It’s pretty lame but one of my regrets in life is having not been a part of these Nickelodeon game shows as a kid. Growing up in Orlando they filmed a lot of the shows in Universal Studios back when they still had Nickelodeon Studios with the green gack fountain outside. Now that building looks totally different and is where they currently hold Blue Man Group shows. How times have a-changed.
As a child, I recall watching TV and seeing people wearing red and blue jumpsuits sliding down from a giant mouth and diving into a giant ice cream sundae just to grab an orange flag and thought: why can’t my family be doing this??? Why can’t I get to play Sonic the Hedgehog for points and then stand in front of a greenscreen and duck imaginary floating Medusa heads?! When will I get to put on moon shoes and pop balloons filled with SHAVING CREAM???
It would have been rad to don a Blue Barracudas t-shirt and assemble the shit out of the shrine of the Silver Monkey. Maybe even have met Melissa Joan Hart or Cuba Gooding’s brother. Could’ve watched Kenan Thompson before he became “the token” on SNL, or Kel Mitchell before he starred in the vastly underrated Mystery Men.
Oh all the childhood memories that could have been.
On hindsight, I guess I never bugged my parents enough. Alas the Aggro Crag, we were not meant to be.
