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Anyone remember when Nickelodeon stopped playing a variety of shows and just played reruns of Rocket Power for hours?
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I don't. It used to be they replaced shows with Rugrats at random, and then SpongeBob when that became popular. But Rocket Power... I don't.
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He's more or less right. The show had its iffy points before but kept breaking down from Season 3 onward.
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I remember looking at the TV guide and seeing nothing but "Rocket Power" in the lineup and being disappointed. Those days marked the end of the best time of Nick with SNICK and the orange couch.
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Judging from the Islamic Content and Horrifying ratings that post bringing it up got, that does indeed seems to be the case...
What were the people at Nickelodeon thinking back then?
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Like the best Casey Kasem impression one could ever do, Scoob.
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That's the least Forte could have done. But again, why recast the role to begin with? Like I said, I can see why they did for the other three (sorta), but not with Shaggy.
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Before Spongebob became a thing there was a point in time where Nick wanted to clean up it's act and be known for Disney-esque family friendly positive message shows. So all the stuff that's associated with classic Nicktoons kinda got the axe.
Rocket Power stuck around because it was inoffensive.
I mean nobody really has nostalgia for crap like "As Told By Ginger", but that's what Nick wanted to aim for.
Because Wacky and Out there things apparently scare children.
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SpongeBob was a thing during that time. It wasn't popular until 2001, but it was out before Rocket Power. It's not like there was a shortage of wackiness during those days.
You want to know why there were so many Klasky-Csupo shows? Nick wanted another Rugrats and kept greenlighting shows from them in the hopes that one of them would become a gigantic hit. In the end, of course, they were only moderately popular.
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Nigga, what. Spongebob was popular from the beginning. The ratings were so high for S1 it got renewed for a second within four episodes and S3 off of S1 reruns right before S2 came out.
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What I meant was it wasn't Rugrats level popular. It was a hit right out of the gate, but it wasn't until about 2001 that all the merchandise started coming out, if you know what I mean.
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That's a shame. No wonder Nick got ruined after the 90's.
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And The Loud House of mediocrity or its nee spinoff isn't doing them ant favors, honestly... Unless you're the wrong kind of fan to be appealing to, which both do perfectly, by the way.
Beware googling anything related to TLH or its spinoff in terms of fanart/fanfiction, is all I'm saying.
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I can't remember where but R.L. Stine was talking about all the shit he did on Eureka's Castle and how the whole attitude of Nick changed towards the year 2000 as the company "matured".
While Nick was part of Viacom from the start it mirrored what happened to Mad Magazine when DC bought them out. Corporate Overlords kill the soul of the place.
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I think I have more respect now for R.L. Stine for having created that show.
So, so true.
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But DC never did buy out MAD. William Gaines just sold it to a company that bought DC and then Warner Bros., and they let Gaines do what he wanted.
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IIRC Gaines dying is what set off the changes.
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William Gaines was a true American hero and we have never since seen his equal.