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12/19/2003 Archived Entry: "YCDTOTV and oh those Canadian shows"

I first have to say that I can't STOP reading The Girl Who Played Go. Such short chapters and intruiging because since it is a historical story somewhat and is set in China in the 1930's, I know a little bit of what went on back then. I can understand what they were going through. In my Jr. Year, I took the History of Modern China. Such an excellent class and I learned so much about the country that wasn't even opened up to the world until the 1970's with the help of Nixon no less. So I'm totally feeling the book. I mean so far, it really isn't one of the best books I've read but it does make you keep reading.

So anyway, what I wanted to write here was how much I missed Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel when they played these old Canadian T.V. shows often. They were great because most, if not all of the time, U.S. TV programs never at all have that "interesting" factor to it. Most of the time, they're corny and they cast Hillary Duff in it (I swear to god that girl is 26 and not 16). I LOVED the old You Can't Do that on Television reruns. I watched it everyday or every weekened or whenever it was on. This was the TV show that invented Nickelodeon's trademark green slime and not many even know that. That show so damn funny. The firing squad, guys dressing as girls, a chef that farts and burps on his own burgers, kids that barf. Ah it was lewd but it was a kids show and it was just out there and just plain weird. I loved it.

Nick also played the old Degrassi Jr. High reruns when I was little. It was so old, they still wore the ugly 80's fashion but I LOVED shows like that. I still do. American television NEVER ever show the real life of kids. I mean what do we have here? Dawson's Creek? That is NOT a realistic portrayal of kids or teens, in my opinion. To some it may be but to me, especially my background I felt that nothing about it applied to me at all. But those shows that I would watch when I was little they were real. I felt they were real. How many times to I have to say that?

Degrassi Jr. High, You can't Do that on television, Ready or Not, and Salute Your Shorts (We were so going to make that a Yume layout if we didn't close). God I loved them. I wished they would make more shows like that. It's nice to reminisce.

Kevin "Ug" Lee (get is nick?) was funny. Donkey Lips, Sponge, Budnick, Telly... Nickelodeon just isn't the same anymore.

I am so getting old. I mean, I still remember Double Dare, Mr. Wizard's World and Pinwheel and Jem. Ah... The good old days