Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age

by Mathew Klickstein

Marc Summers (Foreword)

The special 5th Anniversary Edition of SLIMED!

An Entertainment Weekly "Best Tell-All" Book
One of Parade Magazine's "Best Books About Movies/TV"
Included in Publishers Weekly's "Top Ten Social Science Books"

Before the recent reboots, reunions, and renaissance of classic Nickelodeon nostalgia swept through the popular imagination, there was SLIMED!, the book that started it all. With hundreds of exclusive interviews and have-to-read-'em-to-believe-'em stories you won't find anywhere else, SLIMED! is the first-ever full chronicle of classic Nick...told by those who made it all happen!

Nickelodeon nostalgia has become a cottage industry unto itself: countless podcasts, blogs, documentaries, social media communities, conventions, and beyond. But a little less than a decade ago, the best a dyed-in-the-wool Nick Kid could hope for when it came to coverage of the so-called Golden Age (1983-1995) of the Nickelodeon network was the infrequent listicle, op-ed, or even rarer interview with an actual old-school Nick denizen.

Pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein changed all of that when he forged ahead to track down and interview more than 250 classic Nick VIP's to at long last piece together the full wacky story of how Nickelodeon became "the Only Network for You!"

Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Nickelodeon with this special edition of SLIMED! that includes a new introduction by Nick Arcade's Phil Moore in addition to a foreword by Double Dare's Marc Summers and an afterword by none other than Artie, the Strongest Man in the World himself (aka Toby Huss).

After you get SLIMED!, you'll never look at Nickelodeon the same way again.

"Mathew Klickstein might be the geek guru of the 21st century."-Mark Mothersbaugh

• ISBN10: 0142196851
• ISBN13: 9780142196854
• Publish Date: 24 September 2013
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Plume
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780142196854

Reviews

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

I am a child of the 90s. I grew up on Rugrats, Clarissa Explains It All and Double Dare, in other words, I watched Nickelodeon. Therefore, upon seeing Slimed, childhood nostalgia kicked in.

Slimed is told in a segment of interviews from Actors, Producers and all the dreamers behind the scenes. I found the order of said interviews to be discombobulating, it jumped around from topic to topic with no real flow. Okay we're talking about Double Dare...but are now discussing Rugrats, how did we segue into that?

I did find it interesting to learn the making of Nickelodeon, the creative process, why Skeeter was blue and the "secret sauce" in Slime. Unfortunately, these fragments didn't save it and think it may have been better as a documentary.

I stopped watching Nick in '96 at age eleven. My family moved, the station was no longer channel 19, it seemed like the opt time for a clean break. Like any eleven year old who is slowly growing up, I slowly lost interest in this Oral History of Nickelodeon and became a blip on my radar.