You Can't Do That on Television (TV Series 1979-1990) Christine McGlade as Christine, Moose, Old Lady, Christine 'Moose' McGlade, Christine McGlade, Hallie, Miss Take, Old Woman, Old woman . Along with Andrea Byrne, Rekha Shah and James Tung, Amyas was one of only three kid cast members to transition from 1986-87 to 1989, and the only one to appear regularly in '89. The show was originally intended to be basically Saturday Night Live, only with teens and pre-teens. Hosts Christine and Alanis frequently insulted each other and each tried to outdo the other in their roles, reflecting the real-life rivalries and competition taking place among kids in everyday life.[12][13]. This usually backfired, as in the "Computers" episode when McGlade said "insufficient data" instead of "I don't know" and got green slime dumped on her anyway. She returned for Project 131 along with Vanessa Lindores and Brodie Osome. Fake commercials: Parodies of television commercials were part of the series as early as the first season and were the subject of one full episode in 1986, but the 1982 episodes contained commercial parodies that aired between the commercial bumpers where real commercials ordinarily fit. Although Nickelodeon always treated the slime recipe as though it were a closely guarded secret (and a number of episodes involved plots or subplots of kids trying to figure out what slime was made of), the composition of the slime changed several times over the years. Hold the power button for five seconds. Lindores returned in 1989's Age episode. A return to the show's daily subject was indicated by another inversion fade, sometimes accompanied by one of the cast members saying, "back to reality." You can reset and eliminate the lock on some televisions without the remote, using a few tactics. Some "opposites" features were reversals of the roles and gags related to the show's recurring characters (usually played by Les Lye or Abby Hagyard), such as the cast getting to execute El Captaino at the firing squad or torturing Nasti the dungeon keeper. Also, an opposite sketch in Heroes (1982) had Lisa Ruddy slimed for saying "I know," rather than "I don't know" (while other cast members said "I don't know" in that same sketch without anything happening to them). The idea was conceived when SlimeCon 2004 co-coordinator Byron Smith and I were trying to figure out how . By this time, McGlade, now well into her twenties and eager to move on with her life, had moved to Toronto and was flying back to Ottawa for YCDTOTV taping sessions. As stated below, Project 131 is the official reunion episode of You Can't Do That on Television. Juvenile discretion is advised". In January 2007, the special was released on YouTube. E5 All episodes Cast & crew Trivia IMDbPro All topics Painted Lockers & Dances Episode aired Mar 3, 1979 TV-Y 1 h YOUR RATING Rate Family Comedy The kids exercise on a stationary bike and use the TV station's special effects to create change of scenery. He and his brother had just moved back to Ottawa after four years living in. The following is a partial list. Green slime grew to become a trademark image for Nickelodeon, and the network demanded more slimings on the show as the years went on, resulting in episodes such as 1985's "Movies" in which the entire cast (save for Abby Hagyard) is slimed. Unlike the slime and water, pies were not triggered by any certain word or phrase. In the meantime, some YCDTOTV cast members continued to hone their on-camera skills through appearances in Bear Rapids, a Price/Darby pilot television film that was never picked up, and Something Else, a local game show on CJOH with a format somewhat similar to the live and local episodes of YCDTOTV. The show was placed in the 7:00p.m. timeslot on Tuesday nights, and some CTV affiliates opted not to carry the show, possibly because of concerns about its content. Amy, the younger sister of Jill Stanley, was the only cast member not yet born when the series premiered in February 1979. Despite high ratings, the series ended after its five-episode trial run in October 1983, possibly because of complaints from parents for its content and also Nickelodeon's concern that if Don't Look Now were to be successful, it could mean the end of YCDTOTV. It is also still used in ads showing the network's current stars getting slimed from all sides in slow motion, and was used to slime the winner at the end of the Nickelodeon game show BrainSurge. Ptolemy made a cameo appearance in the 1989 Age episode, after leaving and also had a battle with drug addiction after the show ended. Response was positive, and in January 1982, Nickelodeon began airing the entire edited season and YCDTOTV became the network's highest-rated show by 1983. In the end credits of several shows in the mid-1980s, the following text is seen: "Christine McGlade takes no responsibility for any clothes in which she appears.". The kids on the show got paid extra for episodes in which they were doused with water or green slime - $75 for water and $150 for slime. These announcements are given in the form of "'You Can't Do That on Television' is a ______ production." You Can't Do That on Television was a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before airing internationally in 1981. In August 2017, it was announced that You Can't Do That on Television would be getting a reboot. The show's skits gave satirical and exaggerated views of grown-ups as clueless, out of touch, and often using their status as adults to take advantage of kids. If so, I wonder if that's where Nickelodeon stole it from. Some variations of the magic words also triggered the slime, such as in the "Blame" episode when the entire cast got slimed together after one of them said, "we don't know.". The first version was created for the half-hour, American syndicated versions of the 1981 episodes. On October 5, 2015, TeenNick reran the first two 1981 episodes, "Work" and "Transportation", on the premiere broadcast of The Splat, marking the first time those episodes had aired on American television in 30 years. Wil Wheaton is also slimed during the opening credits. It had such wacky stuff. On the episode "Failure", they failed to come up with an intro. The default PIN is 0000 and resetting . She also appeared on. The bumper frequently took place "backstage" and broke the fourth wall with remarks about the episode, usually featuring one final humiliation or comeuppance for that episode's main cast member. But whatever you do, never admit that you don't know or ask for water.Sketch TV by young amateur actors in true classic Nick-style. By the time of the aforementioned St. Patrick's Day episode a month and a half later, slime consisted of a mixture of lime green gelatin powder and flour; eventually, oatmeal was added to the ingredient, as was baby shampoo so that it would wash out of the actors' hair more easily. Roger Price was furious, but the response from the viewing audience was positive, so Darby and Price wrote an entire 1979 show about the slime[14] ("The Green Slime Show") in which Lisa Ruddy is the victim of six slimings (a YCDTOTV record). Initially a local program, from its third season on, it was marketed specifically for a North American-wide audience. Episode 7: The famous green slime show (St. Patrick's Day). [Pops out of her locker] That's all she can do. By the 1984 season, only the word "water" led to a dousing, whereas in earlier seasons, the words "wet" and "H2O" also did. In this episode, Lisa Ruddy was the victim of six slimings (a YCDTOTV record). Yeah, my eyesight is so bad I can hardly see. Opposite sketches were used in the inaugural season of the show (the first one, in Episode 2, was submitted by a viewer), but it was not until Whatever Turns You On that they became an integral part of the show. YCDTOTV was later seen in 1999 as part of Nickelodeon's 20th anniversary marathon. Her younger sister Lisa was used in some skits as an uncredited extra. The format was shortened to a half-hour, removed local content, added a laugh track and replaced music videos with live performances from popular artists from Canada at the time, including Trooper, Max Webster, Ian Thomas and disco singer Alma Faye Brooks. As a result, CTV cancelled the show in December 1979 following poor ratings after only 13 episodes. Though ratings declined, Nickelodeon continued to air reruns until January 1994, at which point it was only being aired on weekends. In July 2004, to celebrate the program's 25th anniversary, a reunion special called Project 131 with the theme Changes was produced at CJOH-TV starring five members of the original cast. She was not slimed until the 1989 season. The announcement of the production company generally followed by one last sketch, usually taking place on the link set. When Nickelodeon started airing the episodes, none of the 1979 episodes remained, however all of the 1981 episodes did. Native American performer who appeared in traditional clothing; only appeared twice during the 1981 season. Second official host. Two years before making its international debut, You. The only exception is, in Episode 032: "Vacations," in addition to playing "Zilch," he also played an umpire. Nickelodeon originally aired several episodes in the edited half-hour syndicated format as a test run. You Can't Do That on Television premiered on February 3, 1979 on CJOH-TV in Ottawa as a locally aired and produced one-hour low-budget variety program with some segments performed live. Appeared in his first episode clad in a diaper playing a sitar, as Roger Price's revenge for having to deal with Justin's difficult mother. Lisa got slimed with white slime after saying "I really don't know". Tanya only appeared in one episode, and is one of the few cast to avoid being pied, slimed, or watered. Sketch TV by young amateur actors in true classic Nick-style. Wealth [5.26] . He was slimed, along with the rest of the cast, in the St. Patrick's Day episode. Known for a recurring gag of being unable to remember whether his name was Nick or Ted, stemming from a real-life incident during a read-through in which he read Ted Wilson's lines by mistake. This cut the episodes to under 30 minutes, instead of the original one hour running time. This should unlock the channel. Some scenes were reshot to remove any local or specifically Canadian content, and the half-hour syndicated edits became entirely sketch comedy. Lindores was the show's third host, and returned to host 1989's Age episode. The television will automatically restart. One whole episode, 1981's Drugs, was constructed completely around the pie-in-the-face gag; to avoid the wrath of the censors, the episode showed the cast getting "high" by pieing themselves continuously, comparing the stupidity of hitting oneself with a pie to that of taking drugs. The show was canceled after one season. In any case, the show did not completely sever ties to its past, as many former cast members reappeared during the 1989 season in cameo roles, most notably in the "Age" episode, which was hosted by Vanessa Lindores and also featured cameos by Doug Ptolemy, Michael "but Pompers" Bombay, Alasdair Gillis, Christine McGlade, and Kevin Kubusheskie (who by that time had become a stage producer on the show). The rest are only currently available in the half-hour edits. Nickelodeon allegedly removed the "Cosmetics" episode from rotation for the latter reason (although the "Addictions" episode from that same season was not dropped). Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. In one of the show's crueler pranks, Ross (Les Lye) tricks Christine into getting dumped with a thicker, chunkier blue slime. These would sometimes occur in the middle of a sketch, resulting in the characters inverting whatever they were doing just prior to the conclusion of the sketch. Reset the television. This was similar to the "joke wall" segment on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Most episodes included one or more firing squad sketches, where Les would play the part of a Spanish-accented Latin American military officer with a sword in hand preparing to order a firing squad to execute one of the children actors, who were standing in front of a post. Another Price production using YCDTOTV cast members, UFO Kidnapped, was made in 1983. Auditions were held at CJOH in the spring of 1988, and taping began that fall. In the 1981 and 1982 seasons, Barth had a worker, Zilch (played by Darryll Lucas), whom he frequently insulted and abused, often by hitting him with a pan and knocking him out cold. You Cant do that on Television (1979 - 1990) by CTV Publication date 1980 Topics Canadian. These announcements are given in the form of "You Can't Do That on Television is a ______ production." Also starred in, Christine was the first official host. He also participated in. Kubusheskie became a writer and producer on the series during the 1989 and 1990 seasons. Nickelodeon quickly introduced "slime" as a feature in several shows it produced, and used it heavily in its marketing. Inverse tropes related to Mr. Schitdler in the classroom and the principal in detention were also frequent; however, very rarely would an opposite feature the kids getting their revenge on Barth. When Price eventually returned to Canada, he wanted to resume production of You Can't Do That on Television from the city of Toronto, but was convinced by the cast and crew to return to Ottawa and CJOH. Cyndi hosted several of the 1979 episodes, and famously went home sick after being slimed for the first time. Growing up in the mid to late 1980s, one of my favorite shows was 'You Cant Do That On Television'. Nickelodeon later introduced green slime shampoo, which was a frequent parting gift on its game show Double Dare, on which slime was heavily used. Later in 1981, the new American youth-oriented cable network, Nickelodeon, took an interest in YCDTOTV. Tessier is an actor and singer, whose first appearance on television was this program. In the early stages of You Can't Do That on Television, Price and Darby had written a skit that took place in a dungeon, where a kid pulled a toilet chain and got covered in waste.. Love the 80s?. Only five episodes were filmed in this season, the shortest season of YCDTOTV's fifteen-year span on the air, and one of the episodes "Adoption" proved so controversial that it was banned after being shown twice (a "DO NOT AIR" sticker was reportedly placed on the master tape at CJOH). As with waterings, the sliming gag was used in almost every episode, especially from 1982 onward. You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that first aired locally in 1979 before airing in the United States in 1981. One whole episode, 1981's Drugs, was constructed completely around the pie-in-the-face gag: to avoid the wrath of the censors, the episode showed the cast getting "high" by pieing themselves continuously over and over, comparing the stupidity of hitting oneself with a pie to the stupidity of taking drugs. Boy George Without Make-up, "Halloween", 1984), and were often relevant to the theme of the current episode (e.g. The original slapstick pie-in-the-face gag was also frequently used on YCDTOTV, although pie scenes were most common during the early years of the show. The post-credit production bumper was generally followed by one final sketch, also borrowing a concept from Laugh-In, in which the jokes continued for a time after the credits finished rolling. Vanessa: Boy, must be tough being a TV star. Factory in 2012. Osome appeared in Project 131 with Vanessa Lindores and Marjorie Silcoff. As in the United States, the series was rerun into the early 1990s. Although the pilot aired on Nickelodeon, the series was not picked up. During its original run, the show was seen as one and the same with the cable network Nickelodeon in its early years on the air, achieved high ratings, and is most famous for introducing the network's iconic green slime. The airings began with the first two 1981 episodes, "Work" and "Transportation," marking the first time that those episodes had aired on American television in 30 years. The slime was dumped on any cast member who uttered the phrase "I don't know." . When the punchline was delivered, there would be a laugh track and the actors would close their lockers, allowing the process to start again with different people and a different joke. The "locker jokes" feature was introduced in the first season and continued until the end of the series. She featured also in many skits and also had a brief cameo in the "Age" episode in 1989. An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age, the original slime developed "by accident"; Darby had originally planned for a bucket of food leftovers from the CJOH cafeteria, with water added, to be dumped on Tim, but the production of that first episode was delayed by a week, and when the time came to shoot the scene, the contents of the bucket had turned green with mold. He also co-wrote several episodes that season with Roger Price. Kubusheskie became a writer and producer on the series during the 1989 and 1990 seasons, and on occasion made cameos. Especially in the later years of the show, cast members who were slimed frequently looked upward into the slime as it was falling so that it covered their faces (the same was also true of the waterings). He also co-wrote several episodes that season with Roger Price. It primarily featured preteen and teenage actors in a sketch comedy format in which they acted out skits based on a theme for that episode. The first episode in which "I don't know" was used as a trigger phrase for the green slime was one of the local episodes seen only on CJOH, broadcast on March 17, 1979fittingly, St. Patrick's Day. The name refers to the fact that 130 episodes of You Can't Do That on Television were produced, and this was the final episode, therefore #131. The season proper ended in May, but cast members were asked to come back in May and June 1981 to film some additional scenes for the syndicated version of the show (including re-writes or re-shoots of already-filmed sketches to filter out Ottawa-based or Canadian content). Often at times, cast members would try to "dodge" getting hit with water by saying it in Spanish or French, only to still get hit with water. A return to the show's daily subject was imprinted by another of these inversion fades, and usually accompanied by one of the cast members saying, "Back to reality." If you see a blank screen with a red key on the bottom of the screen, press 'Function' and 'Mute' at the same time. After each joke, the actors would close their lockers, allowing the process to start again with different people and a new joke. 1. Episode 007: The famous green slime show (St. Patrick's Day). Episodes of YCDTOTV included recurring gimmicks and gags. The products featured ranged from parodies of actual products (such as the Lotachi Lugman, a parody of the. Reportedly, this was because Nickelodeon's six-year contract to air the 1981 season expired in 1987, and as Nickelodeon was beginning to aim for a younger demographic and many of the 1981 episodes dealt with topics more relevant to adolescents (such as smoking, drugs, sexual equality and peer pressure), the network opted not to renew the contract. The boy escapes by going jogging with the firing squad. Over the next few years, the series was seen on a national basis within Canada (CTV, the network CJOH-TV was affiliated with, broadcast the show on Saturday mornings between 1982 and 1990, with little publicity), but YCDTOTV continued to expand its audience in the United States on Nickelodeon, where it initially aired five times a week and eventually every day. Worst of You Can't Do That On Television (B) 1979 Whatever Turns You On (1) Pilot (A) (2) Union Fees (A) (3) Fan Letters (A+) (4) Drama Lessions (A) (5) Boss Helal (A) (6) Superstitions (A) (7) Repeats (A) (8) Christmas (A) (9) . Each episode had an "opposites" segment ("Opposite Skits, where the opposite of real life really happens"), introduced by a visual effect of the screen flipping upside down, shifting left to fade to the next sketch, and then righting itself. They have used the locker gags, slime, and other gags pulled directly from the show. Green Slime grew to become a trademark image for Nickelodeon. [6][7] "Adoption" is the only episode that was banned in the United States. Right before this happened, one of the cast would generally be giving a monologue (or several would be having a group conversation) that was interrupted by another cast member with something that would (generally) be opposite what the monologue (or dialogue) was about, all present cast would say, "It must be the introduction to the opposites", and then the inversion fade would happen; several sketches would follow that were a tongue-in-cheek reversal of the show's subject of the day, and also in which the normal principles of daily life were reversed, often with children having authority over adults or with adults encouraging children to behave badly (for example, eating desserts instead of vegetables, or wasting money on something frivolous rather than putting the money in the bank). The Super Slimy History of You Can't Do That on Television Secret Galaxy 356K subscribers Subscribe 7K 97K views 9 months ago Try MarcomGather free at. Probably the funniest kids show of all time. For example, the 1982 "Bullying" episode was a "Black Eye" Production; the 1984 "Marketing" show was a "Can't Give It Away" Production; the "Divorce" episode was a "Split Down The Middle" Production; "Project 131" was a "Changing Day" Production; The "Malls" episode was a "Hang Out to Dry" production. Yes, R1, the slime originated with this show. Veteran comedy actor Les Lye played numerous recurring characters and was initially the only adult to perform in the show's sketches; he was also the only actor to appear for the entire length of the series' run. Jen co-hosted the. the pre-empted show for "Safety" (1981) was Hit and Run on Sesame Street). Most of the time, the cast member would be successful; however, occasionally, Lye's character would "successfully" complete the scene. Simone also never appeared on the link set. Over 100 child actors appeared on YCDTOTV between 1979 and 1990. The 1981 episodes were supposed to air for the last time ever during a week-long promotion in 1985 called "Oldies But Moldies", which featured contests where Nickelodeon viewers could win prizes like "tasty, fresh chocolate syrup". So You Think You Can't Do That on Television? From 1979 to 1981, parts of the show were done live, with the comedy sketches being pre-taped. There is also one episode in which the cast member cries out to the commander: "Hurry up, hurry up, start the execution!" The series was also seen in some European countries and reportedly in the Middle East (with Arabic dubbing), although no French-dubbed version for distribution in either France or francophone Canada is known to exist, nor were any local adaptations based on the YCDTOTV format known to have been made. Must be tough being a TV star my favorite shows was 'You Cant That... 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