Nickelodeon (1977-2008)

Nickelodeon is an American pay television channel which was first tested in December 1, 1977, before launching nationwide on April 1, 1979, as the first children’s cable TV channel.

Why It Used to Be The Great "Nick Nick Nick"

 * 1) Children's television programming in its purest form.
 * 2) It was the very first major kids' TV network, that was launched in 1979, ten years of the success and the launch of the world's number one preschool TV program, Sesame Street.
 * 3) It has many ironic and good shows (especially the Nicktoons and Nick Jr.) that were never seen before (see notably good pieces of media section for TV shows).
 * 4) Its catchy iconic jingle.
 * 5) *At the beginning of each Nickelodeon-related VHS tape during the '90s, the remixed version of its jingle, will make the Nickelodeon theme song catchier than this.
 * 6) With the success of being "the first kids' network", Nickelodeon amazingly received magazines, audio CDs, audio cassettes, video games, clothing, comic books, theme parks, merchandises and of course, the theatrical feature films.
 * 7) The 1981, 1984 and the current 2009 logos are impressive. But the best logos in this network are the splat and lightbulb, who are considered the most fan-favourite for fans alike.
 * 8) At Universal Studios Florida, Nickelodeon had a Nicktoons-themed simulator ride, Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast, which was replaced by Despicable Me Minion Mayhem in 2011, since Despicable Me became an instant success in 2010.
 * 9) It had its original game shows, starting with Double Dare in the Halloween of 1986 (not to be confused with the short-lived 1976-77 CBS game show with the same name).
 * 10) It had its Nick-exclusive slapstick-style sitcoms, including Hey Dude, Kenan & Kel, Welcome Freshmen, Clarissa Explains It All, iCarly, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Drake & Josh and All That.
 * 11) Back then, it preferred quality over quantity, as it actually cared about its viewers and didn't just air SpongeBob reruns.
 * 12) It had lots of iconic bumpers, most notably the beloved “Not just cartoons.. we’re NickToons!” song bumper.
 * 13) Many of its shows spawned popular internet memes, and the network embraced it by making wonderful meme-based SpongeBob toys.
 * 14) It introduced the animation studio company for this network, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, who has created many original television programs for Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. and created most theatrical films that are distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by Nickelodeon Movies.
 * 15) It had its very own television-taping company, Nickelodeon Studios, which was doubles as the original family attraction at Universal Studios Florida, but sadly it was closed on April 30, 2005.
 * 16) It had its very own website that was launched in 1996.
 * 17) The network's international versions were good.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Since 2009, Nickelodeon had officially lost its charm and hasn’t fully recovered since.
 * 2) *2005-2008, while not terrible, are generally considered to be the weakest of the channel's good years, since the quality started to decline due to having some bad shows during those years (Blue's Room, Tak and the Power of Juju, The Mighty B!, Mr. Meaty, and The Naked Brothers Band), Cyma Zarghami being the president from 2006-2018, SpongeBob going downhill in 2008 (though it thankfully recovered since 2012 and to a greater extend, 2015), and having tons of problems that have become the norm since 2009.
 * 3) Starting around 2013, they clearly started trying to act cool, modern, and hip with kids by throwing in memes that never got that much attention anymore. All their attempts often failed so much because of how unfunny and cringe-inducing those attempts really are. They do this for no reason.
 * 4) The network has aired many bad/average/neutral shows or bad/average/neutral seasons of good shows, such as:
 * 5) The second season of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
 * 6) mh:terribletvshows:The Brothers Flub
 * 7) Play with Me Sesame
 * 8) Max & Ruby
 * 9) mh:mixedtvshows:Blue's Room
 * 10) The last two seasons of Blue's Clues
 * 11) Kids' Choice Awards (2003-2007, 2009-present)
 * 12) mh:terribletvshows:Peppa Pig (although it was produced under their UK counterpart and aired on Cartoon Network first in 2005)
 * 13) Just for Kicks
 * 14) mh:terribletvshows:Mr. Meaty
 * 15) mh:terribletvshows:The Naked Brothers Band
 * 16) The third season of Danny Phantom
 * 17) mh:terribletvshows:Wayside
 * 18) mh:terribletvshows:Tak and the Power of Juju
 * 19) mh:terribletvshows:The Mighty B!
 * 20) The first three seasons of Henry Danger
 * 21) mh:terribletvshows:Awesomeness TV
 * 22) mh:terribletvshows:Nick Studio 10
 * 23) mh:terribletvshows:Talia in The Kitchen
 * 24) mh:terribletvshows:The Thundermans
 * 25) mh:terribletvshows:Pig Goat Banana Cricket
 * 26) mh:terribletvshows:Wild Grinders
 * 27) mh:terribletvshows:School of Rock
 * 28) mh:terribletvshows:Planet Sheen
 * 29) The first season of Sanjay and Craig
 * 30) mh:terribletvshows:Danger Force
 * 31) mh:terribletvshows:Cousins for Life
 * 32) Star Falls
 * 33) mh:terribletvshows:Glenn Martin, DDS
 * 34) mh:terribletvshows:Unfiltered
 * 35) mh:terribletvshows:The Adventures of Kid Danger
 * 36) mh:terribletvshows:Tyler Perry's Young Dylan
 * 37) The last three seasons of the 1991 version of Rugrats
 * 38) The last three seasons of The Ren & Stimpy Show
 * 39) mh:terribletvshows:Ollie's Pack
 * 40) The network also had some awful and/or average films like:
 * 41) mh:awfulmovies:The Last Airbender (the most infamous example)
 * 42) mh:awfulmovies:Barnyard (Depending on your view, despite being a huge box office hit and cult movie)
 * 43) The Fred movie trilogy
 * 44) mh:awfulmovies:Imagine That
 * 45) mh:awfulmovies:A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!
 * 46) mh:awfulmovies:Spectacular!
 * 47) mh:awfulmovies:Hey Arnold! The Movie
 * 48) mh:awfulmovies:Rugrats Go Wild
 * 49) mh:awfulmovies:Playing with Fire
 * 50) mh:awfulmovies:Wonder Park
 * 51) mh:awfulmovies:Fun Size
 * 52) mh:awfulmovies:Harriet the Spy
 * 53) mh:awfulmovies:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
 * 54) mh:awfulmovies:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
 * 55) Cyma Zarghami, the former president of Nickelodeon from 2006-2018, was pretty bad at doing her job as president.
 * 56) Nickelodeon Japan was shut down due to declining viewership from that country on September 30, 2009, and was not heard from again until January 2018 when Nickelodeon became a paid subscription for the Japanese market.
 * 57) The new Nickelodeon logo, while not bad, does not have the same uniqueness or sense of charm that the original splat logo had. Many fans have actually created petitions in attempts to bring back the splat logo.
 * 58) Even before the dark age, they made some bad decisions like:
 * 59) Closing down Nickelodeon Studios in 2005.
 * 60) Adding a segment to the end of later Blue's Clues episodes called Blue's Room in 2004 and later spinning it off into its own show.
 * 61) Both Nickelodeon and its parent company, Paramount often rely too much on their streaming service, Paramount+. As they make the platform the only way to watch classic Nickelodeon shows legally:
 * 62) On January 31st, 2022, they discontinued NickRewind on TeenNick. Thus, making it a 24-hour channel. As the block was demoted nothing but Rugrats.
 * 63) On Pluto TV, they stopped airing classic Nickelodeon shows. It suffered the same fate as NickRewind as the only classic Nickelodeon show they aired was Rugrats.
 * 64) Paramount also decided not to renew its contract with Hulu to stream Nickelodeon content.

Movies

 * 1) mh:greatestmovies:The Adventures of Tintin
 * 2) mh:greatestmovies:Dora and the Lost City Of Gold
 * 3) mh:greatestmovies:Rango
 * 4) mh:greatestmovies:Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
 * 5) mh:greatestmovies:The Rugrats Movie
 * 6) mh:greatestmovies:Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
 * 7) mh:greatestmovies:The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
 * 8) mh:greatestmovies:The Wild Thornberrys Movie
 * 9) mh:greatestmovies:The Spiderwick Chronicles
 * 10) mh:greatestmovies:Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
 * 11) mh:greatestmovies:Paw Patrol: The Movie (despite copyright owned by Spin Master Entertainment)

TV shows

 * 1) The first four seasons of Doug
 * 2) The first six seasons and the revival of Rugrats
 * 3) The first two seasons of The Ren and Stimpy Show
 * 4) Rocko's Modern Life
 * 5) Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
 * 6) Hey Arnold!
 * 7) The first two seasons of KaBlam!
 * 8) The Angry Beavers
 * 9) CatDog
 * 10) The Wild Thornberrys
 * 11) The first 5 seasons and season 9 onwards of SpongeBob SquarePants
 * 12) Rocket Power
 * 13) As Told by Ginger
 * 14) Invader Zim
 * 15) The first 8 seasons of The Fairly OddParents
 * 16) ChalkZone
 * 17) The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
 * 18) All Grown Up!
 * 19) My Life as a Teenage Robot
 * 20) The first two seasons of Danny Phantom
 * 21) The Backyardigans
 * 22) Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * 23) Catscratch
 * 24) The X's
 * 25) Back at the Barnyard (which is considered an improvement over Barnyard)
 * 26) El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
 * 27) The Penguins of Madagascar
 * 28) Team Umizoomi
 * 29) T.U.F.F. Puppy
 * 30) Bubble Guppies
 * 31) Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * 32) Double Dare
 * 33) LazyTown
 * 34) Blaze and the Monster Machines
 * 35) Franklin (original)
 * 36) Nick Arcade
 * 37) The first four seasons of Blue's Clues
 * 38) The first four seasons of Dora the Explorer
 * 39) Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
 * 40) Go, Diego, Go!
 * 41) The first season of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
 * 42) Paw Patrol (despite not owning the copyrighted)
 * 43) The first three seasons of The Loud House

Network blocks

 * 1) Noggin - Its 24-hour educational programming channel.
 * 2) *During its first four years, it was joint venture between Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop, as a network aimed to pre-teens, despite being aired less preschool-oriented shows, including the classical episodes of Sesame Street.
 * 3) *On April Fools' Day of 2002, due to its surprisingly low ratings, it quickly shifted its target demographic to preschool audience, this time at 6am to 6pm, while the nighttime block, The N, aired music videos, sitcoms, game shows, teen dramas and some Nicktoons, especially The Ren and Stimpy Show, towards to Nickelodeon's primarily-aimed audience.
 * 4) *On New Year's Eve of 2007, Noggin and The N split into both 24-hour channels.
 * 5) *In 2009, Noggin became the 24-hour Nick Jr. channel, while The N discontinued and TeenNick was revived as a 24-hour channel.
 * 6) Nick Jr. - A preschool-oriented weekday-morning block.
 * 7) *In 2009, Nick Jr. spawned into a 24-hour network of the same name.
 * 8) Teenick - Its teen-oriented weekend-evening block.
 * 9) * The block shortly revived as a 24-hour network in 2009.
 * 10) From the early to mid-2000s, it spawned a CBS programming block, which was aired only on Saturday mornings.
 * 11) SNICK - A network where Nickelodeon aired primetime shows for the first time.
 * 12) Nick@Nite - Its adult-oriented programming block, which aired most of the recent adult sitcoms.
 * 13) *Nick@Nite originally aired reruns of the most popular TV programs of the 1950s, the 1960s and the 1970s, marked as "the world's very first all-classic-TV network"
 * 14) NickRewind - Its brand of the shows that Nickelodeon formerly aired.

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