Do you remember Fred, that super bizarro web series-turned-movie-turned short-lived Nickelodeon show? It's about a hyperactive teen named Fred Figglehorn—played and originated by Lucas Cruikshank—who runs around screaming and does weird stuff, much to the delight of children everywhere. When you watch it, you're like…
Though I was barely pushing 10 at the tail end of the epic era of Pepper Ann meets Ashley Spinelli, has a drink with Power Puff Girls and potentially breeds Kim Possible, I seriously think that these years were some of the most formative in the development of my sense of self. As a self-identified feminist, I often…
Holy shit, this Marc Summers interview on Buzzfeed is quite possibly the most revelatory thing you’ll see all day. Maybe it won’t surprise you to learn that the popular Nickelodeon goo called Gak that grade school children in the mid-90s used as lint brushes actually derives its name from the street moniker for…
Because the Internet was created for the sole purpose of indulging in '90s nostalgia, I would like to take this opportunity to address an unsolved mystery from my early childhood: why was Doug Funnies' family white-looking when everyone else populating their fictional world was green, purple, or orange (except for …
Or, Dumb and Dumber, as it were. Ke$ha, you're making this too easy.
Sandra Bullock and Neil Patrick Harris get slimed as they present the award for favorite movie actress at the 26th annual Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday, March 23, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)
Well, the world might be in the shitter, but at least the future is bright! (Kind of. Except for all the parts that we're systematically covering in shit. But, you know.) In Nickelodeon's annual Kids Pick the President poll, our nation's wise young fake-voters fake-reelected Barack Obama by a landslide, and said…
On October 1st, Nick Jr. launched "NickMom," a programming block for mothers that replaces Dora the Explorer with dick jokes and "Bad Mommy" humor. So far, the aforementioned mommies (and daddies) are not pleased.
In case you missed it: Less than a week after threatening to murder Big Bird and then chuckling about it in front of millions of horrified but oddly entranced Americans, Presidential Candi-bot Mitt Romney has dealt another overly theatrical middle finger to the kids in America — he's become only the third candidate in…
Justin Bieber, left, and host Will Smith get slimed after Bieber accepts the award for favorite male singer onstage at Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday, March 31, 2012 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
"Nickelodeon Addicting Games," a free iPhone/iPad/iPod application from the people who once brought you Hey Arnold! and Doug Funny, features tasing, "cougars," and wasted girls passed out in front of toilets.
Halloween: The time of year when all your favorite TV characters don crazy costumes and become involved in totally nonsensical plots, just for the sake of a holiday-themed episode. I love bad television just as much as I love good — and as such here's a collection of the best/worst Halloween episodes the idiot box has…
The internet kind of collectively flipped out when it was announced
There's one thing Nickelodeon forgot for its nightly '90s revival
In case you were living under a rock
A couple of weeks ago, Nickelodeon announced
In an almost unprecedented move, a television network has actually listened to The People. By popular demand, Nickelodeon hopes to create a "new midnight society" by airing re-runs of the network's most beloved series (that are nearly 20 years old, by the way) in a block called The 90s Are All That. Having previously…
In ninth grade, my friend and I used to turn off the sound on Rocko's Modern Life, turn on Sublime's self-titled album, and watch as Rocko and his friends wandered through their melancholy, chartreuse world. Now you too can ennui it up like it's 1996 with the show's first season, coming out on DVD June 21. Sure, you…
The good news: Starting in the fall, Nickelodeon will re-air episodes of Rugrats, Kenan & Kel, Pete & Pete, The Amanda Bynes Show, All That, and Clarissa Explains It All. Awesome. Exciting, especially since the shows will air in a "The '90s Are All That" block from midnight to 2 a.m. All your guilty pleasures, stacked up…
Ohh, maann: Fourteen-year-old Caitlin Sanchez is suing Nickelodeon, MTV Networks and Viacom, alleging that she and her parents were"duped" into signing an "unconscionable" contract.
Michelle Obama will receive the "Big Help" award at Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards (she's taping her acceptance speech), thanks to her campaign to end childhood obesity. Apparently kids like being told to eat their veggies. [AP]
Joe Simpson is developing a comedy series with Nickelodeon based on his own life. The show will center around one of two daughters, who begins imitating her psychologist-dad at school. The show has not yet been titled. Any suggestions? [US]
If there's one pop-cultural shift that will most likely be studied long after this decade ends, it is the public shift from viewing fame as a strange sort of entertainment to viewing fame as a legitimate career path.
Last night marked the 21st annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, the show that allows children to award their favorite actors and actresses with a giant orange blimp and a potential bucket of slime. Good times!
A lot of work goes into creating a non-white television character! Creating everyone's favorite little Spanish-speaking explorer, Dora, took a year of planning with research, consulting and rounds of screenings with "tough" preschoolers. Not only that, the non-Latino creators have to be careful not to, you know, make any …
Saturday night brought one of the events that, in my youth, I anticipated as anxiously as the winter holidays: The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Lots of celebs! Lots of slime! Jack Black hosted the frenetically-paced activities and lots of celebrities brought the pretty. See: America Ferrera, left. Does she ever…
Experimental musician Cornelius — who's sorta like the Japanese Beck — was on the Nickelodeon's show Yo Gabba Gabba this morning to perform a song about counting. We seriously starting to love Yo Gabba Gabba, if only because it's really fun to watch kids dance around like maniacs
