Richards Favorite Videos

1. “Looney Tunes on Nick” Ending

2. Nick at Nite up next bumper

3. Sports Cartoon (Karate)

Was interested in this and all the other short cartoons Nickelodeon would play throughout its daytime programming, but once was enough. They were too uneventful to keep my attention more than a second time. even though I watched them multiple times anyway.

4. Alpha Bits (cut off)

A-B-C DELICIOUS! lolz. Loved this commercial. never bought or ate the cereal.

5. Sparkle Crest

The animation was impressive, the bold blue gel as tooth paste was crazy to me, and the recognizable tune of Locomotion that I knew from The Jim Henson hour made this one a winner. I was only able to experience its awesomeness at friend and family houses though since we got our tooth paste from the health food store. naturally.

6. Nickelodeon ID (Octopus)

This made sense to me when I saw it on tv. looking back…not somuch.

7. “Looney Tunes on Nick” bumper

8. NES Paperboy

9. Flexiblocks

I hated blocks and anything building-related and I wanted these things. The sheer wtf-omg-ness of BLOCKS that fkking MOVE was just too irresistible not to be mine. except they never were mine. I never asked for them because although I was amazed and desired them for archival purposes, I knew I would never play with colored bricks on hinges.

10. “Looney Tunes on Nick” bumper and ending

Speedy Gonzales gave a friendly child-relatable Mexican figure to younger viewers. later attacks that he was ‘racist’ were idiotic damaging lies.

11. Nick at Nite up next bumper

12. Sports Cartoon (Football)

“Sports Cartoon” is a really uncreative title for this series of shorts. I feel about this one the same as the other: I liked it, but always desired dialog and more editing to liven it up a little.

13. 11th Cable Ace Awards

14. “Best of SNL” Promo

15. “Bigfoot Strikes Again” VHS (cut off)

16. “Looney Tunes on Nick” bumper

17. Russian Porcelain Plate

18. “Patty Duke Show” Promo

19. “Looney Tunes on Nick” bumper

This was Nick’s first Looney Tunes on Nick intro.
The nick logo was featured as:
A pencil drawing Daffy on screen,
Dirt from Bugs’s rabbit hole,
Stage curtains,
Foghorn Leghorn’s umbrella,
a UFO,
Speedy Gonzales’s sail,
a flower,
a rock crushing Will-E.,
and Sylvester and his son’s popcorn box.

Today’s Special is a children’s television show produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario from 1982 to 1987. It also ran on Nickelodeon and the Faith and Values Channel (now the Hallmark Channel) as well as many PBS stations throughout the United States. It was set in a department store, based on the flagship location of the now-defunct Simpson’s in Toronto. Many sequences for the show were shot at the Queen Street West and Yonge Street store after hours.