The idea was conceived when SlimeCon 2004 co-coordinator Byron Smith and I were trying to figure out how . Amy, the younger sister of Jill Stanley, was the only cast member not yet born when the series premiered in February 1979. A lot of 1980s cultural references were used at the time (The A-Team, General Hospital, Rambo, Mister Rogers Neighborhood etc). Likewise, when someone said "I don't know", green slime, a gross gooey substance, would pour on him from above. [6][7] "Adoption" is the only episode that was banned in the United States. You Can't Do That on Television (TV Series 1979-1990) Christine McGlade as Christine, Moose, Old Lady, Christine 'Moose' McGlade, Christine McGlade, Hallie, Miss Take, Old Woman, Old woman . There was no pre-emption for the "Success and Failure" episode (1989) because the producers failed to come up with one. Was the first female cast member to be slimed in the dungeon. You Can't Do That on Television was a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before airing internationally in 1981. In 1984, You Can't Do That on Television became Nickelodeon's highest-rating television program, lasting until mid-1986. The show was originally intended to be basically Saturday Night Live, only with teens and pre-teens. It continued to run periodically on ABC Television for the next few years, mainly as a filler during the school holidays until the rights expired in the early 1990s. Inverse tropes related to Mr. Schitdler in the classroom and the principal in detention were also frequent; however, very rarely would an opposite feature the kids getting their revenge on Barth. Elizabeth is one of the very few cast members never to be watered, pied or slimed during her time on the show. Episode 7: The famous green slime show (St. Patrick's Day). The pre-empted show announcement concept was borrowed from Saturday Night Live, which introduced their shows with similar announcements in the late 1970s. In August of 2017 a reboot overseen by Roger Price, Jimmy Fox and Main Event Media was announced but as of late 2019 it has since been called off. Stars Les Lye Abby Hagyard Christine McGlade Opposite sketches were used in the inaugural season of the show (the first one, in Episode 2, was submitted by a viewer), but it was not until Whatever Turns You On that they became an integral part of the show. Alasdair Gillis was born on 6 April 1971 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Kids TV, Sketch Comedy, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s Near complete collection of the classic Canadian kids sketch comedy show that ran from 1979 to 1990 Addeddate 2022-03-01 06:13:58 Identifier ycdtotv Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4 Add Review Reviews The show is the subject of the 2004 feature-length documentary You Can't Do That on Film,[1] directed by David Dillehunt, which was released in North America by Shout! It featured preteen and teenage actors in a sketch comedy format similar to that of American sketch comedy Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and Canadian sketch comedy Second City Television. Actress Abby Hagyard, who played "Mom" opposite Lye's role as "Dad," did not join the cast until 1982. With that episode, the use of "I don't know" as the slime's trigger phrase was introduced, and it quickly became the show's trademark gag. Veteran comedy actor Les Lye played several recurring characters and was initially the only adult to perform in the show's sketches, although actress Abby Hagyard later joined the show to become "the other grown-up" in the cast roster, and frequently played "Mom" opposite Lye's role as "Dad." Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. Since April 28, 2005! Lisa got slimed with white slime after saying "I really don't know". By this time, McGlade, now well into her twenties and eager to move on with her life, had moved to Toronto and was flying back to Ottawa for YCDTOTV taping sessions. The kid would often trick El Capitano into being shot by the firing squad himself, and, as he keeled over, El Capitano would groan "That is one sneaky keed.". Rodney was one of a few cast members to be featured on both, Ramona was the older sister of Rodney Helal, and was only in one episode. Mills became a film director and screenwriter, post YCDTOTV. In later years, the recipe consisted simply of green food coloring and cottage cheese, though it spoiled if left too long under hot studio lights.[17]. This usually backfired, as in the "Computers" episode when McGlade said "insufficient data" instead of "I don't know" and got green slime dumped on her anyway. The products featured ranged from parodies of actual products (such as the Lotachi Lugman, a parody of the. During the "locker jokes" segment of each episode, cast members, standing inside school lockers with the words "You Can't Do That on Television" painted on them, told jokes to each other. My favorite gag from that show was the one with the lockers and people are popping out and talking. Did not appear in any 1986 episodes although he is in the official cast photo. In August 2017, it was announced that You Can't Do That on Television would be getting a reboot. Alasdair Gillis. Appeared in a total of five episodes. Wealth [5.26] . To compensate for the removal of local content, Price and Darby created a new local show for CJOH titled Something Else, which featured many of the YCDTOTV cast in a game show/variety format similar to that of The Price Is Right. I was luck." Yoga Instructor Renu Anand on Instagram: "Would you believe that I stayed in a boarding school at the age of 13 till I was 17? While the show's green slime changed ingredients and even consistencies frequently, the water was almost always the same. Vanessa: There is something I wanted to ask you. In January 1981, production on YCDTOTV resumed, and a new set of episodes aired locally on CJOH through May 1981. Fourth and final host. Production on new episodes of YCDTOTV resumed full-time in 1982, with all episodes from that point onward made in the half-hour all-comedy format. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. Catch the show from the beginning, with a segment on baton twirling, Tim's bright pink dress, disco dancing finals, and the debut of SLIME! Sometimes opposite sketches involved cast members not being hit with slime or water after saying the "trigger phrase" (see below section), as in City Life (1987) or Excess (1989). After its first two runs, it was moved to a 7:00a.m. weekday morning timeslot in 1989. The show's creators shortened it to 30 minutes, removed local content, added a laugh track and replaced music videos with live performances from popular Canadian artists including Trooper, Max Webster, Ian Thomas, Ottawa's own Cooper Brothers (one of whose members, Dick Cooper, later became a writer for YCDTOTV) and disco singer Alma Faye Brooks. There is also one episode in which the cast member cries out to the commander: "Hurry up, hurry up, start the execution!" Nasti's Dungeon: A kid shackled in a dungeon for unknown reasons would be approached by prison warden Nasti, who would make the prisoner falsely believe that he was to be set free. [red, yellow, and blue slime falls on Christine's head]. Some variations of the magic words also triggered the slime, such as in the "Blame" episode when the entire cast got slimed together after one of them said, "we don't know.". By what name was You Can't Do That on Television (1979) officially released in India in English? 900 likes, 53 comments - Yoga Instructor Renu Anand (@yogawithraynu) on Instagram: "Would you believe that I stayed in a boarding school at the age of 13 till I was 17? Opening animation: the Children's Television Sausage Factory, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Exclusive: You Can't Do That On Television is getting a reboot", "Remembering Alanis Morissette's tween years on 'You Can't Do That On Television', "You Can't Do That on Television (TV Series 19791990) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb", Abby Hagyard Publishing - Site for star of "You Can't Do That on Television", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Television&oldid=1149400157. The name of a viscous green substance used on the 1979-1990 Canadian children's TV comedy show You Can't Do That on Television. It had such wacky stuff. Yeah, my eyesight is so bad I can hardly see. Veteran comedy actor Les Lye played numerous recurring characters and was initially the only adult to perform in the show's sketches; he was also the only actor to appear for the entire length of the series' run. A show on marketing, for instance, would also have a sketch or four of how not to market something. Every week the show took its "Roving Camera" to hangouts around town, recording kids' jokes or complaints about life, which would be played on the following week's broadcast. Longtime host Christine McGlade ("Moose") had departed the previous year, as had Alasdair Gillis (who had been promoted to cohost with McGlade in 1985 before leaving toward the end of the 1986 season). According to Geoffrey Darby in the book Slimed! Enter the PIN and set the desired controls for both TV and movies. Occasionally, the older children in the cast (such as Christine McGlade, Sarah West or Cyndi Kennedy) played adult characters. Although the pilot aired on Nickelodeon, the series was not picked up. Known for a recurring gag of being unable to remember whether his name was Nick or Ted, stemming from a real-life incident during a read-through in which he read Ted Wilson's lines by mistake. The series was also seen in some European countries and reportedly in the Middle East (with Arabic dubbing), although no French-dubbed version for distribution in either France or francophone Canada is known to exist, nor were any local adaptations based on the YCDTOTV format known to have been made. Production on new episodes of YCDTOTV resumed full-time in 1982 in the half-hour all-comedy format, with Nickelodeon and CJOH as production partners. Starting with the 1981 season, most episodes featured sketches with the kids eating at Barth's Burgery, a fast-food burger restaurant run by Barth (Lye), a chain-smoking, unpleasant, disgusting cook who uses unsanitary and questionable methods of cooking burgers. The show was originally meant to offer a program for children on Saturday mornings which was pure entertainment and made no attempt to be educational. At the beginning of each show aired after the 1981 season, a title card would appear featuring a parody title of a TV show, with a silly (often macabre) picture and the announcer making the following announcement: "(Fake TV show) will not be seen today/at this time in order for us to bring you this (insert witty remark here)." Most episodes included one or more firing squad sketches, where Les would play the part of a Spanish-accented Latin American military officer with a sword in hand preparing to order a firing squad to execute one of the children actors, who were standing in front of a post. The slime or water would not hit until after the opposites were over, or sometimes not fall at all. On October 5, 2015, Nickelodeon's sister network TeenNick brought the show back in reruns as the first program on The Splat, its expanded classic-themed block. YCDTOTV is also loosely parodied in the 2010 How I Met Your Mother episode "Glitter", with Cobie Smulders' character on the Canadian television show "Space Teens" making several references to the show. Canadian actor of Indian descent, whose brother Sidharth Sahay, also appeared on show. However, only two additional episodes ("Christmas" and "Holidays" from the 1984 season) have been aired since. The show also benefited from several links with popular Top 40 Ottawa radio station CFGO; for example, station personality Jim Johnson emceed the disco-dance segments and shared tidbits about the artists featured in the music videos played on the show. Five years later, one full episode was aired on June 2, 2004, as part U-Pick Live's celebration of the network's 25th anniversary, with half of another episode being aired on June 8 (the second half of the episode was instead pre-empted by a Fairly OddParents episode). 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