are you afraid of the dark
 

Who watched this show when they were younger and thought it was just brilliant? I did and I still think it's great. I've been trying to watch every season for the past few weeks now and thoroughly enjoying it. Anyone else love it when they were younger? Any favourite episodes?

I especially love The Tale of the Super Specs, The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner and The Tale of the Chameleons!

Some of my other favourite Nickelodeon shows as a kid..










Damn, there's way more but don't come to mind right now.

When nickelodeon used to be good.

Best Nick show ever.

I also loved early Rugrats a lot, Double Dare, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Rocko's Modern Life, Clarrisa Explains It All..... Man that channel used to kick ass, especially if you were just a kid.

~Jeremy~

Yeah, just like everything else it was dumbed down to the nth degree.

Oh man I constantly watched Ren & Stimpy and Rocko's modern time when I was a kid. I still love those shows!

I may have masturbated to Clarissa, yes.

back when shows actually thought kids were smart. not stupid

I wish they hadn't torn down Nickelodeon Studios. It seems that for some reason, the modern 'Nick' is trying to separate itself from the classic 'Nickelodeon' as much as possible.

Nickelodeon, today, wants to be Disney. Sexy tween pop sensations with shows about how tough it is to be an upper middle class, high school trend-setter.

I have all of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Rocko, Ren and Stimpy, Doug, Hey Dude, and Salute Your Shorts on dvd.

Haha, yeah AYAOTD is pretty slick. The great thing about it is that it's actually a pretty bad show. The production is so cheap looking (those kids wear the most hilarious clothes) and everyone is a really lousy actor, cept for those guys who played Vink and Sardo. But there was a charisma to those scripts that despite being pretty juvenille and not greatly written they were strange enough to still be enjoyable. It still blows my fucking mind how they ever got Charles S. Dutton for that Cutter episode.

Clarissa used to be a big favorite of mine. After about a decade absence I watched it again and on the reverse of Are You Afraid, it's actually alot better than I remembered. That show is sort of the pre-Family Guy, being littered with pop culture references. except Clarissa executes that stuff much better.

Rocko and Pete and Pete are my top two though. Another handful of a good ones no one mentioned are Kablam!, Angry Beavers, and Hey Arnold!

when I was a kid Nickelodeon had this claptrap

Today's Special



double dare



You canot do that on television


pinwheel

You can't do that on television, Pete and Pete, Clarrisa, and Are you afraid of the Dark were my favorite.

Oddly enough, for the past week I've been watching all of the are you afraid of the dark episodes on youtube. I'm halfway thru season 4 or 5 right now...Frank just moved! shit! no more gay latino bully! Now they have some pimpley punk kid

The best tv kids show of all time was "Tiswas".

I'm only on season 3 so far!

I completely forgot about Doug. Loved that show. A perfect 90s cartoon.

~Jeremy~

Nickelodeon used to be fantastic. Now, Cartoon Network has it on lock down. Chowder and the Misadventures of Flapjack are fucked up and wonderful.

Rugrats was just the best show ever. Period.

are you afraid of the dark was my SHIT.

the tv never left nickelodeon.

What I really like about a good amount of those old Nickelodeon shows is that even having watched them as a kid and effectively stopped watching them for about a decade and then watching them again as an adult, they're still good shows. It's not like some nostalgia thing where you have nice memories of it as a kid but can't really watch it now because they actually aren't that good, like Franklin or something. Pete and Pete might be even better now as an adult.

Kids show writers were alot more respectful to the younger crowd then. They didn't treat em like dumbshits.

I personally think Spongebob killed Nick. Which is weird to say, since I don't 100% hate Spongebob, it's actually quite brilliant at times (there's a Julien Donkey Boy reference in an episode... Patrick spraying Spongebob with a water hose and saying "QUIT YOUR MOODY BROODING!" I mean, a JULIE DONKEY FUCKING BOY REFERENCE ON A KID'S SHOW!), but the more annoying cutesy mass-market bullshit is what really probably gets to people, and has made it a mainstream hit and Nick suddenly changed after that quite dramatically. Bring back Wild and Crazy Kids, Welcome Freshman, Roundhouse, hell even bring back Keenan and Kel..

Kenan and Kel ruled with the Coolio theme tune and stuff.

I didn't watch Nickelodeon. I was always on CN.

I spent time equally on both. Cartoon Network had some awesome shows too... Dexter's Laboratory was fantastic and still is a blast to watch today.

~Jeremy~

Cartoon cartoon was enough for me.

I liked the cartoons on CN, especially Cow and Chicken. But I don't think they are cartoons I could watch nowadays and be entertained.

Whenever I catch an episode of Dexter's Lab, the only thing I'm thinking is, "Oh jeez! I remember this so well!"

Some of those Cartoon Cartoons were pretty good. Dexter probably being the best of them. But CN's real strength was in it's back catalog of Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros., and MGM cartoons. Tom and Jerry, Herculoids, Space Ghost, Barney Bear and a bunch of those other bizzaro one off cartoons from like the 30's to the 40's. Top Cat, Quick Draw, Yogi Bear. Now, since alot of that back catalog is played on Boomerang CN is largely worthless anymore. They still manage to play Tom and Jerry though. Though that's all considering whether or not you're an Adult Swim fan, which I am not.

Ah, almost forgot Toonami, that was pretty good too.

Fucking hell, I forgot all about Toonami. Great shit.

It really was. I remember being 12 and staying up to see those uncut Midnight Run's of Gundam Wing where they said 'damn' instead of 'blast' and thought "yeah, this is hardcore."

my favorite swear word replacement from cartoons is drats, wtf is that supposed to mean? it's brilliant

Tiswas is the best kids tv show simply for having bands like The Who on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAq6JeIF5Y

Heh, same here. Funny thing: Every girl I've been in love with has resembled Melissa Joan Hart.

I saw a clip of clarrisa on youtube when searching for are you afraid of the dark, I havent watched a full episode yet. I remember thinking she was cute when I was a kid because she liked the same music (on the show, talked about nirvana) but I just realized my ex gf is a dead ringer for her too....

Never put it together,

blonde, more adorable than straight out hot, and wore the craziest, miss-matched clothes...

That and now the ones that aren't blatant about it are trying to sell some kind of materialism. Dumbing someone down is the easiest way to get them to mindlessly consume shit they don't need. I know there were shows like that back then, but they were more the cheapo Sunday morning cartoons.

I think there are still some good kiddie shows, but I feel sad for kids now. I mean, just look at Rocko. It was so bizarre and surreal, it really expanded my imagination as a child. Where can kids get that now?


I hate Chowder, but you're right, Flapjack is pretty awesome. Whenever I accidentally flip to cartoon network and it's on, I watch it. I need to watch that channel more :D, but I always forget about it.

Kenan & Kel!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm surprised nobody has spoke of all that. That show (before all the cast changes)was really funny

All That has actually held up surprisingly well, the early years at least. When they started to add all these new people it took a major turn for the worse.

~Jeremy~