You do know that Nick has this nasty tendency to edit almost all of its cartoons don’t you?
I discovered this when watching repeats of Spongebob and Rug Rats, that there would suddenly be new footage added onto the beginning. The biggest edit I know of is when Spongebob wound up in Rock bottom, trying to catch those buses after going to the glove festival. Nick cut out the whole beginning and started the show after SB and Patrick were dumped off of the bus. That was quite a cut!
They have cut the Rug Rats a whole lot, but do not seem to cut the crappy cartoons like Cat Dog. Nor do they seem to trim any of their crappy live shows, like the Amanda Show (that bites) or Keenan and Cal (which also bites). It seems that they cut the crap out of the most popular cartoons.
See the Daria thread, where Noggin, a branch of Nick, is showing Daria now and slicing up those episodes also. They sliced a lesbian/homosexual semi-seduction scene out of one, which was NOT R rated at all, nor even had any touching in it or any nudity, but a girl verbally making moves on Jane and Jane refusing. Couldn’t cutting that scene be a violation of gay rights?
Nick is weird.
It is OK to depict Dill farting a stink cloud on commercials and having characters drooling all over each other, talking about poop and having commercials where noses are picked and smeared on the camera lens and something sneezes and creates a Nick splat, which is kind of gross, but they cut out a well handled lesbian scene and have chopped up other cartoons seemingly at whim.
I know I shall be beat down for not knowing who Zim is. I will fix this as soon as one of my five heathens crawls out of bed at the crack of dawn to creep into my room to watch television.
Real Monsters was my all time favorite. Ickis I adored! Still trying to find a good picture for a tatt.
Bought my hubby the video game a few years back for some occation and you know he’s never touched it? But I have come darn close to beating it before the heathens break in on me and over take the games by telling me not to play the old games to play the playstation instead. (Gee thanks I feel so old now!)
And why won’t they play re-runs of you can’t do that on television? I never heard why but I loved that show as well.
And DangerMouse!
Now you go and tell me that they are cancelling Sponge Bob?! My four year old and I just watched like six hours of it today and ran around the house singing the theme song. She carries her sponge bob everywhere. Even though he lost an eye swimming last tuesday.
Okay, 12 year old just wandered through and says Invader Zim is way cool! Didn’t have the heart to tell her what is up.
JuanitaTech, your original post is exactly the way my daughter reacted last Friday night. First, Nickelodeon whimsically changed its feed for our city to the EASTERN schedule, which means that the ever-hilarious Cosby show and the oh-so-age-appropriate Cheers begin airing here around 8:00 p.m. Then, even though we figured out their nefarious plot to make us miss ZIM, they foiled us by showing HALF of the show instead. My daughter, being only 12, didn’t get the satisfaction of using any Y-14 language in her rant. She did, however, run to her room and cry for a little while.
I mailed her five letters to the president of Nickelodeon the next day.
Kudos, InternetLegend! Let your daughter’s voice be heard!
And yeah, omnivore, i realize that Nick cuts up all kinds of shows, but it just seems that they are going even more out of their way with ZIM, by showing only half an episode, or not showing it at all. I remember the week after 9/11, they didn’t show it at all, replacing it with Rocket Power. Oof. There’s a show that teaches kids something: let’s all go out on our skateboards and perform tricks that only Tony Hawk has been able to accomplish and it’s okay if we fall flat on our faces! Wheeee! Oh, what’s this? A cranial fracture? Mommmmmeeeee! Yeah, fine, we were all, er, sensitive after September 11, but dammit, I wanna laugh. I want tacos.
Oh well. Nickelodeon will be dead to me once again, or at least until they have another out-of-the-ordinary, kickass show that will promptly be cancelled after a season and a half.
The knowledge… it fills me… it is neat!
-Gir Goes Crazy and Stuff
I stopped watching nickelodeon as soon as i saw no more rockos modern life . I started cursing nickelodeon when i couldnt find clarissa explains at all .i started worshhipping nickelodeon when i found all my old shows on their spin-off channels re: the nicktoons channel and noggin.
Her name is GAZ. As for why all the main characters’ names are capitalized, well, you got me.
You accuse us of incompetence? We are a superior race! We make no mistakes!! Do not anger us or we shall remove all but one of your hearts!
–from Squee’s Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors
I just remember another reason to get mad at Nickelodeon: Pelswick. One of the only shows to have a minority character that really “just happens to be.” His disablity is just a part of his character, not the main focus of the show. Plus the show was hilarious. Remember the episode when the school had a popularity scale and Pelswick was at the bottom and when he asks his guardian angel for help he’s also bummed because he is at the bottom of the guardian angel popularity scale? What a great show!
