me started on Figure It Out Wild Style.