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After seeing the scene, I'm dubious. The slime doesn't look like rotten and moldy food. And who would dump that on a kid? (I t's worth noting that Klickstein went on to give a career-killing racist and sexist interview while promoting his book.)As You Can't Do That on Television grew in popularity, the show became one of the first major purchases of Nickelodeon. Unsure of who their target audience was, Nickelodeon ran syndicated episodes of the Canadian show all the time. It was a huge hit that helped define the early days of the channel. As the series progressed, one thing was abundantly clear—kids loved the slime.The use of slime spread to other shows. In Double Dare, kids faced off against slime during many of the most memorable "physical challenges." Slipping and sliding around a sound stage, the knee-pad clad kids did everything from shoving their arms up giant noses to letting a Nickelodeon blimp dump slime on them—all in an effort to collect those elusive red flags and win the game. In Wild and Crazy Kids, a competition show for kids that encouraged playing outside, the three kid-hosts got slimed while announcing contests and awarding prizes. Slime became so synonymous with the network, the green stuff even flowed during commercial "bumps" and interstitial ads.
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