As a person born in 1997, a lot of the Nickelodeon stuff I remember from my childhood won't come until way later. That being said, I've definitely been incredibly fascinated by Nick Knacks thus far as while I may have heard of the really early Nick stuff, a lot of it I'm learning about for the first time. Not to mention, I do like how from this series, I'll get to see an evolution of how Nick has changed over the years.
You know you're doing something right when a girl born in 2003 who didn't even grow up watching Nickelodeon (seriously, i never watched it. I dont remember watching it once in my entire childhood) so invested in a show about it and so impatient for the next episode. This is amazing.
Idk? Like, I did a lot of research on CN, and I figured Nick would be interesting too! And I _have_ watched Nickelodeon, but not until I was older. (If you want to consider 15 older)
Kids talking about their parents' pot habits on live TV, the ABA, bubble letters everywhere, 12-minute psychedelic rock songs about Lord of the Rings? The 70s were kuh-raaaaay-zeeeeee, man.
Those two dudes chuckling about the tanning contest represent everything wrong with child stardom and Hollywood. At least the show respected its audience and really knew how to reach out to teens struggling with serious issues.
Scholastic had a magazine called "Bananas" aimed specifically at a teenage audience that began publication in 1975... was "Banana" just the hippest, coolest word in the 70's? It just seems like an awfully strange coincidence.
I'm an 80's kid, but that means I was exposed to a LOT of 70's media, and yeah, bananas were a thing, as were llamas. Just bananas and llamas and Jamie Farr on every damn channel.
I think they are bulldozing it. I grew up in the 70's and everyone ripped off Qube premium channels with a paperclip in the bottom of the key hole. It shorted out the Community channels which were free and made them the Premium, or vice versa.
It's interesting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is on there, he holds a huge fitness convention here in Columbus every year and there's even a statue of him downtown lol.
Nick Knacks continues to be a fascinating look into an area of pop culture history I didn't know how much I wanted to learn. Always look forward to seeing new episodes, and I'm in it for the long haul, not just waiting out until the 90's stuff I personally remember. Always well researched and often hilarious, I hope you get all the support you need to keep this series up, and hopefully you'll eventually get the size of audience you deserve. :)
These are amazing. A child of the 80's so looking forward to You Can't Do That on Television amoung other shows I remember. But these have all been great and delve into parts of the history I had never heard of before.
YCDTOTV's history is also pretty interesting in how it got off the ground as a local kids thing out of the nation's capital (Ottawa) before becoming a classic in America.
Good episode, as always...also, Burt Dubrow's claim that he left Springer before it became a "human circus" is correct, as said format was actually introduced by Dubrow's successor Richard Dominick, in an attempt to save the series from imminent cancellation if its ratings didn't improve (during Dubrow's tenure, TJSS was more akin to Donahue).
American Bandstand: "white kids dancing to popular music" That used to come on right after the Saturday morning cartoons. So for years I automatically hated it and did not see the point of it. Many years later when I had reached puberty, there was a similar show on the USA network called "Dance Party USA". I have many fond memories of "Princess" and Jennifer" RAAAAWR! On that show. Many years later they included younger dancing kids for the tweens such as "Oceana" and Jimmy-Jam!" It came on at 4 PM every afternoon. Just in time to catch it after school. On a side note, I love these Nick-Knacks!
9:50 Knowing how fervently he still performs and commands people to Twist, this clip of Chubby Checker already doing the legacy act as early as the late 1970s is simultaneously the funniest and saddest thing I've seen in a while.
Minor correction linear note: American Bandstand actually ran from 1952-1989. You have it captioned 1952-1980. I used to watch the show in the 1980’s in the afternoon.
I have to confess. I've never seen America's Gone Bananas before. Looking back at all the clips provided in this episode definitely proves the fact that this could have been a precursor to another youth oriented talk show, Livewire which I was more familiar with and has seen most of its run. And I do remember seeing Kids Are People Too on Sunday mornings before we got cable in 1982 which was when I discovered Nickelodeon as well and much of the programs that were on at the time. By then, AGB was long pink-slipped but like a lot of long time fans especially in the Columbus, Ohio circuit, not completely forgotten. Oh, by the way, Livewire would later be the inspiration of other talk related shows like Don't Just Sit There and All That. But it was AGB that may have put Livewire on the map and proven to be one of Nickelodeon's life savers, never leaving the top 7 at its cancellation in the mid 1980s.
Praying for Kaiden and his family and friends and you. I hope they and you feel better and recover soon. I hope all goes well for them and you with your channel. I wish them the very best of luck and you. God bless them and you my friend. God loves them and you.
I remember someone who didn't want to watch Nick at their daycare had the tv switched to the news. And that's how all the kids saw the plane hit the Twin Towers
I'm glad I found this series and I'm glad UA-cam is around to be the platform this is on so this information isn't limited to a 1 part documentary. Great stuff.
I know this is a super old video, but I wanted to comment on them having someone from the Jonestown cult. I don't think it was all "woo, someone from the jonestown cult, where people died, this is awesome" it was more that I think the producers (or something on the show) was genuinely concerned that kids might be sucked into a cult, and they wanted to show how cults can be seductive when you're looking for something to be a part of (a lot like gangs in the 80's and 90's), and how badly they can go wrong when you're stuck in groupthink and hero worship of the cult leader. If Columbus/America goes bananas had been on the air a decade earlier, they might've had Linda Kasabian, of the Manson Family, on, for the same reason. It strikes me as *very* 1980's in it's concern about cults, and the like (remember the satanic panic?) Also, wow at that PTA lady for using an anti-Semitic slur (shylock). But this (and livewire) are really great episodes, particularly as I believe talk shows give a interesting look at issues and things people cared about at the time.
So pretty similar to the first season of its cousin to the north that I would say influinced the channel more than any other show in its history, YCDTOTV
Small, belated correction: at 3:22, that's Bob Braun, a Cincinnati-based host who was syndicated, but only within the region (Dayton, Columbus, and the like).
RIP Tony Dow...though he didn't get the hosting gig on CGB, Michael Young's story about what a "mensch" he was during the auditions is pretty much the general consensus among everyone that knew Tony (described by family/friends as one of the nicest people in Hollywood who never had an unkind word to say about anyone).
Of some interest, a full episode of America Goes Bananaz can be watched at these links! ua-cam.com/video/UDgwI9UtNlc/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/NFURk3hEBIM/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/J6YlUR71dpA/v-deo.html Noticed they brought in Chuck Jones as one of the guests here!
10:11: Andy "F'ing" Kaufman 😆to borrow a bit from Todd in the Shadows, when he showed footage of Tupac Shakur on-stage with Kiss at the Grammys in his "Trainwreckords" episode on Hootie and the Blowfish's "Fairweather Johnson".
liking your intructions videos your been uploading @poparena providing good topics thats in the channel that was known back then and intersting details on the cast members im liking it be great though if nick today would air these again, you know how cool it be too watch this on nick how it turned too today it needs better shows like you mentioned shows pinwheel, america goes bananaz, Nickel Flicks, i can tell you i liked the old ones better my opinion on it too bad nick wouldnt want to put shows like these back on the air this kind of music is better then todays
Actually, they appeared on its precursor series Livewire around the winter of 1984 and performed 2 songs. One was the "I'm Sorry" song but I don't recall the title of the other one. They were both off of their first album.
As a person born in 1997, a lot of the Nickelodeon stuff I remember from my childhood won't come until way later. That being said, I've definitely been incredibly fascinated by Nick Knacks thus far as while I may have heard of the really early Nick stuff, a lot of it I'm learning about for the first time. Not to mention, I do like how from this series, I'll get to see an evolution of how Nick has changed over the years.
I love how much dignity this video gives the Goes Bananaz series. It really deserves it, I think.
You know you're doing something right when a girl born in 2003 who didn't even grow up watching Nickelodeon (seriously, i never watched it. I dont remember watching it once in my entire childhood) so invested in a show about it and so impatient for the next episode. This is amazing.
Idk? Like, I did a lot of research on CN, and I figured Nick would be interesting too! And I _have_ watched Nickelodeon, but not until I was older. (If you want to consider 15 older)
Kids talking about their parents' pot habits on live TV, the ABA, bubble letters everywhere, 12-minute psychedelic rock songs about Lord of the Rings? The 70s were kuh-raaaaay-zeeeeee, man.
Oh, you missed it!
Those two dudes chuckling about the tanning contest represent everything wrong with child stardom and Hollywood.
At least the show respected its audience and really knew how to reach out to teens struggling with serious issues.
Scholastic had a magazine called "Bananas" aimed specifically at a teenage audience that began publication in 1975... was "Banana" just the hippest, coolest word in the 70's? It just seems like an awfully strange coincidence.
I'm an 80's kid, but that means I was exposed to a LOT of 70's media, and yeah, bananas were a thing, as were llamas. Just bananas and llamas and Jamie Farr on every damn channel.
I live in Columbus, the Westland Mall has been dead for over 20 years now, the building is just empty.
I think they are bulldozing it. I grew up in the 70's and everyone ripped off Qube premium channels with a paperclip in the bottom of the key hole. It shorted out the Community channels which were free and made them the Premium, or vice versa.
I really love this series. If it weren't for these videos, I'd never have a clue any of this stuff existed.
It's interesting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is on there, he holds a huge fitness convention here in Columbus every year and there's even a statue of him downtown lol.
I would have loved to have seen the segue from the lip sync contest to a first hand account of the Jonestown.
I love Nick Knacks. At first I thought it would get boring until we got to nicktoons but this is actually pretty interesting
Nick Knacks continues to be a fascinating look into an area of pop culture history I didn't know how much I wanted to learn. Always look forward to seeing new episodes, and I'm in it for the long haul, not just waiting out until the 90's stuff I personally remember. Always well researched and often hilarious, I hope you get all the support you need to keep this series up, and hopefully you'll eventually get the size of audience you deserve. :)
These are amazing. A child of the 80's so looking forward to You Can't Do That on Television amoung other shows I remember. But these have all been great and delve into parts of the history I had never heard of before.
YCDTOTV's history is also pretty interesting in how it got off the ground as a local kids thing out of the nation's capital (Ottawa) before becoming a classic in America.
@@ChristopherSobieniak it's so interesting setting how many entertainmemt concepts get proven in Canada before heading South and East (or West).
Wow. CGB looks like it would've been completely at home on early 90s MTV.
This is easily one of the top shows on UA-cam. Glad I discovered it
Good episode, as always...also, Burt Dubrow's claim that he left Springer before it became a "human circus" is correct, as said format was actually introduced by Dubrow's successor Richard Dominick, in an attempt to save the series from imminent cancellation if its ratings didn't improve (during Dubrow's tenure, TJSS was more akin to Donahue).
American Bandstand: "white kids dancing to popular music"
That used to come on right after the Saturday morning cartoons. So for years I automatically hated it and did not see the point of it.
Many years later when I had reached puberty, there was a similar show on the USA network called "Dance Party USA".
I have many fond memories of "Princess" and Jennifer" RAAAAWR! On that show. Many years later they included younger
dancing kids for the tweens such as "Oceana" and Jimmy-Jam!" It came on at 4 PM every afternoon. Just in time to catch it after school.
On a side note, I love these Nick-Knacks!
holy poop its andy kaufman and arnie! this is the best nickoldean show!
9:50 Knowing how fervently he still performs and commands people to Twist, this clip of Chubby Checker already doing the legacy act as early as the late 1970s is simultaneously the funniest and saddest thing I've seen in a while.
Really liking the series, and hope that it gets more popular with every passing day. :)
Very nuanced insights. I think there were a few guys applauding too during the shirt-removal scene.
This show actually looks pretty fucking great! Too bad it ended up bombing when released nationally.
Minor correction linear note: American Bandstand actually ran from 1952-1989. You have it captioned 1952-1980. I used to watch the show in the 1980’s in the afternoon.
I have to confess. I've never seen America's Gone Bananas before. Looking back at all the clips provided in this episode definitely proves the fact that this could have been a precursor to another youth oriented talk show, Livewire which I was more familiar with and has seen most of its run. And I do remember seeing Kids Are People Too on Sunday mornings before we got cable in 1982 which was when I discovered Nickelodeon as well and much of the programs that were on at the time. By then, AGB was long pink-slipped but like a lot of long time fans especially in the Columbus, Ohio circuit, not completely forgotten. Oh, by the way, Livewire would later be the inspiration of other talk related shows like Don't Just Sit There and All That. But it was AGB that may have put Livewire on the map and proven to be one of Nickelodeon's life savers, never leaving the top 7 at its cancellation in the mid 1980s.
Praying for Kaiden and his family and friends and you. I hope they and you feel better and recover soon. I hope all goes well for them and you with your channel. I wish them the very best of luck and you. God bless them and you my friend. God loves them and you.
Anyone else notice the guy in the audience filming Arnold Schwarzenegger taking his shirt off?
I remember Nickelodeon was the only channel to air their regularly scheduled program on 9/11
I remember someone who didn't want to watch Nick at their daycare had the tv switched to the news. And that's how all the kids saw the plane hit the Twin Towers
RIP Westland Mall. I mean, you closed years ago, but still...I remember you well :'(
I like to think losing the Columbus City Center downtown was a bigger shame.
@@ChristopherSobieniak It had terrible placement downtown, great concept though.
@@Clay3613 It was a nice try you could say, linking to the already-established Lazarus flagship next door.
THIS WAS SO ENTERTAINING! new subscriber 🎉
I'm glad I found this series and I'm glad UA-cam is around to be the platform this is on so this information isn't limited to a 1 part documentary. Great stuff.
If I would have been a teen in that time I probably would have watched Bananas because it looks pretty good
In my opinion, American television has never STOPPED "Going Bananaz".
This is the most '70s thing I've ever seen.
I know this is a super old video, but I wanted to comment on them having someone from the Jonestown cult. I don't think it was all "woo, someone from the jonestown cult, where people died, this is awesome" it was more that I think the producers (or something on the show) was genuinely concerned that kids might be sucked into a cult, and they wanted to show how cults can be seductive when you're looking for something to be a part of (a lot like gangs in the 80's and 90's), and how badly they can go wrong when you're stuck in groupthink and hero worship of the cult leader. If Columbus/America goes bananas had been on the air a decade earlier, they might've had Linda Kasabian, of the Manson Family, on, for the same reason. It strikes me as *very* 1980's in it's concern about cults, and the like (remember the satanic panic?) Also, wow at that PTA lady for using an anti-Semitic slur (shylock). But this (and livewire) are really great episodes, particularly as I believe talk shows give a interesting look at issues and things people cared about at the time.
So pretty similar to the first season of its cousin to the north that I would say influinced the channel more than any other show in its history, YCDTOTV
Knick Nacks is awesome. Learning so much.
Small, belated correction: at 3:22, that's Bob Braun, a Cincinnati-based host who was syndicated, but only within the region (Dayton, Columbus, and the like).
Excellent work as always. Absolutely incredible analysis.
love this! I am watching every one and am so excited when my phone tells me you have posted something new! :-D keep up the great work man!
RIP Tony Dow...though he didn't get the hosting gig on CGB, Michael Young's story about what a "mensch" he was during the auditions is pretty much the general consensus among everyone that knew Tony (described by family/friends as one of the nicest people in Hollywood who never had an unkind word to say about anyone).
It's truly interesting. I wish I could have been a star on Nick. I'm 2 hours away from Orlando. I truly wanted to be in All That.
Closing theme from "America Goes Bananaz" was "Going Bananas" by Side Effect. (Video available on UA-cam.)
A great and fastening series. Keep up the great work.
I remember watching this, on Nickelodeon.
I haven’t seen this show before my dad told me he didn’t have cable in 1979 he said he saw fat Albert at the time 😉
Is that a Riichiro Manabe piece playing at the 4:30ish mark? Damn good choice.
Isn't Lip Sync Battle Stephen Merchant's idea?
Nick knacks is amazing.
Of some interest, a full episode of America Goes Bananaz can be watched at these links!
ua-cam.com/video/UDgwI9UtNlc/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/NFURk3hEBIM/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/J6YlUR71dpA/v-deo.html
Noticed they brought in Chuck Jones as one of the guests here!
Who were the people before Arnold Schwartzenegger?
Andy Kaufman
10:11: Andy "F'ing" Kaufman 😆to borrow a bit from Todd in the Shadows, when he showed footage of Tupac Shakur on-stage with Kiss at the Grammys in his "Trainwreckords" episode on Hootie and the Blowfish's "Fairweather Johnson".
Remember Alf? He's back! In talk show form!
Randy Hamilton seems very annoying.
I think I remember an early appearance of REM
liking your intructions videos your been uploading @poparena providing good topics thats in the channel that was known back then and intersting details on the cast members im liking it be great though if nick today would air these again, you know how cool it be too watch this on nick how it turned too today it needs better shows like you mentioned shows pinwheel, america goes bananaz, Nickel Flicks, i can tell you i liked the old ones better my opinion on it
too bad nick wouldnt want to put shows like these back on the air this kind of music is better then todays
Nick was the best in the late 80s and early 90s. It's not worth a shit anymore
I liked Randy Hamilton, often wondered what happened to him.
When do you think episode 5 will come out?
It'll be the next one, ducks are finally getting in order.
poparena I can't wait I'm very curious
Just like being a kid again and your parents just got cable!
I consider that this show should be revived by Nick.
No mention of Madalyn Murray's grisly fate?
Wasnt an early appearance of REM on this show?
Actually, they appeared on its precursor series Livewire around the winter of 1984 and performed 2 songs. One was the "I'm Sorry" song but I don't recall the title of the other one. They were both off of their first album.
24:47 ROCK🪨!!!! FREAK!!!!
Wackadoo, wackadoo, wackadoo!
Speaking of pokemon...are you playing ultra sun/moon? Who did you use as a starter? Are you into it?
I ain't got money to buy new video games, son! I got to pay bills! I'll let you know when it's a seven dollar budget title at Target in eight years.
poparena if i start patreoning you you have to at least get sun or moon eventually :) you'd love it.
HAHA!
Nick nacks is good
What's that song a the end?
Disco Nights by G.Q. it was a hit in 1979.
Thanks