What was the funniest thing you remember on this show?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — You Can't Do That on Television
milam98 — 20 years ago(June 09, 2005 04:50 PM)
All those Ready Aim Fire skits and slimings were really funny. And whenever Barth said D'ah I Heard That!! I would always imitate Barth at school and some of my classmates thought that was cool.
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drake_equis — 20 years ago(July 23, 2005 06:12 PM)
I just love those scenes where someone gets their own back for getting slimed. My favorite scene (which varies depending on what I remember of the show when I think of it) is currently its a scene in disapline.
What happens is that the kids are all lined up because Ross is acting like a drill sargent, trying to make the show more disaplined rather than its usual mess.
Ross notices that Amyas isn't wearing his cap and asks for an explanation, Amyas mumbles something, Ross tells him he couldn't hear it, Amyas mumbles again and Ross asks if anybody understood him.
Mathew salutes knocking off his hat and replies "yes sir my little brother said I don't know sir." and gets slimed.
Amyas laughs at his brother and then Mathew dumps his (slime filled) hat on his brothers head. -
bishopniceguy — 20 years ago(August 06, 2005 04:24 PM)
I'm angry that I can't come up with anything for this question. I used to watch the show religiously when I was a kid, even played along with them in front of my television. And now I can remember little more than a few names, faces, and premises. But there is something I do remember. It's not necessarily funny, it just kinda puts things into perspective. It was in one of the "Firing Squad" skits. Alisdair says he can't be executed yet because he hasn't seen "Return of the Jedi" and he needs to know what happens to Han Solo. That is probably my strongest memory of the show.which just reminded me of another one. One of the girls in the new, less funny cast has a crush on Alisdair, who by this time has left the show. During the "locker" sketch, someone asks her about it and right after she mentions his name, a 19 year old Alisdair pops out of a locker, says hi to her, and goes right back in. I remember watching that and being completely surprised. Once again, not exactly funny, but very cool nonetheless.
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groveristhegun — 20 years ago(August 09, 2005 12:04 AM)
I remember the prison ceil skits and classroom sketches with one of the kids in the class would come in on a bed thats all i remember.
The most vivid thing was "This is just the introduction to the opposites". I can still remember the kids would come in a say this and if they did the want was said they would be slimmed and if they did the opposite they would be fine.
I use to watch this show all the time as a kid during school holidays as I lived in Australia and it was played on ABC television. -
tel74 — 20 years ago(September 08, 2005 06:19 PM)
I'm with you niceguy. I watched this all the time too. All I remember from this show is the slime every time someone said "I don't know", and whenever someone said "water" they would get a bucket of water dumped on them. In both cases the bucket itself usually fell from the rafters and hit the person in the head. I also remember Barth pretty vividly, especially his favorite line. I also remember learning how Canadians say "out and about" a little differently than in the US. If I saw the show now I probably couldn't watch more than one episode though. I must be getting old.
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Chambermatic — 20 years ago(October 27, 2005 02:54 PM)
I will always love this show because it was the first show that I ever saw on cable television. I remember going to my aunt's house (circa 1987) when she was the only one I knew who had cable. I was only about 5 years old, but she sat me down in front of the TV and gave me that cable box/remote control thing with the wire connected to ityou know the one where you had to flip a switch to the right level and mash the button down to get the cable channel you wanted, and the pushing down of one button meant the popping up of another button Anyway, she asked me what channel I wanted to watch. Having little to no experience with cable TV at the time I said, "MTV"! Even in its less sophisticated hay day, MTV had a strong presense amongst what would later become its MTV generation. Assuming I knew what I was talking about, she set the cable box on MTV. At the time there was a loud rock/hair band music video on that I was not too keen on trying to get into at the time.
She left me to watch music videos for a sec and came back to see that I wasn't quite enjoying what I was watching. Then she said that I'd probably like this other channel a little bit better. That channel was Nickelodeon. I'd have to assume it was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon because I was just in time for the most pivotal show of my early television watching career (which if i remember correctly You Can't Do That On Television came on EVERYDAY at 4 o'clock).
The show began with a caricature of Rambo (Rambo being another adult phenomenon with which I was vaguely familiar with at the time). The picture was strange and almost eerie in the way it portrayed the character with such satire; something of which I had yet to understand the complexity. An announcer spoke over the comedic drawing in a very commanding tone. It sounded so official, I thought that maybe something had gone wrong and this was like an emergency broadcast message. The announcer said something to the tune of "Rambo will not be seen today because he can't read"! And instead of Rambo they'd be showing something that would be unpleasantso they made it seem.
Afterwards a series of still drawings of teenagers proceeded to parade through an assembly line and fall into a school bus. By the time they ran full steam into the "designated adult", causing his face to crack into pieces, I knew I was onto something big. Ultimately, this show helped to shape my original ideas of comedy and satire. To this day I am a big fan of sketch comedies like Kids in the Hall, SCTV and Mr. Show with Bob and Dave (some SNL is cool). So if anyone on this message board has some sort of pull, bring this show back to television or DVD so that I, as well as other can once again, or maybe for the first time, experience the joy that is this pre-adolescent sketch comedy.
I'm looking for the master.
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MissRobin — 20 years ago(November 01, 2005 10:50 PM)
Ok I was like 4 and 5 and 6 when I watched the show. It was my favorite show when I was little but its hard to remember. I faintly remember that whenever the manager or adult of the group would get the kids to say I dont know or water they would always try and get him to say it? I hope thats right. Those were like my favorite ones. Oh so many Nick shows, they all need to go on DVD, I will pay anything for them.
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mullethunter8888 — 20 years ago(December 17, 2005 01:47 PM)
one skit i distinctly remember was about getting a toy in a cereal box. the picture on the box showed a kid holding a huge toy airplane glider but when the kid in the skit put it together, it was as small as his hand. the punchline was that the plane was actual size and the kid on the box is really really small.
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o1977jp — 20 years ago(December 24, 2005 12:34 PM)
I think the teacher was the funniest character on the show cuz he was such a nerd. I have lots of episodes on VHS and some on DVD, so I remember the show a lot better than most people I guess. Here is one of my favorite scenes involving the teacher (which by the way, would NEVER be aired today on a children's program):
Mr Shidler (speaking to the class): "There is an ugly rumor going around that Iam a secret drinker. That I, take little sips behind people's backs. [Voice cracks] They are calling me an alcoholic. Well I am going to put an end to those rumors right NOW. [mumbling] Secret drinker.. [takes bottle out of desk drawer] I'll drinkright out in the open. Anyone want to join me?"
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brhammer — 20 years ago(January 04, 2006 08:48 AM)
When the kids were forced to wear sailor suits, and the one kid gets out of it by saying "I Don't Know". The other kids think it's a great idea, so they all start "I Don't" and Ross cuts in and goes "NOOOO!" He gets buckets of slime dumped all over him!
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djsullivan — 20 years ago(January 25, 2006 12:29 AM)
When I was at SlimeCon 2004 one of the episodes we watched was The Not-So-Fair Show where Les Lye frequently appeared as The Unfairy Godmother with a blonde wig, ever so masculine voice, and a cigar. His presentation alone got a good laugh from me. In one sketch Christine is wishing she was thinner and so Les turns her into a can of paint thinner then says "Hmm, you know I was going to paint my gazebo this weekend."
I also liked the earlier firing squad sketches where the kids would manage to fool Les and escape usually by a made up story and he'd turn into the camera and say after realizing, "That's one sneaky kid." -
StiltMan — 20 years ago(February 01, 2006 03:37 AM)
Probably the one instance I remember most is one of the execution sketches. I think it's Alisdair on the pole, typical "Ready, aim WAIT WAIT, STOP THE EXECUTION!!! What is it now???" startup.
Alisdair: Hey, why do you do this anyway?
Les: Because it's fun!
Alisdair: Well, why don't you go get in a war or something? You'll get to shoot a lot more people in a war, all at once, here it's just one at a time!
Les: Say, that's a good idea! Come on boys, let's go off to a war and shoot a whole lot of people!
[Alisdair starts chanting patriotic lines while Les goes off frame. A moment later, Les comes back, looking uncertain.]
Les: Say, wait a minute they shoot back in wars!
[Alisdair looks uncomfortable.]
Les: So, you know I think I'll stay right here where it's safe. [Turns to the camera.] Ready AIM!!!!
It was the most memorable execution sequence to me because it was the only time I ever remember where the kid on the pole actually winds up getting shot in the end. -
ekirby-2 — 20 years ago(February 22, 2006 08:04 PM)
I don't know if it's the funniest, but this scene always stuck in my head and would make me laugh. It a family dinner scene and the slob father is eating peas on a knife with honey. The kid asks the Father why he eats peas with honey, could it possibly taste good? The Father says no its horrible. Then the kid asks why do you do it. The Father explains how else am I supposed to keep the peas on the knife.
