90's Nickelodeon Nostalgia Thread!

[HarleyQuinn]

For those who don't know, TeenNick has been airing: All That, Kenan & Kel, Rugrats, and Doug roughly from Midnight to 4 AM ET. Those with Verizon On Demand can watch episodes of CatDog, Hey Arnold, and Angry Beavers courtesy of Nick Rewind. With that said, All That doesn't include the music performances which is a shame.

Figured we needed ourselves a thread to contain the AWESOMENESS that was the early to late 90's run of nickelodeon shows and cartoons and whatever.

Fun Facts...
- Season 1 of Alex Mack got released to DVD largely just to try and grab the buzz from Jessica Alba.
- A lot of Season 1 sets are on DVD (Clarissa Explains It All and Aaaah! Real Monsters as two examples)
- The Adventures of Pete & Pete Seasons 1 & 2 are both on DVD and actually have a fair amount of extras

 

[MillenniumMan831]

My Brother & Me may be the worst show ever made. I loved it.

 

[hyperchord24]

While most of the kids at school watched In Living Color (or so I thought), I was watching Roundhouse. It was a celebration.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I went to college with one of the brothers from Pete & Pete (the older brother). He spent a lot of time in my hallmate's room smoking a lot of pot.

I loved Salute Your Shorts. That show was awesome.

 

[hyperchord24]

I thought Larisa Oleynik was the most beautiful woman in the world. Hell, I guess I still do.

 

[Baby Shoes]

My Brother & Me may be the worst show ever made. I loved it.

I love My Brother & Me just for the episode where they treat Kendall Gill like the greatest basketball player ever.

And their friend was named Goo.

I went to college with one of the brothers from Pete & Pete (the older brother). He spent a lot of time in my hallmate's room smoking a lot of pot.

I loved Salute Your Shorts. That show was awesome.

The story about older Pete enforces my belief/hope he is just like his character in Slackers.

I love Salute Your Shorts too. My friends gave me a Camp Anawana t-shirt a few years back as a gift, which was pretty awesome. I had another friend go see Pinsky's band that he has with the girl from Troupe Beverly Hills (Rilo Kiley), guess he thinks he is so artsy now and got super-pissed when someone tried to get him to sign a football with a salami in it.

 

[MillenniumMan831]

My Brother & Me may be the worst show ever made. I loved it.

I love My Brother & Me just for the episode where they treat Kendall Gill like the greatest basketball player ever.

And their friend was named Goo.

I loved how they were treating Kendall Gill like he was Michael Jordan. Plus, I think the parents missed the point of getting Gill's autograph at the bazaar. The kids I'm sure wanted to meet him not just get a picture with his scribble on it.

I remember the basketball coach calling Goo "Boo" as if it was really more insulting than his name being Goo.

 

[Gary]

While most of the kids at school watched In Living Color (or so I thought), I was watching Roundhouse. It was a celebration.

Ditto. I watched that show every night it was on.

 

[Fall of Epic]

Are You Afraid of the Dark? is still one of my favorite television shows of all time. I catch some episodes on YouTube every now and then and while some of it is ridiculous and silly, some of it still holds up pretty well.

 

[still fly]

Are you Afraid of the Dark legit scared me during the early SNICK days. Especially the episode with the prom queen.

Speaking of which, I always thought it was weird that most of the old Nickelodeon shows were Canadian imports or produced by a Canadian company.

 

[BUTT]

I'm surprised nobody has uploaded the original Salute Your Shorts pilot, with an almost totally different cast, that aired in 1990 to YouTube. It was only on a couple of times, so I suppose there is a chance nobody has it recorded. But I'd like some sort of confirmation that I didn't just imagine seeing it.

Also, I'd like to think I'm not the only one who remembers this show:

Kids' Court (1988): Case of the Dirty Dishes

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Roundhouse was brilliant in how fucking dirty it was for a kid's show. Not just "here's some clever joke only adults will get," I mean entire segments revolving around adult themes dumbed down for kids. It was hilarious and I'm still mad it only lasted for a few months before it was replaced.

Also...(NSFW)

Spoiler

 

[Mattdotcom]

Also...(NSFW)

Spoiler

Let's maybe not fix the spoiler tags.

 

[oldskool]

If you're interested in Salute Your Shorts, ebay's got a full series DVD signed by Donkeylips...being sold by Donkeylips, apparently, I don't know how legal that is but whatever.

 

[Sabre]

I have all the episodes of alex mack saved to my ps3. The dvd rips are a horrible interlaced release, and everything else was high quality tv rips.

The show still rocks.

I remember being in love with "GUTS" and always wanting to partake in it.

 

[hyperchord24]

I always wondered why Mike OMalley wasn't shouting when he was on "Yes, Dear."

And yes, Are You Afraid of the Dark was just so well done. It's still one of my most favorite shows of all time. One of the reasons I got into writing. It's hard seeing Joanna Garcia act so ditzy on "Reba" when she was so smart and clever on Are You Afraid of the Dark.

I guess these shows shaped my childhood so much that it's hard seeing cast members as anything besides what I first saw them in.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I have all the episodes of alex mack saved to my ps3. The dvd rips are a horrible interlaced release, and everything else was high quality tv rips.

The show still rocks.

I remember being in love with "GUTS" and always wanting to partake in it.

I loved GUTS, but my favorite game show from that era was Legends of the Hidden Temple. Looking at the info for Temple, it was on for 3 season, but had 120 episodes. That's 40 episodes a season. You just don't see that shit anymore.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

I remember thinking having the individualized teams and shirts was really cool too.

I wasn't a big fan of Double Dare or NICK Arcade but god damn was Wild & Crazy Kids THE shit. Youtube has entire episodes up!

Wild & Crazy Kids- 1

 

[Sabre]

Alex Mack Wears a Hat

 

[MFer]

My Brother & Me may be the worst show ever made. I loved it.

The mother on that show went to my old high school. She died a few years ago though

Legends of the Hidden Temple was also my favorite NICK game show.

 

[CookieMueller]

My favourite game show was Nick Arcade and I couldn't STAND when kids moved Mikey somewhere stupid not even attempting to get him to the finish. This happened more often than I could have ever imagined! I did also like Wild N Crazy Kids too just for the stupid "Eat 3 hot dogs, spin around a bat, use the bat to knock down balloons filled with pudding, throw the balloons at a target and you win!" challenges.

I loooooved Roundhouse and I guess that was my dream at like 12, to be on Roundhouse. Everyone was vaguely ethnic on that show too except for like the 2 corny white people who just played corny white people or old ladies in every sketch. I did like All That the first few seasons, but then I got too old for that and never really watched Kenan & Kel much either.

All of my friends and I loved that (clearly Canadian) teen drama, Fifteen, but I can't imagine too many boys tuning into that one...it had Ryan Reynolds on it. I wanted to like Hey Dude but I think there was a problem with the lighting or something because I always got a headache watching that show. I'm not sure they knew how to blend some of the studio stuff with the natural lighting they were mostly set in. IDK but I got a headache EVERY TIME so I gave up on it. I did like Welcome Freshmen and it gave me no such problems.

 

[Incandenza]

I can still hum the entirety of the Hey Dude theme! I had a young-boy crush on Ben Stiller's Future Wife.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

Oh yeah, when she started popping up in things years later I was delighted.

I wanted to be on Wild N Crazy Kids like whoa when I was 7, 8 years old. I STILL WANT MOON SHOES.

Welcome Freshmen and Fifteen haven't crossed my mind in probably 22 years.

 

[SFH]

Watching Nick Arcade on youtube makes me want to get put on anti-anger meds. WTF kids????

 

[HarleyQuinn]

I had forgotten how hard the course was in LOTHT

Legends: Mask of Shaka Zulu (Part 3)

 

[Aero]

And their friend was named Goo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADQPcNvqymo#

I'm surprised it wasn't posted sooner. This is the first thing I think of for My Brother and Me.

 

[muzzington]

When I first saw him I thought Jon Cryer was a grown-up Ferguson from Clarrisa Explains it All.

 

[Gary]

"Wild and Crazy Kids" had the best theme song.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

The difficulty of the Temple made LOTHT the one Nickelodeon show I didn't want to go on. I'd get so lost in that motherfucker, plus I'd probably kick a temple guard in the nuts on instinct the moment he popped out.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Rewatching DVR'd episodes of Kenan & Kel and All That and surprised at how well some of up still manages to hold up. Also I never knew that Dan Schneider (whom created Drake & Josh, iCarly, and Victorious later) was actually the manager in the Good Burger scenes/movie.