Dudes, when i think of the golden age of Nick...up until 1996

I lived off Nickelodeon in the 90s. I was born in '84 and my sister in '90 so we were lucky to experience the entire spectrum. Being 6 years apart and sisters there was a lot of butting heads but Nickelodeon was something we always agreed on because we both loved all the programs.

My fiancee's brother brought Inside-Out Boy up the other night. We were watching The Flintstones Movie on one of the movie channels and in the background Bam-Bam was pushing Pebbles on a swing and since he's so strong, he sent her swinging over the bar and he was like "According to Nickelodeon in the 90s, that would've turned you inside-out!" and I was like "OMG Inside-Out Boy!"

I'm actually watching Clarissa Explains It All on DVD right now. I also have Pete & Pete Seasons 1 and 2. Why did they cancel season 3, and why aren't more 90s Nick shows on DVD? I agree with all the posts about a Classic Nick channel. Either that or buck up, figure out the rights issues with the series and put them all out on DVD. They'll make a mint.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers Space Cases. For the longest time I couldn't remember the title of the show, just the premise. My fiancee had no idea what I was talking about.

I have to admit, there is ONE show currently on Nickelodeon that I actually love. iCarly. And the reason: it was created by Dan Schneider who also created All That and Keenan and Kel, so it has that same kind of humor. He also did Drake and Josh, but they don't make new episodes of that anymore. Even my fiancee loves it. It's funny, because to be annoying, he pronouces it with a short I instead of a long I so insead of Eye-Carly he says Ick-arly, and not only did it catch on with his 13-year-old sister but all of her friends and classmates. I find it slightly disturbing that a 26-year-old male is starting trends with 13-year-old girls. I know a lot of people bash iCarly as being part of the wave of horrible tween shows on Nick and Disney, but it really does stand out as hearkening back to the good ol' days of 90s Nick and that's due to Dan Schneider's random goofy humor. You should give it a try if you haven't already.

Also, does anyone know any websites where you can watch full episodes of old Nick shows? One of my co-workers a while back was telling me about a site he found that had tons of Nick cartoons and he and his friends spent hours watching Doug (this is hysterical because he's got a shaved head, wears nothing but death metal band tshirts and jackboots and he's sitting there watching Doug) but he couldn't remember the URL. I'm just glad someone took the time to upload Freakazoid to YouTube! But that's something for another thread, the great 90s WB cartoons like Freakazoid, Animaniacs (and the spin-off Pinky and the Brain) and Tiny Toons...

Are You Afraid Of The Dark is one of the best as well.

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I was born in '82, but I didn't get cable until I was in first grade (1989), however I still remember my first favorite Nickelodeon show, Hey Dude. I also remember many mornings having to be told to go to school because I'd get up and start watching Mr. Wizard. Then I certainly fell in love with most of the shows everyone else has listed.

I agree, Nickelodeon fell away after 1996, which isn't surprising considering most of their first original series' were cancelled by then, Ren and Stimpy, Pete and Pete etc.

My family and I were on What Would You Do!!!!

Does anyone rememer a show (I don't know if it was on Nick or not) where siblings would be teamed up answering questions about each other and then the winning team would go through a bunch of prizes trying to pick the things they think their brother or sister would pick for themselves. It is just a vaugue memory but I cannot remember what it was called.

"Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke."

I love all of those shows because I grew up watching them but I would include some of the cartoons like ahh real monsters, angry beavers and hey arnold then other shows like are you afraid of the dark? and secret world of alex mac...I think that was on nickelodeon..

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I was born in 1990 and the thing about this is, a lot of these shows would air in reruns all throughout the '90s, while some kept playing in the early Millennium. So while my age group may not have watched some of these Classics, or SNICK when they originally aired, we still saw them all the time.

Pete & Pete I admit I don't remember seeing much of, but it would play during Summers.

Welcome Freshmen and Hillside (or Fifteen as it was known as here in the United Sates when it played on the Disney Channel, not Nickelodeon) I never saw.

Clarissa played and I watched it sometimes but was never that into it until the last time I caught it.

Definitely watched Salute Your Shorts and Are You Afraid of the Dark? Also Rugrats and Doug. Especially Rugrats. I collected the video tapes and would tune in every school year before the school day. Rocko's Modern Life was another favorite of mine.

Hey Dude is another that I never saw

Wild & Crazy Kids would play all the time on Saturdays, they would have Marathons of it every Saturday. Same thing with KaBLaM!

Ren & Stimpy is one thing I couldn't get into.

Of course I witnessed All That. It played for years and years and years, before it became too White.

Mostly only saw Double Dare 2000, but I do recall being into Legends of the Hidden Temple because of the brilliant set and Figure It Out.


Nickelodeon was still as good as ever throughout the '90s. Hey Arnold! is probably my favorite cartoon ever, even more than the classic Simpsons. Kenan & Kel in my opinion was more enjoyable than All That, being a sitcom. All That's stuff could really be hit-or-miss being a sketch-comedy variety show.

To me things began sliding in 1999. Things like The Amanda Show and CatDog were alright, but there was a noticeable decline in the quality of the programming that started here. Within time things shifted from Great, to just Okay, to absolute brain-dead garbage.

The last true Nick shows that maintained that heart, soul and spirit of the real Nickelodeon were Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (if you haven't you need to check this show out, it's so much true to the Nickelodeon we know that this could have been on in the Golden Era without us batting an eyelash) and Drake & Josh.


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