However, the final Slime-In winner in 1990 was slimed at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, as YCDTOTV had ceased production by then (despite the fact that Nickelodeon had desired a trip to the set at CJOH and a meeting with the cast as a prize). By what name was You Can't Do That on Television (1979) officially released in India in English? The show is synonymous with Nickelodeon, and was at that time extremely popular with the highest ratings overall on the channel. The recipe for green slime originally consisted of rotten food. YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISION!!! In the Family Guy episode "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High", Peter Griffin is slimed after saying "I don't know'" followed immediately by a still shot that is a direct reference to YCDTOTV's opening sequence, with the words "You Can't Do That on Television" written in red over a man's face. Although the pilot aired on Nickelodeon, the series was not picked up. Actors who were scripted to be slimed or have water dumped on them would usually appear barefoot in the scene. Some "opposites" features were reversals of the roles and gags related to the show's recurring characters (usually played by Les Lye or Abby Hagyard), such as the cast getting to execute El Captaino at the firing squad or torturing Nasti the dungeon keeper. After he leaves, Tim does just that. The pre-empted shows were parodies of current TV shows (e.g. Sailor suits. Unlike the slime and water, pies were not usually triggered by any certain word or trigger phrase, although in the earlier years, saying "let me have it" or "give it to me" would frequently result in a pieing. Kubusheskie became a writer and producer on the series during the 1989 and 1990 seasons. Offered the chance to return for the 1989 season, but declined. In 2004, when fans and cast reunited for the show's 25th anniversary, the original lockers were auctioned. Appeared in his first episode clad in a diaper playing a sitar, as Roger Price's revenge for having to deal with Justin's difficult mother. In January 1981, production on YCDTOTV resumed, and a new set of episodes aired locally on CJOH through May 1981. Some of the most notable cast members included: Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story' On VOD, A Documentary About How Nickelodeon Dominated Kids' TV. Right before this happened, one of the cast would generally be giving a monologue (or several would be having a group conversation) that was interrupted by another cast member with something that would (generally) be opposite what the monologue (or dialogue) was about, all present cast would say, "It must be the introduction to the opposites", and then the inversion fade would happen; several sketches would follow that were a tongue-in-cheek reversal of the show's subject of the day, and also in which the normal principles of daily life were reversed, often with children having authority over adults or with adults encouraging children to behave badly (for example, eating desserts instead of vegetables, or wasting money on something frivolous rather than putting the money in the bank). Simone also never appeared on the link set. These included Brodie Osome, Marjorie Silcoff, and Vanessa Lindores (pregnant at the time), with cameos by Justin Cammy and Alasdair Gillis. The boy escapes by going jogging with the firing squad.The kids exercise on a stationary bike and use the TV station's special effects to create change of scenery. Though the arrangement of the theme music stayed the same throughout the entire series run (although there are subtle differences between the themes in various seasons especially the closing themes and Whatever Turns You On used a completely different theme song), the opening animation itself changed in different ways. The show's ratings declined throughout 1989 and 1990, ranking fifth on Nickelodeon. By the 1984 season, the word "wet" had then no longer triggered the water to spray down, thus leaving the job to just the word "water" itself. The mother put a little blond boy in a dress and Mary Jane strap shoes for teasing the girls. The lockers underwent a few minor makeovers during the show's early years, but mostly remained the same for the entire run of the show. While trying to stay healthy and exercise, the kids' efforts are halted by the adults. Blip's Arcade: Blip, owner of the local video arcade, would find inventive and devious ways to cheat his customers, such as rigging unwinnable video games or running "specials" in which, he would exchange only three quarters for a dollar. Some scenes were reshot to remove any local or specifically Canadian content, and the half-hour syndicated edits became entirely sketch comedy. The bumper frequently took place "backstage" and broke the fourth wall with remarks about the episode, usually featuring one final humiliation or comeuppance for that episode's main cast member. The screen is then cracked and splits, and the show begins. During the famous "locker room" segment of You Can't Do That on Television, cast members, residing in gym lockers with You Can't Do That on Television painted on them, would tell jokes to each other. When Nickelodeon started airing the episodes, none of the 1979 episodes remained, however all of the 1981 episodes did. In the NewsRadio episode "The Song Remains the Same", Mr. James celebrates April Fools' Day (in February) by having Joe install the "trigger machines" from YCDTOTV, and then tricks the cast into getting slimed and doused with water. The show was similar to those from the 1979 season of YCDTOTV, including music videos and several earlier YCDTOTV sketches and motifs (including a variation on the show's trademark green slime gag called "Yellow Yuck"). Sometimes opposite sketches involved cast members not being hit with slime or water after saying the "trigger phrase" (see below section), as in City Life (1987) or Excess (1989). [16] Eventually baby shampoo was added so that it the slime would wash out of the actors' hair more easily after several of the female cast members complained. This, of course, draws the executioner's attention, and they commence fire. Every week the show took its "Roving Camera" to hangouts around town, recording kids' jokes or complaints about life, which would be played on the following week's broadcast. Kubusheskie became a writer and producer on the series during the 1989 and 1990 seasons, and on occasion made cameos. Lindores returned in 1989's Age episode. You Can't Do That on Television premiered on February 3, 1979 on CJOH-TV in Ottawa as a locally aired and produced one-hour low-budget variety program with some segments performed live. It is also still used in ads showing the network's current stars getting slimed from all sides in slow motion, and was used to slime the winner at the end of the Nickelodeon game show BrainSurge. She appeared in only one episode each in 1982 and '84. Vanessa: Interesting. You need a speed reading course to read these. Most episodes included one or more firing squad sketches, where Les would play the part of a Spanish-accented Latin American military officer with a sword in hand preparing to order a firing squad to execute one of the children actors, who were standing in front of a post. Nickelodeon quickly introduced "slime" as a feature in several shows it produced, and used it heavily in its marketing. By the time of the aforementioned St. Patrick's Day episode a month and a half later, slime consisted of a mixture of lime green gelatin powder and flour; eventually, oatmeal was added to the ingredient, as was baby shampoo so that it would wash out of the actors' hair more easily. In the "Television" episode, Christine reveals the ingredients as water, gelatin powder, flour and soap. In one of the show's crueler pranks, Ross (Les Lye) tricks Christine into getting dumped with a thicker, chunkier blue slime. The A-Team Makes One Cup of Coffee Last Five Hours, "Hanging Out" or "Malls", 1984), movies (e.g. Nickelodeon's editors opted to remove everything but the comedy sketches and the "Roving Camera" segments. In 1984, You Can't Do That on Television became Nickelodeon's highest-rating television program, lasting until mid-1986. Most episodes, starting in 1981, included one or more firing-squad sketches in which Lye played El Capitano, a Latin American military officer preparing to order a firing squad (whom he addressed as "the amigos") to execute one of the child actors tied up standing in front of a firing post. By contrast, when Canada's YTV began airing the series in 1989, they continued airing the 1981 season as part of the package, as well as Whatever Turns You On, which was never shown in the United States. The network continues to use green slime during its annual Kids' Choice Awards and incorporated it into a live National Football League broadcast on the network in CGI form.[18]. Sariya's trademark became complaining about her "totally Neanderthal mother" who never let her have her ears pierced, and her nice hair frequently getting ruined by green slime. Christine: Well, yeah it usually is, but I guess it could be red. The rest are only currently available in the half-hour edits. The idea was conceived when SlimeCon 2004 co-coordinator Byron Smith and I were trying to figure out how . Hold the power button for five seconds. The show was also notable for launching the careers of many performers, including alternative rock musician Alanis Morissette, filmmaker Patrick Mills, and television producer and screenwriter Bill Prady. Actors to be slimed or soaked usually appeared barefoot in the scene, and several cast members who were slimed were reportedly paid extra. Roger Price moved to France in 1988. Cameo in 1989's Fantasies and Age episodes. Opinions on the 1989 and 1990 episodes of YCDTOTV are mixed among longtime fans of the show, particularly regarding the new episodes' increasing reliance on bathroom humor to attract a younger audience than the show had targeted in years past. Most of the cast did not like getting slimed (Christine McGlade said it was "gross and challenging"[15]), and on occasion, they tried to avoid saying "I don't know." One whole episode, 1981's Drugs, was constructed completely around the pie-in-the-face gag: to avoid the wrath of the censors, the episode showed the cast getting "high" by pieing themselves continuously over and over, comparing the stupidity of hitting oneself with a pie to the stupidity of taking drugs. Referred to by some fans as "The New Vanessa." It featured pre-teen and teenaged actors in a sketch comedy format similar to that of the United States Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and Saturday Night Live. Then, a hand from off-screen ignites the bottom of the Peace Tower with a match and it takes off like a rocket. During its original run, the show was seen as one and the same with the cable network Nickelodeon in its early years on the air, achieved high ratings, and is most famous for introducing the network's iconic green slime. He is an actor, known for You Can't Do That on Television (1979), UFO Kidnapped (1984) and Chiefs (2002). The television will automatically restart. In the end credits of several shows in the mid-1980s, the following text is seen: "Christine McGlade takes no responsibility for any clothes in which she appears.". Five years later, one full episode was aired on June 2, 2004, as part U-Pick Live's celebration of the network's 25th anniversary, with half of another episode being aired on June 8 (the second half of the episode was instead pre-empted by a Fairly OddParents episode). TV Tropes will not be seen at this time, so that we may bring you this listless trope list. The show was placed in the 7:00 pm timeslot on Tuesday nights, and had low ratings as a result. But whatever you do, never admit that you don't know or ask for water.Sketch TV by young amateur actors in true classic Nick-style. In Canada, the "Divorce" episode was banned, but the "Adoption" episode was shown with one part cut; in the sketch in which Senator Prevert calls the adoption agency to send his son back after using him to do chores all day, the line in which he calls the adoption agency officer a "damn bureaucrat" was excised. The person telling the joke would open his or her locker and call another cast member, to whom he or she would tell the joke. This should unlock the channel. The network's desire to produce more of its own shows at its new studios at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, coupled with the low ratings, causing production of You Can't Do That on Television to officially end in early 1990. I don't know but the show could have been about embarrassing clothes moms make kids wear. I was at the eye doctor's today, and he tells me I gotta quit coachin'. The following is a partial list. In this sequence, children are "processed" in the "sausage factory" and deposited onto a school bus at the bottom of the factory that transports them to the TV studio (a likeness of the CJOH studios on Merivale Road in Nepean, Ontario). He also co-wrote several episodes that season with Roger Price. Viewers in the American-made slime and water sounds with their mouths and sent in their own entries for the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner to the set of You Can't Do That On Television to be slimed (which was later replicated by Canadian network YTV, with their version being called the Slime Light Sweepstakes). In the meantime, Price and Darby tried to syndicate YCDTOTV, and they edited each 1981 episode into a half-hour format similar to that of Whatever Turns You On. Hosts Christine and Alanis frequently insulted each other and each tried to outdo the other in their roles, reflecting the real-life rivalries and competition taking place among kids in everyday life.[12][13]. A doctor's office, dentist office and principal's office, all similarly evil or mischievous. Roger Price moved to France following production of the 1987 season after being informed that Nickelodeon was not planning to order more episodes, and production was suspended for 1988. Brad was one of the only cast members of the inaugural season to not get slimed. It was not until 1988 that the series gained broader exposure in its native Canada, when it was added by the newly established youth-oriented YTV cable channel and was aired daily in peak viewing hours and heavily promoted. It was an instant hit, scoring an over 30% rating in its target demographic within a few months. The kids would usually find a way to trick the Executionist into walking in front of the post and saying the word "fire", thus getting shot by the firing squad himself, which was a trademark, and happened almost every time. You Can't Do That On Television started in 1979 as a local kids sketch program in Ottawa, Canada. Silcoff was watered in three episodes plus Project 131, but never slimed. The original slapstick pie-in-the-face gag was also frequently used on YCDTOTV, although pie scenes were most common during the earlier years of the show. Production on new episodes of YCDTOTV resumed full-time in 1982, with all episodes from that point onward made in the half-hour all-comedy format. You Can't Do That on Television- Locker Room Jokes 80sThen80sNow 4.51K subscribers Subscribe 122 Share Save 21K views 1 year ago Who Remembers These Locker Room Scenes? Watch Now. The 1986 "Enemies and Paranoia" episode used the word "freedom" as a trigger phrase for red slime after the studio was taken over by Russian communists. You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that first aired locally in 1979 before airing in the United States in 1981. Longtime hostess Christine McGlade ("Moose") had departed the previous year, as had Alasdair Gillis (who had been promoted to co-host with Moose in 1985 before leaving towards the end of the 1986 season); Lisa Ruddy ("Motormouth"), Moose's longtime sidekick on the show, was also gone, having left at the end of the 1985 season. Inverse tropes related to Mr. Schitdler in the classroom and the principal in detention were also frequent; however, very rarely would an opposite feature the kids getting their revenge on Barth. The original slapstick pie-in-the-face gag was also frequently used on YCDTOTV, although pie scenes were most common during the early years of the show. Over the next few years, the series was seen on a national basis within Canada (CTV, the network CJOH-TV was affiliated with, broadcast the show on Saturday mornings between 1982 and 1990, with little publicity), but YCDTOTV continued to expand its audience in the United States on Nickelodeon, where it initially aired five times a week and eventually every day. She featured also in many skits and also had a brief cameo in the "Age" episode in 1989. In a Detention/Dungeon scene, Tim Douglas is told to not pulling on his chains by the principal. These would occasionally occur in the middle of a sketch, resulting in the characters inverting whatever they were doing prior to the conclusion of the sketch. The show was originally meant to offer a program for children on Saturday mornings which was pure entertainment and made no attempt to be educational. The only exception is, in Episode 032: "Vacations," in addition to playing "Zilch," he also played an umpire. One whole episode, 1981's Drugs, was constructed completely around the pie-in-the-face gag; to avoid the wrath of the censors, the episode showed the cast getting "high" by pieing themselves continuously, comparing the stupidity of hitting oneself with a pie to that of taking drugs. Initially a local program, from its third season on, it was marketed specifically for a North American-wide audience. Show 's 25th anniversary, the original lockers were auctioned t know but the comedy and. 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