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- Nickelodeon's biggest original show of 1985, Turkey Television saw original shorts from the cast and crew of You Can't Do That On Television, comedy from around the world, stand-up routines and weird music videos! That sounds neat, right? So why isn't it so well remembered?
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This was, no shit, my favorite show not called Transformers when I was 8. It's how I discovered Charlie Chaplin (because my mom told me who he was), Weird Al, Dana Carvey, Yakov Smirnoff, Uncle Floyd and "Hardware Wars". Hell, it was my intro to the concept of stand-up comedy. They got away with some crazy stuff (one of the Argentine cartoons was about a flasher who women laughed at, and they ran the Carvey "just as good dammit" bit uncut). Strong memories of the school admins, Vance Vain, the silent films, and various comedians doing their impression of a turkey.
I think the longer non-music bits were left out of the 30m version, as there were definitely some long ones in the 60m version. It absolutely would not hold up for grown me, but it was perfect for an ADHD-as-fuck 3rd grader.
Zach Adams This, not SNL, introduced me to Dana Carvey. Didn’t much care for the Choppin’ Broccoli bit, but there was another bit where he is impersonating Paul McCartney that had me guffawing.
@@chrislang9442 my favorite bit from this special, which also ran on Turkey TV, was him talking about his cheapskate dad refusing to buy Halloween costumes ("just make faces") or fireworks (he shone a flashlight at them and yelled "JUST AS GOOD!")
That's how Turkey Television was to me as well back then.
Hardware Wars! I forgot all about that! Also I just wanted to say I loved this show too. I probably wouldn't care for it as an adult, but 10-year-old-me loved it in 1986.
@@Launchpad05 I think for me it was The Disney Channel too, they were playing a good number of his films on there at the time too! I also had a tape of The Gold Rush I used to play as well, though it was a terrible silent copy with organ score.
A young Bill Paxton not only directed the Fish Heads video (the band is Barnes and Barnes), he is also the main (non-fish head) actor in the video.
OH WOW! I suddenly had a TOTAL RECALL watching the GUY EATING SANDWICHES short...I REMEMBER THAT!!
Turkey TV was where I first saw Dana Carvey before he joined SNL. I remember seeing his first episode and saying, "That's the guy from Turkey TV!!!"
YES! Choppin’ broccoli….
I believe it's where I first saw Sinbad doing stand-up.... but I'm not sure.
@@mickymoist Probably. Sinbad is a clean comic and they seemed to featured on there. Norm Macdonald told a funny story about working with Sinbad in Canada worth checking out.
I just love how Geraldine Laybourne's response to Turkey TV just always seems to be "please do not talk to me about this regrettable experience."
It was exactly the kind of insane nonsense you hoped you'd find while you were screwing around with the remote to your uncle's satellite dish without permission.
Again, the amount of information you can find on the production of some of the most obscure shows on Nickelodeon is remarkable. Really cool Nick Nack this time.
Barnes and Barnes' Fish Heads! God, this brings back so many memories of Dr. Demento.
Oh, if you don't know what I'm talking about, "The Dr. Demento Show" was a radio show in the California area that went country wide and is now in a podcast format, and brought us Weird Al Yankovic.
Don't forget Commander Cody's "Two Triple Cheese"! th-cam.com/video/E0hwTrNkJCg/w-d-xo.html
That "Chop'n Broccoli" bit will still be funny in 100 years.
Foreva
Now I just want a duet between Dana Carvey & Jack Black!
I love TH-cam for this. This was one of my shows as a kid.
This was one of my favorite shows as a kid. Thank you SO MUCH for this.
I was 10 years old in the summer of 85 and I absolutely LOVED this show!!! I went to day camp and had to tape it and all the guys at camp taped it too and we could not wait to get home and watch it and would discuss it the next day, rolling on the ground laughing. It was unpolished, raw, idiotic, random, irreverent and fun! Loved the turkey pop ups and the turkey-pilgrim hunting animation. Also loved Super Guy-interesting to learn they were created by the same people. Who hated Turkey Television? PARENTS! My parents were terrified that I loved the show and couldn’t get enough! Surprised Nickelodeon considers this a bomb, but I do think it appealed more to pre teen boys, than girls. Thank you for covering it. I found the history fascinating.
Those fish head signers sound like chipmunks so...which chipmunk is getting the best fish head?
Spongey444 The band’s name is actually Barnes and Barnes. The song would actually be one of the most requested songs on “The Dr. Demento Show”. In case you never heard of it, it’s a radio show that only played novelty songs.
Chris Lang It was released as a single in 1981, but I remember when that song was first heard, I thought it was Alvin & the Chipmunks. I had it on an old cassette tape from the 1980’s along with some novelty song heard on WBAI in 1985 called “Being Crazy” with Dennis Coleman.
I low-key really like the fish heads song.
I love that Bill Paxton directed that video
Fish heads fish heads
Rolly Polly Fish heads
Eat em up yum yum
I have no recollection of Turkey TV but I do remember that Fish Heads song being a thing in my youth. That was likely through other channels.
hell yea...me and my friends stumbled across the fish heads song as 13 year olds in 2000 and thought it was hysterical. We still quote it from time to time to this day. I TOOK A FISH HEAD OUT TO SEE A MOVIE, DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY TO GET..IT..IN!!!!!
ROLY POLY FISH HEADS ARE NEVER SEEN DRINKING CAPPUCCINO IN ITALIAN RESTAURANTS WITH ORIENTAL WOMEN! YEAH!
You have excellent taste, sir.
Thank you! I’ve been waiting for this one. No one remembers this show but me.
Me! I remember hahaha.. I never ever forgot Turkey tv
All I remember about Turkey TV was the theme song, because it was my cue to change the channel to anything else.
Also, that Fish Heads video was directed by Bill Paxton (RIP).
The song's fine. It's everything that came after it that was worth skipping.
Does anyone remember something called, "The Nick-At-Nite Club"? It wasn't a real show, just a clip of a stand-up comedian that was shown during the commercials when Nick-at-Nite first came on the air in 1988 or 1989, and they would show a sign called, "The Nick-at-Night Club". I loved the show, Mad Movies, too!
One thing that really made me mad, though, was that with the cable system that my family and I had, it was Nickelodeon in the daytime and Arts & Entertainment after 8pm. They would show a few seconds of the Nick-At-Nite show (which was Donna Reed, by the way), then switch it over to A&E. I can still remember when they changed it over to Nick-at-Nite, but not the exact year: I was watching Double Dare at the time, and saw the crawl on the bottom of the screen. At first, we had that old dinosaur, the Jerrold cable box, but then we got a remote control.
Good part about it, though, was they showed a really good serial, The Invisible Man; I have that on dvd now.
One cable channel having to share with two is still going on, though. WLJC-TV Beattyville, KY with religious programming and Cozi-TV, which comes in on channel 19 in my area.
I remember all of that stuff, right down to the ancient cable box with a dial! Nickelodeon was channel 21 where I lived, and it also split with A&E a few minutes after 8pm. I was maybe 10-11 years old or so when Nick at Nite became a thing, and I too remember it getting cut off a few minutes into Donna Reed to switch over the the A&E network. Eventually it got it's own channel and I could enjoy gems like "Car 54 Where are You?", Mr. Ed, My Three Sons, etc. on Nick at Nite.
I remember when my dad first got the cable box. It was such a big deal. We went from 12 channels to the unbelievable number of 21 channels. Wow! The dial in the box went up to 36, but the highest channel available was 25, of which we got 21 (the premium networks were "scrambled"). I remember thinking how crazy it would be to someday use all the channels on that dial. And here we are some 30 years later and we have over a thousand channels of complete garbage.
Whoa.... throw back!!!
I personally loved Turkey TV! Of course until about a year ago I thought it was some fevered dream from my childhood.
Haha! When I found TH-cam, that was me about fishheads! I was like wow.. so it was a thing!
I was still pretty young when this aired, but watching this fantastic series has unearthed a lot of memories, and I really have a new appreciation for the absurdist humor Nick brought to the table. It was a gateway for me to stuff like Monty Python, and as a teenager, MST3K (needless to say, I got a huge kick out of seeing Joel turn up on "Out of Control.")
@@matthewdaley746 It's actually appearing on stuff like that that in part ended up making him abandon his comedy career in LA and return to Minnesota, where he made MST3K.
I want to offer a weak defense of this show. I can understand why Geri Laybourne was unhappy with it. But as a ten year old human in 1986, I loved the shit out of it. It wasn't all good, I agree. I'd say the segments failed more frequently than they landed. But there was still enough good content in this show to keep me watching. Most especially things like that music video you offhandedly made fun of - Commander Cody "Two Triple Cheese" is an absolute all time great video and it was very appropriate for a Nickelodeon audience circa 1986. My sister and I used to sing that song all the time! But yeah I can see how doing a "Night Flight but for kids" show (side note, Night Flight was another show I have very fond memories of) was a problem from a production standpoint. Maybe I just liked it because there wasn't a whole lot of TV for kids in 1986, so spending my afternoons watching this show I just didn't know any better. Anyway, to anyone reading this you owe it to yourself to watch that Commander Cody music video - th-cam.com/video/E0hwTrNkJCg/w-d-xo.html
I loved Two Triple Cheese Side Order of Fries! I wanted a "What the hell is Detroit?" shirt!
@Cornelius Esperanza Thanks, I suppose I was one word off but I liked what it said.
I was hoping you’d find a “Day In The Life Of A Food” sketch or more info about the European sketch shows like “Nuts” that provided content, but you appear to have hit the same research dead end I did when I started looking for more footage of this show for my own reasons. Oh well.
You can watch "Nuts" here! tv.nrk.no/serie/montreux/1982/FUHA00009382/avspiller
@@matthewdaley746 Good!
I can't find ANYbody else that even remembers a "Day In The Life of A Food"!!! I was beginning to think I had imagined it! I have been hunting clips from that since I was a teenager!
@@Dixie_Belle It was a sketch from Uncle Floyd.
I have not thought of that phrase the way it was said on the show in 30 years, but there it is again immediately. Damn. Now I am desperate for it too
Nick at Nite next time!!! So excited!
That being said, Turkey TV.... I only remember the half hour version (I think even as a kid, I would be looking for a gun at an HOUR), but I remember a few sketches, but nothing earth shattering. Especially thrilled we got the original opening here as I remember only the later opening, right around the same time episodes were shown (or exiled) to Nick at Nite.
It was a show. It existed. I remember it. Let’s move on. Except to admit I sang along to Fish Heads. Knew the song thanks to Dr. Demento.
Thank you for this! I vaguely remember Turkey TV. I thought of it as a sort of crappy, low-rent version of YCDTOTV. I watched it, but I didn't love it. It's not YCDTOTV, Pinwheel, Belle and Sebastien, or MCOG. It's not the Nickelodeon that I remember fondly, nor even the Nickelodeon that I vaguely remember and would love to see again, but it's nice to remember it a little more.
I love TH-cam….
Whenever some random piece of my childhood pops into my mind, I’m able to find out why.
Fish Heads? Ah, memories of Night Flights. Man . . . I wish I had the guts to "Nick Flicks" '80s USA, before Monk brought in the Blue Sky era. Memories.
I would so watch that!
Cable was in its literal infancy when this show came out and yep, they were throwing all the spaghetti at the wall to see what would stick...but us kids ate it up and we liked it. It was def quirky but witty and weird and fun for after school. Some clips seemed just for adults but they didn't try to dumb it down, and they also got away with a lot more because it was several years before TV audience age-ratings were even a thing. I also think they were trying to be unique by pulling in imported cartoons and old Chaplin/silent film stuff, because those were hard to find back then.
fish heads could be a meme goldmine. I suggest you cash in.
I heard more of that song than I ever wanted to when I was a kid.
Appropriate this episode came out on Thanksgiving season.
That fish heads song is surprisingly catchy.
We had Nickelodeon around 1985 at our home so I indeed watched Turkey TV quite a bit. It held my interest most of the time whenever it was on, feeling like something sophisticated (or, sophisticated for KIDS) I could watch in the daytime since I was rarely allowed to stay awake during Best Of SNL and Second City on Nick At Nite (no one believes me when I say Ed Grimley was a hit with five-eight year olds in the 80s.)
Turkey TV was very enjoyable for kids like me though that enjoyed old films, foreign films, and chaotic "punk" skits. Looking back, it was quite a slapdash show, quite uneven, but there wasn't really anything else like it on tv at the time, certainly not kid's tv.
ONE MORE THING: I grew up in the deep inner cities of South Jersey just on the border to Philadelphia in the 80s, and I watched Uncle Floyd new jersey public access, so it was always weird to see him break into cable tv as I knew him as a local figure.
You must've grown up not far from me! (Cherry Hill, NJ. My folks used to turn on the NJ Lottery, and Uncle Floyd was on just before that, so I often caught the tail-end.)
@@jenniferschillig3768 South Jersey/Philly area friends! HIGH FIVE!
@@anactualmotherbear I'm from Central NJ, and could get Uncle Floyd on U-68, snd when we first got cable we could see Channel 17 (The Great Entertainer) and 48 (RIP.) So I learned about places like Robbins 8th & Walnut.
@@NJGuy1973 us Uncle Floyd fans are a diminishing breed.
God I love Nick and MTV during 1984-1988
Matthew Daley What did NickToons do to you?
Matthew Daley Hard disagree but ok
I grew up on Nick's shows of the 80's, and found this channel desperately searching for Turkey TV bits! This show was awesome, perfect for my ADHD, and introduced my ten year old self to a LOT of weird things that I still fondly recall today (I need to find a clip of the Hap Hazard intro!)... and my love for it has only grown in discovering how thoroughly lost it seems to be in Nick nostalgia. I can't wait to check out your videos on some of my other favorite Nick shows!
Turkey Television was the first time I ever saw Dana Carvey.
Ever since I first watched this I kept thinking to myself that adage of lost media preservation "if you have any old VHS tapes, never throw them out before you check what is on them," and sure enough I found a nearly-complete episode of Turkey Television when doing that with all the tapes from my parents' house. Of the whole episode it looks like only a single clip appears in this review (Adam Reid in the E.T. parody), so it was probably a standalone segment you found online. Check your family's old tapes, everybody!
God I love those weird 80's videos sketches....LOVE IT! I miss these kind of sketch comedies. I NEVER missed an episode of NIGHT FLIGHT.
wow this is great stuff. I hadn't thought about this show in a very long while. Me and my best friend back in the day watched Nick all the time, we loved You Can't Do That on Television, Double Dare, etc., of course, but for whatever reason, THIS show was our favorite, we were crazy for it. I suppose we only discovered it in its rerun era as it was definitely our perception that it didn't air very often, so when it did, it was a huge deal.
Fishheads, Monkey Man, Choppin' Broccoli, and Guy Eating Sandwich Messily??? were staples of my middle school years. Everyone knew those clips!!!
I watched this regularly after school. The pacing was such that if something you didn’t like came on, it would be over before you could blink. My fav stuff was the music videos and comedians like Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon.
It seemed like certain clips ran in multiple episodes. I must have seen “Monkey Man” and “Two Cheeseburgers Side Order of Fries” a million times. Of the original material, I liked Kevin’s E.T. Parody sketches and the Mr Bill rip-off guy.
I remember this show. I loved it. It was a favorite.
I have a memory of Turkey TV playing a clip from The Blob. But I can't figure out why they'd show a clip from a horror movie. Maybe I'm wrong.
You may be thinking of one of the clips from The Uncle Floyd Show that they aired, a recurring bit about "how to eat _____ like a slob" where he would do all kinds of weird, often disgusting gags with different foods (karate chopping a cake in half, slamming it into his face like a pie, some strange stuff with pancakes, etc.). One of these involved red Jell-O, and he re-enacted the scene from The Blob where it oozes into the movie theater, though in this case, he just smooshed the Jell-O through an air conditioning vent with his hands.
There's a show I used to watch and remember from the late 80s, maybe early 90s. I think it was on Saturday afternoons. I can't remember the name or even premise very well.
It kind of felt like news for kids but also a bit like crazy interviews with real people. I remember one woman who would yell and had a signature scream. I wouldn't be shocked if you covered it. Just found this channel. Following and looking forward to finding it (or not).
I have memories like that as well of random 80s shows. There was one in the early/mid 80s that aired very early Saturday mornings. It was like a children’s tv magazine style show, with kids interviewing other kids doing interesting things. Covering 4-H fairs and answering kids letters. It was on the local CBS channel here, just before the cartoon cycle would begin. Not a local show, I assume it was in syndication. Absolutely no one knows what I am talking about and I don’t remember the name of the show and can’t find anything about it.
Fish Heads is a song by Barnes and Barnes, one of which was Bill Mumy from Lost In Space
As someone who wasn't familiar w/ this, watching this made me very quickly root for the show. After your Night Flight comparison, I fully understand why.
Fish Heads must have given kids nightmares
We thought it was absolutely hysterical. 😅
Turkey TV was the original social media clip series!
I was 7 and loved it so much.
Barnes & Barnes' 'Fish Heads' promo was included on the Old Grey Whistle Test.
I loved this show when it was on. There was a segement "A day in the life of a food" where pieces of food would scream as they were eating. My young brain loved it. The only one I really remember was when a guy was eating walnuts and one of them laughed when the nut cracker didn't work then there was an "uh-oh" when the guy brought out a hammer.
I remember it too. As a child I would laugh hysterically at that. Good times indeed.
When I read your comment, the theme tune instantly popped into my head.
I miss that era of experimental shows that the '80s had such as Turkey TV and Night Flight (from USA Channel). I used to try to catch Turkey TV as much as possible when I was a kid. I mainly remember seeing it late night. Anyway, shows like that are probably why I mainly watch TH-cam over any other streaming site all because of the randomness of topics I can watch compared to other streaming sites.
A puppy!? Lol
Turkey TV was my introduction to absurdist comedy. I was already familiar with stand-up and other forms, but my little ADHD-ridden, autistic self loved that show. I'd like to catch up on episodes someday, if only for the memories.
Ok! I'm freaking out! I remember that stink bug short!! I would hum fish heads for years and think I made it up! Wow... this was what my mom plopped me down to watch when I was a lil kid. Damn, this tickled parts of my memories!
Fantastic, insightful work as per always!
These little oddball failures I find more fascinating than some of the more well remembered properties. I do remember this show (not well I was 5 or 6), and I remember thinking the same that I thought about out of control: that it was loud, kind of gross, and not all that funny. Even watching the clips now, they seem more schitzophrenic than anything.
(I assume the next in house production is Double Dare- so id say they learned their lesson pretty quick)
jbanks979 I think Rated K came after Double Dare, and they screwed up on that one.
Matthew Daley The concept was fine, and I really enjoyed the early episodes. Even though they got steamrolled when they invited Siskel and Ebert, they still looked like they had a good time. The “jump the shark” moment occurred afterward, when they started incorporating comedy skits with the critics in between the movie reviews. This made no sense: were they “Rated K” or “YCDTOT”? Also, losing all four original critics for that sealed its fate.
Turkey TV was definitely a lost classic for me, but wasn't well remembered. I also recall in a TV Guide article which panned it, where Ms. Laybourne admitted she knew they were in trouble just by the name alone. I loved the black and white shorts they dubbed, such as Stewed Prunes and Liver Milkshake. I also recall them adding shorts I once saw on Showtime (such as Hardware Wars). Though as you pointed out, they lacked a VJ of any kind, the first season did have some Thurman Turkey shorts, a la Roadrunner, where Thurman was outwitting a pilgrim for the most part.
Nevertheless, the reason why I suspect it was attempted was about the time in 1985, animated cartoons were fading due to syndication, and the trend was now to make packaged shows with random shorts and nonsense, due to shortened attention spans. And with YCDTOT about to enter its swan song, I suspect Nick wanted to do a spin-off but with a different format. To me, as I watched with my cousins (I was about to be a Junior in High School), I noticed while most of the shorts got their attention, the music videos, not so much.
The problem, of course, wasn't the parody songs, like the Burger One, Fish Heads (which allegedly starred Joel Hodgson from MST3K), and Ricky from Weird Al. There were some which made my cousins wonder what exactly were they watching. The first odd one I recall was one from France, where apparently the man is ranting more than he is singing, the other was an instrumental one with some guys playing a bizarre street game with fuzzy dice, golf putters, and other sports related items. Think the first season intro from Kids in the Hall, but being over several minutes long. Though interesting and too strange for MTV, VH1 or other video channels at the time, it didn't really hold any interest.
The show itself was intriguing because it was the only one which simultaneously was a hit and a miss at the same time. I recall when they even changed the intro format of the show before it went off-the-air, fading into obscurity until now. To me it was one of Nickelodeon's better attempts at producing an original series with packaged content. But sadly, it didn't really catch on like some had hoped it would, but I still loved seeing it from time to time when it did air back then.
The Liver Milkshake. It even makes sword swallowers gag. You could drink it, but you'd be smarter to use it as a floor cleaner.
The one from France = "Rock Amadour" by Gerard Blanchard
The one with bizarre street game = "K Goes Surfing" by the Question Men
Turkey TV was basically Night Flight for kids. I loved this show.
It’s a genuine surprise to learn this was a regular program. My only, very dim, memory of it airing was on Thanksgiving, so I thought it was a really weird special. The only sketch I remembered was one of the animated interstitials with the turkey & a pilgrim based around a really strained take on a “Watch - Children at Play” sign. I’m sure part of the reason for my hazy memories is the content, but I’ll bet using “turkey” to mean “something dumb” well after that slang usage had fallen out of use has apart.
TV guide did an interview with the president of Nickelodeon. When asked what was the worst show they ever produced. Turkey Television was it.
This was squarely within my era of Nick, but I have zero recollection of Turkey TV.
Me neither, I almost completely missed this and I was born in '82. I say "almost" because two things I remember are a.) it being listed in TV Guide, and b.) the dude with the Senor Wences character on his hand, which came back to me as soon as I saw the clip in this video.
Christine McGlade was also the nerdy girl.
That Monkey Man song has been etched into my brain for the past 35 years. Who sings it?
Surprised how much more I remember of this show that wasn't mentioned. The blues song by the guy dressed as a tomato, "Stayin' Alive" with meat products, many others. "Here in glorious Mother Russia, we wait for three days, in healthy outdoors... for one delicious piece of cabbage. *laughter* That's living! This is Ivan Tellalie.."
I found the music video for that song on TH-cam and I think the singer commented on that video and her real name is Pam Wilkinson although for some reason she is credited as Robin Diamondz
Heh, glad someone remembered the singing tomato guy. How about when he chased people with an oversized knife at the end?
The other clips here took me back as well: the short about the mini-flying saucer, with Tomy wind-up robots as the aliens (one got flushed down a toilet, I recall). Those wacky British hospital sketches, like the one where it's revealed that one patient had an elephant stepped on his crotch, and another where they had to deal with a pipe stuck on a patient's, uh, unspecified body part.
Also, R.I.P. Commander Cody.
Wow, Great channel! I grew up smack in the middle of this era of Nick. Really have a weird fond set of memories here.
I remember this being very much a "watch if there's nothing else to do" sort of thing. Some of the weirder stuff was interesting. But mostly it was a whole bunch of meh. The Kentucky Boys where definitely the most memorable of the regular skits.
mattamiller2002 I watched it out of obligation of “Well, it features the YCDTOTV cast, so why not?”. But I don’t think even those that have frequent SlimeCon want to talk about this dud.
That theme song and the fish heads song were oddly catchy.
I looked up both and I only somewhat question looking up the fish head one.
This show's the true turkey of Nick's lineup
One of the skits I enjoyed (not necessarily well enough to call it a "favorite" was the ones with Vance (played by Kevin Imnotevengoingtotrytospellhislastname) and his little brother. Little bro used to go to Vance with questions about girls...like how to stop being popular with them because he was still young enough to think girls were icky. Poor Vance got so jealous.
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I have many many memories of this show growing up. I had almost forgotten this show existed along side YCDTOTV.
10:30 - "Guillermo" - pronounced "Ghee-yair-mo", not "Gill-air-mo". (In Spanish, double-L is pronounced like our "y".)
I LOVED LOVED LOVED this show!! and would equally love if it was available on DVD or remastered BluRay! Sadly it’s not. Nice job on the documentary.
Uncle Hogram for Smash!
I loved TT it was just out there .....IVAN TELL A LIE
It is awesome that you dropped Nightflight as what could be the more grown-up version of Turkey TV...I am literally sitting here enjoying my subscription to the new Nightflight TV channel on my Roku.... specifically, one of "Nightflight's 'take off' on Comedy" and the random clips made me think of Turkey TV and look it up and found this video. Just a great little 'meta' moment in my own personal universe.
I vaguely remember watching this. I wasn’t sure until that “Fishheads” music video popped up.
Fish Heads by Barnes & Barnes was, in fact, played regularly on early MTV due to a lack of American artists making videos.
omg i remember fish heads. i was even singing along. I had NO IDEA where I had gotten it from.
I used to have almost EVERY episode of the first season on tape. I really wish I didn't record over those tapes. I didn't realize how hard it would be to find complete episodes all these years later. But damn, I loved this show. I wish Nickelodeon would release it on Blu-Ray or maybe put it on Netflix or Hulu. But I'm sure licensing all the material they used would cost a fortune these days. And for YEARS I've been looking for that sketch at 12:56. I vividly remember the line "I thought the croutons were a bit skimpy!" after the waiter jokes about the cook cutting off his fingertips. If you can, PLEASE post that skit!
And because of this show Fish Heads and I Wanna Be A Lifeguard gained a new generation of fans.
I have part of the sketch uploaded here: th-cam.com/video/IGoCKmnfXPg/w-d-xo.html (which may or may not have been where the clip in this video came from).
@@inthepark002 YES! That's the one! I haven't seen that sketch since probably 1986, yet somehow I remember it vividly.
OMG Fish Heads is a cult classic. LOVE IT
ROLY POLY FISH HEADS ARE NEVER SEEN DRINKING CAPPUCCINOS IN ITALIAN RESTAURANTS WITH ORIENTAL WOMEN! YEAH!
This video was worth watching not only for the 80's child nostalgia factor, but also for the 'Monkey Man' song at the end.
Charles Fleischer has had a strange career. I think he's a mathematician or something, if I remember correctly. I remember when he was on Welcome Back, Kotter. This dude pops up where you least expect him.
But unless he wins a Nobel Prize, the headline of his NY Times obituary will say "voice of Roger Rabbit."
@@NJGuy1973 "...and former Sweathog."
I loved Turkey TV. It had great humor and I don't necessarily think the mixed up skits hurt it. I loved their use of stock footage for that skit about how the military was deployed to stop an old woman from stewing prunes. I loved the skit from England about the disgusting French restaurant where the head waiter warns us about the skit - and keeps breaking the forth wall to tell us to switch off. Shows like this just introduced us to things we weren't going to see anywhere else and I think that was the nature of early Nickelodeon. It is because of Nickelodeon we learned there were countries outside our own. It expanded our horizons. I'm sorry the programmers didn't see it that way. But at least they experimented which all companies need to do especially now.
Does anyone remember a short about a guy in his house and a ufo attacks him and then he runs to the bathroom and shakes the aliens in the ufo into the toilet?
That was "Close Encounters of the Dumb Kind." You can watch it here: th-cam.com/video/8roeYo7VmdY/w-d-xo.html
I remember Turkey TV, not much about it, but I remember that I watched it, and my mom hated that. I do have vague memories of the characters on screen at the 18 minute mark.
I'm glad to have evidence that the Fishheads song and video was real and not something I make up as a kid.
I only vividly remember a turkey tv theme song that wasn’t played here, maybe it’s a short commercial.
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a couple things here rang a bell- I’d bet this was my first standup comedy too. Great stuff thanks!
That was the second theme song for the show.
You say that next time is going to be Nick At Nite, but.... Goosebumps Monthly, Greg.... at least, I assume The Barking Ghost is just around the corner.
"It was just a ruze".... best fake sick episode
Remember the European interviewer guy that always had a bloody tissue from shaving stuck to his face ? He would interview people who seemed to think it was a legit interview so I guess it was the OG Ali G.
So amazing to have this show from age 9-12 instead of the usual pandering fare (esp these days) It felt like being treated like an adult to get such legit comedy I still laugh at.
Btw I also loved when they aired the Dennis The Menace show. I had no idea it even existed and was so happy to get something other then the same usual reruns that aired incessantly my whole life. It’s actually pretty funny and entertaining for a super old sitcom.
There were many other "Star Trek" shows besides "The Animated Series", like "The Original Series", "The Next Generation", "Deep Space Nine", "Voyager", "Enterprise", "Discovery", "Picard", "Lower Decks" and "Strange New Worlds".
Loved this show! Shame hardly anyone remembers it. Considering current events, I think it's time Ivan Tellalie of Russian Tru Fakts News made a return.
(We also used to get "The Uncle Floyd Show" itself in our area, at one point, before it was replaced by some old fart called Judge Wapner, who I never forgave.)
I loved Turkey TV, my mum hated it.
Regular skits but so random, clips of Monty Python, promotional footage of Abba, 2 triple cheese side order of fries.
There are recurring skits I remember that I think came from this show. One was a duel with bananas that ended a different way every time. I also seem to remember a couple running towards each other in slow mo with a different ending. There was also something with a judge/courtroom. I wish I could see some of those skits again
I remember two of the duelists skits. The one you remember had the weapon box containing a flintlock pistol and a banana. The blonde guy took the pistol with a smirk and the dark haired guy took the banana with a worried look. But when he aimed it, the banana fired a bullet. The other one I remembered had the two men shouting verbal insults back and forth with the blonde guy again loosing when one insult made him scream “Ouch!” and drop to the ground.
I loved this show as a kid... I remember watching this evey summer day 1987 at my grandparents while they were stationed in Port Hueneme Naval Base.
This content is great. I was pretty young but I remember all these old Nick programs. We live in the sticks and had a huge rotating satellite dish in the yard and after school I knew exactly where to spin dish to get signal. Nickelodeon can in very clear compared to others so I grew up on these shows.
This was such a great show....
I watched this show in original run. I don’t recall any dj, either. It was simply a clip show.
I think it was an awakening for 15 year-old me when I saw Christine McGlade playing the secretary for Les Lye's character in their Turkey TV skits. It was like she went from playing a teenager on YCDTOTV to a full-on adult overnight! I started looking at her in a WHOLE new way, like the girl you crush on a few grades above you who goes away to college and comes back as a WOMAN! 😆
Sadly, I don't think this video, or any others I've watched, includes any of those scenes. 🙁
UNCLE FLOYD!
I saw the Fish Heads video on MTV once. Like three in the afternoon.
This is where I saw Dana Carvey before he started on SNL!
Same here! (And didn't they show a couple of Monty Python sketches? I do remember they showed sketches from other British comedy shows...)
@@jenniferschillig3768 Maybe. That show was all over the place. I couldn't bear watching it for the most part. Felt too Canadian.
All I can say is that this show was fantastic for ADHD youth. Definitely one of my favorite non-animated shows from my youth.
I mean, the other live-action shows I loved were Monty Python's Flying Circus and You Can't Do That On Television, so clearly I was heavily into rapid-fire nonsense.