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[Avaitor]

The Salute Your Shorts pilot is up this week.

I can still recite the whole theme song by heart. Man, I love this show.

[Kiddington]

...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.

[Avaitor]

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.

[Avaitor]

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?

[Kiddington]

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.

[Avaitor]

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.

[Kiddington]

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.

[Avaitor]

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.

[Avaitor]

Well, if nothing else, season 2 of Hey Arnold! starts Wednesday. So I'm back to watching 2 shows, and recording all four.

[Avaitor]

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.

[Kiddington]

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.

[Avaitor]

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.

[Avaitor]

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.

[Kiddington]

...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.

[Avaitor]

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.