90's Nickelodeon Thread

Thread for all 90's Nickelodeon discussion. I was astounded that this does not exist, considering the age and fan base of most of the former AbsolutePunk community which seems to all be here now, and I knew that it was important for me to get to 20 posts so I could make this crucial thread. I have included everything that I find relevant and will add posts throughout tonight on my work night shift with personal lists (top characters, shows, etc.). However, while I included everything I felt is relevant, I skipped over some 90's Nick stuff, so if you need The Amanda Show, Shelby Wu, and Kablam (or anything else related to 90's Nick in the thread, let me know and I will update the original post. Let me know if this is too many videos in a thread and I can take them out. I'm not as familiar with internet etiquette these days, it's been some years.

Edit: Apparently I can't put more than 5 pieces of media in a post, so I'll update it to links of the videos. Apparently it auto converts the links to be embedded, so 5 of the videos are actually embedded, the rest are links. Also can only do 20 images, so I couldn't make the thread as pretty as I was hoping. All other links are the the Wiki or IMDB.

Let the 90's Nickeoldeon discussion begin...

Classic 90's Nick Shows Intros ( alphabetical order)

Aahhh!!! Real Monsters




The Adventures Of Pete & Pete

All That

The Angry Beavers

Are You Afraid Of The Dark?

CatDog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6MMC12uDQ


Clarissa Explains It All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqAmG9A7TBc

Doug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hygi3PlZI0Y

Hey Arnold!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUsnJ9jlwns

Hey Dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AaiQVAG0gQ

Kenan & Kel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcNE2ue2V_g

My Brother And Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwtlyeVa8z4

The Ren & Stimpy Show (can't find intro on YouTube, found a link on Facebook)


Rocket Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqKYHqNz2Q

Rocko's Modern Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVL2LDf1bcU

Rugrats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfzynwmrlok

Salute Your Shorts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-SE96Q9dDU

The Secret World Of Alex Mack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DAORNCSkGc

SpongeBob SquarePants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJD563qHfI

Welcome Freshmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH50ZF9QPmQ

The Wild Thornberrys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtw98M5A7t8


90's Nickelodeon Game Shows / Sort of Game Shows

Double Dare (random full episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3VD95RIn-4

Figure It Out (random full episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dar_dgzT1YI

Get The Picture (random full episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gby0Hue8CvI

Legends Of The Hidden Temple (The Cannonball Of Galileo Temple Run)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cHJ8xaGmMg

Make The Grade (random full episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKNK2Fd8Ok

Nick Arcade (some guy revisiting and reviewing the show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EQ4ueEh6SM

Nickelodeon Guts (first ever episode complete with intro, Mike O' Malley and MOE!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEOWgNwKZQQ

Think Fast (random full episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWlvZPZtOQ

What Would You Do? (random full episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1FAImvAd4U

Wild And Crazy Kids (random full episode with commercials, some nostalgic commercials included)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8HPWE0gf8o

Nostalgic 90's Nickelodeon Bumpers

Reboots of 90's Nickelodeon

Are You Afraid Of The Dark Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqPCBdOViOQ

Clarissa Explains It All Reboot (on hold according to Melissa Joan Hart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yqhq5ckLIM

Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie (already released)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKfiukwWDDo

Invader Zim: Enter The Florpus (Netflix special, already released)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDnKp83IOPA

Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (Netflix special, already released)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Now4KeAiys

Rugrats (sometime in 2020 TV show comes back and a CGI movie)

 

Important first post... Guts was way better than Legends of the Hidden Temple, and for some reason most people think it wasn't. It's not even close. @me, fight me, come at me... you can't change my mind!

 

Great thread, the is for the effort. Alex Mack and Clarissa were a big part of my formative years.

 

sub

 

Why can’t I stream Rocko episodes anywhere goddammit

 

Salute your shorts the goat

 

Four years old but relevant

 

I can’t wait for my niece and nephew to be old enough to watch these. So many hold up beautifully. I wish there was a streaming service that had all of them.

 

I enjoyed both a lot. It's so weird seeing Mike O'Malley with hair hosting Guts lol

 

Also, it's criminal that nobody is talking about Nickelodean's greatest 90s show: Kablam

And Enter the Florpus is such a solid movie, loved it. Highly recommend folks see it and do a proper Zim rewatch on Hulu

 

bangin' on a trashcan
drummin' on a streetlight

 

Doug and Hey Arnold are two of my favorite cartoons of all time. A friend of mine works at Nick now and he gave me a tour a few ni this ago. It was very rad.

 

So jealous, that'd be awesome

 

I need to revisit these ASAP

 

I guesssss I have to let my kid watch his own cartoons when he gets older, but I will for sure be making him watch all the 90s Nick classics.

 

I think the clear top shows from this era are Rugrats, Doug, Hey Arnold!, and Rocko's Modern Life. A few other greats like Ahh! Real Monsters!, Rocket Power, The Wild Thornberrys for sure. CatDog was never GREAT but I still watched it all the time. Same with Angry Beavers.

The live action shows were all pretty much great too. Salute Your Shorts, Hey Dude, Clarissa, Alex Mac, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, All That, and then the dozen or so game shows were all a lot of fun at times tbh. I think I preferred Temple to Guts, but Guts was still great. The Aggro Crag! Global Guts with the extremely British Mo.

Wild and Crazy Kids was like a staple of my summers along with Stick Stickly. I still have Stick Stickly's address memorized. I actually never really loved Wild and Crazy Kids, but it just became so synonymous with school finally being out and summer being here. Double Dare was a classic. Figure it Out came later but ended up being solid.

My extremely unlikable hot take: I was never a big fan of Zim, Fairly Odd Parents, or *gasp* Sponge Bob. I think I was at that age where new cartoons were feeling a little bit too childish for me and I found Sponge Bob's voice and theme song annoying. I appreciate it mroe now that I'm older and the memes lol.

Never got into As Told By Ginger, Shelby Wu, My Cousin Skeeter, or My Brother and Me, but I still watched them when they were on for the most part. Same with Pete & Pete, though I had more nostalgic connections to that one from my early childhood.

I feel like theres a bunch of other ones I'm forgetting at the moment.

 

Also I didn't realize the Are You Afarid of the Dark reboot was just a 3 part movie, I thought we were getting a whole new series. Maybe if it does well.

Is it just me being older and thinking kids shows are stupid now, or did Nick's live action shows really take a nose dive in the early-mid 2000s and never really get any better? just feels like they leaned into the stupid and slapstick humor and got away from the more story driven 'drama' (for lack of a better word) that their 90s shows had.

 

I know it's early 2000s, but Chalk Zone was my absolute favorite Nick show for a long time. Danny Phantom was so good, too

 

Early Spongebob I adore. Can always put it on. And love fairly odd parents

 

Besides John K and Dan Schneider being pos I feel like everything has aged well

Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life really impacted my sense of humor but can't watch Ren And Stimpy anymore

I don't think I have a fave too much of an indoor kid

 

I'd argue most of these shows don't hold up though. Doug and rugrats are unwatchable.

 

Hey Dude is the only one I’ve watched as an adult that doesn’t hold up. Rugrats is still perfect. Anyone who doesn’t cry for Melville has no heart.

 

I think hey Arnold holds up pretty well.