“I don’t know.”
I have vivid memories of desperately trying to tell my dad that All That was just SNL but with kids, and it was hilarious. Now my five-year-old has found the All That reboot on YouTube, and I feel the pain that my father had felt.
I’m not a kid and haven’t been for many decades. I’ve never watched nickolodeon. Can someone explain why slime is a thing?
One of Nickelodeon’s first staple show was a program from the early 1980’s called ‘You Can’t Do That On Television’. One of its recurring gags was when people got slimed whenever they said “I don’t know”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can't_Do_That_on_Television
It has remained a trademark of the network ever since.
Funnily enough outside of the US (at least that was my impression as a German kid) Nickelodeon was first and foremost a company that made slime. You could buy that stuff here long before the TV channel made it over.
Worth a watch, a five-part documentary television series called Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (2024)
It details the toxic behind-the-scenes world of children’s television programs from the 1990s to the 2000s, with a special focus on Dan Schneider’s tenure as a producer and showrunner at Nickelodeon.
I mean you can’t do that on television
