Pretty much

For me, most of the standards, some of which have been covered here:

the "Three's Company" bake off pie fight (huge/big memories of that); YCDTOTV; Mean Betty Jean on "Electric Company" (that one will stay with me forever - i almost can remember looking around the room, like "um, does anyone else notice that i'm getting a little sweaty/excited about this? Is it ok to feel like this?"); and at least one "Little Rascals" pie fight.

Definitely the 80s and then early 90s as i grew up, a golden time to be alive and a budding WAM fan, due to things like the prevalence of slime on Nickelodeon in general, and messy game shows like Double Dare.

But as pies are the core of my interest, I'd say that was it.

I've mentioned this before, but there was some sort of burlesque show that i believe an on HBO - back when they had things like the (original) Pee Wee Herman Show and those kind of variety and comedy events/live shows. It was some sort of western set-up and there was a guy who had his hand on a pie tin pressed into the face of some cute blonde with a red checkered shirt on -- I've never been able to even find what the show was, much less find the image again, which I saw in one of those little HBO monthly guides. One of these days, I'm going to buy some old ones on Ebay or something (people still sell them) and find this and it will never live up to my imagination, but it's always been something where i'm like "Did i totally imagine/make this up, or...?"

Also, a couple of yours stories are really great. And/or charming. And/or hot.

JY

Tiswas. It was the pies for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaNVCi5j6i4

You want some formative shit? Check this out: It's from 1977, and this 8 minute segment which first got my attnetion occurs in a place called The Taffy Pit. The *fucking*Taffy*Pit*. Is it any wonder I turned out the way I did? Look at this shit!

https://youtu.be/iC7PtQh4gA8?t=1s


Fast forward a couple a' few years, and the other shoe dropped when the bod caught up with the brain; Like Stella, I also had an awesome rural upbringing: Lots of clay, nearby quarry, lots of swamp, and a pre-enviromental awareness town dump where me and the girl next door (Also a wammer. What were the odds??) routinely crawled around in slimy pits of god-knows-what. Her fam split up and her mom moved them away just as our mud wrestling began devolving into grinding on each other in thick mud. What. A. Piss-off.

As a child of the 1980s growing up in the UK I had the delights of:
- Noel Edmunds Saturday Roadshow,
- Noel Edmund's House Party (including the Anthea Turner "Gotcha" where she wore custard filled Wellington Boots & I wished she'd been bare-foot - sadly been unable to find on YouTube),
- Double Dare (as part of Going Live) which had some BRILLIANT Celebrity Specials including Blue Peter vs Newsround (watching Yvette Fielding moving spaghetti & sauce with her bare feet was AMAZING, just wish we could get the ORIGINAL BBC tape & get it re-released in HD!),
- then there was Comic Relief which used to get some great gungings (eg Anthea Turner & Konnie Huq on Blue Peter, Myleene Klass in the Live & Kicking gunge tank)
- finally the icing on the cake was Get Your Own Back, which particularly at the start had some attractive females getting gunged bare-foot in the gunge tank (Emma - a horse-rider, Rachael Victoria Roberts, Phillipa Forrester, Scorpio from Gladiators, and Sammy the Dentist to name but a few).

By this point I think that my brain had been programmed that sexy women (especially bare-foot) covered in slime = excessively sexy and to think it all started before the internet!

Then there was all the "incidental WAM" that just got included in things such as the Jonathan Creek episode ("The Miracle in Crooked Lane") where the fetish of "Sploshing" is part of a sub-plot & Emma Kennedy ends up in a bath full of porridge to give just one example... sadly this kind of thing is far less common now...

I was similar jmdavies86. I don't specially remember which programme but it was possibly Fun House. I watched with my older cousin after school and she used to roar with laughter, she found it hilarious. I hardly spoke during it I was so overwhelmed by it.

But also it seemed like almost every Saturday morning TV show growing up had a gunk tank or something similar, they were basically all just ripping the ass out of the Tiswas format (which I am, genuinely, much too young to remember). I specifically remember though, when a new Saturday morning kids show would start I'd wake up super early to watch it from beginning to end. If it didn't feature gunge in that first episode, forget it, it was dead to me, I'd never give it another chance.

Get your own back in the UK, and Double Dare on UK and U.S. TV were pretty good. Those shows were the shows that confirmed it for me.

It was this one scene from 101 Dalmatians...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te2yYAQGoxk

This is what should happen to villainesses, a very messy just dessert.

TOMMY. Ann Margret wallowing in soap suds, baked beans, and chocolate syrup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChGxwRq3YcI

Attempted a higher quality version of this scene a while back but couldn't get a real good audio/video sync. Still, it's up on my smesstube for those interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsB6qvDXP8A

watching nick; wild and crazy kids or WWYD

That was some interesting substance! Loved that bubble that came out of her mouth!

^^ THIS ^^

Then Double Dare and Fun House (UK versions) got me interested in gungings, followed in my teens by NHP.

Also after seeing the massive gunging that Sally took with loads of 'Wonda Glu' at the end made me want to try getting messy with Semolina with my Girlfriend.

I played in the mud a lot as a child, and one day on the internet, I decided I wanted to look at naked women. "Hmm... this is okay. But what is it missing?" So I added mud to the search tags and MessyFun came up. Got a little adventurous and decided to play in the mud the way I was seeing those models on the internet. Needless to say it felt good and was hooked from that day on.

And being the corruptive perv I am, I am what started it for my girlfriend, using whipped cream and other foodstuffs to start. Trying to set up something muddy with her.

I always loved getting messy as a kid. We went on a PGL trip in primary school where one activity was just a really muddy course through a wood. The entire goal was to get as muddy as possible! That was pretty awesome.

I always loved watching gungey stuff on TV too. NHP was a big one, as were kids shows like Fun House, which I always wished I could go on.

It transitioned into a fetish at some point in my teens. I realised that I enjoyed seeing women get wet, and then I found out that I especially liked seeing women getting all foamy. I was looking around the Internet one day, as you do, and I found a set of pics of a cute woman getting messy with custard. That opened up a whole new messy world for me and I've never looked back.

In the vein of, when did you know you were interested in WAM:

There's a story on Yahoo! about a 2-year old who covered herself in house paint while mom was attending to a sibling.

I'm bringing this up in jest, suggesting that if this person were to show up on UMD in 16 years, this incident would be the origin. That day with the white paint was the "aha" moment.

Back in the day I somehow stumbled on a link to wambabes. Its been down hill from there

Ariel and Jayce should use that for a marketing slogan

My messy fetish was started by mid-1980s German television commercials for detergents. I was especially aroused by those that had the clothes cut in two for comparison of the washing results... btw this is still something that I like to see...