Nickelodeon plans to go dark for three hours this Saturday in an effort to get kids to go outside and play. That’s all well and good but what about the kids in wheelchairs, or the fat kids, or the grounded kids, or the kids in places where it’s raining? I can’t believe Viacom signed off on this. Maybe they’ll have popup ads for Pop-tarts during the blackness.
This music video by the band The XYZ Affair reunites four Nickelodeon stars from the 90s: Marc Summers (Double Dare), Jason Zimbler (Ferguson from “Clarissa Explains it All”), Danny Cooksey (Budnick from “Salute Your Shorts”), and Michael Maronna (big Pete from “The Adventures of Pete & Pete”).
Long before Bill Nye or Beakman’s World, there was Mr. Wizard on Nickelodeon. As a kid I always wished I could have had a science teacher like him. They don’t have shows for kids like this anymore.
Interesting side note: Copyright of Mr. Wizard’s World is now held by a corporation that prohibits the free distribution to today’s youth.
Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and ’60s as “Mr. Wizard” and did the same for a later generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died today. He was 89.
