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- Welcome to 1986! With Nickelodeon now a twenty-four hour channel, there were going to be time slots that just needed to be filled, it didn't matter what you put there. Like 6 a.m., nobody's watching TV that early! May as well dump a bunch of Curious George shorts there!
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GEORGE WE'RE SENDING YOU INTO SPACE
"I blew up the Vatican.", said George. "However, I saved this cat from falling out of a tree."
Everyone was happy.
"Let's go home and stop off for ice cream", said the Man in the Yellow Hat.
I grew up watching these and figured all of them were based on books. Interesting to know otherwise. Also never expected to hear "adult spanking services" in the same video as "Curious George", but I guess life loves surprises.
NO GEORGE PUT THE NUCLEAR BOMB'S DETONATOR DOWN
It's okay... he made us cookies and they were delicious!
@@doryna_sira Oh, okay. it's all good.
OH. MY. GOD. Turn those overused memes off!!!
(This is very tounge-in-cheek, by the way; I am genuinely sick to bloody death of Infinity War/Endgame memes, but you can quote or parody whatever you want in my eyes)
No George. Put. The candle. Back. (ABC's doing "Young Frankenstein Live" later this year. Who wants to put on the ritz?)
It's okay, he gave us the Fallout Franchise!
Curious George was how me and my mother started our days. It was something wonderful that still makes me feel happy.
"Wait, that's our elephant! If it wasn't for George, we may never have found it!"
...It's an elephant. How hard could it be to find?
Well, it is, and it isn't. You understand, don't you?
Start of video: Ha ha, start of 1986, Curious George, woo hoo
26:14 : Possible hate crime
Oh my.
1980's kids: curious george a curious little monkeyy.
2000's kids: CURIOUS GEEOOOOOAAAGE!
SWING
After destroying his house, The Man In The Yellow Hat snapped and sent George to space to get rid of him for life.
This ep WAS NOT what i was expecting! Pop Arena never stops delivering!
If anyone's ever, eh-hem, curious, the HA and Margret Rey/Curious George archives are at the University of Southern Mississippi, in the DeGrummond Children's Literature Collection.
The PBS series def did a better job at finding a balance with George's conflict and resolution. There, George isn't ALWAYS the cause of conflict, but when he is, for the most part he either makes up for it by actually learning how to make things in that situation right, or just applu that knowledge in a wiser way elsewhere to show where he's grown.
Has to pause the episode and laugh for like a full minute after WE'RE SHOOTING YOU INTO SPACE
Did Shalleck have a "thing" for spanking? He was close to smacking a 70-year old woman, he implied spanking in the books and he opened a "spanking" business.
As far as the supposedly ambiguous morality of these shorts, I think it's a little more forgivable given George isn't really trying to be bad, he's just (like many little kids) curious about the world around him and doesn't know any better than not to mess around with stuff. (If there's any blame to go around, it should really land on TMWTYH for constantly leaving George unsupervised when he KNOWS George has a tendency to get into things.)
It's a little similar to the Paddington Bear stories--Paddington also messes up spectacularly because he's innocent in the ways of the human world (and more than a little clumsy), but always manages to make up for it in spite of himself. But most of the time, Paddington's genuinely trying to help. And in both cases, it's a nice way of telling kids that "even when you mess up, it's not the end of the world, and the grownups in your life will love you anyway."
Agreed. The message I always took away from Curious George as a kid is, "Don't do the kinds of things that get George into trouble. Do the kinds of things that make George a good little monkey." The stories show that our actions have consequences, both good, and bad. We see George do something wrong, and the negative reaction to it without getting ourselves into trouble. We then see George do something good followed by positive reinforcement. Through Curious George, we learned about responsibility.
The episode where Curious George swallows the puzzle piece and the man in the bug yellow hat has to take him to the hospital to get his stomach pumped.
OFFICER: hey, that’s the monkey the beheaded five innocent people!
GUY: now hold on one minute! This monkey used those five heads to juggle, giving everyone a lot of joy!
OFFICER: hmm... I guess he’s a good monkey then
thus the karmic wheel continues to turn
Tom: He poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto our houses!
Spongebob: Wait. If it wasn't for George, Plankton would have successfully stolen the Krabby Patty formula.
Tom: Oh... well I like the Krusty Krab better than the Chum Bucket. Okay George, all is forgiven.
Everyone: POISON THE WATER SUPPLY!?!
This Curios George show and the stop motion short film was my jam back in 2014. I can still vaguely recall singing along to the theme!
The year-in-review intro of this vid is so hilariously jarring.
*Upbeat music playing, people dancing* 1986! Yeah!
Challenger explodes, Iran-Contra, Chernobyl....
Oh.
Man, this gave me a rollercoster of thoughts and emotions.
From "Oh a Curious George cartoon. I wonder what this is about"
to "Oh... Nazis..."
to "This is giving me some Caillou energy and I don't like it".
to finally "WHAT THE FLICK" ?!?!
Amazing that the theme song can still instantly relax me after over 30 years. As far as being influenced to do bad stuff, I think I was mostly surprises that they'd even show a character acting that naughty (I was naturally a bit of a goody two shoes as a kid though lol). The premise of the show was so unlike real life, I don't think it would've occurred to me to reenact anything (although I may have swallowed a puzzle piece at some point...)
"This is my year, I just know it." I sure hope so....
Woo, 1986! We're starting to get to my most reliable old television memories.
A small thing. Phantom of the opera began its run on the west end on this year. Not on Broadway. The Broadway run begin in 1988
Pop Arena back on the Nickelodeon beat let's goooOOOOOO
Man Nick is very different in 1986. Love Curious George.
Bitting 1986 means DOUBLE DARE!
It's not unusual for one of these episodes to be almost immediately followed by a couple dozen comments saying, "Oh, I grew up with that, thanks for sharing the behind-the-scenes!" Well, seeing as I grew up with one of these tapes (George at the fire station! George as a dog walker! George at the water park!) and wondered why it disappeared off of TV almost as fast as I'd just discovered it, I'm once again as appreciative as everyone else who views your content. Also, thanks for giving me something else to watch today: Disney Channel Lunch Box, I barely remember you being on, but let's catch up, old almost-friend.
As to the dubious educational content of these shorts, I'm certain it's supposed to be more about occupations or places in the city and how those operate, similar to the classic "Goes to the Hospital" book (and, quite frankly, what the 2006 show does for general scientific concepts). George just happens to get really handsy when it comes to learning how the sausage is made (hey, is there a sausage factory visit in that batch somewhere?). Sure, his morality could use some fine-tuning, but, to me, George's antics here are Mr. Roger's "Picture Picture" factory tours loosely connected by a barebones plot. I can imagine far worse going out at 6 in the morning.
And as for what we learned at 26:14, part of me understandably cringed and reevaluated my moral obligations for the umpteenth time, while another part imagined the equally tone-deaf "Muppet Show" sketch that easily could've been. At least, I hope, he wasn't trying to, y'know, kill them?
Also, thank you for not mentioning "Forrest Gump." It's a great movie, Tom Hanks is a national treasure, yadda yadda yadda, but it would've just detracted from today's tale.
Say what you want, but I used to love the Curious George theme song, especially the outro version.
True, even if it was a short ditty (as a kid, I did wonder who made these since nobody besides the writers got credited anyway). At least they intro was different as they alternated between several animations of George either swinging on a vine or just getting out of bed.
If I may offer a suggestion, when you eventually get to Nickelodeon 2004 and 2020, it would be cool to see the Nick @ Nite Corner screen change to reflect Gen X and Millennials coming of age respectively.
Damn man this gave me soooo many flashbacks to sitting on my grandmother's orange shag carpet watching these on VHS
Ahhhh! SilverHawks that's the name of that cartoon I could only kinda remember THANK YOU!
As soon as he mentioned The Real Ghostbusters and Pee-Wee's Playhouse, it was right back to me at 5 years old in my old apartment watching our TV with our brand new VCR and asking for the Pee Wee pull string doll and Ecto-1 for Christmas. Memories.
I had a Silverhawks lunch box, but I don't recall ever watching the show.
I loved all that stuff
Found your channel recently and I really appreciate the depth of research. It showed in the Banana Man and Danger Mouse videos.
I loved reading "Curious George" as a little kid, and I vaguely remember seeing a few of these shorts on Disney Channel. It's kind of interesting how the shorts have such warped messages.
Also, thank you for pointing out that George is technically an ape.
No George, Don't open up the black hole!
It's okay gearge opened the black hole in the underworld.
So what you're telling me is that Jake and Logan Paul are both Curious George?
Something interesting about the content of the first Curious George book...TMWTYH is depicted as kidnapping George for a zoo, and although George is upset at first, he quickly seems to forget about his home in Africa. Even as a kid, I thought this was a little iffy...didn't George get a say in anything? But in the 2003 movie, they rather wisely changed it to George taking a liking to Ted (the name they gave TMWTYH) and stowing away on his ship.
His name in Henry 💕
Correction:2006
I was born on February 18th, 1986, 3 weeks after the Challenger disaster. I did read a couple of Curious George books, most notably when he goes to a pizzeria (shown at 19:36).
Oh I loved Curious George when I was a little kid. My earliest memories of seeing it on tv when I was 3 years old and it was airing on Nickelodeon as part of Pinwheel. Then when I was a little older, I watched it on Lunchbox on The Disney Channel. We had gotten Disney around 1991 and by this point, it had lured me away from Nickelodeon, as before I was an avid viewer of that channel and watched some of the shows that were discussed recently in the Nick Knacks and have yet to be discussed. By the time we subscribed to The Disney Channel, everything changed.
I had two vhs copies of Curious George and a few of the books.
I blew up the Vatican, but I saved this cat from falling out of a tree.
Everyone was happy.
"Let's go home George and stop off for ice cream", Said the Man in the Yellow Hat.
I remember watching the Curious George shorts when they aired on Disney Channel in the ‘90s. My two favorite books from the original 7 are Curious George Takes a Job and Curious George Rides a Bike.
I don’t know how the PBS series compares to the TV shorts. And maybe there’s a TH-cam channel where I can watch the old shorts?
Same. Disney Channel was where I tuned into Curious George first. Never saw it on any other network.
O so this was on nick before PBS kids well happy 62 birth day
Well... That took a turn.
I do remember watching this show around 1989, when I was just getting interested in television & books.
I was born in the early 80s... It blows my mind that I did not even start school until almost the 90s.
I do hope you'll do an episode on The Monkees itself. (Even if it was MTV that really sparked their mid-80s renaissance.)
He will. It aired on Nick usually after Double Dare.
Ah, the year of my Birth at long last.
And starting off with a show I recall watching as it aired in the later years.
"This is my year, I just know it!"
Oof.
Holy crap! I thought I was the only person who remembered Zoobilee Zoo!
Speaking of the 6am dead zone. This is where i fell in love w mr. Wizard. I would wake up early just to watch it.
So they will not cover the SPORTS shorts, I loved those. The rhino, the loud cheating cat, the dog referee.
Probably not. They were time killers as far as Nick was concerned, just like Watt the Devil that they were playing around this time.
In regards to the organ grinder episode, couldn't George just pay the man back for teh bananas he stole?
I always really like the year wrap ups
I just realized 1986, late in the year, like November or December, was when we got cable. So things should be familiar from here on. One of my favorite shows from childhood should be covered in this season. I already know just about everything about this show, except how it came to Nickelodeon. So there's that.
I grew up watching curious george from pbs kids. And also 1986 is the year when MTV Music Television turns 5.
I'll always remember this as a narrated slideshow & never an animated series, because Animal Soccer World & Clutch Cargo had better production values.
I think I remember a version of Curious George, that I think we got from the library on Weston Woods video cassettes. I think they included other series like live action adaptations of Homer Price stories as well as Harold and the Purple Crayon.
I don't think it was this version, but this definitely reminded me of those ones.
I believe what Weston Woods had was a version they produced in the 50's that basically had a camera moving around the artwork from the book.
th-cam.com/video/xe0xEUj0NtE/w-d-xo.html
Weston Woods' films were also seen on Nickelodeon later on for the program "Eureka's Castle" (as part of the "Children's Circle" video library).
6:00 I feel like I've been called out! And I didn't even start kindergarten until that August...🤣🤣🤣
That's the Curious George I remember. Those little shorts on Nickelodeon.
I remember seeing those "Curious George" cartoons on VHS, as well as Nickelodeon & The Disney Channel. I also remember owning the book adaptations of those shorts, as well as a few cassettes featuring audio from the cartoons.
Aside from Sony, I noticed Goodtimes Home Video also released episodes of these as well.
Dude these are great!
I don't ever remember getting up at 6 to watch Nickelodeon but I distinctly remember the theme song and the little jingle at the end credits. So, I suppose I was getting up at 6 to watch Nickelodeon. I grew up on cartoons so I wouldn't be surprised.
I remember them both too, but wasn't born before they stopped showing on Nick, so I must've seen them on the Disney Channel.
So George writes a letter, floods a room, steals a pump, steals a COW and then... “George, you’re going into SPACE!”
This story cannot get weirder!
*murder, possible hate crime warning*
I stand corrected.
Thank you for acknowledging this was originally in Pinwheel! I knew I’d seen George, but not at the six AM slot. I was watching Nick in ‘85, but some of this wasn’t squaring with my memory. Can only suppose my west coast cable was slow to complete the switch for A&E’s separate feed and for Nick at Nite to start, since I only remember Camp Nickelodeon as the precursor before Nick at Nite began in earnest for me in 1986.
You may be itching for Double Dare (me too), but for me... my 1986 path leads to El Dorado. And the Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Curious George was on Nickelodeon?!? Let Me Count The Ways. I wasn't watching Nickelodeon back in early 1986 so I was only relegated to CBN and USA networks, the latter was no stranger to Curious George. It did pop up in stand alone 4 minute shorts on USA network's long running package show Calliope, a show that lasted a few years longer than Pinwheel. Calliope was where I was first introduced to Curious George, not Nickelodeon. And why, WHY push Danger Mouse out of 6AM territory to make room for 5 4 minute shorts when you can do just as good with only one on Calliope or Pinwheel? Like the Bee Gees. Gerry was still on the trough point in early 1986 but her fortunes would change a second time thanks to Double Dare, but again, that's a whole different story.
That is the Curious George,I remember,not the PBS version.
I commented on a previous video that, when we first got cable, Lassie was the only show on Nick I couldn't sit through. Well, let me just say, I forgot about The Zoo Family. Now that is a damn boring show.
Dammit Sarah. You're going to make me late.
yeah I'm sure I've seen these shorts in passing, but I definitely remember the books. ... totally forgot about the whole 'karma' thing trying to make up for his bad thing, yeah IDK if that's really a good lesson for the kids!
24:09 someone write hollywood for a gritty reboot of curious george now
I'm surprised I remember so many of those original stories!
Oh god I need this. My day has sucked and I am a leach.
Ooo Pee-Wee’s Playhouse! Sorry if I’m still a little fuzzy on what exactly fits the category, but will you be going in depth on it eventually? I have memories of watching it on Nickelodeon in the 90s.
@Curtis Bonds And now it airs on IFC for some reason
@Curtis Bonds Peewee's Playhouse was on Adult Swim?
@@Pokemanic33 Sure was: www.animationmagazine.net/tv/pee-wee-joins-adult-swim/
@Curtis Bonds That wouldn't surprise me.
Ah. I must've watched it on Fox Family, as that's the only time frame that makes sense. I always associate it with the period that Nick was showing The Muppet Show, but perhaps they just came on at the same time in the afternoon.
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I remember watching these on Disney Channel, never cared for them. Also my birth year.
I will say, even despite the show being...less good than I remember, and even despite the choppy, cheap animation, I feel that visually this is the closest a Curious George adaptation has come to the books, emulating their artstyle perfectly. It's not gonna make the content it serves any better, but I do find it to be very appealing, and I commend the show's art director for keeping that bit of consistency for fans of the franchise.
It has that going for it. They at least tried with replicating that look than to go all out on another direction.
I think I remember the books more than the TV shorts, but I do remember the theme song at least.
Curious George sounds like one of those things that works best if it's just silly lighthearted adventures, and trying to make it educational or moralizing is just a mistake. It'd be like trying to make Garfield into a series about proper pet care with Jon as the protagonist.
...oh. OH. Wow, jeez, that's a shitty way to go. :/ Sounds like a hate crime to me.
Out of pure nostalgia, in like 2016 I watched the series. It was on PBS Kids but only on at like 6AM. To be honest, I enjoyed it, for a kids show, of course.
In a Facebook group I'm in, someone mentioned the studio Atkinson Film-Arts in Ottawa animated on the Curious George series. Not sure if they were at it from the beginning or after Lafferty, Harwood & Partners took over but I thought I'd link to this tidbit of a "Mik Casey" being an un-credited director on these.
facebook.com/groups/1450377811843876/permalink/2571976696350643/
Those names certainly aren't credited in the lawsuit documents or any other sources I have.
@@poparena Wouldn't surprise me it's that vague.
1986
The year I was born
I few months after Chernobyl
GOO CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT
Yep, he showed how easy it was for anyone in the right channels to jam a satellite with whatever equipment hand to speak their mind.
The year i was born! Awesome to see Curious George as the highlight for my year!
21:58 Donkey Kong Country (SNES, 1994)
When will we have The Left Handed Hummingbird!?
Did you forget to do Sharon, Lois & Bram: The Elephant Show?
He's got a few more shows before he finishes '86, and the Elephant Show didn't debut until '87 or maybe '88. So it's a ways off.
pronkb000 that’s fair. All that tends to run together with me
Cool.
He did have a tail it's a Mandela effect.
He never had a tail...but... I do remember watching the Shazzam movie... they say it never happened 🤷♀️
Fun fact
The man in the yellow hat..
His name..
Its Henry 💕 you are welcome💕
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In fairness, the “you can get away with everything, so long as you’re rich and popular” bit is pretty much the truth. If you’re rich and white, you can have youthful indiscretions well into your fifties, but if you’re poor and black, you’re an adult at age twelve. It’s not a good lesson for them to learn, but it is the truth.
My mom hated this show. lol
Why did she hated such a wholesome show?
Moral from recent events, don't live in an arid country like Australia.