Are you Afraid of the Dark is the GOAT kids tv show
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philly.
Box Cutta
Bumbling Sidekick
Those late 80's/early 90's Nickolodean shows were fukking GREAT.
Live Action, Cartoons, Gameshows....just overall an amazing run in programming. Maybe the GOAT run....
I wrote a long ass post about this some time back, I'll try to see if I can find it.
Are You Afraid Of The Dark was fukking amazing.....my favorite episode, the one that always stuck with me for some reason...was the one where the dude gets trapped in the pinball machine. It becomes this strange, surreal, sci-fi/fantasy episode...but has an unhappy ending that sends chills up your spine.,
Live Action, Cartoons, Gameshows....just overall an amazing run in programming. Maybe the GOAT run....
I wrote a long ass post about this some time back, I'll try to see if I can find it.
Are You Afraid Of The Dark was fukking amazing.....my favorite episode, the one that always stuck with me for some reason...was the one where the dude gets trapped in the pinball machine. It becomes this strange, surreal, sci-fi/fantasy episode...but has an unhappy ending that sends chills up your spine.,
Box Cutta
Bumbling Sidekick
I wrote this a few months ago : http://www.thecoli.com/posts/7558215/
Something else I need to add : I also get a strong sense that NICK, unlike Disney which seemed to really pop off afterwords....actually seemed to take care of it's child actors. Most of the people that were Nick stars seem to have just moved on to have regular ass lives, or, they continued acting but had relatively stable and uncontroversial careers (Except for Amanda Bynes...pure trainwreck, don't know what happened there). Ross Hull, who played Gary on AYAOTD, for instance, is like a meteorologist now. Kenan obviously did his SNL thing. But it's pretty obvious to me, in retrospect, that Nick was a relatively moral company that actually seemed to give a shyt about kids...as opposed to a lot of this stuff now, that seems highly sexualized and frankly, more focused on young men. Of course....is this just another one of those "we didn't have the internet, phone cameras, and TMZ back then" situations like (presumably) with athletes? I dunno...it's just something to chew on. Maybe my nostalgia goggles are too foggy....
I'm 26, was born in 1987.
It was truly a great decade to grow up. These 00 babies don't remember growing up without the internet. Those before us simply missed out on it completely. I feel like people around my age group got the best of both worlds (depending on when your family got the internet). My family got AOL in like 97/98. So I still had roughly my first decade of life without the internet, but didn't get it SOOO LATE so as to not know what the fukk is going on. I was the last generation of Americans to have a non-net childhood. I feel special....
Things that are emblematic of the decade for me, personally : NICKELODEON, SNICK, MTV, Power Rangers, Toys (Tiger Electronics, Super Soakers, NERF, TMNT Action Figures), AOL, Renting VHS tapes and Videogames, RL Stine, collecting basketball cards, Mom & Pops stores being prominent, RC cars.
There is sooo much I could say right now, but I've gotta start on NICKELODEON...the fukking GOAT television network EVER.
Can't say enough about how important this channel was to my childhood. Just sooooo much piff, I honestly don't even know where to start. Before Sponge Bob...it was a mixture of live action shows, sketch, cartoon....just soo much quality and VARIETY. Something for EVERYONE. I don't think that I will ever be as enamored by a tv network as I was by Nick as a child.
Live Action Comedy/Drama Shows : Hey Dude, Kenan & Kel, Salute Your Shorts, My Brother & Me, Clarissa Explains It All, Pete & Pete, Gullah Gullah Island, Cousin Skeeter
Live Action Genre Shows : Space Cases, Are You Afraid Of The Dark, The Secret World of Alex Mack, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Animorphs
Live Action Kids/Toddler Shows : Eurekas Castle, Blues Clues
Game Shows : Double Dare, What Would You Do, Figure It Out, Nick Arcade
Sports/Action Gameshows : Legends Of The Hidden Temple, GUTS, Wild & Crazy Kids
Sketch : All That, You Can't Do That On Television, The Amanda Show
Cartoons : Rugrats, Doug, Rockos Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Pinky & The Brain, Garfield & Friends, Inspector Gadget, David The Gnome, Little Bill, Angry Beavers, Catdog, Ahh! Real Monsters, Wild Thornberries, Hey Arnold
I'm not just listing shows just to list them...I genuinely fukked with all of these programs. There were some programs that I didn't really fukk with...these are shows that I was genuinely invested in.
And this doesn't even mention Nick-At-Nite....which used to have legitimately great, classic programming. I Love Lucy (As well as the other Lucille Ball shows), Happy Days, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, Laverne & Shirley, Mary Tyler Moore, etc etc etc.
Man...god bless Nickelodeon. I'm proud to have grown up with it in my life.
And that's just NICK PIFF.....
Something else I need to add : I also get a strong sense that NICK, unlike Disney which seemed to really pop off afterwords....actually seemed to take care of it's child actors. Most of the people that were Nick stars seem to have just moved on to have regular ass lives, or, they continued acting but had relatively stable and uncontroversial careers (Except for Amanda Bynes...pure trainwreck, don't know what happened there). Ross Hull, who played Gary on AYAOTD, for instance, is like a meteorologist now. Kenan obviously did his SNL thing. But it's pretty obvious to me, in retrospect, that Nick was a relatively moral company that actually seemed to give a shyt about kids...as opposed to a lot of this stuff now, that seems highly sexualized and frankly, more focused on young men. Of course....is this just another one of those "we didn't have the internet, phone cameras, and TMZ back then" situations like (presumably) with athletes? I dunno...it's just something to chew on. Maybe my nostalgia goggles are too foggy....
Box Cutta
Bumbling Sidekick
The Tale of the Pinball Wizard
Damn, I thought I was gonna be the only one to drop that joint but y'all were already on it....
ThumpDaddy
All Star
I wish I could dap you a hundred times breh!!!!!!!!!
man I remember there was this one episode that had me so scared it had me turning off the T.V in broad light lol
I vaguely remember the episode too...it was some group of men dressed in masks and black outfits dancing and moving around in a rhythmic way
I vaguely remember the episode too...it was some group of men dressed in masks and black outfits dancing and moving around in a rhythmic way
The nostalgia in here.
I remember this coming on during weekdays around 5:00 pm.
The Intro - primarily the laughing children, the swing, and the clown - would have me
but I couldn't look away.
They would never show this to kids today.
Was a great time to be a kid in the 90s.
I remember this coming on during weekdays around 5:00 pm.
The Intro - primarily the laughing children, the swing, and the clown - would have me
but I couldn't look away.They would never show this to kids today.
Was a great time to be a kid in the 90s.
Sane
All Star
Anyone watched it recently? How does it hold up?
Since we are all adults now, of course it doesn't hold up as well when we were in elementary school and we thought some of this shyt was real and effective...nostalgia is the main reason we watch now.
Dillah810
Flat Girther
That same ep missed me up. That ending really got to me.
