Comment on Most of the audience of Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards have no idea why slime is a thing.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 days agoOne of Nickelodeon’s first staple show was a program from the early 1980’s called ‘You Can’t Do That On Television’. One of its recurring gags was when people got slimed whenever they said “I don’t know”.
…wikipedia.org/…/You_Can't_Do_That_on_Television
It has remained a trademark of the network ever since.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 days ago
Funnily enough outside of the US (at least that was my impression as a German kid) Nickelodeon was first and foremost a company that made slime. You could buy that stuff here long before the TV channel made it over.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Even funnier is Nickelodeon bought the broadcasting rights to a Canadian kids program that did the slime gag. Slime wasn’t even “their” thing.