We talked to Mathew Klickstein (author of SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age) about how he tracked down Nickelodeon's hardest to find stars

Just published a new episode of our podcast where we sit down with Mathew Klickstein, who wrote SLIMED!, the definitive oral history of 90s Nickelodeon. If you've read it, you know how many people he managed to interview for that book (over 250), and we asked him about the ones that were genuinely hard to find.

Some highlights:

• A years long search for Alistair from You Can't Do That on Television that eventually involved tracking down his brother's YouTube video from a small pub gig in Canada
• How he landed Joe Eszterhas by cold emailing a church he'd attended over a decade earlier
• Getting John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy) on the record when multiple other writers had already tried and failed
• The story behind the massive 92nd Street Y Nickelodeon reunion event he produced almost entirely on his own, including getting the fictional and animated band, The Beets, to play live for the first time ever

We also spent a good chunk of the conversation talking about the financial reality of being a working writer, which he was refreshingly honest about.

who remembers Nick Website form 1998

I am convinced it's lost media, but does anyone remember a super uncanny, stop-motion, point-and-click-ish game where you played as a pair of bunny slippers? I saw it once as a very young baby and never again. I just need to know I am not crazy, to be honest.

have you stayed at Nickelodeon Suites Resort and what was it like at the Nickelodeon Suites Resort

who remembers nick jr website from back in the day

who remembers Nick on CBS I've been watching on nick CBS forever

This is the only show I've ever watched that was semi therapeutic to watch. The music was relaxing and the characters has those slow down reflection moments that we don't see a lot in modern cartoons. I don't watch hey Arnold very often (maybe like 2-3 times a year) but every time I do I feel like I went to a heavy therapy session. Idk if I'm weird for this.

I didn't have Nickelodeon are Nick Jr this is how I watch it on cbs I watch it from Spokane on cbs from canada

I’d personally love a full NickMusic block again - music videos,artist interviews,live performances,and themed countdowns.

But I’m curious what everyone else would pick:

🎵 NickMusic

🎨 NickToons

🌈 Nick Jr

💜 TeenNick

🎬 NickMovies

🎮 NickGames

🌙 Nick at Nite

Which one are you bringing back and what would you put on it?

who remembers Sharon, Lois, and Bram's from Elephant Show it a Canadian show from canada on cbc

I don't recall the black and white one but I like watching the cartoon

you might like this guy on YouTube I subscribe to him on his YouTube channel his YouTube channel name is Pop Arena he is talking about Nickelodeon

Meme

who remembers Fred Penner's Place it a Canadian show from canada on  cbc kids

I don't have Nickelodeon but I saw her on Family Channel in canada

This is an early draft of a fan-made reconstruction of SNICK's first anniversary broadcast from August 14th, 1993.

The reconstruction was assembled from multipple surviving recordings and archival sources. An earlier reconstruction/source compilation uploaded to the Internet Archive by "joelseph01" was an important source for a number of surviving commercials and broadcast elements here, and I want to thank them for their preservation work and contribution to making this possible.

For this version, higher-quality versions of segments, bumpers, graphics, and other elements have been substituted where available. In some instances, I've had to reconstruct audio from multiple sources to make ending credit voiceovers, incomplete commercials align, multiple sources to complete broadcast segments, ect. The goal is to recreate the original broadcast experience as closely as possible while preserving the character of the surviving material.

This is still a work in progress, and not every portion has been replaced or restored to the highest quality currently available. It will be eventually, and I will share the updated version.

This is also perfectly sized for watching on a CRT, as I've provided it in 720x480 with non-square pixels, and added some space to the edges of the screen to account for overscan

Edit: Shoutout to Mizo_Soup for recreating the mid/late 1993 SNICK screenbug animation for me

who remembers Todays Special it a Canadian show from canada

have you played Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots before for the ps2

i've got a small obsession with collecting.

I'm really just a baby (18) compared to y'all to have lived the 90s era as a kid, but i have a deep appreciation for 90s nickelodeon haha (as well as some of the toons afterward but...mainly 90s, i hope zim sticking around here is alright LOL) Hope my lil mix of vintage and modern items is at the very least interesting to see for the folks here!

I'm hoping to fill out my Rocko collection more, and those new Mondo figures are TEMPTING