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{{quote|''Hi, and welcome to sort of a... musty episode of ''You Can't Do That on Television''. The show that makes modern history every week by continually appalling its viewers.''|'''Christine "Moose" McGlade''', the show's host from 1979 to 1986}}
A Canadian [[Saturday Morning Kids Show]] [[Sketch Comedy]], running from 1979 to 1990, and rerun on and later produced by [[Nickelodeon]]
First introduced at CJOH (a [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] station in Ottawa) as a kids' variety show, the show's [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|wild success in America]] made it one of the defining shows of [[Nickelodeon]]'s history. It would run far longer on that network than it did in Canada, and the network's trademark green slime started with this show. The show's influence went beyond Nickelodeon, as homages have popped up everywhere from the sitcom ''[[News Radio]]'' (in one episode, the cast was doused with buckets of green slime and water) to ''[[Family Guy]]'' (an episode in the 2011-12 season is titled "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter").
Brought [[Covered in Gunge]] to North America. And [[Alanis Morissette]]. No, really. The proof is [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209162712/http://www.ycdtotv.com/cast/index.php?p=morissette here].
Now with its own [[You Can't Do That on Television/Radar|Getting Crap Past the Radar]] page.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Of a sort. Host Christine McGlade made the mistake of mentioning her real-life nickname Moose to the producers; it was swiftly worked into the show.
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* [[Just the Introduction to The Opposites]]: The [[Trope Namer]]
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: A DVD release had been imminent since at least 2003, but never came to fruition.
** In general, the
*** Fortunately, there's always fan-tapes of newer episodes, save for the 1979 season.
** Making matters worse, the CJOH studio [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fire-destroys-ctv-ottawa-newsroom-1.937489 was gutted by fire] in the wee hours Sunday 7 Feb 2010; the station never returned to 1500 Merivale Road and the building was eventually demolished. In addition to local news archives, the master tapes of many of the episodes were destroyed.
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The show knows it's a show and the characters constantly interact with the "director". An episode about divorce had the show being interrupted because the director and his wife split up and she took half of the show.
* [[The Not-So-Harmless Punishment]]: One sketch had a child being 'grounded' and having his shoes taken away. The kid points out that having his shoes taken away won't stop him leaving the house. The adult then says that the child has misunderstood. Now that he has taken off his rubber-soled shoes, he is 'grounded' and hands the kid a live electric cable...
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** In America, the episode called "Adoption" was banned due to fears that adopted children would find some of the sketches offensive (despite a very clear warning at the beginning stating that the jokes weren't meant to hurt anyone). In Canada, this episode was allowed to air, but the part where Lance Prevert tries to give his adopted kid back to the agency, only to learn that "adoption is for life," had Lance's line "Damn bureaucrat!" muted out.
** In Canada, the episode called "Divorce" was banned, but some Canadian viewers who remember seeing the episode on YTV beg to differ.
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