Get the Picture - Nick Knacks Episode

[@SmashAdams216]

Everytime Mike O'Malley shows up on a random show I get so excited to see him still working. I loved him in "Heels"!

[@iancoyne2200]

I may be the only person who eagerly awaited this Nick Nacks video because it reminded me so much of my young childhood where I grew up watching this show. So many good memories.

[@christopherb501]

*Knacks

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Parts of the set for Get The Picture were also recycled for an unaired pilot episode of Nick Arcade, which featured Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES as one of the video game options in the Video Challenge round...

[@janedoe3043]

I absolutely love you sir. The wholesome host of Nick Knacks with good morals serving up Nostalgia. I literally cry when you put out new videos. It's the only thing keeping me going.

[@monosaturated]

My friends and I, when we would watch Ger the Picture and GUTS, would often comment on how... stoned Mike O'Malley looked. Not always - which made it easy to discern between what appeared to be a visibly stoned O'Malley. Yes, we would be high watching this, too, but nevertheless. In one episode of Get the Picture, they came back from commercials with O'Malley eating a huge hoagie, mouth full and all 😄.

[@baldbeardybear0823]

Thank you for acknowledging that Mike O’Malley’s character on “Glee” was the only redeemable or likable character. 😄

[@vestonbruno2795]

You really loved the production design for Get the Picture. Credit goes to Byron Taylor who did ALL the artwork for these Nickelodeon game shows.

[@phanpyken986]

This game is very underrated and deserves more love. For those curious, here are a few records to mention Also there are currently 111/115 episodes that are found. Highest Score from the front game- S1: Sarah/Manuel $805-$20. S2: Willie/Kim 940 points Fastest Mega Memory S1- Sheletta/Wayne & Sidney/Valinsky: 14 sec. left. Christy/Peter- 13 sec. left S2- Daniel/Emily & Twins Episode: 11 sec. left Worst Mega Memory- Matt/Briana(1 Match). Robert/Marissa(2 Matches)

[@michaeltaylor3185]

The lost episodes are Jeff/Sharon vs. Jason/Babita Justin/Rosie vs. Philip/Rebecca Not sure of the other two.

[@phanpyken986]

@@michaeltaylor3185 the first two I know are in the trading circuit. The last two(201/230) never aired on GAS and are lost media

[@good03boy]

I can see why Get the Picture was the transitional game show that set the stage the bigger Nick game shows of the '90s. GTP was the 1st Nickelodeon game show shot at Nickelodeon Studios from the start. Double Dare, Finders Keepers, Think Fast, and Make the Grade started in Philadelphia or NYC. The production values are greater here.

[@danderson8431]

I was that weird child who HATED slime & Double Dare. I greatly preferred the more clean and educational game shows. I dreamed of being on “Make the Grade”. As an adult, I’m GREAT at finding g things and would love to play “Get the Picture”.

[@doryna_sira]

Same here as far as the slime; I loved the question part of Double Dare, but being the, um, "husky" type meant I was terrible at physical stuff, so I know I'd have flailed around like an idiot on the obstacle course. I'm glad they had some fun shows dedicated to brain power.

[@TheNewtypeblue]

"A guy who never says no when I wanna hang out with him, as long as I ask first" is the kind of man I aspire to be.

[@SpongeyTheEditor]

The picture used for the thumbnail is so threatening lol

[@twkreviews6683]

Lots of great memories watching this on Nick GaS. Always appreciate all of your research on these shows.

[@nostalgiamostalgia0319]

Again, thanks for reviewing all the game show lore! Game Shows deserve to be given the rightful fame.

[@dishnet34]

5:54 Honestly, I thought that was Elvis, too. How the heck was that Wil Wheaton?

[@Lynn17]

I sort of remember this one! I knew the title, but I don't think it was ever a must-watch for me. I mostly remember Mike O'Malley from GUTS and later "Yes Dear".

[@alexeidarling]

I mostly know Mike O'Malley as Kurt's dad on Glee!

[@JimmySand9]

A new Nick Knacks! My day is made!

[@CoolEric258]

"The only character on Glee that I like" Yeah...yeah, that's fair.

[@DoctorQuarex]

Literally the only thing I remember about this show is hearing Mike O'Malley yelling "POWER SURGE!" and honestly until I heard that I was convinced I had never even heard of this show

[@Saintnick90]

18:39 Whoa, Mike O'Malley auditioned to play Ron Swanson? I'm not sure how well that would have worked, but then again, I have a hard time imagining anyone in that role apart from Nick Offerman.

[@DigiRangerScott]

If he got Ron Swanson he wouldn’t have gotten Glee

[@mightyfilm]

That's because Nick basically IS Ron Swanson. He brought so much of himself to the role, it would be impossible to see anyone else, particularly because they would have pushed the character in a different direction.

[@PositionLight]

A new EmpLemon and NickKniacks both in the same day!

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

Oh, I LOVED Get the Picture back on the good ol' days of Nickelodeon. I sometimes create puzzles on my community post to try to reinvent almost the same thing that the game show did. However, sometimes I thought the show would be unfair whenever the kids had to guess celebrities on the show. Unless if you know who the person was, most likely you're not going to be able to guess the picture. I was pretty good with "Thing," "Food," "Place," LOVED the heck out of "Character," but whenever "Person" came up, I would sometimes say "Fuck this" unless it was a generalization, like an astronaut or swimmer, or as I aforementioned, a celeb like Madonna or Whitney Houston. Otherwise, I loved the show back in the day. This, Nick Arcade, and Family Double Dare were my favorites.

[@morbidsearch]

Not a new Nick Knacks video right before I go to bed. Will watch first thing tomorrow.

[@Moder_20]

I always find you

[@adesignersperspective]

i all but forgot about this show - thanks for reminding me about it! i can share it with my own kid now (:

[@Rhiodise]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah new gregifer content! I loved watching this on GAS when I was a kid

[@jamesgibson5818]

When is the power surges is actually possible the idea is to try to guess a picture of a white comfortable frame because that’s how you lose too much time to quickly

[@secretdamon]

I get so excited when I see a nick knacks upload 😍 literally the best show on youtube

[@RobotBlueprint]

9:10 this dude called it "Bing Ham Ton"

[@DigiRangerScott]

D-d-do Get the Picture!

[@XJCherokeeBear]

17:28 - I thought you were going to say the host of GUTS.

[@Tirgo69]

Definitely kinda an interesting stepping stone show in retrospect; I know I must have watched it plenty on Nick GaS as a kid but I don't think I ever did so willingly unlike many of the other shows

[@continentalrcinglg]

Doesn't Mike say that they were wearing pajamas on that one episode because it was taped early in the morning, and the director, or some other prominent member of the production staff, had to be somewhere else (in the country) later that day?

[@bryanloveseighties]

As a freshman going on sophomore in high school, I actually liked this show quite a lot. Get the Picture had a very unique premise and for a guy who had no TV experience prior to hosting it, Mike O'Malley did all right with this show. Though I think he can be silly with his gimmicks and his announcing when a team's choosing of a square or line connection that completes a square would reveal a Power Surge challenge. I thought that was funny on the third example of such a feat when he overexaggerated on the announcement. "POWER SURRRRRRRRRRRR... RRRRRRR...RRRRRRR...RRRRRRR...RRRGE! It's a Power Surge." Now that was funny. Also with the long and complicated starts to a very easy question, that can be plenty of time to fool a team. But in the example here, both teams were so dumb that they didn't know that the answer to the question was in the question. Hello! He said "What are GINGERBREAD men made out of?" It's in the question.

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

I loved the game shows as a kid

[@anniefinch6843]

I remembered watching this Nickelodeon game show on television.

[@jamesmoss3424]

I remember watching Get The Picture when I was a kid it's fantastic and Mike O' Malley is excellent as host of the show and on Guts as well. 😀👍

[@nah....6151]

A lot of people seem to forget Mike O'Malley started on Nick. I've always liked him, seems like a pretty cool down to earth guy, and while I got tired of Glee pretty quickly, he was really good as Kurt's dad

[@rwinger2481]

Get the Picture, Nick Arcade and Clarissa Explains it All have one of the best Nickelodeon soundtracks for its time thanks to composer Dan Vitco.

[@vgtrp]

I didn’t know Mike O’Malley was on Glee, I did like him on Snowpiercer. Anyway, Get the Picture might not be the biggest game show on Nickelodeon, but I did enjoy watching it, and it’s cool that it aired simultaneously in U.S., and U.K. at the same time.

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

Yeah, I agree about the raining pictures game being poorly designed. That was because of the loading process, probably.

[@BenBakerBooks]

Thats John Eccleston on the UK Get The Picture, not Peter Simon who hosted the British version of Double Dare a few years earlier.

[@ratcarpet]

it's cool to see a show's place in history being framed well even when there's not a lot of behind-the-scenes background info available

[@PowerInOne22]

Grew up on Nick (‘89 born) but never heard of this show. Very interesting.

[@radd1865]

Oh, geez. I never really thought about how young Mike O'Malley would have had to be when he hosted this. ... I never thought about the age of the hosts at all until now, really. Frick, I'm old. :V

[@nah....6151]

he was about 25 here, he's 58 now I believe. Last time he had a full head of hair, he started balding during Guts

[@coreypayne1208]

This was underrated

[@bakomusha]

As the episode started I felt like I didn't remember this show at all, till the kids stood at the (I think) capacitor thing, and it all came back! I think it was the time slot it aired at. During it's first year of broadcast I was probably outside playing in our big yard by the time it came on, and in it's final stretch on Saturdays I had 'better' things to do with my time.

[@kirkvandewalker3574]

I honestly probably would have won at this game show 😂

[@lainiwakura1776]

I remember Mike O'Malley from GUTS.

[@encountersltd]

16:52 is that Batley??

[@davesecx]

I swear I remember tons of rumors about Mike OMalley doing tons of drugs during Get the Picture tapings.

[@tecpaocelotl]

I remember it watching tv. I will watch you. Sadly, so far on bluesky, I'm getting trolls and scammers following me. I'm hoping bluesky doesn't become xitter (X and Twitter together. Some languages x makes the "sh" sound.)

[@cantrip7]

I'm surprised by your positive reception toward the host. Friends and I've been watching this, and we're frequently surprised by his awkward rapport, frequent flubs... We didn't get to season 2 yet, however. Do love the show, though. It's easy to play along at home, and I dunno, picture puzzles hit different. This was one of my favorite GaS shows.

[@mets137781]

Its likely due to whats coming. He is much better on Guts and his energy is a great fit there better than here. Also O’Malley is one of few Nick game show hosts to have a substantial non Nickelodeon career, being a sitcom, character actor, and getting Emmy Nominations. Off the top of my head he’s probably the most successful host of this era and in a different way than Marc Summers. Thats why he gets a pass.

[@cantrip7]

@@mets137781 Oh whoa, this is the same guy as Guts? He does a great job there.

[@mets137781]

@@cantrip7 yeah same guy. He’s kind of finding himself here. By Guts a year later he hits his stride.

[@EvaFull]

One of my favorite Shows to watch during 1991-1993 just before bedtime

[@mightyfilm]

I never watched these gameshows as I didn't have Nick or cable and they weren't really a draw for me if I was at someone who had cable's house. I know Mike from the sitcom Yes Dear. I want to say that it aired on Nick at Nite at some point, but I can't tell if that's indeed the case or some odd level of serendipity manifesting in a false memory. All I know is Mike came back to voice himself as host of Guts on a Sanjay and Craig episode.

[@Vidgmchtr]

I remember preferring Get the Picture to Guts.

[@Elijah1076]

What happened to kathy from this get the picture episode steven and adria vs Edward and kathy?

[@only257]

Childhood favorite 😊

[@nguyenphambaohuan662]

Nickelodeon doesn't do game shows anymore nowadays, just making SpongeRob. Plus, too many lawsuits against Denial Schnydir. Just hope the network will reconsider doing more game shows, especially Double Dare, or it's goodbye to Nick for good!

[@bluebaron6858]

Do kids still watch game shows...

[@stvojay]

I’m sure I’ve watched this as a kid plenty of times but my memory is definitely foggy. Mike O’Malley for some reason I associated with Making the Grade but appears it was this (and besides the way more popular Guts.)

[@tylerferguson3193]

Hope you had a good day

[@Wereflea]

05:51 is driving me crazy. Frash of Bellkid? What's a Frash? or a Bellkid?

[@quothetheraven79]

. . . Am I wrong thinking WWYD was after the nicktoons?

[@CurtDogg]

Nick Knacks is only chronological by year, not so much the airdate. Gregiffer orders the episodes moreso by impact.

[@darktetsuya]

I think I remembered this one a little bit? certainly not as fond of it as double dare or nick arcade, but it was interesting, anyway. yeah seems the penalty system and punishing the kids for not getting the answer exactly on the nose probably did not help matters. forgot how good mike o'malley was, though. the finale was neat, though!

[@Moder_20]

Fourth time I get the date right

[@bluebaron6858]

Brilliant channel. I iwsh there was more

[@MSP10julia]

POWER SURGE!!!

[@RGF91]

POWER SURRRRRRRRRRGE

[@mariolover2222]

"Get the Picture" was one of the only shows on Nick GaS I would actively turn off. Zero idea why it seems fun, I would devour D ouble Dare, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Guts, Figure it out, even Finders Keepers but Get the Picture was a step too far.

[@matthewhunter1193]

He was real for saying Twitter is a cesspool.

[@christopherb501]

He's too NICE for saying so.

[@MSP10julia]

Mike O’Malley was 24 years old when he hosted this show. His first show before Nickelodeon GUTS 📸

[@VahanNisanian]

Excellent review on this show. GTP was a lot of fun to binge on. I'm amazed it hasn't been seen on Paramount+. It was rerun a lot on Nick GaS. The added variety to the Power Surges in Season 2 was definitely great. Another one of Mike O'Malley's acting roles was as Miley Cyrus' father in 𝘚𝘰 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳.

[@MSP10julia]

Prior to Get The Picture, Mike was in a episode of Law and Order

[@BDRose]

I thought Mike O'Malley was a comedian. By the way, when are you going to be making "Fifteen" and "Welcome Freshman?" Those are the shows I watch in 1991.

[@Moder_20]

104 and 105 (2025)

[@BDRose]

@Moder_20 I thought "What Would You Do" is the next episode.

[@asskinf]

New video hopefully not the last