Nickelodeon's Live Action

[Avaitor]

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.

[Kiddington]

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.

[Avaitor]

Matt Bennett from Victorious is a big Rugrats fan (isn't ever 90's kid?), and for his birthday, they sent him this.



Are these Amazon's DVD-Rs, or are these actual season sets?

[Spark Of Spirit]

THAT'S NOT FAIR.

I think those are probably DVD-R sets.

[Kiddington]

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.

[Avaitor]

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?

[Kiddington]

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.

[Avaitor]

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.

[Kiddington]

Putting it that way, sounds more like a going-away present to me.

Hey, I'd take it. 

[Avaitor]

Well speaking of Victorious, Sam and Cat just got picked up. It remains to be seen if Gibby does as well, though.

[Spark Of Spirit]

That wasn't all too surprising. though I would have thought Gibby would have been obvious. I guess we'll see.

[Avaitor]

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.

[Spark Of Spirit]

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.

[Avaitor]

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.

[Spark Of Spirit]

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.