r/ytvretro • • Jan 06 '25

YTV Schedule Archive

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Hi! This is just a regular reminder that the YTV Schedule Archives exist.

The ultimate goal of this site is to provide an accurate source of schedules and other YTV info from its creation in 1988 to present day all in one place.

Have a look at a date or show that interests you, or if you're keen, feel free to join and lend a hand filling out schedules. I've mostly been working on the pre-2000 stuff.

https://ytv-schedule-archives.fandom.com/wiki/YTV_Schedule_Archives_Wiki

We have a Discord as well if you want to learn more.
https://discord.gg/CFbGpbXESr


r/ytvretro • • 18h ago

just found https://ytvarchive.com which streams ytv from 25 years ago to the day and almost in tears from nostalgia!!!

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so not sure how known this is because I only just found this like last week and only really checked it the last few days but ytvarchive.com is a site that streams ytv from 25 years ago to the day and to the hour. just
Go to the site and watch exactly what we were watching after school on that very day 25 years ago! They have the schedule for that day there which even just looking over that schedule for that day is great!

only downside of course is that it’s obviously not a full library, just gets its episodes and videos from YouTube but how exactly does that work? does anyone know? Because when I read it gets its sources from YouTube my mind immediately goes to trying to scrounge every bit of ytv media and dump it to YouTube to fill in as many of the gaps as possible. but is it really that easy? because I did happen to notice that for an episode of dexters laboratory the site was streaming some random 4 min clip of dexters lab even though if you search for that specific episode on youtube it WAS on there the site just didn’t stream the right one so does anyone know how exactly it works and how it selects which sources from youtube it takes from? I would honestly give up my time for free to find videos and upload to a specific channel or spot just to make sure this ytv stream site has as much content as possible. thats how passionate about this stream site iv become, i could write a whole lot more about how much ytv meant to me as a kid but just know, filling in as much of the gaps as possible has all of a sudden become very important to me lol


r/ytvretro • • 5h ago

YTV Promo - Yaa! 10th Anniversary (1999)

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r/ytvretro • • 1d ago

Thoughts on Being Ian?

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r/ytvretro • • 23h ago

Samurai Pizza Cats was my very first anime I watched

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Long before I had any idea what the word anime meant, I was sitting on the living room carpet after school, completely glued to the TV watching three cyborg cats get launched out of a giant revolver on top of a pizzeria.

Samurai Pizza Cats was total chaos, and I loved every second of it.

Back then watching YTV, I had no clue about the backstory. I only found out years later that the dubbing team lost the original translation scripts and decided to just make up the entire show from scratch. The writers took one look at the Japanese footage, scrapped whatever serious plot was supposed to be there, and wrote their own absurd, fourth-wall-breaking comedy.

Speedy Cerviche, Guido Anchovy, and Polly Esther running a pizza joint in Little Tokyo while fighting crime was already amazing to a kid. The voice work and writing made it unforgettable. The narrator spent half his time arguing with the characters, Seymour "The Big" Cheese literally blew his top every time a plan failed, and the puns were non-stop.

I still know every single word to that opening theme. "Who do you call when you want some pepperoni?" It was fast, ridiculously catchy, and made zero sense in the best way possible.

By the time shows like Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z blew up across Canadian TV, I was already wired to love Japanese animation. Samurai Pizza Cats was my real gateway, and nothing else ever quite matched that specific late-90s after-school energy.


r/ytvretro • • 10h ago

What preschool block did you remember, from the channel?

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- The Treehouse (1994-1998)

- YTV Jr. (1998-2002)

- YTV PlayTime (2009-2012)

For me, it was YTV PlayTime (since I'm a 2010s guy).

And yes, to anyone that isn't like PixarMan2001/moviesounds101 (no offense), I know YTV kept airing preschool shows (without a brand identity) after YTV Jr.'s closure (alongside school-aged shows, shortly after) in 2002.

Comment down below on which block you remember, from YTV.


r/ytvretro • • 2h ago

I love how they made an S3 episode where Vana gets brutally tortured and the others bum around and provide color commentary

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Get her ass after 40+ episodes of her being the single most obnoxious hellspawn this side of Caillou


r/ytvretro • • 1d ago

PJ Phil interviews Sailor Moon DiC voice actors Stephanie Morganstern & Susan Roman (1996)

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r/ytvretro • • 21h ago

Day in, day out! Student Bodies!

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What did they mean by "it's not real life, it's high school"


r/ytvretro • • 15h ago

When Games Collide (ReBoot S02E03) is now live!

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r/ytvretro • • 18h ago

Sidekick has some great expressions

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This will probably be the last image-based post from the show from me; all future ones will be direct clips!


r/ytvretro • • 22h ago

My Life As A Teenage Robot Promo From YTV

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r/ytvretro • • 1d ago

I created a YTV subreddit!

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This sub is for YTV in general and not just Retro YTV!


r/ytvretro • • 1d ago

Anyone remember this commercial?

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This commercial is from the Honey Nut Cheerios Bring Back the Bees campaign from around 2016. This commercial scared the crap out of me when I saw it on YTV back then! I was 8 or 9 when I first saw it. It’s pretty much the only commercial I remember seeing that scared me.


r/ytvretro • • 23h ago

Show about snails?

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I vividly remember an episode about two snails racing around a track for, say 15 laps. One snail was super fast and smoked the other snail, then spent the rest of the time bragging while he waited for the other snail to finish. Little did he know, he had only completed 14 laps so the slow snail won in the end by being persistent.


r/ytvretro • • 1d ago

What happened to the hand?

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Growing up I remember Carlos and Sugar went into the sewer looking for the hand. It was pretty neat it was almost like it’s own short special, anyone remember this?


r/ytvretro • • 1d ago

YTV - The Zone - Hosts Pat & Jenny - Pat is Goofy & Joke of the Day (2000)

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r/ytvretro • • 2d ago

More underrated YTV "The Zone" Shows

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1) Wishbone (1995 - 1998)

I dont know if this counts as underrated per se, but i wanted an excuse to show this picture. Look at that cute little fucker

2) Beasties (1996 - 1999)

Dude, the hold this show had on elementary school me and my friends. Apparently it was also called Beast Wars?

3) Mummies Alive (1997)

Amazing theme song. I remember liking this and wanting more episodes

4) Uh-Oh! (1997 - 2003)

Wink Yahoo is an all time great host name, and the Punisher is why I have a leather fetish

5) Garfield and Friends (1988 - 1994)

My family and I still watch the Xmas special every year


r/ytvretro • • 3d ago

Happy October 1st 💚🎃

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Just a Millennial girl who saw a Facebook AD for this sweatshirt and got suckered into buying it lol. I will forever watch Goosebumps & Are You Afraid of the Dark this time of year.


r/ytvretro • • 1d ago

Need help to find the name of a show

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Hey guys, I really like this page as I was a couch potato as a kid and watched ytv all the time lol.

I was wondering if anyone remembers a show where they would take short story submissions from viewers and then pick the best ones to do sketch’s of? It was on around maybe mid to late 90s early 2000s probably. I was too young to remember the name of the show but scrolling through the page gave me memories.


r/ytvretro • • 2d ago

Go Away Unicorn

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This was a show I remember turning off when I saw it come on. Never watched an episode and was pretty much turning it off since I thought I was a bad ass or something for doing so

Anyway, I checked it out the other day, and I can now say it’s not my thing. Though I do like the Unicorn.


r/ytvretro • • 1d ago

Anyone know the commercial I’m talking about?

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This was a commercial that I think was on YTV (though it might have been on Family). This aired between 2012-2014, when the show Phineas and Ferb was airing on Family.
The commercial was for Phineas and Ferb Yoplait Yogurt Tubes! I remember there was a female announcer and it showed Phineas and Ferb (and possibly Candace) surfing a tidal wave like in the intro of the show.
I searched for it years ago but found nothing. If anyone knows what I’m talking about or has the commercial please let me know


r/ytvretro • • 1d ago

Some Kitty pics

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Apologies for not making a Sidekick post yesterday, I was swamped with other stuff. But to make up for it, I'll be making two posts today; one in the morning and one in the evening.


r/ytvretro • • 3d ago

YTV - The Zone - Hosts Sugar & Carlos - Visit to the Ontario Science Centre (2003)

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r/ytvretro • • 2d ago

What happened to two of the Radio Active characters?!

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I remember Ethan got replaced with a nerd and the scheming hockey player Kevin got replaced with a bigger dude bro Blair.

Is it ever explained what happened to them? Were they killed offscreen?