The Messy History of Double Dare: A Look Back at the Classic Nickelodeon Game Show

[@bradahrens4129]

I gotta admit when Dan said, "I don't know," I half expected him to get slimed.

[@bribigby3539]

That was a different show 😉

[@bdo7765]

Me too!! I was legitimately disappointed. Dan's gettin' soft, lol. It would have been amazing, watching that stuff cascade all over him while he stared deadpan into the camera. @Bri Bigby - he was talking about that show when he said it, so it would have been perfect.

[@pault1520]

I noticed an edit right after so it makes me wonder if he considered it and changed his mind

[@TextbookPhillyMadison]

Came to say the same thing lol. Even if it was cheap CG slime I would have been happy lol

[@MJ-sb5tz]

Interesting!! The final show was in December of 2019. It ended just in time for COVID19

[@flickcastJC]

all the respect in the world for this team saying "has been celebrities" and having Scott Baio pop up on screen at the time. Well done

[@siftedsand]

I'm actually working with Edd, the composer on the show on a project right now. Some fun facts about the music: The guitar player was Jimi K Bones who's also recorded with Blondie, Joan Jett, Hank Williams Jr, and others. There was at least 106 pieces of music made for the show, he also did all the sound effects. For the 2018 revival they only needed 39. The theme actually has lyrics, being "Doub ble dare", meant to line up with the "Dun dun dun" in the theme, if that makes any sense. He actually performed a melody of the theme live in 2013 for the DD reunion panel at the launch for the book "Slimed."

[@RobCamp-rmc_0]

Dunno if anyone else ever did, but that’s how I always imagined the lyrics would be back then anyway

[@gezeo750]

Wow! No did not know it has lyrics. But after seeing this I now need to hear the theme again!

[@Dorelaxen]

I NEVER missed an episode of Double Dare. Getting to meet Marc Summers a few years ago and get my picture with him was just amazing.

[@gregorlandini4328]

He lives in Philly still saw him walking down broad street once.

[@waynesmiley2207]

That "In The Year 2000" Conan reference put a smile on my face.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I love that bit, I was always sad when like most of the stuff he did at NBC he was forced to relinquish it when he left for TBS.

[@BoneDryShart]

Yes! Just commented something similar! The flashlights lmao!

[@favoritemustard3542]

Yup. 22 yrs of randomly singing out 🎶In The YEAR 2ØØØ🎶 ty CoCo... TY

[@michaelablank]

Very surprised that he didn't mention Marc Sommers struggle with OCD and how tough the series was for him to host.

[@terrywrightjr4545]

Never knew about that.

[@JRock-xv3sk]

I saw him do an interview with Oprah one time talking about it while he laid on his floor running his fingers through the fringe on his rug trying to get them all straight

[@michaelablank]

@@JRock-xv3sk yeah. Not even combing it out. He had to individually lay each strand on his hands and knees. In a living room that had all the furniture plastic covers and his children couldn't go in. He wasn't mean to them but he knows they were all dealing with his mental illness.

[@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii]

I wish we had some kind of award to give Marc Summers for going above and beyond of all of us

[@kingedwin]

In his book, he said he would take off his shirt and get a fresh one any time the cameras shut off, because he was constantly covered in goo. It also smelled terrible in the studio, because they had to get mass quantities of food the cheapest ways possible. Everything was close to rotting, and the studio lights just increased the smell.

[@DanJackson1977]

"You Can't Do That on Television" was the show that really put Nick on the map and gave them an identity and attitude. Double Dare put them over the top.. by finding a way to turn the most popular part of YCDTOTV.. the messy Slime and Water bits.. and make it a gameshow.

[@kootunesscrewy]

And 1991 was the year where the channel actually found itself as.

[@wstine79]

I love this show. Double Dare and Family Double looked like alot of fun. The fact Mark Summers had OCD while not letting the mess make him go crazy shows how professional he was.

[@CSXIV]

Finding out Marc Summers had OCD made him retroactively badass in my eyes. He faced his own, personal fears and laughed them off.

[@andyv8624]

One of my friends had a Double Dare themed birthday party, his parents made an obstacle course with orange flags and everything. It was pretty sweet.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I was going to say I remember people doing that and being like wow. It's hard to explain just how big of a cultural touchstone this show was for kids. But when you theme a birthday around it you kinda get it.

[@gcooper642]

What a wonderful thing to do. I might try that for my nephew. He won't understand the reference, but it would be fun

[@AaronLitz]

Hell, I still remember watching Pinwheel for hours. We even turned Jake's Sound Boxes into a magic item in our D&D game last year.

[@Dorelaxen]

Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around...

[@scottblanco5991]

When he mentioned Pinwheel I remembered that theme song right away!

[@AaronLitz]

@@scottblanco5991 Kinda hard to forget! 😃

[@TikkiEXX]

@@Dorelaxen Look through my pinwill and see what I found 😁

[@HUMDUDE]

I still find myself singing the Pinwheel theme song. That and the Today's Special theme song.

[@SaturdayAdventures]

My favorite episode was when the kid said his favorite band was the Dead Milkman and Mark Summers's mind was blown.

[@m00k61]

That's awesome! Love Dead Milkmen and The Low Budgets

[@BABYSNAKEASSMASTER420]

The Dead Milkmen was my favorite band in High School. If Double Dare was filmed in Philadelphia, I think the band was from around there. I was on H.S. from '94-'97, and The Dead Milkmen were strangely popular in Ames, Iowa with my group of friends, but so was Ween and Mr. Bungle. I was lucky to have found them.

[@mike_minnick]

@@BABYSNAKEASSMASTER420 they are from the Philly suburbs. I live 2 doors from where Dave Blood grew up. There is no big lizard in the backyard, but I did see a Camaro (rusty, but still bitchin) drive down our street once

[@bdo7765]

Woah, I completely forgot about the Milkmen. The era of great "Dead" bands, along with Kennedys and Can Dance. :)

[@m00k61]

Yeah they're from Philly. I live in West Philly.

[@joeluna6645]

Anyone remember, Fun House with JD Roth? Definitely a Double Dare competitor and just as fun

[@blackphoenix77]

I remember! I loved that show.

[@donalny]

they had a more grown-up version called College Funhouse too.

[@crush41gb]

Absolutely! And the British Knights BK shoes ads lol!

[@freddyvidz]

Heck yeah

[@Belgand]

So many great game shows in the same vein, like Finders Keepers or Treasure Mall. Not to mention the direct Double Dare knock-off, Slime Time. Then Legends of the Hidden Temple came along as a second generation. For some reason I always think of Video Power and Masters of the Maze in the same format even though they were pretty different. I think it's the final prize round/obstacle course element that many of kids game shows would adopt at the time. Similar to the Nickelodeon Super Toy Run contests where you got anything from Toys R Us that you could put in a cart inside of 5 minutes.

[@SuperNicktendo]

Marc Summers hosted an improv double dare and then stayed to meet everyone who wanted to. Super cool guy

[@arockfriendly8399]

Mr. Toy Galaxy, if I could take a moment to thank you for never saying "HEY WHATS UP GUYS SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON" and remaining not only an entertaining and informative voice of nostalgia and fantasy, but also just an honest to goodness host. You are never annoying, and always get to the point. Also, thanks for doing that one on captain power. Forgot how great that show was.

[@jamesbrooks5391]

The moment Dan says “SMASH that like button” is the moment I smash the unsubscribe button. Luckily neither of these things will ever happen!

[@williamcrowe2576]

For most of us, Double Dare became a standard by which later Nickelodeon shows were measured. And that included variety shows like Total Panic and Wienerville.

[@kevin10001]

Wienerville was so awesome and inventive and was a great time for Nickelodeon before dan schneider effectively took over the network and flushed it down the toilet

[@williamcrowe2576]

@@kevin10001 And it's what introduced me to UPA Studios and Mr Magoo.

[@kmaru80]

This and "You Can't Do That on Television" are some of my earliest Nick memories. That and some show in a department store where a store mannequin came to life. That was a real thing right?

[@SecretGalaxyTV]

Today's Special

[@strifenineteen]

You have to say the magic words to make him come to life "hocus pocus, alamagocus

[@kiruppert]

My grandparents had cable in the early 80s before we did, so one of my early memories was watching Today’s Special at their house. Also, The Great Space Coaster, which I don’t think was on Nick but was on a channel they got but we didn’t.

[@adcon00]

Wasn't Today's Special a Canadian show?

[@ShinUkyo]

@@adcon00 - in the early days before Nick started producing enough of their own stuff to fill a schedule, quite a lot of the shows were imports from other countries with English-language children's content. Some of which Nick would help fund collaboratively later on. Canada being the greatest contributor of these. Including Today's Special. (another early fave of mine was the animated series Duckula, though that was British in origin.)

[@RockNerdRadio]

This episode really hit me in the best way possible. I loved Double Dare as a kid, heck I still do and I'm 37 now. I'm just smiling over here. Thank you, guys!

[@robd1329]

I havent seen it since the 80s

[@radwolf76]

So, one of the obstacles involved finding a flag in a kiddie pool of baked beans. And because they'd film a whole season's worth of episodes over the course of a week, they weren't about to clean the pool out at the end of every filming day. It was hard enough sourcing however many one gallon food service cans on the edge of expiration to fill the pool one time, let alone multiple times. So by the end of the week, those beans that had been sitting out for hours on end under hot studio lights were pretty rank, and needed to be disposed of. They called in a septic tank maintenance company and had them send out one of their pump trucks (known in that industry as a "honey wagon"). Ran the hoses from the truck into the studio to pump out all the baked beans. Before he left, the truck operator, who mind you literally pumps out people's shit tanks for a living, told them that by all accounts, their beans were the grossest job he'd ever been dispatched on.

[@jsc315]

This is the stuff I want in a documentary!

[@robd1329]

That was educational!

[@Belgand]

Sounds reasonable, but do you have a source for this?

[@radwolf76]

@@Belgand AV Club article titled "It Smelled Like Death": An Oral History Of The Double Dare Obstacle Course

[@Belgand]

@@radwolf76 Awesome! Thanks.

[@bunkerzero]

Double dare, G.U.T.S, nick arcade, Wild 'n' Crazy Kids, and Hidden Temple. Yeah those were good times!

[@brookswilliams5239]

💯💯💯

[@UltimateGamerCC]

i didnt care much for GUTS, but i was all over the rest of those, that and great toons like Rugrats make NICK a lasting channel.

[@Berengier817]

Green Monkeys always won in Hidden Temple.

[@SLBFan]

Arcade was always my favorite behind DD

[@jkhoover]

Finders Keepers too

[@mightyfilm]

I can't be the only one who thought half the obstacles looked absolutely delicious. Giant pancakes, large pools of whipped cream. I wonder if some contestants probably tried to eat the stuff and got frothy diarrhea.

[@ech0828]

You get a like just for saying "frothy diarrhea" stay golden pony

[@ispoilers9535]

Worth it.

[@geardog24]

You got to love a game show that can educate both parents and kids, as well force them to jump into a tub of goo.

[@pong86r]

OH MY GOD!!!!!! THE DOUBLE DARE BOOK!!!!!!!! Man, the book fair took it to a new level when i got that and the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books!

[@TobyDeshane]

Genuinely surprised there wasn't any slime introduced on the "I Don't Know" mark, but I imagine Dan is quite grateful there wasn't. ;)

[@V01t2]

I was in the demographic and never missed an episode. Mark Summers did a great job hosting considering he basically the real life version of Full House's Danny Tanner

[@brennonr]

I took my son to Double Dare live back in 2019 and it was everything i hoped it would be. At the end my kid said "This was the most exciting thing I've ever seen!" He was 12 at the time.

[@MakotoKamui]

Man, I remember seeing Double Dare back when it was first airing.. and then seeing Wipeout as an adult and thinking of it as something of a spiritual successor, or perhaps the crazy love child of Double Dare and Ninja Warrior.

[@PaleHorseShabuShabu]

Wipeout, at least from what I've seen of it, feels more like MXC (Takeshi's Castle) only with a higher budget and no filthy English dubs.

[@mattyt1961]

@@PaleHorseShabuShabu Takeshi's castle actually sued them because of the similarities (settled out of court)

[@Belgand]

@@PaleHorseShabuShabu Now we just need a game show based off of Takeshi's directorial work: a long, slow meditative affair with very little dialogue as people just hang out before suddenly erupting into extreme and pointless violence, killing almost everyone.

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

Double Dare was itself sort of a kid-centered messy spiritual successor to Beat the Clock.

[@Bishop545454]

I remember on one episode the two kids managed to get through only one obstacle at the end. It was the big boogery nose...it took them the entire time to find the flag. They won...wait for it...Conair hair products worth $50. As a kid myself I was embarrassed.

[@AlthosWTF]

Pinwheel Pinwheel spinning around. Look at my pinwheel and see what I've found. Can't believe I still remember that.

[@travisa7669]

Nickelodeon was a gift from god for me in 1984 as my local cable outlet didn't carry the channel BUT my grandmother in South Carolina did have it on her cable subscription. Spent many mornings watching PINWHEEL and then catch some YCDTOT in the afternoon. They carried a lot of kids shows from Britain in those early years. DANGER MOUSE and BANANA MAN and some live action fare. Great memories. Great video Dan.

[@theniteowl7007]

i don't even think kids now could begin to fathom that there was a time that there really was no internet.

[@jaynine454]

If you’re a millennial like myself, then we’re the last generation who lived in the pre internet era and lived through the dawn of it.

[@spookerd]

I came for Double Dare, but I stayed because of that rarest of 80s childhood nostalgia references... Pinwheel. Seriously I think this is the first time I've heard someone mention that show since the 80s, and I was probably the one mentioning it.

[@BonusEggs4Sale]

Somehow I still get the Pinwheel theme stuck in my head to this day.

[@greggvictorious968]

Sometime in the late 80's I got to go to a Double Dare event in NYC. Parts of the obstacle course were there like the ball pit and the roller pins that you dive through. It was like a dream come true getting to do all of that. I remember meeting Mark Summers and getting his autograph on the event book they gave to all the guests. Unfortunately all the evidence I have of going is lost to time but the memory is something I cherish.

[@GoDFaDDa42]

This was a huge part of my childhood in the late 80s... and probably a big part of why the Memphis Group design is so nostalgic for me. I had the Tiger game, the first boxed "board" game... and the "Inside Scoop" VHS, which was actually great. There were very few behind-the-scenes documentaries for kids programming like that at the time, and it was really interesting.

[@coreykirkpatrick4392]

Now we need the History of YCDTOTV - You Can't Do That On Television. From what I have read it's an interesting one.

[@beipiaosaurus]

Check out poparena's KZbin video from his Nick Knacks series. An hour and a half about the history of YCDTOTV, some of it pretty disturbing.

[@johnjones6115]

The answer is "Someone." "Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, strumming on the ol' banjo."

[@NevTheDeranged]

Party foul at 5:55 for Dan not being slimed.

[@joecarroll3371]

Double Dare was one of my favorite Nickelodeon shows as a kid. It was a great game show right up there with Press Your Luck & Card Sharks.

[@jeremylefevre9610]

Excellent use of the Conan, "in the year 2000" sound bite. 👌

[@Larry]

UK Nickelodeon never showed Double Dare here, they sold the rights to the BBC before the network had begun. So we had a very Beeb version instead :D

[@Estolcles]

Guru Larry seems like he knows the UK airing schedule..... for obvious reasons. :P

[@blackphoenix77]

Interesting....I should look up that version

[@mynewpremiumtrial7844]

@@HeroicRecaps BUT..... hello you

[@kildogery]

Peter Simon is a legend.

[@nicroberts83]

@@kildogery Peter Simon who can now be found selling you items you probably don't need on Ideal World on ITV late nights! BBC Double Dare was cool until you saw the original version and realised we got fobbed off.

[@JerryD9000]

This channel is just.....quality. Nice job guys.👏👏 Archive our childhoods! ARCHIVE IT DAMN YOU!

[@KKAkuoku]

Even at 34 years old, all it takes is a medium shot of Marc Summers, those first two guitar chords of the theme song, and those words “On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!” to jack up my serotonin levels for 22 minutes. Simply put, Double Dare was and is very special to me. Fun fact: The Pressman DD home game was the very first toy I could vividly remember asking my mom to buy me at Toys R Us.

[@glazdarklee1683]

Many fun hours watching this with my son. I will aways be grateful to them for giving us something we could both enjoy.

[@greenlanternhg5141]

I remember thinking “how could you miss that question?!? 🤨 the. Seeing them get slimed and “oooh 😲 he got slimed 😂” Great video Mr Larson, Producer Greg MP ✌🏽👍🏽

[@crush41gb]

I remember the celebrity Double Dare with Lou Ferrigno when I was a kid. I had no idea then that he had hearing impairment and he couldn't hear the questions and I cried because the Hulk lost lol. Also, Marc getting water thrown on him by Burt Reynolds because of him asking about Burt and Loni's recent divorce. The Double Dare tales of injuries, spoiled and reused food for challenges making kids sick and so on haunted my happy memories of watching lol.

[@mauigio]

So blessed to have been a kid in the age of Nickelodeon 🤪

[@AlexanderKahrs]

Just wanna say how much I appreciate covering the initial run of the show! I didn't know they did this without a whole family until I saw reruns on Nick Games and Sports, so it's nice to hear more about that.

[@dandcdiecast2664]

Nothing but feel good memories about this show, great video!

[@TopsideCrisis346]

Was first introduced to it when it aired on our Fox affiliate back in '87(?). Was one of the best things to happen to my childhood. Glad it's been kept alive by fans and creators alike all these years.

[@MadSpaceWolfDiary]

Man, this sparked memories. So many crazy games came after. Maze nasters? That green screen ine about video games, guts, hidden temple , mula mula island, etc.

[@fungiplays2289]

Still come back to this one. Loved Double Dare with a passion. Your delivery of "Lorna Doones" is the best.

[@stanleyteriaca2184]

Will there be a piece on Remote Control, the first sign of MTV forgetting that the M stands for Music?

[@davedixon2167]

Somehow though it still *felt* like MTV. I loved Remote Control. I would have assumed Real World was the beginning of the transition away from music.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Double dare and everything like it really is a snapshot of a time in history unlike now and unlike anytime before it ever since. When you see parodies or people doing references it always comes right back and yet it feels so far away as well now. The iconic thing that is still remembered and yet feels more like it lives in people's memories more than any actual reality. I really guess that is what childhood is.

[@macstainless]

Since Dan asked, I was in the commercial you show at 18:53!!! I STILL have my Double Dare shirt from that commercial shoot. And yes, I did have a Double Dare party at my house as a kid afterward where I wore that shirt.

[@mekman4]

I did watch Double Dare as a kid, and I couldn’t believe how much I enjoyed something that wasn’t a cartoon. I also watched a lot of Pinwheel. Great Stuff, as always!

[@jarrettwegelin8668]

“…has been celebrities.” **Scott Baio enters the game**

[@blackphoenix77]

I didn't get Nickelodeon until my mid teens, but Double Dare was syndicated in my area on the station that eventually became Fox; it was one of the first shows to air after school (around 3PM) and I used to race home to watch it.

[@SoulStarSketchin]

Omg this takes me back so hard. Use to watch this show so much with my old buddies back in the 90s

[@GalactiVids]

I think next to winning a toy shopping spree, being on Double Dare was the most desired thing a kid in the 80's would dream of! Such a great show and one I still enjoy watching as an adult.

[@PaleHorseShabuShabu]

I was addicted to Double Dare and, while it lasted, Finders Keepers. There were so many times in both shows that the contestants grabbed/found the flag a second too late. That was the kid version of "the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat." Also, the thought of parents publicly yelling at their kids for failing to win the obstacle course at the end is both hilarious and sad. Therapist: "So where did your hatred of your parents begin?" Grown Kid: "It was on Double Dare. All I can remember is, 'We *needed* that vacation Chester! Why couldn't you grab the damn flag!?' and feeling like everyone is staring at me." Therapist: "I can certainly understand why you'd feel resentment, but that's no reason not to tell us where your dad's head is!"

[@jcon6734]

What was the answer given to the "I've Been Working on The Railroad" question shown at 2:45? The only name I can think of in the song is Dinah, but Dinah wasn't strumming. The strummer was in the kitchen with Dinah, and as far as I can remember was unnamed.

[@jsc315]

I would absolutely love a documentary on the behind the scenes on the making of this show. It was such weird and bizarre game show for kids.

[@robertwarf3316]

Best KZbin channel. Yall do a great job

[@jeremiahm1413]

Super Sloppy Double Dare, Fun House, and Finders Keepers - all on tv within the same day - was the stuff dreams were made of as a kid. SO GLAD I grew up during that time. I can't imagine being 8 to 11 years old now vs that pivotal 1988-1992 time where SO many good shows were hitting Nickelodeon. EDIT: Holy cow - I typed that comment before finishing the video, and then Finders Keepers gets mentioned and briefly shown. That's awesome!

[@adamr4198]

In 1995 I won a video game contest with a grand price trip to Universal Studios for my family. The highlight of the trip was when my younger sister got to slim me on stage (not on a filmed show). As a kid who grew-up watching Double Dare it was an amazing experience.

[@louisnemzer6801]

I loved this show. Marc Summers is an all-time great game show host.

[@Stratelier]

A game show but for kids? Okay, but where in the world is the Carmen Sandiego episode?

[@ChonkySlotDonkey]

Loveeeee Nickelodeon nostalgia!!

[@joshua2814]

I loved this show and watched Family DD with the folks. It’s ironic I dug it since even as a small child I was nerdy and hated making or being in a mess. Must’ve been a vicarious thing. I also remember having a Double Dare t-shirt and people kept asking me if I had been on it (Philly is less than an hour away).

[@ultramariox74]

I really remembered that show especially when Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby The Brain was doing a special on it!

[@donalny]

I remember The Brain getting a question wrong because he recited song lyrics instead of singing them.

[@guardianmega]

I got to see a taping of Double Dare in 1992 in Orlando. The way it was filmed, I got to see the trivia/physical challenge segments of two episodes. After we left, another audience was brought in to watch the Obstacle Course segments from those two episodes. It was a fun experience, and actually started with a Marc Sommars/audience Q&A.

[@JonTripp115]

5:54 I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the slime to come down. Sigh. Do you remember the episode of Perfect Strangers where they went on the Double Dare-style game show? All Balki wanted to do was the physical challenges, but Larry was there to answer trivia and win money. Hilarity ensued.

[@christophersummers1939]

when we were kids my brother & i used to tell classmates that marc summers was our uncle, and since we weren't allowed to be contestants we got to do all the physical challenges after taping

[@BronzeAgeBryon]

Dan you missed a real chance to get slimed yourself during the segment after you said "I Don't Know."

[@BillyTheRealDeal]

Growing up as a child in the 80's in Orlando. Universal and Double Dare was a must visit in the studio audience. Many of my friends were on the show

[@LoneWolf-ib7cu]

Not gonna lie but this intro music is really good and catchy. Its got a bit of an 80s synth sound. Awesome. Great job on who ever composed this. I like it the more I hear it.

[@jasonm2081]

Double Dare was the first thing my mom and Dad actually let us watch on Nickelodeon. They thought most of the other content was gross. Watched it with Mark Sommers but by the time we got to the 90s we kids were far more interested in watching Batman or other cartoons.

[@billeickman]

Love it! A video on the impact of the Memphis Group design on toys and kids TV would be cool, but it sounds like a Humanities PhD thesis.

[@josephzowghi4313]

I'm excited to see new videos by Toy Galaxy and Ask a Mortician today! That's not weird, right?

[@Jozabad]

I had that book and I did indeed host a Double Dare party at my house for my birthday. Yes, there are pictures.

[@jamesduncan6729]

I always used to daydream about appearing on Double Dare. As a child, I REALLY wanted to be on the show! It always looked so damn fun to be on. Thanks for the great walk down memory lane, guys. This video was awesome ♥️

[@2shoes2socks82]

The 90s was a great time to be a kid double dare, guts and legends of the hidden temple I miss those days

[@Morgil27]

When I was a kid, I didn't have cable TV, but I did have a VHS tape called Double Dare's Messiest Moments. It was essentially just a compilation of sloppy physical challenge and obstacle course clips, with each clip introduced by Marc Summer and some crew members. I watched that tape a ton. Edit: I also had that book he showed at 16:12

[@BrianGeers]

My middle school was within 30-45 minutes of Philly so they auditioned at my school several times for Double Dare (and its companion shows like “Finders Keepers”) when it was filming at WHYY. It was always a charge to watch and see a contestant I knew. I never got to see an episode live, but I did sit in the studio audience for a couple episodes of a lesser-known Nick game show called Think Fast.

[@hamsandwichson]

I'll never forget taking the Nickelodeon studios tour and looking down on the Clarissa Explains it all set.

[@Kankan_Mahadi]

"Double Dare" was 1 of my favorite shows as a kid.

[@Mr_Tocs]

For anybody interested in some more details about Double Dare, there is a channel called Pop Arena here on YT that has a roughly 90 minute retrospective on Double Dare. It's part of a series the channel owner has called Nick Knacks and details various shows on Nickelodeon from its creation. Very fun watch!

[@borinightmare]

I had the Double Dare board game plus an autographed photo op of Marc Summers himself. Oh yeah. My sister and I turned my neighbor's side of the apartment into an all out Double Dare obstacle course. We had our Double Dare t shirts shipped to our house because my mom was a winner of a contest. We never missed an episode of DD.

[@ColdHighway7]

Double Dare, You Cant Do That On Television and Out of Control were my favorite live action shows on Nick back in those days

[@randym_preets6483]

Next --> Legends of the Hidden Temple!

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVED IT!

[@brutalboy1000]

I had a Super Sloppy Double Dare sweater that I totally threw up on. Oddly appropriate.

[@dtdimeflicks6708]

Man this took me back. I had the home version setup. Good times.

[@oliverkloshophdndrecords50]

Please do "You can't do that on television" soon! I miss that show and only you can correctly deliver the nostalgia buzz I crave.

[@oliverkloshophdndrecords50]

... guess I should have watched the whole episode before I commented

[@SSGTStryker]

I remember attending a taping of Double Dare in the late 90’s when it moved to Universal Studios. It was a ton of fun!

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

I loved that show. I was just starting kindergarten in 89 when most of the good Nick live action shows and game shows started coming out

[@kludd28]

Loved Double Dare, and Nickelodeon in general at the time. Another excellent episode! Also, channel 19 WXIX in the video! Woooo! Represent Cincinnati, Ohio!!

[@mjnari022]

I used to have the the home version that they sold in stores I loved that thing, had it all through primary and secondary school. No pictures but loads of fun

[@timvanboening9432]

I loved Double Dare. I never was on Double Dare due to living on the opposite coast, but in 1992(?) I was a contestant on Wild And Crazy Kids. I got to wear the Kid Cam and my dad was also on it, and he had to catch water balloons in these super large sweatpants with a hula hoop inside. While Double Dare had cool prizes, Wild And Crazy Kids had none. They let you keep the team shirt, but the quality of them were so low they didn’t last long. I remember the day being so stinking hot, with long filming and shot setting up times. Plus, I got a nosebleed due to the heat and dryness, and I almost got stung by a yellow jacket. Yay! Memories!

[@RemyJackson]

I loved this show. A friend of mine from high school was on an episose when she was younger.

[@brookswilliams5239]

That's pretty cool!!

[@jamessherman7512]

Loved this show and even had the home game. I remember playing with my friends, I miss gak so much. We had it made back then. Great cartoons, toys (no bills😂) hell even the cereal actually came with cool stuff.