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Post by fw91 on Mar 5, 2024 19:53:50 GMT -5
Sensitive content warning. So looks a documentary about terrible things being done to child actors at Nickelodeon will be released soon. And it seems to culminate with Drake Bell speaking out about being abused by higher staff. If this gains traction will Nickelodeon face public backlash similar to what we've seen with WWE?
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Mar 5, 2024 20:25:27 GMT -5
Isn’t Drake Bell pretty much an unreliable narrator?
That being said, there’s already plenty of smoke around Dan Schneider.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Mar 5, 2024 21:18:12 GMT -5
How far back are they going with this? Because the more I hear about You Can't Do That on Television creator Roger Price, the more I believe he probably shouldn't have been allowed around children.
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Post by Cyno on Mar 5, 2024 21:34:19 GMT -5
Jennette McCurdy all but named Dan Schneider as a predatory piece of shit in her memoir.
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Post by fw91 on Mar 5, 2024 21:50:54 GMT -5
Thing is, I think this may go beyond Dan Schneider.
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Post by chrom on Mar 5, 2024 22:11:03 GMT -5
Jennette McCurdy all but named Dan Schneider as a predatory piece of shit in her memoir. That was an open secret, along with his foot fetish.
In his last years there he had girls from shows like Victorious dancing and jumping up and down while wearing lingerie.
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Post by Sigma: Current SRW Champ! on Mar 5, 2024 22:25:54 GMT -5
My theory is this. What about Brian Robbins, the current President of Nickelodeon? Is he involved in any way, shape or form in the cover up of anything untoward at Nickelodeon? If the answer is yes, you'll see a massive reckoning and him probably tendering his resignation. You may see much less live action sitcoms on the show unless it's ran by actual upstanding adults, like the Double Dare reboot was.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Mar 5, 2024 23:46:42 GMT -5
How far back are they going with this? Because the more I hear about You Can't Do That on Television creator Roger Price, the more I believe he probably shouldn't have been allowed around children. Thing is, YCDTOTV wasn't produced in-house; it was imported from Canada. Not sure to what extent, if at all, Nickelodeon worked directly with Price. One story I've heard was that Angelique Bates from the first season of All That would be physically abused by her mother on set. She'd be slapped around in front of her castmates, and when they tried to bring it up with the people in charge, they were told to keep quiet about it as they didn't want any kind of scandal surrounding the show, and were even told they would be let go if they brought it up publicly.
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Post by castletonsnob on Mar 6, 2024 12:28:48 GMT -5
How f***ed is Nickelodeon when this releases?
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Post by chrom on Mar 6, 2024 13:25:26 GMT -5
How f***ed is Nickelodeon when this releases? On a scale of awful SpongeBob episodes, Pet Sitter Pat
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Mar 6, 2024 13:28:44 GMT -5
I wonder if they'll bring up John K. It was pretty much an open secret he was a predatory pedophile with an underage "girlfriend"
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Post by agent817 on Mar 6, 2024 13:42:08 GMT -5
Jennette McCurdy all but named Dan Schneider as a predatory piece of shit in her memoir. That was an open secret, along with his foot fetish.
In his last years there he had girls from shows like Victorious dancing and jumping up and down while wearing lingerie.
The thing that I cringed at the most was in the episode when the group was stuck inside the RV, while Cat went to go hang out with some guys and play with water guns. The guys all sprayed her while she stood there in a bikini top and short shorts and did a rather suggestive dance while being sprayed.
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Post by Display Name on Mar 6, 2024 14:17:29 GMT -5
That was an open secret, along with his foot fetish. In his last years there he had girls from shows like Victorious dancing and jumping up and down while wearing lingerie.
The thing that I cringed at the most was in the episode when the group was stuck inside the RV, while Cat went to go hang out with some guys and play with water guns. The guys all sprayed her while she stood there in a bikini top and short shorts and did a rather suggestive dance while being sprayed. Oh, I remember that episode. Back then I was like “Uh, how is this allowed?”. It’s pretty crazy.
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Post by castletonsnob on Mar 6, 2024 15:32:47 GMT -5
What do you think will be the fallout when this video comes out?
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Post by fw91 on Mar 6, 2024 18:38:34 GMT -5
What do you think will be the fallout when this video comes out? Depends on who's still involved in the company imo.
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Post by Burst on Mar 6, 2024 18:48:30 GMT -5
One does get the sense that, John K. nonwithstanding, this is more likely to be dug up from the recesses of the various scripted live-action shows, as, honestly, none of the on-screen talent for the various game shows kind of have the skeevy vibes in hindsight that you get from going back and watching say, something with Jimmy Saville. Obviously that's not a hard and fast rule as people are quite good at hiding it, but at the same time, you also feel like the worst offenders... aren't.
I'm curious about what dirt might get dug up on YCDTOTV since both Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby are still around, albeit quite old as one would expect, and I think the only cast member that's passed is Les Lye. That being said, if there's something especially incriminating I'm not really sure what there would be to be done since the show's pretty much already long out of the public conscience and not something that's had a ton of reruns or rereleases anyway.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Mar 6, 2024 20:14:29 GMT -5
There have been several YCDTOTV reunions and conventions, and thus far, nobody has had anything negative to say about their experience. To be fair though, they had a ton of cast members over the years, and this may only represent a small section. Abby Hagyard, who played Valerie, has mentioned that they had a therapist on set, but you can take that as them looking out for the kids, or questioning why a therapist was needed.
As far as Roger Price, the main thing I hear about him was his fascination with having boys wear dresses in many scenes. This was done as punishment if someone misbehaved or pissed him off, and went back to his time in boarding school as a kid, where this was used as punishment on him.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Mar 6, 2024 20:53:51 GMT -5
There have been several YCDTOTV reunions and conventions, and thus far, nobody has had anything negative to say about their experience. To be fair though, they had a ton of cast members over the years, and this may only represent a small section. Abby Hagyard, who played Valerie, has mentioned that they had a therapist on set, but you can take that as them looking out for the kids, or questioning why a therapist was needed. As far as Roger Price, the main thing I hear about him was his fascination with having boys wear dresses in many scenes. This was done as punishment if someone misbehaved or pissed him off, and went back to his time in boarding school as a kid, where this was used as punishment on him. I didn't mean to suggest in my original post he did anything illegal or monstrous with the kids. I was just kinda saying that, in everything I've come across, he always came off as kind of a weirdo with issues and I'm not sure he was the best person to leave in charge of a group of children. That said, if something did come out about him I wouldn't be terribly surprised.
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Post by cosmo on Mar 6, 2024 21:13:15 GMT -5
So having seen solely the video in the first post, the first thing that comes to mind was a phrase somebody used to describe Vice's "Dark Side of..." shows:
"Hey, do you remember how cool this thing from your childhood was? GUESS F***ING WHAT"
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 18, 2024 8:38:23 GMT -5
Coming into this I kind of only knew the broad strokes and the specific stuff surrounding Jennette McCurdy, but they haven't even made it to Drake & Josh yet and it's already pretty much, "Burn this f***ing network to the ground." Harrowing stuff.
That said.... Ehhhhh, the Drake Bell hyping up fills me with mixed emotions. By all means I'm fine with him telling his story, I'm sure it'll explain a lot, but I hope in the process the show doesn't try to whitewash all of the shit he's done himself.
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