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| Chefelf
10/28/2001 14:51:40 |
Subject: The Old Nickelodeon Message: The recent talk of past shows on Nickelodeon has gotten me thinking. I have an unscratchable itch now for some old school Nickelodeon shows. You Can't Do That On Television has to be traded for by fans who still have it on tape. I'm more of a fan of simple downloading myself. I have some digital DivX copies of all the episodes of The Mysterious Cities of Gold on 4 CDs. I also have a VHS tape of episodes of about 25-30 episodes of Danger Mouse that I recorded at the embarrassing age of fifteen when they began playing it early in the morning (this was before they opted to get rid of Danger Mouse all together and replace it with Lassie, that bitch). I am now on a never-ending quest to get some of these shows on video. Shows I would like to see again: You Can't Do That On Television Danger Mouse Count Duckula Mr. Wizard Pinwheel (although I don't know why) Spartacus (though Paul would not agree) The Mysterious Cities of Gold And while we're at it they need to start playing G.I. Joe, Transformers and He-Man. I think the Cartoon Network is doing us all a serious injustice by not playing these shows. I would trade several episodes of Scooby Doo for one episode of G.I. Joe. | |
| Caolan 10/28/2001 15:41:38 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: I see all your listed shows and raise you "She-Ra" & that show I love that's about a troll. No one else knows about that troll, so there's nothing doing. I feel there are others, but . . . God. If I could see Pinwheel again, especially the one with the Polish boy who lives with his grandfather! And they eat delicious food! It was kind of like a European "Doug". Also, we all know I love Danger Mouse, because, as my mom is fond of telling everyone, when Rory was born she called me at my cousins' and was like, "Caolan, you have a new baby brother" and I was like "That's great mom. Catherine, can you turn up the TV?" It was because Danger Mouse was on, and there was no need for everyone to miss out on some perfectly good Danger Mouse just because of stupid Rory. | |
| Kat 10/28/2001 15:57:16 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: nooo! Crap. I had a loong message telling everything I used to watch and making comments in general about Nickelodeon now, but when I pressed post, it said the name field was missing so I hit back and now everything's gone. So let's see if I can remember..Shows I used to watch (not just on Nick, btw) *Strawberry Shortcake *Hey Dude *SYS *Doug (only old episodes) *David the Gnome *Clarissa Explains It All (sam..sigh) *My Little pony (not a word) *Gummi Bears *Smurfs, Snorks, and Scooby Doo *Fraggle Rock So there you have it, a small list of shows and cartoons and such I used to watch and love. I miss them. | |
| Laura 10/28/2001 19:44:07 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: 1. Due to my youth, Kat's list hits a lot more of the shows that are nostalgic for me than Nate's. 2. Thanks to Paul's taping, I've seen a lot of Mysterious Cities of Gold and think it's about the greatest show on Earth. The DivX cds are of poor quality, but it's as good as we can get. 3.I do remember Danger Mouse, You Can't Do That, Mr. Wizard and Pinwheel, vaguely. I would LOVE to see those shows again. I also agree with Salute Your Shorts, Hey Dude, David the Gnome, Fraggle Rock, and, to some extent, Clarissa (though that's sometimes on Nick, even now.) 4. I liked those episodes of My Little Pony which was about the ponies being in school and doing things like normal kids, except ponies. I HATED the all-too-prevalent pony fantasy stories. 5. Those new episodes of Doug suck, huh? I love how when Disney bought it they made a point of changing the name to "Disney's Doug", and always referring to it as "Disney's Doug", as if they were responsible for its creation. 6. Boy, was Fraggle Rock GOOD. 7. I think Nick at Nite needs to pick up these old kids' shows. They've already made their move into the 80s with Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life and Family Ties. Now we need to move into the early to mid 90s. Nostalgia for teenagers! | |
| Caolan 10/28/2001 20:27:32 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: If we're getting into modern-era Nick shows, clearly we are forgetting that Pete & Pete is the best one. I have said this before. Also, I'm older than Laura, so I watched Spartacus and MCOG (they came on right after each other, and they were both on directly after school, and I used to run home joyfully in time to watch them) but I don't remember what happened in Spartacus. Did they have a machine that surveyed some other people in realtime, or did I just make that machine up because I wanted them to be looking at me while I was looking at them? I had a crush on one of them, but who was it, everyone? | |
| Chefelf 10/28/2001 21:49:04 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Paul hated Spartacus so I was always embarrassed to admit that I kinda liked it. I apologize for forgetting Pete & Pete, Salute Your Shorts and Hey Dude. Even though I was WAY to old to be watching Nickelodeon when those shows were in their prime I still appreciated what they did. Hey Dude was awesome! | |
| Lefty 10/29/2001 06:10:56 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Word up! I was just saying yesterday, as my girlfriend & I hunted fossels by the resevoir, "Remember 'Salute Your Shorts'? And 'Hey Dude?'" Back in them days, I'd come home & play "Bane of the Cosmic Forge" on our Amiga 500 while my brother watched said Nick programs on the new (well, to our home) invention of Cabal. | |
| paul 10/29/2001 08:37:16 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: The greatest of the shows Kat mentioned is, of course, David the Gnome. David was a doctor, and you can imagine all the tricks he got up to, what with sawing the gangrenous legs off trolls and prescribing mood-adjusting herbs to faeries and wood sprites. Also, he rode a fox, which was weird, because generally carnivores are evil in cartoons. I believe the fox was always trying to pluck David off his back and eat him, but David had a riding crop with which he defended himself vigorously. And at the end of very episode, all the gnomes said "Schlitzbeit!" thus forerunning by at least 10 years the ending of Ally McBeal. | |
| Chefelf 10/29/2001 08:51:17 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: And David Bosley of Happy Days fame was teh voice of David. Ah, memories. | |
| Caolan 10/29/2001 09:56:16 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: I used to think David the Gnome was my favorite show, because I had seen the gnome book and I thought it was mysterious & full of incredible secrets, and I told my third grade class that it was my favorite show before I had ever seen it. But I think now it was weirdly boring. They didn't even have happy randy naked gnomesses, or the toilet-throne, or trolls burning gnomes' feet like in the book. Paul, how come we don't hunt for fossels? I was really jealous of Lefty and his girlfriend until I remembered that we found a fossil of our own the other day: 1992's "Freshman Heartbreak", the 15th installment of the hit "Freshman Dorm" series. Do you know that in the 16th one, some evil girl is trying to get KC kicked out of the Tri Beta sorority? | |
| Chefelf 10/29/2001 12:19:59 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: There is no question about it! David the Gnome was terribly boring! It lacked substance in a huge way. | |
| Dodge Stackem 10/29/2001 13:14:38 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Curse you, Chefelf! You dare to assert that David the Gnome, the show whose tiny boots you are not worthy to kiss, the show before which I ate so many Little Debbie swiss cake rolls, was terribly boring? Did you ever see an episode? Do you call performing open-heart surgery without anaesthetic boring? How about emergency trepanning in which David rousts about a gnome's living brains before your very eyes? You must be a very boring person, Chefelf. And I pity you. | |
| Laura 10/29/2001 14:05:15 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Run like the wind, Swift. Run. | |
| Letīs Face It, Paul 10/29/2001 15:55:28 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: None of that happened. They just wriggled their noses and crawled over antlers. | |
| Kat 10/29/2001 16:43:26 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: all I remember is the hats and the dresses the chicks wore. Oh, and David's nose. I think he was an alcoholic. I also watched Captain Planet for some time, because at the end where the kids are handing out the shirts and they go "We're the planeteers! You can be one too! Cuz saving our planet is the thing to do!" I thought that there was like an address where you could write and get a shirt and maybe a ring and then you could be a planeteer. Damn tree huggers, smashers of dreams. | |
| Laura 10/30/2001 06:36:41 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Remember glassblowing in DTG? Glassblowing! It was all over the end credits. Captain Planet was okay, LeVar Burton was in it which was good. As a show, it's third-rate, except the episode where they go back in time and meet Martin Luther King or something. The end credit theme is classic. Rory had to audition for a musical, so I taught him the entire Captain Planet song. | |
| Chefelf 10/30/2001 08:29:08 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: I take back nothing, that show bored me to tears! My big regret was the the women in the show didn't have big beards like the women gnomes in Terry Pratchett novels. That would have been cool. | |
| Lefty 10/30/2001 09:09:18 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Yes, beards are mighty. Who was your favorite character, if you had to select but one from both the cast of "Salute Your Shorts" & "Hey, Dude!"? I would be hard pressed to make such a determination. On an unrelated note, I have a new pet. He is a small, spotless ladybug named Octavius. I think he has grand designs for power. | |
| Caolan 10/30/2001 09:27:24 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Mine is Bud, from SYS, because I like mean people. And he played the guitar. Unless it was Ug. Because his name was Ug Lee! Ha ha ha. Okay, I choose Ug, with Sponge and Bud as runners up. Hey Dude I can take or leave, ESPECIALLY stupid guy who grew up to be Blossom's boyfriend. On "Blossom". | |
| Laura 10/30/2001 09:43:19 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Obviously, the cast of SYS is superior to that of Hey Dude. SYS INDIVIDUAL CHAMP: Budnik, especially if he's actually secretly the tiny kid from the end seasons of "Diff'rent Strokes"; SYS RUNNERS UP: Z.Z. and Sponge. HD INDIVIDUAL CHAMP: Danny, the Indian HD RUNNERS UP: Brad, because she's a bitch, and Ted. NOT KYLE. TED. OVERALL CHAMP: Bobby Budnik. Remember the episode when he was in love with Dina and she covered his favourite guitar pick in glitter and made an earring out of it and then it turned out not to be his favourite guitar pick after all, so that was all right? | |
| Lefty 10/30/2001 11:27:58 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Yeah, i remember that... remember when Mr. Ernst from HD got konked on the head & thought he was 14? If you do, I do too. Do you remember Bobby Budnick hanging out with John Connor in T-2? That was pretty cool. | |
| An Ant of Mystery 10/30/2001 11:31:25 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Wasn't he a real punk in T-2? didn't they rob ATMs or something? or do I just think that because he was a real punk in Salute Your Shorts and possibly secretly in Diff'rent Strokes? | |
| Laura 10/30/2001 12:08:28 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: He wasn't a punk in DS. Just an adorable child. | |
| Chefelf 10/30/2001 14:47:35 | RE: The Old Nickelodeon Message: Let's not forget that he was in the rockin' early nineties band Bad 4 Good. That band rocked! | |
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