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[[File:AllThat_6113.gif|frame|The Golden era.]]

 

 

[[Nickelodeon]]'s third ensemble [[Sketch Comedy|skitcom]] (following ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'' and ''[[Roundhouse]]''), bearing a strong resemblance to the format of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' or ''[[Mad TV]]'' (like its predecessors did to ''[[Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In|Laugh-In]]'' and ''[[In Living Color]]'', respectively). Created by Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin and produced by [[Dan Schneider]]. Ran from April, 1994 to October, 2005. A little more than a decade, complete with a full cast exodus about halfway through, followed by four seasons, again like ''SNL''... but without an Eddie Murphy to keep things afloat until Lorne came back, which in this case "he" (Mike Tollin & Brian Robbins) never did.

Launched the careers of: Amanda Bynes, Kenan Thompson (who actually managed to make the cast of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' in the mid-2000's), Kel Mitchell, Nick Cannon, & Jamie Lynn Spears.

 

 

[[The 90s Are All That]] block on [[Teen Nick]] is named for it, and the show itself serves as the headliner.

 

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: At the start of one episode, the cast takes questions from the audience. [[Dan Schneider]] appears and is referred to as "the guy from that old show ''[[Head of the Class]]''."

* [[Adults Are Useless]] - Subverted in Good Burger, played straight in everything else on the show.

* [[Affectionate Parody]] - "What Do You Do?" Parody of fellow-Nick show ''Figure It Out'', on which most of the ''All That'' cast appeared at least once...Bynes, Denberg, & Tamberelli were even regular panelists. The name itself sounds like an older Nickelodeon game show, "What Would You Do?"

** Don't forget Fuzz of Have a Nice Day with Leroy and Fuzz.

* [[The Cameo]]: [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Chris Farley]] making a few cameos in one episode.

** ''Played straight:'' In seasons 1-5, Kel Mitchell, repeatedly. In the 10th-anniversary special, Chelsea Brummet, Lisa Foiles, & Kianna Underwood, all at once.

** ''Subverted:'' Every time Lori Beth Denberg or one of her characters sang.

* [[Cloudcuckooland]] -- Ishboo's "foreign land" has some ''seriously'' bizarre traditions.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloudcuckoolanders]] - Half of the recurring characters as well as the cast itself

Because I ran out of pork chops. }}

* [[Clumsy Copyright Censorship]]: [[The 90s Are All That]] airs this show without the musical guest performances. Since this necessitates the additional removal of sketches leading into the performances, and the cast saying goodbye after the song, several episodes end abruptly.

* [[Crossover]] - Sometimes characters from certain sketches make appearances in sketches that otherwise have nothing to do with them (for example, Superdude once made a major appearance in a Good Burger sketch where a conspicuous criminal holds up the restaurant).

** Taken to it's extreme during the 10th anniversary special in which Coach Kreeton, Abby Rhodes, Principal William '''[[Insistent Terminology|Baines]]''' Pimpell, Jack Campbell, Detective Dan, Buzz, Caffy, and Randy Quench end up in the same skit. As Principal Pimpell puts it toward the end...

** In the Season 7 episode where Amanda Bynes guest stars, Penelope Taynt, her number one fan please from [[The Amanda Show]] breaks into the All That set to meet her.

*** Also, in another episode, Totally Kyle [[Actor Allusion|introduces Drake Bell]] as the musical guest.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] - The Cheese Police skits are pretty much drug busts with the drugs replaced with cheese.

** The translations for the various ''French'' phrases of Pierre Escargot may come off this way. For example:

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: One Boring Man sketch used this trope:

Boring Man: You know what, yes, I get it, I get it, I get it. Bot, butt, yes, yes. Who's the Boring Man around here? }}

* [[Doom It Yourself]] - Repair Man-man-man-man-man's modus operandi.

** To be fair, every kid knew what "lactose intolerant" meant after every Super Dude sketch... thanks to [[The Amanda Show|Amanda Bynes]] (and before her, Katrina Johnson).

** I bet a lot more kids knew who Ross Perot was after seeing the Earboy sketches.

* [[Funny Foreigner]] - Ishboo; Pierre Escargot

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] - Although most of the translations for Pierre Escargot were pretty innocent sounding, quite a number of them could seem a bit dirtier.

** There was one USS Spaceship sketch where after Officer Ulcer failed to get the ship running, he says, "Piece o crap". So, they literally got crap past the radar.

** One Baggin', Saggin' Barry skit includes this piece of wisdom.

** The background posters during Vital Information were actually quite dirty (I.e. "To Milk cow: Kiss cow, grab udder, yank.")

* [[G-Rated Drug]]: '''''SUGAR AND COFFEE!!'''''. Naturally overlaps with [[Klatchian Coffee]] and [[Must Have Caffeine]].

* [[Hypocritical Humor]] - Ms. Hushbaum, the "[[No Indoor Voice|Loud]] Librarian".

** There was one sketch from Season 9 involving the Rougenecks that used this trope

Clem: Shut up, moron. }}

* [[Infomercial]] - parodied in the Toby Braun products

* [[Inherently Funny Words]] - [[Lampshaded]] in a sketch celebrating the show's millionth use of "cheese" (& 30 seconds after that ceremony ended, the millionth use of "pants")

* [[Insistent Terminology]] - Lester Oaks, Construction Worker insists on being called by both his name and his occupation.

'''Lester Oaks, Construction Worker:''' ''Construction Worker!'' }}

* [[Interactive Narrator]] - "Know Your Stars" (also an [[Unreliable Narrator]]), and one particular "Ask Ashley"

* [[Nepotism]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and [[Double Subversion|Double Subverted]] when Jamie Spears enters the cast: Shane accuses her of having no talent, but she is able to shrink him down to the size of an avocado just by thinking, as well as styling Lisa's hair by breathing on it. When her powers fail to impress the cast, however, she simply bribes them with $5000 each.

* [[News Parody]] - "Vital Information," "Channel 6 1/2 News"

** In the later years, '''SUGAR AND COFFEE!!''' ''So much shouting.''

* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: While remembered fondly by people who grew up in the 90s...during rewatching...''you could see a lot of the jokes are either'' [[Dude, Not Funny]], [[Unfortunate Implications]], or just...they don't work.

* [[Not So Different]]: Ed and the Complaint Dept lady.

* [[One of Us]] - Lisa Foiles, believe it or not, recently started [http://www.loadsavepoint.com/ her own game review site] and was a guest columnist on Kotaku. She's also a part of the new ''[[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe Show]]''.

* [[The Other Darrin]] - A season 9 "Good Burger" sketch cast the new (& tiny) performer Ryan Coleman as Ed. The fans did not react well.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: The Big Ear of Corn, as [[Lampshaded]] in an intro sketch.

* [[Rule of Funny]]: The green room sketches have this a lot. An example from Season 4 is the scarecrow:

''(An Elvis impersonator and two professional wresters storm into the room and steal the Big Ear of Corn)'' }}

** And an example from Season 10, Truth or Bear?:

''(he gets mauled by a bear)'' }}

* [[Rule of Three]]: TONS of examples.

* [[Scary Librarian]] - Well, not really scary. Just really loud enough to startle everyone.

* [[Serious Business]]: Peas for Miss Piddlin.

* [[Shout-Out]] - In addition to the countless pop culture references: Amanda Bynes' father is a dentist; at least 2 green room sketches featured Amanda performing oral surgery, plus 1 "Ask Ashley" has her screaming at the audience to brush their teeth, & a one-off sketch features Josh Server as a crazy dentist called "Dr. Bynes."

** One sketch featured Ishboo going to the doctor's. When taking a look in his ears, the doctor briefly saw none other than [[Ren and Stimpy]].

*** A later sketch shows doctor checking Ishboo's nostrils and again seeing the cartoon duo.

** One Coach Kreeton sketch was filmed on [[Recycled Set|a set for]] ''[[Gullah Gullah Island]]''. Coach Kreeton acknowledges this after several failed attempts to rescue a cat from a tree.

* [[Special Guest]] - Only season 7 had them weekly (including return episodes with Bynes & Thompson). In the other 9 seasons, though, Chris Farley, Sinbad, Sherman Hemsley, Dr. Joyce Brothers, & post-Amanda Show Drake Bell all appeared, amongst numerous others. And every single episode had a musical guest.

* [[Spin-Off]] - Though several shows (listed above) exist because of ''All That'', the only '''true''' spinoffs are ''Kablam!'' (via [[Action League NOW]]) & ''The Nick Cannon Show'' (via the LaTanya character).

** The sketch when Kel fell in love with a goat featured a rather cheap version of "Close to You".

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]] - In every Stuart sketch when Stuart was confronted by law enforcement, he would deny kidnapping the real employee, tying them up and hiding them somewhere.

'''Stuart''': Of course not. I wouldn't dream of kidnapping the real checkout guy, tying him up, stealing his uniform, and hiding him underneath that counter. }}

* [[That's All Folks]]

* [[Those Two Guys]] - The two old guys Mavis and Clavis.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]] - Chocolate (Randy & Mandy), Peas (Miss Piddlin), Sugar & Coffee (Buzz & Caffy), Bacon (Thelma Stump), Everything (Fat Cop), Good Burger (Ed), Pork on a stick (Earboy), Pizza (Ross Perot)

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]] - Superdude is lactose-intolerant. Naturally, his foes include Cow-Boy, Butter Boy, Yo-Girl, the Dairy Godfather, & [[Arch Enemy]] Milkman (the former 3 all played by Kel Mitchell & the latter 2 both being Josh Server).

* [[Word Salad Humor]] - In "Everyday French with Pierre Escargot," most of the "educational" French phrases are word salads, such as "Please remove your banjo from my belly button."

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