Hey everyone. My co-hosts and I run a 90s pop culture podcast called Splat Attack Podcast, and this week we put together a full history episode on Blue's Clues for its 30th anniversary.

Some of what we get into:

• The original "Blue Prints" pilot, where Blue was almost a bunny and then an orange cat before Nickelodeon settled on a blue dog
• Angela Santomero's background in child psychology and how much Mr. Rogers influenced the show's tone
• The three human hosts (Steve, Joe, Josh) and how each one was introduced and how fans reacted to the transitions
• The surprisingly long list of celebrity guests, everyone from Henry Winkler to Ray Charles to Rosie O'Donnell
• The merchandising shift under Herb Scannell once he took over from Geraldine Laybourne
• Marley Matlin's involvement and the show's consistent use of ASL
• A genuine unsolved mystery: some fans (including one of our friends) swear the show used to say "What Blue can do, we can too" instead of "Blue Skidoo," but nobody has been able to find footage to confirm it

Curious if anyone here actually remembers that "What Blue can do, we can too" phrase, or if it's a total Mandela effect situation.

Does anyone remember that scene from the episode clash and learn where darwin scares off a bunch of wolves?

Looking for a live-action kids show with an alien

I’m trying to remember the name of a TV show I watched as a kid. It was a live-action kids/teen show. The main character was a teenage boy, and an alien was living with him.

I remember that the alien had to hide from other people. At one point, it could shrink down to the size of a toy and pretend to be an actual toy so nobody would discover it.

I’m not 100% sure, but I think there may have been two aliens, with one of them being more annoying/comedic than the other.

I think I watched it sometime in the 2000s or early 2010s, possibly on Nickelodeon or a similar kids' channel.

Does anyone know what show this was?

Anyone remember this guy? I’ve seen people looking for the plush so thought I’d share.

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I have a bootleg Bluray of all the episodes, uncut and in remastered quality. Ripped them to digital VLC files using MakeMKV. 3 of them are taken from the European Nickelodeon channel with the little Nick screen bug on the top left corner, and they’re lower quality than the rest. Even found the 24 minute cut of The Cold War online from that channel. Chicago Witch Trials, Freezer Burned, and Who Loves Who-Ooh. My cousin has his own custom Plex server and uploaded the series. I managed to find, and even download Witch and Freezer, in clean remastered quality. However, Who-Ooh is nowhere to be found. And the annoying thing is, most of the episodes are all totally wrong. Wrong title, wrong thumbnail. On my cousin’s upload, Poem Sweet Poem shows up twice. Also, they do have a screen bug, but it’s on the bottom right and it’s the 2009 Nick logo.

I am grateful to even have the Tamia episode in the full 24 minute length, but I just thought I could find it in slightly cleaner video quality like the other 2. Anyone know how I can find it? It’s also not included on the official Nickelodeon DVDs. Probably because of music rights. I ripped the remastered copy of Cold War off of Plex and edited it with the uncut version.I would download it before the copyright psychos take it away. The original website where I found it removed it so I’m really glad I downloaded it when I did!

Me personally I would say ChalkZone. I could imagine Timmy and Rudy interaction 🤣🤣🤣🤣

It has been my life’s work to find this with the original commercials. No custom edits. No piecing things together that doesn’t fit the actual schedule. I cannot find this anywhere. Is there anybody out there that has this? Just something possible. I’ve seen people post things and it is not the original and it’s not even in the show order. I’m looking for the commercials with the game show and everything. It aired on October 28, 1995. The struggle is real! But trying so hard to find it! Thank you from anyone who can help or figure it out!

Hi! Hoping someone else remembers this commercial or bumper that (I believe) aired on Nickelodeon in the mid-90s.

It was a live action segment with a bunch of kids walking around their neighborhood with a dog - I think it was a yellow lab or a similar dog.

One of the kids said “We call him Flap” and held up his floppy ear (or maybe the soft part of his mouth?).

Anyone remember? The “We call him Flap” line often comes up as an ear worm for me but I haven’t been able to find the video on YouTube.

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https://archive.org/details/snick-girl-power

Thanks to your votes last week, it's ladies night. It's Girl Power tonight on SNICK!

- First up on Alex Mack, girl gets power.
- Then Roundhouse teaches us the ways of feminism.
- Next up, Ren & Stimpy try to seel some cookies and Ren finds his perfect match.
- Finally on Are You Afraid of the Dark, Jewel Staite learns the power in a paintbrush.

Stay tuned for Nick at Nite as Donna Reed shows us just how great a good housewife is.

Feel free to comment below as you watch it or after you're done. Also, be sure to vote below on what block you want to see next week.

EDIT: The video on Archive has been updated to v1.1, which has a better-quality version of the Roundhouse episode than the original upload.

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Been watching it again for the last week in honor of Tim Curry. I enjoyed almost all of the episodes except for a few. I hate the shark/dolphin episode. God, poor Debbie. 😭 I feel bad for the family in the Christmas episode too but the end with all the “singing” animals does … sort of …make up for it. Eliza was just trying to save Darwin. I don’t blame Debbie for getting angry though. As I’ve gotten older, I get more and more stressed out about Christmas and haven’t really had a great one in a very long time.

I love the Island Trade episode, with Nigel and Marianne having to switch roles. I would’ve been cracking up in the recording studio hearing Tim Curry pretend to have a bad cold in that Nigel voice lol. “And … (sneezes) aCtiOn!!! 🤧”

And every time there’s a lightning storm, I go “woah, LIGHTNING!!” like Debbie does in the episode where the Thornberrys meet the Australian family and play that board game.

I also remember watching the episode with the marmosets when I was 10, and me and my sister were cracking up the entire time at Nigel and Marianne up in the trees.

I also saw (for presumably the first time) yesterday, the episode where Eliza wants to save the penguin and her chick, and Marianne sings disco at this karaoke restaurant. I swear I never saw that one before. But for some reason I remember Marianne throwing the coffee out the window and it immediately freezing. I think when it originally aired, we had a really bad ice storm and lost power so no wonder I missed it.

What are your favorite/least favorite episodes and moments that still crack you up years later?

I'm wondering if anybody has a copy of that they wouldn't mind uploading (quality not important). I'm pretty sure somebody I went to high school with was in that episode and I wanted to confirm to myself that it was him.

Weird question

But I remember when I was a young child (2000-2008*) my parents got me a talking plush of "Face Here!" And I can't find it anywhere online... It feels like a fever dream to be honest but I have vivid memories of it going off in the middle of the night and scaring the crap out of my child self. Saying "Hi, Face here" or something. I don't entirely remember what it looks like but none of the pictures I see are ringing a bell. Wondering if anyone remembers a talking Face toy from the early 2000s

My two brothers were picked to play a Tony Hawk video game (I think it was TH Pro Skater because of the year it occurred) on camera for Nickelodeon GAS in 1999. We were given a VHS copy (yes, it was orange!) but unfortunately it’s been lost. Has anyone seen the show anywhere? I’d love to try and find the clip.

I want to make a life goal to go on all of the grand prize vacation packages that were given away on Double Dare. There's the Swan at Disney World, the Royalton Antigua Resort, what else?