Tuesday, 26 May 2009

  • Top 10 Nickelodeon Shows From the 90s! PART 2



    This is Part 2 (#6 - 1) of the Top 10 Nickelodeon Shows From the 90s. If you would like to view the honorable mentions and #10 - 7 please check out Part 1: HERE

    Let's continue the list of the Top 10 Nickelodeon Shows From the 90s:

    6) Are You Afraid of The Dark?

    This show scared the shit out of me as a kid. It was so very very scary. Want to experience an extreme wtf moment? Check out an episode of it now. I'm sure you can find one online. I'll wait ... 

    ...

    Watch it? How not scary and stupid looking was it? Can you believe you were ever so freaked out by that? I sure as hell can't. Anyone who loves horror movies, loved nothing more than this show brought to you by the orange couch of Snick.

    5) Legends of the Hidden Temple

    Now this is one of those shows that holds up. Not entirely, mind you, but anyone who got cable and was surprised to see a Nickelodeon Games and Sports channels certainly knows the joys of watching kids fail to answer very simple questions they were just told the answers to and wonder if Kirk Fogg was on Meth or not (he so is and man, I just love how much he despises those kids).

    Everyone loves this show. Check out the facebook group about hating how kids can never figure out how to put the silver monkey together. It's got a ton of members!

    There are really two parts of this show that really make it, not just when we watched it as kids, but even more so now as adults: The blood-curdling screams that a kid will emit when grabbed by a temple guard and rooting for your favorite team (also, rooting against those fucking silver snakes! I hate those bastards! and they make it so far every time! I want to kick all those kids!). Everyone knows how awesome the Blue Barracudas are. They are the good team that makes it far every time to battle the Silver Snakes. Purple Parrots rock too! What what!

    4) All That/Kenan and Kel

    The Nickelodeon answer to SNL and its spin off. One who is an actual member of SNL right now, but where is Kel? Everything just went south after the Good Burger movie didn't it?

    Kel really did get a raw deal in all this. Kel may love orange soda, but Kenan was a Mighty Duck. And he still has a career. Kenan's even got a few movies under his belt. Kel's quickly becoming the Jazzy Jeff of Kenan and Kel.

    One of the more memorable things about these shows were the theme songs. All That's was sung by TLC, while the Kenan and Kel theme was by, that's right, Coolio.



    3) Rocko's Modern Life

    Rocko's Modern Life is by far my favorite Nickelodeon show of the 90s. It didn't get ranked higher because I didn't want to unfairly overrate it just because it's my favorite.

    It was a weird and surreal show. It was also hilarious and it still holds up today. A talking wallaby, a retarded dog named Spunky, a yellow steer with green hair, and a jewish turtle. Fantastic, every single bit of it. "oh, fish sticks," I love this show.

    2) The Adventures of Pete and Pete

    If you're looking for one show on this list as a pure example of the culture of the 90s, this would be it. Everything from the camera views to the music to the clothing to the style of storytelling, it is filled with cultural touchstones (I worked so hard to try not to use this term) of the time. The theme song is among the best television theme songs of all time and is as 90s as people wearing plaid in Seattle.

    The show is about two brothers, both named Pete, their parents, their neighbors, Petunia the tattoo, and Artie: The Strongest Man In The World. I really want to continue describing things, but its kind of pointless. Just google it and watch an episode online right now. Great show, completely holds up.

    1) Doug

    Doug in many ways was the perfect kids show. It had enough goofiness and absurdity (and surreal colors and shapes for people) while pretty perfectly expressing what it felt like to come of age in suburbia. He was a Charlie Brown for the modern age.

    Doug Funnie, Patti Mayonnaise, Roger Klotz, Skeeter Valentine, Porkchop, Mr. Dink, Beebe Bluff, The Beets, Quailman. Unforgettable characters with heavy doses of awkwardness. Even the theme song was great.

    Of course, part way through its run Disney took over production and ruined the entire thing. But those first seasons on Nick were great television through and through.

    oooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooo killer tofu!

    What was your favorite Nickelodeon show from the 90s?

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Comments (37)

  • spanz@xanga

    Doug! (=
  • thestandards@xanga

    Hah. Have you looked at our webcomic?
  • organic_idiot@xanga

    I love all those shows. I think All That and Keenan and Kel were DEFINITELY my favourites though. I still watch them when they come on The N. Oh, to feel ten again...
  • Delmege@xanga

    I was always a little insulted by All That. As in... I thought less of myself for having watched it, even at a very young age. It seemed so stupid and I never found it funny.

    And I think if I hadn't gone and looked up an old episode of AYAotDark, I would have put that as number one. I remember specific episodes of that show, but no specific episodes of Doug.
    However, I have no idea how the show started, but everyone knows the theme song for Doug.
  • loveburnsbrighterx3@xanga

    DOUG! that was my favorite show :)
  • imsum1special2@xanga

    I find it funny how all the kids born in the 90s claim themselves as 90s kids.  If you were born in 1994, you are too young to know and/or fully understand the greatness of this list!  If you were born in the 90s, you really are a child of the 00s (late 90s are too close to the 00s, so they don't count).

    The original All That was great, and it's prequel Roundhouse was pretty cool, too.  But I think Roundhouse counts more as a late-80s show.  And you only watched Hey Dude because nothing else was on tv after Salute Your Shorts went off.  It was either watch Hey Dude or let your parents watch something even more borning. 

    I still have to complain about you leaving off Rugrats and Hey Arnold.  Go ahead and turn this list around, lol!  Rugrats may have died through Nickelodeon severe overkill of the series, but the original episodes were great!  At least honorable mention.  Hey Arnold was great, so stop the hating! 

    At least Doug is #1.  Woohoo!
  • nprospect

    @imsum1special2@xanga - you pretty much nailed it. Roundhouse is featured in a separate article I broke off from this list. And I'm with ya on the hey dude 100%.

    You also nailed the reason I excluded the Rugrats. Nickelodeon absolutely killed that series so by the end of my time with Nickelodeon I hated it. It wouldn't be fair to say I hate it because at first I loved it and it wouldn't be fair to say I loved it because by the end I hated it. So there just wasn't any place for it. Certainly something as large as the Rugrats didn't belong in honorable mention. So begone with them. Not on the list. I also realized I couldn't just not mention them at all or they'd be the elephant in the room. So I purposely excluded them.
  • inspireothers@xanga

    rugrats =)
  • anonymous

    Where the hell is Hey Arnold? And Rugrats?
  • godfatherofgreenbay@xanga

    I hate that they changed The Nick Game and Sports network.  That had all those old game shows. 
  • spidergrass@xanga

    Ahh I just watched the intros to All That, Pete and Pete, and Kenan and Kel that you linked to..I miss all these shows!!!
  • xaimfortheSTARS@xanga

    i miss all of those  old shows.
    being in the third, fourth grade...
    these shows really did help me through those rough times.
    rugrats really did bome after they started making the "new and improved" episodes.
    gosh do i miss those days...


    you think they have all of those shows in dvd?
    they never did really pormote them.
  • RapeMe93_Nirvana@xanga

    I love most of those shows. I never really got into Are You Afraid of the Dark? but it was all right. I actually liked the Silver Snakes in Ledgends of the Hidden Temple, lol. All That and Kenan and Kel were great! All That was just not the same since all the original cast was gone and they put Jamie Lynn Spears and all those people on the show. Not that I have anything against Jamie but she's the only one I remember! (which is kind of pathetic). I liked the Nick Doug much better than the Disney.

  • sarahflorida1085@xanga

    loved looney toons, doug rocked too 
  • jolee121910@xanga

    that's much better. i like your part2 list better than your part1 list.
  • d0llh0use@xanga

    ahhh the good ol' times.  are you afraid of the dark was my favorite but thats cause i love scary stuff. 

  • ruuthewhale@xanga

    Rugrats was definatly my favorite, and the orginial-original ones (before Dill) were the best. Though, I didn't mind Dill and I even didn't mind it when Kimi was added too.

    I did mind when they grew up, that was just wrong man.


    I loved Hey Arnold! and Catdog too
  • dragon_king@xanga

    Doug was the truth

    " I need mo allowance!!"
  • Dorkasaur@xanga

    @Lana - Those are purposely excluded, as mentioned in the first post. Because they both sucked.
  • Roadlesstaken@xanga

    Oh man, all those memories.  Love Doug!
  • quotes3085@xanga

    part two is SO MUCH BETTER than part one... but I was expecting it to be lol.

    and yay glad to see doug as number one. and rockos modern life was hilarious! props for it being your favorite! =]

    and you cannot forget kennan and kel... "who loves orange soda? is it trueee? i do i do i dooo ooo"
  • laurenrikki@xanga

    i loved these shows!

    oh my gosh!

    are you afraid of the dark scared me like CRAZY, 

    but i still loved it. 
    however, i would have to say, rugrats, ren and stimpy, and aah real monsters were my ultimate favorite. they should make a channel that plays all these shows cause they're never ever on.
  • landlockedeyes@xanga

    This is a much better list than the first part!
    All That, Legends of the Hidden Temple and the Amanda Show were the ones I'd stay up all night for. Doug was never on Nickelodeon here though.
  • KevtheMoron@xanga

    Not only was Billy West the voice of Stimpy and eventually Ren as well he was the original voice of Doug. I had a fondness for Welcome Freshman. I saw some people showing love for Hey Dude which was the starting point for Mrs. Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor.  Since Hey Dude started in 89 that might have been why it was left of the list. I also used to watch Nick's version of a teen soap opera which was Fifteen in the US, otherwise known as Hillside for the Canadian audience.
  • JupitersDays@xanga

    Aw! It's Quail Man! hahaha. I forgot was Porkchops' superhero name was. Quail Dog? lol. I loved Doug!
    I also liked Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Secret World of Alex Mac, Rocko's Modern Life, and Salute Your Shorts. Way way back in the day I also like You Can't Say That on Television, especially how every time someone said "I don't know" they'd get slimed. At least... I think that's how it went. That was the early 90's right?

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