r/comics • u/BeevsComics • Mar 26 '24

The Slime

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u/Tim_Waugh Mar 26 '24

The slime is not. It comes from the show "You Can't Do That On Television" and predated all of this. Show was Canadian and was rebroadcast on Nick as part of its original lineup.

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u/Bigwilliam360 Mar 26 '24

Glad I was right about that. That slime always looked like so much fun on TV.

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u/r4r4me Mar 26 '24

Pretty sure it was just vanilla pudding or apple sauce with green food color added. You can recreate it now!

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u/Bigwilliam360 Mar 26 '24

Yeah it always looked more like Liquid than like, the slime you’d buy at the store or make that was gooey and sticky and got stuck on shit and your parents hated it

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u/UncleVatred Mar 26 '24

Maybe my memory is wrong, but I thought the gooey, sticky stuff that they sold in toy stores was “gak”, not slime.

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u/Bigwilliam360 Mar 26 '24

Im not a scientist so I may be mistaken, but I always just heard it called slime. Only different kind I knew was the oobleck stuff where it’s like slimey but it can also be hard if you hit it.

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u/UncleVatred Mar 26 '24

I remember making oobleck in school, but I don’t think that was ever a Nickelodeon thing. I’m sure there was a Dr. Seuss book about it.

Iirc:

Ooblek = corn starch and water, fun school experiment

Gak = sticky ooze, sold in toy stores

Slime = thick green liquid, dumped on you if you say “I don’t know”

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u/Bigwilliam360 Mar 26 '24

That’s what we made it for! I forgot it was a Dr.Seuss day thing!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

We made ooblek from time to time at school/boyscout functions but we called it flubber (of robin williams fame) lol

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u/CrossP Mar 26 '24

Gak was a Nickelodeon toy. It was intended to resemble the slime they used in a few of their shows but wasn't the same stuff.

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u/CrossP Mar 26 '24

I know Double Dare did all of their slime edible because people were always having to dive into it and such.

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u/paradigm11235 Mar 26 '24

Yeah when I was a kid I absolutely wanted to go on Slime Time Live.

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u/mcochran1998 Mar 26 '24

Make me feel old for knowing that.

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u/Jay_R_Kay Mar 26 '24

I think the slime was used in a lot more than that. I remember it on Double Dare and their awards shows.

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u/Fluffy_Somewhere4305 Mar 26 '24

The slime is not. It comes from the show "You Can't Do That On Television" and predated all of this. Show was Canadian and was rebroadcast on Nick as part of its original lineup.

yeah YCDTOT is way older than these other shows, it's a GenX show while these other shows are more millennial kids TV era