Nickelodeon Slime has become a major trademark for the station. Its presence is in many of its television series such as Figure It Out and also the Nickelodeon Teen Choice Awards. It is also part of the Nickelodeon logo. Where did the slime start? Looking back there is on television series that started it all, You Can't Do That On Television.
The show started on Febuary 3rd, 1979 as a low budget children's series at a local studio in Ontario, Canada. YCDTOT.com states "After a successful first season, the show's creators produced a short-lived spin-off of this show called Whatever Turns You On, which was almost the same exact show as You Can't Do That On Television, only it was taped instead of broadcast live. It was shown during prime-time hours, and it featured Laugh-In veteran, Ruth Buzzi.... In 1981, You Can't Do That On Television was still doing okay on CJOH, and an up-and-coming children's network in the United States called Nickelodeon took interest in the show and began airing the Canadian series once a week in a line up with a plethora of other Canadian and UK-based television programs. The Nickelodeon airings of You Can't Do That On Television were slightly different from the way it aired in Canada. The hour-long format was cut in half, axing the music videos, call-in segments, and contests. The show was less variety and 100 percent comedy. By 1982, CJOH-TV simply began producing half-hour episodes.
In 1984, while the show's ratings declined in Canada and was hardly watched, Nickelodeon aired the show five times a week, and it became the network's highest-rated television program. Kids across America were making slime and water sounds with their mouths and sending in their entries for the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew a lucky kid to the set of You Can't Do That On Television to be SLIMED (which was replicated by Canada's YTV later with their version being called the Slime Light Sweepstakes).
You Can't Do That On Television continued as Nick's number one television show until Marc Summers began hosting another hit for Nick called Double Dare (which gave away Green Slime Shampoo and Soap as prizes) in 1986. This was the year that the show lost its hosts, Christine McGlade (1979-86) and Alasdair Gillis (1982-86), who were the most popular cast members. 1986 was also the year that YCDTOTV had added the future recording superstar Alanis Morissette, who was just as unknown as all the other cast members at that time."
With the rapid decrease of cast members and viewers, the show was canceled after it's 1987 season.
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The show started on Febuary 3rd, 1979 as a low budget children's series at a local studio in Ontario, Canada. YCDTOT.com states "After a successful first season, the show's creators produced a short-lived spin-off of this show called Whatever Turns You On, which was almost the same exact show as You Can't Do That On Television, only it was taped instead of broadcast live. It was shown during prime-time hours, and it featured Laugh-In veteran, Ruth Buzzi.... In 1981, You Can't Do That On Television was still doing okay on CJOH, and an up-and-coming children's network in the United States called Nickelodeon took interest in the show and began airing the Canadian series once a week in a line up with a plethora of other Canadian and UK-based television programs. The Nickelodeon airings of You Can't Do That On Television were slightly different from the way it aired in Canada. The hour-long format was cut in half, axing the music videos, call-in segments, and contests. The show was less variety and 100 percent comedy. By 1982, CJOH-TV simply began producing half-hour episodes.
In 1984, while the show's ratings declined in Canada and was hardly watched, Nickelodeon aired the show five times a week, and it became the network's highest-rated television program. Kids across America were making slime and water sounds with their mouths and sending in their entries for the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew a lucky kid to the set of You Can't Do That On Television to be SLIMED (which was replicated by Canada's YTV later with their version being called the Slime Light Sweepstakes).
You Can't Do That On Television continued as Nick's number one television show until Marc Summers began hosting another hit for Nick called Double Dare (which gave away Green Slime Shampoo and Soap as prizes) in 1986. This was the year that the show lost its hosts, Christine McGlade (1979-86) and Alasdair Gillis (1982-86), who were the most popular cast members. 1986 was also the year that YCDTOTV had added the future recording superstar Alanis Morissette, who was just as unknown as all the other cast members at that time."
With the rapid decrease of cast members and viewers, the show was canceled after it's 1987 season.
Want some more YCDTOT info? Head to http://www.ycdtotv.com/
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