Bananaman - Nick Knacks Episode

We begin Nickelodeon 1985 with Bananaman, a silly superhero cartoon Nick picked up to fill a hole in certain episodes of Danger Mouse. We discover it's origins in British comic books, the tiny studio that made it, and the merchandise trends that fueled it. Also, the history of Viacom and their purchase of Nickelodeon!
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[@LithiumBlossom]

I remember going to a super hero themed pub crawl a few years ago. Nobody turned up in costume- apart from one guy dressed as Bannanaman. He stayed in character the entire time.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

That's how it's done!

[@JohnReviews]

So it’s like Shazam but with bananas.

[@HughAverageHomoMan]

Banana Slamma? Banana Shazamma

[@sawbonesquad4876]

yeah, that Jim Henson wiki edit looks to be the work of an infamous wiki troll who adds false production company credits on pages. Imma remove it now :)

[@andrewmorrice9139]

I've seen similar stuff on other Wikipedia pages.

[@rmyers99]

Can I just say that I am incredibly impressed you found those 8-bit computerized banners of what Nickelodeon was running during its off hours? I remember those after Nick's programming ended for the day. But good grief the fact you found those captures really is a testament to how thorough your research is. These videos are great, even if Bananaman was just a "meh" show. I remember it existing, and yet here I am watching an incredibly engrossing half-hour segment about it. Keep up what you're doing. These videos are great.

[@itsjustjoshyy9549]

Is BananaMan show is from Nickelodeon?

[@NorbertSD]

People who have gotten RIP tributes on Nick Knacks: Eugene Pitt Stephen Hillenburg Chris Reccardi Stu Rosen Who will unfortunately be next?

[@sedef122003]

Sadly we now know. RIP Tim Brooke Taylor

[@NorbertSD]

@@sedef122003 Who's that?

[@rafmeinster]

@@NorbertSD One of the voice actors on Bananaman.

[@Elementa2006]

Wow, I used to watch Bananaman like crazy growing up in the UK, I became crazy for bananas because of this show, I also used to have a book that collected stories of the original comic.

[@DigiRangerScott]

Nothing has been ALRIGHT since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, waiting for Banana

[@MattyHervey]

I knew about the Bananaman musical because they followed me on Twitter for some reason. I'm not a big Twitter account, I don't use Twitter very often, and I don't live in the UK, but they were like, "Let's follow this random dude."

[@Eryncerise]

Quality work as always! British film and TV has always felt like a big gap in my media history knowledge, so it's always nice to see episodes of Nick Knacks that help fill in that gap a bit. Also: forgive me in advance for when I inevitably steal the phrase "The past was a mistake".

[@crackerscheese33]

The past wasn't a mistake, the past was just that, the past.

[@gojikranz]

So did someone hang onto a tape of nick text promos during late night all these years? Impressive. Great video as always!

[@neonlightmole9634]

gojikranz I know right? And this was my first time seeing that. Up till now, I assumed they just cut there broadcast completely after A&E left LOL

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

The past may be a mistake, but a mistake that I've learned to accept...

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Bananaman has has pointed "banana ears" on his bananamask which are an obvious reference to Batman...

[@Metlhd313]

So many "V of Doom"s

[@JamesLewis2]

I was about to remark that Nickelodeon needed to fill at least 22 minutes of programming every half-hour (more specifically, 11 minutes every quarter-hour), but when I tried to find any actual regulations on the length of commercials (thinking it was at most 4 minutes per quarter-hour), I found that neither the FCC nor the NAB's old Television Code were ever quite that strict; the Code (abolished in 1982 by a legal settlement with the DoJ that hinged upon its restrictions against advertising things like contraceptives and hard liquor constituting a "restraint of trade") allowed up to 8.5 minutes of commercials per half-hour for all programming, and since October 1991 (well after the time-frame for this video), the FCC restriction on total commercial length for *children's* programming (other programming never having FCC restrictions on commercial time) has been 10.5 minutes per half-hour on weekends and 12 minutes per half-hour on weekdays. Also, in 2011, the Captain Marvel character from DC Comics was re-named to Shazam, partly because many people thought that was his name anyway, and partly because Marvel Comics had been holding on to the trademark for "Captain Marvel" by introducing several characters with that name since 1967; actually, DC had marketed its character as Shazam ever since it bought the rights in 1972 from Fawcett, which had not published a Captain Marvel comic (or any other superhero comic) since it lost a 1951 lawsuit from DC alleging that Captain Marvel infringed on its copyright for Superman, but it just didn't re-name the character until 2011.

[@waffledog]

I learned recently about the whole US/UK Dennis The Menace coincidence but couldn’t place quite why UK Dennis seemed so familiar despite never seeing him before. I woulda never drawn the line between that and Bananaman! Fantastic episode, mind blown. :p

[@mekonta]

An incredible coincidence so it was. And both creators wished each other's creation as well as each other, across the Pond, the best of luck, success and well-being. True gentlemen. Unlike today where people would probably try and sue the hell out of each other.

[@meyerj75]

Bananaman debuted on Nickelodeon around October 1985 (not sure about the exact numerical date) with promos beginning a month earlier. Prior to this, Nickelodeon aired music videos ( usually one ) or small shorts like Picture Pages or The Cracking of an Egg or something so Bananaman was there to fill in the missing link. Had Nickelodeon went forward and added the Secret Agent Secrets segments on Danger Mouse which were 2-3 minutes long, the network may not needed Bananaman after all (Talk about turning that into a 30 minutes series like Danger Mouse). Danger Mouse's Secret Agent Secrets were never seen on Nickelodeon even once and thanks to KZbin, all 22 of them can be seen there individually.

[@sandradermark8463]

ERIC IS BANANAMAN!!! Like Shazam, but eating fruit!

[@Ronnie06spartan]

Another great video! @6:25, the early days of Nick with the silver ball logo is such a fascinating era for the channel, but the orange splat logo is sooo iconic.

[@Lynn17]

"MY CABBAGES!" You win.

[@tadhgdeegan2621]

It's mad to think Bananaman is still running in the Beano comic. Hes over 40 and still going strong

[@josecarrales2842]

I love your "Nick Knacks" segments. While some say they may be long, but I love the depth of your content and contextualization. Keep it up.

[@ILikeMints]

finally 1985, the year i was born. i'm really looking forward to your coverage of the mid-to-late '80s to see any "oh holy shit, i remember that" things that have been buried in my head for 30 years

[@ntseggay]

18:22 dennis has 3 shows now lmao

[@Reshiram1330]

I love Tally Hall!... oh wait wrong banana man

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I kinda love Crow's puns. But that might be because l've never heard them before.

[@Clay3613]

Bananaman seems so out there for an 80s cartoon, it feels like a character from Ren & Stimpy or The Tick. Now A&E is just crime related shows and the occasional movie. Though the shows are very good outside of the stupid 60 Days In.

[@EvaFull]

LOL I was just thinking to myself about the next new episode of Nick Knacks and BOOM, it appears in my subscriptions. Can’t wait to get time to sit back and enjoy as much as all the rest of the series so far. Keep up the awesome work and can’t wait for the next episode to premiere.

[@cykemtrale2287]

Got to love the dry British humor in it here and there

[@MikeKobela]

The sound engineer/mixer of Sonic Adventure 2 must've been a big fan of Bananaman...

[@nazishhussain2712]

this series is giving me captian underpants vibes

[@andrewmorrice9139]

11:11 For grade school read primary school ;) 17:45 Eric is also called Eric Wimp in the comic, but Eric Twinge in the TV show.

[@Nick-ty9us]

The voices of the show have a bit of improv in them, it’s like the goodies were ad-libbing which to be fair they did

[@frankr.ashbyjr.2006]

Love this series...I feel like NO ONE in the US knows about Bananaman...and it was one of my faves...def one of the series that helped me get interested in superheroes which in turned stoaked my interest in marvel and dc...keep up the awesome work!

[@cameronmarnoch5236]

The first Nick Nacks about some children's media I'm very nostalgic for. Loved my Beano at age 7. Great look at it as always. Fun to know that these episodes would take a month to do!

[@mikemayberry7121]

I was a lucky kid who had Nick in the 80s and it always felt special whenever I caught an episode of Banana Man. Big nostalgia rush for me here. Thanks for that. I adore this series. It's so well researched and presented. I'm really looking forward to the Nick At Nite episode. Keep up the great work!👍👍

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I used to do Bananaman jokes in the school cafeteria.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@matthewdaley746 No I didn't. People wern't punished during lunch in those days.

[@kildogery]

I've not seen many UK channels go this deep on Bananaman. It makes me laugh to think anyone in America ever saw it. Must have seemed so weird. Great video.

[@mets137781]

Tbf Nick did a lot of these so it was kind of like just another odd short Nick is showing….

[@kildogery]

@@mets137781 hehe, yeah fair enough. It's just so British and random. Even for British kids. Although it is in a comic over here, so was already established as a superhero spoof.

[@mets137781]

@@kildogery yeah when you watched Nick in that era that's what you were signing up for. Part of the reason there's this 95+ part retrospective on a children's channel is that parts are profoundly weird and odd. You got so many weird and random things from all over the world, cities of gold, the pile anime they brought in, you can't do that on television, DM, Bananaman, duckula etc. Sometimes boring, sometimes interesting, and in the 80s quite weird. It's hard to explain if you weren't there. Incidently Danger Mouse actually showed up on one of our independent channels in the mid 80s and was pretty funny. Strangely it was done with DJ Kat I believe another British import

[@kildogery]

@@mets137781 yeah, they're all great. We got Cities of Gold too, on Childrens BBC 1, back in the day. There were a few, weird Japanese/Euro productions back in the day. Britain just kept it small, apart from Cosgrove Hall and Aardman. I knew Danger Mouse and maybe Duckula had made it over, but Bananaman, just makes me laugh. It's so stupid 😄

[@kildogery]

@@mets137781 I also like the idea, they were all shown because they were cheap, even though, this was the pinnacle of UK childrens animation at the time 😄

[@antoniod]

"The Goodies" had come up in the business with John Cleese and Graham Chapman after Cambridge University revues, on Radio's I'M SORRY I'LL READ THAT AGAIN on TV's AT LAST THE 1948 SHOW.

[@jaggerguth4391]

The Problem with this Cartoon is That General Blight Appeared Way too Often. More than 90% of The Episodes Had him as The Central Villain. While The Weatherman, The Heavy Mob, and Captain Cream Had Spotlight Episodes, They Eventually Be Teaming up with General Blight. Heck! The Nerks Debut Episode is a Team Up Between General Blight. Something that I Think The Comics Would Never Do.

[@Dr.Quarex]

I discovered the stairs in your house between watching #39 and this one. Suddenly it makes even more sense that your presentation style is impeccable

[@andrewbowman4611]

Anyone else want to see a DC Thompson Cinematic Universe? Also, to describe the likes of The Beano and The Dandy as "comic book anthologies" is decidedly quaint. Also also, take a look at Fleetway's stable of comics, with titles like: Buster; Whizzer and Chips; Whoopee; Shiver and Shake; Corrr!!; and the greatest comic of all, Oink!

[@animefan25]

Bananaman was also part of a Nick series called Total Panic.

[@stephenholloway6893]

By the way, Warner kept a minority stake of MTV Networks in 1985, then sold that to Viacom in 1986.

[@Nickrj3]

Bananaman also was on Total Panic later on.

[@JHollowayNetwork]

They used the voice actors from The Goodies (Tim-Brooke Taylor (RIP), Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden) for the series.

[@morbidsearch]

I'm glad Dennis the Menace didn't get a cartoon until the 90s. It just wouldn't have worked with that stiff 80s style.

[@newstarcadefan]

Okay I have seen these shorts on Nick Jr, and on Special Delivery. Also cannot wait for the Nick at Nite episode.

[@heidifedor]

In the 90’s, VH-1 became the cooler music channel

[@deathcrist2000]

I'm kinda surprised you didn't bring up Marvelman in the list of British heroes "inspired by" Captain Marvel.

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

I would have thought that he'd be the most famous case of a British company ripping off Captain Marvel, given the notorious gritty reboot written by Alan Moore in the 80s. Now I kind of want someone to do an Alan Moore-esque deconstruction of Bananaman where there's a running gag where people keep asking how he managed to go through his whole adolescence and adulthood without eating a single banana and ended up becoming a pudgy middle aged security guard at a banana factory.

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

@@fusionspace175 I have been working on the idea myself and my explanation for the lack of banana eating is currently that the police chief employed an evil psychotherapist to condition Eric to develop an intense phobia of bananas because all of the police budget was being spent replacing that wall. When reawakened Bananaman goes on a V for Vendetta-esque campaign for revenge, letting his return be known by leaving a hand of bananas in the chief's bed, Godfather-style. I'm kind of thinking I might play into the Freudian connotations of the fruit by way of making a parallel with gay conversion therapy and the psychological harm it does to people. Also, I figured it might be neat if while effectively banished to his pocket dimension Bananaman had created his own nation, a banana republic if you will, which will eventually be revealed as a ruse intended to distract Eric and prevent him from getting control back before his plans come to fruition.

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

@@fusionspace175 interestingly enough I figured that the techniques used to break the main character's psyche could basically be the Ludovico technique from A Clockwork Orange, but the trigger would be the Bananas in Pyjamas theme song, so I was thinking that they'd play a role as either a recurring delusion, or they'd be the manifestation of some sort of ambiguous neutral entity that seeks to throw a spanner in the works. I figured they could answer to a recurring character who has hands of bananas in place of his hands and face and wears a suit.

[@charliecatsantos8412]

Viacom was now in successor is VIACOMCBS (CBS Acquired Viacom since 2019)

[@corrosioncat]

"My cabage!" Lolz!!!!!

[@andrewmorrice9139]

I didn't understand that one.

[@corrosioncat]

@@andrewmorrice9139 it's a running gag from Avatar the last airbender

[@papachillothezappey4050]

RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor

[@Nickrj3]

This morning I heard the song 1985 by Paul McCartney and wings

[@marcomacias3960]

if im not mistaken i saw an episode of Total Panic just release recently on KZbin, and there was a showing of Bananaman. so to me it may of continue to air until the 1990s.

[@Monkofmagnesia]

Showtime. The Movie Channel. I gad forgotten about them. As a fan of British humour, I loved The Goodies. As a fan of documentaries with tons of information, I am Thumbs Up 282 and Subscribed to your channel while watching this video.

[@blacksunday7205]

Nuddy... So that’s where the Spongebob episode “Frankendoodle” came from. LOL

[@blacksunday7205]

Nutty...

[@vgtrp]

The past wasn't a mistake, it's just full of mistakes that we need to learn from and do better. As for Bananaman, not much to say except the stage play looks so bizarre that I kinda want to see it.

[@darkisatari]

Xecter Ryan when people say things like that I think it sounds arrogant. Like we’re probably doing things right now that future generations will look badly on - and furthermore if people from the past could visit us now they’d also have some feelings of horror I’m sure. I think some of those issues we’re better, some we might not be so better.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@darkisatari I'm sure they'd have a heart attack at the type of styles or fashion we have today.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

The present's full of mistakes. Any era will have +s an -s.

[@vgtrp]

@@andrewmorrice9139 That's true.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@andrewmorrice9139 That is something to take into account.

[@darktetsuya]

not one I ever really got into, IDK why... but sitll a thorough and detailed look at the series and the history, never knew it was originally a comic! (and unrelated, but I had heard from a UK youtube gaming channel about the dennis the menace thing. it's so weird!)

[@turnonmyaxel]

Being a british kid of the very late 90s I watched quite a bit of Danger mouse but Bannanaman seemed to not make it past the year 2000 on British tv. I always thought of it as some kind of lame copyright free costume old people would buy. Nice to know it was something real but also a show which Im glad didn't get to my childhood.

[@markjeffries3684]

Seems to me that "Bananaman" also ran on "Total Panic" (when you get around to that show).

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Today, Viacom and CBS are reunited, as ViacomCBS.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Not the same Viacom. The new version. The old one ended in 2006.

[@ntseggay]

Did you know that bananaman was originally (and still is) a comic from the beano/ the dandy (Edit) it originaly came from nutty but when nutty folded it transitioned to the dandy. but is now in the beano

[@jwilliams7554]

I Actually remember watching the text promotions before the channel started the day with black beauty

[@mattamiller2002]

OK I'm really looking forward to the next episode. I was an avid Nick viewer in this era and remember it pretty well, but I have absolutely no idea what that is.

[@ShadowWingTronix]

I rarely understood Bananaman but for some reason I still enjoyed it.

[@thefroable]

I remember Danger Mouse/Bananaman being the last thing airing on the weekdays before Nick @ Nite would sign on. Bananaman was a good palette cleanser since Danger Mouse could be slightly weird/disturbing.

[@SpongeyTheEditor]

"The past was a mistake"-poparena 2019

[@darrenbradleytwin]

And he'd be wrong.

[@OptimusShr]

@@darrenbradleytwin No he wouldn't.

[@darrenbradleytwin]

@@OptimusShr Yes he is. The past had mistakes in it but it wasn't a mistake as an entirety as the opening comment alludes to. Likewise, present day has mistakes in it but I wouldn't call the now in which we live in, a 'mistake'. As for the 'mistake' he's referring to in the video, there's nothing wrong with the illustrations in The Beano.

[@beejay271]

@@darrenbradleytwin "there's nothing wrong with the illustrations in The Beano"?! PLEASE explain this comment I have to hear you spin this🤣

[@darrenbradleytwin]

There's nothing _to_ spin. It's a simple caricature of a black boy just as *all* the characters in the Beano, black or white, are caricatures. If you've ever seen a British white person that looks exactly like Plug, then please let me know and stop being offended on other people's behalf. 🤣 edit:bold

[@michaelbonner4126]

Rest in peace stu

[@kevynonvideo1643]

Someone was a fan of a certain superhero game for the Sega Genesis, featuring a certain "dynamic duo"... Nice music selections, fella!

[@dogeman0526]

14:10 oh no the past was a mistake

[@Showsni]

Wow, it's so obvious now you point it out, but I never pegged that Bananaman's voice cast was the Goodies before... Like Dangermouse, Bananaman is one of those things that I grew up watching, but would be hard pressed to remember any individual plotline. I always associate Bananaman with other five to ten minute cartoons we got like Penny Crayon, Family Ness or Jimbo and the Jet Set; were they shown at roughly the same time?

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

We Americans never got too many of these others like Penny Crayon, which I'm sure would've been fine on Nick as well.

[@newstarcadefan]

@@ChristopherSobieniak maybe so. We probably got 'em during Special Delivery when a movie ran short.

[@newstarcadefan]

@@matthewdaley746 You're not lying. Special Delivery was a junk drawer show. Just random. That's how I was able to watch Grimm's Fairy Tales and such back then.

[@kingboobs20]

Wait a minute, is that the music from Adventures of Batman & Robin on the Sega Genesis I hear?

[@OnslaughtSix]

This guy knows what's up

[@charliecatsantos8412]

7:53 It looks like Teletext (Aka Videotext in Germany in circa 80's and BBC Ceefax in UK)

[@JMein13074]

For the Nick at Nite episodes, will they be single-show format as well or will you be condensing them by year of premiere?

[@pattyofurniture694]

I'm guessing he is only gonna do one or two eps of nick at night, or else this series will go on for the rest of time

[@TDOTCRFH4]

He's stated elsewhere where that nick at night, as its own separate entity, will get its own single, dedicated episode

[@stephenholloway6893]

Though at the start of each year he starts, he does briefly talked about what shows were added and left Nick at Nite.

[@dylansporrer1198]

It's still mystifying to me that the channel that now airs 18hours of Storage Wars every day used to show operas and art documentaries.

[@michaelbuono4007]

Stu Rose had a very long life

[@AdamFairLand]

I remember seeing BM during Nickelodeon Total Panic!

[@Matthew6248]

Rambo First Blood came out in 1982, Rambo First blood Part 2 came out in 1985

[@JoeBushOnline]

Bananaman is OP and should be nerfed

[@stephanierushing6566]

You left out Livewire.

[@stephanierushing6566]

@CHICHI7 I was referring to Livewire ending its run in 1985.

[@meyerj75]

Actually, it was January 1986 right after Fred Newman signed a contract to work for the Disney Channel. Remember the New Mickey Mouse Club?

[@SneeOoshIncIsBack]

do break my stride with snee oosh

[@adamdavis1648]

I'd be interested in an episode about "Picture Pages" and other between show shorts on Nick if you ever decide to do one. Also, what is "Spackle"?

[@adamdavis1648]

@CHICHI7 Thanks!

[@SanFran51]

Spoiler Alert..... everyone who worked on Bananaman HATED it. Including the Comic's creator.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

Source?

[@darrenbradleytwin]

John Geering never worked for 101 Productions (the studio that animated BM). He did however work for Crosgrove Hall and helped out on a few Danger Mouse and Count Duckula stories but was mostly a comic strip illustrator. I've only heard The Goodies (who voiced the characters) say positive things about the show.

[@EmperorSeth]

Oh, I'm sure there are other reasons you'd prefer not to do a Picture Pages write-up.

[@adamdavis1648]

What reasons would those be?

[@adamdavis1648]

@CHICHI7 I assume he was in "Picture Pages", then?

[@meyerj75]

Check Out The First Ten Years of Nickelodeon which has a short description of Picture Pages as well as you know who. Don't make me mention it, please.

[@heidifedor]

Why did Eric become stupid when he became Banaman?

[@jaggerguth4391]

Eric is a Boy. and Young Kids are Not so Bright until Growing up.

[@vendy-py7247]

11:01 Put that into a green screen

[@jasoneager5651]

Where did you find that shutdown character generator footage?

[@janelanemle1979]

in 10:02 was that Hello Kitty?

[@santaisacommunist]

No, it's Musti

[@guavabends]

wheres picture pages

[@meyerj75]

If it's because of Bill Cosby, keep it dark!

[@MissAshley42]

I know I saw this, but I can't remember a thing about it. If not for the loud costume design, it probably wouldn't have left any impression on me at all. On a related note, bananas were my favorite fruit as a kid. When I tried to eat one recently, however, it made me painfully bloated. Getting old sucks.

[@beipiaosaurus]

Assuming you could get enough content, I'd enjoy a Picture Pages episode. "Picture Pages, Picture Pages, time to get your Picture Pages, la la la la la la la la Picture Page with you!"

[@TheEman590]

Ah, childhood. The jingle sticks with me.

[@TheEman590]

@@matthewdaley746 Oh I know.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

In both the United States and Canada, the home video game market was in a slump thanks to Atari and the 1983 Video Game Crash which was caused by a bunch of crappy games, including the Pac-Man and E.T. video games. There was a bright spot with video arcades still being popular for much of the 1980s and kids using their hard-earned quarters to play Space Invaders, Donkey Kong or Ms. Pac-Man on an upright arcade game cabinet. Both Nintendo (with their Famicom/NES) and Sega (with their Mark IV/Master System) wanted to restore the consumers' faith in home video gaming in North America. It would be Nintendo with their NES (basically a redesigned Famicom) that would win most consumers over, while some consumers would discover the Sega Master System in 1986, which wasn't as popular as Nintendo's NES and was distributed only to a few retailers (such as Toys "R" Us) in partnership with Tonka Toys.

[@razorblade4395]

You forgot livewire

[@meyerj75]

That show ended its run on January 1986 (no exact numerical date known). By then, it was only one Saturdays at 5 PM airing the 1983 copywright date programs with the Gap and Very Fine sponsors at the end of the credits.

[@claymoore719]

I love these videos, but man... please stop saying “Eck-specially” when you mean “especially”. Again, love the series!

[@56.subhrajyotidutta60]

@poparena I have remembered something called clutch clutch. Their lips were like real person. I think that was also aired on Nickelodeon. I doesn't remember it quite well or watched it everytime. What I watched was Johhny sokko, pinwheel,special delivery and those 70's and early 80's stuff. Do you remember it?? Edit: *OMG* I just found that it was called "Clutch Cargo". I doesn't remember that it was aired on Nickelodeon or not, but you can see it from here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4W0epKOn9SGibs

[@jeffharrisTXB]

The company was pronounced "VEE-uh-cawm" for much of its life until the late '80s.

[@kandigloss6438]

that's nice, since this is dealing with them in the 80s and the newer version is the accepted one now I don't see how that's relevant. Do you expect him to change how he pronounces the name depending on what era he is talking about? That would be rather silly.

[@jeffharrisTXB]

@@kandigloss6438 It's just a useless fact. The pronunciation changed around the time they adapted the "wigga wigga" logo in 1988-89. I'm not asking anybody to change the way they pronounce it. It's just a footnote. Sheesh, don't bite off my head. Watch the origins of the brand up to today v=3A-5KzcrQtY

[@kandigloss6438]

@@jeffharrisTXB Ah, ok then, just thought you were doing the typical youtube comments thing of getting angry over something very minor. Sorry about the misunderstanding.

[@newstarcadefan]

Well, you're not wrong. I grew up watching the Monty Hall hosted episodes of Split Second as a kid, and heard it that way too.

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

14:15 I'm not I'm not Touch This that in a 40 long stick the past what the mistake

[@lamontyaboy718]

"The beano oh no" I know the character is horribly offensive but the way he said that was so funny I choked on my mountain dew.

[@mekonta]

Grammar mistakes.

[@mekonta]

I'm not a teacher, I'm just someone educated and taught to write coherent sentences for people to understand, which should be the basic standard in a comment section.

[@razorblade4395]

Bro can we hangout next time you are in Fairfield sorry if that sounds creepy

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

I bet when "Nick Knacks" gets to the first episode of the year 1999 (I hope he starts with SpongeBob SquarePants), when he mentions the pop culture events of 1999, I hope an instrumental of the 1982 Prince song, "1999" is played. It would continue a trend that began with an earlier Nick Knacks episode about QUBE interactive TV, where an instrumental of "Big in Japan" by Alphaville was used when talking about Japan's contribution to that early cable TV project.

[@madmonkee6757]

WHY WHY WHY do you say "expecially"?! WTF!?

[@Tacom4ster]

Oh no racist caricatures

[@mekonta]

Not racist.

[@mekonta]

@@matthewdaley746 No they're not racist, not then, not now and never will be. They're just simple drawings, Beano style, of kid characters. There's no malice or ill-feelings in the drawings of the kids, in fact the opposite, they're happy, funny. Don't be a sheep and fall into the pool of a brainwashed indoctrination. Be your own mind, not what others tell you what to think. I mean if you can point out what you think is 'racist' about any of the illustrations in the Beano, Dandy or Nutty comics, I'm ready to listen...?

[@darrenbradleytwin]

@@mekonta Agreed.