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10 of the best Nickelodeon shows of our youth

10 of the best Nickelodeon shows of our youth

  • 10 of the best Nickelodeon shows of our youth

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    Back in the 90's, Nickelodeon was the king of TV programming. I don't exactly know what they were hitting on the Nielsen ratings, but I do know that our generation's entire world was wrapped up in Nickelodeon shows, theme songs, commercials and of course, Nickelodeon Gak. Hell yeah. Here are some of the best Nick shows from the 90's that make us want to climb the Aggro-crag, eat at Honker Burger, tell scary stories and go to Camp Anawanna. What are some of your favorite Nick shows from the 90's?

    Photo Credit: YouTube/Nickelodeon -Jason Epstein

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  • 10 'Legends of the Hidden Temple'

    One time I saw Olmec in my dreams, but instead of asking me ancient civilization trivia questions he had Pamela Anderson's body circa 1990 and was saving me Baywatch-style from drowning in a kiddie pool by giving me mouth-to-mouth with his enormous stone lips. And it hurt. But since we're not talking about my messed up dreams, let's focus on how awesome Legends of the Hidden Temple was...uh, it was AWESOME. Where else could you get a bunch of physically, mentally and (probably) socially inept kids to come together to compete for stupid prizes and still have it be so badass? We liked the pool relay, tolerated the pop quizzes and LOVED the hidden temple with all of its web-climbing, gropey-temple-native-dude, monkey-statue-assembling awesomeness.

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  • 9 'Nickelodeon GUTS'

    Of all the awesome physical game shows, this had to be the best. It was like an American Gladiators for children with some pretty innovative challenges. Sure, half the kids had the coordination of a drunken giraffe on stilts, but watching them scurry around the Aggro-crag, jump around in elastic bungee apparatuses and ride around obstacle-laden tracks on banana bikes was always a good time. Plus, they had Mike O'Malley and Mo. Back to you, Mo!

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  • 8 'Rugrats'

    Never has the imagination been used to such great effect in a kid's show; all they did was imagine they were somewhere else doing something better. Probably cuz' they hate their lives. But all the crazy adventures they had made it seem almost fun to be a diaper-pooping, always-drooling baby. I wonder what Tommy, Chuckie and the rest of the gang are like now that they're all "grow'd" up.

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  • 7 'Doug'

    Man, what a weird show this was. Here, they were trying to bring us into the life of an average, anxious pre-teen who had a crush, a bully and a best friend. But it was so much more...

    Doug instilled us with great cultural (at least among those of us who remember the show fondly) phenomena like, watch this....who remembers Pork Chop? Quailman? Killer Tofu? I Need More Allowance? Patti Mayonnaise?

    Also what was up with the fact that Doug's best friend Skeeter was blue, but he was obviously a black dude. And what would that make green Roger and purple Beebe? While it may be confusing in retrospect, it doesn't lessen the show's greatness.

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  • 6 'Salute Your Shorts'

    Ug. Donkey Lips. Sponge. Budnick. The names alone bring back vivid memories of this much-loved though short-lived series about a summer camp of misfits doing crazy things like performing "Awful Waffle's," telling stories about "Zeke the Plumber," playing rowdy games of capture the flag and raiding each other's bunks. This was easily ten times better than Hey, Dude.

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  • 5 'Nick Arcade'

    Back in Sonic the Hedgehog's hey-day, this kick-ass video game lover's game show was rocking our world. Players would compete against each other for high scores using real video games, navigate their avatar "Mikey" through one of 11 different worlds of a video board game, take part in pop quizzes and video puzzles and of course, face the always awesome "Video Challenge." In this, contestants would actually get to go "into" a video game to collect items while avoiding enemies. It wasn't exactly virtual reality, as they were just playing around on a green screen, but to us at home it was pretty much the coolest thing we'd ever seen and something we wanted to do more than anything else.

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  • 4 'Get the Picture'

    This game show's premise revolved mostly around kids trying to identify images as they were slowly uncovered through various questions. The greatness of this show was driven by its unintentional hilarity. Maybe back in '91 when it aired it wasn't as funny, but gosh darn it if you can watch it today without laughing your ass off, then you sir, are a robot. First off, we have Mike O'Malley hosting (pre-GUTS) and back then, busting out into his showbiz career, he was absolutely filled with enthusiasm.

    Take this brief, unintentionally hilarious anecdote:
    An image is being uncovered, one section at a time. It is something huge, technologically advanced and multi-tiered. It is being revealed one tile after another, but none of the contestants know what it is. Mr. O'Malley asks, "What is it guys?" The contestants have no idea. At home, we all wonder...is it a space station? Is it some type of oil rig? And then Mike says, "It's.....IT'S A CD PLAYER!"

     Ahhhh 1991...when CD players looked like aircraft carriers...classic.

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  • 3 'Are Your Afraid of the Dark?'

    This was like a kiddie version of the Twilight Zone. It was never really frightening, but it was creepy as hell. The Midnight Society would get together around a campfire, toss some magic dust into the flames and tell stories like "The Tale of the Laser Maze" and "The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner." And remember Mister Sardo? That's SarDO, accent on the DO(H)!

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  • 2 'Double Dare'

    Of all the amazing ideas for a game show, it must have taken some serious out-of-the-box thinking (and extremely illegal drug-use) to come up with Double Dare. In between trivia questions, players made a mess digging for colored flags in giant, goo-filled noses, threw and caught pies in over-sized clown pants, and navigated through obstacle courses exposing players to the elements (well, the Nickelodeon version of "the elements" which are basically pudding, slime, whipped cream and other types of slime). And Marc Summers hosted. Amazing.

    Also, interesting fact: did you know that a whopping 525 episodes of this hilarious shit-show was taped? When is this coming out in a 38-disc Blu-Ray package?

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  • 1 'Rocko's Modern Life'

    I'm just going to reflect on this incredible cartoon with a few choice quotes:

    "SPUNKY!"

    "Ohhhhh, Rocko!" "Mrs. Bighead?"

    "Turn the page, wash ya hands. Turn the page...wash ya hands."

    "HOWWWWWW DAREEEEE YOUUUUUUUUU!"

     Bonus: If you can guess who says each line, I will present you with a cookie.

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