Break it down into eras
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Adirondack — 15 years ago(January 04, 2011 08:59 PM)
I've been thinking about this show with it's vast history. There are ways to label the early eras. I would say:
- Pre-Nickelodeon Era
- Christine Era (all the episodes up until she left). She outlasted most of the earliest cast members.
What's next? I was thinking that when she left, Matthew came along, so maybe the next era could be called the Matthew Era. Maybe it should be called the Alasdair era because even though he was there during the Nickelodeon Christine era, he was there long after she left and hosted most of the shows as long as he stayed on.
How many eras should there be in all?
The final era is what I call the revival era, which is when they brought it back from hiatus with Chris and the other new kids and a few new Les Lye characters.
Any other ideas for era labels?
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Adirondack — 15 years ago(January 11, 2011 04:35 PM)
I just saw a lot of episodes on the internet (youtube, ycdtotv.com and barthsburgery.com) and saw that Matthew shared 1 or 2 episodes with Christine as a main cast member. So did Adam Reid, who was another kid I was thinking of naming an era after.
So screw it. Here are my new official episode era labels:- Pre-Nickelodeon (includes early Y.C.D.T.O.T.V. as well as other early shows that it came from or some of the cast were in)
- Christine era (from the first Nickelodeon episode until her last one, which I understand was the one about garbage)
- Post-Christine era (from the first episode after she left to 1988, when the production hiatus occurred.
- Revival era (labeled as such because most of the kids were new, there were some new Les Lye characters and the new prehistoric family skits).
Would you make any different label eras? I can't see anything different to base them on than the Nickelodeon years and Christine's presence or lack thereof. Everything else was pretty much the same throughout all the Nickelodeon years, IMO.
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TMC-4 — 10 years ago(February 16, 2016 01:45 AM)
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http://www.bonethefish.com/viewtopics.php?1645