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Title: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on January 16, 2011, 01:10:39 AM
Figured this topic could go here, since I'm sure the other Nickelodeon forum is dedicated solely to the Nicktoons and other cartoons airing on the channel.

Anyways, this is a general all purpose topic for any live action Nick show, be it classics like Salute Your Shorts, or new stuff like iCarly.  Game shows like Legend of the Hidden Temple may or may not go here, that's up to you.

As for me, I love many of the shows from the 90's and recently been watching two of my favorite ones, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and Kenan and Kel.  Pete and Pete is this wonderful show about a teenager named Pete and his younger brother, also named Pete.  Both the brothers are really close to each other and do many things with each other, but there is also a sense of struggle between the two, since Big Pete is older and tries to stray away and do his own thing.  Still though, there's many adventures to be had, whether it be fighting a neighborhood bully, or trying to track down the local ice cream man after he disappears.  And Artie, the strongest man in all the world, and Little Pete's idle.  He's always good for a laugh, even though now he kind of comes off as a pedophile(Hey, it was the 90s, before the PC age really blossomed).

Kenan and Kel is about two teenage boys, Kenan and Kel, obviously, who live in Chicago and work in a grocery-type store.  Kel loves orange soda, and Kenan is always coming up with schemes, but can't keep the two out of trouble.  It's a pretty good show, but it does come off as repetitive at times(but what show isn't?).

Any thing you might want to say?  Avaitor, maybe you could share some feelings about Ned's Declassified?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Neomysterion X. Prime on January 16, 2011, 02:51:03 AM
For Nick's live-action, I liked watching their game shows (especially Nick Arcade).  :shakeshakeshake:
Also, All That and The Amanda Show were great kid-friendly alternatives to MADtv and Saturday Night Live.  :awesome:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 16, 2011, 09:38:40 AM
All That (I'd like to say all the classic seasons, but what I've seen of the last original cast one was pretty dreadful too, so I'll just say the first few seasons)
Kenan & Kel
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
Clarissa Explains It All
Salute Your Shorts

^Their best, and I still watch them every now and then.

I did watch a lot of their shows as a kid, but even then I didn't think they were all great. I mean, for every Pete & Pete there was a Journey of Allen Strange or something, and some of the ones I did like, such as Hey Dude, just don't hold up at all. Some of these I'll always love no matter how stupid, though.

As for the ones from today, eh. iCarly and Victorious have their moments and have some pretty good characters, but aren't very good at all. Big Time Rush is very mediocre, and I don't know or care about any of their other shows to tell you my opinion on them.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on January 16, 2011, 07:17:56 PM
I think my big problem with the current stuff is that all of it feels like it's written by one person. They all have the same style of writing, the same characters, the same plots, and all have albums to sell.

Even BTR, by the creator of Ned, doesn't stick out as much as it should.

It's not really a nostalgia thing, as I was never exposed to Nick's live action stuff as a kid. But when I watch them now, I can clearly see that most of them simply have way more effort and variety in them to help stand out.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 16, 2011, 07:47:25 PM
To me it seems like Nick is trying to ride on the success of Disney's stars by making so many of their actors do music careers, but it's just not working because they don't have the resources that Disney does.

Or the talent, even. I know I'm the only fan of Demi on here, but when comparing her and even Miley, Selena, and the Jo Bros to BTR, Victoria Justice, and the iCarly girls, it seems like the Disney side is more comfortable with juggling music and acting together, and even seem to enjoy it, while the Nick people are just doing albums because Nick told them to.

I think kids can tell that's the case as well. I have a little half-sister who's a big Jonas and Demi Lovato fan (she was also big on Miley before she dropped the Hannah wig), but doesn't give a fuck about the Nick stars. I also hear from some of my friend's little sisters and stuff (sometimes even themselves) that they're big Demi and Selena Gomez fans, but I don't think I've ever heard them refer to Miranda Cosgrove as anything other than Carly or the girl from School of Rock.

Nick should just let their actors stick to acting unless  they really give a damn about making music, but like any of them would do anything. They just take whatever their song writers give them, go to the recording studio once or twice, and let auto-tune do the rest. Just about all of this is crap that anyone over the age of 14 should know better than to buy.

As for the writing, yeah, it seems like ever since Lizzie McGuire, every live-action kids show follows the same trope- a good girl with bratty tendencies and her quirky friends go through eccentric adventures together. Add clueless parents, sneaky younger or stupid older siblings, and vapid middle/high school stereotypes for a supporting cast in and you have a kid's show. As well as plots and jokes you've heard 20 years ago in better sitcoms.

That's not to say that every live-action kids show post-Lizzie McGuire (which also kind of sucked) is completely awful. I think Ned is a sweet, sincere series about the trials and tribulations of middle school which didn't try to sell you anything but humor and heart. It could have fit in with Nick in the 90's. Drake & Josh was kind of funny when Megan wasn't around. iCarly the web show is annoying, but iCarly the TV show actually has some solid writing sometimes. Even on Disney Channel, Sonny With a Chance has decent character interactions with most of it's characters and doesn't try to force you tired morals like all the other Disney shows. It also kind of reminds me of All That sometimes with the So Random sketches

Ned aside, I wouldn't call any of them great (and even that was a stretch sometimes), and they all have the typical pratfalls of all the other kidcoms out there. Most of the shows from the 90's had more effort put into any of these and are probably a lot better than anything on either channel today.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on January 16, 2011, 08:10:18 PM
Ned didn't try to sell you on music or anything, and kept the plots to the central theme. In many ways, you could run this next to Pete & Pete, early All That and whatnot, and it wouldn't stick out much. Just because it's merely a quality show with a good hook, and not a vehicle to sell something else.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 12, 2011, 10:51:22 PM
There's a thread discussing the TeenNick block, but I just want to comment here about how happy I am about it.

I really like Pete & Pete and Clarissa, and since Nick never bothered finishing with their DVD releases, I'd love to take this chance to catch up on the rest. The latter is a girl-themed sitcom that doesn't feel too girly for guys and is cool enough for older viewers to watch and enjoy, while the former is just great period. I'll try to rewatch my DVDs before then.

All That is also a show I love. The first few seasons, at least, when Dan Schneider and Brian Robbins were both working on it. The last year or two of the original cast when Dan left wasn't very good, while when Dan came back and Brian left to work on the new cast... yeah.

The Amanda Show I liked a lot as a kid, but rewatching it now, it doesn't really hold up. It's more obnoxious than anything. Almost like if it got the leftover shorts that weren't good enough for All That. A few good sketches, but I won't be recording it as much.

Salute Your Shorts is also classic. I liked both Michael and Pinksy. To be honest, it's more about Budnick than anyone,  so it has that going for it.

Can't wait to see whatever live-action shows they have planned.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 14, 2011, 02:56:49 PM
On another note, I just noticed that Nicktoons is airing Ned and Drake & Josh. Funny, since TeenNick is still airing them. Funny still is that Rugrats and Rocket Power are scheduled to air on the channel when the block starts.

Talk about an odd case of synergy. Whatever works for them, I guess.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 24, 2011, 10:35:21 PM
The crossover mentality doesn't fit... or well, it really shouldn't. I guess it doesn't really matter, because Nicktoons has had The Troop on for ages, but still; keep the cartoons on one end, live-action on the other. Makes sense, you know?

...and speaking of The Troop, am I the only one that sees this show totally out of place in today's kids television climate? If it were made back in the 80's or 90's, it'd kinda fit, but now? It comes off as so corny, and it doesn't even have a sense nostalgia to back it up.

I really wanted to like this show (Tom Lynch made some cool stuff back in the 90's, so I was looking forward to it due to his involvement), but damn, I just can't get into it. It kinda sucks, really.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 24, 2011, 10:41:08 PM
I think it's kind of cool that Nick is making a show like that again. I miss having stuff like Alex Mack and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, so in theory that would be a good substitute for them.

In theory. I haven't seen much of the show, but from what I've seen from previews and heard from people, it isn't much at all. Lame.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 24, 2011, 10:57:24 PM
Yeah, I guess I should clarify; it's not the idea that bothers me, it's just the execution is all wrong. I think that's why its presence on Nicktoons gets to me so much, because it's such a mediocre show (with a timeslot that could just as easily go to a long-lost favorite; Angry Beavers, anyone?).

The plot (group of kids in a secret "monster hunting" organization) is alright, and definitely workable. They're just not doing it right at all. More than anything, the acting is really killing it. The one geeky kid (I think his name is Felix, if I remember correctly; haven't watched this in a while) is a really terrible actor, and the guy who plays the school principal/"troop" leader is even worse.

...and now that you mention Alex Mack, that was probably the biggest reason why I was so initially excited for this (his involvement with that series). That show was damn cool. I don't know how Tom Lynch lost his touch so badly over the years (he also created Romeo in the meantime, and I thought that sucked as well).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 24, 2011, 11:14:27 PM
Didn't he also co-create Class of 3000 with Andre?

There's a lot that Nicktoons could air, but right now, they're building it to be a CN/XD competitor by airing a ton of action shows and random live-action series instead, and that doesn't really seem to work for it. But hey, apparently DB Kai gets pretty good ratings for them and it must have helped to give Avatar that new miniseries and comic book, so it must be good for them anyhow.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 11, 2011, 04:49:43 PM
Looks like now Shout is skipping some of the Nicktoons and is going straight to live-action. Hey Dude is next on their Nick-related schedule.

Like I said elsewhere, I'll probably buy at least the first season out of nostalgia, but it's not a favorite. I would have preferred to get the last season of Pete & Pete, some more Clarissa, or something else like Kenan & Kel or Salute Your Shorts, but this will certainly please some fans.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on April 11, 2011, 04:56:30 PM
As long as they get to finish them off, I'm good. Thankfully, Shout is one of the few companies that seem willing to go the whole nine yards with these releases.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 11, 2011, 05:14:23 PM
They don't finish every release, it seems, but I'll give Shout the benefit of the doubt for now.

One another note, why do people think that All That is a possibility? The show has tons of musical performances that will probably cost a lot for them to buy the rights back to. AT isn't like SNL where it would be able to make back the costs it takes to buy back all the performances.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on April 11, 2011, 06:16:54 PM
IIRC the Chappelle Show releases cut out pretty much all the musical performances, so they might just go with that.

If they want to release it that bad.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 11, 2011, 06:27:09 PM
True, but Chappelle's Show didn't have it's musical performers come out and interact with the cast most of the time like they did in AT. It'd be weird if they kept those sequences in but the performances out, and awful if they just cut them both out.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on April 11, 2011, 06:29:53 PM
I think it's possible they could do both, but I guess we'll see. It all comes down to Shout if they even want to bother.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on April 12, 2011, 01:33:23 AM
I'll take it. Not my ideal choice, for obvious reasons (really, I'd rather finish up Clarissa and Pete & Pete first), but if this is the starting point for more classic live-action Nick releases, hey, whatever works for 'em.

It's been a pretty long time since I've seen this show anyways (as far as I know, it hasn't even aired in reruns in over 10 years), so watching it again should make for some interesting nostalgic viewing. It wasn't one of my favorite live-action Nick shows, but from what I remember about it, I still liked it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on July 10, 2011, 10:43:24 PM
-bump-

Just out of curiosity, anyone here catch that new show "Bucket and Skinner's Epic Adventures" yet? I decided to sit through the episode following the FOP movie last night, and, uh... well...

Good lord. This could quite possibly be the flat-out worst thing that Nickelodeon has ever done, live-action, animation, or otherwise. I just... I couldn't believe what I was actually watching. This one episode was even worse than the entire FOP movie, and after having just sat through that, I didn't think anything of that magnitude could be humanly possible.

While I'll be the first to admit that stuff like iCarly isn't my cup of tea, at least I could see why people would watch and enjoy it. It's not really lame or anything, and kids today can probably partly relate to the characters, and what they do. This, on the other hand... I've never seen anything quite like it. For starters, who even talks like this? Honestly, it's almost like they took the basic premise for Rocket Power, cut out two of the main characters, and shot it in live-action. Yes, that's what I'm calling it; live-action Rocket Power.

If you want to see something truly ghastly, watch an episode of this. It really is something else.

...oh, and one last thing; what kind of sadistic fuck would actually name their child "Bucket"? Or "Aloe"? Or "Three Pieces"? Actual character names, right here. Not making this up, either. :whuh:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Foggle on July 10, 2011, 10:52:36 PM
Quote from: Kiddington on July 10, 2011, 10:43:24 PM
Honestly, it's almost like they took the basic premise for Rocket Power, cut out two of the main characters, and shot it in live-action. Yes, that's what I'm calling it; live-action Rocket Power.
Oh my fuck. :whuh:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on July 10, 2011, 10:54:06 PM
I think it's supposed to be a Bill & Ted type show. Unfortunately despite outward appearances, you need GREAT writers to make it work. It's really hard to write this style of humor (I've tried for various writing projects), and if you write it badly... well, watch this show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Eddy on July 11, 2011, 12:47:30 AM
I made it about thirty seconds into that Bucket & Skinner shit before having to change the channel.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: ToonFaithful on July 11, 2011, 08:50:35 AM
Quote from: Kiddington on July 10, 2011, 10:43:24 PM
...oh, and one last thing; what kind of sadistic fuck would actually name their child "Bucket"? Or "Aloe"? Or "Three Pieces"? Actual character names, right here. Not making this up, either. :whuh:
I checked it out after the movie also. Seemed like one of those Nickelodeon live-action shows that I couldn't get into, no matter how much I watch it. This along with Tru Jackson VP, Big Time Rush, and Victorious. Also, I noticed the episode had the "We gotta dress up as girls to get into the party" plot. Cliche, one of the things that almost kept me from watching it.

Well, Charlie's last name from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was Bucket, but I agree. At least that was Charlie's last name, I couldn't live with Bucket as my first name nor Skinner.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 17, 2011, 11:53:06 AM
Enough about the bad, let's talk about the good! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHITziyFP8)

The shows I caught in this promo:

Kenan & Kel
All That
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Double Dare
Doug
AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Clarissa Explains It All
Hey Arnold!
CatDog
Salute Your Shorts

And Are You Afraid of the Dark? was mentioned, albeit not seen.

Pretty good haul of potential shows, it seems. Just about the only show I don't really like here at all is CatDog and I wish that they could buy back the rights to YCDTOTV (80's or not), but I'll be catching up with this.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on July 17, 2011, 02:26:27 PM
That was beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. July 25th, hurry up and get your ass here already.  :swoon:

Couple of unexpected surprises (and delights) on this list. Legends of the Hidden Temple wasn't mentioned at first, but nice call slotting it in this lineup; it'll be great to see it on TV again, as it was always my favorite out of the 90's Nick gameshow roster. I don't believe Double Dare or Hey Arnold were mentioned at first glance either, so those are a couple of other cool additions.

I can't wait. It's been such a long time since I've seen most this stuff (Stick Stickly! They even had Stick Stickly in that promo!). It'll almost feel like being a kid again. Really looking forward to this.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on July 17, 2011, 02:30:09 PM
I'd probably care if I actually had TeenNick. Good for you guys though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: ToonFaithful on July 17, 2011, 05:07:42 PM
Wow! That was awesome! It's like classic Nicktoons and Nickelodeon GAS combined!

Rocket Power is gonna be on the block too.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 17, 2011, 07:52:40 PM
Yep, apparently so. I've also heard that Alex Mack, Rocko, GUTS, and the Amanda Show will show up too. And considering the resurgence of Nigel Thornberry, you can count on Wild Thornberrys showing up at some point as well. And apparently this is the schedule for the first week.

12:00am All That
12:30am Kenan & Kel
1:00am Clarissa Explains It All
1:30am Doug

All That's going to start in it's second season, while the others air their first episodes instead. Not bad, but I'll skip recording Clarissa, since I have the DVD.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 18, 2011, 03:48:44 PM
Huh. It turns out that they're starting Clarissa off midway through the second season for some reason.

Looks like I'm recording it after all.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 19, 2011, 02:17:44 PM
Triple post? Really? I thought you guys would be a little more pumped for the first week's schedule.

Anyway, I went to WalMart today to finally pick up season 1 of Rocko. Since Hey Dude came out today as well, I decided to check it out, and it seems like there's an interview with Christine Taylor on it. So far, it looks like the only Nick release by Shout to have bonuses, even if it is likely just a fluff piece which asks her more about Ben Stiller than the show. The contents of the set also seemed to treat her like the star of the show, even though she was like fourth or fifth banana overall.

I didn't buy it, but I may get the first set at least to support the show and potential for more live-action releases at some point. It just doesn't really hold up at all, but I wouldn't mind owning at least some of it for the sake of nostalgia. And I hope that other sets get more bonus stuff.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on July 19, 2011, 03:47:08 PM
Oh, that's out today? Huh. I actually forgot about Hey Dude; probably due to already looking ahead to the Angry Beavers/Hey Arnold sets.

...anyway, yeah, I'll have to head out today and pick that up. I'll support all of the Nicktoons releases, in the hopes that they won't decide to abandon this project half-way through (due to the same old "low sales" schtick). Hell, I bought the Thornberrys set (and that was before Nigel's resurgence), so why stop there? Probably the only one I'm not sure about buying, at this point, is CatDog; I really don't like that show, and now after hearing that Season 1 will be split off into two separate releases makes an already unappealing purchase that much worse.

Ah well; we'll see.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 19, 2011, 04:20:38 PM
If I had the money, I'd buy more of the sets. For now, I'm just sticking to what I really want, which is Rocko. I'll probably pick up Hey Arnold and Real Monsters when they come out, and sooner or later, I'll get to Hey Dude, but these aren't as high priority for me.

If Rugrats or Doug get announced for the anniversary, they finish Clarissa and Pete & Pete, or try Kenan & Kel or Salute Your Shorts, those I'll be getting instantly.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 23, 2011, 11:23:42 AM
Another promo. (http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/22/teennick-shows/)

Other shows mentioned here? Hey Dude and Weinerville. I think I saw Wild and Crazy Kids in there, too.

Can't come soon enough.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on July 23, 2011, 11:39:36 AM
Weinerville, are you serious?  Never would've thought that would resurface.  What next, are they gonna bring back Stick Stickly to do the bumpers?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 23, 2011, 12:07:55 PM
Judging from the promos they've been airing and how he's been mentioned in press releases, that seems pretty likely, actually.

It'll be fun to watch Weinerville, if only to check out which cartoons they still put on. I watched an episode again a few years ago, and caught an Alvin cartoon from the 60's, and I believe they also aired UPA stuff as well. Dunno what else.

I think rewatching the episode of Ned where Marc Weiner guest starred sounds like a good idea now, actually. That was a good one.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on July 23, 2011, 02:29:50 PM
I'm surprised Kablam hasn't shown up in any of these promos yet (or, if it is has, it's too brief a clip and I'm just missing it). That was always one of the big hitters from the mid-90's, was it not?

...other than that, I'd say they've got their bases pretty well covered so far. Weinerville, huh? Can't say I thought I'd ever see that on TV again. Pretty cool, I must say.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on July 23, 2011, 02:35:27 PM
I think the reason that Kablam hasn't seen much exposure compared to the other Nicktoons in recent years, or hasn't shown up for this block yet, is that there is some sort of rights issues with the different shorts that aired on it.  I know that there is a problem with Angela Anaconda, since Fox took the original shorts and turned it into a half hour show on Fox Family.  I'm just not sure that Nick owns as much of the show as it would be beneficial to actually air it again.

I would so love to watch this block, especially if the old bumps and animations from the commercials aired as well(I can't see why not), this looks like the closest you're ever going to get to seeing 90's Nickelodeon again, and if only they could bring back acquisitions like Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown!, and so on it'd be perfect, but of course that's next to impossible.  I sincerely hope they keep this block for quite a while, because the next chance I'd be able to watch the block or Teenick will be around the holidays when I go home to my parents house and their DirecTV package.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on July 23, 2011, 02:46:49 PM
Ah, right. That would probably explain it.

I know Kablam used to air on the Nicktoons channel as recently as 2005-2006, before they started the phasing out process of 90's programming in the years since. It's been so long since I've seen a full episode of it on TV, though, that I don't really remember what particular shorts were and weren't being used.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 23, 2011, 03:00:25 PM
Even then, they cut out a lot of episodes. I think anything with Angela Anaconda in it got blacked out, and there might be other series of shorts that got removed.

I'd love to see Kablam! again, but it might be too risky for them, since some of it has to be cut out. But hey, if they're bringing back Weinerville and airing newer stuff like CatDog and Rocket Power, anything should be fair game.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 25, 2011, 01:39:13 PM
Here's a transcript with the general manager of Nick (http://live.washingtonpost.com/nickelodeon-brings-back-90s-shows.html) answering fan questions about the block.

He keeps on repeating the same thing ad naseum (keep on checking Facebook and Twitter to vote for your favorites!), but he gave us info on some things, like a list of the most likely shows to get voted on to air later on in the block. It seems like the block now is going to keep the same four shows for a little while, but later on will change.

It also seems like anything that aired around this time and they still own the rights to is fair game. Kablam! in particular got mentioned, and while he didn't say anything leaning towards a definite yes or no about it, it seems like a possibility. He even mentions that there's a possibility that the block can air earlier in the day, which I would love.

But yeah, the first block airs tonight. I really wanted to get a group over to watch it together, but can't find a house, and mine is definitely no good. I'll just record the shows and watch them later. What about you guys?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on July 25, 2011, 05:47:54 PM
I'm having company over tonight, and since my Grandma's place doesn't have TEENick, I sadly won't be able to watch the premiere.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on July 25, 2011, 06:24:05 PM
Already got the DVR fired up and ready to record. I'll still watch each of them tonight as they premiere anyway, but I do want to get this stuff saved for future viewing on top of that; especially All That, since that'll probably be one show that we'll, more than likely, never see on DVD.

As far as having anyone "over" to watch with me... uhh, no. None of my friends are really into this kind of stuff like I am; I talked to a couple of people about it, but none of 'em cared, like I figured they wouldn't. Man... I'm telling you, I do NOT share common ground in my interests with anyone in this city. Sucks, but oh well.

...anyway, yeah, really looking forward to this tonight. Can't wait!  :happytime:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: ToonFaithful on July 26, 2011, 12:50:31 AM
I hope Kablam! airs on the block. Loved that show. Watched it when Nicktoons(when it had the sky blue splat logo) aired it back in 2004. Nicktoons in general was fun to watch then.

I saw some old Nickelodeon bumpers. The guy in the interview was right, they're re-using 90s bumpers, but in new ways.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 26, 2011, 10:55:27 AM
Watched All That and Kenan & Kel before class and watching Clarissa now. All still as funny as ever.

So far I've seen bumpers using the following shows, as well as All That and Clarissa:

AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
CatDog
Double Dare
GUTS

I think these could be up in the first poll for new shows. Which of these would you guys vote for if they were?

My vote would go to Double Dare. Real Monsters is coming out on DVD and is on Netflix, I don't like CatDog, which is also coming to DVD, and while I also liked GUTS, it aired on GAS for much longer than Double Dare. I'd be up for any of these but CatDog, though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: ToonFaithful on July 26, 2011, 12:02:14 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on July 26, 2011, 10:55:27 AM
Watched All That and Kenan & Kel before class and watching Clarissa now. All still as funny as ever.

So far I've seen bumpers using the following shows, as well as All That and Clarissa:

AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
CatDog
Double Dare
GUTS

I think these could be up in the first poll for new shows. Which of these would you guys vote for if they were?

My vote would go to Double Dare. Real Monsters is coming out on DVD and is on Netflix, I don't like CatDog, which is also coming to DVD, and while I also liked GUTS, it aired on GAS for much longer than Double Dare. I'd be up for any of these but CatDog, though.
I'd vote for GUTS, but I can see Double Dare airing instead. Maybe the show that's placed in second can air also. Double Dare and GUTS.

Really glad this is lasting a long time. One problem though, for people who go to school, we can't stay up at 12am-2am watching these shows. I know I can do it, just don't want to and it would be a huge problem if I fell asleep during school.




Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 26, 2011, 01:39:47 PM
Oh, and judging from the bumpers I saw in the second hour, you can probably add Hey Dude to that poll as well. My vote would stay the same, though.

And yeah, I think it would be better if the block airs earlier. Maybe if it does really well, they will consider changing the time after all.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on July 26, 2011, 02:17:04 PM
Man, I enjoyed rewatch All That, Kenan and Kel, Clarissa, and Doug. My favorite skit is/was/shall always be, Good Burger on All That. "The Bunny wouldn't have given up." Oh Kel.

I can't wait for tonight's episode of Kenan and Kel, it's the one with the screw being in the tuna. That scene in court remains one of my favorite moments from the show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 26, 2011, 08:44:47 PM
That's gotta be my favorite, too. I think it's everyone's favorite, actually.

Oh, speaking of K&K.

(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhd6n1l0jR1qgomqqo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 27, 2011, 06:59:03 PM
The ratings are in, and it's a hit! (http://www.nickandmore.com/2011/07/27/teennick-proves-the-90s-are-all-that-as-new-retro-block-hits-record-ratings/)

It's a shame to see Clarissa be the weak link, but it is the oldest in terms of afterlife (while it and Doug premiered and ended around the same time as each other, Clarissa was taken off Nick around 1998, while Doug stayed on until 2003). But even then, it still does pretty well.

Overall, this proves that there's definitely a market for these shows, and that the block should stay for a while.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on July 27, 2011, 10:00:50 PM
That's terrific news. Provided that most of these ratings due to compare to last year where they probably just reran Degrassi for the billionth time, but it's great to see such a growth on that time frame. Glad to see K&K rank so high. I miss those two working together as a duo.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on July 27, 2011, 10:23:28 PM
But I thought there was no audience for this kind of stuff? :humhumhum:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on July 28, 2011, 12:50:42 PM
Excellent news!  :happytime:

Three nights in, and no complaints from me; this is great stuff. If I were running the show, however, the only thing I'd do differently is have already added some variety to it by now. That's probably my only real issue; every night should be a different block of four shows (20 shows total; they could make it work), just to add something new to the mix every night. Nick has a lot of great stuff, in terms of 90's programming; I'd rather they leave no stone unturned, and give as many of these a chance as possible (even if that includes CatDog).

...but either way, we should expect all of these to show up at some point anyway, so I guess it's not really a big deal. And not that any of this is a knock on the ones that are currently running; I love all four of those shows, and it's pretty awesome to seem 'em all back on TV again.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 30, 2011, 04:48:47 PM
Aright, a week in, and what do you think of the current lineup? It should be staying the same for a little while, but what do you want to stay on the most and what do you want to come on?

Overall, I love all four shows, and while there's a lot else I'm also partial to, I wouldn't mind the lineup staying as is for now. If I had to take off anything, I'd probably remove Kenan & Kel, since it's by far the easiest to find online, but I'll still be tuning in as long as it's on.

All That was one of my most anticipated shows, and even with the lack of musical performances, I think it's as fun to watch as ever. If what Ish said is true and Nick just never paid enough to keep the rights for the performances in the first two seasons, then when they get up to season 3, we should be getting them again. Either way, the lack of music doesn't really affect the show as much as I thought it would, and I'd probably buy it on DVD if it came out like this.

Kenan & Kel is just good fun. The two have great chemistry with each other, and the supporting cast are talented on their own as well. There isn't much to the show but laughs, and it does that very well, even now.

Clarissa seems to be the weakest performer on the block, which is probably due to its age. Even though it and Doug premiered and ended around the same time, repeats of Doug were finally taken off in 2003, while Clarissa came off after a year or two of Sabrina, but did come back briefly around the time The N came out. It might be the first to go, but I'll be sad to see it leave, since I dig how it's built. It's a show with a female lead that isn't very girly at all, and is also smart enough to hold up despite how dated it is. I don't know why they started halfway through season 2 instead of going through the beginning of it, but I do appreciate them skipping season 1, since I have the DVD, and so should you.

Doug was another one of the shows I was most anticipating to return, since it was my favorite Nicktoon as a kid. It doesn't really hold up as well as I remembered it to, though. Some of the jokes, like Skeeter's dad forgetting various phrases, just aren't funny, the pacing gets awkward at times, and there are some very embarrassing animation errors to notice (for example, in the first episode with the Beets, there was a long period where Roger was drawn in pale skin. He was speaking and everything, but still looked a little like Doug.). But even then, it still has it's moments, and the characters are all genuinely likable. I don't think I'd like the show if it was made when I'm at this point in my life, but it'll always hold a place in my heart, and I'll watch it as long as its on.

As for what I'd like to come on? Well, one of the other series I'm most anticipating to see return is Salute Your Shorts. Anything else, I don't know. I'd watch most of the Nicktoons they would put on, but since most of them are on Netflix or are coming to DVD, I'd rather see less fortunate series come on. And while I also like the game shows, I think that I'd probably get bored of them after a while. I think I'll just wait to see what comes up in the first poll, whenever that's released.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 02, 2011, 12:57:30 AM
*coughcough* (http://skyfireaboveicebelow.tumblr.com/post/8374322541/how-exactly-has-90s-nickelodeon-influenced-you-and)

Anyway, how about this for my next made up poll set:

Hey Dude
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Me, I'd go with either Legends or Afraid of the Dark. Again, I might get bored with game shows, but Legends was my favorite, while I like Dark and don't feel like importing the Canadian DVDs. The only other thing it has going against it is wide availability online, but watching stuff on a TV is better than on a computer screen, anyway.

Hey Dude I don't care much for anymore and is on DVD, and Ren & Stimpy has DVDs and Netflix, so while I'd probably watch those as well, those aren't huge priorities for me.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 02, 2011, 04:13:23 PM
Ren & Stimpy is available in its entirety through DVD. Considering the fact that it's one of only three Nicktoons to share that distinction (Spongebob and Zim being the others), I don't really see it as being a necessary part of this lineup. I know it's a 90's block, after all, and Ren & Stimpy was a big part of that decade... but honestly, I'd rather see some of the other Nicktoons that aren't on DVD get the chance first.

The Aahh Real Monsters DVD isn't set to arrive for another two months, and who knows if Shout will even release every season or not; they may just stop at one. This show hasn't been on TV in over five years; personally, as far as Nicktoons go, I'd rather see that get the green light before anyone else (I know it wasn't part of your poll, I'm just speaking hypothetically in terms of what I'd like to see).

...anyway, as far as your poll goes, I'll take Legends of the Hidden Temple. It was always my absolute favorite game show that Nick ever did, and even after repeated viewings on the old Nick GAS station, I never got tired of it. Since a DVD release of that is almost certainly not in the cards, I'd like to see it somewhere on TV again.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 02, 2011, 04:16:04 PM
RM was on my other poll if you want to vote for it. I'd love to see it again myself, although unlike a couple of other Nicktoons and all the live-action shows, it has complete Netflix availability.

Out of all the 90's Niicktoons, Kablam! has really got the shaft the most of them all. Rights seem to be the biggest reason for that, but even if they can't air every episode, I'd love to see the block try to put on what they can.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 02, 2011, 04:27:22 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 02, 2011, 04:16:04 PM
RM was on my other poll if you want to vote for it. I'd love to see it again myself, although unlike a couple of other Nicktoons and all the live-action shows, it has complete Netflix availability.
Ah, that's right; I forgot about that. I'm a bit behind when it comes to Netflix, though (I still have it despite the upcoming rate hikes, but I don't utilize it nearly as much as I should).

I must have missed your first poll, as I don't recall seeing that post. Anyway, for that, I'd go with either Double Dare or GUTS, due mainly to lack of availability and/or upcoming DVD releases for the foreseeable future. Real Monsters actually is more readily available than most, all things considered (although, again, I'd love to see it back on TV)... and CatDog sucks, and is already airing during the overnight hours on Nicktoons anyway. So, yeah, one of the gameshows would be my call for that, with perhaps a slight leaning towards GUTS, as it was always another one of my favorites.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on August 02, 2011, 06:36:19 PM
The one question I always had about Legends of the Hidden Temple was... did anyone ever win that game? I swear I think there was only one or two people that were able to completely build that monkey before being taken away by the people guarding it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 02, 2011, 06:50:10 PM
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple

"Just over one-quarter of Temple Runs were actually completed (pity the poor kids who didn't go to Space Camp). While theoretically you were SOL if you got there with less than two Pendants, a majority of the wins were with one and a half Pendants...and the highest win ratio was with one Pendant.

What made it so hard was that there was usually only one linear path, thanks to locked doors. The artifact almost always ended up in the last room you'd enter. You actually had better luck if it was on the far end of the Temple (essentially the halfway point, since after that all the doors unlocked)...and if a Guard got you, your teammate had to start over from the beginning. If it was in the middle of the Temple, like the Heart Room or Observatory, you were dead in the water.

Most winning teams picked up the artifact in the seventh or eighth room. This usually included at least one or two which involved quick objectives or simple navigation, but often a lot more in the earlier part of the show. In fact, the first two wins were almost-identical paths (the second time literally just added on the next room) of eight and nine rooms respectively, but other than navigation all the players had to do was sit on a throne and put the monkey together."

Looks like more people won than we remembered.

And now I wanna watch some of it again.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 02, 2011, 07:31:45 PM
"Shrine of the Silver Monkey" was always the backbreaker; from what I remember, if anyone ever got caught in that room, they never won. Either wasted too much time on it, or simply couldn't put it together at all.

Pretty amazing that a three-piece statue could give so many people fits. Guess I wouldn't know the difficulty without actually seeing and/or putting it together myself, though... which, by the way, reminds me; I wanted to be on this show so badly as a kid. Obviously I was too young, and didn't live in or anywhere near Orlando anyway, but still... it looked like so much fun.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 02, 2011, 07:38:20 PM
I feel like I wasted my childhood somewhat. I live about an hour and a half away from Universal, but I haven't been to Studios until last year (been to Islands of Adventure a bunch, though), and certainly never went to a recording at Nickelodeon Studios.

They were starting to cut those off in the mid-90's, anyway. All That moved to Hollywood in season 3, along with production of most other live-action shows, and the game shows were dying at that point, hence the four year gap between Figure It Out and Double Dare 2000.

I remember a lot of classic Nick fans lamenting the death of the Studios a few years back, but they weren't doing anything with it at that point anyway. It was mostly a place to sell merch you could buy anywhere else or at other parts of the resort. Not much more from what I can tell.

Edit: Also, checking out the Facebook page's pol for greatest thing songs, besides the 4 shows already on, Rocko, Legends, and Arnold are options as well. Do you think they could be next?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 02, 2011, 08:09:47 PM
Yeah, I remember reading an article a while back on how archiac the Orlando studio ended up becoming towards the 00's. I wasn't aware that even Legends actually moved its final filming to Los Angeles, though; I figured that was one of the very last shows to still utilize the old set on a regular basis.

Looking at pictures of the building now (as the Blue Man Group theater or whatever), there's hardly a trace reminder that the building ever once belonged to Nickelodeon. As far as I understand, even the old time capsule is gone (uneathered and reburied somewhere else, I guess). Too bad.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 02, 2011, 08:38:44 PM
Nickelodeon still exists at the park, thanks to the Jimmy Neutron ride. I hear that even that's getting removed by the end of the year, though. Not sure what they'll replace it with.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 03, 2011, 02:07:44 PM
Okay, besides having their theme songs become votable in a poll and clips of the shows are available to watch, now the site and FB page have a full episode of Hey Arnold! and Legends of the Hidden Temple to watch.

I'm expecting either one of those and/or Rocko to make it in the next block.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 03, 2011, 10:39:29 PM
As much as I hate to say it... no Rocko, plz. I'm kinda viewing this block as a showcase project for series (Nicktoons and live-action) that haven't been seen over the air in some time, and Rocko just doesn't fit the bill. We've gotten Season 1 on DVD, with hopefully more soon to follow... not to mention the fact that it's been running during the overnight hours on Nicktoons for well over a year now. During this time, I've caught up on the series pretty well, and have got most of my favorite episodes already saved on the DVR. With the exception of the holiday episodes, which Nicktoons never airs, there isn't a whole lot of Rocko that I haven't seen fairly recently.

I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but I'm a little burnt-out on Rocko at the moment. I'd rather see Legends or Hey Arnold get the billing first, if that truly is the competition at stake here. Keep the block as fresh as possible, I say.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 04, 2011, 02:35:30 AM
I have to agree. I love Rocko to death, but it's easily the most accessible of the three shows.

I'll probably still watch the season 2 and up episodes when they come, but it's not really my top choice. Same exact thing with Hey Arnold, since I'm buying that set when it comes out.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 08, 2011, 07:40:37 PM
New poll featuring the following shows, which also have full length episodes up:

Rugrats, Real Monsters, and Ren & Stimpy. Arnold's also on this poll, along with Doug. I think they're trying to test us now.

Of these 3, I'd take Rugrats in a heartbeat. No DVD plans now, and the early episodes have been inexplicably removed from Netflix. It deserves a spot here the most, IMO.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: ToonFaithful on August 08, 2011, 10:19:29 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 02, 2011, 08:38:44 PM
Nickelodeon still exists at the park, thanks to the Jimmy Neutron ride. I hear that even that's getting removed by the end of the year, though. Not sure what they'll replace it with.
Yes, Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoons Blast, I went on it in 2005 and inside the studios(got splattered with a pie). The ride is being replaced with a Despicable Me attraction.

When I visited Nickelodeon Studios it was pretty crowded for it's time. I didn't go for a recording, it was just an activity. I think it dealt with a basketball activity and eventually everyone got pies shoved in their faces. It peeves me off how the only I did over there was to ride Nicktoons Blast and Nickelodeon Studios. Should've spent time with the Back to the Future ride before it got removed.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Lord Dalek on August 09, 2011, 03:43:37 PM
It'll perennially be a tossup between the old DD obstacle course (before FDD made it practically impossible NOT to win) and the Temple Run as to what was the most frustratingly difficult Nick game show bonus round in my opinion.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 09, 2011, 05:41:36 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 08, 2011, 07:40:37 PM
New poll featuring the following shows, which also have full length episodes up:

Rugrats, Real Monsters, and Ren & Stimpy. Arnold's also on this poll, along with Doug. I think they're trying to test us now.

Of these 3, I'd take Rugrats in a heartbeat. No DVD plans now, and the early episodes have been inexplicably removed from Netflix. It deserves a spot here the most, IMO.
Yeah, I'd definitely go with Rugrats as well.

The post-hiatus episodes are pretty awful, yes, but the early stuff is and always will be great. And given that this is a block showcasing the 90's, I'm more inclined to believe they'll run the early stuff before getting into the Dil-era material.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on August 11, 2011, 12:35:45 AM
Considering the episode of Rugrats I voted for was Reptar on Ice/Family Feud, I can see Nick using the old school Rugrats, especially if their track record with going with Doug's first episode was any indication.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 11, 2011, 02:00:49 AM
I hope they don't go with Ren & Stimpy. I really, really hope they don't

Putting aside the fact that I simply cannot watch or enjoy the vast majority of that show at all anymore (barring the few episodes that never get old, like "Stimpy's Invention"), it's one of the only Nicktoons that is available, in its entirety, on standard DVD's. I know most of these shows are on Netflix as well, but not everybody uses Netflix (I do, but that's beside the point). Fact is, Ren & Stimpy is probably the most widely available 90's Nicktoon on the market right now; it really doesn't need to be on this block (not before the others have been given a chance first, at least).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 11, 2011, 11:29:45 AM
I wouldn't be so against it, if they aired every episode of the show. For some reason, Nick cuts out a third of the show's run on their repeat cycle and on Netflix, and I personally refuse to buy those edited DVDs. Since the standards on TeenNick seem looser than Nicktoons/regular Nick (they even use Ren saying "Alright, cut the crap" in the block's rap), I think that's possible.

I'd probably still take Rugrats and Real Monsters over it, however.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 11, 2011, 08:21:12 PM
Well... I don't see what difference the DVD's being edited makes myself. If Teen Nick does air it, I can't possibly imagine they'll do so uncut; we'll probably get even further edited copies than what's on DVD.

...and besides that; do uncut masters of Ren & Stimpy even exist? Coming straight from the horse's mouth years ago, John K. said what was on those DVD's was apparently all that Nick had. I'd be surprised if they had uncut masters lying around in a vault somewhere (and if they did, I'd be even further surprised if they actually aired those on Teen Nick).

...but, whatever. I'm just not a Ren & Stimpy fan, so naturally, I'd prefer they go in a different direction. I'd especially hate to see Clarissa given the boot (almost surely the first one to go) for a show that, not only do I not even like, but one that is far more accessable to me if I did want to watch it, edited or not.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on August 11, 2011, 08:24:05 PM
From what Shout has divulged it seems that Nick really doesn't care enough about this kind of stuff, so even if they had it they won't actively search for it and use it. They'll just stay wherever they are and rot.

Nick doesn't really have any respect for its origins.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on August 11, 2011, 09:02:49 PM
I had the first DVD set at one time, but I sold it due to lack of interest.  I bought it, watched it all the way through once, and decided I didn't want it anymore.  But I do remember some edits that Nick made that were reinserted on the set, such as Ren's creepy ass rant as to how he was going to torture Stimpy and Sven in "Sven Hoek", but it was a rough insertion, and you could easily tell.  I think it even had time stamps on it.

I've toyed with the idea of rebuying the set, but I still don't quite have the interest.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 11, 2011, 11:27:09 PM
I own the first set; bought it some time ago (at that time, I was still having nostalgic feelings for this show, before fully realizing that, even with nostalgia in its corner, some things just don't age well). I haven't touched it in some time, though. I remember watching the entire thing once, and just thought to myself "wow... this show really isn't a good as I remember it to be".

I never bothered with the other two sets, though. John K. had already moved on by that point, and I've heard enough horror stories to steer clear of those (and, having watched a couple of Games-era episodes on Nicktoons before, I thought they were all terrible). It wouldn't be worth the money... not for me, anyway.

...and as far as the missing footage goes, I've never been enough of a fan to pay attention to what was supposedly taken out. For those "in the know" on this; are the sets really that much of a hack-job? I've never really noticed anything myself, but then again, I haven't watched 'em in quite a while.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on August 11, 2011, 11:50:15 PM
The Games episodes as a whole probably contain the most pedestrian, uncreative, and bland cartoons I've ever watched in my life. They aren't generally awful, but they aren't really anything special or worth rewatching.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 12, 2011, 12:44:30 AM
The sets tried to add in some edits that Nick made, but at the same time took out just as much, if not more footage, since John K just took from the Spike TV airings, which cut out a lot to make room for more commercials. So as a whole, they're pretty disappointing.

I don't know what the TeenNick run would be like if they do go with the show. Maybe they'll air the DVD edits, or the Nick edits, or whatever. And I know that while I wouldn't mind the show airing at some point, I probably won't vote for it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 12, 2011, 06:49:01 PM
Quote from: Desensitized on August 11, 2011, 11:50:15 PM
The Games episodes as a whole probably contain the most pedestrian, uncreative, and bland cartoons I've ever watched in my life. They aren't generally awful, but they aren't really anything special or worth rewatching.
Heh, I just got done reading your review on here for the Games era episodes not that long ago. And I agree wholeheartedly; by that point, the only thing the writers were interested in doing was grossing out the audience as much as possible. Not that the John K. era is exactly a shining example of how an animated series should be done in my eyes, either... but at least the show still felt fresh, at that point. Once he left, it was in full autopilot from there on out.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Lord Dalek on August 12, 2011, 07:54:41 PM
You know its funny... what I still consider to be the single greatest episode of Ren & Stimpy ever is a Games episode.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 12, 2011, 08:11:07 PM
Which episode, if you don't mind me asking?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Lord Dalek on August 12, 2011, 08:16:21 PM
This masterpiece (http://www.channels.com/episodes/show/9283841/3x16-Ren-s-Bitter-Half) of the human creation.

Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on August 12, 2011, 09:56:59 PM
Oh, there definitely are some great ones buried in there. they're just buried in there so well.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 16, 2011, 09:29:58 PM
In this week's classic Nick update, Rugrats won last week's poll, and there's another one with a lot of the same Nicktoons up this week. Plus they've been promoting Double Dare a little, and an episode of Hey Dude is watchable on the site.

I think anything's fair game, but Arnold and Rugrats have a pretty good chance of being next up on the block.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 16, 2011, 10:32:03 PM
Both fine additions, IMO.

Wonder when the changes will finally take place. They've be running the same four shows for close to a month now, so I'm thinking things will be shaken up sometime soon.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 16, 2011, 10:51:16 PM
I do hope it comes soon. Like, next week soon. I love the shows on now, but I wouldn't mind a change, and it seems like a lot of followers were starting to get tired of the lineup by the second week.

Although I know Clarissa will be one of the shows gone, and I'm probably going to miss it the most. It holds up way more than it probably should, IMO.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 17, 2011, 01:20:40 PM
Yeah, I'll be sad to see Clarissa go as well. The show really hit its stride in Season 2; too bad the rights for that weren't included in the Shout Factory deal.

If I had to make a prediction, I'd say Doug will also be on the outs, with All That and Kenan & Kel sticking around for the foreseeable future. Going even further, I wouldn't be surprised if All That was a permanent fixture, given that the central theme of the block is heavily centered around that show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 17, 2011, 01:29:57 PM
That, plus Kenan's the unofficial host. I think either Doug or K&K are likely to go soon as well. Maybe Doug. And the lineup's staying the same next week. Ah well.

Oh, and the first episode of each of the shows on the block (or the season 2 premiere, in All That's case) are free on iTunes now, while the shows are discounted in price. I'm hitting up the free eps now (Clarissa aside, since I own the DVD), even though I never use iTunes.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 24, 2011, 01:13:58 PM
Called it- Arnold's going to be on the block.
Didn't call it- Rocko will be too
Called it- Clarissa will be removed
Didn't call it- Doug will be, too

Cool, I say. I'll miss Clarissa, but I don't mind being taken off. I wish they went with shows not being released on DVD, but at least they're both good shows.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 24, 2011, 01:25:42 PM
Beat me to it. Here's a link, if anyone cares. (http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/24/teennick-90s-are-all-that/)

Meh. I'm fine with Arnold, but honestly... like I said before, I'm burnt out on Rocko. I've seen pretty much every episode on a fairly recent basis (minus the holiday specials, because Nicktoons never airs those), and given that the show is currently still on Nicktoons, this really adds nothing new to the block at all.

Don't get me wrong; I love Rocko. It's a fantastic series, and definitely one of Nick's best... but unlike many of these other classic Nicktoons/live-action series, it's quite readily available for viewing through other avenues, at the moment. From the beginning, I was hoping this block would be more of a showcase for those particular series that are harder to find, especially those that we won't be getting on DVD, probably ever. Glad All That is staying (that's one of 'em), but I was really hoping Legends would have been in the rotation somewhere. Also pretty disappointed that Clarissa was given the axe, but we all kinda seen that coming anyway.

Oh well. I'll still watch... it's just not my ideal lineup, mind you (but, really, there's not a lot you can do with only two hours to work with anyway).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 24, 2011, 06:24:56 PM
Ugh, just noticed the poll. How did I miss this?

Yeah, Arnold won it by a landslide, but Salute Your Shorts was second, above Rocko. Why didn't it make it on (ps, just voted for that)? Angry Beavers, Alex Mack, Weinerville, and Hey Dude were on it, too.

On another note, watching the Wild and Crazy Kids episode up on the video page. I haven't seen this show in... ever?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 24, 2011, 10:05:33 PM
Aww, really? We could've had Salute Your Shorts instead?  :wth:

Damn, I would have taken it. Haven't seen that show in... wow, must be over 10 years now, at least. Eh, maybe next time.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 26, 2011, 06:59:06 PM
So... does the schedule change start this week, or the one after? I'm still not really sure about that.

I've also been taking this chance to watch some of the episodes put on the streaming section, specifically the ones that aren't a part of the block. I was holding off on watching stuff on there, since I wasn't sure what would go on next, but since we know what's going to be a part of the next schedule, I'm taking that chance.

I mentioned watching Wild and Crazy Kids the other day, and also mentioned that I wasn't sure if I ever actually saw this show as a kid. The episode put up was pretty fun. I would've definitely enjoyed this back then, which leads me to think that I never did watch it, since I would have clearer memories of the show in that case.

Also caught the Wild Thornberrys ep up, just out of curiosity. I forgot that they would occasionally bring over random kids to join the Thornberry clan for a few episodes at a time. The little cousin of Eliza's was annoying, but I enjoyed the episode a little more then I was expecting to. It looks like a later one, and I don't remember ever watching it. I particularly enjoyed the subplot with Nigel teaching fizz ed with Debbie and Donnie. I always preferred those characters to Eliza, Darwin, and Marianne, which explains why I couldn't get into their story as much.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 26, 2011, 11:18:07 PM
Last time I looked on DirecTV's guide, it still had the original lineup posted. Of course, that may simply mean they haven't updated it yet; it took 'em a good two weeks or so before they registered 2-Stupid Dogs airing on CN, among other things.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 29, 2011, 01:38:58 PM
Looks like we're wrong. The schedule change starts next week. We have another week of the same four shows starting tonight.

And I think the block's player is being weird for me. They just promoted that there's a Wild Thornberrys ep now up on there, and when I get there, I see a new Legends instead. There was also supposed to be a Rugrats episode up yesterday, but I still can't find it. Go figure.

When I get home, I'll watch that Legends ep.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 29, 2011, 04:50:20 PM
Eh... it's taking 'em long enough. Hopefully, when the next schedule change comes after this upcoming one, it won't take them a month and a half to make it.

I'll be interested to see where they start both Rocko and Hey Arnold on the rotation. Both shows have their first seasons available on DVD (just like Clarissa), and with that, they started in the middle of the second season. I'd definitely like to see some late-run Arnold stuff get the green light in this case, as I've never seen a good majority of those post-movie episodes.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 29, 2011, 05:40:51 PM
I haven't seen a lot of those lately. I don't remember liking the show at the end of its run as much as the earlier ones, but I'd like to see some of that era again.

Also, love LOTHT. Still my favorite game show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 31, 2011, 07:53:36 AM
So yeah, the shows premiere next week, but it looks like an hour of both Rocko and Arnold are airing on Monday, with no All That or Kenan & Kel. Since that's the only night I can access now, I can't tell if that's a one night thing or what. Probably is, though.

And they're starting at season 1. If it's just going to be those 2 shows that night, I'm not even recording.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 01, 2011, 03:03:22 PM
What the fuck.

After season 3 of All That airs... they're going back to season 2. Apparently those are the only 2 seasons that they can air now. Bullshit.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 01, 2011, 05:56:17 PM
WAT

Is there any given reason for this? Rights issues can't be that big of a problem, can they? I mean, come on; Nick owns the goddamn show! They should be able to air all of it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 01, 2011, 06:05:09 PM
I think they're just really bad with finding masters for the show. They've also skipped a few episodes of season 3, so that may just be it.

Edit: Ish had a convo with one of the admins for the page, and here's what they came up with.

The '90s Are All That ‎@John there are complications. We are currently only able to play season 2 and 3, and are busy working on obtaining other '90s shows to air later in the year. Though it may seem that '90s is a separate entity on Nick, it is ran by the folks that also work on Nicktoons, TeenNick, and the Nickelodeon channels and thus have other channel needs that must be met.
9 hours ago ·

The '90s Are All That It's possible later on. Licenses and rights for the shows tend to have an expiration date.
9 hours ago · Like ·  1 person
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 01, 2011, 06:41:02 PM
Huh. Well... that sucks.

...can't help but beg the question, though; if Nick no longer owns the rights to All That, then who does? Dan Schneider? Brian Robbins? Some faceless corporate entity that doesn't give a damn?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 01, 2011, 06:46:07 PM
We're assuming Tollin Robbins, who produced the show.

Hopefully, Nick will realize that they have a plethora of other series they can air instead of repeating repeats they've already put on, and will replace AT with something else at that point. Maybe Salute Your Shorts, or even Legends, considering how often they bring it up on the FB page.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 12, 2011, 06:56:31 PM
The Salute Your Shorts pilot is up this week.

I can still recite the whole theme song by heart. Man, I love this show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 12, 2011, 08:07:54 PM
...sign of things to come?

Let's hope. My vote goes to this and Legends as the next two additions to the block. Might as well kick All That to the curb while they're at it, since they apparently can't air anything beyond Season 3.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 12, 2011, 08:18:43 PM
If nothing else, they should at least replace AT with this after season 3 ends.

I don't think having an episode on the site makes a show more likely to air on the block, but who knows. I think SYS has a better chance than most to air next, though, since it got so many votes in the poll.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 13, 2011, 08:56:08 AM
So starting the 7th, they're going to do a U-Pick thing on Fridays, where you can vote for the show and Stick Stickly gets to host.

Not bad, not bad. Which reminds me, Kiddington, have you checked out the block's FB page yet?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 14, 2011, 05:36:16 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on September 13, 2011, 08:56:08 AM
Not bad, not bad. Which reminds me, Kiddington, have you checked out the block's FB page yet?

Actually, no, I haven't yet. Need to get on that.

Excellent news about the U-Pick-ish/Stick Stickly thing, by the way. Hopefully this should open the door to a better variety of programming in the future. Running the same four shows ad nauseum for a month straight does get old after a while, as good as this stuff is. Nick has a vast library at their disposal here, and it looks like they've found a great way to utilize it. Can't wait.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 19, 2011, 02:14:57 PM
So yeah, they went back to season 2 of All That on Friday night. And now I went from watching all four shows on the block, to just two, to only Kenan & Kel now. I'll still record AT since K&K usually starts a minute or two early, but unless it's an episode I really liked, I'll just fast forward.

On top of that, the video service only has episodes of all the shows that have been on the block this week, and the Clarissd and Doug eps have already aired on the block.  I think I'll pass for now.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 19, 2011, 02:37:07 PM
They really need to drop AT. Either that, or get Tollin/Robbins on the horn, and work out a deal to get some of the later seasons in the mix (or Season 1), because now we've officially gone past the point of stale.

...speaking of recording, I'll probably start adding Hey Arnold at some point here, once they finally get out of Season 1. Every time I look at the guide, they're only playing the episodes that I already have on DVD. Still wish they would have started this further down the line; Season 3 or 4-ish would have been better, IMO.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 19, 2011, 02:48:30 PM
Same for me and HA! I'm still recording Rocko in case K&K ends later, but I'm not watching until they get to season 3.

And also agreed with AT. They are working on the rights to air the rest, it seems, but who knows how long that can take. At least put Salute Your Shorts on in its place. There's only 26 episodes, and if you don't still have the rights to the rest of AT, maybe we'll feel like watching seasons 2 and 3 again by then.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 23, 2011, 12:34:09 PM
Well, if nothing else, season 2 of Hey Arnold! starts Wednesday. So I'm back to watching 2 shows, and recording all four.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 24, 2011, 10:50:36 AM
So yeah, as I posted last night, the first U-Pick vote is up, for the following shows and their episodes:

Clarissa Explains It All- "Misguidance Counseling"
My Brother and Me- "Donnel's Birthday Party"
Legends of the Hidden Temple- uh... fuck if I know. It says The Talking Rock.
AAAHH!!! Real Monsters- "Monsters, Get Real/Snorched If You Do, Snorched If You Don't"
Salute Your Shorts- "Bunk Chief Elections"
Rugrats- "Touchdown Tommy/The Trial"
The Angry Beavers- "Born to Be Beavers/Up All Night" (aka the first)
Doug- "Doug to the Rescue/Doug's Cool Shoes"

Be cool like me and vote for SYS and Legends.

Also, it seems like Clarissa and Doug are coming back in their old slots in lieu of Rocko and Arnold. I'd personally take the first hour off myself if that were going to, but oh well.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 24, 2011, 11:51:56 PM
My Brother and Me? That's... a really off the board choice if there ever was one.

...anyway, votes sent. I would've also voted for Angry Beavers, if they had made a more proactive selection (the pilot is already on DVD, which I own, so why would I want to watch it here?). Had it been a Season 4 episode, I definitely would have went for that as well.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 24, 2011, 11:59:52 PM
You can vote multiple times if you wanna. I even gave Rugrats a vote, since the ep in question isn't on DVD or Netflix, and is a good one. Just one vote. I don't think it needs more support, at least compared to SYS and LOTHT.

Yeah, My Brother and Me is a random choice. They might as well put a couple of eps in during the Friday night block though, since it has such a short amount of episodes. It's not very good at all, but hey, everything has a following, and it did run in repeats for a while, even though it's a completely mediocre show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 26, 2011, 08:37:59 PM
Yeah, that wasn't an error. Doug and Clarissa are back, and Rocko and Arnold are gone.

Seriously, why take those two off when All That's still in season 2? Ah well, at least I'm back to watching 3 shows on the block.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 26, 2011, 10:10:01 PM
...wtf? Seriously?

So they never even made it to Season 2 of Arnold then. Well shit, that's really a slap in the face. The block's only a couple months old, and already it's starting to feel kinda stale (as far as All That is concerned, anyway; already seen all of these episodes weeks ago).

I guess it's not all bad, just as long as they plan on airing late-run Doug and Clarissa. If they start them over from scratch and put on the stuff that I already have saved on the DVR, though, I'll be pretty pissed.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 26, 2011, 10:12:59 PM
Apparently it's just this week, and I think Rocko and Arnold are coming back.

Maybe they're sticking with the current line-up, being AT/K&K/RML/HA!, and bring back Clarissa and Doug at the end of each month to get through their runs. That's not too bad of a deal, IMO.

And yeah, they're picking up right where they ended off with both shows.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 27, 2011, 02:57:07 AM
Well, that's OK; as long as they continue to air episodes they haven't shown yet (caught tonight's Clarissa; yeah, it's a "new" one), I'm fine with both of these being back on. As you know, I was pretty disappointed when they took them off without finishing their respective runs anyway.

On a different note (and one that isn't so negative), looking forward to see how they handle the "UPick with Stick" deal they've got coming up. Pretty cool that they brought back his original voice actor and everything; it's almost like he hasn't changed a bit in the 13-14 or so odd years he's been off the air. Can't wait.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 27, 2011, 02:26:27 PM
So according to Nick and More's Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/nickandmore), Hey Dude is supposed to be joining the lineup starting October 3rd. Not sure what it's going to be replacing, at this point; they didn't provide a link, and I'm not seeing any sort of conformation on the website or Facebook account yet, so... yeah. Take this info for what it's worth.

Tremendously disappointed, if this is indeed true. Another show that's already on DVD (well, one season's worth anyway, which is where I'm sure they're going to start), and after having sat down and watched Season 1 in its entirety, it just... doesn't hold up. At all. It feels so dated in comparison to the rest of the 90's Nick output, and truth be told, I don't even really have any nostalgia for this show like I do All That, K&K, Clarissa, Legends, etc. It's just sorta "there", and not in a good way. I would have much preferred Legends or Salute Your Shorts being given the green light instead.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 27, 2011, 04:26:46 PM
I remember when the FB page posted a link to the season 1 DVD back when it came out, and saw one person make a very good remark- Hey Dude was the show you'd tolerate in order to wait for the shows you actually wanted to watch were on.

It's boring, but stuck around for as long (the last batch of episodes aired before Salute Your Shorts started in 91, and the show was taken completely off the channel in 99) as it did on the channel because it had enough episodes (65) to repeat on a regular basis. And it made that many episodes because it was Nick's first original sitcom, and they didn't know any better at the time.

I can say that I didn't expect for any of the shows with votable episodes in the first poll to make it on the next schedule change (Clarissa and Doug not-withstanding). While I would have preferred SYS, Legends or Rugrats to Hey Dude, they could have gone with something worse, like CatDog or The Amanda Show. And I didn't buy season 1, so I might just watch it anyway.

Edit: Apparently it's airing at 1, so I'm guessing Rocko is going. Between it and Arnold, I'd probably replace that too, since that's starting season 2 this week, which isn't planned to come out on DVD soon, and hasn't aired on Nicktoons in ages, as opposed to Rocko.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 27, 2011, 04:58:02 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on September 27, 2011, 04:26:46 PM
I can say that I didn't expect for any of the shows with votable episodes in the first poll to make it on the next schedule change (Clarissa and Doug not-withstanding). While I would have preferred SYS, Legends or Rugrats to Hey Dude, they could have gone with something worse, like CatDog or The Amanda Show. And I didn't buy season 1, so I might just watch it anyway.

If you don't mind me asking, why do you lump The Amanda Show in the same class as CatDog? I've seen you mentioning that you didn't like it a couple of times before, but I dunno; I think because, for me, it is one of those shows that I have a lot of nostalgia for, I just can't hate it. It is pretty dated though, I'll give you that much.

...but yeah, I suppose you're right; they could have gone in a worse direction with this. Hell, they've got My Brother and Me on the UPick poll for starters; if they actually put that in the regular rotation, with its lowly episode count and all...
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 27, 2011, 05:06:19 PM
The Amanda Show was a series that  liked a lot as a kid, but seeing it now, it just doesn't really hold up to me. A lot of the sketches feel like All That leftovers, and the castmates weren't really that talented outside of Amanda and maybe Drake. There are some funny bits, like Blockblister and Moody's Point, but most of the time the show feels too juvenile and random for me.

I guess compared to CatDog, Rocket Power and Wild Thornberrys, it's the best option, but I lump all of those together because they're barely 90's to me, and don't hold up as well as a lot of other shows that can air on the block.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on September 27, 2011, 09:05:58 PM
I wouldn't mind them putting My Brother & Me on the block for a short period of time (long as it doesn't replace K&K, which I'm sure it won't), I honestly have more nostalgia for that than I do for Hey Dude (which I honestly didn't even remember until an episode reran again in 2004, must've been one of those shows that I changed the channel on to watch something else).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 28, 2011, 08:18:16 AM
Welp, my schedule says that Hey Dude is airing at 1, and Doug is staying at the 1:30 slot. For only 2 weeks, then The Amanda Show will air then for another 2 weeks, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? for another 2 weeks.

Seems like a random decision to take off Rocko and Arnold so soon and leave All That and K&K still on. K&K's even going to stay on after it goes back to season 1. But whatever. I'll be recording them all.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 28, 2011, 08:39:04 PM
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Well hey, now there's something I can get behind.

Still sucks that they're taking off Arnold, though (while leaving the already zombified remains of All That's second season at the top of the rotation). I'm telling ya; either get the rights to some of the other later seasons, or drop it from the lineup. No sense keeping a stale dog going simply because the block is named after the show in question (I know that's why they're keeping it on... and hey, I wouldn't have a problem with that if they were airing something beyond Season 3).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 28, 2011, 08:55:51 PM
Yeah, it doesn't even get much better ratings than the others. In fact, usually it and Arnold end up being the last, while K&K more often then not takes the top, while Rocko follows just after.

I kind of like the schedule change, now that I think about it. You have a show that the oldest viewers of the block look back on (Hey Dude), one that slightly younger fans around our age are more ecstatic on (AYAOTD), and one that the youngest fans want to see again (Amanda). Why they're choosing to put them on at that time is questionable, but it's not a bad combination.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 30, 2011, 02:17:15 PM
Wow, there are a lot of LOTHT eps up on the server. Four, to be exact.

Imma watch some of them later.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 01, 2011, 11:18:35 PM
Triple post, but no Hey Dude this week. Clarissa's staying for now.

IDK, maybe they're going to wait for it, Doug and maybe even K&K to finish up before making another schedule change. I sure hope so.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 05, 2011, 12:14:47 PM
Big changes coming up. (http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/05/hey-dude-returns-to-teennick-90s-block/)

Am I the only one that liked where the block was running as is? I don't want it bumped up so soon, because it might interfere with my other recordings. But hey, airing all 7 days is a good thing.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 06, 2011, 05:35:22 PM
The block must be doing well if they're giving it a better timeslot (not that they'd even be losing much in the process, but I digress). Although I have no scheduling conflicts with it airing in the overnight hours, I'm all for moving it up if that means it'll get better exposure (and thus, better ratings).

...and yeah, the 7 days a week thing is pretty cool. Ultimately, I'd like to see them switch things up a bit on the weekends, though, rather than just running the same shows that are also airing on weekdays. Maybe air some of the game shows on those nights, or perhaps some of the older shows with low episode counts (My Brother and Me, etc.).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 06, 2011, 05:46:02 PM
You see, I think they're making the right decisions, but not the way they should be. It's good that they're bringing new shows on like Hey Dude as well as ones that didn't get to finish their runs like Doug, but it shouldn't be at the expense of series with plenty of eps left to air, like Clarissa, Rocko, and Arnold. All That's still in seasons 2&3 purgatory, and Kenan & Kel's almost done with its run, so those should be the ones to go.

And I agree that they should maybe spice up the block on weekends a little more, instead of just airing the same shows for 6 days of the week. Maybe air shows with lower episode counts, like My Brother and Me (and Kablam!, depending on how many episodes they have left), or do Stick Stickley on the weekends as well. It kind of seems like they'll run through episode counts even faster this way, and have more dead space.

Also, I think these 3 shows might air tomorrow, based on the questions asked on the block's FB page:

Salute Your Shorts
AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
The Angry Beavers

One more show to guess. I could be wrong, though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 07, 2011, 11:39:40 AM
Welp, here's the next set:

Family Double Dare
The Wild Thornberrys- "Rebel Without a Trunk"
Wild and Crazy Kids
Rugrats- "Naked Tommy/Tommy and the Secret Club"
The Journey of Allen Strange- "A Burp in Time"
The Ren & Stimpy Show- "Black Hole/Stimpy's Invention"
Space Cases- "It's My Birthday, Too (Yeah!)"
Rocket Power- "Ice Queens/Secret Spot"

Huh, pretty interesting haul. Some of these shows I haven't seen in years, and none of these are on DVD yet aside from Ren & Stimpy (the Thornberrys ep will be on the upcoming season 2 set, though). I don't remember caring much for Allen Strange or Space Cases, but since they're not likely to air on the block and deserve some love, I'm voting for them both, along with Double Dare.

But I'd probably like to see all of these but Rocket Power or maybe TWT air next week.

Also, I'll be out tonight, so in case my DVR acts up again and doesn't record, can someone post what aired on the U-Pick block tonight?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 08, 2011, 01:19:22 AM
I can post half of what aired; unfortunately, I forgot about the time change, and didn't set my DVR in advance. I was also incredibly busy yesterday, and didn't get home until after it had already started, sooooo... yeah; excuses excuses, I know.

...anyway, here's what I did catch:

Angry Beavers -- Up All Night
Salute Your Shorts -- The One With The Bunk Chief Election (or something like that; this is what they were calling it)
Rugrats -- Touchdown Tommy/The Trial

From what I understand, a Legends episode also aired to kick things off. So with that said, the only unaccounted for time I have here is about 12-15 minutes in the Angry Beavers slot, so I assume the other episode there was "Born to be Beavers", but I can't confirm (the DirecTV guide listed the entire 2-hour block as one Legends episodes, so that wasn't much help).

Avaitor, if you were able to get this recorded, could you confirm the first 45 minutes or so? I'm pretty sure I got it, just going off of what other people are saying, but I'm not 100% sure (as, obviously, I missed most of that first hour).

...as for the Stick Stickly angle, if you're wondering, it was pretty cool; he did a lot of "planking" jokes, which is surprisingly appropriate. It was a nice little nostalgic rush seeing him on TV again, and I love that they brought back his original VA. All things considered, it was pretty well done, and definitely great way to spruce up Friday nights.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 08, 2011, 05:04:01 PM
We got a new DVR, and I told my mom to record it for me while I was out. Yep, Legends did in fact air last night.

I'm watching Salute Your Shorts now. I'm liking it all so far. Stick Stickly's a fun enough host. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll get to watch the second half of Rugrats though, since I recorded the 12 AM showing, and they were wrapping up "The Trial" from what I can tell.

Also, what are you voting for this time?

Edit: One more thing- not only is tonight the first night that Hey Dude starts, but it's also when the finale episode of Kenan & Kel airs. Starting tomorrow night, they go back to episode 1.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 11, 2011, 12:04:34 PM
Huh, so The Amanda Show is airing on TeenNick now, in the afternoon. Maybe they're ditching the original plan to have it replace Hey Dude's place in 2 weeks in lieu of something else. They haven't updated the block's schedule past this week, so who knows what will happen to that.

Add this on top of Rocket Power airing in weekday mornings on regular Nick, and it looks like they might be trying to avoid the shows that started at the tail end of the 90's to take up residence on the block, beyond U-Pick. I sure hope that's the case.

Edit: This in from Nick & More

QuoteTeenNick revives the spooky Nickelodeon classic Are You Afraid of the Dark? giving viewers the chance to vote for their favorite episodes at http://90sareallthat.teennick.com/ beginning Friday, Oct. 21. Winning episodes will air during "UPick with Stick" on Friday, Oct. 28, at 10:00 p.m. (ET). Additionally, from Monday, Oct. 24 – Monday, Oct. 31, frightening episodes of old-school Nickelodeon shows currently airing in TeenNick's "The '90s Are All That" block will haunt those who dare to watch.

Hey, that's pretty cool. I dig it. :)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 13, 2011, 03:03:53 PM
YES. Finally, they're going to air some of these long lost Halloween specials that Nick hasn't touched in years. This has been one of my biggest pet peeves about Nicktoons Network for the longest time; every year, they have a supposedly Halloween-themed block, but they don't even air any of the seasonal episodes they have at their disposal. I mean, last year they were airing DBZ Kai marathons around this time; what sense does that make? There's no Halloween-theme to DBZ.

So yeah, I am impressed with this turn of events. Really hope they air the Rocko Halloween episode especially; haven't seen that one in ages, and it always was one of my favorites.

...as for my votes this week, I went with Allen Strange, Space Cases, Wild and Crazy Kids, and Double Dare. Gotta keep it fresh. Not interested in Ren & Stimpy; it's already on DVD, among other things. The rest? Eh... not this time. Rugrats is OK, but I've seen that episode a hundred times already. I'd rather have something "new" to watch this week. I mean, when was the last time any of us here have actually seen an episode of Allen Strange or Space Cases on TV?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 13, 2011, 06:53:11 PM
Heh, I actually recorded that Rocko episode on tape. Regular Nick actually aired that a couple of years ago, like in 2008, and I got to catch it.

Yeah, I don't really need to see the Rugrats and Ren & Stimpy episodes again. Those were my votes too, although watching the Space Cases and Allen Strange clips, they seem a little lame. They're both worth a shot, though.

Also, this Tuesday, the finale of Doug is airing, so we'll be back to episode 1 for that as well. Now I'm back to watching just one show. :-\
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 14, 2011, 08:06:45 PM
We still have a little while before the U-Pick block starts up, but the next selection is available:

Hey Dude- "Miss Tucson"
Kenan & Kel- "Futurama"
All That- Not 100% sure, but I think it might be episode 4 for season 2 (don't ask me how I could figure that out, though; I'm still not sure ???)
Doug- "Doug is Quailman/Doug Out on Left Field"
Hey Dude- "Lost in the Desert"
All That- "Good Burger Special"
Doug- "Doug Throws a Party/Doug Way Out West"

What the fuck, really? They pick episodes from shows we can already watch every other day on the block? Ugh.

Well, I'm voting for the Hey Dude eps, since I doubt we'll go that far in the show's run (one comes from season 4, and the other is the S5 premiere), and the Good Burger ep of All That just cause (it's the season 2 finale, but they haven't ran it yet- even though it's mostly repeats, this might be the only chance we get to see S1 footage for a while). But only once, instead of multiple times like I do for the others.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 15, 2011, 12:33:18 AM
As for now, tonight's lineup was

Family Double Dare
Rocket Power- "Shark Bait/A Shot in the Park"
Space Cases- "It's My Birthday, Too (Yeah!)"
Rugrats- "Naked Tommy/Tommy and the Secret Club"

So yeah, Rocket Power remains as inane and unfunny as ever. I think it might be the only show I'll outright skip if it airs full-time on the block.

Meanwhile, Space Cases fared a lot better for me. I think the concept itself is pretty cool (Star Trek for kids- hey, it could work), and it was fairly interesting. The only thing that I wasn't crazy on was the acting. It's a little cheesy, especially the android. I'd give it a shot if they aired it regularly though.

Also, they got the schedule confused a little. Stick announced that Space Cases was airing second, but Rocket Power aired instead. Stupid.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 15, 2011, 03:59:28 AM
Rocket Power is awful, and holds the distinction of having absolutely no redeemable qualities whatsoever. Even the most forgettable of the late 90's/early 00's Nickelodeon outputs had something going for them; Thornberrys had Nigel, ChalkZone had Skrawl... hell, even CatDog was funnier than this. It truly boggles my mind how many people continue to look back on this show through rose-colored nostalgia glasses (look no further than a Youtube comments section for evidence). I don't get it; there's just nothing here. This show is just so bad, in every conceivable way; the writing, the horrendously unlikeable characters, the over-the-top "LOL EXTREEEEEME" attitude they're trying to go for. I just... I don't see what other people apparently see in it. I hated it as a kid, and watching it again tonight, I hate it even more now. Quite possibly the worst animated production Nick has ever burned money on, IMO.

The rest of the block was OK tonight. Space Cases was actually more fun than I thought it'd be, but you're right; the acting is kinda lame. I loved Double Dare though, even if we did get the slightly less entertaining "Family" variation, for whatever reason. There's just something magical about these 90's Nick game shows; no matter how many times I watch 'em, they never get old to me. Rugrats was decent.

Really disappointing selections for next week, though. I don't think I'll even be inclined to vote for any of these, to be honest. Hey Dude just doesn't do it for me, and pretty much all of these other episodes I've seen recently enough that I don't care about going out of my way to make sure I see them again. I cannot comprehend their line of thinking here; the whole point of this voting deal, as far as I understand it, is to showcase some of the 90's Nick "rarities" that will probably never have a full-time spot on the everyday lineup. Going back to the well with All That, Doug, and the like just screams of redundancy, and I'd hate to think that, by Week 3, Stick already has to subject himself to a batch of stale reruns.

They have a lot to work with here. Among other things, Real Monsters hasn't aired on the block yet at all, despite being in nearly every promo for it since July. There's no excuse why they couldn't have come up with something better than this. Sheer laziness has already gotten the better of them with the stale state of the first hour since All That went back into perpetual Season 2 reruns, and now this too. I really do hope they come up with something a bit more original for next week. We will be getting closer to Halloween by that point, so hopefully, the seasonal episodes will start by then.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 15, 2011, 10:52:18 AM
Well, we know that next week's poll is going to be the all AYAOTD edition, so at least there's that to look forward to.

It is starting to seem like Nick Cannon is putting the block on autopliot for the most part. From what I understand, ratings for All That have been slipping since going back to season 2, I'm sure Kenan & Kel also has had a drop in the past week, and expect one from Doug soon. I mean, I love these shows, but my thing is that I don't want them to get too overly familiar today, or I might get tired of them. Doug I've already been calling the problems out on for a while and Hey Dude does little for me, but even by the end of K&K's run, Kel was really getting on my nerves.

They have a vast library of shows they can be airing, but they don't seem interested in putting on most of them. They could at least bring Clarissa, Rocko, and Hey Arnold! back on. Maybe even, as much as we would hate to admit it, Rocket Power would be a better option than the eternal repeats.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 21, 2011, 11:26:25 AM
1- Are You Afraid of the Dark? is going to air on the block starting next week, but I can't find out when, exactly.
2- They're going back to the old time frame, as in 12-4 instead of 10-2, due to low ratings for the first 2 hours. As someone who only recorded the later sets when they changed, this doesn't really affect me all that much.
3- Next week's set is all up, and they're all Halloween related-

Clarissa Explains It All- "Haunted House"
AAAHH!!! Real Monsters- "The Switching Hour"
Kenan & Kel- "Two Heads Are Better Than None"
CatDog- "CatDogula"
Salute Your Shorts- "Zeke the Plumber"
Hey Arnold!- "Arnold's Halloween"
The Secret World of Alex Mack- "The Secret"
Doug- "Doug's Halloween Adventure"

I voted for SYS, since everyone needs to see that episode in their lives, and Alex Mack, to give it some love. But I'd also like for Doug and Arnold to win. Maybe K&K too, but that would probably take up the whole block.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on October 21, 2011, 12:35:19 PM
Much as I like Two Heads Are Better Than None, I feel that it should have aired on the block normally, and not as a part of the U-Pick weekly. Hell, I think they skipped a few episodes of K&K anyway. I loved the HA! episode, so I may vote for that.

Kinda dissapointed they're going back to the old schedule.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on October 21, 2011, 03:45:19 PM
I voted for the Hey Arnold, Real Monsters, and Clarissa. Really, I kind of expect the block to air the holiday specials of Kenan and Kel and Doug on Halloween, which is should since it's on a Monday this year. Well, really kind of a shame to see the 10-12 slot going back. I kind of liked watching the shows at that time. Also, was wondering when AYAOTD would air. Felt like it should have aired earlier in the month. However, since this is a new block, I give it an excuse.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 21, 2011, 08:32:00 PM
I think with the K&K movie, it would be better if they used the block's four hours to air that and any other four episodes here, or air it on another night in lieu of the main lineup. I forget if it's an hour and a half long or two hours, but if it wins, then the chances of us getting to see any more of these choices is slim. Plus, that could have given the awesome Angry Beavers Halloween episode a chance to make it on.

And yeah, they've skipped a couple of episodes. The two-parter where they went to Hollywood was ignored for one, since they typically air that as an hour-long special. They also skipped the series finale, which admittedly is a clip show, but does have a good enough ending to excuse that (in case you forget, Kel gives Kenan every odd item he asked for over the course of the show; fucking awesome, right?). There's also one early episode, "Baggin' Saggin' Kel", which they passed over for whatever reason, yet put it on the block's streaming site a couple of weeks after it should have aired.

I think there's more that they skipped, but those are the most notable exclusions that come to mind.

And as per usual, I'll reveal what won tonight, even if the choices are mostly repeats.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 22, 2011, 12:09:01 AM
Tonight's show:

Kenan & Kel- "Futurama"
All That- "Good Burger Special"
All That- "211"
Doug- "Doug Throws a Party/Doug Way Out West"

I only watched the All That eps myself. I fast-forwarded through the Kenan & Kel ep since it's easily one of the worst episodes of the show (seriously, all it was is a half-hour of lame future puns; not that fun), and stopped right after finding out which Doug it was, since that one aired a couple of nights ago. Pretty disappointing haul this time, IMO.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on October 22, 2011, 02:01:26 AM
I'll admit that I did like that it was the Good Burger special that aired this go around, if only for Good Burger being one of my favorite sketches in All That history, so that was kind of a bonus in my eyes. The future episode was sort of meh and I do remember when that first aired on TV surprisingly. As for Doug, I did question why the Doug episode was one that aired the week before. Really, we couldn't get another episode?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 25, 2011, 11:34:25 AM
Still have no plans to reactivate my Facebook any time soon, but I do occasionally check the block's page just to keep updated. They just recently announced the schedule change, and the reception isn't too great.

If so many people wanted the block to stay on at 10... why weren't they watching it when it was on at that time? I guess that ratings were slipping anyway since the first hour of the block is comprised of episodes that have already aired, but even then, the 12-2 set did better than the 10-12. Seems weird.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 26, 2011, 12:35:08 AM
Quote from: Avaitor on October 25, 2011, 11:34:25 AM
Still have no plans to reactivate my Facebook any time soon, but I do occasionally check the block's page just to keep updated. They just recently announced the schedule change, and the reception isn't too great.

If so many people wanted the block to stay on at 10... why weren't they watching it when it was on at that time? I guess that ratings were slipping anyway since the first hour of the block is comprised of episodes that have already aired, but even then, the 12-2 set did better than the 10-12. Seems weird.

You probably answered your own question.

I know that's not the primary reason, but the staleness of All That/K&K has to be taking its toll on viewership interest; heck, I know it is for me. All That especially; having only two seasons to work with is ridiculous, and they've shuffled through certain episodes a couple of times already.

...anyway, I voted for Salute Your Shorts, Alex Mack, and Real Monsters this week. 'Twould be the freshest lineup we've had in ages; I hope we get it, but somehow I highly doubt we will. CatDog is on the queue this time, and for whatever ungodly reason, people seem to like that show (and I bet it wins at least one of the four slots; just you watch). You can't have a fuzzy 90's Nick moment without someone always chiming in "Oh hey, remember CatDog? Dat show is AWESUM!!!!1". I don't get it, but whatever.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 26, 2011, 01:10:38 AM
I think the staleness of 3/4 of the block is hurting it a little, but I think another reason the schedule change didn't go over so well was that it wasn't that well advertised. I didn't see any adverts for it until the Monday before they decided to go back to the old schedule. Sure, the FB and Twitter pages acknowledged the change, but not that well from what I recollect.

Also, based on the video posted on the Facebook page, it seems like this weekend, they're airing AYAOTD mini-marathons, as well as one or two episodes eligible from the pick. So the schedule should be different on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. From what I could find though, no one's really updated this change in schedule, so idk what's going to happen.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on October 26, 2011, 02:27:36 AM
I just assumed that most of the people complaining about it are probably not Nielsen's families or anything. Let's face it, do we even know anyone that has that elusive box installed in their home? I sure as hell don't. But I do see how the repeats of All That and Kenan and Kel would get tiresome, along with how I learned about the 10 PM change. If it wasn't for this board, I probably would have been unaware.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 27, 2011, 09:03:25 AM
If my guide's correct, it seems like on Friday, Salute Your Shorts will air after the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes, while Real Monsters does on Saturday, and "Two Heads Are Better Than None" will on Sunday after one episode of AYAOTD.

Pretty good haul if true. I've been wanting to see the K&K movie again, since it's been ages, and the other two eps are classic. I know that some of you guys were hoping for the Hey Arnold! episode to air, but hey, SYS has been off the air longer and A!RM is a more traditional Halloween show. Plus, IMO, they're both better episodes, although that HA! ep is still a classic.

Oh, and also, they're going to air Cry Baby Lane on Monday. You know, I've never actually seen this, which isn't surprising, since apparently they never reaired it. It may be a 2000 movie, but hey, at least it's appropriate enough for the block.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 28, 2011, 04:00:18 PM
And here's the setlist for next week:

My Brother and Me- "Donnel's Birthday Party"
The Ren & Stimpy Show- "Cheese Rush Days/Weiner Barons"
Salute Your Shorts- "Toilet Seat Basketball"
The Angry Beavers- "Kandid Kreatures/Fakin' It!"
The Secret World of Alex Mack- "The Videotape"
The Wild Thornberrys- "Pack of Thornberrys"
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo- "Two Faced"
Hey Arnold!- "Longest Monday/Eugene's Pet"

You know what, I'm voting for Alex Mack, Shelby Woo, and My Brother and Me, if only because they could use more attention. But I really want to watch some Alex Mack again. I remember watching Shelby Woo somewhat regularly, but I don't think it was ever a favorite or anything, and while I never liked MBAM, it can't be worse than Rocket Power, and it has just about no chance of airing weekly, due to how few episodes it has.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 29, 2011, 04:42:17 PM
Did anyone catch what was on last night? Unfortunately, I missed it this week.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 29, 2011, 04:43:48 PM
I called it earlier when I said that there were 3 AYAOTD episodes and Salute your Shorts. Tonight will be the same, except swap SYS for Real Monsters.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 29, 2011, 04:47:37 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on October 29, 2011, 04:43:48 PM
I called it earlier when I said that there were 3 AYAOTD episodes and Salute your Shorts. Tonight will be the same, except swap SYS for Real Monsters.

Ah, right. Sorry, must've missed that.

...anyway, as far as next week goes, I'm going with SYS, Alex Mack, and Shelby Woo as well (and hopefully I won't miss it this time). I honestly can't remember the last time I've seen Shelby Woo (I don't recall it ever airing during the early years of Teen Nick or anything like that, and it hasn't been on Nick-standard in eons), so that'll be interesting, provided that it actually wins.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 30, 2011, 02:08:20 AM
So I'm going to make a post on this thread that isn't 90's Are All That related. *gasp!* I know, but the Disney thread gave me some typical late night thinking, and this thread is about Nickelodeon in general, not just one block.

Anyway, I think that of the three main kids networks, Nickelodeon has changed the least in terms of concept, and thus has gone downhill the least. Ideally, the channel was made as a network for kids, and it's still that, give or take Nick@Nite.

I know 90's die-hards tend to complain about the lack of variety, that it's nothing but SpongeBob and kidcoms. But honestly, there is more to it than just that. There's at least 4 or 5 other cartoons currently airing now, and Nick has been trying game shows (BrainSurge), adventure-esque series (The Troop) and serials (House of Anubis) again. They even have Power Rangers, Winx Club and TMNT to keep the tradition of having licensed series air alongside originals. Granted, none of them are really making a dent in the ratings, but at least they're trying.*

While if you were to say that Disney Channel is nothing but Phineas & Ferb and kidcoms... you'd be entirely right. I guess there's another cartoon or two on as well, but the pickings are much more slim than on Nick. What's funny is that Disney started off as an outlet for their classic library and to start original programs that could live up to the family name. Ever since the Zoog days though it just became a Nickelodeon clone. Even though it seems like in recent years Nick is the one copying off of Disney, it's still sad to see what has become to the channel as a lover of the mouse house.

And honestly, everyone's had their say on Cartoon Network in the past few years, so why bother? At least they're starting to realize that live-action is best saved for special occasions than regular series, or so we think.

That said, I think Disney Channel has the best scheduling motif for it's series. They seem to give every show a fair shot, and unless they do really poorly, almost everything they've made in the past decade or so gets at least a second season. Obviously there's some favoritism (Suite Life, Hannah Montana, P&F) and if ratings start to plummet after a while , they get less attention and less hope of being renewed, but that's to be expected from everyone.

I think they do it better than Nickelodeon, which basically has a business motif stating "let's just air SpongeBob and whichever 2 or 3 live-action shows are popular this year multiple times in the day between Nick Jr. and Nick@Nite, while the rest of our shows just get a weekend slot or two if they're lucky" or CN, whose ideal seems to be "let's throw as many shows as we can on the wall and see what sticks before our next upfront, then try again".

*to further prove that these shows aren't really catching on, The Troop is canceled. Everything else seems to still be in production (House of Anubis is a British import, otherwise, idk if it'd stay on), but that's one down.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on October 30, 2011, 04:08:25 PM
Nickelodeon has the same problem YTV currently has up in Canada, and that's the lack of variety. YTV used to air shows and cartoons from all over the world from every decade back when it began up until the last decade began. Then suddenly they did exactly what Nick did, and that's do nothing but air the same three shows all the time (Which three? Guess) and oddly enough they are the same three shows Nick over-airs.

I'm not asking them to go back to only airing 90s programming, but kids used to watch anything as long as it was good. Stuff like Rocky & Bullwinkle right before sliding into an episode or Power Rangers, or the Raccoons, or maybe an airing of Secret Of Nimh was what made YTV work. Now they air pretty much those three tired shows every time I turn on the channel.

Nick does the same thing, only with the same three bloody shows.

As for the Troop, well it was a decent attempt, but it wasn't as good as it could have been. And it is arguable shows like this aren't that popular because Nick chased this audience away years ago and now have to build it back up. You can't air nothing but Kidcoms and expect action adventure to just take off- especially when said show is merely decent at best.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 30, 2011, 04:15:37 PM
Quote from: Desensitized on October 30, 2011, 04:08:25 PM
(Which three? Guess)
SpongeBob and iCarly for sure, and I'm guessing the other is either Victorious or Big Time Rush. Those are really the only 4 our Nick is currently promoting.

The thing is, I think kids would be into adventure shows or even classics, if they were given more of a chance to watch shows like that. The climate is set up so only kidcoms and the most audience neutral cartoons can succeed, but if they put actual effort into the quality of their other shows and when they air, kids would be more into them.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on October 30, 2011, 04:36:01 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on October 30, 2011, 04:15:37 PM
Quote from: Desensitized on October 30, 2011, 04:08:25 PM
(Which three? Guess)
SpongeBob and iCarly for sure, and I'm guessing the other is either Victorious or Big Time Rush. Those are really the only 4 our Nick is currently promoting.

The thing is, I think kids would be into adventure shows or even classics, if they were given more of a chance to watch shows like that. The climate is set up so only kidcoms and the most audience neutral cartoons can succeed, but if they put actual effort into the quality of their other shows and when they air, kids would be more into them.
That's true. I mean, my friend's nieces watch that stuff because they feel they should, not necessarily because they like them all that much. But last I heard they enjoy stuff like Rugrats and Darkwing Duck just as much if not more when given the option to watch them.

(And yeah, you got the first two right. Oddly enough the third I was thinking of was FOP, but BTR is starting to overtake it even here.)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 30, 2011, 05:11:24 PM
FOP really doesn't air on regular Nick anymore. It gets a couple of slots during the weekend and they occasionally put it on in the morning before Nick Jr, but that's about it. It airs a lot more on Nicktoons, but even then, it gets overshadowed by the action shows. And it's been like that for a while.

And yeah, I know that kids still like the classics if they get acquainted with them. The ratings for Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry are still respectable in the afternoon, and kids are still somewhat aware of who The Flintstones are, even if it's just because of the vitamins and cereal. I've also lent my DuckTales and TaleSpin tapes to my cousins (they range from 4-13 in age, but I did this when they were younger; I don't think the youngest was even born then), and they loved them. They're also big Phineas & Ferb fans, so I guess there's room for everything.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 31, 2011, 10:43:33 AM
Now I'm going to make another 90's Are All That post.

I'm really enjoying watching Are You Afraid of the Dark? again. It's not at all scary (at most, it gets a little creepy, but more in the weird stalkerish way than the spooky way) and the acting can get lame often, but I still have to give the show credit for trying to be this type of series for children, and doing so with at least some amount of effort and interest. It can be hokey and silly at times, but at least it isn't boring too often. I would like it if the show stuck around on the block after this, but tonight's the last night for it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 04, 2011, 05:37:52 PM
They've already confirmed tonight's set:

The Secret World of Alex Mack- "The Videotape"
The Wild Thornberrys- "Pack of Thornberrys"
Salute Your Shorts- "Toilet Seat Basketball"
Hey Arnold!- "Longest Monday/Eugene's Pet"

Geez, just put SYS on already. You obviously love it, we obviously love it, we have 3 dead slots, I don't see why not. Tonight's bunch looks good enough, although I'd prefer if they didn't pick Wild Thornberrys. At least it didn't go to the Angry Beavers ep though, since that's already on DVD.

And here's this coming week's set:

Kenan & Kel- "Duh Bomb"
All That- "303"
Doug- "Doug's Hot Ticket/Doug's Dental Disaster"
Hey Dude- "Murder, He Wrote"
Doug- "Doug Runs/Doug Clobbers Patti"
All That- "205" (this one is just a guess, though)
Hey Dude- "Loose Lips"
Kenan & Kel- "The Crush"

Ugh, again? Well, at least the Kenan & Kel eps they chose weren't too bad, and neither Doug eps just aired. I'm voting for the "Murder, He Wrote" episode of Hey Dude, since that hasn't aired yet and may not, as well as the season 3 ep of All That, since I don't recall it. I may watch whatever else they put on, but I'm not too excited here.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on November 06, 2011, 11:25:25 PM
So the All That cast apparently had a reunion yesterday and, er, some of them have aged quite well. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANHTDP2Wuek)

Non-fanservicey reunion here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp4tfJdfJdI)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 06, 2011, 11:37:43 PM
Katrina Johnson =  :swoon:

Interesting stuff. Haven't seen Lori Beth Denberg in years; she looks exactly the same now as she did in 1995.

On another note, couldn't help but notice that Amanda Bynes appears to be MIA, once again (from what I hear, she's the only notable cast member who never shows up to any of the occasional reunions they do every couple of years). Also surprised to see no Nick Cannon this time around, consider he now runs Teen Nick and all. Hmm...

Edit: So I just noticed that they're calling this the "first ever cast All That cast reunion", which, seems kinda strange. I see people on Twitter saying they've done at least a couple of these in the past, soooo... yeah, weird.

Can anyone confirm if this is actually the first reunion they've ever done, or what?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 07, 2011, 03:15:08 PM
Alicia has aged well. Good thing too, since I've always had a bit of a crush on her. Katrina kind of looks like Tara Strong.

I don't know if there have been any other reunions besides the 10th anniversary special, though. At least, I've never looked into any.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 11, 2011, 05:31:51 PM
This week-

Kenan & Kel- "Duh Bomb"
Both All Thats back to back
Doug- "Doug's Hot Ticket/Doug's Dental Disaster"

Next week's batch-
All That- "Good Burger Special"
Doug- "Doug's Shock Therapy/Doug is Hamburger Boy"
Hey Dude- "Datenite"
All That- "313" (I guess)
Kenan & Kel- "The Chicago Witch Trials"
Hey Dude- "Our Little Champion"
Doug- "Doug's Bum Rap/Doug and Patti Sittin' in a Tree"
Kenan & Kel- "The Limo"

Goddammit, they really are on auto-pilot. You can't even say that any of these episodes haven't aired on the block, since they all have. They really need to change some things for the block.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on November 11, 2011, 06:36:41 PM
I never understood why they never put back Rocko and Hey Arnold after Clarissa, Doug and K&K ended their runs. I know they probably want to air the K&K episodes they skipped, but there is no justifiable reason why Doug is still on there.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 11, 2011, 06:41:55 PM
I guess. Even All That gets somewhat of a pass since the block takes it's name from it, even if they can't air anything past season 3.

If I was in charge, I'd either retool the whole lineup or keep Hey Dude and replace the other 3. I'd probably bring back Rocko and Arnold, maybe even Clarissa to finish it's run and go to the very beginning, since they skipped the first season and a half, and when we get to the point they started at, I'd replace it with Salute Your Shorts. And if I decide to replace Hey Dude, it'd probably be for one of the game shows.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 14, 2011, 12:21:27 AM
I hate to say it, but I've officially lost interest. 'Twas a good run, but things are just old and stale at this point.

...and wow (on another note), after these past few weeks, I think I'm actually really starting to hate Doug. Seriously. It's not even nostalgic anymore; it's just old, unfunny, and feels like a rather half-assed, dated product of its time. Trust me, I'm not saying this because NC recently did a number on the zombified Disney version either; I've been feeling this way about it for a while. I have to wonder, at this point, if I'd even buy a DVD set for this. I feel nothing when I watch it now; nothing... and that really saddens me, because I absolutely loved this show while growing up.

I hope it's just a phase, because it always hurts when something I loved growing up sours on me down the road. I have a lot of fuzzy memories watching Doug back in the day, but for whatever reason, they've, lately, been overshadowed by how seemingly awful this show is. Is it... is it just me, or what?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 14, 2011, 12:29:08 AM
Yeah, I'm getting very annoyed at the schedule now. All I watch is Hey Dude, which is very dull all things considered.

And the way you feel about Doug is why I don't watch repeated cycles of these shows. I don't want them to get too overly familiar, or I'm afraid that they'll get stale. Doug is a tad too saccharine for me today, but I might still buy a DVD if it comes out. I may not use it much though.

Edit: I will say this. If next week's U-Pick set contains eps from the same 4 shows as the past 2 weeks or is a repeat of a previous set, I'm done with updating this thread, and will be until the lineup makes a much needed change.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on November 14, 2011, 01:22:38 AM
I agree with you guys. I love Kenan and Kel, and I would really hate it if I became bored with the show before any DVD's are released.

Now that the novelty and nostalgia have worn off for these shows, they need a drastic schedule change right about now.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 14, 2011, 01:57:35 PM
Well, here's something. There's a poll on the FB page asking for which shows you'd want to see in a Thanksgiving marathon. Since I still don't want to activate my account for certain reasons, I can only see the first 3, being Rugrats, Hey Arnold! and Salute Your Shorts.

Can anyone who still has an account check and vote for us?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 14, 2011, 04:26:09 PM
There appears to only be six choices; Rugrats, Salute Your Shorts, and Hey Arnold (which you mentioned), along with Clarissa, Rocko's Modern Life, and Alex Mack (the other three).

What would you like me to vote for on your behalf?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 14, 2011, 04:39:33 PM
Heh, vote for whatever you want.

Out of these, I'd give my love to Alex Mack. SYS, Rugrats and Arnold are the most likely to win, but I think it deserves a shot.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 14, 2011, 04:47:25 PM
Yeah... as of right now, Rugrats and Arnold would win by a country mile.

I went with Alex Mack, since, personally, that's what I'd prefer to see as well. It has pretty much has no chance of winning, but, you never know.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 16, 2011, 05:28:31 PM
Huh, their Twitter replied to me.

AROwnsYou Animation Revelation
@90sAreAllThat But we watch the same 4 shows every night. I think we'd really like it if you go back to other shows or change the schedule

@90sAreAllThat 90's Are All That
@AROwnsYou I feel ya! We're playing around both ways, cause more people actually showed up this Friday with the same shows, it surprised us!

Interesting.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 17, 2011, 03:21:02 AM
Wait, so... they're actually saying that MORE people are watching and the block gets better ratings when the lineup consists of LESS variety? Am I interpreting this wrong, or is that really what they're saying? Because if that's the case, well...

(http://memegenerator.net/cache/instances/400x/10/11233/11502850.jpg)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 17, 2011, 12:11:37 PM
I find it hard to believe myself. Do people seriously want to watch the same 30 or so eps of All That over and over again opposed to... anything else they can pull out? And they also knew that last Friday got better ratings than usual before it aired? Because they put the eligible shows up a couple of hours before the block airs, and that's when we found out that episodes from the same 4 shows are up again.

A lot of people believe that the U-Pick block is rigged, and I'm starting to really agree. If you pay attention to previous weeks, they all go by similar patterns (2 live-action shows and 2 NickToons for "new" picks, and a Kenan & Kel, both All That's, and a Doug for regulars). If this week's block is similar to last week's, then I'll be sure that it is.

Edit: Well, if my guide is any indication, they're airing both All That and Doug eps this week for a change. Hmm, I missed the Hamburger Boy ep when it aired for whatever reason, so I'd like to get a chance to see that.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 18, 2011, 03:38:28 PM
I don't think we're getting a U-Pick block next week. We will be getting marathons of the following shows though according to Twitter:

M: Salute Your Shorts
T: Rugrats
W: Kenan
Th: All That
F: Hey Arnold!

Yay variety! Plus they're airing the Thanksgiving episode of K&K, which hasn't aired yet. I don't know about you, but my interest is up for at least another week.

Edit: And damn, they're 4-hour marathons, too. Nice.

Well, for the most part. 3 of the SYS eps have already aired on the block, and they're finishing the marathon with a Doug episode for whatever reason. Even then, I can't complain too much.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on November 18, 2011, 07:26:52 PM
That's what I'm talking about. I can deal with watching a marathon of different shows for a week. . I noticed 1-2 other people on my friend list over on FB voted on this, one voted for Rugrats while Kiddington voted for Alex Mack and I voted for Hey Arnold. Shame that Alex Mack didn't get in, but at least we have 3 other shows that haven't gotten major love yet.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 18, 2011, 10:31:43 PM
All That does nothing for me (unless they start airing new episodes, though I seriously doubt they will) but the rest of it looks good. Glad to see Salute Your Shorts especially, even if the episode selections are a little half-assed.

See, this is what they should have been doing all along; pick one new show a night for each night on M-T, while keeping Friday's U-Pick block intact. Easy. Given the vast library of Nicktoons/live-action properties at their disposal, there is absolutely no reason in the world why this block should already be as stale as it is.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 18, 2011, 10:47:28 PM
I think that would work a lot better too. This way they can air the shorter-lasting shows and have something for everyone at least once a week.

And we're not alone in thinking that the block is getting stale. Checking the comments in the FB's page most recent post, a lot of people are getting sick of its lack of variety. A fair amount stopped watching after most of the shows went into cycles and others are threatening to give up on the block if they don't change soon. There are some people who are defending the block by saying that we should be thankful for what we have in the first place (which is a legit point, but we still have the right to complain, considering Nick's rich library of shows from that era), but no one's saying "Oh, yay! More All That and Doug!". Hopefully the people monitoring the site will take note soon.

Speaking of shorter shows, I kind of hope that Salute Your Shorts doesn't air regularly on the block now. I still think it's a good show (it's like a good version of Hey Dude, IMO), but by Monday night, the block would have aired a good amount of the episodes made, some of them more than once. A decent amount of the run wouldn't feel as fresh, and considering their lack of innovation, they'd probably go through a couple of runs of the show before changing it up.

At least if they bring back Arnold or put Rugrats on, they have plenty of episodes to plow through before they end up repeating itself. SYS would be done in not even a month's time.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 20, 2011, 02:39:36 PM
More Kenan & Kel and All That marathons in the weekend, plus the HA! marathon is full of season 1 episodes, aside from the Thanksgiving special.

Eh, better than nothing I guess.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 22, 2011, 03:42:21 AM
Lame. They really couldn't think of anything better for a holiday weekend than MORE All That and K&K? Jesus Christ... all those shows, all that variety at their disposal, and this is the best they come up with. /smh

I've also noticed the fair amount of bitching on both Facebook and Twitter lately regarding the staleness of the block; seems to me that they simply do not give a shit, though. We've been treading on the same cycle of mediocrity for months, with no end in sight. I mean, even when they actually do try to change things up (in their own half-assed manner), it just ends up being more of the same. Whenever SYS and Arnold actually air, it always ends up being all of the same episodes they've already played. I know late-run Arnold isn't really that good, but for variety's sake, play something beyond Season 1.

Truth be told, I'm about ready to give up. Really, as far as I'm concerned, they're not even trying anymore. If they can't at least be bothered to get the rights to "new" episodes of All That, and are happy just bulldozing the same two seasons over and over again, it shows me that nobody really cares. 'Tis a shame, but I guess we had a good run.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Lord Dalek on November 22, 2011, 08:42:32 AM
HO-LEY CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/pete-and-pete-reunion-cast_n_1107314.html)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 22, 2011, 12:24:49 PM
Quote from: Lord Dalek on November 22, 2011, 08:42:32 AM
HO-LEY CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/pete-and-pete-reunion-cast_n_1107314.html)
Oh wow.

Also, last night was glorious. I watched "Zeke the Plumber" again, but skipped the other 2 eps that've already aired, as well as the Doug, and caught the rest. I sincerely think that SYS is Hey Dude done right. Better characters, sharper writing, and actual proof of effort, it's more enjoyable in every conceivable way.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 23, 2011, 06:05:07 PM
Huh, here's the next U-Pick.

Hey Arnold!- "Longest Monday/Eugene's Pet"
Kenan & Kel- "Clowning Around"
Hey Arnold!- "Door #16/Arnold as Cupid"
Hey Arnold- "Best Man/Cool Party"
Kenan & Kel- "The Taming of the Screw"
Hey Arnold!- "Grudge Match/Polishing Rhonda"

Apparently it's a "vote for the show that you want to take over the line-up" set. I'm voting for the 2 Arnold eps that aren't on DVD and haven't aired on the block yet.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 28, 2011, 06:40:24 PM
Interesting. Tonight they're replacing the second hour with an hour of Rugrats. According to the TeenNick schedule, they're doing the same thing with Arnold tomorrow too (although they're airing the first 2 eps of season 1... again. Ugh, skipping if true). I can't look up the rest of the schedule for the week, so I don't know what all they're doing.

I think it's cool, but I do wish they'd replace the first hour. Hey Dude isn't any good, but at least let the one show with episodes left to air still show them, and let All That and Kenan & Kel take a much-needed break. But eh, it's better than nothing I guess.

Edit: Apparently it's going to look like this

Mon and Thur- Rugrats
Tue and Sat- Arnold
Wed and Sun- Doug

Uh... Okay. Yay for Rugrats, undecided about HA!, boo at Doug.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 28, 2011, 08:59:25 PM
Any change is a good change, I guess.

They're still going about this in an incredibly lame and unoriginal manner, though. For starters, and just on the animation side, what have they got Aaahh Real Monsters? Have they even aired it at all yet? Give Doug a rest already, kthx. It's overplayed and, quite frankly, not very good.

On the live-action end, the game shows are really getting the shaft, and it's kinda pissing me off. I love Legends, yet they've only aired it once. Double Dare? Guts? Nothin'. I really should start complaining on their Facebook page, but I'm hardly ever on Facebook, for one thing... and besides, it's not like it'll even make a difference anyway; I've seen people complaining about this numerous times already, and the block is still as moldy and stale as it was two months ago.

...but, enough of my bitching. I've been doing an awful lot of that lately, so in going the opposite road and looking for positives, I'm quite glad that they're finally giving Rugrats a fair shake. Did anyone happen to catch the marathon last week? The first few seasons of this show are absolutely brilliant, IMO. I love how wonky and old-looking the animation is during the early years (much more subdued in comparison to the final few seasons), and the writing is surprisingly smart and enjoyable (namely when the adults are talking; have I mentioned how awesome Stu is?).

These early episodes are great, and I dare to even go as far as calling them timeless. Rugrats truly is one of Nick's best... you know, before it became all stale and watered down after the first movie. I quite enjoyed catching up with this show again, and it further cements why I've been clamoring for a real DVD set all these years later. Without a doubt, this is a show worth owning.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 28, 2011, 09:09:57 PM
Quote from: Kiddington on November 28, 2011, 08:59:25 PM
For starters, and just on the animation side, what have they got Aaahh Real Monsters? Have they even aired it at all yet?
They played "The Switching Hour" during Halloween weekend. Besides that, nada.

If there's any Nicktoon they should give more love to though, it's Kablam! Besides Ren & Stimpy and CatDog, it's one of the only 90's Nicktoons to not have aired on the block at all so far, and unlike those two, there is no legal option to view any of the show at all. They've shown a clip or two of it in the U-Pick promos, so it's not like Nick has forgotten the show's existence, so I'd like to see it at least be considered at some point

They've also aired Double Dare once. I do agree that the game shows deserve more love, however.

And yeah, I still really enjoy the original Rugrats. I can understand why they haven't given it a full spot on the block, though. It's insane popularity and huge episode count means that it could stay on for a long time and not give other shows a fair chance to air.

Well, that makes sense in theory. They won't drop the Kenan Thompson shows, so I don't think overplaying is an issue to them at all. And hell, having plenty of episodes is a good thing. That means they can keep it on as long as they want and they won't have to worry about going back to square one for a long ass time. Hell, it has more eps than Kenan & Kel and Doug combined, and I think that's true even if you just count the episodes that aired in the 90's.

I mean, I think at this point I'd take just about any other eligible show over Kenan & Kel, Doug and seasons 2 and 3 of All That sticking around. Including CatDog, but excluding Rocket Power.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on November 28, 2011, 10:03:14 PM
Kablam! would make a great opener for the block, since they apparently can't air seasons 4+ of All That. AT can replace K&K until they're able to air season 4, where it would switch timeslots with Kablam. Hey Dude can finish it's run in its current timeslot and then be replaced by another show, and Rugrats can replace Doug.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 28, 2011, 11:14:53 PM
Wait, so All That would still stay on? I thought you said that you'd take it off.

Besides that, that sounds like a good schedule replacement. I came up with my own idea not that long ago too. Basically, keep Hey Dude on until it's run is done, than replace it with Salute Your Shorts, and take off the other 3 shows and bring back Rocko, Arnold and Clarissa (which actually has a lot to air, since besides stopping at the beginning of season 5, they skipped the first and half of season 2), then replace Clarissa with something else when that's done.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on November 28, 2011, 11:55:23 PM
I did want it gone for awhile, but then I thought that since the block is named after the show, and it still has episodes left, I thought that it may as well stay, just have it not be the block opener until more episodes can be shown.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 29, 2011, 08:54:57 AM
Ah, gotcha.

Yeah, when they can get the rights back to the rest of the original cast episodes, they should air it again. For now, AT really needs a rest, though. I think we're on the fourth run of the set they have now. That's just too redundant IMO.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on December 01, 2011, 02:19:11 AM
I'd be fine with All That having a permanent spot if they had the rights to the entire show. It lasted 10 seasons and had over 180 episodes; even if they aired it every night, they really wouldn't cycle through it all that quickly.

I don't know why this is such a problem; they've had over four months to acquire the rights to other seasons, and still haven't. It's all the same network (Nickelodeon), run by the same mega-corporation (Viacom), so it absolutely mystifies me that they're having this much acquiring the rights to something they should already own (assuming they're even trying, that is; for all we know, they don't even give a shit about having other seasons, and 2-3 are good enough).

Has the delay in getting "new" episodes been explained by anyone yet (IE on Facebook, Twitter, etc.)? Seems like it should've by now.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 01, 2011, 07:54:34 AM
According to the Twitter and FB, they are trying to acquire the rest of AT, along with some other shows they don't fully own yet, but it's a hard thing to take care of. Like, either it costs too much to or whoever does own them just don't have all the masters at easy places to find any more.

So they say. I still think that they're just running on autopilot and aren't willing to admit it I mean, even with Rgurats and HA, they're airing the same episodes they already have from season 1.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 02, 2011, 01:27:19 PM
Oh, and Arnold won this week's U-Pick. A mini-marathon of the show will air tonight.

Next week's is All That vs. Rugrats. Guess what I'm voting for.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on December 07, 2011, 03:20:51 AM
Hey Arnold is a pretty cool show. I've been taking the time to watch it a bit more lately (both on the block and DVD), and I can safely say these early episodes hold up quite well. It's not quite as funny as Rocko or Rugrats, but the writing is still pretty sharp and amusing. I also love these characters; a diverse, quirky cast of thousands that each bring their own special charm. I'd say Arnold's crazy Grandma is probably my favorite; I especially loved the bit during the heat wave episode when she was actually the only normal one in the group, while everybody else was losing it.

So yeah, I'd say this is a keeper for the time being. I do wish they'd start playing some late-run episodes, though; they still haven't ventured anything beyond Season 2 yet, which is quite lame. I know the late-run stuff isn't as good, but I would still like to see it again, just to see if it holds up as well as the early ones.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 07, 2011, 10:37:48 AM
They did pull some seasons 3 and 4 out in the U-Pick block on Friday. But yeah, I've been really getting back into the show lately, thanks to the DVD, the block and Netflix. Arnold isn't much of a character, and neither is Gerald for that matter, but the cast is so big that there's plenty of others that you can find to love, and everyone gets their time to shine at some point in the show. I truly believe that there's someone for anybody in the series.

Oh, which reminds me, another reason Rugrats should win this week- all the episodes witch clips in the voting section have yet to air on the block.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 09, 2011, 05:36:58 PM
Rugrats won this week, surprising no one.

And next week-s U-Pick is Kenan & Kel vs. Are You Afraid of the Dark? And I'm voting for AYOATD, also surprising no one.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on December 10, 2011, 12:33:33 AM
Sweet, I kind of forgot that they were airing the Chocolate Pudding episode. I laughed like crazy to see Stu making chocolate pudding on TV rather than a YT clip.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 13, 2011, 01:40:01 AM
I'm about to make another non-90's Are All That-related post.

I can't help but notice that the ratings for Nick have been dropping drastically over the past few months. To the point that not only has Disney been topping them, but even Cartoon Network has been catching up and consistently beating them in certain demographics.

I think what we argued about before has really been starting to hurt them- the lack of variety or consistency in scheduling, over reliance on certain types of shows, and a lack of airing new episodes on a regular basis. Meanwhile, Disney seems to be taking the notion that kids are tired of live-action shows about characters or settings they can't relate to and focusing their main character's age groups from the high school and older range to middle school and younger, which seems to be doing a lot better for them in key demos. Nick is still sticking to what they've been doing now, which I think kids are losing interest in.

Like, they really need to cut back on the SpongeBob and Schneider shows and try to shape up their lineup a little. They don't have to air the same 4 shows a day when they have at least twice that many in production.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on December 13, 2011, 02:31:23 PM
I would really like to enjoy that. I remember turning on Nick three consecutive times last week and all three times on that day they were airing FOP.

It's like they're still stuck in the early 00s.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 13, 2011, 04:28:55 PM
Also, they're talking about airing MMPR now. They can, since they own the right to the franchise.

idk what to think about that though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on December 13, 2011, 05:28:01 PM
As part of The 90's Are All That?  I'd rather they not, since I've kinda been thinking of that block as a 90's Nick Nostalgia trip(I would kill for a Fox Kids Nostalgia trip though, even though I barely watched MMPR as a kid), but I guess if they never explicitly said that the block was limited to Nick shows, and since MMPR is a big hit from the 90's, than it really wouldn't be out of place.

What about TMNT(the original one)?  Don't they have the rights to that?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on December 13, 2011, 05:54:29 PM
I think so. They own the entire franchise, I believe. Hopefully they still don't have music rights issues. That seems to be the real thorn in the side to everything relating to the 80s show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on December 13, 2011, 07:12:25 PM
I would watch MMPR if it was on the 90's Are All That block. Though I am surprise that it came down to that.

As for shows I encounter whenever I tune into Nick, it's either Spongebob or iCarly. Mostly Sponge but that's usually due to the time I always come home from work. I only encounter FOP on Nicktoons nowadays.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 13, 2011, 07:15:36 PM
Yeah, on 90's Are All That.

I guess I wouldn't mind too much if they put either MMPR or TMNT on, since both shows are major parts of the decade and the childhoods of people who grew up there. But yeah, they aren't Nick shows, and I don't think they hold up as much as a lot of other shows they could air do.

I'd still probably watch them anyway though, and would prefer them to season 2 and 3 of All That airing ad nasum forever.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on December 14, 2011, 12:42:35 AM
They aren't Nick shows, but they are a nice infusion of variety into an otherwise very stale lineup (sans Rugrats). That's kinda my way of looking at it (and if they really are going to start airing these, maybe they're finally starting to realize the block is indeed stale, and the overall variety will start to improve in the future).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 16, 2011, 04:11:05 PM
AYAOTD wins tonight. Hell yes.

And next week's set is up, and it's holiday themed-

Rocko's Modern Life- "Rocko's Modern Christmas"
Doug- "Doug's Christmas Story"
Rugrats- "A Rugrats Kwanzaa"
Hey Arnold!- "Arnold's Christmas"
All That- "225"
Rugrats- "The Santa Experience"
The Secret World of Alex Mack- "The Gift"
Hey Dude- "Loose Lips"

You know what, I don't think I've ever seen the Rugrats Kwanzaa special. I'm voting for that and Alex Mack.

I'd be fine with anything winning here except for the Arnold, All That, and Hey Dude eps though. I own the former on DVD, so I'd rather that they don't waste the time, and the latter two have already aired and have nothing to do with Christmas anyway.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on December 16, 2011, 06:16:13 PM
I'm starting to think it's rule of law that All That be included somewhere within the voting lineup every week. Maybe it really is rigged...

...anyway, went with Rugrats, Alex Mack, and Rocko myself. I haven't seen the Rocko Christmas episode in years (Nicktoons never airs it, holiday season be damned), so that'll be kinda fun to see again, if it wins.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 16, 2011, 11:00:56 PM
Yeah, they haven't aired it in a year or two, but they did used to show it pretty regularly. I think they only stopped like the other year, but even then, regular Nickelodeon played it the year they stopped. And it is a classic, so I'm chill with it.

And apparently, at least this All That ep has a sketch with Santa in it. More than an be said for the Hey Dude ep. Like, seriously, why put that one up at all?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on December 16, 2011, 11:20:08 PM
I voted Rugrats Santa Experience, Rocko's Christmas & Doug Christmas. Hey, you guys did point out Doug's Christmas special as being one of Doug's finest episodes.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 18, 2011, 04:28:51 AM
Alex Mack needs more love. It seems like the Nicktoons are taking over this set, which is fine and all, but it really is getting the shaft. A shame too, since I thought the episode they aired the other month held up quite well, and I'd love to see more of the show.

Also, besides the Santa sketch in the All That episode, apparently Mr. Ernst sings "Jingle Bells" in the Hey Dude choice. I don't even remember that.

Still, why bother with these two when there's more actual Christmas choices you could have gone with instead? I mean, I know The Wild Thornberrys isn't the best show, but they have a perfectly fine Christmas ep they could have gone with. CatDog too, although, again, it's not a very good show. Ren & Stimpy have TWO Christmas episodes itself. Neither are very good, but hey, at least they count. There's a Pete & Pete one that's a part of the hard-to-find third season they could have added. And if you can count the Rugrats Kwanzaa episode (whch aired in 2001, btw), why not try the considerably more popular Hanukkah one too? Shit, even Kenan & Kel has a Christmas episode, which I'd love to see since I barely remember it.

There's a lot of things they could have gone with, but didn't. Maybe another weekend dedicated to more of these, like we got for Halloween, would be good.

Edit: And apparently there even is a Christmas in July episode of Hey Dude. So... why use "Loose Lips" at all?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on December 19, 2011, 11:17:18 PM
Tonight's the first time that I actually have gotten to watch the block, and all I can say is wow, I don't remember All That being this painfully unfunny.  Yeesh.

And holy crap @ young as shit Amanda Bynes.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 20, 2011, 11:40:49 AM
Aww, I still find it funny, but some sketches don't really hold up at all. I guess it might just be too silly for some people nowadays, though.

Also, they switched the Hey Dude episodes for U-Pick with the actual Christmas ep. It has like no chance of winning since they just pulled the switch, but hey, at least it counts.

Edit: And apparently, word around town is that Clarissa is returning to the block next week. Can't find any sources about it yet, but I wouldn't mind if it does. I actually pulled out my season 1 DVD the other night and marathoned it, and I still love the show as much as ever.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on December 20, 2011, 11:45:37 AM
I don't know if you watched last night's ep, but the first segment, and the one that I was referring to at the time I wrote that, ended with Kenan dressed up as a lunchlady leading the rest of the kids singing a song about peas.  Yeah, it was probably funny for 8-10 year old me, but not to 23 year old me.

The K&K episode was amusing though(the one were the Clinton look-a-like visits and has his life saved by Kenan).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 20, 2011, 12:49:43 PM
Yeah, I don't watch All That anymore since they only air seasons 2 and 3 on a loop. I remember that ep though, and I agree that Ms. Piddlin doesn't hold up much. Those sketches are more unfunny than anything.

Really, all I watch on the block right now are Rugrats and the U-Pick block.

Edit: Well, here we go . (http://www.nickandmore.com/2011/12/13/the-90s-are-all-that-party-like-its-the-90s-week-schedule/)

It's annoying that All That is airing like every night and it sucks that there's no game shows, but there's a lot of stuff here otherwise. I'm surprised that Ren & Stimpy hasn't already aired on here yet, even if just on U-Pick.

There's also speculation that they're going to start airing season 4 of All That the following week, but there isn't anything official on that yet.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 22, 2011, 10:00:42 AM
So yeah, I normally wait until Friday to reveal this week's U-Pick schedule, so I can also reveal what's up for next week's, but since I don't think we're going to have one next week, here is tomorrow's.

Rugrats- "The Santa Experience"
Doug- "Doug's Christmas Story"
Hey Arnold!- "Arnold's Christmas"
Rocko's Modern Life- "Rocko's Modern Christmas"

Can't say I'm surprised at all that it's a very Nicktoon Christmas. All That wasn't going to air because they still show it every night, despite being on autopilot (they just started the fifth cycle of seasons 2 and 3 earlier this week), and this isn't a Christmas episode anyway. Hey Dude stood no chance because the first episode they put up has already aired and isn't a Christmas ep, and by the time they put up the actual Christmas episode, it was too late. I gave it some love, but I knew it wasn't going to air. The Rugrats Kwanzaa episode just isn't as fondly remembered as the Christmas or Hanukkah episode, nor is the holiday as beloved as those two. Hell, the reason I voted for it was because I've never seen it before and I was curious. And as much as I wanted Alex Mack to win, the 4 choices that won were just more popular. The show is going to air this upcoming week anyway, so it's no big deal.

I'd have preferred if they didn't air Arnold, since it's on DVD, and Rocko, since it's going to be on DVD soon, but they're both classics that deserve to air anyway. I also wanted to see Rugrats and Doug ,but didn't vote for them since I knew they'd get enough love. I'll skip HA! and pull out my DVD in the very near future, but it's a fine enough lineup.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on December 22, 2011, 08:20:36 PM
Decent line-up all things considering. All of my favorite Nicktoon Christmas specials all on one night.

I really wasn't expecting the Kwanzaa episode to air anyway considering this:

(http://msusajac.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/what-the-hell-is-kwanza-1600.png)


Really if they could have done anything for Hey Dude, they should have counted the votes the previous episode got and added it to it's total for the new episode.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on December 23, 2011, 11:56:08 PM
The Doug Christmas episode is fucking weird.  Just saying'
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 27, 2011, 04:34:59 PM
Last night was awesome. The use of vintage Nick spots was a great touch. I fast-forwarded through the All That episode, but watched the rest.

Alex Mack was nice as always. The effects certainly are dated, but the writing is fine and the characters are well-done. Really had a blast watching this one, and showing the "Alex Mack wears a hat" ad was awesome. Ren & Stimpy is... weird as fuck as always. Not very good ones by any stretch of the imagination, but I got a couple of chuckles out of it. And Are You Afraid of the Dark? was good too. I wouldn't say this one was a favorite, but I still had fun.

Tonight's looks like fun, too. I might even watch the All That ep again.

Speaking of AT, the best part of last night weren't the shows, or the use of old ads and ids in tact. It was the confirmation that starting Monday, they will be airing season 4 of All That. Talk about a way to ring in the new year.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 02, 2012, 05:29:30 PM
A couple of notes about the block.

-I'm going to miss the bumpers and promos being on there. That was a great twist that I'd like to see them bring back soon.
-Shelby Woo and Allen Strange are both okay. They're fine for what they are, even though Shelby Woo is pretty low-fi in quality and Allen Strange is a little too similar to Alex Mack in terms of execution, but I wouldn't mind seeing more of either show soon.
-Speaking of Alex Mack, I really wish they'd show it daily on the block now. It's such a good show.
-The finale was kind of a cop-out, though. I like how happy it is, but you could have seen the ending come a mile away, and there really doesn't seem to be much closure for it at all.
-The finale for Clarissa was surprisingly satisfying, on the other hand. You know how people complain that kids shows from back then didn't make "rewarding" finales? This is the obvious exception to the rule. I like how it wasn't shot in front of an audience, so no one would be spoiled, and that everyone got nice closure as they wrapped things up.
-Can not wait to watch season 4 of All That tonight
-Oh, and there's not going to be a U-Pick this week. They're just going to show another hour of Rugrats and Hey Arnold! instead. At least they're going to season 2 of Arnold though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on January 03, 2012, 06:19:22 PM
Yeah, I agree on Alex Mack; it is quite a wonderful show. Humor wise, I also think it's held up a lot better than a number of other things around it from that time period. I mean, I find myself actually laughing while watching it (the writing is incredibly sharp), which surprisingly doesn't happen as often as I'd like while watching this block (Rugrats and Rocko are still great, and Hey Arnold's pretty good, but after those three it kinda starts to drop off pretty fast).

I've been pretty burned out on All That lately, but I will give Season 4 a shot tonight since they're finally changing things up. This is considered the series peak, so hopefully it still holds up.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 03, 2012, 07:27:34 PM
I still think Clarissa and Salute Your Shorts are pretty funny, but my mileage does vary with just about everything else. I think the characters in Alex Mack are just so sharp, that it all gels together well.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on January 04, 2012, 12:41:01 AM
Oh, I actually forgot about Clarissa (not even sure why, although I will admit that I haven't been watching it lately). But yeah, I still enjoy that for the most part. It holds up pretty well.

Salute Your Shorts, though... I dunno. It's definitely nostalgic - I still love that opening theme - but I'm not sure how much I really enjoy watching it (which, admittedly, hasn't been very much; I've only seen it a couple of times on the block). What I've seen of it feels awfully dated, and I didn't seem to enjoy it as much as I used to. I will give it the benefit of the doubt, though, because again, I haven't seen a whole lot of it (maybe 2-3 episodes, at the most).

Everything else I'm just pretty burned out on; All That, K&K, and ESPECIALLY Doug. I'd still buy DVD sets if they ever did decide to release such a thing, but I'd need a long break before I ever decide to give these respective series another shot.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 04, 2012, 01:11:56 AM
I dunno, I still really like SYS. To me, it's Hey Dude done right. Similar idea, similar execution, similar set of characters, just done with more effort and sharper writing. It is definitely juvenile and it's no Seinfeld, but I still really enjoy all that I see of it again.

As for Kenan & Kel, I think my biggest problem with it is Kel. He's just so fucking stupid, and honestly, the more I think about it, the more I think that he is in a dangerous way than a funny way. Like how he constantly ignores the most obvious things and runs into things to make even bigger messes. It's beyond obnoxious and borders on psychologically terrifying. Kenan's not a very lovable guy himself, but I can barely stand Kel now.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on January 04, 2012, 03:13:06 PM
Kel's idiocy is starting to get on my nerves as well. Sure I laugh at his idiocy from time to time  but there are times where I wonder why he isn't in the remedial classes, then I remember that episode where he got a high IQ. I can still tolerate All That and I love the fact that we're in Season 4, I forgot this was the season with the little black kid. I guess they needed a cute boy on the show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 11, 2012, 10:10:53 AM
No U-Pick again this week. The FB page said that Stick would be "taking some time off", but I was only expecting them to mean like a week.

Ah well, I don't really mind, since I'm back to watching at least one thing a night again.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 20, 2012, 05:55:28 PM
U-Pick returns in two weeks. About time, haha.

This time it's Rocko vs. Angry Beavers. I'm going with Rocko, since I'm still not big on the Beavers.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on January 20, 2012, 11:41:18 PM
In before you complain about the Rocko episodes already being on DVD. :P

Bout time it returned. I started to miss UPick Line up, even if does feel like it's fixed from time to time cause I felt like that this part added more variety to what is known as Nick's poor repeating schedule.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 20, 2012, 11:56:39 PM
Actually, scanning through the eps they chose, none of them are on season 1. I'm too lazy to see if any of the rest are on season 2 or if any of the Angry Beavers ones are on DVD though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Angus on January 31, 2012, 04:42:37 PM
Victorious did an extended parody of The Breakfast Club for an episode. It totally flew over my little pups' heads.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 31, 2012, 07:45:07 PM
Oh, so Rocko won for this week. They're going to air 2 full hours of it each day this weekend.

Pretty freaking awesome IMO.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on February 11, 2012, 11:52:38 AM
The page is asking which show you'd want to see in an upcoming U-Pick. The choices are between CatDog, Salute Your Shorts, The Wild Thornberrys, and Rocket Power.

SYS gets my vote, no contest. Although Rocket Power is winning atm...
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Foggle on February 11, 2012, 11:55:00 AM
Quote from: Avaitor on February 11, 2012, 11:52:38 AM
Although Rocket Power is winning atm...
All of my vomit. Hated that show. :whuh:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on February 11, 2012, 11:58:18 AM
For some reason, we're in the minority, since it's really popular among nostalgics. I seem to be one of the only people in my couple of circles of friends that didn't like it, and it gets a lot of requests on the FB page and Twitter.

I don't know why, though. I thought it was stupid then, and watching some of it now, I dislike it even more.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on February 11, 2012, 02:36:41 PM
Rocket Power is one of those shows where you can only like it as a kid, but don't care much for as an adult. And if you hated it as a kid, you're still going to hate it as an adult.

The show has absolutely nothing beneath its surface for adults to like.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on February 26, 2012, 02:53:27 AM
Quote from: Avaitor on February 11, 2012, 11:58:18 AM
For some reason, we're in the minority, since it's really popular among nostalgics. I seem to be one of the only people in my couple of circles of friends that didn't like it, and it gets a lot of requests on the FB page and Twitter.

I don't know why, though. I thought it was stupid then, and watching some of it now, I dislike it even more.

Quoting an old post here because I'm bored and can't sleep, but, uh... yeah, CatDog is pretty much the same way, as far as I can tell. Any time classic Nick gets brought up in a conversation, I always hear people say how much they love that show, and I... I just don't see the appeal.

I mean, my 8 year old self liked it, but my 20 year old self finds the flaws to be far too overbearing; the writing is incredibly childish and unfunny, and the characters are all extremely unlikeable (which, really, is kinda surprising for a kids show). Cat is a dick (although I will say, Jim Cummings does a fantastic job on the voice, as always), Dog is annoying, and the supporting cast blows. The Greaser Dogs especially; they're in nearly every episode that I can remember, and they're about as boring, predictable, and stereotypical as it gets.

There is nothing interesting about this show at all, and yet people all look back on it in such fond remembrance. I almost wonder if anyone who claims they like it has even seen it now that they're 10 or so years older, or they're just remembering how funny it was to them as a kid. Hard to believe any rational adult could find enjoyment in this, but I suppose if people like Rocket Power (which is about 1000 times worse), I guess anything is possible.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on February 26, 2012, 10:18:32 AM
Yeah, there really isn't much to CatDog at all. Gross-out cartoons were popular at the time, and there were a lot of puke, shit, junk and hairball jokes in the show to keep kid's attention. Although it doesn't seem as universally beloved in my circle as Rocket Power does.

Funny that you bump this thread though, since I am really getting tired of the block. The schedule really needs a change. I'm fine with Rugrats and Hey Arnold!, since they still have a good amount of episodes left to air (even though Rugrats has now just started the Dil episodes- blah). But All That (which only got the rights back to season 4 and has been repeating ever since they finished), Kenan & Kel and Doug need to take a breather. I refuse to believe that airing the same eps of thee shows over and over again will do better than trying just about anything else in their places.

And they need to make some new bumpers and ads. I'm tired of the same ones airing every night. They should bring back the original, unaltered ids and bumpers that they pulled out or New Years. That was incredible.

Also, it's fucking stupid that U-Pick has only aired once this year. Does it really cost that much to make new Stick Stickley sketches? If so, just skip them and air the shows voted on. Anything would be better than watching the same episodes of each show again and again and again.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 05, 2012, 07:04:36 PM
New U-Pick is up. This time it's CatDog vs Salute Your Shorts, and like last time, the winner will air for a full weekend.

SYS gets my vote, no contest.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 07, 2012, 03:59:22 PM
I actually haven't seen CatDog on the block much yet, if at all. Of course, I haven't really been paying attention to it for quite a long time now, for obvious reasons.

...but yeah, SYS gets my vote as well. I really do want to give this show a fair shake, and I haven't seen it in a while (few months, at least), so maybe this time it'll strike more of a chord with me. You already know my feelings about CatDog anyway, so there's nothing new to see there.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 07, 2012, 04:24:16 PM
CatDog has been on a U-Pick or two, but it actually hasn't aired on the block at all.

Not a big loss, IMO.

Edit: Also, damn (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/03/07/nickelodeon-brings-back-popular-90s-game-series-figure-it-out-greenlighting-40-episodes/123515/).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on March 07, 2012, 04:41:45 PM
Weird.  They should bring back Lori-Beth Denberg, she was the best part of the show.

I kinda want to see another iteration of Double Dare, to be honest.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 07, 2012, 04:43:39 PM
If anything, I'd like to see a new Legends. But a new Double Dare would be good, too.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 09, 2012, 05:35:11 PM
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzmtd3OLBO1qit8clo1_500.jpg)

Y'no, I don't like CatDog, but I'd love to check this out IRL.

Speaking of CatDog, I  really do hope that SYS beats it. Really, the only time I'd vote for it is if it was up against Rocket Power or any of the shows that already air every week. I'd even vote for the crap like Cousin Skeeter ahead of CD just out of curiosity.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on March 09, 2012, 05:51:04 PM
Where's this at?  And is it actually inhabitable?  Seems a little small.

I always wanted to check out the IRL Simpsons house in Vegas, but I think the house has long since been stripped of anything related to the show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 09, 2012, 06:10:23 PM
I notice a Slime Time poster in the background, so probably somewhere in Orlando or the LA/Hollywood area. If it's even still there.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on March 09, 2012, 06:29:17 PM
Y'know, I actually wouldn't mind if Catdog and/or Cousin Skeeter found their way onto the block, just for a change of pace.

Rocket Power however, can stay away. Far, far away.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 11, 2012, 02:05:50 PM
I have to admit, that is pretty cool... although I highly doubt it still exists; that looks like a pretty old picture (Slime Time Live poster in the background indicates this would be circa 2002-ish, unless they just left it up for whatever reason after all these years, which seems likely).

That leads me to a question; I've never been to any of the Nick theme parks, so to those that have, do they ever keep any of their old attractions to past shows running after they've been cancelled? I do remember reading that they closed the Jimmy Neutron ride in Orlando last summer, meaning that particular instance did outlast its series by about five years, but other than that, it sounds like most of these rides are packed in the day their respective series is off the air. Again though, I wouldn't know, as I've never been to any of these parks.

Quote from: Comeau on March 09, 2012, 05:51:04 PM
I always wanted to check out the IRL Simpsons house in Vegas, but I think the house has long since been stripped of anything related to the show.

Before:

(http://b5media_b4.s3.amazonaws.com/63/files/2008/01/simpsons_house_1.jpg)

After (taken around 2007 or so):

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/The_Simpsons_house.jpg)

Yeah, you'd be right about that; there's not much to see there now. Looks like an ordinary house in an ordinary suburb.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 11, 2012, 05:05:32 PM
Quote from: Kiddington on March 11, 2012, 02:05:50 PM
That leads me to a question; I've never been to any of the Nick theme parks, so to those that have, do they ever keep any of their old attractions to past shows running after they've been cancelled? I do remember reading that they closed the Jimmy Neutron ride in Orlando last summer, meaning that particular instance did outlast its series by about five years, but other than that, it sounds like most of these rides are packed in the day their respective series is off the air. Again though, I wouldn't know, as I've never been to any of these parks.
I've only ever been to Universal Studios and the Nickelodeon Hotel in Orlando in the past couple of years, but it seems like a yes and no thing.

Yeah, Jimmy Neutron lasted for a while, and they were playing clips from Avatar and CatScratch in line when I went about 2 years ago. But the last time I went to the resort area back in November, just about all the SpongeBob and Dora merch that used to be sold around the parks were gone, so I guess they got rid of it fast.

And I checked out the Nick Hotel a year before the last time I went to Universal Studios, and there was surprisingly a lot of somewhat older Nick stuff around. The outside of the Hotel has characters from Rugrats, Rocket Power, Wild Thornberrys and As Told by Ginger painted throughout, and there's still a lot of Rugrats and Blue's Clues stuff to be found inside. When you walk into the restaurant/gift shop island, you can see giant water fountains with Tommy and Chuckie on a boat and Eliza on an elephant in this lake area, and you can still get a fair amount of Rugrats merchandise in the gift shop. There were even plaques dedicated to some of Nick's old game shows and Weinerville alongside the bathrooms in restaurant area.

But it has been a couple of years since I went, so they may have got rid of a lot of this. There was also a lot of Jimmy Neutron and FOP stuff around the Hotel, so it could use a bit of updating.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 11, 2012, 05:12:14 PM
So I finally bothered to watch an episode of Victorious, the one that was a Breakfast Club homage...

...the fuck was that shit?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 11, 2012, 05:28:24 PM
Aww, I liked that one.

YOU'RE SO CONCEITED, TORI! YOU'RE SO CONCEITED.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 21, 2012, 03:02:51 AM
The 90's Are All That's respective Facebook and Twitter pages have been teasing us an awful lot lately when it comes to Legends. This is about the 3rd or 4th time in a week that they've mentioned it; case and point, this (http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.322606557798412.75648.152523378140065&type=3).

I'd like to believe they might possibly be airing it at some point in the near future, but unfortunately they do this all the time, so I'm not getting my hopes up. This is one thing I find very annoying about their social media pages; they acknowledge many of these shows on a pretty regular basis, yet a good 70-80% they don't even air. I mean, when was the last time Legends was on? It has to be a few months, at least.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 21, 2012, 09:45:47 AM
October, to be exact.

Oh, and SYS won, thankfully. It shall air this weekend, and hopefully this won't be the last we see from Stick in a while.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 22, 2012, 04:26:02 PM
Well here's something I wasn't expecting to see today; The Amanda Show is now on DVD. (http://tvshowsondvd.com/n/16698)

Don't get too excited, though; it's just that Create Space thing on Amazon, so you won't be seeing these on store shelves. Also, for whatever reason, Season 1 is not a complete set, while Seasons 2 and 3 are (?). They did the same thing with the final season on the old Doug sets, so I assume for whatever reason they couldn't locate all of the episodes.

You know, I will admit; if I had more money, I'd be oddly tempted. The sets are all pretty cheap, and this show, while it doesn't do much for me now, is still nostalgic. I probably wouldn't buy them, but the thought did briefly cross my mind.

Also, on an unrelated note, SYS did win U-Pick this week. I'd say it's a good chance for me to finally give that one another shot; hoping I like it a little better this time around.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 22, 2012, 05:23:30 PM
"Amanda Bynes' Classic Nick show"

lol no
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on March 22, 2012, 05:26:13 PM
It's like anything made over ten years ago is considered a classic now.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 22, 2012, 06:41:56 PM
The guys who label classics nowadays have short attention spans, I guess.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 22, 2012, 08:04:47 PM
I mean, there's gotta be a line. I Love Lucy and Heaven and Hell are classics. Friends and Hybrid Theory aren't.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 22, 2012, 08:29:18 PM
Well, Dave Lambert also called Wild Thornberrys and CatDog a "classic" in past news breaks, so I guess his line isn't as fine as it should be.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 22, 2012, 08:31:38 PM
...

I'll make that line. Anything past 1996 should be scrutinized before being considered a Nickelodeon classic.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on March 22, 2012, 08:40:57 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on March 22, 2012, 08:31:38 PM
...

I'll make that line. Anything past 1996 should be scrutinized before being considered a Nickelodeon classic.
Even a few before then.

I really like a lot of Nicktoons, but compared to CN and Disney's '90s output, they were an easy third place to me as a whole.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 22, 2012, 08:42:31 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on March 22, 2012, 08:31:38 PM
...

I'll make that line. Anything past 1996 should be scrutinized before being considered a Nickelodeon classic.

Hey, now there's a discussion idea! This thread has been pretty dead lately as it is anyway, so let's have it.

What would you guys consider a "modern" Nickelodeon classic? This is going by Avaitor's rule of anything made past 1996. For me personally, without using the term "classic" as liberally as possible, the only one I'd go as far to say that qualifies is pre-movie Spongebob (1999-2004). I could throw in a few debatable options (Hey Arnold, Angry Beavers, Zim, etc.), but that's probably a stretch. And even though I've said numerous times in the past that I have absolutely no shame in admitting I like My Life as a Teenage Robot, it's far from a classic.

So yeah, what say you guys? Agree, disagree? What are your choices for modern Nick classics, if any at all?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on March 22, 2012, 08:46:31 PM
Angry Beavers and Avatar. That's pretty much it.

Angry Beavers for being highly an unpredictable and stunningly original comedy when most Nicktoons were simply not funny at the time, and avatar for being highly ambitious and pretty much succeeding despite a few weaker moments.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 22, 2012, 09:05:31 PM
I actually forgot to mention Avatar. Now I'm embarrassed. O_o

Nah, but really; while I'm probably not as crazy about as most people ("best thing Nick has ever done" is something I continue to disagree with), I would consider it a classic as well. Now unless I'm forgetting something else - and I don't think I am - that's probably it for me.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 22, 2012, 09:06:35 PM
Add Zim and Ned to that list.

And I put 96 as the ending point since that was the year that gave us Arnold, K&K, and Kablam!, when the older shows were starting to get taken off, like Lassie, and when the less-memorable shows, like Allen Strange and Shelby Woo, were about to start coming non-stop. I think it's a pretty good point to start with.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 22, 2012, 09:06:55 PM
The Brothers Garcia. :happytime:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on March 22, 2012, 09:14:07 PM
Ned is definitely one of the few live action shows I can stomach from that era. It's actually quite sad how few kid shows have tried to move beyond it, but just end up either being too cartoony or not cartoony enough.

Honestly, I don't even remember most live action Nick shows after it up until recently.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 22, 2012, 09:19:01 PM
Big Time Rush tries so hard to be like Ned, but fails so miserably because the writing is just that lackluster. Hard to believe the guy that was in charge of Ned is also in charge of this (and Johnny Test, but that's... another story).

...well, there's that, and then there's the whole "pushing CD's of the terrible soundtrack" side business they've got going on there. Either way, that show is just a mess.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 22, 2012, 09:24:39 PM
The type of humor on Ned really isn't suited for shows like BTR. It sucks to say that going back to the live-studio audience/laugh track sitcom route for anything, especially considering Disney's recent history with series like these, but it really does fit for music-based product placement like that.

I'd like to see more one-camera laugh track-less shows on Nick and Disney, but I doubt they'll be on the quality of Ned.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on March 22, 2012, 09:31:05 PM
At least we can agree that BTR is more bearable than the Naked Brothers Band, right? :sly:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 22, 2012, 09:34:49 PM
Quote from: Rynnec on March 22, 2012, 09:31:05 PM
At least we can agree that BTR is more bearable than the Naked Brothers Band, right? :sly:
I can understand what NBB was going for, even if it sucked at it.

Still, NBB was more interesting to watch than this How To Rock show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on March 22, 2012, 09:35:51 PM
Please stop selling me popular music from 1998. That's all I ask from these shows.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 22, 2012, 09:37:49 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on March 22, 2012, 09:35:51 PM
Please stop selling me popular music from 1998. That's all I ask from these shows.
Nah, we have to mine from the past as much as possible.

God, I realize how realistic Futurama has become.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 23, 2012, 06:42:00 PM
This is interesting. A while ago, I sent a fanmail letter to the block's tumblr page, and they just responded to me now. I don't have access to the letter anymore, but I asked if they could air YCDTOTV. Here's their reply.

Thanks! YCDTOTv is a little tough since it was back before people thought of making things for the internet, but we?ll see what we can dig up!
? 90sareallthat

Well, it's easy as hell to find episodes of the show, aside from the first season, which only aired in Canada and was shot live with no back-up tapes made, one episode aside, but it's cool that they even replied to me.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 24, 2012, 05:11:43 AM
I'm surprised they did respond. I've asked them numerous times over Twitter why they continue to acknowledge Legends as frequently as they do, yet haven't even touched it in months, and I get a whole lot of nothing in response.

I don't use tumblr though, so I guess that's not really an option for me. Eh.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 02, 2012, 05:59:37 PM
Oh hey, the page is having another poll asking which shows would you like to see in a U-Pick. The shows are Ren & Stimpy, Rocket Power, Legends of the Hidden Temple, and Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Naturally, I slided with Legends. AYAOTD has aired a lot more and the other two aren't as appealing as it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on April 02, 2012, 06:37:14 PM
I hope it's Legends by a landslide, but I doubt it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on April 02, 2012, 07:08:39 PM
Rocket Power is winning last I checked.

(http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp160/Daxdiv/Reaction%20shots/ashdisappointface.png)

Seriously people, I don't know what you see in that show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on April 02, 2012, 07:15:36 PM
Yeah, $20 says it'll be Rocket Power.

Seems like all the nostalgics besides those of us here continue to hold a soft spot for that dreck. I don't get it; I really don't. You'd think after the umpteenth "woogity woogity woogity" they'd just say to themselves "wow, this sucks".

Ugh, whatever.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on April 02, 2012, 07:21:22 PM
Well, hopefully once they see it again, they'll realize how terrible the show is to anyone above the age of twelve. I believe it's only aired once on the block anyway.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 02, 2012, 07:23:07 PM
Well Rocket Power got the most votes last time too, and it didn't make that U-Pick. Who knows.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 04, 2012, 08:58:28 PM
Welp, I was wrong. The U-Pick is between CatDog and Rocket Power.

You know how I said that the only thing I'd vote for CatDog for is if it was up against RP or shows that air every week? Still standing by that.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on April 04, 2012, 09:00:41 PM
I wonder if anyone legitimately likes Rocket Power anymore? I've never heard people talk positively about it beyond nostalgia.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 04, 2012, 09:05:41 PM
It's nostalgia. Completely.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Foggle on April 04, 2012, 09:12:14 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on April 04, 2012, 08:58:28 PM
Welp, I was wrong. The U-Pick is between CatDog and Rocket Power.
:zonk:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 04, 2012, 09:33:25 PM
Eh, don't worry about it, I guess. Apparently this is only for the block's streaming site, and the winner will have a few episodes up on there. There isn't going to be a U-Pick for a little while.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 16, 2012, 11:44:08 AM
Rocket Power won and has some eps up on the site now. Still not on the block though.

Oh, and apparently they started airing season 5 of All That last week. I just found this out now, so I'm recording it again.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Foggle on April 16, 2012, 12:08:27 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on April 16, 2012, 11:44:08 AM
Rocket Power won
:unimpressed:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 16, 2012, 02:11:48 PM
Quote from: Foggle on April 16, 2012, 12:08:27 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on April 16, 2012, 11:44:08 AM
Rocket Power won
:unimpressed:
Eh, between it and CatDog, there wasn't much to root for.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on April 16, 2012, 02:47:54 PM
I rather watch CatDog over Rocket Power any day of the week to be quite honest.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on April 16, 2012, 06:06:31 PM
I've come to the conclusion that the people who still like Rocket Power will always continue to like it, either simply for the nostalgia, or their tastes are just that bad. Looking at some of the full episodes posted on Youtube (Insommy sent one to me to make fun of on Twitter, but I haven't been in the mood to do it yet) the comments section is just littered with stuff like "OMG I MIS DIZ SHO SO MUHCH!!!!!1" and "OH THAT TITO LOLOLOLOL". I mean, it's right there for people to watch and witness first hand how truly terrible it is, and yet they still act as if they like it. I really don't think it's a case of people just remembering having watched it as a kid and liking it for only that reason, but forgetting what it was all about like we thought.

Nostalgia certainly is a funny thing sometimes.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 17, 2012, 09:07:10 AM
Oh wow, I just learned that Kaylee from Firefly played Catalina in Space Cases. I have no idea how I didn't make the connection before.

Also, Book was the voice of Susie's dad in Rugrats.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on April 22, 2012, 05:23:36 PM
Picked up both Pete and Pete DVD sets for 7 bucks!  Awesome.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on April 22, 2012, 09:07:07 PM
Ooo, sweet pickup!
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 23, 2012, 05:53:45 PM
http://90sareallthat.tumblr.com/post/21662268813/90s-question

I hope this doesn't mean that they consider airing it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on April 23, 2012, 06:37:37 PM
 :wth:

That would all but kill the block for me if they actually did this. Even if they aired the good stuff from 99-02, it would be a lateral move at best.

One of the nice things about having a block like this, theoretically, is that it's a good excuse to still air stuff on TV that'll never be on DVD otherwise (LIKE LEGENDS, AHEM AHEM). Spongebob, on the other hand, is more readily available than any Nicktoon ever. It's pretty much the only one that has complete season sets on DVD that weren't done on a dimestore budget, it airs on the main channel all the time... and hell, just for the sake of argument; other than the early half of Season 1, there's nothing inherently 90's about it. It's about as 90's as FOP.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 23, 2012, 06:42:39 PM
I think they're just asking if it would be okay to post SpongeBob stuff on their tumblr page, rather than air it on the block. There's no reason for them to air it, since it's on Nickelodeon every day, is up-to-date on DVD, is on Netflix, etc.

But eh, if anything, it's more 90's than Rocket Power and The Amanda Show. It still doesn't belong on here, though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on April 23, 2012, 06:50:52 PM
Still though, why bother? It's not a show that is synonymous with that era of Nickelodeon. It may be a 1999 debut, but it's much more closely associated with the era that followed, one that basically all but buried classic Nick.

Look, I like Spongebob, but there's a time and place for it, and to me, this just doesn't fit. It's on the main channel. It's on Nicktoons. It's on DVD. It's on Netflix. The merchandise is everywhere. Even if it is only tumblr, I just can't see why it has to be there now as well. It's a good show (well, the pre-movie stuff is anyway), but come on, it's not THAT good.

...also, just curious; why did you mention The Amanda Show in the same context? I don't use tumblr, so I'm in the dark here, but do they actually talk about that on there? Because if so,  :srs:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 23, 2012, 06:54:12 PM
Well they've acknowledged the show's existence numerous times before, including posting stuff on tumblr, and there's plenty of nostalgia for it elsewhere. I think since it airs on TeenNick during the day, it won't appear on the block, but there's definite interest in it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 25, 2012, 10:57:34 PM
Another online U-Pick poll. This time, it's for Double Dare, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, My Brother and Me, and Ren & Stimpy.

The former 2 are winning, which is just how I want it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on May 06, 2012, 01:04:06 PM
Thankfully those two did indeed win.

And vote Double Dare. The AYAOTD eps have already aired on the block.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on May 22, 2012, 10:14:45 PM
AYAOTD won the poll anyway. Oh well, at least it doesn't suck.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 11, 2012, 04:13:21 PM
Figure It Out starts tonight at 7:00. New episodes each weekday.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on June 11, 2012, 04:57:08 PM
Looks like the first episode features the cast of Victorious, if the Facebook teaser is any indication.

Eh, I'll give it a shot. Still wish they would've brought back Double Dare or Legends first though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 11, 2012, 05:13:18 PM
Yeah, they're sticking to tradition by having Nick stars figure out the kid's special talents in particular. I think they're sticking to one particular cast per episode rather than combining different people, like when they would have Danny Tamberelli, Lori Beth Denberg and Phil Moore together.

Works either way, really.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on June 11, 2012, 05:20:07 PM
Well, I will say that I am glad they're kinda reviving the gameshow tradition here. For the longest time, the only thing they had going was BrainSurge, which was okay I guess, but not great (and extremely inconsistent as far as actual airings and timeslots went; most of the time, I couldn't even find out when it was on).

Hopefully this does well. It'd be cool if they at least toyed with the idea of bringing some of the others back.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 11, 2012, 05:39:27 PM
I thought they were still making Brainsurge.

But yeah, I'd like for them to do more game shows. Maybe if the Double Dare attraction at Orlando is popular enough with kids, they'll tape it for Nick there. They already allowed for one recording, if you wanna check it out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlP0dljCF-4).

Legends I'd love to see revived the most besides DD. Finders Keepers would be fun, too. I wouldn't mind if they tried another new game show or two as well though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 11, 2012, 06:32:53 PM
Well I guess we were wrong- only 2 of the 4 panelists were from Victorious. I didn't recognize the other 2. I'm pretty sure everyone in tomorrow's episode will be from Big Time Rush though.

But that was very fun. It's almost exactly identical to the original version in terms of content. The new judge isn't Summer Sanders, and today's Nick stars aren't as fun as Lori Beth, but this is the best we're gonna get. And I actually really like the new set. It's a lot more colorful and inviting than the original, which I never thought was too special or unique.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 22, 2012, 08:37:05 PM
So starting on Monday, they're going to air All That and Kenan & Kel on Nick@Nite, right at the start at 8:00.

I think it's pretty cool myself, and a step in the right direction. Maybe now we can get some of the other 90's shows the block has been neglecting on there as well.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on June 22, 2012, 08:46:01 PM
Oh wow, that's pretty cool. Finally some 90s Nick material on a channel I have.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 22, 2012, 08:49:36 PM
At a reasonable hour, too. ;)

I wonder if this is going to be a set-up for the block to be integrated to Nick@Nite, or a set-up for N@N to start up at 9 again. Both would be welcome and smart decisions, IMO.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Lord Dalek on June 22, 2012, 11:15:29 PM
If they weren't averse to airing game shows, I'd kill to see OG Double Dare and Finders Keepers on N@N.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 17, 2012, 04:33:54 PM
So they're dropping All That and Kenan & Kel for more Victorious at 8. This proves my belief that they were testing the waters to see whether or not they should give Nick the 8 PM hour back.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 25, 2012, 11:21:03 AM
The 1-year anniversary of the block's existence was last night, and what did they do to commemorate it? Nothing. They just aired the same old All That, Kenan & Kel and hour of Hey Arnold!

I gave up on the block months ago when the last change they made was adding in season 5 of All That. It's obvious that they don't care anymore, and it's surprising that it and the Facebook page are still up at all.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on July 25, 2012, 07:05:03 PM
Well, they did just acknowledge the one-year anniversary on their Twitter page (and may have also done so on Facebook, but I dunno, since I haven't checked that today). So at least they didn't completely forget.

Still though, this block has been dead to me for months. Occasionally I'll find myself in the mood to watch this stuff, but with so little variety, it's a far cry from watching it almost every night like I was at this time last year. Hell, I can't even really remember the last time I tuned in. Maybe 2-3 months ago, if that? Something along those lines, I'm sure.

It is disappointing that they lost interest so quickly, but I suppose that's pretty much par for the course when it comes to Nick. This is exactly what happened the last time they tried a nostalgia block, back in 2004-2005 or whenever it was. It's a shame, but it is what it is.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on July 26, 2012, 12:34:30 AM
Can't say I'm suprised really. This block had a lot of potential, and Nick just squandered it. Quite sad when you consider how big they were hyping the block up last year.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on July 26, 2012, 01:23:30 AM
Well we all know why this failed and it is because of Nick's damn faulty scheduling. I see they're learning nothing about why Disney is kicking their asses in the ratings and why Cartoon Network is catching up to them.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 02, 2012, 03:51:17 PM
Wanna know what's next for Dan Schneider? (http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/08/02/nickelodeon-icarly-spinoff-victorious/)

Well I have minor interest in the Sam and Cat show, since I like both actors and their characters. But I wasn't expecting him to make spin-offs like these.

Edit: HOLY SHIT.

They're changing the lineup around, at least for the weekend. The original Figure It Out at the start and end, plus Legends and Family Double Dare in between. I hope this sticks around.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 02, 2012, 04:16:27 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 02, 2012, 03:51:17 PM
Wanna know what's next for Dan Schneider? (http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/08/02/nickelodeon-icarly-spinoff-victorious/)

Well I have minor interest in the Sam and Cat show, since I like both actors and their characters. But I wasn't expecting him to make spin-offs like these.

Wow.  :srs:

One thing I can see coming out of this, though... Jennette McCurdy will be the next Drake Bell, if she's not already. She'll be hogtied into working with Nick well into her 20's. CALLING IT.

Quote from: Avaitor on August 02, 2012, 03:51:17 PM
They're changing the lineup around, at least for the weekend. The original Figure It Out at the start and end, plus Legends and Family Double Dare in between. I hope this sticks around.

Now there's something I actually care about.

It's about damn time. I mean, really; this is the first lineup change in, what, a good 2-3 months at least? Whatever though, I'll take it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 02, 2012, 04:22:57 PM
Quote from: Kiddington on August 02, 2012, 04:16:27 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 02, 2012, 03:51:17 PM
Wanna know what's next for Dan Schneider? (http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/08/02/nickelodeon-icarly-spinoff-victorious/)

Well I have minor interest in the Sam and Cat show, since I like both actors and their characters. But I wasn't expecting him to make spin-offs like these.

Wow.  :srs:

One thing I can see coming out of this, though... Jennette McCurdy will be the next Drake Bell, if she's not already. She'll be hogtied into working with Nick well into her 20's. CALLING IT.
It could be worse. Jerry Trainor is also reported to have a pilot being sold for Nick, too. Chances are he'll still be on Nick until his 40's himself.

Quote from: Kiddington on August 02, 2012, 04:16:27 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 02, 2012, 03:51:17 PM
They're changing the lineup around, at least for the weekend. The original Figure It Out at the start and end, plus Legends and Family Double Dare in between. I hope this sticks around.

Now there's something I actually care about.

It's about damn time. I mean, really; this is the first lineup change in, what, a good 2-3 months at least? Whatever though, I'll take it.
Depends on how you cut it. The last time there was any kind of schedule change was back in March when they ran Salute Your Shorts during St. Patrick's Day weekend, and that was almost 5 months ago. In terms of actual lineup changes, the last major one was when they dropped U-Pick in January. But you can even say that the last change was in November when they made the All That-Kenan & Kel-Nicktoon hour lineup.

So yeah, this is welcome. Although you'd think they would have done this sooner, when the new Figure It Out started. Well I guess the show is doing better then they were expecting, which is why they're doing something about it now.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 02, 2012, 04:28:56 PM
Wow, it's actually been a lot longer than I thought. Shows how much I haven't been keeping up with the block (in my defense, though, there just hasn't been anything there to interest me in ages; every time I'd look at the guide, it was the same episodes of All That or K&K that I've already seen too recently to care about watching again).

Quote from: Avaitor on August 02, 2012, 04:22:57 PM
It could be worse. Jerry Trainor is also reported to have a pilot being sold for Nick, too. Chances are he'll still be on Nick until his 40's himself.

:wth:

See, I don't even get that. The guy is like 35 years old; is he really that popular with Nick's target audience?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on August 02, 2012, 04:31:21 PM
That sounds like a horrendous idea for a show. But then, this is the easiest way for Nick to make more shows, so unless this fails, they probably won't be making anything original for a long time.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 02, 2012, 04:34:29 PM
Yeah, the only thing that interested me in a long time was that they started airing season 5 of All That a few months ago. And watching some of that, I can see that the cracks were starting to slip in the series at that point.

Another interesting thing is that the block skipped the vast majority of season 2 during Rugrats' first run. Seasons 1 and 3 aired mostly in tact, a few eps aside, but 2 only had its most popular episodes, like "Chuckie vs the Potty", and the playground showdown one. During its second run, they skipped most of the original episodes to go straight to the 1997 ones, which is REALLY lame IMO. They also skip most of the last season, which, conversely, isn't a big loss.

As for Jerry, Spencer is the most popular aspect of iCarly. Admittedly that isn't such a big deal though, since Miranda Cosgrove is easily the least popular part of the entire show. And he does a good job on the show. But on his own? I don't think I could stomach it.

It'll probably be better than the Gibby show, though. Who the hell wants that?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 04, 2012, 01:38:51 AM
Well this was a fun night. Legends and Double Dare are always welcome, and this is the first time I've seen the original Figure It Out since GAS ended. If there's one thing it has on the new one, the prizes are a lot cooler. I mean, props from LOTHT, Double Dare and Clarissa? I don't know about you, but I'd take one of those over a kayak or scooter any day.

It's also interesting to see how Summer Sanders and Jeff Sutphen differ. Sanders is more of a motherly figure, who holds onto the contestant's shoulders during the game and talks with the panelists when they're stalling for time. Sutphen is more of a big brother, in that he's similarly nice to the contestants, but more sarcastic to the panelists and willing to make a bigger mess. I think they're both very good in separate ways, but I also really like the new version of FIO, which not everyone else seems to for some reason.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on August 04, 2012, 01:52:37 AM
I also don't get this dislike for the new Figure It Out. It still feels like the same show to me. But then again, I just subscribe to the theory that people probably don't like the current batch of Nick starlets or some lame shit like that. Though I do kind of like this new host a little bit more than Summer. From the few episodes I saw, I actually liked how Jeff actually chased after either a panelist and a kid just so they can get slimed when they dodged the slime. I laughed when he was like "OH NO YOU DON'T!"
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 07, 2012, 12:17:00 PM
You know what show I just remembered? Romeo.

God that one sucked. Most of the live-action Nick shows from the early aughts did, but that's one of the ones that seemed to stick regardless. I think it was still on when the better ones like Drake & Josh and Ned started, too, although they changed it around a lot. I think it went from a live-studio audience show to a laugh track to mute.

I bring this up because I just found out that his little sister is the star of Nick's show How to Rock, and he's going to appear in an episode soon. See, nepotism in Hollywood is real.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 10, 2012, 06:36:07 PM
Wow, apparently Victorious was ending. I was not expecting that, and apparently neither was Dan Schneider, since Nick just didn't renew it beyond this season.

You probably already know that iCarly's ending too, and so is Big Time Rush. It looks like Nick is cleaning house.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on August 10, 2012, 06:37:26 PM
*notices that they're making a Sam and Cat spin-off, as well as one for Gibby*

Not really.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 10, 2012, 06:42:39 PM
Well I mean they're cutting out the older stuff to try new things. Their newer shows could also end at any moment, since they're nowhere are popular as these 3.

And it looks like I'm wrong- they have 15 episodes of Victorious left to shoot. Schneider just said that there wasn't going to be a season 4, which I thought meant it was over, since I though it was already on season 3.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on August 15, 2012, 05:14:50 PM
Nick probably does need to clean house. They're sinking fast.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 19, 2012, 01:27:49 PM
Oh, I was wrong, Big Time Rush was renewed. I find that weird, since Victorious seems to do a lot better, but I guess it's staying around because their music does very well and Nick wants to hold onto them for a little while longer.

That or they're compensating to make up for the One Direction show they tried to make but didn't happen.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on August 19, 2012, 04:04:48 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 15, 2012, 05:14:50 PM
Nick probably does need to clean house. They're sinking fast.

What they should do is air DBZKai/GT and Hero Factory on regular Nick, give more airings to Power Rangers, air TMNT2k3 in preparation for the new Ninja Turtles cartoon, aquire more action shows (Fairy Tail would've been a good pick, and airing the original Dragonball is a no-brainer), make more Nicktoons, and put Korra premieres on Prime-time.

Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 19, 2012, 04:39:21 PM
Quote from: Rynnec on August 19, 2012, 04:04:48 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 15, 2012, 05:14:50 PM
Nick probably does need to clean house. They're sinking fast.

What they should do is air DBZKai/GT and Hero Factory on regular Nick, give more airings to Power Rangers, air TMNT2k3 in preparation for the new Ninja Turtles cartoon, aquire more action shows (Fairy Tail would've been a good pick, and airing the original Dragonball is a no-brainer), make more Nicktoons, and put Korra premieres on Prime-time.

The whole point of them revamping the Nicktoons channel some odd years ago (from endless 90's reruns to original "boy" centric programming) was their excuse to NOT do those things with the regular channel, though.

Ratings be damned, they've made it quite clear what they want Nick standard to be; 70% Dan Schneider (I mean really, a fucking Gibby series?), 29% SpongeBob, 1% other. Basically, a tween station driven by the same 2-3 creative influences. If that's their attitude, then let 'em enjoy 3rd place I say.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on August 22, 2012, 08:31:36 PM
Quote from: Rynnec on August 19, 2012, 04:04:48 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 15, 2012, 05:14:50 PM
Nick probably does need to clean house. They're sinking fast.

What they should do is air DBZKai/GT and Hero Factory on regular Nick, give more airings to Power Rangers, air TMNT2k3 in preparation for the new Ninja Turtles cartoon, aquire more action shows (Fairy Tail would've been a good pick, and airing the original Dragonball is a no-brainer), make more Nicktoons, and put Korra premieres on Prime-time.
Yeah, like Kiddington said they already showed they don't have any interest in doing anything to improve ratings.

It might be because they've been relying on the same things for over a decade now that they forgot how they even got where they were. They need to remember what they did when they started the channel and do something like that with brand new shows.

It's sad that YTV up here has basically turned itself into a Canadian Nick, guaranteed whenever I flip by it the same exact shows Nick milks incessantly are also on there.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 23, 2012, 04:34:19 PM
With more action shows on the main channel, I really don't see that happening. Action shows just do not do as well as comedy series, on Nick, CN or anywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if Phineas & Ferb and Suite Life repeats do better on Disney XD than the Marvel shows.

The Avatar franchise is an obvious exception to the rule, though. They definitely should do more with LOK than relegate it to Saturday morning premieres. Air premieres on a more presentable hour and try to find some time for repeats.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 25, 2012, 08:07:35 PM
In other, random news, Ned is returning to regular Nick now. Maybe they saw my list?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 10, 2012, 07:07:48 PM
Well, this is interesting. (http://tvshowsondvd.com/n/17476)

It's MOD... but hey, still something.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on September 10, 2012, 07:14:16 PM
Eh, after rewatching a bit of the show, it's only good for some nostalgia value and a cheap laugh.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 10, 2012, 07:35:19 PM
Don't even bother, they're half-assed "Best ofs" taken from Nick's iTunes sets.

Poor substitutes for the Canadian releases.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on September 10, 2012, 07:37:28 PM
Dude, even if it was a pristine DVD set with tons of commentaries, featurettes by esteemed horror authors, and behind the scenes footage, I'd still probably not buy it since I don't like the show that much.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on September 10, 2012, 07:54:55 PM
You know, I think I'm honestly inclined to agree.

Granted I haven't watched this show a ton over the years, but when I do, it feels a lot like Doug or Hey Dude; it invokes nostalgia, but nothing much beyond that.

I dunno.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 10, 2012, 07:56:42 PM
I still like it, but yeah, it's not that scary at all. It's pretty silly, in fact. But I still think it's fun more often than not.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 25, 2012, 01:04:47 AM
Season 2 of new Figure It Out is going to air in 20 days.

That's crazy fast, but hey, the first season did very well. Until the DirectTV blackout and repeats halfway through the season started.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on September 25, 2012, 01:05:25 AM
Already? Feels like it just came back.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 25, 2012, 01:08:13 AM
I know! It only ended like a couple of months ago.

And yeah, I actually did really like the revival. Yeah, yeah, Summer Sanders is gone and the current Nick stars aren't Lori Beth, Danny and Marc Weiner, but hell, it's the same exact show, and it's more entertaining the than tired SpongeBob repeats and tired kidcoms that take up the rest of Nick's schedule.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on September 25, 2012, 01:38:23 AM
Hey, any excuse to get more Figure It Out on TV is a good thing. I still new love this new host more than I like Summer Sanders.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 27, 2012, 06:53:09 PM
"Any of you guys remember the Nickelodeon classic You Can't Do That on Television? Shout! is also releasing a feature-length documentary on the series, You Can't Do That on Film, on DVD only on 10/16. The disc will include a rare interview with show creator Roger Price, extended cast and crew interviews, recaps of the SlimeCon and SlimeCon 2004 fan conventions and cast reunions, outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage from The Official Reunion Episode Titled Project 131 and more."

Dalek sent me this. This is pretty big news, since a lot of this stuff is something that you'd never expect to be on DVD. And hopefully, the show will follow.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 22, 2012, 06:59:48 PM
A review for You Can't Do That on Film is out. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/10/16/163011261/you-cant-do-that-on-film-a-performance-documentary-without-performance-footage)

It does sound pretty good, even if it is disappointing to not have any footage of the show on here. I'll try to find it, or even order online, in hopes that sets of the show follow.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on October 22, 2012, 07:24:16 PM
I didn't know this was a thing, huh.  Maybe I'll check it out, although I got to say I don't have too many fond memories of the show, I was just old enough to watch it fade away from the network.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 28, 2012, 02:15:36 PM
I was afraid that the block wasn't going to bother with airing anything for Halloween this year, but it looks like my fears were wrong. They'll be airing a couple of episodes of AYAOTD, as well as some of the Halloween episodes for the shows that air on a regular basis (Arnold aside though, for some reason).

When Doug's episode airs, this will make it the first show to have all of its episodes air on the block, which is a pretty cool fact.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on October 28, 2012, 03:48:22 PM
I think this is the first special thing they've done all year.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 28, 2012, 03:50:39 PM
Nope, they had the Rocko marathon on Superbowl weekend, the SYS marathon on St. Patty's day weekend, and that game show weekend a couple of months ago.

This is the first time they've done anything since that last one though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on October 28, 2012, 04:01:41 PM
Oh yeah, forgot about those.

They should've kept airing the gameshows on the weekends though. Kinda dissapointed that it was only a one-time thing.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 28, 2012, 06:00:15 PM
I can't believe the block even still exists at this point. Your average nostalgia block is usually one and done after a couple of weeks, at most.

What has it been now, like a year and a half? That's actually pretty impressive, even if 90% of the time they've been on autopilot.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 28, 2012, 06:03:36 PM
Well it isn't like there's much else TeenNick can do with the time frame. Aside from new episodes of their shows and maybe DeGrassi repeats, it is still the highest rated part of the network, and all they really have to replace it are more DeGrassi repeats (they already fill up the network's ENTIRE primetime slots with that show on a regular basis) or the handful of 00's Nick shows they air during the day.

Even now, Rugrats and Doug would still do better at that time than Drake & Josh or Ned would.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 28, 2012, 06:14:21 PM
They could always air The Amanda Show instead.  :>

Nah, but yeah, I see what you mean. If they tried this on Nick standard, it surely would have been shitcanned by now. As a channel, Teen Nick can barely continue to justify its existence as it is, so they might as well keep it around.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 29, 2012, 06:28:28 PM
Matt Bennett from Victorious is a big Rugrats fan (isn't ever 90's kid?), and for his birthday, they sent him this.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me9ydnCpRX1qd8z57o2_500.png)

Are these Amazon's DVD-Rs, or are these actual season sets?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on November 29, 2012, 06:38:01 PM
THAT'S NOT FAIR.

I think those are probably DVD-R sets.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 29, 2012, 06:52:06 PM
Yeah, those are the Amazon sets. If you look closely, you can see the "Best Of" label on Seasons 2 and 9.

Still though, that's pretty sweet (if not painfully cruel for the rest of us) nonetheless.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 29, 2012, 06:58:32 PM
I was figuring, but I thought they had different covers. But yeah, the "Best of" titles are a hint.

I do wonder if the time comes and there are plans to release the show on DVD, will Nick be able to find prints of the missing episodes from these sets? If not and Shout still doesn't have the rights to the show, I think that Nick would just skip over those episodes. I highly doubt they would find pirated copies of them like Shout had to do with the "missing" Hey Dude episode in one of their sets.

And I also wonder if Nick ever does stuff like this for their other star's birthdays. Like, if I was working for them, do you think they'd send me a Salute Your Shorts set or something?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 29, 2012, 07:09:26 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on November 29, 2012, 06:58:32 PM
And I also wonder if Nick ever does stuff like this for their other star's birthdays. Like, if I was working for them, do you think they'd send me a Salute Your Shorts set or something?

Something interesting to think about, but I doubt it.

It was probably easy enough for them to send him this particular gift, because the sets already exist, even if it is DVD-R.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 29, 2012, 07:18:09 PM
Yeah, I'm just reaching there. The est of the Rocko sets I'm missing would be more of a possibility.

But I am surprised that they're giving someone like him such a sweet gift when his show was recently cancelled.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 29, 2012, 07:28:12 PM
Putting it that way, sounds more like a going-away present to me.

Hey, I'd take it.  :happytime:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 30, 2012, 02:23:05 PM
Well speaking of Victorious, Sam and Cat just got picked up. It remains to be seen if Gibby does as well, though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on November 30, 2012, 02:47:08 PM
That wasn't all too surprising. though I would have thought Gibby would have been obvious. I guess we'll see.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 30, 2012, 02:54:01 PM
Sam and Cat is the only one I have marginal interest in, because of Jennette and Ariana.

Do kids even like Gibby anymore? I know that he was one of the most popular recurring characters on the show before joining full time, but I didn't think anyone cared about him when he went through puberty. Besides, the only thing of value Gibby ever did was invent cheesecake.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on November 30, 2012, 02:58:06 PM
That's a good point, I don't remember seeing anybody actually talk about Gibby even the kids I've seen that like the show.  That might be a network (or writer) thing where they incessantly push a character that fans don't like and assume they do. Sort of a Cheese thing.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 30, 2012, 03:00:23 PM
I do remember there being a similar story with Woody from Suite Life on Deck. He apparently would get the biggest applause at the end of taped shows, but tested poorly otherwise, which is why Disney never pushed him into the credits.

Which reminds me, maybe one of these days I will write about those Disney kidcoms like I said I would elsewhere. I surprisingly have a lot to say.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on November 30, 2012, 03:04:38 PM
I wouldn't mind reading that. I find them good for mindless background noise, but even then they seem to blend together into one mutant of a show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 29, 2012, 10:52:34 PM
So I've been in the mood to watch a little Kenan & Kel, which caused me to check it's airings tomorrow night (I would've recorded it tonight, but I have Now, Voyager scheduled to record at its time), and lo and behold, I see that the block is airing a mini Clarissa marathon instead. Four episodes that I don't recall airing on the network.

They're airing a K&K marathon tonight, and it looks like they're doing ones for Rugrats during the rest of the week. At least according to my guide. If it's true, that's pretty cool.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on December 30, 2012, 11:16:50 AM
Quote from: Avaitor on November 29, 2012, 06:28:28 PM(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me9ydnCpRX1qd8z57o2_500.png)

I love how they have Dil's gaping maw for the season 5 cover. They're basically telling you, "Yeah, you should probably stop here."
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 30, 2012, 11:49:03 AM
Quote from: Daikun on December 30, 2012, 11:16:50 AM
Quote from: Avaitor on November 29, 2012, 06:28:28 PM(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me9ydnCpRX1qd8z57o2_500.png)

I love how they have Dil's gaping maw for the season 5 cover. They're basically telling you, "Yeah, you should probably stop here."
Well if seeing Dil's face isn't enough incentive to stop buying, I don't know what is.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on December 30, 2012, 10:31:11 PM
Why am I just now noticing how hilariously awful that cover art is? Really, like, practically all of it. I especially love how Kimi is showing her own disapproval of Season 8 with a firm thumbs down.

If we ever get official sets, I sure hope they do better.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 30, 2012, 10:32:18 PM
While Phil and Lil are laughing at whoever's still buying the show at this point.

And Reptar seems to have no idea what the hell he's doing there at all.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on December 30, 2012, 10:34:33 PM
This is why, the more and more I think about, I probably wouldn't shell out the necessary big bucks on a Complete Series set. Because quite frankly, a good 60% of it would be a huge waste of money.

I'd probably just buy these MOD sets and be done with it if Season 2 was actually, you know, all there. But it's not, and here we are.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 30, 2012, 11:58:23 PM
Who knows, maybe Nick will finally make a quality set or two of the show. The "missing" episodes have aired on the block by now, so obviously they should be fine to air.

Speaking of the block, the Clarissa eps are recording, and the Facebook page seems way more active than usual. 'tis a good sign.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on December 31, 2012, 02:36:09 AM
I just assumed that Reptar is happy because people remembered him, either that or smiling because you're finally finished from the hell of buying these Rugrats MOD DVDS.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on December 31, 2012, 01:27:57 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on December 30, 2012, 11:58:23 PM
Who knows, maybe Nick will finally make a quality set or two of the show. The "missing" episodes have aired on the block by now, so obviously they should be fine to air.

Speaking of the block, the Clarissa eps are recording, and the Facebook page seems way more active than usual. 'tis a good sign.

The tumblr page is also (somewhat) alive again as well.

Hmm...
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 31, 2012, 02:09:15 PM
Yeah, they've actually been making their own gifs, too.

There's speculation that the block is showing off these shows one more time before they replace the lineup, and since we're getting a week full of Rugrats marathons starting tonight, and one for Arnold next week, who knows, that may be possible.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on December 31, 2012, 05:40:07 PM
The promo shown at the end of the Clarissa marathon showed clips of Alex Mack, My Brother and Me, and LotHT, so hopefully that's a sign of things to come.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 31, 2012, 05:50:03 PM
Oh yeah, they did make a new promo. I think I also caught Double Dare and even GUTS in there as well.

That was surprising. They also showed the original credits to at least one CEIA episode.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 01:00:06 PM
Actually, I think the block's done for. The website has been deactivated.

Maybe they're relocating and updating it, but it's not a good sign.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on January 09, 2013, 01:05:58 PM
Meanwhile, Drake & Josh is still on the main Nick channel every night. It's like their only attempt at nostalgia and it's a Dan Schneider show. It's not like Nick isn't already crawling with them all over the schedule.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 01:10:27 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on January 09, 2013, 01:05:58 PM
Meanwhile, Drake & Josh is still on the main Nick channel every night. It's like their only attempt at nostalgia and it's a Dan Schneider show. It's not like Nick isn't already crawling with them all over the schedule.
Actually, they really aren't. Victorious isn't on the weekday schedule at all anymore, and I think iCarly has been AWOL since the finale aired. You can expect Vic to be gone when it's end comes, as well.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on January 09, 2013, 01:15:17 PM
That's... odd. Other than Spongebob and Dan Schneider shows, I've yet to see them push anything else. I guess they're cleaning house for sweeps, but what do they have to fill the schedule with?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 01:17:25 PM
Surprisingly, FOP has had a big come back on the schedule lately.

It's really never going to end, is it? Even when SpongeBob is over, they'll still keep Odd Parents on, if only because Nick forgot to do anything else with it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on January 09, 2013, 07:30:31 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 01:00:06 PM
Actually, I think the block's done for. The website has been deactivated.

Maybe they're relocating and updating it, but it's not a good sign.

Considering they haven't done anything to it in months, does that really come as a surprise?

Quite frankly, I'm surprised it's even lasted this long. A nearly two-year run for a nostalgia block? Most of the time these types of things are lucky to top six months, if that.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 07:59:54 PM
I thought it'd still stick around in autopilot for a while, since TeenNick really has nothing better to air in its place, but yeah, it was nice to have the block while it lasted, even if the past year or so was the same old, same old.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on January 09, 2013, 10:06:22 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 07:59:54 PM
I thought it'd still stick around in autopilot for a while, since TeenNick really has nothing better to air in its place, but yeah, it was nice to have the block while it lasted, even if the past year or so was the same old, same old.

Amandamandamandamandamanda mandamandamandamanda shooooooooooooooooooooooow  :sly:

...but seriously, point taken I guess. It should be interesting to see what they do with such nondescript timeslots in its place. If I had to guess, probably just more Everybody Hates Chris or Degrassi reruns; that channel is nothing to write home about when it comes to scheduling innovation.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 10:13:50 PM
TeenNick's primetime lineup literally consists of nothing but DeGrassi repeats, until it's time to air new DeGrassi episodes. Seriously, like every night, 8 to 12, that's all they air. I guess they could just air more of that, as well as aughts-era Nick shows like Ned and Drake & Josh, which they already air a bunch of during the day. Even if they put any of those in the block's place, I think the gazillionth Kenan & Kel repeat would do better than these.

Oh, but maybe the block isn't over. Nick UK is getting their own version of it. Except it only airs for an hour and a half, and consists of Amanda, Clarissa, and Allen Strange. That's... pretty interesting, I guess.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on January 09, 2013, 10:15:41 PM
Did we even get Allen Strange over here at all? Can't seem to recall ever seeing it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 10:17:43 PM
Quote from: Kiddington on January 09, 2013, 10:15:41 PM
Did we even get Allen Strange over here at all? Can't seem to recall ever seeing it.
It aired once, during their New Years Snick thing.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on January 09, 2013, 10:19:41 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 10:17:43 PM
Quote from: Kiddington on January 09, 2013, 10:15:41 PM
Did we even get Allen Strange over here at all? Can't seem to recall ever seeing it.
It aired once, during their New Years Snick thing.

Huh. Yeah, that sounds about right.

Well, that show isn't very good, but I'll say one thing... at least having it on every once in a while would have added some spice to an otherwise very mundane lineup. Oh well.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 09, 2013, 10:23:26 PM
Yeah, I'd take this lineup over what we have any day. I'd take anything that would qualify but Rocket Power, in fact.

Or SpongeBob and FOP, since those do technically count too, I guess. But yeah, I doubt TeenNick would ever put those on, unless the block does run for a long time.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 21, 2013, 04:18:19 PM
Good news: Clarissa marathon this week!
Bad news: All of these episodes have already aired on the block...

I dunno about you, but I'll take it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 29, 2013, 11:05:29 PM
Change? (http://www.teennick.com/videos/clip/90s-are-all-that-valenninties-1-promo-date.html?xid=90FB)

Well, any variety is good for the block. I'm hoping for a decent lineup.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on February 07, 2013, 10:16:20 PM
Yep, there is definitely some variety going on with the block now. Tomorrow night, there's a Rocko marathon, then a Ren & Stimpy marathon on Saturday, and one for Angry Beavers on Sunday. There's also going to be scheduled marathons for the same 3 shows on the same days next week, plus this:

Monday-
12:00-1:00: Hey Arnold!
1:00-2:00: Clarissa Explains It All

Tuesday-
12:00-1:00: Rugrats
1:00-2: Rocko's Modern Life

Wednesday-
12:00-1:00: Kenan & Kel
1:00-:200: Salute Your Shorts

Thursday-
12:00-1:00: Rugrats
1:00-2:00: Hey Arnold!

Nothing too earth-shattering, but at least it's something.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: hobbyfan on February 10, 2013, 08:28:58 PM
Back in the day, Nick did have some great live-action shows, most of which have already been mentioned in this thread (i.e. Clarissa, Are You Afraid of the Dark?), and some clunkers (100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd, anyone?).

Today, based on what I'm reading in this thread, it seems as though the channel is still programmed by imbeciles. Then again, it's a Viacom channel, and they've been mishandling Nick and the Empty-V channels for the last 20-plus years. Marathons used to be something special. Now, most cablers will program blocks of shows virtually every day, shoving show A or B down the viewers' throats when they have so much product languishing in the vaults. Diversity in programming is missing on a lot of channels, Nick included.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on February 10, 2013, 08:31:36 PM
QuoteNick did have some great live-action shows
QuoteClarissa, Are You Afraid of the Dark?

:imnothappy:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on February 10, 2013, 08:34:47 PM
Clarissa is pretty good, though.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on February 10, 2013, 08:51:29 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on February 10, 2013, 08:34:47 PM
Clarissa is pretty good, though.
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45927000/jpg/_45927850_francis.jpg)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on February 10, 2013, 08:52:23 PM
Eh, whatever.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on February 13, 2013, 04:29:09 PM
I still enjoy AYAOTD for what it is. Kids just don't really get to experience shows like that anymore.

Plus, I'm biased by region.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 04, 2013, 11:18:09 PM
Well, this is welcome. (http://90sareallthat.teennick.com/us/base/vote?xid=scl)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 24, 2013, 02:35:30 AM
I honestly don't even know why I keep up with the block at all anymore. Interest in childhood favorites and overall boredom, I guess.

But they do seem to have been trying a little lately, but it's always a step or two back. Like this week with the voter choices, with polls that consist almost entirely of shows they've aired frequently. We got Salute Your Shorts and Wild Thornberrys episodes out of that, but for some reason, the Thornberrys episode they aired was a two-parter, which they only aired the first half of. Plus, who the hell cares about The Wild Thornberrys?

And they're changing the lineup around a little this week, too. No Doug or All That, but Rocko and CatDog (it's first time on the block, btw) are added on. I think either Ren & Stimpy or Angry Beavers are too (it's one or the other, and I don't feel like checking), but now it's basically all Nicktoons.

It does seem like the people in charge care about the block, but don't really know what to do with it, and they're losing followers as a response. I'm all tapped out myself.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on March 24, 2013, 03:12:06 AM
It's really sad that this block has been around for almost 2 years and they still haven't done anything really substantial with it. The 90's Are All That had potential, but they should just give up at this point, it's lost pretty much any momentum it had.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 24, 2013, 03:15:50 AM
Well, look at it this way; it's either this, or more Degrassi/Everybody Hates Chris reruns in its place.

Even on autopilot, this is still the more creative approach.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on March 24, 2013, 03:23:38 AM
Eh, true. God knows TN needs a little spice. They should still drop the packaging though, and just air the shows as regular TN programs.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 24, 2013, 03:37:39 AM
I watched that Zeebo the Clown episode of AYAOTD earlier in the afternoon, and... meh? The most horrifying part of the show was how the main character seemed to have premature baldness despite being barely in his teens.

And guys, we're in the Netflix age. A limp programming block means nothing when you can literally just find the show you want and stream it on the computer whenever.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 26, 2013, 11:03:45 AM
Now this, here, si news to me. (http://90sareallthat.tumblr.com/post/46341890032/long-lost-episode-of-rocko-this-sunday-night-at)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 28, 2013, 11:23:49 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on March 26, 2013, 11:03:45 AM
Now this, here, si news to me. (http://90sareallthat.tumblr.com/post/46341890032/long-lost-episode-of-rocko-this-sunday-night-at)

$20 says it's just Road Rash with the No-Tell Motel scene reinserted.

...but seriously, how is this even possible? The show's been off the air for, what, 16 years, and not a single mention of an unaired episode until now? Seems rather hard to believe.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 28, 2013, 11:39:40 PM
That's more than I thought- all I was expecting was "Leap Frogs".

And yeah, considering how open Joe Murray is about the show's history, you'd think that if there was a lost episode, we'd know about it. That's what makes this hard to believe.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 31, 2013, 09:10:07 PM
rwmead just made a good point on Twitter; this is probably an AFD stunt.

I'm ashamed of myself for not picking up on that sooner (though I guess we'll know for sure in a few hours).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 31, 2013, 09:42:42 PM
I'm calling Oppa Rocko Style.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 31, 2013, 11:04:59 PM
What are you guys talking about? This new Rocko episode is amazing. So much depth in such brevity.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 31, 2013, 11:08:06 PM
The mayo bit from "Wacky Delly" is one of the dirtiest gags in the show's history, but it always gets ignored. Probably from the rest of the episode.

Also, we're morons for not realizing this was supposed to air on the 1st sooner.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on March 31, 2013, 11:20:26 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on March 31, 2013, 11:08:06 PM
Also, we're morons for not realizing this was supposed to air on the 1st sooner.

This.

Hey, give 'em credit for trying something new though. The block isn't dead yet!
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 31, 2013, 11:34:37 PM
Yeah, it's better than what [as] is doing this year.

Eagleheart repeats. Yawn.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on April 01, 2013, 02:44:55 AM
I say that the still of the Mayo jar from Wacky Delly was a pretty good joke. Can't say that Nick ever aired an episode of Rocko that was nothing but that. :P Probably would have been overkill if it aired more than half an hour. Still I did like how the block had episodes that related to AFD.

Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 31, 2013, 03:39:51 PM
Wow, haven't updated this in a while. Well there isn't much to talk about or care about with the block or Nick's own live-action series, is there?

Recently though, the block's Facebook page has set up a countdown asking for fans to vote for their favorite show, and the winner was Legends. They're also going to air an episode of it this Saturday. I can always go for the temple run, so this will probably be the first time I watch this in months.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on July 31, 2013, 07:48:45 PM
I have been enjoying Sam and Cat so far, but I don't think I'd enjoy The Haunted Hathaways. Seriously, a white or Latin family being haunted by black ghosts? Isn't that vaguely racist? Not to mention a possible unintended pun in them being haunted by "spooks". Which I'm pretty certain was a racial slur back in the 50s....  :SHOCK:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 31, 2013, 08:44:47 PM
I'm just disappointed that it has nothing to do with Anne.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on July 31, 2013, 08:54:04 PM
So why are they ghosts? I'm not sure how that can be explained without a quite morbid explanation.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Goldstar on August 01, 2013, 07:20:43 AM
Given that Haunted Hathaways is a kids' show, I'm guessing that the characters will just casually avoid the whole death thing as much as possible. We'll likely never learn what killed them. In once scene in one of the commercials for the show, the younger daughter says that she'd like to be ghost. I was waiting for someone to tell her "You know that you'd have to die first, right?"

Another question I have is if the ghosts are a single father and his 2 sons, then what happened to the mother? This is one time when the producers can't just say "She's dead.", since the dad and sons are ghosts who are by definition dead. Either she survived and moved on with her life, or she decided to pass on the next plane of existence. I'm guessing that the mother will just never be mentioned on the show.

And yeah, for every living Caucasian female in the house there's an equivalent, African-American male ghost; It's like a quasi-Brady Bunch except that half of them are dead. This premise is a tad questionable. For some reason, I feel like I should be offended by this. Haunted Hathaways is definitely one of those "I can't believe this actually got made" kind of deals. I have a feeling that Brad Jones might do a DVR Hell segment dedicated to this show in a couple of years.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on August 01, 2013, 04:05:33 PM
Maybe the mother killed them all in their sleep and skipped town.

I know that's sick, but hey, without an explanation the audience has to put two and two together on their own. And there isn't one that isn't disturbing in some way.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on August 01, 2013, 09:08:04 PM
I just assume they all died from Hurricane Katrina.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 13, 2013, 10:18:46 AM
Regarding Sam & Cat

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/e4c9007c8229c2981f0a817bb9fd5b7f/tumblr_mrg1zzyvMn1qkli3wo2_1280.jpg)

But really, I saw the pilot of this show, and it was probably the laziest script I've seen from Schnedier. It also had the most obnoxious laugh track I've ever heard. I could handle iCarly and Victorious enough to find qualities in both of them, but either this is too much for me or I'm getting too old for this shit.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 14, 2013, 10:06:03 PM
lol

The problem with Schneider is, not even his older stuff holds up at this point. It's all catered to a very specific niche, and once you're out of that targeted age group, all of it just falls flat. I mean, watching shows like All That and The Amanda Show nowadays, I'm almost embarrassed to admit that there was a time that I liked this kind of stuff. It's just really bad TV.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on August 14, 2013, 10:14:16 PM
It literally is just random food jokes and characters acting mentally challenged for the sake of it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 14, 2013, 10:21:59 PM
Wasn't iCarly essentially the same thing?  :humhumhum:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on August 14, 2013, 10:27:16 PM
Wasn't Drake & Josh essentially the same thing?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 14, 2013, 10:44:53 PM
Wasn't Kenan & Kel essentially the same thing?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on August 15, 2013, 12:23:23 AM
He's writing the same show over and over. At least the first time you hear it, it feels fresh.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 15, 2013, 12:36:20 AM
It's kinda weird hat the one show that was the least like all of his other ones (Zoey 1010) was also his worst.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on August 15, 2013, 02:01:32 AM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 14, 2013, 10:44:53 PM
Wasn't Kenan & Kel essentially the same thing?

K&K still gets a genuine and consistent laughs out of me to this day. Can't say the same for Schneider's stuff.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on August 15, 2013, 08:12:53 AM
Kel is just too stupid for me. Too disturbingly stupid.

But yeah, I've always preferred Ned to Drake & Josh, and I definitely still do now. It's like comparing HIMYM to BBT. Even if you don't like either shows, you have to admit that one is vastly superior to the other.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: LumRanmaYasha on August 15, 2013, 12:19:22 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 15, 2013, 08:12:53 AM
But yeah, I've always preferred Ned to Drake & Josh, and I definitely still do now. It's like comparing HIMYM to BBT. Even if you don't like either shows, you have to admit that one is vastly superior to the other.

:thumbup: 100% agree. Ned has always been much funnier and enjoyable to me than any of Dan Schneider's shows (although I don't dislike Drake and Josh myself).
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on August 15, 2013, 01:30:53 PM
What I Like About You (you know, his WB show back in the day when he and Amanda Bynes were joined at the hip) wasn't quite as immature as his Nick stuff, and was somewhat different in the sense that it centered on the lives of slightly older characters, but still... not a good series by any means.

Honestly, I can't think of a single series of his that actually holds up. I don't even like Kenan & Kel, to be honest.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 16, 2013, 03:46:57 PM
lol... (http://www.tmz.com/2013/10/16/marc-summers-nickelodeon-double-dare-rant-radio/)

To be fair, he isn't exactly wrong. Nick has been losing to Disney lately. It's totally subjective to say that Nick's shows from Summers' era were better than what's airing today, but I don't think that he's wrong with the network changing focus, either.

Granted, creativity isn't the only issue Nick seems to have. They just don't have enough hit shows to stack up against Disney or even CN. SpongeBob still does well, but it has a tendency to drop in the ratings and it's been a while since new episodes have aired, Sam & Cat's ratings have been disappointing, Korra's been doing a lot worse for a plethora of reasons, their Dreamworks shows are barely cutting it. FOP is surprisingly holding up and Sanjay & Craig seems to be doing well, but they don't have much else besides that.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on October 17, 2013, 06:45:19 PM
I thought Nick was sinking like a rock. They don't really have anything that isn't licensed out from something else and nothing is particularly doing well.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Rynnec on October 18, 2013, 01:53:19 AM
QuoteFOP is surprisingly holding up

Why?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 18, 2013, 10:55:21 AM
Quote from: Rynnec on October 18, 2013, 01:53:19 AM
QuoteFOP is surprisingly holding up

Why?
I don't know. Kids still seem to like it, even though Nick has been putting no effort in proving this elsewhere.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on October 18, 2013, 01:42:26 PM
Wasn't FOP supposed to have been cancelled, liked, three times already? The first being way back in 2007?

Man, I just cannot see how it's lasted this long. Nick doesn't even market it!
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 04, 2013, 06:20:39 PM
The block is airing Power Rangers this week.

In case you forgot it was still on.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Kiddington on November 05, 2013, 12:53:47 AM
Well...

Might actually have to check that out.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 14, 2013, 08:16:31 PM
Apparently the block is trying some chunks of various shows here and there, mixed together with some of their more popular shows. Some of the less-used ones they're bringing out include Alex Mack and My Brother and Me.

I haven't watched the block in the longest time, but I'm always in the mood to see Alex Mack again, so hey.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 23, 2014, 08:54:05 PM
Oh, so there have been hints about a Hey Dude reunion special happening.

I shit you not.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on June 23, 2014, 08:57:15 PM
That seems unlikely to me, given how much Nick seems to despise everything they've made that isn't currently airing on their channel.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 23, 2014, 09:03:07 PM
I don't have any concrete evidence, but the author of the recent book about Nick's older period and the person who played Brad have said that something is in the cards.

It does kind of make sense, since this is the show's 25th anniversary, and most of them have already done a paneled reunion (http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/11/showbiz/hey-dude-reunion-25th-anniversary/), but it does seem unlikely that Nick would dedicate their time to a show that hasn't been on the network in 15 years. Unless they try it during Nick@Nite, which would actually be a bit of fresh breath between the endless Friends and Full House repeats they air.

Also, I just went on the book's FB page, and apparently Sponge from Salute Your Shorts is auditioning for The Voice. That's... huh.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on October 08, 2014, 11:07:23 AM
Some nice candlelight reading. (http://flavorwire.com/480990/pete-pete-was-all-white-people-slimed-author-mathew-klickstein-on-why-ren-and-stimpy-was-better-than-clarissa-and-nickelodeons-diversity-problem)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on October 08, 2014, 01:10:17 PM
Just heard about that, it's really disappointing as I was looking forward to reading that Slimed book. That event mentioned in the article was just canceled too as a result.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 08, 2014, 03:21:14 PM
Shit.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Foggle on October 08, 2014, 04:18:49 PM
Quote from: Dr. Insomniac on October 08, 2014, 11:07:23 AM
Some nice candlelight reading. (http://flavorwire.com/480990/pete-pete-was-all-white-people-slimed-author-mathew-klickstein-on-why-ren-and-stimpy-was-better-than-clarissa-and-nickelodeons-diversity-problem)
Here's another fantastic work from the same author. (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18366319-rag-doll)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on October 08, 2014, 05:31:08 PM
How delightful.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on October 08, 2014, 06:36:28 PM
Dear lord, I just got to the part where he said that all these shows were good because they were made by white people. It's like I'm reading a Tumblr's SJW straw man of the cis-white-male or however you go about that.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on October 08, 2014, 10:31:54 PM
So a 90's Nick event he had planned for NYCC got cancelled as a result for this interview, and he's been getting plenty of shit as a result of it. One person tried to defend Klickerstein as a victim of corporate interest and censorship. This rebuttle was posted almost instantly.

QuoteSorry, dude, Klickstein knows how to play the game. He's done plenty of self-promotion for this book (well over two years worth of it now) and gotten tons of big press and attention, so don't try to cut him slack because he hasn't figured out how to conduct himself in an interview. If my book got half the attention his did, I'd certainly be watching what I say EVERYWHERE and passing everything through a publicist.

It IS his fault that NYCC caved into bad PR because he created bad PR in the first place. Did one of the Pete & Pete guys brag about the show's whiteness right before the event? If Klickstein was a real writer/journalist, he would've recognized the Flavorwire writer's use of the classic trap: see the crazy things the interviewee says forthright, then prod him/her for more.

As far as the comments on social media, they're predictable but surprisingly civil considering. "Your liberty ends where my nose begins." And from what I see, Klickstein isn't getting any threats.

Keep in mind, he hasn't even apologized. Stop trying to make him out to be a social justice martyr, it's a bad look. Oh, nice image choice, BTW. What is he supposed to be, Harry Moore or Dr. King or something? Geez.

While I don't fully agree with the notion of Klickerstein being baited, this is legit. And written by Thad fucking Komorowski, no less. When he's the one making sense, you know that the person involved done goofed.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on June 05, 2015, 04:43:20 AM
Degrassi airs its finale in July. (http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/degrassi-cancelled-series-ending-season-14-1201512504)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on June 05, 2015, 10:23:18 AM
Wow, that sure lasted a long while. Wonder what finally made them want to bow out? I saw parts of the first few seasons and thought this was actually pretty good. If it could only get on Netflix I wouldn't mind catching up to it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on June 05, 2015, 01:10:29 PM
That took much too long. Especially considering how low it went in later seasons.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Commode on June 05, 2015, 02:16:17 PM
I used to watch the show, I love the original series, but I haven't watched it since Drake got shot by that one kid.  So probably about ten years ago.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on June 09, 2015, 06:15:01 PM
Quote from: Daikun on June 05, 2015, 04:43:20 AMDegrassi airs its finale in July. (http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/degrassi-cancelled-series-ending-season-14-1201512504)

Never mind. It's just leaving TeenNick. The next season will be on Netflix. (http://www.thevideoink.com/news/netflix-will-give-degrassi-second-fifth-life-online)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on June 12, 2015, 11:36:34 PM
Than I hope they'll put the first seasons online too, I'd really love to resume this show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on September 20, 2015, 01:46:23 AM
So, I never liked this show. But this is pretty funny. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YBNsRTtQI)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 01, 2016, 01:00:50 PM
A Legends of the Hidden Temple TV movie is being made. (http://www.avclub.com/article/legends-hidden-temple-return-live-action-tv-movie-233057)

Huh, interesting.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on July 29, 2016, 09:49:30 PM
Double Dare is back! (http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2016/07/nickelodeons-splat-brings-marc-summers.html)

And Marc Summers is returning to host it! :shakeshakeshake:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 30, 2016, 12:22:10 AM
Yeah! I recorded the episodes this weekend!

But I didn't realize that it was going on all week.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on June 19, 2017, 08:20:47 PM
New Pete & Pete stuff over on The Splat's YouTube channel! (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX34qDh_nH5EMvnIjdA9paoopBOSDbHTk)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on August 29, 2017, 10:10:01 PM
You Can't Do That On Television is getting rebooted. (http://www.avclub.com/exclusive-you-cant-do-that-on-television-is-getting-a-1798539646)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on November 19, 2017, 01:34:28 PM
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is getting a TV movie. (http://www.throwbacks.com/are-you-afraid-of-the-dark-remake)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on November 19, 2017, 06:27:13 PM
I thought it was theatrical.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on November 29, 2017, 01:24:09 PM
Theater or TV, this is great news!
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on March 26, 2018, 06:15:34 PM
Dan Schneider has left Nickelodeon. (http://deadline.com/2018/03/nickelodeon-tv-series-producer-dan-schneider-part-ways-1202353698)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on March 26, 2018, 06:22:02 PM
And

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Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on March 26, 2018, 06:40:19 PM
No longer will audiences have to endure this man's sick foot fetish being shown to them.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Lord Dalek on March 26, 2018, 07:26:32 PM
 :shakeshakeshake: :shakeshakeshake: :shakeshakeshake: :shakeshakeshake: :shakeshakeshake: :shakeshakeshake:
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on March 27, 2018, 02:50:12 AM
Can't help but wonder about the timing of Butch Hartman's departure being a month or two before this happened. I don't think Butch is a possible pedophile, but I can't help being curious if he knew about Schneider and thought, "Ohh boy, TIME TO JUMP SHIP!!!"
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 27, 2018, 03:25:35 AM
I've always wondered what it would do to Nickelodeon if Dan was confirmed to be a pedophile. All the reports and investigations trying to discover just how a popular children's network kept a child rapist's deeds from being uncovered for decades. Sponsors leaving in droves due to the stigma attached. Parents reading it on the news and becoming deeply uncomfortable at the mere thought of their kids watching any Nick show.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on March 27, 2018, 04:09:52 AM
Quote from: Peanutbutter on March 27, 2018, 02:50:12 AMCan't help but wonder about the timing of Butch Hartman's departure being a month or two before this happened. I don't think Butch is a possible pedophile, but I can't help being curious if he knew about Schneider and thought, "Ohh boy, TIME TO JUMP SHIP!!!"

I doubt it. I think Butch left because he had nothing left to do at the network. His long-running baby Fairly OddParents was finally death-slotted at Nicktoons and Bunsen is a Beast only lasted one season. He had nothing left to offer to the network with all his shows in the gutter.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 27, 2018, 04:13:39 AM
Quote from: Daikun on March 27, 2018, 04:09:52 AM
Quote from: Peanutbutter on March 27, 2018, 02:50:12 AMCan't help but wonder about the timing of Butch Hartman's departure being a month or two before this happened. I don't think Butch is a possible pedophile, but I can't help being curious if he knew about Schneider and thought, "Ohh boy, TIME TO JUMP SHIP!!!"

I doubt it. I think Butch left because he had nothing left to do at the network. His long-running baby Fairly OddParents was finally death-slotted at Nicktoons and Bunsen is a Beast only lasted one season. He had nothing left to offer to the network with all his shows in the gutter.
It most likely stemmed from his frustration at Nick refusing his constant pitches for a Danny Phantom sequel.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on March 27, 2018, 12:28:04 PM
Quote from: Daikun on March 27, 2018, 04:09:52 AM
Quote from: Peanutbutter on March 27, 2018, 02:50:12 AMCan't help but wonder about the timing of Butch Hartman's departure being a month or two before this happened. I don't think Butch is a possible pedophile, but I can't help being curious if he knew about Schneider and thought, "Ohh boy, TIME TO JUMP SHIP!!!"

I doubt it. I think Butch left because he had nothing left to do at the network. His long-running baby Fairly OddParents was finally death-slotted at Nicktoons and Bunsen is a Beast only lasted one season. He had nothing left to offer to the network with all his shows in the gutter.
It isn't as if Nick has a bad habit over dumping their creators over trivial things. Butch was just one of many.

Schneider is different. He has put out constant hits for decades now and has no reason to leave or get thrown out. That he is now is very suspicious timing, especially since Nick doesn't really have anything to replace him with.

If those rumors prove to be true, I don't think Nick will ever recover from it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on March 27, 2018, 03:59:20 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on March 27, 2018, 12:28:04 PM
Quote from: Daikun on March 27, 2018, 04:09:52 AM
Quote from: Peanutbutter on March 27, 2018, 02:50:12 AMCan't help but wonder about the timing of Butch Hartman's departure being a month or two before this happened. I don't think Butch is a possible pedophile, but I can't help being curious if he knew about Schneider and thought, "Ohh boy, TIME TO JUMP SHIP!!!"

I doubt it. I think Butch left because he had nothing left to do at the network. His long-running baby Fairly OddParents was finally death-slotted at Nicktoons and Bunsen is a Beast only lasted one season. He had nothing left to offer to the network with all his shows in the gutter.
It isn't as if Nick has a bad habit over dumping their creators over trivial things. Butch was just one of many.

Schneider is different. He has put out constant hits for decades now and has no reason to leave or get thrown out. That he is now is very suspicious timing, especially since Nick doesn't really have anything to replace him with.

If those rumors prove to be true, I don't think Nick will ever recover from it.



If a lot of rumors are true, I don't think that Hollywood will recover from it. This on top of Weinstein and the #MeToo stuff still going has left them pretty fragile.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daxdiv on March 27, 2018, 05:37:00 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on March 27, 2018, 12:28:04 PM
Quote from: Daikun on March 27, 2018, 04:09:52 AM
Quote from: Peanutbutter on March 27, 2018, 02:50:12 AMCan't help but wonder about the timing of Butch Hartman's departure being a month or two before this happened. I don't think Butch is a possible pedophile, but I can't help being curious if he knew about Schneider and thought, "Ohh boy, TIME TO JUMP SHIP!!!"

I doubt it. I think Butch left because he had nothing left to do at the network. His long-running baby Fairly OddParents was finally death-slotted at Nicktoons and Bunsen is a Beast only lasted one season. He had nothing left to offer to the network with all his shows in the gutter.
It isn't as if Nick has a bad habit over dumping their creators over trivial things. Butch was just one of many.

Schneider is different. He has put out constant hits for decades now and has no reason to leave or get thrown out. That he is now is very suspicious timing, especially since Nick doesn't really have anything to replace him with.

If those rumors prove to be true, I don't think Nick will ever recover from it.

Yeah, Schneider has pretty much been a cornerstone of Nick's programming ever since as long as I had Nickelodeon as a channel. Considering how they also axed non Schneider shows recently & how they normally don't perform as well as Nick would like (Schneider shows are usually used as an anchor for them), along with how the recent Kid's Choice Awards doing poorly in the ratings.... I do wonder how hard of a hit Nick's live action department will take.

At least with Butch Hartman, I just assumed he was burned outed a bit from having to continue FOP, while seeing his other shows get shoved to the side because they don't perform Spongebob numbers. Especially after watching that video of his after he left Nick.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 28, 2018, 02:20:52 AM
People who worked at Nick (https://twitter.com/NicoColaleo/status/978746898591793162) are telling their Dan stories. (https://twitter.com/angelinaburnett/status/978671689163657224)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 28, 2018, 06:09:33 PM
It looks like the second one was deleted.

If the rumors are true, good riddance. Hopefully he will never work with children again.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on March 29, 2018, 10:06:44 PM
Starting to become a lot of fire among the smoke. By the way, the people behind that Open Secret movie, the one about pedophilia in Hollywood, just launched a hashtag against Nickelodeon to get them to disclose information about the disclosure agreements and settlements that might have made to Schneider or any other creeps working for them. Schneider and John K. are sadly not the only scumbags at Nick it turns out......
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Spark Of Spirit on March 30, 2018, 12:34:56 AM
Nick is going down in flames. Amazing it took this long for any of this to come out.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on March 30, 2018, 11:33:45 PM
They've had it coming for a long time, even before their rancid apathy towards their employees "activities" came out. You look at how Spongebob was always held up on a pedestal above all others at Nick, and you know there were plenty of people that were screwed over by Nick.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on April 01, 2018, 04:39:08 AM
Even before all this came out, it wasn't looking good for Nick. Spongebob no longer gets several times the ratings of other Nick shows, and only does moderately better than the rest. All the comeback movies like Legends of the Hidden Temple and Hey Arnold implied they were in such dire straits that they were looking to nostalgia as a desperate plea to get back lost revenue.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on April 01, 2018, 10:29:15 AM
Can't remember the year, I want to say '12 or '13, but yes it wasn't too long ago when Nick first lost it's top ratings among the kid networks. I remember one of the people in charge of Nick denied it and blamed Neilsen for a while. Just the fact that one of their heads was that stupid and unprofessional to make such a terrible excuse explains a lot about how shortsighted Nick is, and why it caught up to them.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on April 02, 2018, 05:06:15 PM
https://twitter.com/thepowerplumber/status/980231539182227456
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on April 25, 2018, 12:36:30 PM
Double Dare is coming back this Summer for 40 new episodes. (http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2018/04/nickelodeon-is-bringing-back-double.html)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on April 26, 2018, 07:27:46 AM
Wonder who the next new host will be, because no way will they bring back Summers to do it.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on April 26, 2018, 12:54:37 PM
So far, Nick's been killing it with the revivals! Between this, the new Clarissa series, and the movies, they've been making good calls. I hope it's at least as entertaining as the short-lived but surprisingly faithful Figure It Out revival was.

Even if we don't get Marc Summers back, I'm going to get to see him back at it again soon! He's doing this (http://onceuponaslimetour.com/) with a couple of other 90's Nick stars. I'm not sure if I'm going to do VIP, but it sounds like too much fun to pass up.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on October 19, 2018, 08:02:58 PM
Poparena has finished his feature-length analysis on You Can't Do That On Television. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl44gvb8b9E)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on April 09, 2019, 01:17:56 PM
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is getting a new miniseries. (http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/04/nickelodeon-casting-actors-for-are-you.html)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on June 09, 2019, 11:47:30 PM
Henry Danger is now Nick's last remaining sitcom. (https://twitter.com/nickandmore/status/1137501865137102849)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on June 10, 2019, 12:00:33 AM
If you told me that Nick would ween itself of kidcoms when I was 14, I would have been overjoyed. But like I said in the Spongebob thread, it feels like Nickelodeon ditching one form of lazy programming but embracing another.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on August 06, 2019, 01:21:39 AM
Alexa Nikolas had a terrible experience working on Zoey 101. She talks about how poorly she was treated by her staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkLNv1XDGo
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on August 08, 2019, 10:27:29 PM
There were rumors around her that she was going to expose Dan Schneider. One way or another, he and some of these other scumbag producers are going to be fully exposed.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on September 15, 2019, 02:59:16 AM
Here's something interesting, Nick was planning to revive You Can't Do That On Television, but talks fell apart because the original contracts for the IP ownership were lost in a fire. (https://twitter.com/IamJimmyFox/status/1172991613854871552) So there's no legal file saying who are the rights owners to the property. And they can't even contact the creator of the show because he's run off to Europe for tax evasion. (https://twitter.com/pop_arena/status/1173027920857616384)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on May 11, 2021, 09:16:15 PM
Legends of the Hidden Temple is getting revived...for The CW?! (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/legends-hidden-temple-revival-cw-1234951140)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on May 13, 2021, 10:40:28 PM
Well, it sounds like it's going to be like the original show just with adult contestants and a jungle set rather than a studio. Weird that it's not on Nick, but it sounds like it might be good.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on May 14, 2021, 03:49:41 PM
I assume Legends is one of those IPs that's too old to modernize or make appeal to a child audience, I remember they released a made-for-TV movie a few years ago but I can't remember what the reception to that was, so now they're going for the established demographic.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on May 14, 2021, 09:28:15 PM
I actually saw the Legends movie when it aired. It was alright, a little cutesy but not too bad from what I remember. The way they worked in Space Camp was creative.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on June 12, 2021, 07:51:03 AM
In case anyone hasn't heard, Drake Bell was arrested for child grooming last week. (https://www.vulture.com/2021/06/drake-bell-arrested-attempted-child-endangerment.html)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 12, 2021, 03:04:59 PM
So that's why they revived iCarly instead of Drake & Josh- he fled the US after having a history of this shit.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on June 12, 2021, 09:23:19 PM
I doubt a new D&J could've happened even if Drake wasn't a groomer. Josh seems to be doing his own thing these days with that Turner and Hooch remake he's starring in, and I doubt he wants to go back to those days where he was known as the wacky dork Drake and Megan picked on, similar to why McCurdy and Gibby's actor aren't coming back to iCarly anytime soon. I know he did those reunion videos with Drake and Miranda on YouTube a few years ago, but they came across as more "remembering the old times" than "I want to relive the old times".
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on June 12, 2021, 09:43:50 PM
Wonder if his stash was part of Dan Schneider's???  >:(
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on June 14, 2021, 12:17:25 PM
Speaking of reboots that won't happen, the Zoey 101 sequel the actors marketed for a while is over, and a few of them have implied it's Jamie Lynn Spears' fault. (https://youtu.be/9JYmw_kCotU)

Meanwhile, the cast of Ned's Declassified talked to the show's creator about making a sequel show. (https://www.instagram.com/p/CIoHUUcFmdx/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading)

So how many other Nick shows from that era will have reboot rumors in the future?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on June 14, 2021, 01:43:05 PM
If the Brothers Garcia can get a revival, anything is possible.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on June 14, 2021, 09:50:32 PM
Yeah, that came out of nowhere.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on June 23, 2021, 08:10:41 PM
This clip aged surprisingly well. (https://twitter.com/RiseFallNickBck/status/1407841586726293510)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on June 24, 2021, 11:41:17 AM
What bad news did his lawyers give him that he pleaded guilty before the trial officially started? I suppose he thought this could grant him a lighter sentence, but admitting you're a pedo and being branded as a sex offender in the eyes of the court and the public isn't light by any means.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on July 05, 2021, 04:25:15 PM
Dan Schneider addresses the allegations in an interview. (https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/dan-schneider-responds-misconduct-allegations-nickelodeon-1235011252)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on July 12, 2021, 06:03:37 PM
Drake got 2 years probation and 200 hours of community service. (https://www.kktv.com/2021/07/12/drake-bell-faces-sentencing-child-endangerment-charge/) Slap on the wrist, all things considered. Though I remember his ex last year said he groomed multiple girls, so I don't think this is the end of his time in court.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on July 12, 2021, 08:28:07 PM
That's pathetic. Hopefully you're right, and this won't be the last we see of him in court.

With Drake and Kyle Massey officially outed as pedos, I wonder who will be the potential third in the cycle to join them. Maybe those legitimate Schneider allegations will finally drop?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on July 12, 2021, 08:40:02 PM
Maybe they will, but no signs of it have been happening. Even actors who worked with Dan, hated him, and have nothing to lose from revealing anything about him said they can't confirm the rumors. (https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kzb94/what-happened-to-lori-beth-denberg-all-that) And I've seen McCurdy talk about how much she hated her iCarly life and thought Dan was an asshole, but nothing about him being a pedophile. He's worked with so many actors, and any interviewer who wants to do "Whatever happened to this child star?" articles often pulls out the Dan question, but it hasn't resulted in anything beyond saying he was a domineering jackass.

Besides, wouldn't a potential third theoretically be a former CN actor?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on July 15, 2021, 08:23:48 PM
Oh yeah, I watched a couple episodes of the new iCarly. I never liked the old show to begin with, but the revival has none of its predecessor's energy. It graduated from Nick show to bland CBS sitcom. All the characters drone on about their failed dating lives instead of doing anything wacky or related to their webshow. Freddie and Carly's actors are there struggling to act like they're on a show like Friends, but neither of them can delivers those kinds of performances.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on January 13, 2022, 01:59:33 PM
Degrassi is getting a revival for HBO Max. (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/warnermedia-kids--family-greenlights-new-degrassi-series-and-picks-up-degrassi-the-next-generation-library-for-hbo-max-301460735.html)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on January 13, 2022, 04:44:47 PM
... And it looks like it's coming to CN.

Not crazy about that development.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on January 13, 2022, 09:21:30 PM
But why? I could kind of understand Family Matters because Urkel's already a cartoon character in concept, but what does Degrassi have that appeals to CN?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on January 14, 2022, 03:14:28 PM
Quote from: Dr. Insomniac on January 13, 2022, 09:21:30 PMBut why? I could kind of understand Family Matters because Urkel's already a cartoon character in concept, but what does Degrassi have that appeals to CN?

Nothing. It's just more corporate synergy crap.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Peanutbutter on January 17, 2022, 04:13:59 PM
Its not even corporate synergy. I've yet to see We Baby Bears on TNT or other networks now owned by AT&T. Its the new CN boss relying on dumb focus group tests which are always crap because of how they frame their questions to the kids they poll. Giancarlo Volpe, the creator of Green Lantern: TAS made a great webcomic that showed how flawed the process is in action. Wish I knew the link.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 11, 2022, 12:12:15 AM
I skimmed through Quinton's long-ass Victorious essay (skimmed being a key word, watched enough to get the general gist of it, most of the video is just Quinton filibustering or giving redundant recaps to episodes, no discussion on a Dan Schneider show needs to take longer than watching a whole season of an HBO series). It's amazing a guy can spend 13 hours talking about a show and then come up with barely any central thesis to tie it up.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 12, 2022, 02:02:07 PM
I can't imagine watching 4-5 hour videos discussing a Nickelodeon show. I tried watching Jenny Nicholson's 2 hour Vampire Diaries video, and she was stretching there, as well. But these just sound exhausting.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 12, 2022, 08:29:31 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on March 12, 2022, 02:02:07 PM
I can't imagine watching 4-5 hour videos discussing a Nickelodeon show. I tried watching Jenny Nicholson's 2 hour Vampire Diaries video, and she was stretching there, as well. But these just sound exhausting.
I can't either, but these videos keep getting millions of views.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on August 05, 2022, 06:52:04 PM
We finally have proof of Schneider's guilt.

https://twitter.com/ObiscureNick/status/1555397781119836160

EDIT: ...and Nickelodeon tried to cover it up. (https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1555369384662552576)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on September 14, 2022, 06:56:43 PM
Quote from: Daikun on January 13, 2022, 01:59:33 PMDegrassi is getting a revival for HBO Max. (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/warnermedia-kids--family-greenlights-new-degrassi-series-and-picks-up-degrassi-the-next-generation-library-for-hbo-max-301460735.html)

Production has halted. (https://twitter.com/CNschedules/status/1570136144066809856)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on September 14, 2022, 07:04:15 PM
It was already difficult seeing Degrassi exist in a post-Euphoria world.

In vague relation to Degrassi, and I'm sure someone's stated it before, but who's watching enough TeenNick that Paramount can justify keeping the channel on air? I kind of figured that things like 90s Are All That got dumped due to low ratings, but then I see shit like 7 uninterrupted days of Henry Danger (https://twitter.com/HyperSchedules/status/1565716705023823875) or reruns of America's Funniest Home Videos (https://twitter.com/NevUnite2/status/1569462905103593473). Is the channel just a money sink Paramount forgot to notice, or is there still a demographic out there to keep it making just enough profit to survive?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on March 18, 2023, 01:41:09 AM
Good Burger 2 has been greenlit for Paramount+ (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/good-burger-2-paramount-plus-kenan-thompson-kel-mitchell-1235557782)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 20, 2023, 09:17:32 PM
Amanda Bynes is back in the hospital after a manic episode. (https://www.insider.com/amanda-bynes-hospitalized-la-after-coming-down-from-psychotic-episode-2023-3) It sucks, because I thought she was doing better recently.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 21, 2023, 11:49:01 AM
It's unfortunate, but I'm glad that she's able to recognize that she needs the help. I hope it works out for her this time.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on April 23, 2023, 08:42:06 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/twgq986hycva1.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=e0828ced7f42f395c0fe91e34c267cda8da5d706)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on October 07, 2023, 11:46:36 PM
The iCarly revival has been cancelled. (https://www.eonline.com/news/1387092/icarly-revival-canceled-after-3-seasons-on-paramount)
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on October 08, 2023, 04:07:08 PM
It ended right before they got to show Carly's mom too.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on October 08, 2023, 10:16:00 PM
In rather coincidentally timed news, the lost pilot for a Gibby spinoff of iCarly has been found and posted on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/media-garage-gibby-unaired-2012-pilot
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on October 09, 2023, 10:02:52 PM
So how many hours will Quinton's iCarly revival video be? 50 hours? 60?
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on October 10, 2023, 04:23:28 AM
Depends on how long he'll take to make it. He only ever makes one video per year nowadays.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on December 03, 2023, 09:34:56 PM
So, has anybody heard that Ned's Declassified podcast? (https://twitter.com/deadeditors_/status/1728546607723900991) Because that show is weird, and what I linked is an average topic of discussion for them. I don't think we're ever getting a real Ned sequel if they're being this candid.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on December 04, 2023, 10:03:32 AM
Yeah, I think having their reboot idea rejected in favor of the Zoey 101 movie pissed the trio off. It does seem like Paramount+ isn't spending as much money as they were before.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on December 19, 2023, 10:06:28 PM
I watched the latest one, and they were talking about their bowel movements for 6 whole minutes. There was a point when they remembered what the podcast was about, but then went off track again by talking about even more times they had sex. And then they randomly give thanks to Dave Filoni.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on February 08, 2024, 08:35:13 PM

So are we getting any new details or is it gonna say the same things that every other "THE DARK TRUTH OF DAN SCHNEIDER" video on YouTube uses? Because a point in its favor, it's actually interviewing some Nick actors I haven't heard about in a while instead of featuring the presenter gawking in faux-horror at the same creepy Schneider clips that everyone's seen already.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on February 08, 2024, 09:31:24 PM
Quote from: Dr. Insomniac on February 08, 2024, 08:35:13 PMSo are we getting any new details or is it gonna say the same things that every other "THE DARK TRUTH OF DAN SCHNEIDER" video on YouTube uses? Because a point in its favor, it's actually interviewing some Nick actors I haven't heard about in a while instead of featuring the presenter gawking in faux-horror at the same creepy Schneider clips that everyone's seen already.

It's a documentary that will be airing soon on a full-blown TV channel. It's not some small-time YouTube crew, so of course they would have the connections and budget to produce a documentary like this.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on February 09, 2024, 03:57:06 AM
Quote from: Daikun on February 08, 2024, 09:31:24 PM
Quote from: Dr. Insomniac on February 08, 2024, 08:35:13 PMSo are we getting any new details or is it gonna say the same things that every other "THE DARK TRUTH OF DAN SCHNEIDER" video on YouTube uses? Because a point in its favor, it's actually interviewing some Nick actors I haven't heard about in a while instead of featuring the presenter gawking in faux-horror at the same creepy Schneider clips that everyone's seen already.

It's a documentary that will be airing soon on a full-blown TV channel. It's not some small-time YouTube crew, so of course they would have the connections and budget to produce a documentary like this.
I wouldn't exactly consider Investigation Discovery to have any prestige though. Most of what I've seen from them is often cheesy informative murder porn that features all the worst cliches in bad true crime media.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Ensatsu-ken on February 11, 2024, 06:03:54 PM
Not sure if Avatar still counts as a Nickelodeon property since it's all on Netflix now, but I'm posting this here anyways.

Was listening to Carmine and Preston on a car ride and was reminded of yet another (of many) reasons that I expect the new live-action Avatar to suck: https://youtu.be/n9rtDP-EZsI?si=tdT43BuF2xKHSAOm

I'm really sick of modern adaptations trying to phase out intentional character flaws without understanding why they exist in storytelling to begin with.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on February 11, 2024, 10:52:58 PM
Though I did see a comment from Pakku's actor insisting that his version will still be a chauvinist. (https://www.reddit.com/r/ATLAtv/comments/1aokopp/a_comment_from_pakkus_actor_abone_martinez/) Granted, Pakku was never a main character to begin with.

Also wondering what was the dealbreaker that convinced Bryke to leave. I recently heard a rumor it was because they wanted to change the live-action version up even more than what Netflix wanted, which I'm not convinced by since "A Netflix adaptation adhering to the source material so much to the point of alienating the creators" is not a situation I'm familiar with.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on February 24, 2024, 02:38:46 AM
Watched the first episode of new ATLA, and the dialogue is frustratingly expository. They replaced the admittedly quippy dialogue from the show with joyless infodumps, reminded me of the dialogue from Man of Steel. There's a scene between Gyatso and Aang that was almost word-for-word a scene between Jonathan and Clark. And then it gets redundant too, like when they give two variations on the "Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony..." speech in a single episode.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on March 18, 2024, 11:44:47 PM
Quiet on Set is now streaming on Max.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 19, 2024, 01:16:26 AM
Why did they bring Marc Summers and then only have him for 10 seconds of footage? Though they were gonna do some big "80 Nick vs Dan-era Nick" thing with him representing the former, but then he just disappears after the first segment.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Avaitor on March 19, 2024, 01:48:28 PM
I haven't watched yet, but everything I'm hearing makes Pop Arena's revelation about Roger Price in the YCDTOTV video sound almost tame in comparison.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 19, 2024, 03:59:46 PM
Now that you mention it, I was listening to a podcast a month ago where the hosts were talking about The Tomorrow People (Roger Price's other show), and they kept saying how skeevy it was to watch the series now because it was an open secret among TTP fans that Price had a thing for boys.

Also saw Quinton complain about the bad editing of it all on Twitter, and I don't think the guy who makes 8-hour video essays that go off into random tangents about Nick.com flash games or tie-in merch can complain about editing here.
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Daikun on March 26, 2024, 01:50:22 PM
Quiet on Set is getting a fifth episode. (https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/quiet-on-set-episode-5-drake-bell-breaking-the-silence-1235952489)

EDIT: Oof. Marc Summers is NOT happy about his brief appearance in the documentary.

https://twitter.com/realmarcsummers/status/1771420178183491795
https://twitter.com/realmarcsummers/status/1771421139941888414
Title: Re: Nickelodeon's Live Action
Post by: Dr. Insomniac on March 27, 2024, 05:18:52 AM
I'm not sure why they tricked him into showing up in the first place. He never worked on any of Schneider's shows, and I can't recall any particularly scandalous Double Dare stories behind the scenes, let alone any that involved children.