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EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Hi I'm Marc Summers and I want to secretly kill myself for having all this poo poo poured on me

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Hey here's Lassie!

We ran out of episodes of Lassie, so here's its predecessor, Jeff's Collie! Don't ask where Timmy is - just pretend he never existed!

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Poor spotted

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Hey kids - you know what would be fun to do on Halloween?

"Go and get candy!"

NO!

Stay inside and wait for us to call YOU! If you beat the 1 in 400,000 odds against you, and answer the phone saying "Nick or Treat!", you win the grand prize!

It's just that simple!

Wait...where are you going?

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I remember when they had commercials saying "No more black and white cartoons!"

Oh yeah.

"And no more Bosko...sorry Bosko!"

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Cyberball 2072 posted:

Buncha gay babies in this thread that don't understand what old Nickelodeon means, describing poo poo they saw in 1998.



You are all hereby ordered to attend Kids Court!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Voq3JAlWwqI

http://youtu.be/edqZhjhKPo4

Here's the first Nickelodeon promos from 1979:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBFmMkQxs8

Horrifying

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Frostwerks posted:

what shows were these? the koalas i mean. both of them

Noozles and Adventures of the Little Koala

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
R.L. Stine created and was the head writer for "Eureeka's Castle" before he did "Goosebumps":

http://www.avclub.com/article/ieureekas-castlei-co-creator-rl-stine-on-the-shows-105301

quote:

AVC: Probably even more collaborative when you’re working on a show for kids.

RLS: Well, luckily, Eureeka was just like Sesame Street except we didn’t teach kids anything. It made it a lot easier.

lol

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Zeno-25 posted:

That's pretty cool, I wonder where the old Camp Anawana set for Salute Your Shorts is (another crappy old Nick show)

https://www.google.com/maps/place/4...9347d2901e37af6

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Egbert Souse posted:

I had subscriptions to both Disney Adventures and Nickelodeon Magazine as a kid. Still have a box of them in my parent's garage somewhere.

Ooze News was the only thing worth reading

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Necc0 posted:

I posted about this in the pediepie thread but it blows me away how nickelodeon came this || close to discovering let's plays with nick arcade and they completely missed it. The only reason any kid watched that show was to watch people play the loving games and they did everything in their power to put as little of that in as possible. Imagine if they figured it out before the internet. Running an individual channel for each sub-genre of game and raking in those advertisement bucks.

You had to pay for the VHS, which is why it wasn't popular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvqmzD3SLao

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EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

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larchesdanrew posted:

I remember the commercials for that loving magazine and how they reiterated over and over to have your parents call. It was literally every other sentence in those commercials.

What did my dumb rear end do? Call that loving number when I was at my grandmother's house one day and try to set up a subscription. They wanted to speak to an adult so I handed the phone to my completely confused grandmother and watched as she was telemarketer coerced into accepting a subscription to some magazine she had never heard of.

I got in trouble but I totally got Nickelodeon magazines that I would gloss over for a few seconds and throw down forever.

Legally in the US a minor can't enter into a contract - so when I was a kid and did something stupid like sign up for a magazine subscription, my mom would call and say "Eugene's under 18" and the charges would be removed

I don't know if kids can still get away with that, but it worked wonders for me to get free poo poo

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