“They still throw slime around. But it’s very beautiful slime. Heavily art-directed slime. That’s what changed. Grown-ups took control of the slime and made it pretty.”

It’s surprising that a book about the Golden Age of Nickelodeon is not only so formal, but completely by the numbers. It feels like “Slimed!” began life as an in depth interview about the network and then eventually turned in to a book. Matthew Klickstein can never really decide what kind of book he wants to give his readers, all he seems to know is that he loves Nickelodeon from the period of the mid-eighties to mid-nineties, and nothing else matters. Hell, the writers and executives that worked at Nickelodeon recall the introduction of “All That!” as an omen of change for the network for the worse, and how no game show could ever capture the fun of “You Can’t Do That on Television.” While I’ll admit the show is fantastic, I laugh at the inclusion of “Legends of the Hidden Temple” as a show that was never as good as the aforementioned series. That show was excellent.

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