Comments | serpentknot: Flashback to Your Childhood

serpentknot

Flashback to Your Childhood

Feb 12, 2009 22:16

I think we all watched Nickelodeon as a kid. It didn't have many shows back then, but they were all strangely Canadian. The main show they had was You Can't Do That On Television, which introduced the world to green slime from the sky.

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Oh yeah, and water. They also had the opening sequence which certainly drew its inspiration from Monty Python' ( Read more... )

nickelodeon, you can't do that on television, slime, nostalgia

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gothic_musings February 12 2009, 06:10:04 UTC

The locker scenes are my fav. Oh and Alanis Morrisette.

thisspacevacant February 12 2009, 15:57:40 UTC

That show ran for 11 years? I guess time did move faster back then.

captain_button February 15 2009, 20:11:07 UTC

Not so! Every decade goes by twice as fast as the previous one. I speak from experience.

serpentknot February 13 2009, 01:17:13 UTC

The Onion has this to say:

Ex-Nickelodeon Stars Relate Horrors Of Green Slime Syndrome

captain_button February 15 2009, 20:09:51 UTC

I think I saw one episode once in passing. The theme seemed to be riffing on the "all the non-conformists are doing it" paradox. And there was a girl on there I though was far cuter than I ought to have at my age.