The episode “Magic” stuck out to me when I watched it in the late 80s when I got cable, all thanks to Joel Hodgson. His “sleepy” delivery and the wonderful prop magic/comedy act really stuck with me even after the show went off the air. So imagine my surprise on Thanksgiving ‘94 that I’m flipping through channels and come across Comedy Central and their Turkey Day marathon of MST3K, featuring the hilarious “magician” riffing on a bad movie with two robots. Needless to say, I’ve been a fan ever since. I met Joel at Dragon*Con years later and finally told him about seeing and loving him on Out of Control and MST3K.
I'm genuinely surprised you never mentioned the *DIZ NOISE.* That high-pitched, skull-splitting double shriek that was kind of her catchphrase. I used to do that around the house and make my mom want to kill me.
I'm watching now and since it was such a big part of the show and basically the signature for me, even more so than it being Dave Coulier's pre "Full House" gig.
It always blows my mind how much I remember from this show, especially the way Diz speaks. I would immitate her all the time. All the clips in the video spark mmy mind, "Oh yes! I remember that bit!" I supposed re-airing 1 year of a show for 8 years will help get a little kid to memorize stuff. HAHA. Great vid as always.
Interesting that Diz's signature, uh, sound thing, isn't heard once for this video. Even though I haven't heard it for 30 years, I can hear it as vividly as my own voice. Can you be nostalgic for something you're not even sure you like all that much?
It's amazing how they milked one season of this show for almost a decade. This is probably the most well remembered 80s Nick show that isn't slime related.
I'm sad you don't have the same fondness for this show that I did, but I appreciate you doing a serious treatment of it. For what it's worth, this show has been almost completely FORGOTTEN ABOUT by most people, so I appreciate that you took the time to do it. I think when I was a kid I just fell in love with the performers and their personalities. But yeah, the show could have been better and you make some good points about why it probably didn't last as long as it could have. To this day, I still associate Dave Coulier more with this show than with Full House as crazy as that probably sounds to a lot of people reading this.
Oh my sweet Lord, this is reawakening sounds & images I haven't experienced in over 37 years! It's shocking how quickly it's coming back to me. Thank you, thank you!
Dave Coulier was actually the voice of Animal on Muppet Babies (Howie Mandel provided his voice in Seasons 1-2), so the Muppet Show comparisons pretty much go full circle.
I remember one episode where Dave came up with his own comic book superhero called "Super Dave" (not to be confused with the fictional daredevil stuntman of the same name).
I think you're spot-on about this not being a great show or what it could have been, but in a media environment where you didn't have a lot of other options you were glad when this show came on because some of the segments were pretty good (Diz was a stand-out) and it had some of the energy of You Can't Do That On Television/MTV and that Pee-Wee's Playhouse had later.
So glad to hear you calling out Klickstein. He was on an episode of the podcast "It's That Episode" and was just a total joke of a person, talking about how he doesn't own a TV anymore and that Nickelodeon's golden age television was the pinnacle of a medium. Really ridiculous stuff. Not surprised to hear he's a shitty researcher too.
oh God, he's one of THOSE people. He seems, um, like a character. I'm morbidly curious about that podcast episode, though I'm definitely not gonna look up any of his writing, since I ain't gonna give someone like that any of my potential ad revenue.
I was 4 when this premiered and it's one of my absolute favorite Nick programs! Diz was my favorite because I liked every little thing she did on the show and yes, I loved the way she looks in every episode! Fun fact: David Stenstrom (Waldo) would later go on to play Hal on Masked Rider as well as lend his voice to certain Power Rangers series characters.
Honestly, those animated clips with the grumpy critic (and his “Aw-haw-haw-haw-haw-haw!” at the end of every quip or scheme he presented) were probably the best parts of this whole series.
Wow, this really brought back all the feels. Out of Control is perhaps my earliest memory of television. It was certainly one of the first shows I ever purposefully watched.
Good episode...as a very young kid in the mid-80s, while I watched Nick religiously, this was probably my favorite show on the channel, and actually still have a "Super Out of Control Saturday" 3-hour marathon from 1990 that I recorded on VHS, as well as a couple of random eps.
Oh my god, why didn't they just have a show with Coulier with Fred Neuman? Match made in heaven. They should have had a sitcom where they take care of street children and find random opportunities to snark by making animal noises while the children ask to be fed. It could have been huge-- okay, nevermind
I actually think OOC was one of the best shows on Nick and was probably the only of its kind. It’s difficult for an ensemble of adults to appeal to a kid audience on a kid channel. Each individual character brought their unique personalities to the table. The format was a classic late night talk show setting that appealed to kids which I enjoyed since I was kind of an old soul. And it would make sense why I liked show since you referenced the muppet show which i truly love. I would even say that i liked this show more than YCDTOTV because of the production quality and less character actors which allows more time for the viewer to become familiar with . I miss shows like this that appealed to kids but adults could still enjoy as well because OOC to me was never too over the top and goofy. Dave was a cool host to keep the show well balanced. I also loved the variety of skectches and gadgets on the show.Unfortunately the variety show/sketch/talk show format isn’t popular but I have always loved OOC and I don’t think there has been any other show like it in Nicks history. The closest that comes to mind is Don’t Just Sit There which was an awesome after school show. Hopefully you’ll do an episode on that soon. It’s hard to find footage of that show.This was probably the last original Nick production before the Double Dare splat era.
Omg, this is the show! I've been trying to figure out the name of this show for at least ten years! That woman's scream is a signature. I still want to watch all of these. Thank you for this series.
I watched it when I was around 9 when it first came out, and my memories are basically limited to 1) the intro animation and 2) Diz. I liked the _idea_ of a show that was "out of control" and against the rules, but it never actually materialized. They were so close to beating Pee Wee Herman to the punch with Diz; they just didn't know what they had with her, and unfortunately they made her play second fiddle to a cringey and unfunny host. Diz was the only one who seemed to _belong_ on that set - she was the only one who kids could realistically get behind (at least I know that was the case for me back then).
That clip of Dave Coulier on stage...the sign on stage says "Detroit Comedy Jam." I remember watching this on cable a lot, probably around 1983 or 1984. I've been looking for a complete version of it for years. Can't seem to find it on TH-cam. Anyone have any ideas what this Jam was, or when it was filmed or broadcast?
I was just a few years too young to really grasp this show, and vague memories of it have been lurking in the back of my mind for most of my life, and this may be the first time I've ever known that it was actually aimed at kids. I always thought it was a grownup sketch comedy that I was just glimpsing bits and pieces of.
I think I just watched this one for Fast Told Fairy Tales. Other than that you've diagnosed the issue exactly, it didn't really feel like a kid's show.
I loved this show as a kid, even though as a three or four year old I usually forgot the name. My memory is that it was often on early in the morning.... I mean 5ish, so it made it more special in my eyes.
Thanks for this recap! It was a huge favorite of mine, and my sisters. OOC introduced me to Joel Hodgson, and Duck's Breath - I'm still a Dr Science fan. 🤓 Another random trivia bit: Marty Schiff (Hern) got his start working with horror legend George A Romero. He's one of the garbagemen at the end of Creepshow, along with Tom Savini.
this show was so ridiculous, I was kinda digging it as a kid, haha. so could not wait to get to this episode! gonna have to locate an episode on youtube after this!
You forgot to mention that comedians before cable also appeared on the game show "Make Me Laugh" which aired around 1979. Both Bob Saget and Dave Coulier both appeared on Make Me Laugh before Full House but it was Dave that got to leading role for Out Of Control which is what the show was about, it was Out Of Control.
Based on things he's said at the end of some videos, I think he makes a living off TH-cam and Patreon and thus doesn't have a regular 9-5 job. That means the number one thing that takes up most people's time doesn't take up his time and he can keep working on it when most people would've had to stop working and clock out.
I have to imagine that they'll slow a bit when we get to a consistent stretch of shows with more than two seasons that have all of the episodes readily available. I _doubt_ that will happen before the '90s, but we'll see.
I never understood why people dump on Dave Coulier, while I wouldn't call him my favorite comedian, he does have his moments. I do remember liking Out Of Control as a kid, through I thought it lasted longer than it did.
I had no idea this show began in the mid-80s. I didn't see it until probably 1990 at the earliest, so I just assumed it originated in that decade. (I think I even managed to see Full House before ever seeing this.) I'm not sure what to think of Out of Control. I liked how weird and bonkers it was, but I don't think I ever found it laugh-out-loud funny. Diz was fun in small doses, and I did try (and fail) to imitate her trademark screech-laugh-thing.
I loved all the episodes of this show when I was a kid; I bought the full series from a collector on ioffer. I wish someone had all the episodes of Lights Camera Action, though.
Yikes. I liked this as a kid, but wow did this not age well. Lame. And Dave's humor...ooooof that's problematic. Interesting that Duck's Breath Mystery Theater wrote for the show, though. They came from where I grew up (Iowa City), so I knew of them. I ever recall seeing Dan Coffey (Dr. Science) checking out when I was working at a local grocery store there called Econofoods. While I still haven't seen Zadar! Cow From Hell, I remember hearing a lot about it when it was being filmed there. I did however see a PBS show from them called Dead Pan Alley, which got me interested in an a cappella group called The Bobs that were featured on that show. Crazy how that works! And yet, less surprising now that I remember than another member of the Ducks Breath troupe (Jim Turner) took his character Randy of the Redwoods to sister channel MTV around that time.
Joel Hodgson was almost host?! I would say that would make this show better......but that would also likely mean a world without MST3K and that would be a much worse world IMO.
Ok. I distinctly remember Dennis Miller hosting a segment that was kind of a Crocodile Dundee parody. But he was Grizzly Miller or something. I was hoping that it would be mentioned here to prove that I’m not insane but now I just don’t know. Any help?
I don’t remember this show despite already being a viewer of the channel in 1992 when it was still airing. I know this because I remember the rise of Nicktoons. Strange.
Terrible public confession that literally nobody asked for time. I was 6 when this aired and had a massive crush on Dave Coulier. But somehow, a mere 3 years later, I did not recognize him as Uncle Joey in Full House, despite the same terrible shtick and the same jokes. Uncle Joey, who I thought was the dweebiest dweeb. Judge away.
Thanks for reviewing this show I use to watch it when I was 7 in 1991 on Nickelodeon wasn’t my favorite nick show at the time I remember thinking the show was goofy at the time you can’t do that on television and mr wizard was better 🙃👍📼🍿😎
I did like this show as a kid though I managed to forget most of it - other than constantly snarking during Full House that 'cut it out' was from my other show, and oddly enough, the "rain or snow or mustard" bit you showed at the beginning. WHY of all things that particular joke stuck with me all my life....
I Watched the show growing up but I too was a little young to have seen the whole show from when it first started to air. Now yes I would have been around 3 or 4 (which ever month it started) but I didn't remember watching it till later on like 88 through 1992. So I proubley would have seen every episode but I only remember certain parts of the show. Still I would consider this a show I would watch if I had access to all episodes and would LOVE to have them all recorded from Nick with ads. Still enjoy Dave and no matter what anyone else says......this is one of the funnest and stupidest shows ever on Nick but I LOVE IT!
A good deal of Turkey TV, when it wasn't Roger Price having to film segments for it, often relied on a lot of outside materials like showing clips from movies, shows like Uncle Floyd, foreign commercials and shorts. It was a kind of odd mish-mash of different things though it probably didn't work as a kid show much like Out of Control tried.
Okay, I do remember Turkey TV, and now that I think about it, I might have fuzzy memories of them showing Uncle Floyd clips. One of the guys in the Out of Control clips looks a little like Floyd and kept making me do a double take, but then suddenly I recognized Scott Gordon and, after rewinding, Floyd himself. I realize now, you can clearly see the "TT" watermark as well as the "Uncle Floyd Show" title. We used to watch it on channel 50 (I think) in New York.
I can still hear Diz’s scream when I close my eyes. You’re not wrong. This show was never that great. It’s basically a muppet show/YCDTOT hybrid with absolutely zero focus and it wasn’t funny- even to a five year old. For all of Roger Price’s faults, YCDTOT was the far superior show because they stuck to a theme and they had an antagonist for the idiots to rally around/against in Ross. OOC more often than not was just loud and kind of annoying. (More so rewatching with the horrible laugh track on top) I’m kind of surprised this show only lasted one season because they reran it ForEVer. If anything the entire aesthetic is early MTV lite, which is surprising it was technically a CySny original. It was jarring about three years later when Full House Starts and Dave Coulier was 30 pounds heavier. Learning that Bob Saget was the first host of OOC is why this series exists
Out of Control was AMAZING for me as a kid and it absolutely DRIVES ME NUTS when people act as if "Cut it out" is a 100% Full House thing. No. It's straight out of Out of Control. I disagree with needing a bad guy on the show. The show didn't need that. It was weird, chaotic and bizarre and that's what made it great. That's what I loved about it as a kid. Didn't have some evil overlord hanging over everything, it was just fun.
Oh my God, thirty years later and I STILL remember the toothpaste as a burger topping bit! Such an odd show, Out of Control. Only watched it a few times, thought this sort of oddball entertainment was handled better in a few years by Turkey Television.
@@mattperiolat I think Turkey TV was '85, Out of Control was '84. Turkey TV may've had episodes with '86 copyrights as well, as I recall noticing episodes I didn't see before in later years.
I recall enjoying Out of Control during its brief run, but it did not have the impact on me that You Can’t Do That On Television and other Nick shows did. In fact, I had completely forgotten about it until this episode showed up on your channel.
Dave=Dapper, looney-tunes-esque and the kermi-the-frog-type host Diz=Cyndi Lauper-type stage manager, who loves to tell stories set to 2 minutes Hern=Caustic, joking, laughing and the Dr. Smith kind of reporter, who'll stop at nothing to overthrow Dave as the new host Angela=Ditzy reporter who's eager to be the best one the show Waldo=Geeky inventor of all the gadgets on the set Ha-Ha 3200=Comiedy computer, always supplying the jokes, and often at odds with Hern, who calls it a "humorless hunk of hapless machinery" The first half of the "Big Boss" episode, where Bill Bixby of "The Incredible Hulk" makes a surprise cameo at the beginning of it, is missing. Diz doesn't like it when someone tries to take over as the new host of the show, like Bixby, Fred Newman or, in this case,....Hern! That show lasted for one season only on Nickelodeon,and started in reruns, until it sound up in the wasteland of obscurity in the early 90's. As Diz, herself would say, Awwww, luuuckyyyyyyyy!
Unrelated to the subject: Watching this series makes me begin to wonder if these shaky early years are why Nickelodeon is so obsessed with scoring instant hits and tossing anything that doesn't strike oil instantly. They never want to be in a position to lose money or ratings again. But that's just speculation on my part. Related to the subject: Dave playing the straight man reminds me of the times Joey on Full House tried to put his foot down and be serious and how people didn't expect it of him because he was so silly and goofy. Or susceptible to "the bunny noses" (the ep where he grounds DJ for being late).
Regarding that brief bit you did recapping Coulier's standup comedy career, I can't say I was expecting that much racism on his part. Holy shit, Dave, what is the matter with you? I would hope he's learned better since then, but even for the '80s, that was pretty bad.
based on the clips i've seen in this video, out of control actually looks pretty funny. And this is coming from a gen z kid. it's one of those loose, silly shows that seems like it would be best to watch late night on a saturday when your brain is shut off and you don't watch it from a critical perspective. i think if you watch it that way, you'll enjoy it more.
The episode “Magic” stuck out to me when I watched it in the late 80s when I got cable, all thanks to Joel Hodgson. His “sleepy” delivery and the wonderful prop magic/comedy act really stuck with me even after the show went off the air. So imagine my surprise on Thanksgiving ‘94 that I’m flipping through channels and come across Comedy Central and their Turkey Day marathon of MST3K, featuring the hilarious “magician” riffing on a bad movie with two robots. Needless to say, I’ve been a fan ever since. I met Joel at Dragon*Con years later and finally told him about seeing and loving him on Out of Control and MST3K.
I'm genuinely surprised you never mentioned the *DIZ NOISE.* That high-pitched, skull-splitting double shriek that was kind of her catchphrase. I used to do that around the house and make my mom want to kill me.
I'm watching now and since it was such a big part of the show and basically the signature for me, even more so than it being Dave Coulier's pre "Full House" gig.
Holy crap... Joel Hodgson was on Out of Control?!? My brain just melted! What's great is he's just doing his regular comedy routine.
As a huge MST3K fan, I found this show through Joel Hodgson's appearance. It's quite interesting watching pre-MST3K stuff of the cast.
My nine year old self thought this was quality comedic programing.
Me too, and I was 7!
And he is right.
It always blows my mind how much I remember from this show, especially the way Diz speaks. I would immitate her all the time.
All the clips in the video spark mmy mind, "Oh yes! I remember that bit!" I supposed re-airing 1 year of a show for 8 years will help get a little kid to memorize stuff. HAHA.
Great vid as always.
Interesting that Diz's signature, uh, sound thing, isn't heard once for this video. Even though I haven't heard it for 30 years, I can hear it as vividly as my own voice. Can you be nostalgic for something you're not even sure you like all that much?
That's what I'm trying to figure out watching this.
Now I see that Dave took his catch phrase "cut it out" from one show to the next.
It's amazing how they milked one season of this show for almost a decade. This is probably the most well remembered 80s Nick show that isn't slime related.
“Oh, BOB SAGET!”
HA!
I'm sad you don't have the same fondness for this show that I did, but I appreciate you doing a serious treatment of it. For what it's worth, this show has been almost completely FORGOTTEN ABOUT by most people, so I appreciate that you took the time to do it. I think when I was a kid I just fell in love with the performers and their personalities. But yeah, the show could have been better and you make some good points about why it probably didn't last as long as it could have. To this day, I still associate Dave Coulier more with this show than with Full House as crazy as that probably sounds to a lot of people reading this.
I do too! I think more of Dave for this than Full House.
Another new Nick Knacks already? :D I love this series so much!
"Made with real cheese" - perfect tag-line for this episode. Just perfect.
Oh my sweet Lord, this is reawakening sounds & images I haven't experienced in over 37 years! It's shocking how quickly it's coming back to me. Thank you, thank you!
Dave Coulier was actually the voice of Animal on Muppet Babies (Howie Mandel provided his voice in Seasons 1-2), so the Muppet Show comparisons pretty much go full circle.
I've been waiting for this one with my fingers crossed. Thanks!! Love this channel. Born in 1983.
I remember one episode where Dave came up with his own comic book superhero called "Super Dave" (not to be confused with the fictional daredevil stuntman of the same name).
I love the absolute glee in the voice of the thought of finally getting to the cartoons.
Silly foreign cartoons!
I think you're spot-on about this not being a great show or what it could have been, but in a media environment where you didn't have a lot of other options you were glad when this show came on because some of the segments were pretty good (Diz was a stand-out) and it had some of the energy of You Can't Do That On Television/MTV and that Pee-Wee's Playhouse had later.
So glad to hear you calling out Klickstein. He was on an episode of the podcast "It's That Episode" and was just a total joke of a person, talking about how he doesn't own a TV anymore and that Nickelodeon's golden age television was the pinnacle of a medium. Really ridiculous stuff. Not surprised to hear he's a shitty researcher too.
He also has some incredibly shitty ideas of how oppressed white men are and about how negative "forced diversity" is for TV. Jesus.
oh God, he's one of THOSE people. He seems, um, like a character. I'm morbidly curious about that podcast episode, though I'm definitely not gonna look up any of his writing, since I ain't gonna give someone like that any of my potential ad revenue.
TackyRackyComixNEO It’s a legitimately great podcast when he isn’t the guest so I won’t pass up an opportunity to promote it.
@@thepantweaver nice. What's the premise of the podcast? I'm curious now.
I was 4 when this premiered and it's one of my absolute favorite Nick programs! Diz was my favorite because I liked every little thing she did on the show and yes, I loved the way she looks in every episode! Fun fact: David Stenstrom (Waldo) would later go on to play Hal on Masked Rider as well as lend his voice to certain Power Rangers series characters.
YES! Belle and Sebastian is next! That show is part of quite the multimedia phenomenon in it's home country.
Honestly, those animated clips with the grumpy critic (and his “Aw-haw-haw-haw-haw-haw!” at the end of every quip or scheme he presented) were probably the best parts of this whole series.
Hern Berford always seemed like a parody of Herb Tarlek from WKRP.
Wow, this really brought back all the feels. Out of Control is perhaps my earliest memory of television. It was certainly one of the first shows I ever purposefully watched.
Good episode...as a very young kid in the mid-80s, while I watched Nick religiously, this was probably my favorite show on the channel, and actually still have a "Super Out of Control Saturday" 3-hour marathon from 1990 that I recorded on VHS, as well as a couple of random eps.
Do you remember the Canadian sitcom Hangin In with Keanu Reeves? that used to air on Nick in the mid-80s.
Oh my god, why didn't they just have a show with Coulier with Fred Neuman? Match made in heaven. They should have had a sitcom where they take care of street children and find random opportunities to snark by making animal noises while the children ask to be fed. It could have been huge-- okay, nevermind
21:36 OH! I HEAR PORKCHOP! YES!
Also, RIP Bob Saget.
Gotta admit the burger gag actually made me gag. Perfect for breakfast time!
Presto did a pretty good job cleaning up the place. Do his bosses like him?
No they didn’t like him so they shot him into space
What’s he gonna do for fun? I hope some meaty movies
I actually think OOC was one of the best shows on Nick and was probably the only of its kind. It’s difficult for an ensemble of adults to appeal to a kid audience on a kid channel. Each individual character brought their unique personalities to the table. The format was a classic late night talk show setting that appealed to kids which I enjoyed since I was kind of an old soul. And it would make sense why I liked show since you referenced the muppet show which i truly love. I would even say that i liked this show more than YCDTOTV because of the production quality and less character actors which allows more time for the viewer to become familiar with . I miss shows like this that appealed to kids but adults could still enjoy as well because OOC to me was never too over the top and goofy. Dave was a cool host to keep the show well balanced. I also loved the variety of skectches and gadgets on the show.Unfortunately the variety show/sketch/talk show format isn’t popular but I have always loved OOC and I don’t think there has been any other show like it in Nicks history. The closest that comes to mind is Don’t Just Sit There which was an awesome after school show. Hopefully you’ll do an episode on that soon. It’s hard to find footage of that show.This was probably the last original Nick production before the Double Dare splat era.
All I know about Dave Coulier is that he was one of the guys from Full House and that a certain Canadian hates it when he talks about fluffernutters.
My friends and I absolutely loved this show. Cut. IT. OUT! (gotta do the cut, point, thumb hand motion when you said it as well!)
The "Hurry Up" bit on this show actually inspired me to clean my room quickly as a kid!
Omg, this is the show! I've been trying to figure out the name of this show for at least ten years! That woman's scream is a signature. I still want to watch all of these. Thank you for this series.
I watched it when I was around 9 when it first came out, and my memories are basically limited to 1) the intro animation and 2) Diz. I liked the _idea_ of a show that was "out of control" and against the rules, but it never actually materialized. They were so close to beating Pee Wee Herman to the punch with Diz; they just didn't know what they had with her, and unfortunately they made her play second fiddle to a cringey and unfunny host. Diz was the only one who seemed to _belong_ on that set - she was the only one who kids could realistically get behind (at least I know that was the case for me back then).
Didn't Dave Coulier audition for Saturday Night Live for the 1985-86 season?
I love it when celebrities recommend each other cuz it shows an appreciation for each other’s skill
I forgot how talented of a comedian Dave collier is. I need to find more of his standup material
This is just the introduction to the opposite skits.
Question... is your favorite comedian Jeff Dunham? If so, makes sense.
That clip of Dave Coulier on stage...the sign on stage says "Detroit Comedy Jam." I remember watching this on cable a lot, probably around 1983 or 1984. I've been looking for a complete version of it for years. Can't seem to find it on TH-cam. Anyone have any ideas what this Jam was, or when it was filmed or broadcast?
I was just a few years too young to really grasp this show, and vague memories of it have been lurking in the back of my mind for most of my life, and this may be the first time I've ever known that it was actually aimed at kids. I always thought it was a grownup sketch comedy that I was just glimpsing bits and pieces of.
I think I just watched this one for Fast Told Fairy Tales. Other than that you've diagnosed the issue exactly, it didn't really feel like a kid's show.
And yet we watched!
@Dusk Raccoon I was the right age!
Loved this show around 1987 on repeats
It funny how Dave and Bob got their starts on Nickelodeon and 20 years later they returned to said Network with the show made them household names
Technically they didn't since Full House isn't a Nick@Nite original
I loved this show as a kid, even though as a three or four year old I usually forgot the name. My memory is that it was often on early in the morning.... I mean 5ish, so it made it more special in my eyes.
Thanks for this recap! It was a huge favorite of mine, and my sisters. OOC introduced me to Joel Hodgson, and Duck's Breath - I'm still a Dr Science fan. 🤓 Another random trivia bit: Marty Schiff (Hern) got his start working with horror legend George A Romero. He's one of the garbagemen at the end of Creepshow, along with Tom Savini.
Weird coincidence: I just saw Joel Robinson perform last night at MST3K live. I had no idea he'd be in this video. Seriously, what are the odds?
this show was so ridiculous, I was kinda digging it as a kid, haha. so could not wait to get to this episode! gonna have to locate an episode on youtube after this!
You forgot to mention that comedians before cable also appeared on the game show "Make Me Laugh" which aired around 1979. Both Bob Saget and Dave Coulier both appeared on Make Me Laugh before Full House but it was Dave that got to leading role for Out Of Control which is what the show was about, it was Out Of Control.
I think Bob Saget would've been better at hosting this than Coullier was. He *does* manage the straight man thing from time to time.
I've really been enjoying your nick Retrospective
How they heck are you pumping these out so fast? Not that Im complaining
Based on things he's said at the end of some videos, I think he makes a living off TH-cam and Patreon and thus doesn't have a regular 9-5 job. That means the number one thing that takes up most people's time doesn't take up his time and he can keep working on it when most people would've had to stop working and clock out.
I know that, but making a video like this in 5 days is unheard of regardless of how much time you have.
@@blakebakedacake4618 Sorry, I didn't know you knew that.
I have to imagine that they'll slow a bit when we get to a consistent stretch of shows with more than two seasons that have all of the episodes readily available. I _doubt_ that will happen before the '90s, but we'll see.
This channel is great and this series needs to be covered by like AV club and all kinds of places.
I never understood why people dump on Dave Coulier, while I wouldn't call him my favorite comedian, he does have his moments. I do remember liking Out Of Control as a kid, through I thought it lasted longer than it did.
I probably did too. This was my favorite show!
As a kid I loved Dave Coulier. Now I look back and he's a bit cheesy, but I'm not going to hate on him.
@@Juichi He's OK to me.
Well *that* was quick! But I'll watch this tomorrow because I'm gonna go to bed soon
I had no idea this show began in the mid-80s. I didn't see it until probably 1990 at the earliest, so I just assumed it originated in that decade. (I think I even managed to see Full House before ever seeing this.) I'm not sure what to think of Out of Control. I liked how weird and bonkers it was, but I don't think I ever found it laugh-out-loud funny. Diz was fun in small doses, and I did try (and fail) to imitate her trademark screech-laugh-thing.
I loved all the episodes of this show when I was a kid; I bought the full series from a collector on ioffer. I wish someone had all the episodes of Lights Camera Action, though.
Yikes. I liked this as a kid, but wow did this not age well. Lame. And Dave's humor...ooooof that's problematic.
Interesting that Duck's Breath Mystery Theater wrote for the show, though. They came from where I grew up (Iowa City), so I knew of them. I ever recall seeing Dan Coffey (Dr. Science) checking out when I was working at a local grocery store there called Econofoods. While I still haven't seen Zadar! Cow From Hell, I remember hearing a lot about it when it was being filmed there. I did however see a PBS show from them called Dead Pan Alley, which got me interested in an a cappella group called The Bobs that were featured on that show. Crazy how that works! And yet, less surprising now that I remember than another member of the Ducks Breath troupe (Jim Turner) took his character Randy of the Redwoods to sister channel MTV around that time.
I love this series! Can't wait till you get to All That and Kenan and Kel. Or when you get to Double Dare!
Joel Hodgson was almost host?! I would say that would make this show better......but that would also likely mean a world without MST3K and that would be a much worse world IMO.
15:34 He was on an episode of Fairly Odd Parents.
Out Of Control, YCDTOT, & Danger Mouse were my top 3 shows. Ahhhhhh the nostalgia! Lawd I feel old!
🎶 The Thames theme before Dangermouse plays in my head 🎵
Ok. I distinctly remember Dennis Miller hosting a segment that was kind of a Crocodile Dundee parody. But he was Grizzly Miller or something. I was hoping that it would be mentioned here to prove that I’m not insane but now I just don’t know. Any help?
That did happen. Unfortunately, I don't have footage of it.
Loved Diz big time and watched this show every time it was on.
8:00 "Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns."
I don’t remember this show despite already being a viewer of the channel in 1992 when it was still airing. I know this because I remember the rise of Nicktoons. Strange.
6:20 Say the line, Dave...
Also, I *vaguely* remeber this show. Namely the "Let's Eat" intro.
Terrible public confession that literally nobody asked for time. I was 6 when this aired and had a massive crush on Dave Coulier. But somehow, a mere 3 years later, I did not recognize him as Uncle Joey in Full House, despite the same terrible shtick and the same jokes. Uncle Joey, who I thought was the dweebiest dweeb. Judge away.
god i loved this show
Thanks for reviewing this show I use to watch it when I was 7 in 1991 on Nickelodeon wasn’t my favorite nick show at the time I remember thinking the show was goofy at the time you can’t do that on television and mr wizard was better 🙃👍📼🍿😎
I did like this show as a kid though I managed to forget most of it - other than constantly snarking during Full House that 'cut it out' was from my other show, and oddly enough, the "rain or snow or mustard" bit you showed at the beginning. WHY of all things that particular joke stuck with me all my life....
I suppose Out of Control would've worked on another channel, had one, perhaps based on comedy, was around at the time (what we'd see in the 90's).
I Watched the show growing up but I too was a little young to have seen the whole show from when it first started to air. Now yes I would have been around 3 or 4 (which ever month it started) but I didn't remember watching it till later on like 88 through 1992. So I proubley would have seen every episode but I only remember certain parts of the show. Still I would consider this a show I would watch if I had access to all episodes and would LOVE to have them all recorded from Nick with ads. Still enjoy Dave and no matter what anyone else says......this is one of the funnest and stupidest shows ever on Nick but I LOVE IT!
28:26 The Uncle Floyd Show was on Nickelodeon?
That was Turkey Television, which ran briefly in 1985
@@herbalist110377 Either way, they got Uncle Floyd clips to play to the rest of the country outside Jersey!
A good deal of Turkey TV, when it wasn't Roger Price having to film segments for it, often relied on a lot of outside materials like showing clips from movies, shows like Uncle Floyd, foreign commercials and shorts. It was a kind of odd mish-mash of different things though it probably didn't work as a kid show much like Out of Control tried.
Okay, I do remember Turkey TV, and now that I think about it, I might have fuzzy memories of them showing Uncle Floyd clips. One of the guys in the Out of Control clips looks a little like Floyd and kept making me do a double take, but then suddenly I recognized Scott Gordon and, after rewinding, Floyd himself. I realize now, you can clearly see the "TT" watermark as well as the "Uncle Floyd Show" title. We used to watch it on channel 50 (I think) in New York.
I can still hear Diz’s scream when I close my eyes.
You’re not wrong. This show was never that great. It’s basically a muppet show/YCDTOT hybrid with absolutely zero focus and it wasn’t funny- even to a five year old. For all of Roger Price’s faults, YCDTOT was the far superior show because they stuck to a theme and they had an antagonist for the idiots to rally around/against in Ross. OOC more often than not was just loud and kind of annoying. (More so rewatching with the horrible laugh track on top)
I’m kind of surprised this show only lasted one season because they reran it ForEVer. If anything the entire aesthetic is early MTV lite, which is surprising it was technically a CySny original. It was jarring about three years later when Full House Starts and Dave Coulier was 30 pounds heavier.
Learning that Bob Saget was the first host of OOC is why this series exists
I still loved this show.
I remember that show. Dave Coulier was comedic gold
Was he though?
I remember the shorts that they had between shows and stuff
Memories…you had to be there.
Out of Control was AMAZING for me as a kid and it absolutely DRIVES ME NUTS when people act as if "Cut it out" is a 100% Full House thing. No. It's straight out of Out of Control. I disagree with needing a bad guy on the show. The show didn't need that. It was weird, chaotic and bizarre and that's what made it great. That's what I loved about it as a kid. Didn't have some evil overlord hanging over everything, it was just fun.
Oh my God, thirty years later and I STILL remember the toothpaste as a burger topping bit! Such an odd show, Out of Control. Only watched it a few times, thought this sort of oddball entertainment was handled better in a few years by Turkey Television.
They both came out around the same time.
Christopher Sobieniak I swear Turkey Television was in 1986 or so. Out of Control was 1984, right?
@@mattperiolat I think Turkey TV was '85, Out of Control was '84. Turkey TV may've had episodes with '86 copyrights as well, as I recall noticing episodes I didn't see before in later years.
Turkey Television was horrible.
Hype for the animation reviews
I recall enjoying Out of Control during its brief run, but it did not have the impact on me that You Can’t Do That On Television and other Nick shows did. In fact, I had completely forgotten about it until this episode showed up on your channel.
Dave Coulier must thank his lucky stars every single day for Full House. His career was going nowhere fast doing this show.
I just looked up the "Diz Noise" that everyone's raving about in the comments. That's some black magic right there.
Duck's Breath was just a fabulous sketch group. Their work is not really well-represented by this show.
Dave Coulier will never be Peter Venkman. Fight me.
Fish heads, fish heads Rolly polly fish heads, fish heads, fish heads, eat em up YUM!
Out of control was such an 80's show.
Why I love it!
Maybe it's because it was made in, oh, I don't know, the 80s.
Gee, ya think?!
Dave=Dapper, looney-tunes-esque and the kermi-the-frog-type host
Diz=Cyndi Lauper-type stage manager, who loves to tell stories set to 2 minutes
Hern=Caustic, joking, laughing and the Dr. Smith kind of reporter, who'll stop at nothing to
overthrow Dave as the new host
Angela=Ditzy reporter who's eager to be the best one the show
Waldo=Geeky inventor of all the gadgets on the set
Ha-Ha 3200=Comiedy computer, always supplying the jokes, and often at odds
with Hern, who calls it a "humorless hunk of hapless machinery"
The first half of the "Big Boss" episode, where Bill Bixby of "The Incredible Hulk"
makes a surprise cameo at the beginning of it, is missing. Diz doesn't like it
when someone tries to take over as the new host of the show, like Bixby, Fred
Newman or, in this case,....Hern! That show lasted for one season only on
Nickelodeon,and started in reruns, until it sound up in the wasteland of
obscurity in the early 90's. As Diz, herself would say, Awwww, luuuckyyyyyyyy!
I think this isnthe show that has one single arbitrary core memory from where they talk about a city that banned the use of putting a slash in a 7
I think SCTV is the real spiritual sister to this series.
Unrelated to the subject: Watching this series makes me begin to wonder if these shaky early years are why Nickelodeon is so obsessed with scoring instant hits and tossing anything that doesn't strike oil instantly. They never want to be in a position to lose money or ratings again. But that's just speculation on my part.
Related to the subject: Dave playing the straight man reminds me of the times Joey on Full House tried to put his foot down and be serious and how people didn't expect it of him because he was so silly and goofy. Or susceptible to "the bunny noses" (the ep where he grounds DJ for being late).
I watched Out Of Control Too
Regarding that brief bit you did recapping Coulier's standup comedy career, I can't say I was expecting that much racism on his part. Holy shit, Dave, what is the matter with you? I would hope he's learned better since then, but even for the '80s, that was pretty bad.
It’s comedy. Jokes. Meant for people with a sense of humor. Don’t take it too seriously.
based on the clips i've seen in this video, out of control actually looks pretty funny. And this is coming from a gen z kid. it's one of those loose, silly shows that seems like it would be best to watch late night on a saturday when your brain is shut off and you don't watch it from a critical perspective.
i think if you watch it that way, you'll enjoy it more.
The comedy guy from full house is in this
I... I remember loving this show as a kid; as an adult I've completly forgotten about it.
SQUEEEEEE!!!! Next time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not me!
Its lack of focus makes it seem a bit like a sanitized "Laugh-In".
Is it fair to say Dave in Out of Control was basically proto-Joey?
I loved Out of Control as a kid. It was just so... bizarre and random. Certainly leagues better than Roundhouse.