Nickelodeon Still Makes Cartoons? Nickelodeon was the shit from the 80’s through to the early 2000’s. Somewhere along the line they lost their touch and basically turned into a Disney Channel clone with more tween-centric sitcoms a-la iCarly. Enter their newest original cartoon show: Sanjay and Craig. It’s that whole “best buds for life” type of show that we’ve all grown up with and seen blajillions of times; Ren & Stimpy, Arnold & Gerrald, Doug & Skeeter, Norbert & Dagget, Rocco & Heffer, and even newer best buds like Regular Show’s Mordecai & Rigby and Adventure Time’s Finn & Jake. But what makes Sanjay and Craig a little more interesting is the people behind it. There’s Chris Hardwick, who most of you should already familiar with on some level, Maulik Panchaloy a.k.a. Sanjay from Weeds, Linda Cardellini from Freaks & Geeks, Grandma’s Boy, and she’s currently boning Don Draper on the sixth season of Mad Men, Matt Jones a.k.a. Badger from Breaking Bad, Tony Hale from Arrested Development, Kunal Nayyar a.k.a. Rajesh from Big Bang Theory, and Grey DeLisle who has voiced a buttload of characters such as Daphne in Scooby-Doo, Vicky in Fairly Odd Parents, Mandy in The Grim Adventures of BIlly & Mandy, and voices for various video games including the Tomb Raider series.. And that’s just the voice talent! The series itself was created by Andreas Trolf, Jim Dirschberger, and Jay Howell who went from working at a cafe while making art for punk rock zines and showing his work at local galleries on the side to creating the characters for Bob’s Burgers and doing animations for Vans. While there’s nothing about Sanjay and Craig from the clips released so far that piques my interest as much as, say, current best bro cartoon titans Regular Show and Adventure Time, it should be interesting to see how much success a kids cartoon will gain considering all the crazy talented people involved. Sanjay and Craig debuts on Nickelodeon onMay 25, 2013 and will air Saturdays at 10:30am (ET/PT). Like Albotas on Facebook | Follow Albotas on Twitter

Nickelodeon Still Makes Cartoons?

Nickelodeon was the shit from the 80’s through to the early 2000’s. Somewhere along the line they lost their touch and basically turned into a Disney Channel clone with more tween-centric sitcoms a-la iCarly.

Enter their newest original cartoon show: Sanjay and Craig.

It’s that whole “best buds for life” type of show that we’ve all grown up with and seen blajillions of times; Ren & Stimpy, Arnold & Gerrald, Doug & Skeeter, Norbert & Dagget, Rocco & Heffer, and even newer best buds like Regular Show’s Mordecai & Rigby and Adventure Time’s Finn & Jake.

But what makes Sanjay and Craig a little more interesting is the people behind it. There’s Chris Hardwick, who most of you should already familiar with on some level, Maulik Panchaloy a.k.a. Sanjay from Weeds, Linda Cardellini from Freaks & Geeks, Grandma’s Boy, and she’s currently boning Don Draper on the sixth season of Mad Men, Matt Jones a.k.a. Badger from Breaking Bad, Tony Hale from Arrested Development, Kunal Nayyar a.k.a. Rajesh from Big Bang Theory, and Grey DeLisle who has voiced a buttload of characters such as Daphne in Scooby-Doo, Vicky in Fairly Odd Parents, Mandy in The Grim Adventures of BIlly & Mandy, and voices for various video games including the Tomb Raider series..

And that’s just the voice talent!

The series itself was created by Andreas Trolf, Jim Dirschberger, and Jay Howell who went from working at a cafe while making art for punk rock zines and showing his work at local galleries on the side to creating the characters for Bob’s Burgers and doing animations for Vans.

While there’s nothing about Sanjay and Craig from the clips released so far that piques my interest as much as, say, current best bro cartoon titans Regular Show and Adventure Time, it should be interesting to see how much success a kids cartoon will gain considering all the crazy talented people involved.

Sanjay and Craig debuts on Nickelodeon onMay 25, 2013 and will air Saturdays at 10:30am (ET/PT).

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Forgotten Freshness: You Can’t Do That On Television Man, how the times have changed. Back in the 80’s, it was totally okay to have children’s sketch comedy show where families were so poor that their children got repossessed, it was okay for middle-aged man dressed as a scuba diver to share a bathtub with an underage girl, and there was even a recurring sketch about children being sentenced to death by firing squad. You Can’t Do That On Television: Poverty & Unemployment Pt.1 Originally a low budget children’s sketch comedy show in 1979 for local Ottowa, Canada station CJOH-TV, You Can’t Do That On Television was picked up by Nickelodeon in 1981. Each episode’s sketches always centered around a main theme and the show is most known for its “slime” gag where green slime fell from the sky onto the actors’ heads every time they said “I don’t know.” To this day, green slime is a staple of Nickelodeon’s brand identity. In addition to the slime if any of the actors said “water,” water would fall on them. You Can’t Do That On Television: Poverty & Unemployment Pt. 2 YCDTOTV was definitely a pretty edgy show, even by today’s standards. Episode themes centered around things like poverty, fashion, and the future, but some episodes were banned. An episode about adoption was banned in the U.S. and Canada and an episode about divorce was banned in Canada. Once Nickelodeon picked up the show and tried aiming it toward a younger demographic, it kind of started going downhill. While originally made for teens and pre-teens, episodes about things like sexual equality, peer pressure, and drugs were replaced by more kiddy-ish potty humor. The show lasted until 1990 and reruns were aired until 1994. In 2004, there was a reunion special called Project 131 and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube. You Can’t Do That On Television: Poverty & Unemployment Pt. 3  Watching these old episodes, it’s definitely hard to imagine this sort of thing flying on TV today. As much as people complain that TV is too violent or oversexualized, I think they tend to forget how things used to be. Not saying anything was wrong with the good old days of children’s entertainment, though. If anything, this show deserves respect for not talking down to kids and talking about real issues. And, come on, could you even imagine how if there was a children’s program where kids were being shot by a firing squad this day and age? Uptight parents would have a fit! Maybe that’s the main divide between kids and grown-ups. Kids have the ability to see the humor in everything while grown-ups tend to take everything way too seriously. Trivia: Canadian singer Allanis Morrisette was on the show when she was just 5 years old in 1979 and was on again in 1986 for an episode about pop music. Dave Coulier was also working for Nickelodeon around this time on the show Out Of Control. Alanis Morisette’s song “You Oughta Know” is about Dave Coulier!!! Coincidence? The show’s opening animation, The Children’s Television Sausage Factor was inspired by Terry Gilliam’s “gilliamations.” That’s the same Terry Gilliam from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. He also directed some movies you’ve probably heard of like 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Follow Albotas on Twitter | Like Albotas on Facebook

Forgotten Freshness: You Can’t Do That On Television

Man, how the times have changed. Back in the 80’s, it was totally okay to have children’s sketch comedy show where families were so poor that their children got repossessed, it was okay for middle-aged man dressed as a scuba diver to share a bathtub with an underage girl, and there was even a recurring sketch about children being sentenced to death by firing squad.

You Can’t Do That On Television: Poverty & Unemployment Pt.1

Originally a low budget children’s sketch comedy show in 1979 for local Ottowa, Canada station CJOH-TV, You Can’t Do That On Television was picked up by Nickelodeon in 1981. Each episode’s sketches always centered around a main theme and the show is most known for its “slime” gag where green slime fell from the sky onto the actors’ heads every time they said “I don’t know.” To this day, green slime is a staple of Nickelodeon’s brand identity. In addition to the slime if any of the actors said “water,” water would fall on them.

You Can’t Do That On Television: Poverty & Unemployment Pt. 2

YCDTOTV was definitely a pretty edgy show, even by today’s standards. Episode themes centered around things like poverty, fashion, and the future, but some episodes were banned. An episode about adoption was banned in the U.S. and Canada and an episode about divorce was banned in Canada.

Once Nickelodeon picked up the show and tried aiming it toward a younger demographic, it kind of started going downhill. While originally made for teens and pre-teens, episodes about things like sexual equality, peer pressure, and drugs were replaced by more kiddy-ish potty humor.

The show lasted until 1990 and reruns were aired until 1994. In 2004, there was a reunion special called Project 131 and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.

You Can’t Do That On Television: Poverty & Unemployment Pt. 3 

Watching these old episodes, it’s definitely hard to imagine this sort of thing flying on TV today. As much as people complain that TV is too violent or oversexualized, I think they tend to forget how things used to be. Not saying anything was wrong with the good old days of children’s entertainment, though. If anything, this show deserves respect for not talking down to kids and talking about real issues.

And, come on, could you even imagine how if there was a children’s program where kids were being shot by a firing squad this day and age? Uptight parents would have a fit!

Maybe that’s the main divide between kids and grown-ups. Kids have the ability to see the humor in everything while grown-ups tend to take everything way too seriously.

Trivia:

  • Canadian singer Allanis Morrisette was on the show when she was just 5 years old in 1979 and was on again in 1986 for an episode about pop music. Dave Coulier was also working for Nickelodeon around this time on the show Out Of Control. Alanis Morisette’s song “You Oughta Know” is about Dave Coulier!!! Coincidence?
  • The show’s opening animation, The Children’s Television Sausage Factor was inspired by Terry Gilliam’s “gilliamations.” That’s the same Terry Gilliam from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. He also directed some movies you’ve probably heard of like 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
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Daily Graffiti: Ren & Stimpy Edition

Captain Höek and Cadet Stimpy in street art form from the episode “Space Madness” which always creeped me out as a kid. The whole thing about eating soap always made me queasy.

Entire “Space Madness” episode embedded below for great justice.

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Daily Graffiti: Aaahh!!! Real Monsters!

Epic. I actually raised a fist of triumph into the air when I found this one.

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Daily Graffiti: Go-Go Gadget Graffiti! Once upon a time Inspector Gadget was my favorite cartoon as a kid. (Via The World’s Best Ever, Ekosystem) Check out the DAILY GRAFFITI ARCHIVES for more geektastic street art! Add your geeky graffiti pics to our Group Pool on Flickr!

Daily Graffiti: Go-Go Gadget Graffiti!

Once upon a time Inspector Gadget was my favorite cartoon as a kid.

(Via The World’s Best Ever, Ekosystem)

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A Little Bit On The Nickelodeon Avengers Side: Nicktoon characters as Avengers heroes by Dennis Culver.

(via Moviefone)

Secret Base SpongeBob X-RAY DX Set

Toy Art Gallery will be releasing the Secret Base SpongeBob x-ray vinyl along with one of 5 exclusive t-shirts. The SpongeBob is 5 inches of soft Japanese vinyl and the x-ray side has a full painted skeleton beneath a layer of glossy clear vinyl.

Each set will set you back $185 and will only be available Friday, March 16th at 12PM PST exclusively from TAG.

A Little Bit On The Adventures of Pete & Pete Side: Splitsider has an awesome article up about one of the greatest Nickelodeon shows of all time. Did you know that it was originally supposed to be about a boy named Pete and his dog of the same name? Or that the movie Snow Day was originally supposed to be a Pete & Pete flick? The Adventures of Pete & Pete remains a gleaming paragon of this DIY/indie/punk-integrated-into-children’s-programming mentality. “It was that downtown Manhattan sensibility,” said Katherine Dieckmann (that’s “Deekman,” to you), who originally worked with her Pete & Pete cohorts to create the show, would later have her hand in more episodes than any other director of the series and bestowed upon the program that “pre-Emo/hipster/indie” sensibility it has become known for. Read the rest here.

A Little Bit On The Adventures of Pete & Pete Side: Splitsider has an awesome article up about one of the greatest Nickelodeon shows of all time. Did you know that it was originally supposed to be about a boy named Pete and his dog of the same name? Or that the movie Snow Day was originally supposed to be a Pete & Pete flick?

The Adventures of Pete & Pete remains a gleaming paragon of this DIY/indie/punk-integrated-into-children’s-programming mentality.

“It was that downtown Manhattan sensibility,” said Katherine Dieckmann (that’s “Deekman,” to you), who originally worked with her Pete & Pete cohorts to create the show, would later have her hand in more episodes than any other director of the series and bestowed upon the program that “pre-Emo/hipster/indie” sensibility it has become known for.

Read the rest here.

A Little Bit On The Rugrats Side: A live action Rugrats movie gets a David Fincher twist in this Funny or Die video.

A Little Bit On The SpongeBob Side: Illustrator Mike Fredriqo reimagines SpongeBob Squarepants as Pharrell Williams complete with Billionaire Boys Club hat, Louis Vuitton backpack, N*E*R*D belt buckle, and lots and lots of SpongeBob toe socks. (via Highsnobiety)

A Little Bit On The SpongeBob Side: Illustrator Mike Fredriqo reimagines SpongeBob Squarepants as Pharrell Williams complete with Billionaire Boys Club hat, Louis Vuitton backpack, N*E*R*D belt buckle, and lots and lots of SpongeBob toe socks.

(via Highsnobiety)

Daily Graffiti (BONUS ROUND) - A Little Bit On The Spongy Side: SpongeBob SquarePants gets into an unfortunate accident during a date with Sandy Cheeks up on the surface world. (Via Uproxx)

Daily Graffiti (BONUS ROUND) - A Little Bit On The Spongy Side: SpongeBob SquarePants gets into an unfortunate accident during a date with Sandy Cheeks up on the surface world.

(Via Uproxx)

Daily Graffiti - A Little Bit On The Invader Zim Side: G.I.R. riding a pig and Chickenfoot by Dhos218 on deviantART. Check out the DAILY GRAFFITI ARCHIVES for more geektastic street art!

Daily Graffiti - A Little Bit On The Invader Zim Side: G.I.R. riding a pig and Chickenfoot by Dhos218 on deviantART.

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Pete & Pete Intro Remade Shot for Shot

Some band called Tera Melos went and covered “Hey Sandy” by Polaris and re-did the Adventures of Pete & Pete intro to go along with it. In before “the original is better.”

(via Unique Daily)

Johnny Cupcakes X Nickelodeon Johnny Cupcakes was actually a huge driving inspiration behind the initial concept of Albotas back in the day, so we’re more than stoked to learn about is new project involving some of the the most generation-defining cartoons of all time.

Johnny Cupcakes X Nickelodeon

Johnny Cupcakes was actually a huge driving inspiration behind the initial concept of Albotas back in the day, so we’re more than stoked to learn about is new project involving some of the the most generation-defining cartoons of all time.

Daily Geekstomization: This Quailman Munny was made by Greg Bowdler as part of his Munny A Week project and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Doug, one of the greatest Nicktoons ever. Check out the Daily Geekstomization Archives for more geeky custom toys!

Daily Geekstomization: This Quailman Munny was made by Greg Bowdler as part of his Munny A Week project and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Doug, one of the greatest Nicktoons ever.

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