I hate Nickelodeon

[Cokies]

Sorry, but I'm just fed up. No this ISN'T about N@N taking off FOL for the summer. This is about the utter decline in Nickelodeon's quality.
For the last hour or so, I've been looking up old classic Nick shows. These included ones I watched when I was younger, such as Salute Your Shorts, Hey Dude, Welcome Freshmen, Pete and Pete, etc, etc. I remembered how I loved these shows, saw every episode by chance. These are the only shows I can say I "grew up with". They are the ones that remind me of being a kid.

I really hate that my little sisters are "stuck" with Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys. Even Nick's live-action shows are painfully NOT FUNNY. Nickelodeon simply turned into The Disney Channel. And wasn't Nickelodeon supposed to be a Disney alternative. You know, it was "cool" to watch Nick. Nickelodeon used to be a risk-taker, taking chances on odd-shows, that ended up being GREAT. But now it's all the same. Pity.

Instead of "I Want My MTV"( well, I DO want my OLD MTV as well), "I Want my old Nick!"

Sorry about my raving. It really isn't raving, but it me longing for my childhood. You don't have to reply or anything. I mean, you can... Anyway, I just had to get this off my mind.

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" The only interesting answers, are those that destroy the questions."
-Unknown

[Warm & Fuzzy]

I have to agree with you, Cokies, I mean Nick has turned into WB,Fox, The Disney Channel, it just doesn't seem as special any more....Pinky and the Brain, Animanicas, I mean, they don't belong on nick...

[LaverneShirley]

I agree! All of a sudden, Nick is only cartoons! Everytime I turn it on during the day it's Hey Arnold, Wild Thornberrys, or Pinky ad the Brain. It drives me nuts! I miss Round House and Clarissa Explains it all...

[Max Whittaker]

I LIKE NICK! I LIKE RUGRATS! I see a change but please don't compare Nick with Disney. It is far better than Disney.

Don't get me wrong,I grew up with those old show too. I'll always remember them. BUT, there comes a time when you just have to move on.

Maybe when Nick stops showing the shows they show now your sisters will be just as angry as you are now.

[JT]

I love old nick!That's why tonight I'm watching Shelby Woo at 5:30 central!I think they are gonna rotate classic nick shows off of that half-hour but that's not a nuff!The only shows they should keep in their TEENick sked is K&K that's the last goos show they had before what I'd like to call "the transition".I watched SYS,HD!,CEIA,AOP&P but never saw Welcome Freshman.But I am desperate!See Nick needs to do this thing for the summer time every year:They need to put on all their classic shows!
You know what!I might as well show y'all my "dream" nick sked:
ALL TIMES CENTRAL
Weekdays:
-:Note:-M-Th primetime is gonna be diff from F primetime:
M-T:
6:00am:The Brothers Flub (remember?)
6:30am:Rugrats (1991-1993 only)
NICK JR.:
7:00am:Little Bear
7:30am:Eureka's Castle (Could get on Noggin)
8:00amavid the Gnome
8:30am:Franklin
9:00am:Blue's Clues (Only Steve!Not Joe!)
9:30am:Allegra's Window
10:00am:Papa Beaver's Storytime (remember?)
10:30am:Gumby (shortened)
11-3:Repeats
AFTER SCHOOL:
3:00pmouble Dare (86-93 not 2000)
3:30pm:Finders Keepers
4:00pm:You Can't Do That on TV
4:30pm:You Can't Do That on TV
5:00pm:Nick GUTS (Mo Clark,remember?)
5:30pm:Legend/Hidden Temple (Kirk Fog member?
Where it gets complicated:
(I'd put al those dumb new cartoons together)
6:00pm:Rocket Power (M,W)/Invader ZIM (Tu,Th)
6:30pm:Rugrats (new,M,W)/Oddparents (Tu.Th)
7:00pm:Spongebob(M,W)/Thornnberris (Tu,Th)
NAN:
7:30pm:The Facts of Life (79-88)
8:00pmiff'rent Strokes (78-86)
8:30pm:That Girl (66-71)
9:00pm:Three's Company (77-84)
9:30pm:Rhoda (74-78)
10:00pm:Phyllis (75-78)
10:30pm:All in the Family (71-79)
11:00pm:The Jeffersons (75-85)
11:30pm:Alice (76-85)
12:00am:Chico and the Man (74-77)
12:30am:Sanford and Son (72-77)
1:00am:Gilligan's Island (64-67)
1:30am:Laverne and Shirley (76-83)
2:00am:Bewitched (64-72)
2:30am:I Dream of Jeannie (65-70)
3:00am:Julia (68-71)
3:30am:The Beverly Hillbillies (62-71)
4:00am:Taxi (78-83)
4:30am:Barney Miller (75-82)
5:00am:The Andy Griffith Show (60-68)
5:30am:The Honeymooners (55-56)

OK Here is Friday Prime Time:
6:00pm:Clarissa Explains It All
6:30pm:Fifteen (All My Children's Children!)
7:00pm:Salute Your Shorts
7:30pm:Hey Dude
8:00pm:What Would You Do?
8:30pm:Wild and Crazy Kids
9:00pm:This is like the regular sched but it starts with Gilligan and ends with Sanford and Son this will be like this til 7 o'clock.

Weekends:
Big Slice of Twice is Nice:
7:00am:Ren and Stimpy
7:30am:Ren and Stimpy
8:00am:Rugrats (1991-93)
8:30am:Rugrats (1991-93)
9:00amoug
9:30amoug
10:00am:Muppet Babies
10:30am:Muppet Babies
11:00am:Eddie McDowd
11:30am:Eddie McDowd
12:00pm:Clarissa Explains It All
12:30pm:Clarissa Explains It All
1:00pm:Salute Your Shorts
1:30pm:Salute Your Shorts
2:00pm:Hey Dude!
2:30pm:Hey Dude!
3:00pm:Welcome Freshman
3:30pm:Welcome Freshman
4:00pm:Fifteen
4:30pm:Fifteen
5:00pm:Taina
5:30pm:Taina
6:00pm:Space Cases
6:30pm:Land of the Lost
7:00pm:All That (1995 only)
7:30pm:Garcias
8:00pm:As Told By Ginger
8:30pm:Roundhouse
9:00pm:The Addams Family
9:30pm:The Addams Family
10:00pm:The Munsters
10:30pm:The Munsters
11:00pmobie Gillis
11:30pmobie Gillis
12:00am:Father Knows Best
12:30am:Father Knows Best
1:00am:The Honeymooners
1:30am:The Honeymooners
2:00am:Leave it to Beaver
2:30am:Leave it to Beaver
3:00am:I Love Lucy
3:30am:I Love Lucy
4:00amennis the Menace
4:30amennis the Menace
5:00am:Molly/The Goldbergs
5:30am:Molly/The Goldbergs

Sunday Primetime:
5:00pm:Clarissa
5:30pm:Welcome Freshman
6:00pm:Kenan and Kel
6:30pm:As Told By Ginger
7:00pm:Fifteen
7:30pm:Salute Your Shorts
TOTALLY 80'S NIGHT
8:00pm:Mr. Belvedere (85-90)
8:30pm:Valerie's Family (87-88)
9:00pm:Gimme a Break! (81-87)
9:30pm:The Hogan Family (88-91)
10:00pm:Mama's Family (83-85,86-90)
10:30pm:Silver Spoons (82-87)
11:00pm:Square Pegs (82-83)
11:30pm:Punky Brewster (84-87)
12:00am:227 (85-90)
12:30am:ALF (86-90)
1:00amiff'rent Strokes (78-86)
1:30am:The Facts of Life (79-88)
2:00am:Bewitched (64-72)
2:30am:I Dream of Jeannie (65-70)
3:00am:Julia (68-71)
3:30am:The Beverly Hillbillies (62-71)
4:00am:Taxi (78-83)
4:30am:Barney Miller (78-82)
5:00am:The Andy Griffith Show (60-68)
5:30am:The Honeymooners (55-56)

Do you like?I put those years on side the N@N shows because that defies their "rewatchability".

[Cokies]

Originally posted by Max Whittaker:
I LIKE NICK! I LIKE RUGRATS! I see a change but please don't compare Nick with Disney. It is far better than Disney.

Don't get me wrong,I grew up with those old show too. I'll always remember them. BUT, there comes a time when you just have to move on.

Maybe when Nick stops showing the shows they show now your sisters will be just as angry as you are now.

Yeah, ok, Rugrats was a good cartoon years ago. You know, when Nick DID NOT show it 24/7. But now, I can compare Nick to Disney Channel. They are basically the same channel. Nick used to be the channel to watch over Disney ANYTIME. It's just not like that anymore.

I can't just move on. Why do you think someone came up with the idea of N@N? Because adults wanted to see classic shows that they grew up with. I'm not saying we should see all these shows on N@N. I simply think that Nickelodeon can set aside Hey Arnold, and Rocket Power, to show some old gems.

My sisters don't know any better, because they don't have better. So I doubt they will care about The Wild Thornberry's much ten years from now...



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" The only interesting answers, are those that destroy the questions."
-Unknown

[vienna waits]

Nick definatly sucks now but Disney was never lame. Disney is and always will be cool. And you mentioned Allegra's Window above, I used to love that show. I wish it would come back

[80skid]

Aww, I miss the old Nick. I miss Global Guts and Legends of the Hidden Temple and Pete and Pete and Salute Your Shorts and Hey Dude and the old Double Dare and Nick Arcade. They don't make that stuff anymore: priceless stuff compared to the stuff they've got on now.

[JT]

The only two good things on DISNEY is "Growing Paines and Boy Meets World.But never fear!I just saw Clarissa on Nick!I think they are permantley having a Nick '90s Classics in TEENick! go to http://www.nick.com/ then go to the bottom of the page.Then click the little pop menu.Then scroll down that and hit TEENick.Wait.Wait.Wait. then when the new page downloads scroll down to see that '90s classics is right after K&K!They already had three Clarissas 1 Alex Mack,and 1 AYAOTD?!They could at least have made the little logo clickable so we can see a schedule for it or something so I can get my tapes ready!Orignally sked for today was "Shelby Woo" another semi-classic Nick show!

[JT]

Originally posted by 80skid:
Aww, I miss the old Nick. I miss Global Guts and Legends of the Hidden Temple and Pete and Pete and Salute Your Shorts and Hey Dude and the old Double Dare and Nick Arcade. They don't make that stuff anymore: priceless stuff compared to the stuff they've got on now.

Remember that show You're On with Phil Moore?

[lesliem14]

I haven't watched Nick during the day since probably 94, but I loved all those shows you mentioned Cokies. Hey Dude is my favorite. No question about that!

I remember the ads when Nick began to introduce it's own cartoons instead of the Looney Toons they always used to show. It was August of the early 90s (don't ask me how I remember it was August) and after Rugrats, Doug, and Ren & Stimply were introduced the network began to change into what it is today. And I slowly stopped watching it as my favorite shows began to end, and I couldn't go to high school saying that I still watched Nick either! In my opinion the old shows were ten times better. The game shows were pretty good too.

[Cokies]

Dumb Double Post! Sorry...

[This message has been edited by Cokies (edited 07-15-2001).]

[Cokies]

In regard to lesliem's post: ( because I can't quote for some reason...)

*sniff, sniff* Mine too.
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I do too remember when Nick started their own cartoons. At first I thought they were alright. Ren and Stimpy was sort of the Beavis and Butt-Head of Nickelodeon. But how soon they change. It's funny you say it wasn't cool going into high school, and saying you didn't watch Nick.
Now, say in class, if anyone says they haven't heard of Welcome Freshman, Hey Dude, or Salute Your Shorts, etc, everyone turns in their seats and yells, "What?!? Were you deprived of cable at a young age?"
It's pretty funny...



[This message has been edited by Cokies (edited 07-15-2001).]

[Cokies]

Originally posted by tootieismyfav:
Disney is and always will be cool.

Oh no. I mean, it was alright back in the early 90's when they didn't show commercials and there was no such thing as "zoog disney".

[vienna waits]

Originally posted by Cokies:
Oh no. I mean, it was alright back in the early 90's when they didn't show commercials and there was no such thing as "zoog disney".

I'm now having flashbacks to those days of no commercials! Now I remember why I liked Disney so much!