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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Classic Nick Wed. – Sightings
Today’s Classic Nickelodeon Wednesday is a bit
different. For the last few months I’ve had a few Classic Nickelodeon sightings
and I wanted to share them with you. Hope you enjoy them.
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As I was cleaning out my spare bedroom I found an old 16 Magazine from 1985. As I flipped through it I found the address page and low and behold, I found an address to write to Alasdair Gillis from You Can’t Do That On Television!
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Before Tomorrow People fans knew Trevor
Bannister as “Colonel Masters”
he was already well known on the hit television series Are You Being Served? Where he
played “Mr. Lucas” Here he is with fellow co-star John Inman preforming “Mammy.”
Who knew the Colonel was so well coordinated?
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Last Friday while I was out of town for a doctor's appointment I took a stole through Target and noticed this guy on one of the 4-way shelves in the electronics department.
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'90's kids may remember the night Nickelodeon aired Puf-a-Palooza, an all night marathon of the wold and crazy worlds of Sid and Marty Krofft. While going through some old newspapers I ran across this article about H.R. Pufnstuf appearing on the Nickelodeon show Mutt & Stuff.
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About two weeks ago while I was in Walmart I happen to look over at the TVs by the door and noticed they were showing Hey Arnold. How could I NOT take a picture of that?! 
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As you all know, Paddington Bear aired during
Pinwheel making it a Pinwheel Cartoon as I like to call them. While I was in
the dollar store I happened to notice this DVD set of Paddington Bear DVD.
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What's Nickelodeon without Slim?! Personally I prefer the real stuff, as seen on You Can't Do That On Television, but for today's modern kids who's never seen the show this will have to do. Still, it does look fun don't cha' think?
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So, you’re probably asking what does a unicorn in a pen have to do with Nickelodeon right? Three Nickelodeon Special Deliveries, namely, Alex and the Wonderful “Doo Wah” Lamp, Big Apple Birthday and The Stowaway where part of a two volume VHS anthology series collectively known as Unicorn Tales. In the opening title of the videos is a unicorn in a pen kicks the fence then jumps over it and runs away. Here is the coloring book and a screenshot of Unicorn Tales.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Classic Nick Wed. – Curious George
Classic Nick Wed. – Curious George
April 10, 2013
Curious George is known in many different countries by many
different names. In Spanish-speaking
countries he’s known as "Jorge el Curioso". In Germany he’s known as
"Coco". In Finland people know him as "Utelias Vili" while
those in Norway call him "Nysgjerrige Nils". Italians call him
"Curioso come George" in Denmark he’s "Peter Pedal". in
Sweden he’s "Nicke Nyfiken" and in Israel "Choni Ha'Sakran".
But no matter what name he goes by Americans know and love him as “Curious
George”, the sweet little monkey who love to explore the world around him.
The books, written by Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey, he
is featured as a curious brown monkey named George, who is brought from his
home in Africa by "The Man with The Yellow Hat" to live with him in a
big city but George wasn’t “born” with that name.
When the first story, “Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys” was
published in France in 1939, George was named Fifi can you imagine calling him
that now I know I can’t. Then in 1941 in the United Kingdom, George was
originally called "Zozo", apparently to avoid using the name of the
then King George VI for a monkey.
Creation
The series was written and drawn by the team of Hans Augusto
Rey and Margret Rey. The couple fled Paris in June 1940 on self-made bicycles,
carrying the Curious George manuscript with them. At first only H. A. Rey was
credited for the work in order to distinguish the Reys' books from the large
number of children's books written by female authors. Later, Hans Rey was
credited for the illustrations and Margret Rey for the writing. The Reys
produced many other children's books, but the Curious George series was the
most popular. The books have been re-edited continuously in the six decades
since the first volume came out. The current United States publisher is
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt of Boston.
"Original Adventures" Curious George appeared in
1941. This book begins with George living in Africa and tells the story of his
capture by the Man with the Yellow Hat, who takes him on a ship to "the
big city" where he will live in the zoo. The second book, Curious George
Takes a Job (1947), begins with George living in the zoo, from which he escapes
and has several adventures before the Man with the Yellow Hat finds him and
takes George to live at his house. The remaining stories tell of George's
adventures while living at the house of the Man with the Yellow Hat.
For those of us who were/are Pinwheel fans (which aired from
1979-1990) you may remember Curious George as one of the “Pinwheel Cartoons”
but then beginning in 1980 there was a series of animated TV films featuring
George and “The Man”, which were then adapted into books themselves this series
was produced and co-written by Alan Shalleck. Then on September 4, 2006 a new
Curious George TV series debuted on PBS Kids as part of PBS Kids Preschool
Block. Then in 1984 two stop-motion animated shorts were made from Curious
George stories with puppet-figures by noted animator John Clark Matthews (who
later used a similar technique for his films of Frog and Toad).
On February 10, 2006 an animated film was released featured
Will Ferrell as the voice of the originally unnamed Man With the Yellow Hat who
is now referred to as "Ted". Some believe they chose the name “Ted”
from an open-the-flap book titled "See the Circus," which was
published January 1, 1956. H. A. Rey illustrated a man who looks very much like
the Man with the Yellow Hat wearing a blue and white polka-dotted kerchief. The
caption for the page reads, "Ted has a tricycle, so very small, He cannot
ride it, because he's so tall. If you want to find out WHO the rider will be,
Just open the flap, and then you will see." Opening the flap reveals two
monkeys riding a tricycle.
Today Curious George is a staple among young readers
everywhere and with an increasing growth in popularity he can be seen in
everything from books, to clothing and to stuffed animals. There has also been
a live touring show (which is no longer touring) and a video game that was released
on February 2, 2006, published by Namco and developed by Monkey Bar Games, a
division of Vicious Cycle Software.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
C/N Thanksgiving Sightings
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Can you believe that next month is Christmas?! Where has the time gone?
So by the time you read this is will be Thanksgiving day and I’m SOOO very sorry that I’m only just now getting this out to you but I wanted to let you know of an upcoming Classic Nickelodeon (C/N) sighing that will be in the McDonald’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on WGNA network.
In the past few years this parade has featured the costumed characters of Paddington Bear and Curious George as well as giant balloon characters of the same. Both of these were cartoons shown during Pinwheel, they were, as I call them, “Pinwheel Cartoons”.
Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
With 'Curious George,' Illumination Looks To Make More Animation Mischief
Los Angeles Times | Entertainment
With 'Curious George,' Illumination Looks To Make More Animation Mischief
July 30, 2010 | 1:04 pm
EXCLUSIVE: Filmgoers soon will have another round of adventures with the Man With the Yellow Hat.
Illumination Entertainment, the animation company founded by former Fox Animation President Chris Meledandri and whose movies Universal finances and distributes, is developing a new version of "Curious George."
The movie is expected to feature the wry animated images of "Despicable Me" and will spin a new story of George the monkey/chimpanzee (depending on whether you favor H.A. and Margret Rey's text or the tail-less images) who's taken out of the jungle by an eccentric explorer to live in the city, where mischief always seems to find him.
Universal and production company Imagine produced an animated "Curious George" just four years ago, in which Will Ferrell voiced the Man With the Yellow hat. Mired in development for years, the movie didn't entirely catch on with filmgoers, grossing just $58 million in the U.S. (A second installment, "Curious George 2: Follow that Monkey!," came out as a direct-to-DVD release in 2009.)
The Illumination film is expected to start from scratch. It's getting a script from Larry Stuckey, who wrote the upcoming "Little Fockers," the third installment in the "Meet the Parents" franchise, for Universal.
Universal is very keen on Illumination, which with "Despicable" gave the studio a long-awaited family-friendly animation hit. After the success of that film, Meledandri's company is also developing "Where's Waldo?" and "Dr. Seuss' the Lorax" movies as well as a sequel to "Despicable Me."
Reboots of movies that haven't been gone very long -- "Haunted Mansion" and "Spider-Man" -- continue to remain in vogue in Hollywood. They'll be an adventure, but we suppose if any character is up for one, it's Curious George.
--Steven Zeitchik
Twitter.com/ZeitchikLAT
Photo: Curious George. Credit: Houghton Mifflin
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URL - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/07/curious-george-illumination-movie-book-universal.html
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Classic Nick Alert!
Merry Christmas yall. I hope yall see this in time to be able to watch it.
Nickelodeon will be showing the Curious George movie from 3 to 4:45PM Central time, please check your local listings. ~ Curious George was a Pinwheel cartoon and was created by Margret and H.A. Rey.
2006 – The simple joys of story telling are on animated display in a delightful and sweet-natured adaptation of the misadventures of the impish and impetuous chip from the kid-lit classics by Margret and H.A. Rey. (Comedy, 86 mins.)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Curious George Swings Into A Museum Exhibit
Curious George Swings Into A Museum Exhibit
By: ANN LEVIN Published: March 28, 2010
By: ANN LEVIN Published: March 28, 2010
NEW YORK — Ever wonder why Curious George is so curious? Or why the monkey hero of the "Curious George” children’s books is so fond of travel, so prone to mischief yet always narrowly escapes disaster?
A new exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum suggests that curious readers need look no farther than the real-life adventures of the intrepid husband-and-wife team that created the beloved character.
H.A. and Margret Rey — he changed the name from Reyersbach — were German Jews living in Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, increasingly concerned about finding safe haven. Two days before the Germans marched into Paris, they fled on bicycles carrying drawings for their picture books, including one about a mischievous monkey then called Fifi.
Curator Claudia Nahson said Hans and Margret created the monkey character that is always on the run while they themselves were on the run. The recurring motif of the monkey’s narrow escape from danger is another autobiographical detail.
Twice in the months leading up to their escape, the couple were questioned by authorities suspicious of their German accents. Both times they were let off the hook when officials learned what they were doing: making children’s books.
While the exhibit touches on the harrowing conditions they endured on their four-month journey in 1940 from France to New York, it’s more about the unusually long and fertile artistic collaboration between Hans and Margret, whose fiery personality is said to be the inspiration for George’s insatiable curiosity and spunk.
Hans Rey was a gentle, pipe-smoking, self-taught artist who toiled for a time in commercial art designing circus posters before launching his career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books. Margarete Waldstein, who shortened her name to Margret, was the more assertive of the two. She had studied art and photography at the famed Bauhaus School in Germany and had strong opinions about nearly everything, including her husband’s work.
Both loved animals. Hans liked to sketch in zoos, and the couple kept pet marmosets in their apartment in Brazil in the 1930s. Margret even knitted sweaters to keep the monkeys warm on the couple’s cold ocean passage to Europe in 1936, but the creatures didn’t survive the voyage.
The exhibition features nearly 80 original drawings and vibrant watercolors for the more than 30 books the couple wrote and illustrated. The most famous, of course, is Curious George — the "good little monkey” captured in the wilds of Africa by a man in a large yellow hat and taken to the city to live in a zoo and later, the man’s home.
The idea for George began in an earlier book about a lonely giraffe named Raffy who befriends nine monkeys, the youngest of which is called Fifi. Eventually, the Reys decided to develop a story just about Fifi. It was one of the stories they brought from France, only to learn when they got to the U.S. that American publisher Houghton Mifflin had doubts about the name Fifi for a boy monkey.
So, Fifi became George in the United States — and Zozo in Britain. The "Curious George” books eventually were translated into many languages, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide.
It’s not hard to see why. With simple lines and bright, buoyant colors, the Reys created an imaginary world full of innocence and optimism.
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A new exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum suggests that curious readers need look no farther than the real-life adventures of the intrepid husband-and-wife team that created the beloved character.
H.A. and Margret Rey — he changed the name from Reyersbach — were German Jews living in Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, increasingly concerned about finding safe haven. Two days before the Germans marched into Paris, they fled on bicycles carrying drawings for their picture books, including one about a mischievous monkey then called Fifi.
Curator Claudia Nahson said Hans and Margret created the monkey character that is always on the run while they themselves were on the run. The recurring motif of the monkey’s narrow escape from danger is another autobiographical detail.
Twice in the months leading up to their escape, the couple were questioned by authorities suspicious of their German accents. Both times they were let off the hook when officials learned what they were doing: making children’s books.
While the exhibit touches on the harrowing conditions they endured on their four-month journey in 1940 from France to New York, it’s more about the unusually long and fertile artistic collaboration between Hans and Margret, whose fiery personality is said to be the inspiration for George’s insatiable curiosity and spunk.
Hans Rey was a gentle, pipe-smoking, self-taught artist who toiled for a time in commercial art designing circus posters before launching his career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books. Margarete Waldstein, who shortened her name to Margret, was the more assertive of the two. She had studied art and photography at the famed Bauhaus School in Germany and had strong opinions about nearly everything, including her husband’s work.
Both loved animals. Hans liked to sketch in zoos, and the couple kept pet marmosets in their apartment in Brazil in the 1930s. Margret even knitted sweaters to keep the monkeys warm on the couple’s cold ocean passage to Europe in 1936, but the creatures didn’t survive the voyage.
The exhibition features nearly 80 original drawings and vibrant watercolors for the more than 30 books the couple wrote and illustrated. The most famous, of course, is Curious George — the "good little monkey” captured in the wilds of Africa by a man in a large yellow hat and taken to the city to live in a zoo and later, the man’s home.
The idea for George began in an earlier book about a lonely giraffe named Raffy who befriends nine monkeys, the youngest of which is called Fifi. Eventually, the Reys decided to develop a story just about Fifi. It was one of the stories they brought from France, only to learn when they got to the U.S. that American publisher Houghton Mifflin had doubts about the name Fifi for a boy monkey.
So, Fifi became George in the United States — and Zozo in Britain. The "Curious George” books eventually were translated into many languages, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide.
It’s not hard to see why. With simple lines and bright, buoyant colors, the Reys created an imaginary world full of innocence and optimism.
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