Nick. Elodeon.
I’ve had this song in my head for a couple days now, ever since I rediscovered the show Chapi Chapo on the YouTube. Here is the opening:
When I was a kid I love love loved the Nickelodeon channel. It was so freaking odd back in the 80s. I was freaking odd in the 80s so it was the perfect match.
One of my most favorite shows on Nick was You Can’t Do That on Television. I’m realizing my friend Auld Hat’s most famous saying, “Leave a tender moment alone,” it oh so very true as I re watch episodes from the show. But when I was a kid, I got the humor, you know? It was funny then, before I discovered sarcasm and let the beast eat away at my heart over the years. Getting slimed was tot. hilar. I thought Moose was the coolest, felt a little bad for Lisa, and sort of had a ’secret crush’ on Alisdair. (All my true crushes growing up were secret…like the one I had for Bo AND Luke Duke.)
Here’s a clip from the show followed by a clip of Moose talking about her audition for You Can’t Do That On Television while at reunion show.
Nick also had a lot of really scary stuff. One of my favorites was a series called Children of the Stones. I, of course, have a clip: Listen to the soundtrack…friggin’ spine chilling, huh? Pretty Phantasmagorical. This show was one of several in a very eerie series call “The Third Eye.”
What were some of your favorite odd children shows or movies? I want to know!
Here are a couple more to jostle your memory, perhaps.
Cartoons from Pinwheel, such as Chapi Chapo which started this whole thought tangent.
I will end this a Bowie video for the title song from the animated movie “When The WInd Blows,” with music by David Bowie.
I also loved YCDTOTV. I recognized it the other day just from the theme music playing in the other room as you watched the old videos.
One of my faves that I only recently remembered was “Today’s Special.” The one with the mannequin with the magic beret who comes to life after the store closes. There were also puppets. They should use that show as a gay litmus test. If you like this show, you will definitely be gay. Also, not a kids show but I definitely loved “It’s a Living,” a sitcom about sassy waitresses in a supper club on top of a hotel. Ann Jillian, Crystal Bernard, Sheryl Lee Ralph… need I say more?
I remember watching “When The Wind Blows” with you! Do you remember? Also, I have both ‘The Secret Of Nimh’ and ‘Light Years’ on VHS. LOVE Light Years. And just for assorted shits and giggles, I’ve made this for you, just to further illustrate how perceptions are oh so easily manipulated. Because that goddamn “Children Of The Stones” shit scared the hell out of me.
Remember “Escape To Witch Mountain” and “Return From Witch Mountain” about the alien kids?
I adored those movies as a kid but didn’t know why until I was much older (for OBVIOUS reasons, lol)
I loved both Escape and Return to Witch Mountain. I used draw scenes from those movies all the time as a kid; especially the scene where the kids made the helicopter turn upside down, using only their MIND. heh heh.
Hey how were you able to obtain the video of Children of the Stones from the YouTube so you could edit that. I’ve been trying to figure that out forevs. There are site that are supposedly able to allow you to download the vids but I can’t ever get them to work, and I think that have to be WMAs to use them in the Windows Movie Editor thingy. Do tell!
It’s all very hush hush and complex. I’ll send you a “For Your Eyes Only” e-mail, once I get clearance.
(actually, it’s easy and completely in the public know-how, it’s just too lengthy for a comment box. But I sounded all together impressive thar fer a minute didn’t I?)