Taste the Slime!
Peter wrote to me:
"i was wondering who came up with the idea of the triger phrase for the slime i dont know. the 2nd thing i was
wondering was what the slime tasted like"
Peter, you have opened the slimy can of worms, my friend. First: the answers. Roger Price, I am almost positive, came up with...well...you know the phrase. This has the feel of classic Roger Price, but I invite anyone who has different intelligence on this one to chime in.
What I do recall is that the idea behind it was a kind of a satire on educational television, and on how the kids on those shows were such smarmy know-it-alls. I refer not to any of the quality educational TV we see today but rather to some classic 70's Canadian kids TV like a show called "Circle Square" which was beyond tolerable. So the idea on YCDTOTV was to immediately and in the most disgusting way possible, punish the kid who actually didn't know. How dare they not know!
The evolution of the recipe is a whole other story. As I recall, it took a while to bring the local Ottawa crew around to the idea of even working on the show: I think they thought it was, well, kind of disgusting. And the first slime recipes reflected a kind of experimentation that makes me kind of shudder when I think about it now.
For some time, there seemed to be a lot of oats in there. Delicious fibrous flavour, but REALLY hard to get out of one's hair. To make it easier to wash out, sooap was then added...really, really bad taste.
For some time I seem to recall there being a distinctly salty flavour. I'm not sure I really want to think about why this might be.
and here is the threat I live with every day:
Yes! It is slime, and it lives in my fridge; I am particularly afraid of the one on the left, which has, somehow, turned blue. Clearly this is why I am to this day such a know it all.
"i was wondering who came up with the idea of the triger phrase for the slime i dont know. the 2nd thing i was
wondering was what the slime tasted like"
Peter, you have opened the slimy can of worms, my friend. First: the answers. Roger Price, I am almost positive, came up with...well...you know the phrase. This has the feel of classic Roger Price, but I invite anyone who has different intelligence on this one to chime in.
What I do recall is that the idea behind it was a kind of a satire on educational television, and on how the kids on those shows were such smarmy know-it-alls. I refer not to any of the quality educational TV we see today but rather to some classic 70's Canadian kids TV like a show called "Circle Square" which was beyond tolerable. So the idea on YCDTOTV was to immediately and in the most disgusting way possible, punish the kid who actually didn't know. How dare they not know!
The evolution of the recipe is a whole other story. As I recall, it took a while to bring the local Ottawa crew around to the idea of even working on the show: I think they thought it was, well, kind of disgusting. And the first slime recipes reflected a kind of experimentation that makes me kind of shudder when I think about it now.
For some time, there seemed to be a lot of oats in there. Delicious fibrous flavour, but REALLY hard to get out of one's hair. To make it easier to wash out, sooap was then added...really, really bad taste.
For some time I seem to recall there being a distinctly salty flavour. I'm not sure I really want to think about why this might be.
and here is the threat I live with every day:
Yes! It is slime, and it lives in my fridge; I am particularly afraid of the one on the left, which has, somehow, turned blue. Clearly this is why I am to this day such a know it all.
Oh, my dear sweet...it really is jars of slime, isn't it? Oh, my....
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Every time the science episode would air, I'd try to lip read the kid when he read the recipe for green slime. Would they really sneak in the actual recipe? Of course, the credits rolled over his voice.
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I heard in days it wa smade of applesauce like from the spin off show with mark summers called double dare, not sure if you knwo this one christine it was on nickelodeon too where families answered questions and did challenges. just in case you didnt.if it was salty tasting id venture to guess it was the oatmeal oats reacting with the soap. I cnat believe you have slime form the show still you knwo you could make a killing on ebay with that? or you could send it to me to analyze it lol just kidding id fear opening it too. looks like some of barths secret sauce for his burgers.
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and just for memories sake the blue slime was substituted on the show before along with red as well. i distinctly remember the two color substitutions.
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It was, I think, the rainbow slime scene with me and vanessa that was featured at the VERY beginning of that movie...the one with Glenn Close...crap, my memory is shot. Kinda creepy, guy cheats on his wife, gets caught, mistress goes nuts...I only really recall this at all because despite all of their claims that they paid us for using that scene, I never got a cheque in the mail! (I'm not bitter. really.)
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I think the movie was "Fatal Attraction".
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here is a clip i found on the prop man who made the batches of slime hope this helps Moose....Several different recipes of slime were used during the series' decade-long run, some resulting in thin, watery slime and others in thick, chunky slime. In an interview with YCDTOTV.com, longtime YCDTOTV crew member Bill Buchanan explained the origin of the slime in 1979:
“ "...one script called for this kinda disgusting slimy green stuff - but with no real indication of what it was going to be used for. ... The description was that it was just something green and slimy and disgusting ... Anyhow, [properties man Paul Copping] mixed up a whole green garbage can ... with slime. I know he'd colored it with green latex paint. God knows what else was in it, but it was disgusting. And it was parked inside the studio door, and everyone was kinda avoiding it because it was really foul looking. I mean, he had like sausages floating in it. ... Then, all of a sudden, we get to the point of the day where it turns out that it's going to be used. It turns out that it's going to get dumped on some kid! ... It was like, "Jeeze, this stuff is probably toxic! You can't dump that on somebody!" So I guess the whole green slime thing was deferred to such time when we had something that wouldn't kill somebody if it were to fall on them. That first stuff never got used. ... Then, I remember being kind of involved in the first attempt to make a green slimy material that would be actually ... not too offensive. When you dumped it on a person's head, you were liable to get it in their eyes, in their mouths and anywhere else. So we concocted some stuff made out of green Jell-o, or gelatin. We made it by the bucket. We bought hundreds of packages of lime Jell-o or gelatin over the years." ”
—Bill Buchanan, [3]
For several years afterwards, the slime consisted of this mixture of lime green gelatin powder and flour; eventually, oatmeal was added to the recipe, as was baby shampoo so that it would wash out of the actors' hair more easily. Especially in the later years of the show, cast members who were slimed frequently looked upward into the slime as it was falling so that it covered their faces (the same was also true of the waterings).
Christine McGlade is slimed in blue in the ending link to the 1982 "Justice and Injustice" episode, because, as Ross (Les Lye) tells her, they ran out of green slime.
Christine is slimed in green, red, blue, yellow and "stripes" (all four colours at once) in rapid succession in the 1982 "Television" episode
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I cannot describe the glee I felt at seeing the photo and realizing, before I read the text, what it must mean. Ha ha. Is it some sort of retirement fund?
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Imagine what that'd get on eBay. ;)
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ya think???? naw, my kids would kill me. It's their slime.
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Whatever mixture they used at the last SlimeCon actually fermented and caused the plastic souvenir bottles of slime some people got to explode. Not the best travelling surprise.
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I thought it was poop. Dyed. There, I said it. Somebody out there wanted to say that. So there. I said it.
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I Don't Know, OOOPS! But really, that is soo gross! I cna't imagine what it must have felt like having that stuff dropped on ones head all the time. Did you take turns, Picking straws or something to see who was going to get it, per show? was thier any kind of alergic reation? Man I get upset when I hit with a water balloon ( playing around with friends and Co-Workers) I cant get over how you all would have delt with it, over the years you did the show?????
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Wow..I always thought slime was..well actually I didn't know. Thanks for explaining. It was salty? Hmmmm....
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Christine was the sliming always scripted or did you ever have any surprise slime while filming? :-)
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i can answer that one i think, it was almost always scripted and they hated it being done to them that is until they started getting paid to get slimed which was i believe 25 dollars per slime on the show back then if i remember correctly christine.
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I still have my bottle of the last-officially-dropped-in-the-original-CJOH-studio slime, tucked deep into the back of my freezer. I harvested it when I was helping clean up the "museum" after Slimecon, and as soon as I got home, I froze it, to prevent those unfortunate fermented-slime explosions that befell the others who'd brought home some of that slime.
Apart from the journey from my old apartment to my new one, that slime has remained cryogenically preserved. Perhaps someday, my mercenary urges will get the better of me, and I'll figure out some way to package it in little vials, like you get at Lourdes, and sell it on Ebay. In the meantime, it's mine, all mine!!!
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The pictured jars are from that very occasion. (Hi Patte!)
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Speaking of slime. I always remember the time on YCDTOTV where are sitting next to Vanessa and you got slimed by all those different colored slimes. I think you even yell 'Let see you do rainbow!' or something to that effect. Then you got rainbow. LOL I hope that didn't take more than one take. It looked like Vanessa got it as bad as you did in that scene. It's one of my all time favorite scenes from that show.
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I remember the scene you are referring to. Vanessa asked if the slime was always green and Moose said, paraphrasing here, usually, but I guess it could be red, or yellow or blue. Of course, she got slimed by each color as she said it. Then at the end she said: "OK, Your so smart. Let's see stripes" That's when she got the rainbow of slime dumped on her.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
BTW Christine (Moose), you were always my favorite.
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I have to say, I grew up watching You Can't Do that on Television ( the Nick Version). Up until this week I hadn't thought about looking it up, well, until now.
It's nice to see that there are still fans of this show out that, and nice to see the cast still willing to fill us all on on their memories.
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Are you still afraid of saying those three words, over twenty years later?
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Did you have to wear your own clothes or did the show provide the kids with clothes especially with the green slime and water that was dumped on them. What about your shoes? Did you have to get a new pair for every show considering all of the stage pollution that took place?
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I'm kind of curious myself. It must have been a messy process for slime and water scenes.
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I'm sure the show provided the cast members with clothes rather than have the actors/actresses get thier own clothes slimed & drenched
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I can't believe I'm getting to join a discussion about slime with Christine "Moose" McGlade! I grew up watching and loving YCDTOT. Disgusting viewing for the whole family. I loved it (and had schoolboy crushes on both Moose and Lisa.)
Did anyone see the Onion parody a few years ago, where "actors" from YCDTOT suffered long-term disabling effects from the supposed toxicity of the slime? The fake news photo had a "cast member" in a wheelchair at a protest, holding up a sign that read "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT ON TELEVISION." Pricesless.
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Here's a link to the Onion parody.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30578
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That's cool, but I'm still wondering about the whole process of getting slimed.
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From Gerben Heslinga, the director for the 1989-90 season:
"When we watered or slimed someone, it was done in three parts. The first part of the sketch, up to where the actor said, "Water" or "I Don't Know," was put to tape. Then, the stage crew would set up a stepladder with the slime bucket or water pail off camera, and they would put plastic on the floor of the set. We would then put the actor back onto the set, take a close-up shot, begin recording and then water or slime them. Then we would stop tape, remove the stepladder and put other actors back onto the set and resume recording. All three parts would be edited together in the edit suite. That's why no one else ever got wet or slimed."
(taken from ycdtotv.com)
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This is rather slutty. Why would Christine write such crap? Maybe she has a darker side than any of us are aware of!
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Hey whatz up Moose? any info about YCDTOTV coming to dvd?It was my favorite show as a kid & would love for my daughter to see it now,I'm 28 y.o. & she's going to be 11 next month,I know she will love it,to bad NICK doesnt play it on nick @ nite...
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I always loved to watch this show. Recently I found some episodes on the internet and am enjoying watching them again.
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Striped slime! WOOHOO!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JAKHBdd5Ko&feature=related
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Holy crap! It that really Moose responding? Don't ask me how I found this site, but I'm back in teenage crush heaven!!! Christine, you were my first real love. Second only to Daisy Duke (sorry, but she wore short-shorts...)
I've also noticed the older dates from the last few comments, and I'm wondering if the forum is still active...
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Oh oh... looks like a disaster. :D
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I was pretty young at the time, but I remember quite a few Turkey TV sketches. I know it'll never be released on DVD, since it wouldn't make much profit, but to see them again would be a treat.I cna't imagine what it must have felt like having that stuff dropped on ones head all the time.
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Hey, Moosie! I mean, Christine!!
I just recently ran across your site, prompted by seeing a Facebook link to YCDTOT.
I hope you have many fond memories from the 'Old Days'.
I, too, am one of the many guys who watched the show, secretly because of you. I am a bit older than a lot of the folks posting, so please don't send the police after me! I believe we are beyond the statute of limitations!! Anyway, I want to wish you well and thank you for the fun of the show.
love from an older fan,
Lee
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