Nickelodeon was my life. I grew up watching it as a toddler, stuck with it as a child, a pre teen, a teenager and rewatched all of the old shows as an adult. I still watch them any chance I get. Rocko's Modern Life was my favorite to rewatch, but they were all great cartoons and live action shows. I started life watching today's special, noozles, David the gnome and the little bits, progressed into Rugrats and just gave my life to Nick after that. My dad says he hated me watching Ren & Stimpy and Aaah Real Monsters, but those shows gave me character. To be honest, Nickelodeon raised me. It was the only channel I watched 24/7 when Beavis & Butthead and Daria weren't on MTV. My parents fought and I ran to Nick. I was a lonely loser and Snick was my Saturday night. I'm more cultured a person because of the diversity of those shows. Weird is cool. I defended Nickelodeon to all the cool kids watching MTV or Adult Swim because they weren't learning empathy or humility. The shows for kids now are embarrassingly bad by comparison and there is no one channel that educates kids while making them laugh without simultaneously brainwashing them. The songs I learned from that channel are still sung to this day (even the Stick Stickley P. O. Box 963 song!). Everyone knows happy happy joy joy, even if you didn't watch the show. There isn't anything like those shows on TV now and it's really sad that kids have no way to learn a sense of humor or quirkiness. So I want to thank every writer, director and producer that did anything for Nickelodeon between 1985 and 1998, because it made my life better and got little me through some really dark times.
