You know, I don't think I've actually watched Nickelodeon since I was about ten years old. I know I watched Cartoon Network for a couple years before I got sick to the thought of it, then it was MTV for a while until I realized what utter crap it was (and still remains to be, every time they came up with a new show I kind of liked it was taken off completely after a barely a couple months to make room for more of that Real World/Road Rules shit), and I think by fourteen my permanent base channel became Comedy Central and my cartoon of choice became South Park.
This whole thing makes me think. You know what's funny - and I mean funny not in the "haha" way but in the "...what the hell?" sense - when I was nine years old, I got laughed at for having a Pocahontas backpack.
When I was nine. These days, there are people older than me wearing t-shirts and carrying around merchandise for show meant for pre-school aged kids, and everybody thinks it's cool! When the hell did this start?
EDIT: I remember I tried watching Daria on that channel after MTV took it off the air (I don't know why, that's only
the best show they had going for them in the midst of all that crap!), but I just couldn't stand it. With the exception of the season I missed because I never got the time slots straight, I must have seen every episode a dozen times over from the show's very beginning, so I was all too aware of when they censored the episodes. That just ruined the whole experience for me.
...I miss that show...that's a major part of my childhood/early teenage memories. And the theme song is stuck in my head now.
This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 30 December 2004 - 03:08 PM