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Canadian [[Saturday Morning Kids Show]] [[Sketch Comedy]], running from 1979 to 1990, and rerun on and later produced by [[Nickelodeon]]. Heavily influenced by ''[[Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In]]'', borrowing modified and age-appropriate versions of several of ''Laugh-In'' sketches (most obviously, the joke wall, redesigned as a set of locker doors; the habit of dumping buckets of water on cast members, and the announcer) and catch phrases.
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].
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