Classic Nick. Wed. –
5 Things We Learned Dishing Dirt on Nickelodeon
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Fall TV Double 2013 EW.COM | 355
Stars and creators of some of your favorite ‘90s shows –
Rugrats, Double Dare – spill surprising secrets about Nick’s heyday in Mathew
Klickstein’s Slimed! – Stephan Lee
1) The behind-the-scenes drama at Nicktoons wasn’t kids’
stuff.
John Kricfalusl, the notoriously touchy creator of Ren &
Stimpy, was allegedly fired from the show after missed deadlines, dramatic
rifts among staff, and differences with the network about the show’s violence
and adult themes, including ‘bl—job jokes.”
2) Nickelodeon’s iconic “slime” had truly disgusting
beginnings.
Slime was eventually made of gelatin and green food
coloring, but it started as actually filth. Producers of You Can’t Do That On
Television planned to dump a bucket of kitchen scraps on child actors, but the
garbage had been sitting out for too long and poured out as foul-smelling green
sludge.
3) The Clarissa crew had to rein in a mom.
Clarissa Explains It All show-runner Mitchell Kriegman said
Melissa Joan Heart’s mother---described as “difficult” and a “show mom”--- was
the driving force behind Hart’s controversial 1999 Maxim cover.
4) Parents on Family Double Dare got litigious.
A mom who was pied in the face by host Marc Summers sued the
network, claiming, “she can’t have sex anymore,” Viacom paid her $25,000.
Lawyers’ kids were barred from participating on the show after one contestant
broke his arm.
5) Censors swarmed Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Producer D.J. MacHale said the writers had to find literary
antecedents for scary story lines in case of complaints, so they argue, “The is
Edgar Allan Poe!…This is classic stuff!” the series was never allowed to show
children lighting the campfire because they “didn’t want to teach kids how to
strike matches.”
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