# Old-School Nickelodeon Appreciation Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-nickelodeon-appreciation-thread/315808>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 5, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-nickelodeon-appreciation-thread/315808 "2005-08-05T23:00:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-nickelodeon-appreciation-thread/315808/81 "2005-08-09T18:16:38Z")

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I wanted to be Alex Mack for quite a while in junior high.

Loved _Hey Dude!_ and _Salute Your Shorts_, though I could never quite get over the fact that the red-haired boy was the same child as Sam from _Diff’rent Strokes_

_Ren and Stimpy_ might have been my favorite, though.

It’s log, it’s log  
It’s big it’s heavy, it’s wood  
It’s log, it’s log  
It’s better than bad, it’s good!

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-school-nickelodeon-appreciation-thread/315808/82 "2005-08-09T18:24:37Z")

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> [@Snowboarder Bo](#):
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> Reading thru this thread has been quite a chuckle for me. I used to work at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, as a grip/electric (doing lighting). I also worked at the scene shop building sets. At the time, those of us who worked at Nick were proud of the work we did, and proud of the shows that the network aired. It’s kind of cool to hear first hand from people who enjoyed them.
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> I can’t remember all the titles of all the shows we did, mainly because we did so dang many of them. I worked on virtually every live action show that was new from 1993-1996 because they were shot in Orlando. A typical season of a drama (which was anything now a game show) would shoot in less than 6 weeks. The game shows took a couple of months. The game shows were the most fun to work on because the kids who participated were just frikkin’ **thrilled** to be there.
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> I’m gonna email this thread to a couple of my buddies who also worked on the shows (we also built all the props and gags that were in use at Universal Studios in Orlando, if any of you ever went there). They’ll get a kick out of this thread, as I did. Those of us who are perenially backstage sometimes get to hear the applause faintly through the curtain, but we rarely get the chance to say: “Thanks for watching! We’re glad you liked our show(s)!”
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> Thanks! 😃

(Somewhat related story)  
Back in 95’ I moved down to Orlando. Soon afterward I went with a friend from work who got invited to a house party near UCF.  
We were there a while and some of the people I recognized but I didn’t know how. I asked my friend “Some of these people look so familiar like I’ve met them before. Where do I know them from?”  
Then he told me that a bunch of them were actors from Nickelodeon Studios and I probably saw them on different shows. These were supporting characters all in their 20s. I was somewhat starstruck, had fun partying with them, then would watch Nick with my nieces and brag about how I knew all those guys.

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