That Weird Al clip warmed my heart. I don't think there's a single minute that man has ever been on camera without being the single greatest thing on the screen.
I've actually been looking forward to this episode for quite a while, largely since it is such a "lost" show and all I have of it are my own hazy memories. I was twelve years old when it first aired in 1988. I know I absolutely *LOVED* it at the time. They had their own band! Robert Englund was such a great guest! So was Weird Al Yankovic! The kids ran everything! It was so cool. So the "fit and finish" aspects of this show were completely lost on me at the time. I just saw kids running a "real" talk show and acting how I would act, and thought it was the most amazing thing ever. And yet, now that I've finally seen this show in the cold light of day (as a 45 year old now) I can see the cracks. This notion of it as a flagship show made my jaw hit the floor. Never in a million years would I have guessed that, seeing as how it's basically lost to the ages and barely ever mentioned. I appreciate you doing a good treatment of this show because I'm not even exaggerating when I say I subscribed to this channel in part because I always wanted to know what the real deal was with this specific show. So thanks for that, even though it was obviously a rough ride. I'm a longtime supporter of this channel and look forward to every episode you make.
The amount of research and subject matter you touch upon with these Nick Knacks is absolutely stunning! I cannot wait to see your detailed takes on Pete and Pete, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Rocko's Modern Life, Invader Zim, and eventually (perhaps regrettably) Power Rangers. Plus, the Gamera shout out in the brief Maya The Bee extra / side-episode was very cool to see (I'm a big kaiju fan BTW).
I remember one episode where they gave the viewers “a day off” and actively discouraged us from watching the show. I remember another when one of the hosts (Allie?) renamed the planets. Mercury became Yosemite Sam and Uranus and Neptune became the Fat Boys. I don’t remember any of the others.
I attended a taping of this show in 1989, Scott Baio was the guest. The unpolished feel of it was what made that era of Nickelodeon great, Kids being kids.
Speaking of cross-promotion, in one episode of "Don't Just Sit There!", Will Friedle visited the set of "You Can't Do That on Television" & interviewed some of the cast members, Les Lye (as Ross Ewich), included. Will even got slimed at the end of the segment.
I'm one of those adults who fondly remember this show. It convinced me to buy the Dark Knight Returns when they interviewed Michael Keaton's son, to rent Young Einstein because I loved Yahoo Serious when he appeared on the show. I also remember them interviewing Tami Erin when the New Adventures of Pippi Longstockings was released in theaters. She taught some simple home workout routines to kids they could do while watching TV. Like reaching (stretching) for popcorn in the bowl in front of you. I honestly loved the show, but what's funny to me is your comment that it was meant to be a flagship show. Every kid I knew had Nickelodeon by this time and none of my friends had even heard of Don't Just Sit There when I would talk about it in school. So, it obviously didn't make any kind of impact for tons of kids. And yeah, when I went back and watched some clips about ten years ago I was shocked at how unpolished and very Cable Access it all felt. I didn't notice as a kid.
I remember watching this show but it's one of about a million shows to cross my path over the years. I recall one episode where Johnny Five from the Short Circuit films was a special guest.
So Don't Just Sit There was basically The Jimmy Fallon Show. The main difference is that these are kids with no experience trying to be adults, and Jimmy Fallon is a seasoned veteran who is naturally a kid at heart.
That is what happens when you have mostly untrained kids and teens trying to lead an interview show. At some point professionals are professional for a reason.
I just got in ad for Palenstine before this video, and then I was immediately given a link to donate. That’s honestly a little crazy how unintentionally well-timed it was
Gods...by the time we get to Nicktoons, we're going to have at least twenty distinct civic calls to action at the front end...world, please, stop trying to destroy everything! Make _sense_ dammit!!
I never knew Will Friedle started his career with Don't Just Sit There on Nickelodeon! He guest starred on All That Season 7 several years later in 2002, so in hindsight that was basically a homecoming for him.
Thanks for bringing this show to my attention! As always, I appreciate your detailed research. You consistently make this series both interesting and entertaining. I was a toddler when this would have aired, so I don't recall it. I see there are some clips online that I can look up to enjoy this gem. Nice surprise to see Weird Al , New Kids on the Block, and baby Will Friedle, a.k.a. Eric Matthews. Also, looking forward to a future Wild and Crazy Kids video.
I don't know what lead me down this path but I am here now. I remember all these things so well - middle school, the late 1980s and the rise of Nickelodeon. Well done in preserving this.
Since you're saying most of the episodes are missing, here is who I remember seeing on this show: Rick Moranis, The band Fishbone, The B-52s, the kid in the wheelchair from Mac & Me ( who accidentally farted on the show, ) Robert Englund, Mayim Bialak, some guy from Mad Magazine and I think I remember John Moschitta Jr. showing up and mentioning that he used to have a show on Nickelodeon. ( I'm typing this before I watch the video. I don't want it to cloud my memory. ) I'd love to know if this show ever had people throwing pizza plates or made any other references to former Nickelodeon talk shows.
I remember them interviewing Jane Wiedlin also being interviewed on the show. Also remember an episode where they interviewed a guy who showed what you "really" get when you order things in the mail.
There was an episode where Julie Brown from her MTV show "Just Say Julie" appeared on DJST to talk about her movie " Earth Girls Are Easy". Julie was wearing this dress that stuck down at the bottom. It was she had to turn sideways when entering a narrow door/space.
The show he was referring to would be nickel flicks. One of nick's first shows and the first one to be cancelled. I would say Nick came a long way by this point but looking at this show you wouldn't know it... Yeesh
There was one episode when they did an all girls episode and those two boys got kicked out, if I remember correctly. And the one episode when they had Menudo as a musical guest.
This show was great and a staple of the network. THIS was why I loved this channel as a kid. The stumbling and un-preparedness of the actors was what gave the channel its charm. You Can't Do That on Television, Kids Court, Double Dare, Rated K - these shows all had this element of unpolished and yet glorious. It made you think, "Hey I think I could do this too!" That's one of the reasons it was so relatable.
21:26: Can you imagine a Hanna-Barbara related character like BooBoo appearing on Nickelodeon post 1991-92, when Turner Broadcasting purchased the Hanna-Barbara library and used it as the nucleus to launch Cartoon Network?
Yup, I had the book. It was basically a book of rainy day activities... some basic science, crafts, and homemade sports stuff, pretty much nothing to do with show. I don't know if I still have my copy. Looks like I might have to do some digging in my parents' basement at some point.
Don't Just Sit There! come to think of it, kind of reminds me of that old recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live where Chris Farley would host a talk show. And he would nervously asks his guest (such as Paul McCartney or Jeff Daniels) these random, incoherent sounding questions. He would always say to his guests "Remember that time..." The hosts on Don't Just Sit There! feels like "The Chris Farley Show" except it's played straight. When Chris was stammering, being unprepared, and going on a stream of consciousness, his incompetency at hosting a talk show was supposed to be the whole joke.
I liked Don't Just Sit There as a 12-13 year old guy. I agree that DJST wasn't the "flagship" show for Nickelodeon at this point. Double Dare was the flagship show at this point. The next flagship series that Nickelodeon had after DD was the 3 original Nicktoons (Doug, Rugrats, and Ren and Stimpy).
You know the old saying “you can never go home again”. The fact is, you can only pioneer or start out once. Which is why shows like this can’t keep happening today or going on forever. The real dividing line, I think, for Nickelodeon was the move to Florida in 1990.
I’m currently plowing my way through the show for the first time (because I’m now almost as old as Cory is by the finale and I’m watching two episodes a weekday so I can reach the end at the end of my high school career) and although I knew Will Friedle was in Don’t Just Sit There, it’s still pretty wild now that I actually *know* him as Eric Matthews. I even heard the Feeny call in my head a few times watching this video, it’s amazing
Yay, a new Nick Knacks video! I went into this video thinking I hadn't watched this show before (though the opening sequence seemed vaguely familiar), because I would've been early elementary school age at the time and I didn't quite have the attention span for a talk show, but then you had a quick shot of Wendy Douglas in a mosquito costume and I definitely remember watching a sketch about mosquitos once. I just never knew which show it was before now, so thanks for clearing that up, at least. I'm going to have to find the rest of that Weird Al interview. That little clip of it made me laugh.
I was on the show. Can't remember the episode. All I remember was Rosie Odonnell was their guest. I just came out for a skit they were doing. It was about 1988.
Great episode. There's very little way to make child performers into good seasoned performers without a huge amount of human loss. Dance Mom dancers or Disney kid performers become seasoned, but at a huge human cost. I like how rough the kids are on programs like this, but I'm sure it was still an exploitive and stressful environment.
After knowing very little about this show other than clips I saw online, one thing that really stood out was that this was SUPPOSED TO BE Nickelodeon's "FLAGSHIP SHOW". And the fact that Nick was trying to make a show OTHER THAN Double Dare their flagship show was really surprising to me.
It was surprising because Double Dare was still airing reruns on Nickelodeon when the show aired new episodes in syndication during 1988 and '89 with both DD and Super Sloppy Double Dare. It was like Nickelodeon lost faith in DD which was it's big moneymaker at the time.
I remember one episode that featured one time Australian star Yahoo Serious, on to promote his movie “Young Einstein”. Another episode I remember had William Shatner as guest, where he mentioned there were 79 episodes of Star Trek (not including the pilot). I don’t know why that stuck with me all these years.
If SK8TV pops up in the future, I would refer to it as "the show that killed Don't Just Sit There on 6-1-1991.". It really deserved a longer run because the young hosts needed the exposure to gain experience in the future when needed. During 1989, my house had 2 televisions. At the 5:30 PM (EST.) One had Don't Just Sit There on while the other where my sister was likely had The New Mickey Mouse Club on and that pretty much tells you the story there. The New Mickey Mouse Club's 7 seasons vs Don't Just Sit There's two. And Wait a minute! Wasn't Fred Newman on TNMMC? Still, I had fond memories of the show: Captain Lou Albano playing Super Mario Brothers video game with the cast, an all girls episode featuring Kylie M. with her rendition of "The Loco Motion", an episode dedicated to 1969, one about color (Nick's last aired episode from the first season on 5-25-1991), one about where recycled materials go (cans, glass, and plastic) when they are recycled and made into new items, the father of the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, appearances from the B52s, Milli Vaniili, etc. I'm not saying it's as better than Livewire. That's a lot of weight to carry for that to happened. Livewire was the most polished talk show Nickelodeon ever had whereas DJST was just getting started. Imagine if they stuck around longer to make the transition to Nickelodeon studios in Florida. I hope someday that You Tube will bring up the entire run of Don't Just Sit There as they did with You Can't Do That On Television. What a waste of 30+ years for a show that didn't receive the respect it deserve. Not that it wasn't the flagship show the network predicted. That honor goes to Double Dare and before that, YCDTOT. It was still in the freshman stage that couldn't evolve to senior year status in high school during its short but stellar 3 year run.
I remember a lot of these episodes. Also the "go outside and play" episode where they spent the into telling you to turn off the TV and go outside, then they made the show purposefully boring so you wouldn't watch. I didn't go outside but I did turn the TV off so I didn't stick it out for the whole episode. I also remember them interviewing Cree Summer about her acting and voice acting and she did the Penny voice for the audience.
@@Scarybug Not to mention her as one of the cast members in "A Different World"! The show was basically one that tells you to only leave the TV on when this show is on and then turn it off when it's over or something like that.
If I were to take a shot in the dark, I would imagine the producers leaving flubs in the show was an attempt to recapture the loose feel of “Double Dare” combined with a lack of confidence in how the kid audience would react to retakes. I remember liking this show as a kid, but watching it back now… it’s very rough.
It also feels like a good portion of the concepts from this show we’re recycled into Total Panic, only with adult hosts this time. And as a kid, Alie might have been my first crush.
One thing you have to remember is… The era of “classic cable channels“ still permeated through the 1980s. Cable channels paved their way by leaving themselves to their own devices, not going to the well of establishment, A-list talent, reruns, repackages, repurposes, etc. Of course they had notoriously lower budgets, and they didn’t seem to mind that their programs showed it. (Remember, ESPN’s first broadcast of a sporting event, or one of them, was Australian rules football, just for example). So really, the only thing a typical about DJ ST and other shows like it on Nickelodeon was that they pioneered. This is still the era where they didn’t have to be highbrow, an audience is that one at alternatives to the highbrow fair on the “big three (in that day, 3 1/2 with Fox, didn’t really mind it.
Wow, I think this is the first show in this series that I can't for the life of me remember anything about. There have been others that I didn't watch but could at least remember existing, but not this one. At first I thought it must have been a total bomb that only lasted a season, so I was shocked to learn it was on for 3 years.
oh the brussels sprouts bit, I remember that!!!! I think one of the bits was 'mail it to brussels, germany'?! can't imagine that being practical though, haha. I think the only other bits I remember on it were trying to outdo.... a jackson pollack painting? I don't remember the artist but I think that was it? and a mr. t interview that I hope isn't one of the lost episodes :( but yeah I can see why it didn't last long.
First off, thank you for the Free Palestine donation links. I was hoping you took notice. Second, yay! You mentioned Robert Englund as I hoped! Like, things haven't changed anyway, teens love Horror movies and 1988 was the peak of Freddy mania in those days. Though the artists on the show, they got the shit treatment? That sucks, they should have been treated fairly. But that Nickelodeon Studios special? So, Wendy Douglas said she's going on the Jaws ride? Given how prone to malfunction the first incarnation of the ride was, I'll be amazed she made it out with no problems like being stuck on the boat or thrown out like the father who got tossed into the water.
4:15: So Don't Just Sit There! in a sense, predated Jimmy Fallon's talk show by over two decades with the concept of making the guests perform in wacky skits and silly games for the hosts' personal amusement?
Is that "Small Town Boy" playing over the Patreon credits? Love that song! Yeah, this was an awkward show to watch; it's like watching a Drama Club performance really bomb. Props to Weird Al for trying to put the kids at ease a bit, at least.
Actually similarly to Weird Al my memory is when George Carlin showed up for Bill and Ted and similarly carried the segement. Funny part was i didn’t realize it was George Carlin until years later when i found a clip of Carlin doing his blue food bit that he did on the show.
This must have aired at the same time a show I liked more did, because I'm drawing a blank and I've remembered just about everything else so far, even back to Pinwheel days.
Trump was idolized by kids? One person I follow on TH-cam had good foresight about him when he was a kid. He said he detected a very bad and racist vibe from Trump, ever since he saw him on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".
As a kid, I remember him being praised as the savior of Atlantic City, NJ. But I had a neutral opinion of him as I never went to Atlantic City until I was a teenager in 2000 and by then, his big plans didn't work out. It left an impact on me parking in a public lot that was next to an abandoned Trump casino and seeing a very modern (non Trump) casino on one side of the street and a still active but stuck in the 70s theater advertising porn on the other.
I was a kid who only really knew Trump from his hosting of WrestleManias IV & V and I still didn't like him. A year or so later...even *I* knew that you can't possibly go bankrupt in operating a casino where the whole point is that things are rigged so the house always wins.
He's a rich man that seemingly did whatever he wanted. I can see kids falling for the power fantasy. Too bad that illusion hadn't be broken for enough people by now but that's the hand we've all dealt ourselves.
I don't mind that it didn't become the flagship show. This show was special to me for a moment and made me feel a part of it. I would try to make time for it everyday. I remember BJ Shafer in the fourth slot and not so much Will. I had the book he showed at the end. I still have it. I'd completely forgotten Kids Court until it was mentioned on an instalment of Nick Knacks.
Maybe it was because I was 9 years old and still considered young for the average audience but I really enjoyed the show and watching my favorite child stars on the show like Jodie Sweetin and Jeremy Miller. I guess I was too young to care or notice the constant flubbing. Meanwhile the new Mickey Mouse club was kicking butt around the same timeslot on Disney channel and of course the production was first class because that was those kids full time job and they were actual performers
I vaguely remember this show and I was 8 by the time it started airing. Cool that Will F. started there and moved onto many better things. Met him once. He was nice.
That observation that kids find normal interviews utterly boring is right on the money, I couldn't stand talk shows until well into my pre-teens. I don't think Nick tried another by-the-books talk show for a long, long time after this, did they?
Honestly I think it'd work better if you had the interviewees walking through the sets, studio, or wherever they work. Like imagine getting a Larry Bird or a Isaiah Thomas after practice on an off-day talking about how cool it is to be a professional basketball player or some such.
I do remember the show but not to the extent to where I remember any episodes. Yes I would of been 6 or 7 at the time but I only remember the name. If I watched it now I might remember something about it but from watching this I don't remember any of the episodes. Most of what I remember watching during 88 was Count Duckula, Double Dare, Inspector Gadget, David the Gnome, Spartakus, Mr. Wizard, Lassie, Flipper etc. I could go on and on. Oh forgot one. Heathcliff and Today Special too. Brings back so many memories.
I need to find the episode they did for the 20th anniversary of the moon landing. I was at the filming of it for my 11th birthday on July 11th 1989. I never saw it on TV.
I know it’s supposed to be “made by kids” but it literally looks like they gave a kid $50 and a camera. Even before you said it, I was like this bad high school morning announcements show
Tom Savini on one Nick talk show? Now Robert Englund on another?! I really don't remember Nick going that hard on horror in the time I was a regular viewer. Speaking of, I was *definitely* a regular Nick viewer by 1990 (born in '82) and I legit have ZERO MEMORY of this show existing, despite it lasting until then.
I looked up BJ Schaffer, now going by Bernard Schaffer, just to see if there was anything noteworthy about his law enforcement career. The only thing I could find are Amazon reviews for one of his books, Way of the Warrior: The Philosophy of Law Enforcement. The reviews gave me the opposite outlook of what I was looking for to my pleasant surprise. There were some middling to negative reviews complaining about his criticism of Christianity, his Atheism, and mostly his support of Black Lives Matter that he dedicated an entire chapter to (several white guys, including a retired detective, were NOT happy). I spent a little time marking the 5* reviews longer than a sentence or two as helpful in the hopes of burying the racist old cranks with the same tired talking points. Yeah, scientifically cops are bastards, but this guy is clearly an outlier and probably doesn't deserve to be lumped in with his school bully plus time peers.
Exactly, when he in the video said the "scientifically he's a bastard" nonsense, well you know. How can one know that? Trying too hard to be an ally causes people to say stupid things I guess.
@@thewindshecriesmary It's easier to find a cop that's an actual bastard than it is to find one who supports BLM. You could ask most cops what they think of that chapter in his book, and they'll probably think he actually is a bastard.
Can anybody help me put together a chorological list of Nickelodeon's so-called "flagship" live-action shows? I stress live-action because it would be natural to quickly say that SpongeBob SquarePants has more or less, been Nick's "flagship" show for the past 20 odd years that it has been on the air. I assume that Pinwheel was the very first "flagship" show for Nick and then You Can't Do That on Television before we finally got to Double Dare.
Even though it's not a regular series and just an annual special, you should consider doing an episode for the Kids' Choice Awards soon since it premiered in 1988. I personally had a copy of that 1992 book a long time ago, and honestly just felt like Mr. Wizard or Wild & Crazy Kids regarding the stunts rather than providing cool info on the various topics discussed. Hopefully more episodes of this show (along with Livewire) will turn up at some point, but I agree that it was hyped way too much regarding its expectations. The best way is to start steadily, build an audience, and then beef things up with better quality. While IMO Nickelodeon's "quality curve" would start to jump the greatest over the next five years, this was the last real show that felt typical to its early years. Rugrats basically was the first "Flagship Show" for Nick, and honestly it didn't quite earn that until after the mid-90s reruns of the first three seasons, and even then, it sort of shared that title with All That. And then came Spongebob, the undisputed flagship show for Nick not just since 1999, but perhaps all-time.
You should do a nick knack on the 3 hour special of the opening of Nickelodeon Studios, since it's been found, and somebody uploaded the entire 3 hour special on TH-cam.
Does anyone know if this show had an episode they said was only for girls (and/or one only for boys)? Years ago I read about some Nickelodeon variety show from around this time having done that, and this looks like a show it could have been. Or was that another show? These were long before my time, but I really enjoy these videos.
You might be talking about Girl Talk, I think it was syndicated, but it was a talk and variety show "just for girls" starring Soleye Moon Fyre (spelling might be wrong, the girl who played Punky Brewster) and Sarah Michelle Gellar as 2 of the 3 host (the former after Punky Brewster the other pre-fame).
@@dantheman8103 Nope. I'm sure what I'm remembering reading about was some old show on Nickelodeon that was described as having a specific episode like this. I'm sure it was in something describing a bunch of old Nickelodeon shows from around that time. I saw another comment on here saying DJST had an episode where they told you not to watch this episode. That sounds vaguely like something I might have also read, and very possibly in the description of the same show. I think it mentioned the show in question doing a lot of unusual theme episodes like that. I read this around a decade ago. Thanks for responding though.
There’s always a mixture of nostalgia and cringe looking back at a show you haven’t thought about in 30 years. (I also fully forgot Yahoo Serious existed). I will say only as an 8 year old? I remember this and The production flubs didn’t register on my child brain. I liked it! It came on around 5 in the afternoon? So it was given arguably the primo time slot In the afternoon. Really the only thing I remembered was an episode with new kids on the block and one where they encouraged everyone to turn off the tv that day (incredibly annoying when limited to a certain amount of television per day). It does show that not everything you enjoyed as a kid is meant to be enjoyed as an adult.
I was around 12 when this came out and it didn't register. Granted i have learned that even as a teen I clearly did not hold Tv to a high standard, but the target demo might not have noticed these as much. Although the video is right for a flagship show they should have worked to polish it more. I assume it was filmed "as live" to give it a spontaneous feel, but some of that could have at least been fixed in editing even if they didn't want to do re-takes.
In a round about way, was Don't Just Sit there, kind of the closest '80s equivalent that Nickelodeon had to iCarly? At the very least, they both seemed to share the same basic concepts. Both had raw, untrained, unpolished kids host their own wacky variety/talk show. Basically, iCarly would what you would get if you wrote a sitcom around what the Don't Just Sit There kids were doing in their lives outside of the show.
DJST is one of those shows I remember seeing, but not really watching. Like one I just left on while waiting for something else to come on. Interesting piece of history for Nick though
I remember this one episode that one guy who could talk backwards. He even had a game called Backwards. They even had a D.J. who scratched records. That was the thing on early Hip Hop. It was show with pretty neat stuff and guests like Robert England for that matter. And Weird Al promoting for UHF. I thought this was a cool show growing up.
Looking back on DJST now, it was indeed mega cringe. As for Kids Court, they did tackle a couple of understandable vices like forgetting that there's no "I" in "team" when it comes to little league sports.
That Weird Al clip warmed my heart. I don't think there's a single minute that man has ever been on camera without being the single greatest thing on the screen.
I think we'll see him again.... maybe with next year's shows.
It’s not an 80s Nick variety show if Weird Al isn’t in it. That’s my verdict and I’m sticking with it
@@bullmonty764 Agreed
I remember this show for two things:
1) The first time I ever saw Kylie Minogue.
2) Jodi Benson singing "Part of Your World"
I've actually been looking forward to this episode for quite a while, largely since it is such a "lost" show and all I have of it are my own hazy memories. I was twelve years old when it first aired in 1988. I know I absolutely *LOVED* it at the time. They had their own band! Robert Englund was such a great guest! So was Weird Al Yankovic! The kids ran everything! It was so cool. So the "fit and finish" aspects of this show were completely lost on me at the time. I just saw kids running a "real" talk show and acting how I would act, and thought it was the most amazing thing ever.
And yet, now that I've finally seen this show in the cold light of day (as a 45 year old now) I can see the cracks. This notion of it as a flagship show made my jaw hit the floor. Never in a million years would I have guessed that, seeing as how it's basically lost to the ages and barely ever mentioned.
I appreciate you doing a good treatment of this show because I'm not even exaggerating when I say I subscribed to this channel in part because I always wanted to know what the real deal was with this specific show. So thanks for that, even though it was obviously a rough ride. I'm a longtime supporter of this channel and look forward to every episode you make.
The amount of research and subject matter you touch upon with these Nick Knacks is absolutely stunning! I cannot wait to see your detailed takes on Pete and Pete, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Rocko's Modern Life, Invader Zim, and eventually (perhaps regrettably) Power Rangers. Plus, the Gamera shout out in the brief Maya The Bee extra / side-episode was very cool to see (I'm a big kaiju fan BTW).
I remember one episode where they gave the viewers “a day off” and actively discouraged us from watching the show.
I remember another when one of the hosts (Allie?) renamed the planets. Mercury became Yosemite Sam and Uranus and Neptune became the Fat Boys. I don’t remember any of the others.
This is unironically the most painful episode I have seen so far
i watched a lot of Nick during this period... and this is the first show of this era that i have absolutely NO memory of.
The first appearance of a Screenbug on Nick Knacks! (It's the Birthday cake one)
I attended a taping of this show in 1989, Scott Baio was the guest. The unpolished feel of it was what made that era of Nickelodeon great, Kids being kids.
Speaking of cross-promotion, in one episode of "Don't Just Sit There!", Will Friedle visited the set of "You Can't Do That on Television" & interviewed some of the cast members, Les Lye (as Ross Ewich), included. Will even got slimed at the end of the segment.
That cop line was... unexpected! 😅
I'm one of those adults who fondly remember this show. It convinced me to buy the Dark Knight Returns when they interviewed Michael Keaton's son, to rent Young Einstein because I loved Yahoo Serious when he appeared on the show. I also remember them interviewing Tami Erin when the New Adventures of Pippi Longstockings was released in theaters. She taught some simple home workout routines to kids they could do while watching TV. Like reaching (stretching) for popcorn in the bowl in front of you. I honestly loved the show, but what's funny to me is your comment that it was meant to be a flagship show. Every kid I knew had Nickelodeon by this time and none of my friends had even heard of Don't Just Sit There when I would talk about it in school. So, it obviously didn't make any kind of impact for tons of kids. And yeah, when I went back and watched some clips about ten years ago I was shocked at how unpolished and very Cable Access it all felt. I didn't notice as a kid.
I do remember this show from the 20th anniversary special in 99. It only really interested me as something from "the Nickleodeon i never knew"
You are right I do remember nick rerun this series 🍩
I remember watching this show but it's one of about a million shows to cross my path over the years. I recall one episode where Johnny Five from the Short Circuit films was a special guest.
So Don't Just Sit There was basically The Jimmy Fallon Show. The main difference is that these are kids with no experience trying to be adults, and Jimmy Fallon is a seasoned veteran who is naturally a kid at heart.
The awkward cringe is killing me when watching the show clips.
That is what happens when you have mostly untrained kids and teens trying to lead an interview show. At some point professionals are professional for a reason.
"which, scientifically means he's a bastard"--i cannot tell you how hard I laughed at this line delivery
I just got in ad for Palenstine before this video, and then I was immediately given a link to donate. That’s honestly a little crazy how unintentionally well-timed it was
Gods...by the time we get to Nicktoons, we're going to have at least twenty distinct civic calls to action at the front end...world, please, stop trying to destroy everything! Make _sense_ dammit!!
I never knew Will Friedle started his career with Don't Just Sit There on Nickelodeon! He guest starred on All That Season 7 several years later in 2002, so in hindsight that was basically a homecoming for him.
My mom told me when I was a kid if every power goes out have a limbo party.
Thanks for bringing this show to my attention! As always, I appreciate your detailed research. You consistently make this series both interesting and entertaining. I was a toddler when this would have aired, so I don't recall it. I see there are some clips online that I can look up to enjoy this gem. Nice surprise to see Weird Al , New Kids on the Block, and baby Will Friedle, a.k.a. Eric Matthews.
Also, looking forward to a future Wild and Crazy Kids video.
I don't know what lead me down this path but I am here now. I remember all these things so well - middle school, the late 1980s and the rise of Nickelodeon. Well done in preserving this.
Since you're saying most of the episodes are missing, here is who I remember seeing on this show: Rick Moranis, The band Fishbone, The B-52s, the kid in the wheelchair from Mac & Me ( who accidentally farted on the show, ) Robert Englund, Mayim Bialak, some guy from Mad Magazine and I think I remember John Moschitta Jr. showing up and mentioning that he used to have a show on Nickelodeon.
( I'm typing this before I watch the video. I don't want it to cloud my memory. )
I'd love to know if this show ever had people throwing pizza plates or made any other references to former Nickelodeon talk shows.
Now I have to see that clip with the wheelchair kid from MAC & ME. 😂 😂 😂
I remember them interviewing Jane Wiedlin also being interviewed on the show. Also remember an episode where they interviewed a guy who showed what you "really" get when you order things in the mail.
There was an episode where Julie Brown from her MTV show "Just Say Julie" appeared on DJST to talk about her movie " Earth Girls Are Easy". Julie was wearing this dress that stuck down at the bottom. It was she had to turn sideways when entering a narrow door/space.
The show he was referring to would be nickel flicks. One of nick's first shows and the first one to be cancelled. I would say Nick came a long way by this point but looking at this show you wouldn't know it... Yeesh
There was one episode when they did an all girls episode and those two boys got kicked out, if I remember correctly. And the one episode when they had Menudo as a musical guest.
Those set designs are really cool though; kind of a Pee-Wee's Playhouse aesthetic
This show was great and a staple of the network. THIS was why I loved this channel as a kid. The stumbling and un-preparedness of the actors was what gave the channel its charm. You Can't Do That on Television, Kids Court, Double Dare, Rated K - these shows all had this element of unpolished and yet glorious. It made you think, "Hey I think I could do this too!" That's one of the reasons it was so relatable.
Dave (Joey from Full House) was on Nickelodeon on Out of Control
21:26: Can you imagine a Hanna-Barbara related character like BooBoo appearing on Nickelodeon post 1991-92, when Turner Broadcasting purchased the Hanna-Barbara library and used it as the nucleus to launch Cartoon Network?
Yup, I had the book. It was basically a book of rainy day activities... some basic science, crafts, and homemade sports stuff, pretty much nothing to do with show. I don't know if I still have my copy. Looks like I might have to do some digging in my parents' basement at some point.
IIRC, there was an episode where the voice of Ariel from Little Mermaid was on an episode.
I remember the Australian Double Dare host being interviewed as well. And a guy who did Etch-a-Sketch art.
Don't Just Sit There! come to think of it, kind of reminds me of that old recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live where Chris Farley would host a talk show. And he would nervously asks his guest (such as Paul McCartney or Jeff Daniels) these random, incoherent sounding questions. He would always say to his guests "Remember that time..." The hosts on Don't Just Sit There! feels like "The Chris Farley Show" except it's played straight. When Chris was stammering, being unprepared, and going on a stream of consciousness, his incompetency at hosting a talk show was supposed to be the whole joke.
I liked Don't Just Sit There as a 12-13 year old guy. I agree that DJST wasn't the "flagship" show for Nickelodeon at this point. Double Dare was the flagship show at this point. The next flagship series that Nickelodeon had after DD was the 3 original Nicktoons (Doug, Rugrats, and Ren and Stimpy).
You know the old saying “you can never go home again”. The fact is, you can only pioneer or start out once. Which is why shows like this can’t keep happening today or going on forever.
The real dividing line, I think, for Nickelodeon was the move to Florida in 1990.
Rewatching Boy Meets World for the 1000th time rn and seeing that young Will Friedle is WILD!
I keep forgetting how young he was when he started! Maybe Critical Role should do a oneshot with all the former child actors they know!
I’m currently plowing my way through the show for the first time (because I’m now almost as old as Cory is by the finale and I’m watching two episodes a weekday so I can reach the end at the end of my high school career) and although I knew Will Friedle was in Don’t Just Sit There, it’s still pretty wild now that I actually *know* him as Eric Matthews. I even heard the Feeny call in my head a few times watching this video, it’s amazing
I remember one episode where Will toured the You Can't Do That on Television. There was a running gag where everyone called him Ted. Including Ted.
Yay, a new Nick Knacks video! I went into this video thinking I hadn't watched this show before (though the opening sequence seemed vaguely familiar), because I would've been early elementary school age at the time and I didn't quite have the attention span for a talk show, but then you had a quick shot of Wendy Douglas in a mosquito costume and I definitely remember watching a sketch about mosquitos once. I just never knew which show it was before now, so thanks for clearing that up, at least. I'm going to have to find the rest of that Weird Al interview. That little clip of it made me laugh.
5:01 A child saying, "I'm hanging in there", is so harrowing to me
Can we get a video about Roundhouse?
When we get to 1992! Keep in mind that Nick Knacks is still in 1990, so a Roundhouse video is far on the horizon.
I was on the show. Can't remember the episode. All I remember was Rosie Odonnell was their guest. I just came out for a skit they were doing. It was about 1988.
Great episode. There's very little way to make child performers into good seasoned performers without a huge amount of human loss. Dance Mom dancers or Disney kid performers become seasoned, but at a huge human cost. I like how rough the kids are on programs like this, but I'm sure it was still an exploitive and stressful environment.
You probably won't know half of the crap these kids had to go through
After knowing very little about this show other than clips I saw online, one thing that really stood out was that this was SUPPOSED TO BE Nickelodeon's "FLAGSHIP SHOW". And the fact that Nick was trying to make a show OTHER THAN Double Dare their flagship show was really surprising to me.
It was surprising because Double Dare was still airing reruns on Nickelodeon when the show aired new episodes in syndication during 1988 and '89 with both DD and Super Sloppy Double Dare. It was like Nickelodeon lost faith in DD which was it's big moneymaker at the time.
I remember one episode that featured one time Australian star Yahoo Serious, on to promote his movie “Young Einstein”. Another episode I remember had William Shatner as guest, where he mentioned there were 79 episodes of Star Trek (not including the pilot). I don’t know why that stuck with me all these years.
12:20 Damn that kid got really pissed at that girl 😂
If SK8TV pops up in the future, I would refer to it as "the show that killed Don't Just Sit There on 6-1-1991.". It really deserved a longer run because the young hosts needed the exposure to gain experience in the future when needed. During 1989, my house had 2 televisions. At the 5:30 PM (EST.) One had Don't Just Sit There on while the other where my sister was likely had The New Mickey Mouse Club on and that pretty much tells you the story there. The New Mickey Mouse Club's 7 seasons vs Don't Just Sit There's two. And Wait a minute! Wasn't Fred Newman on TNMMC? Still, I had fond memories of the show: Captain Lou Albano playing Super Mario Brothers video game with the cast, an all girls episode featuring Kylie M. with her rendition of "The Loco Motion", an episode dedicated to 1969, one about color (Nick's last aired episode from the first season on 5-25-1991), one about where recycled materials go (cans, glass, and plastic) when they are recycled and made into new items, the father of the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, appearances from the B52s, Milli Vaniili, etc. I'm not saying it's as better than Livewire. That's a lot of weight to carry for that to happened. Livewire was the most polished talk show Nickelodeon ever had whereas DJST was just getting started. Imagine if they stuck around longer to make the transition to Nickelodeon studios in Florida. I hope someday that You Tube will bring up the entire run of Don't Just Sit There as they did with You Can't Do That On Television. What a waste of 30+ years for a show that didn't receive the respect it deserve. Not that it wasn't the flagship show the network predicted. That honor goes to Double Dare and before that, YCDTOT. It was still in the freshman stage that couldn't evolve to senior year status in high school during its short but stellar 3 year run.
I remember a lot of these episodes.
Also the "go outside and play" episode where they spent the into telling you to turn off the TV and go outside, then they made the show purposefully boring so you wouldn't watch.
I didn't go outside but I did turn the TV off so I didn't stick it out for the whole episode.
I also remember them interviewing Cree Summer about her acting and voice acting and she did the Penny voice for the audience.
@@Scarybug Not to mention her as one of the cast members in "A Different World"! The show was basically one that tells you to only leave the TV on when this show is on and then turn it off when it's over or something like that.
is that little baby eric matthews from boy meets world????
Why yes it is.
I’ve had their bumper jingle stuck in my head since 1988.
14:40 god that was painful
I don’t know what’s weirder: seeing a preteen Will Friedle or seeing a preteen Will Friedle with a not-fully-grown-in mullet.
If I were to take a shot in the dark, I would imagine the producers leaving flubs in the show was an attempt to recapture the loose feel of “Double Dare” combined with a lack of confidence in how the kid audience would react to retakes. I remember liking this show as a kid, but watching it back now… it’s very rough.
It also feels like a good portion of the concepts from this show we’re recycled into Total Panic, only with adult hosts this time.
And as a kid, Alie might have been my first crush.
One thing you have to remember is… The era of “classic cable channels“ still permeated through the 1980s. Cable channels paved their way by leaving themselves to their own devices, not going to the well of establishment, A-list talent, reruns, repackages, repurposes, etc. Of course they had notoriously lower budgets, and they didn’t seem to mind that their programs showed it. (Remember, ESPN’s first broadcast of a sporting event, or one of them, was Australian rules football, just for example).
So really, the only thing a typical about DJ ST and other shows like it on Nickelodeon was that they pioneered. This is still the era where they didn’t have to be highbrow, an audience is that one at alternatives to the highbrow fair on the “big three (in that day, 3 1/2 with Fox, didn’t really mind it.
Wow, I think this is the first show in this series that I can't for the life of me remember anything about. There have been others that I didn't watch but could at least remember existing, but not this one. At first I thought it must have been a total bomb that only lasted a season, so I was shocked to learn it was on for 3 years.
oh the brussels sprouts bit, I remember that!!!! I think one of the bits was 'mail it to brussels, germany'?! can't imagine that being practical though, haha. I think the only other bits I remember on it were trying to outdo.... a jackson pollack painting? I don't remember the artist but I think that was it? and a mr. t interview that I hope isn't one of the lost episodes :( but yeah I can see why it didn't last long.
First off, thank you for the Free Palestine donation links. I was hoping you took notice. Second, yay! You mentioned Robert Englund as I hoped! Like, things haven't changed anyway, teens love Horror movies and 1988 was the peak of Freddy mania in those days. Though the artists on the show, they got the shit treatment? That sucks, they should have been treated fairly. But that Nickelodeon Studios special? So, Wendy Douglas said she's going on the Jaws ride? Given how prone to malfunction the first incarnation of the ride was, I'll be amazed she made it out with no problems like being stuck on the boat or thrown out like the father who got tossed into the water.
4:15: So Don't Just Sit There! in a sense, predated Jimmy Fallon's talk show by over two decades with the concept of making the guests perform in wacky skits and silly games for the hosts' personal amusement?
How many more shows from 1988 are left to cover and when is the Kids Choice Awards video coming out?
4 or 5. Next shows will be Kids Court, Looney Tunes, Heathcliff and Duckula.
@@TheEman590 Is there a list that shows the planned show order?
@@beipiaosaurus There is. Pop Arena posts the order on his Twitter account.
Is that "Small Town Boy" playing over the Patreon credits? Love that song!
Yeah, this was an awkward show to watch; it's like watching a Drama Club performance really bomb. Props to Weird Al for trying to put the kids at ease a bit, at least.
Is that Richard Garfield (the creator of Magic the Gathering) at 3:58?
Actually similarly to Weird Al my memory is when George Carlin showed up for Bill and Ted and similarly carried the segement. Funny part was i didn’t realize it was George Carlin until years later when i found a clip of Carlin doing his blue food bit that he did on the show.
My anticipation for the Count Duckula video is palpable, so much so that I believe it will be the highlighted episode of Nick Knacks of the year 1988.
It’s definitely been a few months since episodes were this close.
It was December since he posted 2 episodes in the same month.
Don't Just Sit There on Nickelodeon:
July 1, 1988-May 25, 1991!
I love those clips from that "lost" 1958 episode!
I pray you talk about Duckula soon!
The set for this show reminds me a little bit of the set from Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
This and Turkey TV are two shows from my era of Nick that I have zero recollection of.
This must have aired at the same time a show I liked more did, because I'm drawing a blank and I've remembered just about everything else so far, even back to Pinwheel days.
Trump was idolized by kids? One person I follow on TH-cam had good foresight about him when he was a kid. He said he detected a very bad and racist vibe from Trump, ever since he saw him on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".
1988 was such a different time
Back then he wasn't so obviously and publicly a nauseating sack of garbage.
As a kid, I remember him being praised as the savior of Atlantic City, NJ. But I had a neutral opinion of him as I never went to Atlantic City until I was a teenager in 2000 and by then, his big plans didn't work out. It left an impact on me parking in a public lot that was next to an abandoned Trump casino and seeing a very modern (non Trump) casino on one side of the street and a still active but stuck in the 70s theater advertising porn on the other.
I was a kid who only really knew Trump from his hosting of WrestleManias IV & V and I still didn't like him. A year or so later...even *I* knew that you can't possibly go bankrupt in operating a casino where the whole point is that things are rigged so the house always wins.
He's a rich man that seemingly did whatever he wanted. I can see kids falling for the power fantasy. Too bad that illusion hadn't be broken for enough people by now but that's the hand we've all dealt ourselves.
I don't mind that it didn't become the flagship show. This show was special to me for a moment and made me feel a part of it. I would try to make time for it everyday. I remember BJ Shafer in the fourth slot and not so much Will. I had the book he showed at the end. I still have it. I'd completely forgotten Kids Court until it was mentioned on an instalment of Nick Knacks.
Great job! This show was a little before my time but I loved nickelodeon so this was cool to learn about.
Haha, my sister married the drummer to Out of Order
I loved Don't Just Sit there. Wendy was so beautiful to me.
Maybe it was because I was 9 years old and still considered young for the average audience but I really enjoyed the show and watching my favorite child stars on the show like Jodie Sweetin and Jeremy Miller. I guess I was too young to care or notice the constant flubbing. Meanwhile the new Mickey Mouse club was kicking butt around the same timeslot on Disney channel and of course the production was first class because that was those kids full time job and they were actual performers
WILL FRIEDLE WAS ON THIS? THE FEARLESS FERRET?
That is correct.
I vaguely remember this show and I was 8 by the time it started airing. Cool that Will F. started there and moved onto many better things. Met him once. He was nice.
That observation that kids find normal interviews utterly boring is right on the money, I couldn't stand talk shows until well into my pre-teens. I don't think Nick tried another by-the-books talk show for a long, long time after this, did they?
Honestly I think it'd work better if you had the interviewees walking through the sets, studio, or wherever they work. Like imagine getting a Larry Bird or a Isaiah Thomas after practice on an off-day talking about how cool it is to be a professional basketball player or some such.
I remember this show quite well. I remember the interview segments the most.
I do remember the show but not to the extent to where I remember any episodes. Yes I would of been 6 or 7 at the time but I only remember the name. If I watched it now I might remember something about it but from watching this I don't remember any of the episodes. Most of what I remember watching during 88 was Count Duckula, Double Dare, Inspector Gadget, David the Gnome, Spartakus, Mr. Wizard, Lassie, Flipper etc. I could go on and on. Oh forgot one. Heathcliff and Today Special too. Brings back so many memories.
Wendy Douglas should be ashamed of herself for platforming abusive and dangerous people on TLC.
I remember it fondly but very vaguely. Was always surprised Alie didn't do more, though, I thought she was *so* cool when I was little.
I need to find the episode they did for the 20th anniversary of the moon landing. I was at the filming of it for my 11th birthday on July 11th 1989. I never saw it on TV.
I know it’s supposed to be “made by kids” but it literally looks like they gave a kid $50 and a camera. Even before you said it, I was like this bad high school morning announcements show
9:53 he'd eventually end up appearing on KCA '05 lol
Wow this show premiered on my 10th birthday 😂
Tom Savini on one Nick talk show? Now Robert Englund on another?! I really don't remember Nick going that hard on horror in the time I was a regular viewer.
Speaking of, I was *definitely* a regular Nick viewer by 1990 (born in '82) and I legit have ZERO MEMORY of this show existing, despite it lasting until then.
I looked up BJ Schaffer, now going by Bernard Schaffer, just to see if there was anything noteworthy about his law enforcement career. The only thing I could find are Amazon reviews for one of his books, Way of the Warrior: The Philosophy of Law Enforcement. The reviews gave me the opposite outlook of what I was looking for to my pleasant surprise.
There were some middling to negative reviews complaining about his criticism of Christianity, his Atheism, and mostly his support of Black Lives Matter that he dedicated an entire chapter to (several white guys, including a retired detective, were NOT happy). I spent a little time marking the 5* reviews longer than a sentence or two as helpful in the hopes of burying the racist old cranks with the same tired talking points. Yeah, scientifically cops are bastards, but this guy is clearly an outlier and probably doesn't deserve to be lumped in with his school bully plus time peers.
Exactly, when he in the video said the "scientifically he's a bastard" nonsense, well you know. How can one know that? Trying too hard to be an ally causes people to say stupid things I guess.
@@thewindshecriesmary It's easier to find a cop that's an actual bastard than it is to find one who supports BLM. You could ask most cops what they think of that chapter in his book, and they'll probably think he actually is a bastard.
BJ only appear in season one of Don't Just Sit There. He also appeared on Kids' Court as well.
Wow that's really fascinating. I feared the worst when i heard he was a cop.
Can anybody help me put together a chorological list of Nickelodeon's so-called "flagship" live-action shows? I stress live-action because it would be natural to quickly say that SpongeBob SquarePants has more or less, been Nick's "flagship" show for the past 20 odd years that it has been on the air. I assume that Pinwheel was the very first "flagship" show for Nick and then You Can't Do That on Television before we finally got to Double Dare.
DJST walked so TRL and The Real World could run.
Unrelated but I cant wait until you do all that
Cant wait to see the uploader do eureka castle 🤗
This was the perfect show to watch after school. Surprised it didn’t last longer. It had a lot of potential
It was on the same time as Disney's The New Mickey Mouse Club on weekdays @ 5:30 (EST.). I assume that was the case.
Because it was an unpolished mess that by the end of its run, nick did not need.
OMG! I remember this show! I would never have guessed the name.
I remember the episode when they interviewed a psychic.
There was even an episode where they visited the set of you can’t do that on television around the end of its run
Even though it's not a regular series and just an annual special, you should consider doing an episode for the Kids' Choice Awards soon since it premiered in 1988.
I personally had a copy of that 1992 book a long time ago, and honestly just felt like Mr. Wizard or Wild & Crazy Kids regarding the stunts rather than providing cool info on the various topics discussed. Hopefully more episodes of this show (along with Livewire) will turn up at some point, but I agree that it was hyped way too much regarding its expectations. The best way is to start steadily, build an audience, and then beef things up with better quality. While IMO Nickelodeon's "quality curve" would start to jump the greatest over the next five years, this was the last real show that felt typical to its early years. Rugrats basically was the first "Flagship Show" for Nick, and honestly it didn't quite earn that until after the mid-90s reruns of the first three seasons, and even then, it sort of shared that title with All That. And then came Spongebob, the undisputed flagship show for Nick not just since 1999, but perhaps all-time.
You should do a nick knack on the 3 hour special of the opening of Nickelodeon Studios, since it's been found, and somebody uploaded the entire 3 hour special on TH-cam.
I believe he said he's going to do an episode on nick studios.
Does anyone know if this show had an episode they said was only for girls (and/or one only for boys)? Years ago I read about some Nickelodeon variety show from around this time having done that, and this looks like a show it could have been. Or was that another show? These were long before my time, but I really enjoy these videos.
You might be talking about Girl Talk, I think it was syndicated, but it was a talk and variety show "just for girls" starring Soleye Moon Fyre (spelling might be wrong, the girl who played Punky Brewster) and Sarah Michelle Gellar as 2 of the 3 host (the former after Punky Brewster the other pre-fame).
@@dantheman8103 Nope. I'm sure what I'm remembering reading about was some old show on Nickelodeon that was described as having a specific episode like this. I'm sure it was in something describing a bunch of old Nickelodeon shows from around that time.
I saw another comment on here saying DJST had an episode where they told you not to watch this episode. That sounds vaguely like something I might have also read, and very possibly in the description of the same show. I think it mentioned the show in question doing a lot of unusual theme episodes like that. I read this around a decade ago.
Thanks for responding though.
@@radiodemongodking4176 I remember that episode, it was a girls episode. I don't remember them ever having a boys episode though.
@@jimmymelendez1836 Thanks. I knew they mad at least one of the two, and thought this show sounded like it would probably be the one.
Outta Here?
Please do an episode about "Fifteen"
I'm sure that there will be one once we get to 1991.
There’s always a mixture of nostalgia and cringe looking back at a show you haven’t thought about in 30 years. (I also fully forgot Yahoo Serious existed).
I will say only as an 8 year old? I remember this and The production flubs didn’t register on my child brain. I liked it! It came on around 5 in the afternoon? So it was given arguably the primo time slot In the afternoon. Really the only thing I remembered was an episode with new kids on the block and one where they encouraged everyone to turn off the tv that day (incredibly annoying when limited to a certain amount of television per day).
It does show that not everything you enjoyed as a kid is meant to be enjoyed as an adult.
I was around 12 when this came out and it didn't register. Granted i have learned that even as a teen I clearly did not hold Tv to a high standard, but the target demo might not have noticed these as much. Although the video is right for a flagship show they should have worked to polish it more. I assume it was filmed "as live" to give it a spontaneous feel, but some of that could have at least been fixed in editing even if they didn't want to do re-takes.
the show looks like a high school TV production class project with the cast of flunkies.
In a round about way, was Don't Just Sit there, kind of the closest '80s equivalent that Nickelodeon had to iCarly? At the very least, they both seemed to share the same basic concepts. Both had raw, untrained, unpolished kids host their own wacky variety/talk show. Basically, iCarly would what you would get if you wrote a sitcom around what the Don't Just Sit There kids were doing in their lives outside of the show.
DJST is one of those shows I remember seeing, but not really watching. Like one I just left on while waiting for something else to come on. Interesting piece of history for Nick though
I remember this one episode that one guy who could talk backwards. He even had a game called Backwards. They even had a D.J. who scratched records. That was the thing on early Hip Hop. It was show with pretty neat stuff and guests like Robert England for that matter. And Weird Al promoting for UHF. I thought this was a cool show growing up.
Looking back on DJST now, it was indeed mega cringe. As for Kids Court, they did tackle a couple of understandable vices like forgetting that there's no "I" in "team" when it comes to little league sports.
I think Alie was among my first crushes ever
Wasn't expecting to see Information Society to pop up here. I'm a big fan of their 80's and 90's stuff.
I went through an InSoc phase about 11 years ago. They were truly an underrated band of their time.