The Old School Nick You Probably Don't Remember

For all the Old School Nick fans out there who consider Alex Mack "old school" (in my opinion, Alex Mack and Shelby Woo and Keenan and Kel were the beginning of the end for good Nickelodeon live-action shows), here's a true oldie: Out of Control. I had forgotten about this show for years until an old college roommate and I were reminiscing about old Nick shows and we both had vague memories of this weird show that featured a poor man's Cyndi Lauper, Uncle Joey from Full House, a robot that did something. . . we couldn't remember what, and had an aesthetic that I can best describe as investigative reporting meets the Goonies meets Monty Python meets the Yellow Submarine. Later my roommate found out the name of the show while searching on the Internet: Out of Control. Yes! How could I have forgotten it?! How could this show have gone missing and forgotten for all these years?! Without Out of Control all the great Nick shows that came after would not have existed. No Clarrisa Explains It All; no Salute Your Shorts; no Adventures of Pete and Pete.

This is the only episode I could find on youtube, so savor it:

Old School Nick Toons for what ails ya

I've been annoyingly sick these past couple of days, just watching tv and communicating through hand signals and raspy whispers (me=sore throat), and between the Jane Austen miniseries and Red Wings games it's been either Boomerang or the Nick Toons channel. Old school Nick toons, in fact, first Rocko's Modern Life, then Ren and Stimpy. I'm not sure how a show so irredeemably disgusting can be so entertaining. I think back on what I used to watch when I was a kid and I sometimes can't believe the weirdness I was into. It's like the pop culture universe was like, "How can we make that weird girl in Michigan even weirder?" and then they sent me stuff like Big Top Pee-Wee, the episode of Duck Tales where they went to the Bermuda Triangle, and Ren and Stimpy.

Hoekvision presents, I Like Pink:

Old School Nick YouTube Links!

Farewell, My Little Viking (part I)




An awesome fan video (though, unfortunately, unfinished)




Inside Out Boy!!!




"We've all been Hoovered!"




Weinerville used to come on Sunday afternoons and run for like two hours. I don't remember much about the show except the human heads with little puppet bodies and that they used to show cartoons, and that two people from the audience at the end of the show would be "weinerized" (turned into human-headed little puppets). Old school Nick was weird, basically.




Why I've always remembered this scene from Ren and Stimpy so vividly, I just don't know. But I do.


Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society... The Tale of the Final Wish! (starring Bobcat Goldthwait!)










Even the commercial bumpers were better back then!