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Hello!

I was going to post this as a comment, but considering that the last thread is nearing 1000 comments (all positive) and takes about seventeen minutes to load, we may as well start anew.

I'm alive and unchanged. Seriously, I've just been working. A lot. It's been a less-than-ideal grind and I very much look forward to the current wave passing so I can get back to doing what I love to do best: Nothing, with a side of you.

Some of you have expressed interest in an early return for the Halloween Juke. I couldn't agree more and will try to include this soon as a partial mea culpa. I've been listening to that shit constantly, though I don't know if it has as much to do with me wanting Halloween as it does the fact that Geico's "Somebody's Watching Me" commercial airs 772 times each hour.

Also, there was an a site in circulation that evidently attempted to redirect users to a bad place. I cannot lie: I thought you guys were mistaken, but you were right, and the ad guys at UGO (and me) really, sincerely apologize for any trouble it caused. It's been eradicated and you should have no further trouble.

I finally watched that Clone Wars movie. Now, I was as hard on the prequels as anyone, but despite what seemed to be common opinion, I really didn't think it was bad at all. Granted, I fell asleep halfway through, but I'm assuming it grew no more offensive from there. Plus, the first reveal of Jabba's son, suddenly crawling out and goo-goo gah-ing with absolutely no build or fanfare, cracked me up so much that I had to rewind the scene seven times before watching the rest of (or the rest of the first half of) the movie.

Very odd to hear an ice cream truck's jingle playing during a thunderstorm in early April, but I swear, I just did.

Posted by Matt on 04/06/2009. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 568 comments

I just thought of a couple more obscure Nick gameshows: Think Fast and Make the Grade. The only thing memorable about Think Fast was it’s final round concerned lockers. MtG was basically another version trivia game.

Kids Shows outside of Nick:
Video Power: Another Video game show
Fun House
Master of the Maze
I’m Telling
Wheel 2000: Kiddie Wheel of Forntune. I believe there was a Jeopardy one too.
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego: The inferior spinoff, although I did like they used actors to portray the villains here.
There was a Tales From the Crypt Game.
There was also a kiddie version of American Gladiators.

Chestnuts roasted by King JLA @ 04/17/2009 1:44 PM

What about that show “Kid’s Court”.

I remember feeling really amazed by that show and threatening to take my parents there – but never being able to find a good reason why I should get my fireworks returned to me.

Chestnuts roasted by Morfnblorsh @ 04/17/2009 1:52 PM

jennyroo: It’s called Goober Grape

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 04/17/2009 2:41 PM

As a kid I really enjoyed watching Supermarket Sweep, The Price is Right, and another one that involved running around a faux mall, looking for prizes (of course, the name escapes me now).

Chestnuts roasted by DarkSideofBrightness @ 04/17/2009 3:24 PM

Man what happened to Nickelodeon ? The quality of their new shows isn’t nearly as good as their old ones. Kids deserve good quality shows too.

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 04/17/2009 3:26 PM

There was once a game show called The Money Maze that I would like to see revived as a kids’ show. I remember watching it and getting all excited when the number 1 was lit during the final round.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Money_Maze

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/17/2009 5:11 PM

ULTRAMAN I agree, kid shows today suck. The reason they suck now is because they aren’t “fun” anymore. Game shows aren’t popular. Kids today are trying to act more mature than they are (or at least appear that way). It’s almost like being a “kid” isn’t cool anymore, and the cut-off age has been drastically reduced.

Remember the show Wild n’ Crazy Kids? I loved that show and it was dumb as hell.

Chestnuts roasted by Morfnblorsh @ 04/17/2009 5:21 PM

I was more into What Would You Do? I had intimate dreams about that pie slide.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 04/17/2009 5:44 PM

Mystie I remember watching that show, but only when nothing else was on. It was definitely one of the shows I watched but did not love.

Chestnuts roasted by Morfnblorsh @ 04/17/2009 5:45 PM

Oh god, Mystie a great clip I found on YouTube. It’s basically a girl becoming an instant snow-monster in your beloved Pie Slide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aBXrF87GFg&feature=related

I seem to remember a physical challenge where you had to try to drink from 6 soda cans at once. They were taped together and you weren’t allowed to separate them. The kid failed, and then Marc Summers said something like “I haven’t done this since college…but…” and tilted them just right forming a giant stream of soda which he choked down.

Marc must have had a wild college life.

Chestnuts roasted by Morfnblorsh @ 04/17/2009 5:52 PM

“Man what happened to Nickelodeon ?”

You grew up.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike Russo @ 04/17/2009 5:55 PM

SNT PREDICTION

Chestnuts roasted by Tommorow For SURE I can feel it!! @ 04/17/2009 6:17 PM

Matt will blow us off. That is my prediction.

Chestnuts roasted by Guy @ 04/17/2009 6:48 PM

i once had a special lady go down on me and told me my junk tasted like coffee. i thought that was a huge compliment, considering what weird stuff it could taste like. she hated coffee though and it went downhill from there. why couldn’t it taste like chocolate?

Chestnuts roasted by clodhopper @ 04/17/2009 7:25 PM

Wild and Crazy Kids was pretty awesome. And Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego was cool, too. Watched them both all the time.

Yeah, Nick kind of died in the early 90s. After Adventures of Pete and Pete, I lost interest.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 04/17/2009 9:52 PM

I don’t think it died so much as it changed. Just like the Disney channel. It isn’t really for kids so much as tweens these days. To be fair to them though, they are cleaning the hell up al la Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers while Nick still has the super popular Spongebob.

Chestnuts roasted by drew do @ 04/17/2009 11:07 PM

When I lived in Korea, they showed ‘Legend of the Hidden Temple’ all the time for some reason. That show RULED. The obstacle course thingy at the end was actually really hard.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 04/17/2009 11:59 PM

Digging the original Halloween that is on AMC starting right now. A little spooky goodness in April never hurt anyone.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 04/18/2009 1:29 AM

Oh man, I used to watch all the best cartoons. Ed, Edd, N Eddy, Dexters Lab, Kablaam!, Hey Arnold, DBZ, All That, Johnny Bravo, and a whole lot of other crap I can’t remember. Nowadays, the shows suck, though there are a few good ones out there. A FEW.

Chestnuts roasted by Hazard @ 04/18/2009 1:31 AM

Mike Russo: I’m aware that I’m grown up. I didn’t expect to be a fan of Nickelodeon well into my adult life. I was just saying that they don’t seem to put the effort into their shows like they used to. I showed some old Nick stuff to a little cousin of mine, and he told me he thought they were a lot better than the new stuff,so I don’t think it’s just nostalgia that makes me think this. Then again, maybe it is nostalgia. Nothin wrong with that. :)

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 04/18/2009 2:00 AM

I think Nickelodeon really HAS declined in creativity, but I’m not sure it’s necessarily their fault. A lot of their best shows in the 90s were edgy in some way, either because the jokes were sometimes subtly adult or because they actually treated kids like they have brains. (I seem to remember Nick taking political stances pretty often, which I don’t think would fly today, but for me it was an important part of learning to give a shit.) Parents have bigger sticks up their asses these days and everything now has to be squeaky clean. I’ve seriously heard people say they won’t let their kids watch Fairly Oddparents. Having grown up on Ren & Stimpy, I am baffled by this.

I’ve also noticed Warner Bros. cartoons seem to be dead these days, which is sad. Looney Tunes of course was always great, and Tiny Toons and Animaniacs were some of the best cartoons in the 90s. Of course you can’t have any of that now because of the EVIL VIOLENCE that children will imitate. Because the last three or four generations have all run around dropping anvils on their parents, apparently. *sigh*

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 04/18/2009 5:26 AM

Ory: Yes, hi.

And as such, we need to call on the power of “Fun House”, “Knightmare”, “Double Dare”, “Crystal Maze”, “Get Your Own Back” and of course floating head god “Gamesmaster”…

Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 04/18/2009 6:19 AM

jazzy: I hear ya. Don’t get me started on the UTTERLY ridiculous logic that A LOT of parents use lol. Also, what could POSSIBLY be bad about Fairly Odd Parents!?

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 04/18/2009 7:04 AM

Knightmare IMO was the greatest kid show ever made!
Use to scare the crap out of me when I was a little kid.

Chestnuts roasted by Blazer @ 04/18/2009 8:40 AM

Blazer: It was simply amazing what you could do with a Commodore Amiga and green screen.

Just think of Knightmare with a US budget and Hollywood wizardry…and then the obvious backlash from fundamentalists the moment it aired.

Oh man, I need to own the rights to those shows and sell them abroad!

Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 04/18/2009 10:23 AM

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