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Mathew Klickstein, the author of Slimed!, an excellent oral history of the early days of Nickelodeon, posits that we love slime because it ties into humor researcher Peter McGraw’s idea of “benign violation,” other examples of which include play-fighting and tickling—stimuli that might present a threat but are, at their core, safe and even exciting when done right.

If you grew up watching Nickelodeon, you might wonder what the green stuff is made of. Now, we finally have an answer to what exactly is in the Nickelodeon slime recipe. As it turns out, there’s more than one way to make the stuff.

During its golden years, Nickelodeon not only had over 50 per cent of the kid audience share, but it was also one of the most profitable cable networks out there ...

If you’re a child of the 1980s, chances are good that you’re already quite familiar with some of Nickelodeon’s classic TV programming [and] SLIMED! does a wonderful job of reliving those times through interviews, photos, and assorted behind-the-scenes details...

The channel’s rise to prominence was actually a major breakthrough in children’s entertainment, as Klickstein illustrates through interviews with more than 200 insiders ...

While this is a book you can fit in your purse, and while the cover is a happy mixture of the classic Nickelodeon lime green and bright orange, it’s filled with a lot more than nostalgia...

Ever wonder what slime was made out of? If the thought has crossed your mind, SLIMED!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age is for you ...

And two books remind us that culture isn’t all serious business—sometimes it’s just good fun. From Plume comes SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age by Mathew Klickstein, an oral history of TV network ...

Double Dare gets its moment in the nostalgia spotlight ...

What was Amanda Bynes like before this year’s headlines? Klickstein provides a bracing oral history of Nickelodeon in the 1990s, the era of shows like Ren & Stimpy and Clarissa Explains It All ...

Now for the grossest and undeniably best part of the show, the slime. It is reportedly made of some combination of green food coloring, cream of wheat, baby shampoo and jello ...

2017 has been a big year for '90s kids. ... And in between binge watching all those television revivals and listening to all of those old albums, why not pick up a few books that will give you the same feels?...

Now the cable network's golden age is re-examined in Mathew Klickstein's new book, "Slimed!" (Plume), which features dozens of interviews with the creative forces and performers behind classic Nick shows, from "Double Dare" to "Ren and Stimpy."...

Whether you preferred the drama of Hey Dude, the postmodern sensibility of Clarissa Explains It All, or the gross-out humor of Ren & Stimpy, if you were a kid in the '90s, there's a good chance your favorite TV channel was Nickelodeon ...

For those who’d prefer to remember their childhoods happily, Mathew Klickstein offers nostalgic millennials a happy place to return to ...

Inside, though, my tweenage self was unabashedly ecstatic: I was heading to the 92nd Street Y in NYC for the fly-your-fun-flag event celebrating Mathew Klickstein's new book, SLIMED! ...

'Double Dare' host Marc Summers opens up about Nickelodeon's 'golden age'...

Mathew Klickstein talks new book, the history of Nickelodeon and The Simpsons ...

Matt describes why Pete and Pete isn't absurd, gets deep into the philosophy of Nickelodeon, and drops some serious Nick knowledge...

The horror show vet spoke to The Globe and Mail about how Nickelodeon helped pave his future success ...

"Nickelodeon actually started more than 30 years ago as a ‘green-vegetables’ educational channel that was used to sell the Movie Channel. But they got rid of that reputation because it almost ruined them,” said Mathew Klickstein ...

The green slime doused over heads on “You Can’t Do That on Television” was not as gross as you may have thought ...

While this book isn't only about slime, it is a great go-to for anyone who loves Nickelodeon ...

You Can’t Do That on Television, produced at Ottawa’s CJOH studios, became a worldwide hit that helped launch the youth-oriented Nickelodeon network in the U.S. ...

Whether you were a fan of "Ren and Stimpy" gross-out jokes or loved watching people get slimed on "You Can't Do That on Television," chances are good that if you had a television as a kid, you grew up watching Nickelodeon ...

Weren’t the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon once opposing brands—the former a squeaky-clean twinkle factory, the latter more splattery and indie-spirited—battling for the eyeballs of America’s children? Yes, they were ...

A scene from You Can’t Do That on Television, one of the network’s earliest shows, featured a young actor who was supposed to pull a chain and get a bucket of what looked like sewage dumped on his head. The producer stopped short of using actual human waste, but not by much...

They hadn’t yet worked out a recipe, so the original sliming entailed a bucket of real-life, moldy food slop, onto a child’s head. (“It made people’s eyes water on set, it smelled so terrible,” Klickstein says.) ...

Listen to the full episode here.

Older cartoons aren’t the only sort that have experienced jittery network or studio censorship ...

More than just telling the stories as they objectively happened, Mr. Klickstein interviewed the people who made Nickelodeon possible: from actors to writers to animators, directors and producers ...

If you’ve always wanted an orange couch and would totally spend Saturday nights watching Snick, you need to listen to SLIMED!: An Oral History Of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age...

You’ve watched Nickelodeon at some point in your childhood, right? If you were a conscious child in the 1980s and early 1990s, you are probably aware of the “golden age” of the network, as detailed in an awesome new book ...

As the naysayers noted, the practice of breaking the fourth wall to directly address viewers was practically by the time Nickelodeon came around, used as it was in such popular series as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and Sesame Street...

Author Mathew Klickstein calls in to talk his new book, Slimed! An Oral History Of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age! ...

“Nickelodeon is the second or third cable channel ever invented. It was a true experiment, they used it as something called narrowcasting instead of broadcasting. Suddenly they said “what about a channel just for kids?” ...

Usually anti-authoritarian, always funny, and tons of fun, Nick’s golden years featured a slew of shows, personalities, and moments that are ingrained in the memories of millions ...

I can't remember how I stumbled upon his project, but I can say that I'm glad I did as every bit of knowledge he's share with myself is priceless ...

Written by Mathew Klickstein with a foreword by “Double Dare” and “What Would You Do?” host Marc Summers, “SLIMED!” digs deep into the depths of Nickelodeon’s “golden age” with interviews and fun facts ...

Mathew, a kindred nostalgic Nickelodeon fan, has compiled an oral history featuring over 200 interviews from the men and women who imagined a kids-only domain of rule-breaking freedom, mess, fun, and slime, and who unarguably gave us some of the best memories of our childhoods ...

In this episode, Patricia and Kevin interview the author of the upcoming book SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age Mathew Klickstein ...

Fortunately, these childhood shows hold up as an adult, and Klickstein believes that they’re important, too. ...

You saw this with MTV. You saw this with SNL. You saw this with other artistic or musical movements, like punk. It’s the inevitable cycle where there are young people working kind of under the radar, putting something out there that they’re frustrated isn’t out there already ...

While every generation nostalgically believes they had the best music, movies or television (and there are more than a few people looking through rose-colored glasses in this book), the stories in SLIMED! do capture a special period in television’s history ...

DJ Bob talks to Mathew Klickstein, Author of SLIMED: An Oral History Of Nickelodeon's Golden Age ...

Patricia interviews book authors and pop culture enthusiats Mathew Klickstein and Caseen Gaines discussing about how Doug, Rugrats, and The Ren & Stimpy Show influence pop culture...

The definitive book on 90's Nickelodeon television ...

The May episode of The Work Show was recorded while driving around Columbia and Greene counties with itinerant author and social critic Mathew Klickstein ...

I wrote an oral history about Nickelodeon's "Golden Age" because no one else had told the story in full before ...

According to Mathew Klickstein’s book, Slimed! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age, one adult employee tried it out and got stuck. “Wouldn’t surprise me,”Taylor says. “It was meant for 80-pound kids.” ...

Clarissa wasn’t really a tomboy and she wasn’t really the weird girl. She was always just herself, she explained in...

Last week I had a chance to indulge some of my adolescent TV love when I talked to the author of Slimed! An Oral History Nickelodeon’s Golden Age, which looks at Nick’s mostly live-action programming from the 1990s ...

Klickstein was candid about the bittersweet nature of nostalgia, even for Millennials hoping to recall the days of things as silly as Stick Stickly and slime...

In time for the 35th anniversary of Nickelodeon, podcast host Mekeisha Madden Toby talks to writer and historian Mathew Klickstein ...

15 Things You Didn't Know About These Groundbreaking Series ...