SLIME SLIME SLIME :)

This entry is dedicated to the greatest substance....ever :)
green ooey gooey nickelodeon slime, which has been pouring over people's heads almost 3 decades now. Where did this stuff come from you may ask, well i shall tell you :)

To start off, slime was born in CANADA :) In 1979 a small tv station in Canada launched a show called You Can't Do That On Television (basically a kid's SNL). One episode in the show's first season called for a disgusting green substance to be dropped on a kid when he pulled on a chain in a dungeon. The crew reportedly created a disgusting concoction from lunch leftovers, this first batch of slime was ultimately not used, but they ended up making another batch which they did use. After the success of the first sliming they began incorporating slime more into the show. At the time many of the local kids shows in Canada were very education oriented and featured kids who were big know-it-alls. The producers of YCDTOTV decided to poke fun at this by punishing the kids on YCDTOTV who "didn't know", so every time a kid on the show would say " I Don't Know" a cascade of green slime would pour down upon them.
YCDTOTV Sliming

YCDTOTV's infamous multi-colored sliming, and it also includes a recipe !@#



YCDTOTV caught on and became a huge hit in Canada, and green slime became a staple of the show. In 1982 YCDTOTV would become even more popular when a small American network called Nickelodeon picked up the show and started airing it. The show's popularity was huge in the 80's and helped turn Nickelodeon into what it is today. This show also popularized slime in the U.S. and clever Nickelodeon took slime and started incorporating into some of their shows such as Double Dare, Wild & Crazy Kids, their KCA awards, and various commercials.
Double Dare

Slime Controversy Commercial


Slime's popularity couldn't be stopped even after YCDTOTV's cancellation in the early 90's. Nickelodeon transformed it pretty much into their logo, continuing using it in more shows, and special events the channel organized, such as the "nickelodeon takes over your school sweepstakes". It also became a badge of honor for celebrities to be slimed at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. The most popular shows to use slime in later part of the 90's were most likely Figure Out (where contestants would be slimed if they performed the "secret slime action") and Slime Time Live, which would air between popular Nick shows.
Figure It Out

Slime Time Live


Well slime has survived well into 21st century, and is becoming even more popular with Nickelodeon launching its Slime Across America campaign, sending a bus across America sliming kids. Also Nickelodeon has built the Nick Hotel, which regularly slimes guests.
Nick Hotel Slime


Well now what does slime mean to me? well growing up i was a nickelodeon junkie. Rocko's Modern Life, Double Dare, Catdog, Hey Arnold, What Would You Do, Doug, Are You Afraid Of The Dark, and mannnny others, were and still are to me AMAZING shows. Being the classic Nickelodeon junkie I am, I did AND still want to be slimed :P who knows if that will ever happen, but i shall continue to be hopeful. Who knows why myself and thousands of kids love slime. I really don't know...shouldn't have said that :P For me i guess its so tied to my childhood, and...well it just looked fun :)


over and out