The Nickelodeon Thread: Old School

[Holiday]

I remember watching Wild and Crazy Kids, Welcome Freshman and Hey Dude though I can't remember much from them.

Some of these other shows like The Tomorrow People I don't believe I've ever even heard of.

 

[Obi-Ron]

Great show. In a nutshell, X-Men with British teenagers. Except they all had the same powers (teleportation and telepathy with each other) and could not kill, for some reason.

 

[Kane52630]

I wish they released a dvd boxset for this show

 

[Sam Fisher]

I wish they released a dvd boxset for this show

They did release them in Canada.



You can also get seasons of Rugrats, Doug, etc via Amazon's Burn On Demand Service.
http://www.amazon.com/Rugrats-Seaso...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1245803446&sr=1-1

 

[Etienne]

^Whoa when did they release The Rugrats season 1 and 2?

 

[Compi716]

Who's ready to have their prayers answered?!

http://theorangesplat.com/

 

[Kane52630]

Who's ready to have their prayers answered?!

http://theorangesplat.com/

*my reaction is like when the Chinese found out that it is Simple Jack*

 

[Drakon]

I just splat myself.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I remember Hey Dude having Christine Taylor (wife of Ben Stiller) and Wild and Crazy Kids had Omar Gooding. I mean whenever I saw Omar in the Barbershop movies, I can't help but to think "Wild and Crazy Kids." It's like when I first saw Keenan Thompson on Saturday Night Live I kept thinking "All That."

And whenever I saw Mike O'Malley in a Yes Dear Re-run or Roadrunner cable commercial, I recall the show Guts, which was back when he was thinner and had hair.

 

[TMC1982]

Nick is a bad joke nowadays, plain and simple. How they went so bad is anyone's guess.

This is an idea of just how downhill Nickelodeon has gone, according to TV Tropes:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NetworkDecay

Nicktoons Network dumped showing of older or cancelled Nicktoons such
as Angry Beavers, Doug, Ren And Stimpy, Rugrats, Hey Arnold, etc., in
favor of showing reruns of the exact same shows playing on
Nickelodeon, just a few channels away. As of 2006, the channel also
abandoned its "commercial-free" notion. What was once its mascot, the
Too Good To Last Invader Zim, has been pushed back to 5 AM. This also
means the end of slime shows like Super Sloppy Double Dare and the
like.

Hell, let's just throw Nickelodeon itself in here, as the network has
over the years severely narrowed its demographic by increments;
originally, the network prided itself as being essentially a family
network, with an emphasis on programming for children and teens from
sunup to sundown. Now, however, most if not all of the teen and adult
programming (S'Nick, Nick At Nite, and the last vestiges of children's
game shows, to name a few) have been dumped in favor for cartoon-y
cartoons and tween and preteen "hip" live action series (and about 12
hours of Sponge Bob daily). The worst and most obvious example of this
is the recent live action show on the so-called "TeeNick" lineup
(which retains only one or two shows about/directed towards actual
teenagers), The Naked Brothers Band, which essentially is a show about
two 9-year-old boys. Really.

Interestingly, you can see how Nick was trying so intensely to narrow
down the age of people watching the network when you look at the
failure of shows like Invader Zim. I say "failure" in the sense of "it
was being watched primarily by teens and college kids and not the 6-11
year olds the network wanted." In this troper's opinion, Avatar
would've gone the same way as Zim if it weren't for the fact that it
was just as popular with the target age as it was with the teens (and
the college kids, and the adults). Even then, the network seemed to
resent the attention it got from older viewers, as new episodes came
out at a snail's pace and reruns are almost never shown now that the
show has ended.

And just to add insult to injury, Nick GAS (Games and Sports), a
dumping ground for Nick's aforementioned children's game shows and
game/sports-themed shows (along with original segments dealing with
kids and their games and sports), have been slowly losing programs
until only six shows are currently being aired, all recent game shows.
Not even the original segments survived. GAS has now been replaced
with the teen-oriented "N", formerly part of the now just-for-
preschoolers Noggin, a switch which now leaves millions of college
kids without reruns of Legends of the Hidden Temple to sarcastically
comment about.

Naturally, "The N" seems to be in the beginning stages of a decay
itself, with a mass-canceling of many of their teen/young adult
oriented programming (such as South of Nowhere), and devoting an
increasing amount of airtime to old Nickelodeon shows and other Disney
Channel-esque preteen fare.

And worshipping at the altar known as Degrassi.
Really, the network is just one airing of Corner Gas away from
becoming CTV America.

 

[TMC1982]

Who's ready to have their prayers answered?!

http://theorangesplat.com/

While we're on the subject of old school Nickelodeon related websites, here's mine:
SNICK_Tribute_Page

Saturday Night @ MySpace

 

[kane9321]

I remember Hey Dude having Christine Taylor (wife of Ben Stiller) and Wild and Crazy Kids had Omar Gooding. I mean whenever I saw Omar in the Barbershop movies, I can't help but to think "Wild and Crazy Kids." It's like when I first saw Keenan Thompson on Saturday Night Live I kept thinking "All That."

And whenever I saw Mike O'Malley in a Yes Dear Re-run or Roadrunner cable commercial, I recall the show Guts, which was back when he was thinner and had hair.

Big fan of "Yes Dear" funny as all hell"

Mike O' Malley was on guts?...Wait wait wasnt he the host?

 

[Kane52630]

im serious, i dont know why Nick havent made a channel just for Classic Nick
theres a big market for people watching old Nick shows, ill bet it will beat their current shows in the ratings

 

[Drakon]

Well, think about it: It'd be a lot like Nick at Nite. Sure, when we were all kids, we'd see actual "CLASSIC" shows like Dick Van Dyke, Get Smart, The Munsters, or Green Acres. Now? It's pretty much the TGIF Lineup we grew up with. The point I'm making is that we're all clamoring for Nick shows from it's conception to roughly 1994. In a matter of years, it'll just end up being another channel to watch 5 hours a day's worth of Spongebob and Drake and Josh.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Big fan of "Yes Dear" funny as all hell"

Mike O' Malley was on guts?...Wait wait wasnt he the host?

He did host Guts. It was when he was thinner and had hair.

 

[Kane52630]

Well, think about it: It'd be a lot like Nick at Nite. Sure, when we were all kids, we'd see actual "CLASSIC" shows like Dick Van Dyke, Get Smart, The Munsters, or Green Acres. Now? It's pretty much the TGIF Lineup we grew up with. The point I'm making is that we're all clamoring for Nick shows from it's conception to roughly 1994. In a matter of years, it'll just end up being another channel to watch 5 hours a day's worth of Spongebob and Drake and Josh.

ill say to 2001 imo, but anyways yea it could go that way but also i was thinking if sites like Hulu could get Nickelodeon's video library and show it there it could work.

 

[Punisher Rising]

Call me late to find out, but just now I found out the Nick GAS network is no more Just when there was finally decent programming on television, it's gone. I'm glad I taped a bunch of shows from the GAS channel when it was on back during 2003/2004.

 

[Sam Fisher]

If you hadn't noticed, a whole bunch of classic Nicktoons are on Netflix Instant Watch.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

early to mid 90s Nick was the best!

 

[Punisher Rising]

Bumping this thread for the memories

Been on a 90s Nick binge lately, watching shows uploaded onto YouTube. God it takes me back. How I miss being a kid in the 90s and watching Nick everyday, especially circa 1992-1997

 

[JabarR]

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[Punisher Rising]

They really need to bring back Nick GAS and also have a Classic Nick channel (when they re-run shows like AYAOTD, Salute Your Shorts, Hey Dude, etc.), a Nicktoons channel and a Nick, Jr. one. I bet any money they'd have their highest ratings in eons with these channels.