Just noticed that at 10PM Eastern time tonight a new block starts on the TeenNick cable channel called "The Splat" featuring old Nick shows. "You Can't Do That On Television" is the first show up. Sadly I don't have cable so I won't be able to watch, but just the fact that it's actually going out over the air and on peoples' tvs again makes my heart flutter.

If anybody catches it, I'd be curious what episodes they show. Like, once a year I regret not having cable anymore and this is one of those times.

And, of course, while YCDTOTV brings back great memories, we grew up, and they didn't (on the show), so now it's adults watching kids.

But there are definitely some GREAT memories!

Norman

Actually I liked the jokes and thought many still held up. How many children's shows feature Megadeth in the soundtrack. Plus I always loved the title cards like Godzilla meets the smurfs. Another one was Mr T teaches the ABC's

Thanks. Scrambled to get my old linux based dvr up and running in hopes of some higher quality stuff, but the quality is about the same you'll find on youtube.

I read an article about a month ago that Nick was looking to revive the old 80-90s shows. This seems to affirm that. Maybe just a treading of the waters, but a good step.

Yeah us adults shouldn't be too excited, but at least in 10 years or so we might have some new shoppers!

And yeah, it's all about the nostalgia for a lot of us. Tough show to talk about as adults indeed even though it's what shaped most of us here as we were growing adults.

YCDTOTV is the gateway drug for wam! Get those young viewers hooked, and there will be more customers in a few years! :devil:

Just teasing, but that's what actually happened to a lot of us!

Norman

Early 80's television shot on videotape. It's probably like looking thru a glass of beer at this point.

Watching some of it now. The ones they are showing (2 of them) are from 1981.

I was twelve years old then, I believe. The interesting thing about these re-showings are the "splat facts" they are doing, which are behind-the-scenes tidbits about Nickelodeon in those days.

The most interesting one was the cast of "YCDTOT" was given an extra $50 on their paycheck for every sliming they took on the show.

Some of them probably cleaned up.

I had heard this new Nick retro thing was just going back as far as Hey Dude, and most of it was of the Clarissa Explains it All/Pete & Pete era. Glad to hear YCDTOTV is back on! even though i think they're all available in various forms (mostly Youtube) across the 'net, would be cool and fun to watch them on an HD TV in their very un-HD state.

Well, it is on Teen Nick. I'm not sure if they have an HD channel.

YCDTOTV was scheduled for a DVD release, then got cancelled. Something to do with the rights. Glad NICK is finally bringing it back. (Considering their entire trademark was stolen from the show....)

The show's appeal to me was not just the messy element (which was HUGE)... But just the fact that it was girls my age (or slightly older) getting it. Seeing someone from your own peer group get pied or slimed was a whole new ballgame... And yeah, it keeps the show from being "allowed" on the UMD but I guarantee it furthered our fetish more than 95% of what we DO post on here now.

Alla you pervs are still spankin' to those old YCDTOTV clips, admit it.

their also airing old figure it out episodes

Regis, did you bury your post on purpose or was that a happy accident?

I realize I will be the iconoclast here...and maybe I was older (nineteen and early twenties) when it was on...but I seldom thought the slapstick was very good (except the multiple pieing of Moose)...the show was entertaining, I'll admit...but it never gave me "that nervous feeling" the way the Three's Company pie scene did, of any 3 Stooges episode involving pies.

really well said.

and i'm not sure it's ever quite been expressed in that succinct/specific a way before on here, at least that i've seen.

that WAS huge. Yes, i loved seeing the ladies get pied on "Three's Company" and some other shows like that, but this was like watching girls at school get pied, basically (or, with Christine, it was like watching the older sister/babysitter get pied). The range of ages on YCDTOTV always made it so there was someone i had a crush on and also who i could identify with.

In some way, I'm not quite sure the appeal of YCDTOTV can ever be replaced for that very specific reason; now that i'm 40, i occasionally have pie fantasies, but more often than not, they're acted out/serviced by the UMD and various models/producers.

Whereas being younger and going to school every day and watching YCDTOTV after school -- i fantasized about girls getting pied all the time, and would do a lot of You Can't-inspired doodles in the margins of many a notebook.

JY

YCDTOT was recorded in Ottawa ON and I had heard that a fire at the CTV studios resulted in a loss of some of the master recordings.
Alanis Morissette got a start there.
( I always liked ''Moose'' growing up with the show)

http://members.shaw.ca/wtyo/moose.html

Kevin Somers sure looks like Sidney Crosby now.

My main memory of YCDTOT is that many of the set-ups for the pies were quite good, at least compared to other kids shows with pies.

I'd also lay odds that Jill Stanley (who sadly never got pied) grew up to be the best looking of all the female cast. Her or that one girl who was pied in the black & white time machine pie fight scene. I can't remember her name; something beginning with an S.