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Post by horsemen4ever on May 18, 2022 21:29:46 GMT -5
Here is more useless trivia, David Brisbin and Christine Taylor were both on Seinfeld, David was in "The Puffy Shirt" and Christine was in "The Van Buren Boys".
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Post by CMWaters on May 18, 2022 21:31:18 GMT -5
This also confirms Greg won't always do these in perfect chronological order. All in the same year, but spread out better for a better flow, which I think is a smarter way to do it. I mean, it was kind of hinted that was the way he did things before, when he did Belle and Sebastian before he did Danger Mouse, despite the latter debuting on Nickelodeon before the former.
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Post by horsemen4ever on May 20, 2022 20:44:52 GMT -5
I hope in the 10th Anniversary, Franci from Pinwheel will finally get acknowledged. I can't believe Greg missed a whole character existing, that is so unlike him.
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Post by CMWaters on Jun 8, 2022 10:13:57 GMT -5
I hope in the 10th Anniversary, Franci from Pinwheel will finally get acknowledged. I can't believe Greg missed a whole character existing, that is so unlike him. Sadly he didn't. Yes, the "First Ten Years" video is up on Patreon.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jun 9, 2022 9:18:55 GMT -5
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 9, 2022 10:21:01 GMT -5
Next: Outta Here
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Post by fg on Jun 9, 2022 17:23:39 GMT -5
Yippee! A Wendell Craig reference. He also was the announcer for CBS Evening News (spefically the Dan Rather era of the show.) I thought he did voiceover work for Nick longer than 1984-1996. I thought it was until 2000.
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Post by fg on Jun 9, 2022 17:26:03 GMT -5
As far as Nick advertising the Kids Only Weekend (scroll to 13:16) does anyone remember if Nick was actually on the air 24/7 for the weekend with nothing but kids shows? I can’t remember. If it was, lije I said many times, my cable system preempted Nick from 8p-6a for A&E.
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Post by horsemen4ever on Jun 9, 2022 20:40:27 GMT -5
Finally the Sports Cartoon shorts gets mentioned. A big part of my childhood.
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Post by fg on Jun 9, 2022 21:32:09 GMT -5
As far as the Nick Takes Over Your School contest, I noticed that one of the teachers was a Mr. Kramer.
I wonder if his first name is Cosmo.
Also, Nick never had that Toys R Us contests on the day after Thanksgiving. I wonder why? (Yes, I am joking.)
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Post by fg on Jun 11, 2022 21:14:51 GMT -5
On the subject of old Nick announcers, he missed Joe Piasek. Here’s a sampling of his work www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgU2Jsxqe3MFrom classic Nick wiki “ Joe from Chicago" is Joseph R. Piasek, formerly the director of programming and news of New York's WPIX-FM and currently on the faculty of New York University and SUNY Delhi. Joe wrote and voiced Nicks Rocks, which was produced by Andy Bamberger, for Nickelodeon. Joe was an original member of Nickelodeon's 1984 on-air launch team and remained a voice producer, writer, director, and consultant throughout most of Nickelodeon's (and Nick at Nite's) formative years, producing, scheduling, writing and performing the networks' "voiceover credits" and top-of-the-hour "pronouncements." He has done similar work for Viacom's VH-1 and TNN. Joe's doctoral thesis chronicles Nickelodeon's childhood in the context of organizational learning. His earlier exploits in radio are revealed in Paul Colford's book "King of All Media: Howard Stern." Piasek is a co-founder and manager of WIOX radio in the Catskill Mountains, a wildly diverse, live, community radio station at 91.3FM in Roxbury (NY) and wioxradio.org.”
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 13, 2022 13:04:13 GMT -5
There will be an episode of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue as it also aired on Nickelodeon
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Post by CMWaters on Jun 13, 2022 13:20:37 GMT -5
There will be an episode of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue as it also aired on Nickelodeon And what's interesting about that is two series used there are now Nick properties (Turtles and Garfield), with the possibility of Alvin and the Chipmunks becoming that in the future since the franchise may be purchased by Paramount in the near future.
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Post by wildojinx on Jun 13, 2022 13:57:09 GMT -5
There will be an episode of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue as it also aired on Nickelodeon There have been enough comedic takes on that one that it'll be nice to see one that plays it straight and goes more into detail.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 13, 2022 14:15:57 GMT -5
There will be an episode of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue as it also aired on Nickelodeon And what's interesting about that is two series used there are now Nick properties (Turtles and Garfield), with the possibility of Alvin and the Chipmunks becoming that in the future since the franchise may be purchased by Paramount in the near future. Interestingly this was a bit before Alvin and the Chipmunks started airing on the network and long before the CGI cartoon did.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Jun 13, 2022 17:50:08 GMT -5
And what's interesting about that is two series used there are now Nick properties (Turtles and Garfield), with the possibility of Alvin and the Chipmunks becoming that in the future since the franchise may be purchased by Paramount in the near future. Interestingly this was a bit before Alvin and the Chipmunks started airing on the network and long before the CGI cartoon did. I’m pretty sure it didn’t feature any Nickelodeon characters, or characters that aired on Nick at the time.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 13, 2022 18:20:15 GMT -5
Interestingly this was a bit before Alvin and the Chipmunks started airing on the network and long before the CGI cartoon did. I’m pretty sure it didn’t feature any Nickelodeon characters, or characters that aired on Nick at the time. Technically Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as Looney Tunes was still airing. And technically, yes. No Nickelodeon characters are on it mainly as Nicktoons was a year away. But interestingly, Muppet Babies, Chipmunks, TMNT (not the 80s show, but still) Alf (years later on Nick at Nite), Smurfs and Garfield would all be either shows that aired or franchises picked up years down the line. Interestingly, aside from Huey, Dewey, Louie, Tigger and Pooh, the only non-Disney character to never feature in anything associated with Nickelodeon in an animated sense is Slimer.
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Post by CMWaters on Jun 13, 2022 18:42:06 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure it didn’t feature any Nickelodeon characters, or characters that aired on Nick at the time. Technically Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as Looney Tunes was still airing. And technically, yes. No Nickelodeon characters are on it mainly as Nicktoons was a year away. But interestingly, Muppet Babies, Chipmunks, TMNT (not the 80s show, but still) Alf (years later on Nick at Nite), Smurfs and Garfield would all be either shows that aired or franchises picked up years down the line. Interestingly, aside from Huey, Dewey, Louie, Tigger and Pooh, the only non-Disney character to never feature in anything associated with Nickelodeon in an animated sense is Slimer. That's just what happens when Network TV decides to stop airing cartoons on Saturday Mornings.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 17, 2022 9:29:37 GMT -5
Outta Here episode is on Patreon so it'll be up tomorrow
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 18, 2022 11:10:44 GMT -5
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