r/RetroNickelodeon

We talked to Mathew Klickstein (author of SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age) about how he tracked down Nickelodeon's hardest to find stars

Just published a new episode of our podcast where we sit down with Mathew Klickstein, who wrote SLIMED!, the definitive oral history of 90s Nickelodeon. If you've read it, you know how many people he managed to interview for that book (over 250), and we asked him about the ones that were genuinely hard to find.

Some highlights:

• A years long search for Alistair from You Can't Do That on Television that eventually involved tracking down his brother's YouTube video from a small pub gig in Canada
• How he landed Joe Eszterhas by cold emailing a church he'd attended over a decade earlier
• Getting John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy) on the record when multiple other writers had already tried and failed
• The story behind the massive 92nd Street Y Nickelodeon reunion event he produced almost entirely on his own, including getting the fictional and animated band, The Beets, to play live for the first time ever

We also spent a good chunk of the conversation talking about the financial reality of being a working writer, which he was refreshingly honest about.

I kind of wish there was a back story for Kurt. There probably is somewhere, and I’m sure one of the writers of the movie has it in his archives. What do you think his childhood was like? Something traumatic must have happened to him, for him to start referring to himself in the 3rd person. That doesn’t just happen out of nowhere. It makes me giggle picturing a young 6 year old Kurt on the playground getting bullied, and he suddenly huffs up and starts going “YOU APOLOGIZE TO KURT!!! KURT IS GONNA PUT YOU IN THE … the … 🤔 GRINDER!”

His dad probably used that as a threat, like “I’m gonna throw all these toys in the GRINDER if you don’t clean your room!” His mother probably put it in his head that he could make millions of dollars or something.

Also, how come there isn’t one single interview from Jan S about playing such an iconic villain? If there is, please send me the link. He was probably a super nice guy on the set. I also wish the blooper reel was available. I bet they couldn’t get through the “if anyone can get the sauce out of Ed” line without cracking up. Too bad we’ll never get an interview now … 😔 I wonder if they even asked Jan to make a cameo in the sequel, as he probably was still healthy when they filmed it. Can anyone confirm?

So I’m 12. And yes I know I’m not old enough to be here on Reddit, but that’s not the point. I’m looking for a that aired on NickJr in 2016. It was about two Muslim girls. Both dressed up like jasmine from Aladdin. One was blue, one was pink. And the style looked like LOL Toy Suprises. And I think they had a pet tiger? It was 3D animated. A had a toy of the blue one when I was 5 in like 2019-2020. And I think I watched one episode in like 2019 idk. So can you guys help me find it?

I didn't have Nickelodeon in Canada

30 Years of Weinerville!

If you grew up watching Nickelodeon in the '90s, you probably remember the wonderfully weird world of Weinerville. We’re celebrating its 30th anniversary on Splat Attack with a special episode featuring Marc Weiner, Max Weiner, Ray Abruzzo and more!

We talk about the show, the characters, behind the scenes stories, and what made Weinerville such a memorable part of '90s Nickelodeon.

If Weinerville was part of your childhood, we'd love to hear your memories!

I’d personally love a full NickMusic block again - music videos,artist interviews,live performances,and themed countdowns.

But I’m curious what everyone else would pick:

🎵 NickMusic

🎨 NickToons

🌈 Nick Jr

💜 TeenNick

🎬 NickMovies

🎮 NickGames

🌙 Nick at Nite

Which one are you bringing back and what would you put on it?

you might like this guy on YouTube I subscribe to him on his YouTube channel his YouTube channel name is Pop Arena he is talking about Nickelodeon

who remembers Nick on CBS I've been watching on nick CBS forever

who remembers Sharon, Lois, and Bram's from Elephant Show it a Canadian show from canada on cbc

This is an early draft of a fan-made reconstruction of SNICK's first anniversary broadcast from August 14th, 1993.

The reconstruction was assembled from multipple surviving recordings and archival sources. An earlier reconstruction/source compilation uploaded to the Internet Archive by "joelseph01" was an important source for a number of surviving commercials and broadcast elements here, and I want to thank them for their preservation work and contribution to making this possible.

For this version, higher-quality versions of segments, bumpers, graphics, and other elements have been substituted where available. In some instances, I've had to reconstruct audio from multiple sources to make ending credit voiceovers, incomplete commercials align, multiple sources to complete broadcast segments, ect. The goal is to recreate the original broadcast experience as closely as possible while preserving the character of the surviving material.

This is still a work in progress, and not every portion has been replaced or restored to the highest quality currently available. It will be eventually, and I will share the updated version.

This is also perfectly sized for watching on a CRT, as I've provided it in 720x480 with non-square pixels, and added some space to the edges of the screen to account for overscan

Edit: Shoutout to Mizo_Soup for recreating the mid/late 1993 SNICK screenbug animation for me