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You Can't Do That on Television

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You Can't Do That on Television	comment	Canadian Saturday Morning Kidsâ€™ Show Sketch Comedy, running from 1979 to 1990, and rerun on and later produced by Nickelodeon. Heavily birthed and influenced by Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, borrowing modified and age-appropriate versions of several of Laugh-In sketches (most obviously, the joke wall, redesigned as a set of locker doors; the habit of dumping buckets of water on cast members (though green slime was original) and the announcer) and catch phrases. And, for a short time, borrowing Ruth Buzzi (see below).First introduced at CJOH Ottawa (a CTV affiliate) as a kids' variety show, the show's wild success in America made it one of the defining shows of Nickelodeon's history. It would run far longer on that network than it did in Canada (a try at a CTV network version of the series in 1979, titled Whatever Turns You On and guest-starring Ruth Buzzi, lasted only one season), and the network's trademark green slime started with this show. The show's influence went beyond Nickelodeon, as homages have popped up everywhere from the sitcom NewsRadio (in one episode, the cast was doused with buckets of green slime and water) to Family Guy (an episode in the 2011-12 season is titled "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter", and in another episode, Peter Griffin is himself slimed for saying "I don't know"). By contrast, the show's profile in its country of origin remained low (aside from spotty airings on CTV and early pay-TV outlets) until it was picked up by the fledgling YTV in 1988 and was finally afforded daily airings in Canada as it enjoyed in the U.S. Of course, that was just in time for the show to be canceled in 1990 due to declining ratings in the States.Brought Covered in Gunge to North America (and associated it with Nickelodeon). And Alanis Morissette. No, really. The proof is here. Also, the show was an early writing job for Bill Prady, who went on to create The Big Bang Theory and the 2015 reboot series (on ABC) for The Muppets, which he is no stranger to.In 2012, Shout! Factory released You Can't Do That on Film, a documentary about the history of the show.In August of 2017 a reboot overseen by Roger Price, Jimmy Fox and Main Event Media was announced but as of late 2019 it has since been called off.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: In 1986-87, Amyas Godfrey to his older brother Matthew, and in 1989-90, Amy Stanley to her older sister Jill.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
You Can't Do That on Television / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: With episode themes like "Medicine" (1983) and "Illness" (1986), this is bound to show up as a plot device. One series of skits in "Illness" has Vanessa pretending to be sick until Mom and Dad call her bluff and announce they're going to treat her illness themselves - by performing surgery. With a hand saw. Vanessa is out of bed and off to school in seconds.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
You Can't Do That on Television / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Both Lance (Les Lye) and Valerie (Abby Hagyard) filled this role. In one episode, Lisa comes home from ballet class in tears after Lance thought "Parents' Night" meant parents were welcome to participate rather than just observe (enter Lance in ballet tutu).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
You Can't Do That on Television / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: The kids often did this with the slime and water catchphrases. Of course, it never resulted in the outcome they were hoping for. Some examples: "Revenge" '85: Lisa saying "water" in several different languages after discovering she isn't drenched after saying the word in English. After saying the word in Spanish ("agua"), she is finally soaked. The reason: the show's new stagehand, Julio, is Spanish-speaking. On the other hand, several episodes featured scenes in which Christine said "Water" repeatedly, actually hoping to be drenched, and nothing happened ("Fads and Fashions", "Rumors", "Seasons/Weather").
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_16178c64	comment	"Revenge" '85: Lisa saying "water" in several different languages after discovering she isn't drenched after saying the word in English. After saying the word in Spanish ("agua"), she is finally soaked. The reason: the show's new stagehand, Julio, is Spanish-speaking.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_19661850	type	Just the Introduction to the Opposites
You Can't Do That on Television / int_19661850	comment	Just the Introduction to the Opposites: The Trope Namer. Every episode features a short series of sketches, collectively known as "The Opposites", in which roles are reversed, the adults encourage bad behaviour and discourage good behaviour (over the kids' protests), and the kids greet punishments with enthusiasm and rewards with disgust.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_1add457e	comment	Take a Number: Mom and Dad force Lisa to do this at the dinner table, so she'll know when it's her turn to talk. Lisa's number: 3,796. Dad's: 2.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
You Can't Do That on Television / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Much to the probable delight of his fans, Alasdair Gillis was often shown shirtless or in his skivvies during the 1985 and 1986 seasons. So were some of the other boys. One sketch in the 1986 episode "Back to School" has Adam Reid strip down to his briefs to get out of going to school after Mom tells him he can't go to school without any clothes on. Adam later recalled that experience as being rather traumatic for a boy just starting to go through puberty. In the Whatever Turns You On pilot, Ross forces Jono Gebert to strip down to his underwear, the reason being that Jono's shirt, pants and undershirt are all white and "you can't wear white on television" because "it makes the cameras strobe." Jono's underpants are also white, but he manages to dash off the link set just in time...
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
You Can't Do That on Television / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: The 1989 episode "First Times" and the 1990 episode "Privileges" both featured cameo appearances by 1981-84 cast member Kevin Kubusheskie (by then an associate producer for the series) and 1984-87 cast member Adam Reid (by then a writer for the series); in both episodes, they played upperclassmen being hazed by the regular cast members in opposite sketches set in the school corridor. Adam also had a cameo (and was slimed) in the 1989 episode "Punishment." The 1989 episode "Age", hosted by a returning Vanessa Lindores, features cameo appearances by four of the other more high profile cast members from 1979-87. Doug Ptolemy has a single line ("Hey Van, did you say my name?" after Vanessa comments that old YCDTOTV episodes with Doug will give her nightmares), while Christine McGlade, Kevin Kubusheskie, and Alasdair Gillis make silent appearances in a post-credits classroom sketch (in which Mr. Schidtler growls, "Class dismissed - years ago!").note Lisa Ruddy was slated to appear in the sketch as well but was out of town during filming.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_1ba34641	type	The Glomp
You Can't Do That on Television / int_1ba34641	comment	The Glomp: Often used by the victim of a sliming as revenge on the one who tricked them into being slimed. In "Bullies" (1982) and "Fears, Worries and Anxieties" (1985), Alasdair is tricked by Christine into getting slimed and counters by glomping her, much to her horror. Vanessa also does this to Doug after he tricks her into getting slimed in "Crimes and Mysteries" (1986).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_1ceb3fab	type	Mirror-Cracking Ugly
You Can't Do That on Television / int_1ceb3fab	comment	Mirror-Cracking Ugly: Les Lye's Senator Prevert and Barth characters. In-universe (and literally), Ted Wilson in the 1989-90 seasons. In 1989's "Malfunctions," the ugliness of his face breaks multiple camera lenses in the studio. In-universe again in the opening of "Inequality: Kids vs Adults" (1983). The episode opens with Christine out of focus in the foreground while Ross is in focus. Ross says that the cameras wouldn't be able to handle looking at a focused Christine. Sure enough, as soon as Christine convinces the camera man to put her in focus the lens cracks.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_1d43d56a	type	Somethingitis
You Can't Do That on Television / int_1d43d56a	comment	Something Itis: In the 1986 episode "Illness", the Preverts scare away bill and fee collectors by claiming they have "spotted-faceatosis," a condition which presents similar to chicken pox and is ostensibly fatal if caught. It turns out they're not just Playing Sick, however, and spotted-faceatosis is a real illness.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
You Can't Do That on Television / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Roger Price was very protective of the kids he worked with. Some cast members recall that he actually brought a gun to the studio on one occasion and announced he'd shoot any crew members who tried to give the kids drugs, alcohol or pornography.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: Invoked repeatedly in the 1989 and 1990 seasons in the dentist's office skits. Also, in the "Time" episode from 1989, Jennifer and Sariya decide to try Barth's 1960s-style hamburgers... so named because the buns used were baked in 1963. Cue the girls spitting loose teeth all over the table from trying to bite into the rock-hard buns.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_22867424	comment	Strike Episode: Christine spends the entirety of one 1981 episode on strike for more pay. When she's finally granted her raise, she learns that due to the fact that the raise puts her in a higher tax bracket, she'll be taking home LESS than she did before.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
You Can't Do That on Television / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: According to Ross in the "Television" episode, it's how he got to be a studio director - his uncle owns the station. Two seasons later, Ross pays it forward by getting his nephew cast in the episode "Families."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
You Can't Do That on Television / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: In 1987's "Anniversaries", after noticing that neither Doug, Vanessa nor Stephanie has grown much during their years on the show, the kids discover that Ross puts "shrinking hormone" in the studio food and drink in order to keep them from growing taller. Vanessa gets revenge by baking a cake for Ross's anniversary and putting some of the shrinking hormone in it, which causes Ross to shrink during the closing credits.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: From 1981's "Crimes & Vandalism": The 1985 "Revenge" episode featured Alasdair Gillis making everyones' lives miserable as the "Masked Revenger." After Mr. Schidtler apprehends the Masked Revenger for stealing the class's milk-fund money (ostensibly so he could buy a pair of pants and wouldn't be teased for wearing tights anymore), he echoes the Revenger's catchphrase, "My work here is done," as he hauls the Revenger off to the principal's office while the rest of the class applauds.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_23a633a8	type	Parental Fashion Veto
You Can't Do That on Television / int_23a633a8	comment	Parental Fashion Veto: Sariya Sharp in the 1989-90 seasons was always complaining about her "totally Neanderthal mother" who wouldn't let her get her ears pierced. (She attempted to compensate for this in one episode by having her hair done in a sophisticated grown-up style, but ended up ruining it with slime and water.)
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_246142de	type	Look Ma, I Am on TV!
You Can't Do That on Television / int_246142de	comment	Look Ma, I Am on TV!: In the Whatever Turns You On pilot, Christine gets her opening monologue interrupted by this.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_264d9031	comment	"Down Here!" Shot: A variant was done in "Fads and Fashions" from 1982. At the end, Kevin and Doug come on-set pretending to be naked as the ultimate fashion; the camera only shows Kevin from the waist up and the much shorter Doug from the neck up. An annoyed Doug asks for the camera to pan down so that they can see more of him. Christine quickly calls out "run the credits" as she realizes that panning down would expose a bit more of Kevin than would be "safe"...
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
You Can't Do That on Television / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: The show itself has often been considered a Spiritual Successor of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Laugh-In star Ruth Buzzi even starred on Whatever Turns You On and made a guest appearance on the first local season of YCDTOTV itself. And coincidentally, Laugh-In and YCDTOTV shared the same network for a time when Laugh-In was part of the Nick at Nite lineup in the late 1980s (although WTYO was never shown in the U.S.). All That, or for Canadian viewers, YTV's mid-1990s sketch/variety series It's Alive! The show itself is a complicated case of one. To those who grew up watching the show on Nickelodeon or YTV, the 1979 season is almost entirely unrecognizable as You Can't, lacking most of its defining characteristics as well as its layout. Whatever Turns You On, which flopped on CTV and remained dead and buried until YTV reran it as part of its YCDTOTV rotation a decade later, gave You Can't most of its cast, layout and running gags as well as its style of humor. But it technically came second. Make of that what you will. Between YCDTOTV and All That, there was the SNICK series Roundhouse, which was similar but had a much faster pace, more reduced production values, and a lot more Parental Bonuses. Unfortunately, this left the show uncertain about who its audience was, and this, combined with the tragic death of a key cast member, contributed to the death of the show after 4 seasons and 52 episodes. Perhaps the most blatant Spiritual Successor was one made by Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby themselves. In 1983, the pair made Don't Look Now! for PBS, filmed at WGBH-TV in Boston and based on the local CJOH model of You Can't Do That on Television, with music videos and live phone-in contests mixed in with the comedy skits. It even reused sketches from the 1979 season of YCDTOTV and Whatever Turns You On almost verbatim. Most of the YCDTOTV trademarks were there, but in slightly altered form: the Ross, Barth, and Mr. Schidtler characters became females; "walking the plank" of a pirate ship replaced the firing squad; "locker jokes" were delivered by kids sitting on a bench outside the principal's office; and green slime was replaced by Yellow Yuck, triggered by the phrase "Don't blame me." Made at a point when YCDTOTV series renewal was still up in the air, the initial five-episode trial run attracted high ratings but did not become a series, presumably due to adult viewers upset with the show's content. Darby later confirmed in an interview for You Can't Do That on Film that he and Price would have relocated to WGBH if PBS had decided to go ahead with Don't Look Now!, which would probably have spelled the end of YCDTOTV. Yet another spiritual successor made by Price and Darby, this one for CJOH, was Something Else, which aired on Saturday mornings in early 1982 following reruns of YCDTOTV. Since YCDTOTV was by then airing only in the half-hour syndicated edits, Something Else was meant to replace the local-interest segments that had been a major part of the original YCDTOTV format, with a live studio audience (often dressed in costumes a la Let's Make a Deal), performances by local bands, call-in contests, and so on. Many of the YCDTOTV cast worked on Something Else as well, and Christine McGlade herself was an associate producer. (She did not wear her infamous wig, however, so viewers got a chance to see her natural hair, pink highlights and all.)
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
You Can't Do That on Television / int_2a090d00	comment	Several episodes feature a producer whose name appears on his chair as "R. Sole" (again, try saying it fast)note "asshole/arsehole". In the 1981 episode "Safety First", Christine even remarks that if she had a name like that, she wouldn't put it on the back of her chair.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: The teacher in the classroom sketches, Mr. A. Schidtler, looked like Adolf Hitler and had a personality to match. Although he often bewailed the constant parade of dim-witted and/or smart-mouthed students in his classroom, he also delighted in making their lives miserable with huge volumes of homework and other forms of torment.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_2b278c5d	type	Loss of Identity
You Can't Do That on Television / int_2b278c5d	comment	Loss of Identity: Played for Laughs in the 1985 season episode "Identity Crisis," in which Alasdair searches for "the real me."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: The series featured many commercial parodies (in fact, fake commercials were a regular part of the show during the 1982 episodes, which were originally aired before Nickelodeon became advertiser-supported); the objects of the parodies were often obvious, but the names were changed just enough to make them lawyer-friendly (for example, Head and Shoulders shampoo was parodied as "Shed and Holders", which cures Alasdair's dandruff by making his hair fall out). Averted in the original, local-only 1979 season, in which commercial products and trademarked objects (for example, Pepsi, Coke, and McCain's "Deep and Delicious" cream pies) were referred to by their actual names on several occasions. The McDonald's characters even visited the show in one episode. The 1984 "Foreign Countries" episode also featured two kids chowing down on Big Macs while referring to them by name (and passing them off as "French food" and "Italian food" since they bought them at McDonald's restaurants in France and Italy). Another later aversion occurs in 1986's "TV Commercials" episode, in which Doug tests a blindfolded Alasdair to see if he can tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi (which results in both boys ending up drenched for saying the "w" word after Doug switches the cans of soda with a can of spring water).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Elizabeth Richardson. While her exact height is unknown, she towered over nearly the entire cast except for the equally tall Kevin Kubusheskie.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_3126c34a	comment	"Know-It-Alls" (1986) introduced Matthew Godfrey as the Insufferable Genius who claimed to know everything; one of the others tried to get him soaked during a trivia game by asking him what surrounded Australia. (He was a little too clever and named gave the names of each ocean, causing Alasdair asking to remark he was "supposed to say 'water'." Ho boy.) Said genius got what was coming to him at the end by claiming "There is nothing about this show that I don't know." (But then tried to get the last laugh by saying "water" on purpose to use it as a slime-cleaner; only to be pied by the rest of the cast.)
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Christine hates everyone calling her "Moose". (It was her nickname in real life too.)
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Used on occasion in the show's first season courtesy of Marc, the show's token French-Canadian kid. He even gives the question and phone number for a phone-in contest in French, "to give [his] fellow "frogs" a chance to get a jump ahead." A decade later, Christian (also French-Canadian) gets his mouth washed out with French soap for swearing in French.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Barth, unabashedly. He puts almost anything in his burgers except ground beef, and no food is too old to serve. Yet for some reason the kids keep eating at his diner. (Christine, in one episode, claims she eats there because it helps her stick to her diet.) Barth apparently learned it from his mother, as evidenced in the 1985 episode "Relatives" when she (also played by Les Lye) takes over the restaurant on a temporary basis and her cooking turns out to be as noxious as her son's. Andrea Byrne in "Books and Reading", when she cooks her family a recipe using Barth's new cookbook. Mrs. Prevert is a downplayed example. She can cook, but the only dish she knows how to make is liver and lima beans. Averted in 1990's "Learning": Amy makes dinner after receiving cooking lessons from Mom, but as it turns out, she's a much better cook than Mom, as Chris, Christian and Lance readily admit. And Mrs. Prevert is NOT happy about it, to the point where she lies to Amy that the food turned out badly, takes the food back to the kitchen to be thrown out, and announces she's serving cold bread and cheese for supper. Christine in 1983's "Cooking." As just two examples, her muffins are hard enough to crack teeth, and her soup solidifies. Lisa isn't much better, as Ross learns when she and Moose challenge Ross to taste their pies and tell them which tastes better.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_35fb9016	comment	In 1985's "Revenge", Lisa was caught off guard when saying "water" did not trigger a drenching. Thinking the word no longer worked, she tried "H2O", "Wasser", and "Agua"... which finally brought down a bucket of water. Alasdair noted that she had not met Julio, the new stagehand.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_372bc105	comment	The series took plenty of potshots at other television series, particularly children's series which fell closer to idealism on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism (for example, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), but its favourite target was... itself.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_37c6c0f3	comment	William Telling: One sketch involves all of William Tell's children dead with arrows through them and apples lying near them, except for one remaining son who's left confused as to how this could have happened. Turns out William Tell had a case of the hiccups.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: Custard pies in "Drugs" (1981).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: In-Universe, the show knows it's a show and the characters constantly interact with the "director". The "Divorce" episode from 1984 had the show being interrupted because the producer and his wife split up, and she was collecting the half she got in the settlement. (Specifically, the left side of the screen.) "Technology" from the 1984 series introduced red and green voting squares at the bottom of the screen which were allegedly to allow viewers to vote on the outcome of certain scenes, which in many cases were a Foregone Conclusion - if the outcome of the dungeon sketch was that Vanessa was going to get slimed, the "results" would be "rigged" so that Vanessa ended up slimed anyway. Likely many viewers who weren't aware the show wasn't live thought these were for real. "Smells" (1987), the final episode of the "classic" YCDTOTV era, had the show experimenting with something called "Smell-O-Vision," which would enable the viewers to experience the smells of the studio. During the end credits, the kids note that the Smell-O-Vision device is working in reverse and they can smell the home audience instead.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_3bc88a7f	comment	"Technology" from the 1984 series introduced red and green voting squares at the bottom of the screen which were allegedly to allow viewers to vote on the outcome of certain scenes, which in many cases were a Foregone Conclusion - if the outcome of the dungeon sketch was that Vanessa was going to get slimed, the "results" would be "rigged" so that Vanessa ended up slimed anyway. Likely many viewers who weren't aware the show wasn't live thought these were for real.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: In the 1981 and 1982 seasons, Barth, proprietor of Barth's Burgery, had a not-too-bright teenage employee named Zilch (Darryl Lucas) whom he routinely belittled, insulted, and hit upside the head with a frying pan. All for minimum wage (at best).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_3fc3406b	comment	In the 1989 "Celebrations" episode, the kids are eating haggis (sheep's intestines cooked in a sheep's stomach) to salute Scotland - and enjoying it. Of course, this is the introduction to the opposites... when the opposites are over, the kids are grossed out. Amy Stanley asks for a drink to get the taste out of her mouth, and you know what happens when you mention dihydrogen monoxide on this show...
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesopinvoked: Several in-universe examples, usually in the form of Hypocritical Humor, in keeping with the series' deliberate subversion of the usual philosophy of children's television. There were a couple of these in the "Addictions" episode from 1982, notably a link set skit where Lisa reprimands Christine for being "addicted" to video games, but then it turns out Lisa has her own "unhealthy" addiction - to soap operas. In 1983's "Medicine", Senator Prevert (Les Lye) yells at Alasdair for having been caught smoking cigarettes in school, and then proceeds to light up a cigar.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: A favorite trick of Ross's was to fool the kids into being slimed by promising they wouldn't be slimed if they said "I don't know." One such example is described under the April Fools' Day trope. And in 1989's "Malfunctions," he tells Ted, Stephanie, Carlos and Jill that the slime machine is broken and to please refrain from saying "I don't know," as Ross will get in trouble if the director finds out. All four kids subsequently say "I don't know" in unison and are all, of course, slimed. Turns out this was Ross's way of punishing the kids for being late.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_410414ab	comment	Secret Admirer: The plot of the 1985 "Romance and Dating" episode involves Lisa being sent gifts by a secret admirer, who invites her on a romantic cruise. The guy turns out to be a movie producer who wants Lisa to star in his new picture - Lisa Ruddy Meets Godzilla - as Godzilla.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_411fe2c4	comment	You Can Say That Again:
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_41435fc2	comment	Pie in the Face: Not as ubiquitous as the green slime, but it popped up on a number of occasions. Often they used it if slime and water were used in the same scene but they still needed something else. One episode (1981's "Drugs") was even built around the gag, equating the stupidity of hitting yourself with a pie to the stupidity of harming yourself by taking drugs.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_41aebb4a	comment	Marilyn Maneuver: Happens to Moose in 1981's "Safety First," which illustrates the dangers of wind by having a wind machine blow up Moose's skirt.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_4413fa66	comment	Video Arcade: In a nod to the popularity of arcades in the 1980s, one of the regular settings for sketches was "Blip's Arkaid". Blip (Les Lye), the owner, was a money-hungry price-gouger who deliberately sabotaged the machines if the kids were on the verge of winning free games.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_44990492	comment	Parody Commercial: The 1982 season featured parody commercials before cutting to actual commercials.note As mentioned under Edited for Syndication, when Nickelodeon became ad-supported in 1983, they were the first sketches to be cut from re-runs. Just to name a few: "Ripoffs" had an ad for the "Wimpex Watch", in which Alasdair's watch is still ticking even after he is beaten up by Brodie and Kevin Kubusheskie. "Sports" featured a spoof ad for "Hockey Pro Toothpaste", a toothpaste intended to give the user the "missing tooth" look of professional hockey players. "Heroes" promoted "Hero Cereal", the cereal that goes "Slam! Bam! Crunch! Whack!" when Doug pours milk on it (the "Whack!" coming from Mr. Prevert smacking him upside the head for eating such a noisy breakfast). "The Not-So-Fair Show" had Doug modelling the "Lotachi Lugman", a personal stereo with full-size speakers for headphones. Although fake commercials weren't a regular part of the show again after 1983, the "TV Commercials" episode in 1986 (an Alanis Morissette episode which was also the first episode after Christine's departure) more than made up for the deficit. This episode contained spoof ads for "Shed and Holders" shampoo, "Left Guard" deodorant, and "Ravon" cosmetics among others.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_4540f3d3	comment	Uncancelled: When the 1987 season was cut short at five episodes, Roger Price, assuming this meant a cancellation, moved to France, and it looked like this was the end of YCDTOTV. A year later, Price came back to Canada, and the show was resurrected with a mostly new cast. The uncancellation didn't last, as poor ratings sealed the series' fate and it was cancelled for good in 1990.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: While the show was at its peak of popularity in the U.S., its airing history in its home and native land was spotty at best until YTV debuted in 1988 with YCDTOTV on the schedule. Due to this, the kids on the show were beforehand able to lead relatively normal lives and were insulated from the series' massive American popularity, despite getting fan mail and sometimes even being called at home by fans who managed to get their home phone numbers. On the other hand, they were often recognized and even mobbed by fans when they traveled to the U.S. After YTV picked up the show, the kids who appeared on the final two seasons (1989 and 1990) found their profiles at home considerably heightened compared to their predecessors. Nevertheless, low ratings in the States for those last two seasons sealed the show's fate.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_477bcc9f	comment	Greasy Spoon: Barth's Burgery, decorated in an unappetizing shade of green and serving nothing that wouldn't make patrons sick. (In real life, the burgers the kids ate in the skits were provided by a real-life local burger joint, and were actually very tasty.)
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Zilch, Barth's (sub-)minimum wage employee in the 1981 and 1982 seasons, was constantly on the receiving end of slapstick abuse and degradation at Barth's hands, always Played for Laughs. Most of the most frequently seen kids on the show took their turn at this, but perhaps none more than Christine and Lisa. Also Ross, although in his case not completely undeserved.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: In every episode, there was at least one scene after the credits which sometimes tied up a recurring plot for the episode. Just to give a few examples: "Christmas" from 1984 wraps up the plot of Alasdair trying to get a kiss out of the girls in the cast with mistletoe by having Lisa, Vanessa, and Christine kiss him in turn and say, "Merry Christmas." However, Vanessa warns him, "Christmas only comes once a year, and tomorrow is another day!" The 1984 episode "Science" ends with a stinger in which Ross reveals that Alasdair's recital of the recipe for green slime, which he has spent the entire episode researching, has been obscured by the credits music. He proceeds to confiscate and eat the paper on which Alasdair has written the recipe. "Enemies and Paranoia" from 1986 ties up the "B-plot" of Adam Reid's wrestling bout with the Masked Destroyer by having Adam unmask the Destroyer to reveal... Mrs. Prevert, who drags him home by his ear. As she forces him to sit down to a huge plate of Brussels sprouts and recites further punishments, Adam groans, "With a mom like this, who needs enemies?"
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_49ef37e6	comment	Catch Your Death of Cold: An opposite sketch in 1986's "Illness" has Mom opening up the bedroom windows to let in cold air so that Vanessa and Rekha won't be well for the first day of school - along with turning on the fans, pouring ice water on the girls, and having Dad, who already has a cold, sneeze on them.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: The 1979 and 1981 series featured side comments in the credits, such as "Isn't this interesting?" and "This is like watching paint dry", and credited executive producer Bryn Matthews as "Executive Producer and Dragon Slayer" or similar titles. A number of episodes from the middle of the run featured the credit "Wardrobe courtesy Christine McGlade - Christine McGlade takes no responsibility for any clothes in which she appears". In the "Rip-offs" episode from 1982, Ross tries to run the closing credits immediately after Christine's introduction in a nod to the tendency of manufacturers to advertise a new, improved product that actually contains less content.note Christine stops the credits after a few seconds; they run in full at the end of the programme as Christine flees the collapsing link set. In "Priorities" from 1983, Ross runs the closing credits in the middle of the programme in an attempt to leave early for a baseball game.note This time, the credits do not run again at the end of the programme. At the end of "Jealousy" (1984), the technicians refuse to run the closing credits when Christine cues them to do so, because they're jealous that Christine got a raise when they didn't. Faced with the possibility that they'll all have to stay in the studio forever (since they're contractually forbidden to leave until the closing credits roll), Christine is finally forced to reluctantly share her raise with her coworkers so that the credits can roll and the show can end. The credits for the Worst of You Can't Do That On Television compilation video has several, as the credits are twice as long as normal.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The Preverts often doled this out as punishment, which formed much of the basis of the episodes "Punishment" in 1989 and "Blame" in 1990. In the former, Jennifer gets tied to a living room armchair (and tortured with an "Iranian String Quartet" marathon on educational TV) just for picking her nose.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_5490360d	comment	Food Fight: A food fight breaks out in a Barth's sketch in "War" (1984), when Christine, Vanessa, Alasdair, and Adam Kalbfleisch determine that Barth would be willing to go to war for a situation he can no longer stomach... and since they can't stomach his food, they go to war over it.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_5511ffce	comment	Niche Network: In one episode, Lance complains that the program is taking a very long time to come back from commercial, only for his son to tell him that he is watching the all-ad network. It turns out the program he thought he had been watching was actually an add for a toilet bowl cleaner.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_582f5a70	comment	This Is the Part Where...: Played with in 1982's "Ripoffs." Christine, noticing she's supposed to be slimed in the next link, asks Lisa to "help" by asking a difficult question so that Christine will answer with "I don't know" and the slime will fall. In the process, she tricks Lisa into saying the magic words and taking the slime instead.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_590760d9	comment	Arcade Sounds: Owing to the series' low budget, the machines in Blip's Video Arcade were just prop cabinets which used mechanical buzzers and bells to provide their sound effects, while the visual displays involved flashing lights behind coloured overlays. In a rare example of this trope being used correctly (owing to the year in which it was filmed), the 1982 episode "Addictions" features Christine playing the Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man in many of the link segments, complete with appropriate sound effects (since she really is playing the game, not just waggling the joystick to a recording). This was because Warner-Amex Communications, which owned Nickelodeon at the time, also owned Atari and the license to Pac-Man. In an opposite sketch in 1989's "Punishment," Mrs. Prevert grouses about being forced to play video games all day long while Christian and Sariya do all the housework, and finally forces the children to sit down and play the video game she's been playing. Although it's not explicitly stated they're playing a Nintendo Entertainment System, the background noise in the sketch consists of a loop of sound effects from the original Super Mario Bros..
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_5982199f	comment	Who Even Needs a Brain?: A sketch had a mother getting far too enthusiastic about cleaning out her child's ears, and cleaning out everything between them as well. It had no noticeable effect on the child.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: In the link segments from the 1984 episode "Science", Alasdair tries to break down the recipe for green slime. He finally succeeds, and reads the list of ingredients to Christine... just as the end credits begin rolling and the theme music drowns out his words. (Christine's increasingly disgusted expression suggests the ingredients are not pleasant.) The Stinger for the episode involves Ross gleefully announcing that the home audience didn't hear Alasdair read the list - which he then grabs and eats.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_5dcb9d92	comment	Less Embarrassing Term: This exchange between Elizabeth Richardson and Kevin Kubusheskie from "Cosmetics" (1982):
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_6161dc83	comment	Weather Report: In the very first sketch ever taped for the series, back in 1979. An early version of Ross (before Les Lye started dyeing his hair for the role) finds out that the station is saving money by hiring children to do the weather forecast and offers to "coach" Jonothan in recognizing different types of weather - which involves nailing him with pails of water to simulate rain, snow (melted), and hail (melted). Jono then gets his own back on Ross, not only drenching Ross with pails of water but putting one of the empty buckets over Ross's head (to simulate fog) and drumming on it (to simulate thunder). As a plus, this skit was taped on an actual CJOH weather set.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_6168d81c	comment	Mistaken Confession: 1990's "Secrets" combines this with Noodle Incident.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_643659d4	comment	The 1989 episode "Mistakes" features a breakfast sketch in which Mr. Prevert is drinking what he thinks is the last glass of apple juice. Chris, disgusted at missing out on the juice, gets up to leave for a doctor's appointment, and Mrs. Prevert tells him that his urine sample is in an old apple juice container. Cue massive Spit Take from Mr. Prevert...
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_644eca71	comment	Another variation occurs in episode four of the spinoff Don't Look Now!, which has one of the kids, Jon, try to sell his beaten-up old bike using a TV commercial - which features a brand-new, mint-condition bike. The bike sells for $75, but the kids then find out they owe $750 for making the commercial. Rich Bitch Jocelyn, who came up with the idea for the deception, gets a bit of Laser-Guided Karma via a Yellow Yucking (this show's version of green slime), which ruins her fashionable outfit.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_66a4e100	comment	Parody Names: In parallel with Bland-Name Product, other television programmes were sometimes referenced in the series using parody names. Curiously, the 1982 "Addictions" episode featured a parody name and an actual reference to the same series; in a dining room sketch, Luke McKeehan finds a plush Smurf doll in a cereal box and declares, "There's a free Slurp in the Cannon Crunch cereal!", but in the post-credits stinger, Christine talks about a video game cartridge that allows viewers to "shoot down all those stupid little Smurfs".
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_671681af	comment	Jackass Genie: "My work here is done." The writers loved malevolent or incompetent genies as comedy devices, and at least three fall squarely into the Jackass Genie category of deliberate wish-mangling: "The Not-So-Fair Show" (1982) features Les Lye as the cigar-smoking, deep-voiced "Unfairy Godmother". "TV Commercials" (1986) has Doug Ptolemy as the "Jiffy Genie". In "Fitness" (1989), Ted Wilson as the "Fitness Genie" ("Fitness Genie is the name, helping fatsos is my aim!") grants Rekha's wish to lose more weight by making her fatter (giving her more weight to lose), then makes her "lighter" by first making her glow like a lightbulb and then making her float away.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_6924443d	comment	Girliness Upgrade: Mom tries to force one on tomboy Amy in 1990's "Learning" episode, making her wear a frilly dress and teaching her how to curtsy when Amy would rather play shoot-'em-up with the boys. To embarrass her sister, big sis Jill gets the wardrobe lady to make another dress exactly like it so that Amy will have to wear it at home too. Amy ruins that plan - and the dress - by getting slimed on purpose.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_69e77917	comment	Bucket Booby-Trap: Happens to Christine (with water) at the end of the 1983 "Manners" episode, courtesy of Kevin and Alasdair. To add injury to insult, the bucket hits her on the head afterward.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: Green slime, usually, though water was also common, as were cream pies. Covering the kids (and sometimes the adults) in gunge was one of the series' most familiar comedy devices.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_6d00503a	comment	Rain Dance: Jami, the show's token First Nations (Native Canadian) kid, does a dance so that Rodney gets nailed with a bucket of water as revenge for teasing him.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Always played for laughs, usually the end result of someone forced to listen to Lisa for too long. In 1986's "Parties," Alasdair tells Alanis he'll kill himself if she won't go to the network party with him. Alanis responds by telling him she's going to get her father's gun.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Stage manager Ross' full name is Ross Ewich (try saying it fast)note "raw sewage". Several episodes feature a producer whose name appears on his chair as "R. Sole" (again, try saying it fast)note "asshole/arsehole". In the 1981 episode "Safety First", Christine even remarks that if she had a name like that, she wouldn't put it on the back of her chair.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: The 1984 episode "Christmas" has Christmas-themed sketches, a running gag on the link set in which Alasdair is trying to get a kiss out of Christine, Lisa, and/or Vanessa by standing under the mistletoe,note All three finally kiss him in the episode's final scene, but make it very clear that it won't happen again. and a Christmas gift to Lisa's little brother: no locker jokes! Whatever Turns You On also did a Christmas episode five years earlier, which involved the kids trying to sneak into the network Christmas party, which they have been forbidden to attend because of the serving of alcohol. They end up singing Christmas carols on the link set and getting pied one by one by Les Lye's character Mr. Dime (dressed as Santa), as revenge for their giving him a pie in the face as a gift earlier in the show.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_70d53103	type	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment
You Can't Do That on Television / int_70d53103	comment	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment: One link in "Discipline" had Adam and Vanessa being 'grounded' and having their shoes taken away. Adam points out that having his shoes taken away won't stop him leaving the house. Ross then says that Adam has misunderstood. Now that they have taken off their rubber-soled shoes, they are 'grounded' and Ross tells them to grab a hold of a live electric wire. In 1989's "Mistakes", Ross is made to "punish" Chris, Nick and Ted by giving them each a pie. The boys are excited at first, thinking they'll get to eat them, but of course, Ross thinks the producer meant he was to hit each of the boys with a pie, so that's what he does. The producer then informs Ross he actually DID intend for the boys to eat them... because the pies were poisoned. The boys are shown gagging and retching from the poisoned pies as the scene ends, and Ross, apparently having eaten some poisoned pie himself, runs off the set clutching his throat.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: This was the point of many of the opposite skits, in which kids got punished for behaving rather than misbehaving. One example of many: in 1984's "Halloween," Mr. Schidtler threatens Lisa with a month-long detention because she stayed home and studied on Halloween night instead of vandalizing the school (but then tells her all will be forgiven if she throws a stink bomb into the home ec classroom).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_7319a7de	comment	Potty Dance: A sketch in "Moving" has one of the kids come racing up to Lance while he is unpacking after a move and demanding to know where the toilet is packed, all the while doing the potty dance. Lance patiently explains that you don't take the toilet with you when you move to a new house. The kid urgently informs him that previous occupants of this house had.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_751bd286	comment	Is This Thing Still On?: After the end credits, the announcer would always make some sarcastic remark about the show, oblivious to the blinking red "On Air" light behind him until an off-screen crew member silently pointed out that they were still live, at which point he would turn to the camera with a deer-in-headlights look. Played straight by Mrs. Prevert in a sketch in the 1986 "TV Commercials" episode.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_75588c15	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: The 1979 incarnation of the series was itself the Trans-Atlantic Equivalent of the Thames Television children's series You Must Be Joking! (1975-76) and You Can't Be Serious! (1978), which also featured casts of (mostly untrained) child actors with special celebrity guests and musical guests, used Covered in Gunge as a comedy device, and were created by YCDTOTV co-creator Roger Price. The cast of You Must Be Joking! included lifelong friends and acting partners Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson (then in their teens), most well-known as the co-stars of the sitcom Birds of a Feather.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_7603b45b	comment	Furo Scene: Christine hosts all the link segments in "Personal Hygene" (1981) from her bathtub.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
You Can't Do That on Television / int_762b9223	comment	Zilch, Barth's (sub-)minimum wage employee in the 1981 and 1982 seasons, was constantly on the receiving end of slapstick abuse and degradation at Barth's hands, always Played for Laughs.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_77b0a0b2	comment	Alphabet Soup Cans: In the PBS spin-off, Don't Look Now!, the trivia questions callers were required to answer during phone-in competitions were based on current events in the news. Roger Price used this in his pitch for the series (which was never picked up) to illustrate how the show lived up to public television's standards of educational programming.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
You Can't Do That on Television / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: A common method of getting profanity on TV. From Episode 7 from the 1979 series: From "Safety First" (1981): From "Divorce" (1984):
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
You Can't Do That on Television / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Occurs in the 1984 episode "Families" where Ross's nephew Jeff (not Les Lye's real-life nephew) mentions that he always refers to him as Uncle Ross. One of the cast members urges him to just address him as Ross, without the "uncle". Ross goes berserk and makes him "say uncle" when he just addresses him on an informal first-name basis instead of calling him Uncle Ross. In "Poverty and Unemployment" ('86), Naida, after making her fellow cast members work as her servants, insists they call her "Madam."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_7cbe4363	type	Brown Bag Mask
You Can't Do That on Television / int_7cbe4363	comment	Brown Bag Mask: Christine in 1981's "Nutrition," because she has a pimple. Mom puts one over Jennifer's head in 1989's "Excess" after scolding her for wearing too much makeup and then being informed Jennifer isn't wearing any makeup at all. Mom then apologizes for hurting Jennifer's feelings and tries to comfort her by assuring her she'll grow up to look just like her mother... to which Jennifer screams, puts the bag over Mom's head, and runs off. Jill in 1990's "Secrets," because she's embarrassed to have a boy she likes see her on the show. Her fellow castmates "out" her and Carlos even pulls off the mask. But a few sketches later, they all decide to wear brown-bag masks because they realize they're also embarrassed to have their friends know they're on the show. They take them off once Ross informs them that as long as they can't be identified, they also won't be paid.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_7d36715f	comment	Gasshole: When Vanessa introduces the 1987 "Smells" episode, she groans at the prospect of a show filled with flatulence jokes (which is exactly what we get, with Doug as the number one Gasshole). This episode set the tone for pretty much the entirety of the 1989 and 1990 seasons, with Ted Wilson as the usual Gasshole.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Fads and Fashions", the principal is keeping Lisa in detention because of the clothespin Lisa is wearing on her nose, which the principal takes to mean that Lisa thinks he smells. After Lisa explains that the clothespin is "just a fad," the principal apologizes and decides to let her go - until Lisa mentions that she would never imply that the principal smells because that's something everyone already knows. In response to this, the principal changes his mind about letting Lisa leave and instead gives her an even longer detention.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Lisa Ruddy could and would talk anyone's ears off at a mile a minute, to the point that Dungeonkeeper Nasti used her as a torture device at least once, while Christine took advantage of the "gizmo" in the "Technology" episode to hold a poll on whether or not the audience wanted her to be forever silenced (the "Yes" votes won by a landslide).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_83ea0763	type	Rouge Angles of Satin
You Can't Do That on Television / int_83ea0763	comment	Rouge Angles of Satin: In the classroom sketches, almost every word that appears on Mr. Schidtler's blackboard is misspelled. Although most of the misspellings are not actual words (for example, "basex" for "basics"), occasionally they fall under this trope. For example, in "The Not-So-Fair Show" (1982), Mr. Schidtler quotes Act I, Scene 1 of Macbeth with "Fare is fowl, fowl is fare" instead of "Fair is foul, foul is fair".
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_86c2ee3c	comment	Dodgy Toupee: Christine wore a wig throughout the 1982 season, as she'd cut her hair short after the previous season and added pink, new-wavish highlights. For most of her scenes, she wore a human hair wig that resembled her previous natural hairstyle and didn't look particularly bad; however, as that wig couldn't get slime, water or pie on it, Moose had to wear a different, synthetic, curly wig for scenes in which she, or sometimes the actor in the scene with her, was to be the victim of stage pollution. By the 1983 season, Moose's natural hair had grown back similar to the way she'd worn it originally and there was no need for a wig.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_86ca5631	comment	Barth apparently learned it from his mother, as evidenced in the 1985 episode "Relatives" when she (also played by Les Lye) takes over the restaurant on a temporary basis and her cooking turns out to be as noxious as her son's.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Alasdair spends most of the "Christmas" episode hanging mistletoe all over the set in hopes of getting to kiss one of the girls. The girls finally each give him a kiss at the end of the show, but Vanessa's quick to remind him not to get the wrong idea: "Christmas comes only once a year, and tomorrow's another day."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: The occasional skits in which a cast member would become a victim of a sliming, a watering, and a pie in the face, in that order. See Alasdair in 1984's "War," or Matthew in 1986's "Know-It-Alls."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_8a5e1431	comment	Polka-Dot Disease: Anyone who gets green-slimed in the 1986 "Illness" episode is stricken with "the green slime flu," which makes bright-green spots break out all over the afflicted person's body. Naturally, since no one is able to keep from saying "I don't know," it strikes all the kids and Ross, but fortunately it only lasts as long as the show.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_8c30ad0	comment	The Television Talks Back: In Episode 2 and the Whatever Turns You On pilot, it not only talks back, but shoots back, when Rodney is watching a violent American Western and Mom, who insists her son watch only "good Canadian shows," goes to change the channel. In another episode, the criminal on a cop show shoots a kid watching TV for giving away his hiding place. Also, 1982's "Television" puts a new spin on the phrase "pay television" when the program Vanessa is watching is interrupted by a robber yelling, "Your money or your life!" Vanessa screams, "Mom! The pay television channel wants money again!" and Mom comes over with coins to insert directly into the set. There's also an opposide sketch that features pay TV...only this time, the TV pays viewers for watching it! (It has a slot that, slot-machine-like, pours out coins.) The Whatever Turns You On episode "Educational Programming" has a skit where the boys turn off Miss Fit's (Ruth Buzzi) televised math lesson to watch a hockey game, and Miss Fit interrupts and angrily insists they switch back. One sketch has Mom scolding Kevin Kubusheskie for watching too much television and going to turn it off despite Kevin's warnings. Kevin's watching Star Trek: The Original Series, and onscreen, Mr. Spock (played by Les Lye), says, "Someone is tampering with the television set...fire photon torpedoes!" They do, and Mom's vaporized. Kevin pleads to go with the Enterprise, and Spock says, "Beam him up, Mr. Scott," upon which, Kevin's beamed up in a sparkle of special effects wizardry.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_8cb1a369	comment	Mrs. Prevert usually - at least until the show's 1989 reboot when her character seemed to become less flighty and a lot meaner and more sadistic.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: On this show, it often took the form of someone getting slimed or pied. Example: Matthew getting the stage-pollution trifecta of slime, water and pies at the end of 1986's "Know-It-Alls," after lording his vast storehouse of knowledge over his castmates (and tricking them into getting slimed and watered) for the entire episode.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_913dc5d2	comment	Women Drivers: Applied with gags involving Mrs. Prevert's, and also Christine's, driving abilities, particularly in the early years of the show, and often combined with Drives Like Crazy.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_9323264	type	All Your Colors Combined
You Can't Do That on Television / int_9323264	comment	All Your Colors Combined: Moose not only got drenched with green slime in one sketch, but then she got hit with yellow, red and blue slime one after another. Then she got hit with striped slime, which was all four colors at once.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_93c7525e	comment	Cue Card: Several episodes feature link set segments in which we see Ross holding up cue cards containing Christine's lines (for example, in "Nutrition" from 1981, she refuses to read the card as written as she knows it will result on her getting milk dumped on her). In some cases, Christine is also shown holding cue cards containing Ross' lines, especially during scenes in which they are arguing about overreliance on cue cards. Despite the cue card gags, all lines on the show were memorized in real life. In some cases, unfortunate things slated to happen to Christine (or others) would not be written on the cue cards until AFTER they had happened. For example, Moose is drenched with water in "Culture Junk" (1982) for calling the writers' scripts "lousy" and then complains about how she hadn't said "Water," before the camera cuts to Ross holding up a cue card with a crew member writing the word "Water" on it.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: Sisters Jill and Amy are made to wear matching dresses in 1989's "Embarrassment" episode. Jill likes it - but only to introduce the opposites.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_9622c172	comment	Christmas Carolers: In 1984's "Holidays," Mr. Prevert makes a group of Halloween trick-or-treaters sing "Silent Night" before giving them any candy, reasoning that if stores can put up Christmas displays at Halloween, he should be able to have trick-or-treaters sing him Christmas carols. And in an opposite sketch in the 1984 "Christmas" episode, he tells the carolers to switch from "Silent Night" to "something hipper." The carolers launch into Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_9716b4f7	comment	Finish Dialogue in Unison: In the lead-in to the Opposite sketches, the characters gradually join in for a unison recital of "This is just the introduction to the Opposites." The Barth's sketches often end with a unison chorus from the customers of "What (or who) do you think's in the burgers?" (To which Barth invariably replied, "Dahhh... I heard that!")
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_982037d0	comment	Tickle Torture: On the "Medicine" episode, Christine spends the bulk of the episode in a cast, with her bare sole sticking right in the camera. At the very end, Ross, the producer, threatens her foot with a feather duster while she begs him not to. He then tickles her foot, causing her to fall over hysterically into a nearby trash can. And again in "Fame", where Christine grabs Lisa's bare foot and, despite her begging not to, tickles the hell out of it after Lisa compares her to Lassie.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_984763bb	comment	555: The infamous "Adoption" episode, during the "Today's Child" segments (555-KIDS, plus "555-MOMS" and "555-DADS" during the opposites). Played straight in the local-only, hour-long versions of the 1979 and 1981 seasons, in which the telephone numbers viewers were instructed to call to participate in the phone-in contests often did begin with "555."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_99156d7e	comment	Head Desk: One sketch had Lisa returning to the Prevert home dreamily saying she's experienced Love at First Sight. Valerie says it was the same thing for her and Lance. Lisa responds by banging her head on the door.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_9b610976	comment	I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Invoked with cream pies in the episode "Drugs", the pies have this effect specifically because they're stand-ins for heavy drugs.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
You Can't Do That on Television / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: In an early episode, Mr. Schidtler angrily shushes a boy for interrupting his lecture. The boy was attempting to tell the teacher that the wastebasket was on fire.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: In "Ripoffs" from 1982, a classroom sketch features Alasdair unwrapping a chocolate bar. There are so many layers of wrapping that we cut away to other sketches three times (including, in the original broadcast, the "Let's talk to some kids" interview sequence) before finally reaching the payoff, in which Alasdair finally gets to the disappointingly small chocolate and notes that companies advertising "more (product)" almost invariably deliver less.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_a18a7c01	comment	Hand-or-Object Underwear: At the end of "Fads and Fashions," Moose has nothing to wear but a cue card. Which Ross then insists she return, because it belongs to the studio.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_a1a1491e	comment	At the end of the closing credits, the announcer (played by Les Lye) declares, "You Can't Do That On Television has been a (insert theme-relevant gag) Production". The camera then cuts to him as he makes a final gag about the show (which in itself could be an Homage to Gary Owens in Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_a56e3cba	comment	Language Barrier: Often played with in the first, Ottawa-only season and in Whatever Turns You On, which featured Marc Baillon as the Francophone kid kid who occasionally misunderstood what his Anglophone castmates were saying (although he was generally fluent in English and spoke without a French accent). This was Truth in Television as well, as during one live phone-in competition, Marc referred to a radio being given away as a prize as a "record," necessitating an explanation that Marc had used the wrong English word once the show came back from commercial.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Amy Stanley, who was hired for the series by Roger Price after a visit to the set, much to the chagrin of big sister Jill who thought Amy was "invading her turf." Originally Amy was hired to play Big Teddy (the living, walking Teddy Bear who more resembled an Ewok), but beginning with the "Celebrations" episode began appearing as herself, and by the start of the 1990 season she had really blossomed. Martin Kerr, a cast member from 1981 to 1983, was chosen for the show after he caught Roger Price's eye in one of the local "Roving Camera" segments.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_a70f9aba	comment	Accentuate the Negative: Part of the show's Self-Deprecating Humor. When Christine announces at the beginning of 1984's "Marketing" that this episode will probably be the last since the show doesn't have any marketable merchandise, she's met with a round of applause.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_a7faec8e	comment	"Heroes" promoted "Hero Cereal", the cereal that goes "Slam! Bam! Crunch! Whack!" when Doug pours milk on it (the "Whack!" coming from Mr. Prevert smacking him upside the head for eating such a noisy breakfast).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Adults are usually portrayed as bumbling morons...at their best. The one who isn't—Ross, the stage manager—is despicable for all other sorts of reasons. This was deliberate on the part of creator Roger Price, who hated that adults in kids' shows tended to be reliable, helpful, Reasonable Authority Figures and wanted to teach kids that not all adults were like this.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_ab8462f7	comment	The Backstage Sketch: The show showed the backstage area on occasion, but the best example of this from it is the introduction/theme elaboration sketches on the blue triangle set, which more often than not would lapse into being more about the making of said sketches. One episode in Season One had all of the link sketches shot backstage, ostensibly because the "network [meaning CTV] people" were using the main studios to film the Whatever Turns You On pilot.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_ad1db87c	comment	After the end credits, the announcer would always make some sarcastic remark about the show, oblivious to the blinking red "On Air" light behind him until an off-screen crew member silently pointed out that they were still live, at which point he would turn to the camera with a deer-in-headlights look.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Moose, particularly during her link segments. Her favourite target for snarkery was, of course, the show itself.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
You Can't Do That on Television / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: 1984's "Science" and 1990's "Secrets" both involve one of the kids (Alasdair and Ted, respectively) trying to find the secret ingredients to green slime. In "Science," Alasdair is successful, but when he reads the ingredients aloud, Ross has the closing credits roll at that moment and the ending theme drowns Alasdair out. After Ross informs the kids what happened, he grabs the recipe out of Alasdair's hands and eats it. In "Secrets," Ted is hit with water while reading the ingredients, which renders the recipe illegible; Ross then informs the kids it's not the real recipe anyway. In 1981's "Strike Now!", Moose spends the entire show on strike for more pay, since she's the host yet receives as much pay as the younger kids. She finally gets her wish at the end of the show, only to learn that her higher salary puts her in a higher tax bracket and she'll be taking home less than she did before.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_afab5e94	type	Reunion Show
You Can't Do That on Television / int_afab5e94	comment	Reunion Show: The second SlimeCon cast reunion in 2004 included the special episode "Project 131", featuring the now grown Brodie Osome, Vanessa Lindores, and Marjorie Silcoff re-visiting the old YCDTOTV studio following Ross' retirement to film one final episode. The classic sets were recreated with green screen technology, a final sliming and drenching were delivered (to Brodie and Marjorie, respectively), and the final scene featured brief appearances by Alasdair Gillis and Justin Cammy. Les Lye's grandson, Josh Dunn, appeared as the announcer.note Following this episode, Studio D at CJOH, in which the series had been recorded, was closed permanently, ending the possibility of further reunion shows.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Some of the more repeated ones: Dungeon prisoners under the impression they are about to be freed always cheer, "Fresh air, blue skies, Barfy Burgers, girls!" Barth's sketches often include a character quipping, "What (or who) do you think's in the burgers?" To which Barth invariably replies, "Duh... I heard that!" Another Barth catch phrase: "Waste not, want not, I always say." Often in reference to reusing his customers' vomit as "special sauce." During arguments between two members of the Prevert family, a third family member often chimes in with, "She's got a point." To which the one without the point replies, "Don't encourage her." Mr. Schidtler reacts to smart-mouthed or dim-witted students by moaning, "Where do they find them, and why do they keep sending them to me?" When one of the performers outwits another (usually, but not always, a kid outwitting an adult), he or she tells the camera, "Sometimes it's so easy, I'm ashamed of myself." The execution scenes nearly always feature the following exchange between firing squad leader El Capitano and the intended victim: Dungeon prisoners often tell dungeonkeeper Nasti, "But you can't do this, this is torture!" To which Nasti replies, "I know!" Ross, when conning the kids out of yet more money, has a favourite price of "Ten bucks. Each." Ross brings many episodes to an end by shouting, "Roll the closing credits!" The kids, upon realising that a given situation is too good to be true, will groan, "That means... this is Just the Introduction to the Opposites!" A recurring bit in the 1981-84 seasons is a single kid talking to the camera making an observational humor-style joke. The punchline always begins with "Now what I wanna know is..."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Christine on occasion. She hosted the entirety of the "Vacations" and "Hobbies" episodes in a one-piece swimsuit. Her introduction for the "Seasons/Weather" episode involved her illustrating how weather affects the clothes we wear by stripping off layers of clothing from heavy winter garb to a swimsuit, which led Ross to accuse her of trying to get the show taken off the air (which she admitted she ''was'' trying to do); she kept the swimsuit on for the remainder of the links but covered it up with a bathrobe. And in "Safety First," her skirt is blown up by a gust of wind a la Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch. Then there was the end of "Fads and Fashions" which ends with Christine wearing only a cue card. The "Heroes" episode has Lisa Ruddy in a Wonder Woman-style outfit for nearly half the episode. The "Drama" episode of Whatever Turns You On has Ruth Buzzi in a pink leotard and Christine in a yellow leotard for most of their appearances on the main set.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
You Can't Do That on Television / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: In one early episode, Ross grants the kids' requests to be treated more like grown-ups by giving them the privilege of paying income taxes. "Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends" (1986) featured Amyas Godfrey as Pinocchio, who, after having his wish to become a real boy granted by his fairy godmother (Les Lye) and being given a long list of chores by Mom, promptly begs the fairy godmother to change him back into a puppet. Also invoked with the numerous Jackass Genie gags (see below).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!:
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_b3168fc4	type	Let's See YOU Do Better!
You Can't Do That on Television / int_b3168fc4	comment	Let's See YOU Do Better!: In a meta example, Adam Reid was invited to audition for the series after writing in to criticise the acting by the child performers. He was immediately cast as a regular performer, and went on to write for the series in its final two seasons.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The series took plenty of potshots at other television series, particularly children's series which fell closer to idealism on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism (for example, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), but its favourite target was... itself. One sketch in 1989's "Fantasies" doubles as a Take That to Mister Rogers and a Shout-Out to A Nightmare on Elm Street. Ted, wearing a Freddie Krueger costume, tearfully tells Mom about a nightmare he had about Mister Rogers without mentioning him by name. "Don't worry," Mom comforts him, "nice men like that don't exist except in dreams." note In real life, Fred Rogers was critical of YCDTOTV, calling it one of the worst shows for kids. Roger Price insisted his show was meant to make kids feel good about themselves just as Rogers' was, but that their approaches and target audiences were different. The show's occasional references to Sesame Street and The Muppet Show often fell somewhere between this and Shout-Out. Some of the episode pre-empts included "Hit and Run on Sesame Street" ("Safety", 1981), "Miss Piggy Eats Ham Sandwiches" ("Good, Healthy Food", 1981), and "The Muppets Get Stuffed" ("Work, Work, Work", 1981). After Ross has her stuffed into a garbage can in "Transportation" (1981), Christine remarks that she wonders how Oscar the Grouch can stand the smell. And in "Popularity" (1982), Barth announces that his Burgery will host the "Big Bird Celebrity Roast." Cue a lifeless Big Bird being carted into the dining room on a roaster. Jim Henson apparently had a sense of humor about this, as he had Kermit the Frog interview Alasdair Gillis for a 1985 edition of Muppet Magazine. Kermit and Alasdair even managed to trick Miss Piggy into getting slimed (to which she reacted with one of her trademark karate chops). A favorite target during the first local-only season was Kidstuff (1975-76), a Montreal-produced musical variety show which aired on Saturday mornings on CTV and was still being rerun as late as 1979 (the show actually aired one hour later on CJOH than on other CTV affiliates because of YCDTOTV). With its goody-goody image typical of Canadian children's shows of the era, Kidstuff was exactly the type of show to which Price and Darby were hoping to provide an alternative. YCDTOTV often made mention of the fact that Kidstuff was airing only in repeats. In one early 1979 episode (with one of the older girls playing Mom, and remade for the Whatever Turns You On pilot with Ruth Buzzi as Mom), even the entire Canadian television industry, and in particular the nation's public broadcasting network, was not above reproach. (Of course, once the show went into international syndication, PBS replaced CBC on the show's "hit list.")
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_b5f97c12	comment	Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: In "Censorship" (1986), Alasdair puts a paper bag over James' head at the movies, during a particularly hot-and-heavy scene in the picture. Unfortunately, he uses the bag James was carsick in on the drive over.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: "Privileges" (1990): Stephanie considers it an honor to be the first girl on the boys' football team. Ted does not consider it an honor to be the first boy on the girls' cheerleading squad, likely because he's forced to wear a skirt. "Abuse - Female on Male" variation: The girls often responded to insults from the boys with physical violence - for example, Christine kicking Alasdair for insinuating she is fat ("Medicine," 1983), and Jennifer smacking Christian for calling her fat ("Time," 1989). Also averted on occasion, in episodes such as "Security" (1989), in which Patrick manages to literally throw each of his fellow castmates, including Jill and Chantal.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: As with many children's comedies, much humour was derived from the characters denouncing the very things they were doing. For example, in the "Addictions" episode from 1982, Christine scoffs that, unlike adults, kids are not prone to addictive behaviour... all while she is unable to tear herself away from Pac-Man, Kevin Kubusheskie is buried in an issue of Motor Trend, Martin Kerr is obsessing over a Rubik's Cube, and Lisa is immersed in a pulp romance novel.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_ba236071	comment	"Nutrition" (1981): Moose is to deliver a link about yogurt, and refuses to read her cue card until Ross promises they won't pour yogurt on her (It Makes Sense in Context). While she's reading the line, Kevin K. emerges and hits her with a pie made of yogurt.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_babd94bc	type	Very False Advertising
You Can't Do That on Television / int_babd94bc	comment	Very False Advertising: A variation occurs in the "Parties" episode, when Adam invites Alasdair to a place where there's lots of music, food and drink, and Alasdair thinks he's going to a party. It turns out the music is hymns, "food and drink" is Communion wafers and wine, and what Alasdair thought was a party is, in fact, church. To make matters worse, the priest bribed Adam with money to bring Alasdair over. Another variation occurs in episode four of the spinoff Don't Look Now!, which has one of the kids, Jon, try to sell his beaten-up old bike using a TV commercial - which features a brand-new, mint-condition bike. The bike sells for $75, but the kids then find out they owe $750 for making the commercial. Rich Bitch Jocelyn, who came up with the idea for the deception, gets a bit of Laser-Guided Karma via a Yellow Yucking (this show's version of green slime), which ruins her fashionable outfit.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_baeb2d6f	comment	Glass-Shattering Sound: Chantal's high-pitched, shrill scream in 1989's "Security" is enough to not only single-handedly scare away a burglar, but shatter glass. So is Amy's singing the Christmas carol "Silent Night" in that same season's "Embarrassment" episode.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Amyas won't stop shooting spitballs in church, and after God punishes him by striking him with a lightning bolt, Amyas proceeds to shoot a spitball at God, and subsequently keels over dead for his trouble.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The plot of 1987's "City Life" episode involves Ross taking the kids on a trip to New York. The catch: they'll have to wear dorky uniforms, visit museums, and go to bed early while Ross plans to hit the town partying. The pre-empt for one of the 1989 episodes is "The Fat Boys Eat New York," complete with graphic of the three members of the rap trio tucking into a giant apple.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_bedd799b	comment	Christine on occasion. She hosted the entirety of the "Vacations" and "Hobbies" episodes in a one-piece swimsuit. Her introduction for the "Seasons/Weather" episode involved her illustrating how weather affects the clothes we wear by stripping off layers of clothing from heavy winter garb to a swimsuit, which led Ross to accuse her of trying to get the show taken off the air (which she admitted she ''was'' trying to do); she kept the swimsuit on for the remainder of the links but covered it up with a bathrobe. And in "Safety First," her skirt is blown up by a gust of wind a la Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch. Then there was the end of "Fads and Fashions" which ends with Christine wearing only a cue card.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: Zigzagged with the opposite skits when the kids insist on doing something practical and the adults make them do something fun. Once in a while, the adults have them do something boring and/or practical instead of fun because the opposite skits are about to end.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c023a146	comment	In-universe again in the opening of "Inequality: Kids vs Adults" (1983). The episode opens with Christine out of focus in the foreground while Ross is in focus. Ross says that the cameras wouldn't be able to handle looking at a focused Christine. Sure enough, as soon as Christine convinces the camera man to put her in focus the lens cracks.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c0965210	type	Canada Does Not Exist
You Can't Do That on Television / int_c0965210	comment	Along the same lines, the "internationalization" of the show's content after 1982 could be considered an example (though perhaps not an extreme one) of Canada Does Not Exist, and the local 1979 and 1981 episodes as well as Whatever Turns You On could be considered an aversion of that trope - they were unapologetically Canadian, since the show's original raison d'etre was to improve the quality of CANADIAN kids' entertainment programming.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
You Can't Do That on Television / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Played for Laughs in the "Blame" episode from 1990, when Mom, after heartily cheering Christian while he's at bat during the baseball game, disowns him after he strikes out and loses the game. She then hugs Carlos and declares that Carlos is her son (note that Carlos is Black, while Abby Hagyard is Caucasian).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: In the 1984 episode "War", Alasdair founds a peace movement called "War's Insane, Make Peace", or WIMP for short. Despite Adam Kalbfleisch's reservations about the name and Ross' constant mockery, Alasdair leads his followers to a peace rally, where the other peace groups beat them up for having such a silly acronym.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c312bb2d	comment	Too Hot for TV: Both Nickelodeon and YTV banned certain episodes and/or censored certain skits due to content, although the episodes banned differed between the two. Also, some CTV affiliates opted not to carry the show at all because of content.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c42400d1	comment	Gamer Chick: Christine spends all of her links in the "Addictions" episode glued to an Atari 2600. Averted: in the live CJOH version of "Sexual Equality," Christine notes that no girls have yet participated in the show's video-gaming competitions, and encourages more girls to sign up.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: Each episode is bookended by couch gags. Before the opening, a graphic announces that a regularly-scheduled show parody will not be seen tonight and will be replaced by an episode of You Can't Do That On Television. The parodies being pre-empted always pertain in some way to the episode's main topic (e.g., Mr. Rogers: Neighborhood Pusher for "Drugs", George Bush Shoots the Wrong Quail for "Mistakes", The Huxtables Put Their Kids Up For Adoption for "Adoption", etc). In some instances, the show pre-empts itself. (At the beginning of "Failure" (1989), the announcer states that YCDTOTV will be seen after all because the producers failed to come up with anything better.) At the end of the closing credits, the announcer (played by Les Lye) declares, "You Can't Do That On Television has been a (insert theme-relevant gag) Production". The camera then cuts to him as he makes a final gag about the show (which in itself could be an Homage to Gary Owens in Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c6b4b048	type	Dropped After the Pilot
You Can't Do That on Television / int_c6b4b048	comment	Dropped After the Pilot: Elizabeth Mitchell, a regular on the first season of YCDTOTV, appeared in the pilot episode of Whatever Turns You On, but when it graduated to a series on CTV, she was replaced by Lisa Ruddy. Elizabeth has said that her parents made her quit, as they hated the show and were not enthusiastic about her acting ambitions to begin with.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
You Can't Do That on Television / int_c75df49a	comment	One sketch in 1989's "Fantasies" doubles as a Take That to Mister Rogers and a Shout-Out to A Nightmare on Elm Street. Ted, wearing a Freddie Krueger costume, tearfully tells Mom about a nightmare he had about Mister Rogers without mentioning him by name. "Don't worry," Mom comforts him, "nice men like that don't exist except in dreams." note In real life, Fred Rogers was critical of YCDTOTV, calling it one of the worst shows for kids. Roger Price insisted his show was meant to make kids feel good about themselves just as Rogers' was, but that their approaches and target audiences were different.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c8490cbe	comment	Voodoo Doll: In the "Jealousy" episode from 1984, Christine gets a raise while the other cast members do not. Lisa joins Christine for the introduction and claims not to be jealous, only to dig out a voodoo doll and stab its head with pins until Christine is forced to leave the stage with a headache.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c8d69cac	type	Even the Rats Won't Touch It
You Can't Do That on Television / int_c8d69cac	comment	Even the Rats Won't Touch It: Invoked by Christine in "Peer Pressure" (1981).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
You Can't Do That on Television / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Many of the jokes were about how awful/boring the show was.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_ca4e037	type	Dude Looks Like a Lady
You Can't Do That on Television / int_ca4e037	comment	Dude Looks Like a Lady: A favorite comic device on the show throughout its entire run was putting boys in dresses (and also on occasion, girls, if the girl in question didn't like wearing dresses). Creator Roger Price remembered that this stemmed from a method of punishment at a boarding school he attended as a boy in England, in which a boy who misbehaved would find a dress on his bed and be expected to wear it. For example, in one sketch in "The Not-So-Fair Show" (1982), Natalie complains about having to wear a dress when they visit Grandma - because the one Alasdair gets to wear is nicer. As Mom explains, "She [Grandma] may be eccentric, but she's very, very rich."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Mrs. Prevert usually - at least until the show's 1989 reboot when her character seemed to become less flighty and a lot meaner and more sadistic. Lisa certainly had her moments as well.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_cadbbc64	comment	Bankruptcy Barrel: Ross and Moose end up wearing these during 1981's "Crimes & Vandalism", when their clothes (and most of the set) have been stolen. Moose's still has water and a rubber duck in it. Shows up again in "Effort" (1989) when Mom, tired of Sariya's complaining that she has nothing to wear, makes the complaint come true by donating Sariya's entire wardrobe to charity and forcing Sariya to wear "[her] father's favourite fertilizer barrel" to school.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: Part of the series' self-deprecating humour; for every bad pun used in the jokes (and there are many), there is a cast member groaning at it.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The plot of the "Halloween" episode involves Christine supposedly putting a curse on Ross. Ross pooh-poohs her at first, but is subsequently beset by a series of misfortunes. When Christine tries to explain it was all a put-on, he won't listen.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
You Can't Do That on Television / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Aside from the haggis example, the series featured some other examples of this trope. One is in the 1986 "Poverty and Unemployment" episode in which Rich Bitch Naida invites Doug and Vanessa over for dinner, and Doug and Vanessa are excited to find out what rich people eat... until Naida tells them what's on the menu, which includes such items as escargots and laverbread (a Welsh delicacy made from seaweed).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Mom discovers Chris's secret stash in 1990's "Secrets." He had hidden it under his mattress thinking Mom was "too stupid" to find it there. Unfortunately for him, today was sheet-changing day... 1987's "Books and Reading" features Mom "cleaning" the dirty magazines she found in her husband's closet - by literally washing them. When Adam protests, she tells him she's already washed the dirty magazines she found in his closet, and he clams up.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d1506b2d	comment	Flash In The Pan Fad: The 1982 episode "Fads and Fashions" is a never-ending parade of this, as Kevin, Lisa and Doug model the latest fashions from Paris (which change with every link and which range from pants with one leg longer than the other to caveman garb to, finally, total nudity), and ridicule Moose for being unable to keep up. Moose also gets in a word about how Fads Are Bad by describing her problems with fad dieting. The episodes "Peer Pressure" (1981) and "Looking Cool" (1989) also incorporate elements of this trope. The former includes a skit in which baby bonnets are the hip fashion of the moment. In the latter, getting slimed becomes the cool thing to do, and all the kids get themselves slimed in the same link... of course, said link is the introduction to the opposites.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: The characters were soaked with water when they said "water" (or, during the early seasons, "wet") or slime when they said "I don't know". As the series' most familiar comic device, this was played with several times: In the 1982 episode "Fads & Fashions", Christine, having subscribed to a fashion trend of wearing scuba gear, tried unsuccessfully to trigger a water drop by saying "water". Apparently, it only falls if the kids aren't expecting it. In an opposite sketch in the 1982 episode "Heroes", Lisa's saying "I know" triggered the slime... to the amazement of several kids who said "I don't know" and avoided the slime. In the 1989 season premiere "Choices," Chris Bickford says "I don't know" during the opposites, yells "Stop the slime!" when the slime begins to fall on him, and then is told that the opposites are over... after which follows the rest of the sliming. There were other episodes in which a character said the trigger words for the slime or water during the introduction to the opposites and was surprised when the slime or water failed to fall until learning that it was the introduction to the opposites. Invariably, the slime or water would fall in spades once the opposites were over. See "City Life" (1987) and "Excess" (1989). "The Not-So-Fair Show" from 1982 had Christine get water dumped on her for saying "Eau de cologne". An amused Alasdair explained that "'eau' is the French word for 'water'"... and got drenched himself. "Know-It-Alls" (1986) introduced Matthew Godfrey as the Insufferable Genius who claimed to know everything; one of the others tried to get him soaked during a trivia game by asking him what surrounded Australia. (He was a little too clever and named gave the names of each ocean, causing Alasdair asking to remark he was "supposed to say 'water'." Ho boy.) Said genius got what was coming to him at the end by claiming "There is nothing about this show that I don't know." (But then tried to get the last laugh by saying "water" on purpose to use it as a slime-cleaner; only to be pied by the rest of the cast.) Also from "The Not-So-Fair Show", the Unfairy Godmother slimed all of the kids except Christine for saying "We know". In "Optimism and Pessimism" '85, by the third act of the show, no one has been slimed yet, and Doug was in a funk because he was sure he'd be the unlucky victim; Vanessa feigns concern and calms him down, causing him to remark that "I don't know what came over me!" (Right before - to her delight - it hits him. Of course, Doug gets back at Vanessa right afterward by reaching out with his slimy hand to pat her shoulder and - with his eyes still full of slime - instead touches her chest before quickly correcting himself. Accidental? Perhaps, perhaps not...) In the 1983 episode "Future World", Christine tried to avoid a sliming by saying, "Insufficient data." Following the sliming, Lisa said that the slime dispenser was now computer-controlled. "Rumors" (1983): Rumors that Christine is being fired from the show gain some credence when she's able to say "Water" twice during a link with nothing happening, while Lisa is drenched twice during the same link. Moose even remarks after Lisa's second drenching, "Now I'm worried." In the 1984 episode "Hobbies", Christine said "Oh no you don't!" when Lisa tried to trick her into saying "water", only to get soaked. Lisa explained that the water dumper was French, and "'eau' is the French word for 'water'"... and promptly got soaked herself. The 1984 episode "Weather and Seasons" featured a heat wave where Christine and Lisa tried to invoke the water drop, only to learn that the producers had decided to conserve water because of the heat wave. But not green slime, as Lisa learns the hard way. "Courage" (1984): Kevin Kubusheskie, in his final episode, says "Water" while wearing a suit of armor, and it's Christine who gets drenched (and is then drenched a second time for saying "Water" while complaining about the first drenching). Ross explains to her that the suit of armor will rust if it gets wet and the studio can't afford to have it cleaned. "Families" (1984): Moose is drenched after Jeff (Ross's nephew) says "Water" (and is then drenched a second time for saying "Water" while complaining about the first drenching). Ross explains, "I know it's unfair, Christine, but if I get this kid [Jeff] wet, his mother will kill me!" However, Jeff is slimed at the very end of the show, much to Ross's horror. In 1985's "Revenge", Lisa was caught off guard when saying "water" did not trigger a drenching. Thinking the word no longer worked, she tried "H2O", "Wasser", and "Agua"... which finally brought down a bucket of water. Alasdair noted that she had not met Julio, the new stagehand. The 1986 episode "Enemies and Paranoia" referred to a Soviet version of the show where one gets covered in red slime whenever one said "free". "Poverty and Unemployment" (1986): Alasdair is drenched twice after Naida says "Water," and Naida explains that part of his job as her servant is "to get everything for me whenever I'm supposed to get it." This apparently no longer applies at the end of the show, when Naida says "I don't know" and is slimed. "Culture Junk" (1982): Christine is soaked simply because, as Ross tells her, the cue cards says she was supposed to say "water", even though she did not. Turns out it was the writers' revenge for Moose calling their scripts "lousy."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d2c4c6f5	comment	Hey, That's My Line!: One of the Running Gags in the 1989 and 1990 seasons was that Jill could never remember her lines. In the '89 episode "Failure," she remembers - and recites - not only her own lines, but everyone else's lines as well. Of course, it's the introduction to the opposites.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Many characters were slimed or soaked when they tried to trick other characters into saying "I don't know" or "Water" and ended up saying the magic words themselves first. For example, "Jealousy" from 1984 features this exchange: In the 1984 "Technology" episode, the "interactive gizmo" that claims to allow viewers to vote on how a sketch proceeds by pressing a green or red square on the television screen is used for two "tests" that both fall under this. Luke McKeehan, facing execution by El Capitano's firing squad, persuades a sceptical El Capitano to let the viewers decide if he should be shot. The "results" are 9999 votes for, 2002 votes against, and the sketch closes with Luke trying to argue for a computer error as El Capitano shouts, "Ready!... Aim!..." In the very next sketch, Vanessa is chained up in Nasti's dungeon, and he is planning to drop green slime on her. Vanessa tries to get out of a sliming by asking Nasti to let the viewers decide; however, he makes a point of presenting sliming as great fun to influence the vote, and the "results" are 9999 votes for, 35 votes against. A resigned Vanessa triggers the slime by answering "I don't know" to Nasti's question, "What is green slime made of?"note Interestingly enough, Christine told Vanessa what the slime is made of in Vanessa's first episode. (1982's "Television") In the 1985 "Revenge" episode, Alasdair decides to get revenge on Moose and Lisa for assaulting him with various food items during the introduction by having the girls read phrases aloud from a box of "Instant Revenge," which contain the trigger words for the slime and water. Alasdair's attempt to get Christine slimed fails when Christine catches on and says "I have no idea" instead of "I don't know," and Alasdair ends up saying the magic words and getting slimed instead. According to writers for the show, this sketch was originally to have ended with Alasdair's trick working and Christine getting slimed, but Christine used her veto power over slimings that season to get the sketch rewritten. Played with in the 1987 "Books and Reading" episode. Stephanie Chow asks Matthew Godfrey about mirages in the desert in an attempt to get him to say "Water", but he doesn't cave. Then Matthew says "Water" and gets drenched anyway while explaining Stephanie's trick to Adam Reid afterward.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d429d0f6	comment	Canada, Eh?: The show is a Canadian production. Other Canadianisms that found their way into the show: going "to university" instead of "to college",note while "university" means academic post-secondary education in Canada and the United States and "college" can refer to constituent parts of a university, "college" in Canada more usually refers to vocational institutions, while "college" in the United States more usually refers to undergraduate-only academic institutions and saying "grade ten" instead of "tenth grade." Although the writers did their best to internationalize the show's content (very likely at Nickelodeon's insistence, since Nick and CJOH were production partners beginning with the 1982 season) by making references to American things such as the Fourth of July, it was little things like those in the script that (even without seeing the words "Ottawa, Canada" in the closing credits) made the show's country of origin obvious. More obvious in Season One and in Whatever Turns You On (which were never intended to be seen outside of Canada), with a number of jokes about one guy (Marc Baillon) being French, leading to the line "You don't speak Frog, eh?" ("Frog" is an offensive term for a French person [as in "from France" French], but can also be applied to someone from a French-speaking country — in this case, Quebec.) In another scene, one girl (Cyndi) talked about her first crush being "a frog." Thinking Cyndi was using the offensive slang term, Christine scolded her. It turned out Cyndi was talking about an ACTUAL frog, which she then had to dissect for school, but didn't feel bad about it because she said, "Frogs aren't human." Upon hearing this, Marc came up and announced (referring to the Quebecois independence movement), "Any more of that, and we WILL separate!" Along the same lines, the "internationalization" of the show's content after 1982 could be considered an example (though perhaps not an extreme one) of Canada Does Not Exist, and the local 1979 and 1981 episodes as well as Whatever Turns You On could be considered an aversion of that trope - they were unapologetically Canadian, since the show's original raison d'etre was to improve the quality of CANADIAN kids' entertainment programming. As the Nostalgia Critic pointed out, "aboot" is said quite a lot in this show. The Splat picked up on that and sorry. Years later, cast member Vanessa Lindores would recall being coached not to say "Eh." Kevin Kubusheskie had a notoriously thick Canadian accent. Et wahz reelee bahd, eh. This was even lampshaded in one episode when Christine tried to explain to him the importance of speaking clearly - because if you say "What're" instead of "What are" on this show, you'll very likely be drenched (since "what're" sounds somewhat like "water").
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d51263b9	comment	Fake Shemp: Any time more than one of Les Lye's characters appeared in the same sketch (like, say, Barth being in Blip's Arkaid), the camera would show whoever was talking from the front with a stunt double in the other character's outfit only seen from the back.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d6eefac3	comment	Soap Punishment: Happened several times. One sketch had Christian (French-Canadian) get his mouth washed out with French soap for swearing in French. Another had a kid get his mouth washed out by his smoking parents for saying "Quit."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d7e68c39	comment	Bulletproof Human Shield: A staple of the firing squad sketch, as El Capitano would typically be tricked into saying "Fire!" while standing directly between the condemned and the firing squad. El Capitano would then be shot by his own men, with the prisoners generally emerging unscathed.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Christine and Lisa, especially as Lisa became more of a co-host.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_d8e509e2	comment	Worse with Context: The 'not-so-harmless' punishment version occurs in one sketch when Lance tells one of the kids to remove his shoes as he is grounded. The kid takes off his shoes but says that being barefoot won't stop him leaving the house. Lance says that he misunderstood, and that now he has removed his rubber soled shoes he is 'grounded' and then hands him a live electric cable, leading to Harmless Electrocution.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_db095670	comment	Saturday Morning Kidsâ€™ Show: Until 1988 when the then-new YTV began airing the show on a daily basis, the show was primarily seen in Canada on Saturday mornings. This included the live-and-local episodes on CJOH in 1979 and 1981 and the show's on-and-off airings nationally on CTV between 1982 and 1987. CTV also reran Whatever Turns You On on Saturday mornings for the remainder of the 1979-80 TV season after the show failed in its original Tuesday evening time slot. And even after YTV picked up the show, CJOH continued to air episodes on Saturday mornings into the early '90s. Averted with Don't Look Now!, as that was aired on Sunday mornings on PBS (at a time when most other stations were conceivably airing religious or public affairs programming).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Christine had this reaction often in the 1981 and 1982 seasons after uttering the trigger words for the slime or water. In the WGBH/PBS spinoff Don't Look Now!, Jocelyn (the show's resident Rich Bitch) utters the trigger phrase for "Yellow Yuck," "Don't blame me!", and in horror yells "Oh come on, people, please!" in the hope that she wouldn't get the gunge dumped on her. It fails.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: The monocle-and-eyepatch-wearing,note which eye has which varies from one sketch to the next giggling German dungeonkeeper Nasti had a wide array of torture methods for the kids in his dungeon, ranging from racks and thumbscrews to having Lisa Ruddy talk their ears off.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_dd891949	comment	Who Writes This Crap?!: The kids often complained about the bad writing on the series (the locker jokes were a particularly common target for their vitriol). See Lame Pun Reaction for an example.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_ddb8ba26	comment	Shot at Dawn: A regular sketch involved one of the kids about to be shot by a firing squad, led by El Capitano. The sketches generally ended one of three ways: either the kid would trick El Capitano into freeing him/her (leading him to mutter, "That is one sneaky kid!"), or the kid would trick El Capitano into being shot by his own men (usually by standing in front of the post and saying "fire" in an unrelated context), or the kid would fail to trick El Capitano and would be left wincing as he shouted "Ready!... Aim!..." before a cut to the next sketch. (On very rare occasions, he would actually get to "Fire!"; for example, in "Ripoffs" from 1982, Lisa demanded that he go through with the execution presented as part of her South American banana republic package holiday.)
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: Played straight in the 1983 "Manners" episode, with Christine doing the introduction in a nun's habit and greeting the viewers with "God bless you all." Seems the Literal-Minded costume lady saw the show was about "bad habits" (such as burping, picking your nose, etc.) and went from there.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Played for laughs in one episode, in which Justin convinces Vanessa to change her name to "Charity" so that she can collect all the free stuff people donate "to charity."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_e34fc3c2	comment	Poverty Food: Played with in the 1986 "Poverty and Unemployment" episode, when Mom tells Doug and Vanessa that they're so poor they'll never be able to afford to have liver and lima beans for dinner again. The kids are thrilled, until Mom clarifies she means they'll have liver or lima beans each night (i.e. liver one night, lima beans the next). "You see, children, we may be a poor family now, but I haven't forgotten how to be your mother."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_e3c2a543	comment	You Don't Want to Catch This: Mr. and Mrs. Prevert use this to keep paperboy Doug, who's collecting the newspaper subscription fee, away in the "Illness" episode, claiming they have "Spotted Faceatosis", which presents similar to the chicken pox but is ultimately fatal. Valerie congratulates Lance for thinking up such a great scheme, since they've been able to keep all their bill collectors at bay, and Lance tells her he really does have Spotted Faceatosis - and so does she.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_e3edc213	type	The Show Must Go Wrong
You Can't Do That on Television / int_e3edc213	comment	The Show Must Go Wrong: Many of the links in the 1979 and 1981 seasons were performed live, and thus cast members were prone to flubs like forgotten lines (all lines were memorized, despite all the jokes involving cue cards), missed cues, and such. In one episode, Kevin Kubusheskie even accidentally gave away the answer to a phone-in contest trivia question, and got chewed out for it by Christine. Even when the show became 100% pre-recorded, flubs sometimes were kept in the final product, since they didn't have time or money to redo the scene. Forgotten lines even became a trademark of one of the kids on the show (1989-90 cast member Jill Stanley, who had trouble remembering her lines in real life too).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Barth was pretty surprised to get so much business from his back to school special from the same kids who always claimed his food made them sick. (Of course, when he expressed that, they told him it was because they wanted to get sick so they'd have an excuse to miss school!)
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_e9396c59	comment	Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: Later episodes of the show featured a character called "The Lovely Dentist," who had a tendency to stick kids in cumbersome and painful headgears. A few times he even used padlocks.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
You Can't Do That on Television / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Formed the basis for many skits. One example is in 1986's "Pop Music" episode, in which Alanis has Alasdair over for dinner, having told Mom and Dad that he "sings in church." She neglected to mention that he wasn't a member of the church choir, but rather of an anarchist punk band that performs in the church social hall. In another episode, Vanessa decides to change her name to "Charity," so that everything that people "donate to charity" will go to her. In 1990's "Secrets," Coach keeps referring to "Ted here," and Ted, thinking Coach is calling him, keeps running to Coach's side. "Nutrition" (1981): Moose is to deliver a link about yogurt, and refuses to read her cue card until Ross promises they won't pour yogurt on her (It Makes Sense in Context). While she's reading the line, Kevin K. emerges and hits her with a pie made of yogurt. "The Not-So-Fair-Show" (1982) has a scene where the show runs out of green slime, and Ross assures Christine that there will be no more green slime for the rest of the show. Christine tests this by saying "I don't know"... and promptly gets doused with blue slime. "Executive Washrooms" (1979): Jim and Mike tell Ian they have a gift for him, and Ian is suspicious, remembering that Christine and Sarah had smashed two custard pies into his face earlier in the episode after telling him the same thing. Jim and Mike promise not to custard pie him, and instead hit Ian with two whipped-cream pies. In one early dungeon skit:
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_eac3ee70	type	April Fools' Day
You Can't Do That on Television / int_eac3ee70	comment	April Fools' Day: In the 1984 episode "Holidays," Ross asks Christine to name the April holiday that coincided with the old Roman New Year, and promises her she won't be slimed if she admits she doesn't know. Naturally, it's a trick to get her slimed anyway. Afterward, Ross tells Moose the answer to the question - April Fool's Day, of course.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_eb5cbe42	comment	Me's a Crowd: In the "Science" episode, Alasdair develops a cloning machine. To everyone's chagrin, the person he decides to test it out on is "motormouth" Lisa.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_eb69d64	comment	The 1982 season featured parody commercials before cutting to actual commercials.note As mentioned under Edited for Syndication, when Nickelodeon became ad-supported in 1983, they were the first sketches to be cut from re-runs. Just to name a few: "Ripoffs" had an ad for the "Wimpex Watch", in which Alasdair's watch is still ticking even after he is beaten up by Brodie and Kevin Kubusheskie. "Sports" featured a spoof ad for "Hockey Pro Toothpaste", a toothpaste intended to give the user the "missing tooth" look of professional hockey players. "Heroes" promoted "Hero Cereal", the cereal that goes "Slam! Bam! Crunch! Whack!" when Doug pours milk on it (the "Whack!" coming from Mr. Prevert smacking him upside the head for eating such a noisy breakfast). "The Not-So-Fair Show" had Doug modelling the "Lotachi Lugman", a personal stereo with full-size speakers for headphones.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Moose. The director even more so.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_eca7a21d	comment	Song Parody: After Lisa gets slimed in the 1984 "Christmas" episode, she and Alasdair improvise a slime-themed Christmas carol to the tune of "Joy to the World" (the Christmas carol, not the Three Dog Night oldie).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Whoever figures out what (or who) is in the burger in Barth's diner always chucks. Sometimes into buckets typically provided by said Barth. How else do you think he gets his "Special Sauce"?
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_edf0331d	comment	Of Course I Smoke: Touched on in the (first) "Smoking" episode. At the end of the show, Moose gives special thanks to Les Lye, a nonsmoker who, being the only adult on the show, had to do all the smoking required for the sketches. Les steps out of character as Ross the floor manager to directly address the camera. Looking slightly ill, he bluntly states "I can't believe that people actually pay to smoke cigarettes, and I will never do it again". Les Lye was in fact a former smoker who had quit several years earlier.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Inevitably for such a long-running series with such a high cast turnover rate, there were many performers with the same first name, and in some cases their tenures on the programme overlapped. Just to name two examples: The 1979 episodes featured Kevin Schenk and Kevin Somers, and in their last series in 1981 they were joined by Kevin Kubusheskie (though no episodes featured all three together), while Kevin Kubusheskie had several cameos in episodes featuring 1989-90 cast member (and writer) Kevin Ward. In between, there was a fifth Kevin (Akyeampong), though he only appeared in one episode (1984's "Marketing"). The 1985 and 1986 series featured appearances by Adam Kalbfleisch and Adam Reid (though never in the same episode). PBS spinoff Don't Look Now! also starred a girl named Lisa and a boy named Adam (obviously different kids from their YCDTOTV counterparts).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Martin Kerr appeared in a roving camera segment for "Fitness" (1981; Canadian version only), and was added to the cast in "Nutrition." Also, a kid in one of the roving camera segments in a 1979 episode looks suspiciously like a young Alasdair Gillis, and given that he was a fan of the show before he joined the cast, it might just be him.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f1176f36	comment	Second-Person Attack: At the end of 1986's "Censorship" episode, Ross tells the kids they can start misbehaving again since the show's "cleaner" image has led to a drop in the ratings, but they refuse to start misbehaving again unless Ross pays them. When Ross comes through, the first thing Alasdair does is run toward the viewer holding a pie, but the video freezes and the word "Censored" appears across the screen before he can splat the pie into the camera.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f1462f0b	comment	Smoking Is Not Cool: The show tackled the subject of smoking twice, in 1981 and the second time in 1989. In Smoking '81, the show's token First Nations (Native Canadian) kid, Jami, admits that his ancestors taught the white man how to smoke in the hopes that all the white men would die of lung cancer. The episode also ends with Les Lye himself stepping out of character to deliver an anti-smoking message. Smoking '89 focuses considerably more on the "grossness" of smoking, including the theory that green slime is mucus scraped from smokers' lungs. Some other, briefer incidents of this trope include Christine referring to smoking as a "disgusting habit" in "Safety First" '81, and Chris Bickford saying in "Choices" '89 that he wouldn't do something stupid like smoking.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f197c220	comment	Burger Fool: Aside from Zilch (played by Darryl Lucas) in 1981-82 (see Butt-Monkey below), some of the other kids took their turns at this as well in Barth's Burgery. Adam Kalbfleisch ("World Records" '85) helped put the fixings on "the world's largest hamburger" and ended up falling into the vat of mustard. Chris Bickford did the honors in "Communication" '89 and was just as ill-treated as Zilch. And in "Fantasies" '89, Sariya took customers' orders while Amyas and Ted added the "special sauce" and "relish" (vomit and mucus respectively).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f3b36473	comment	Important Hair Accessory: Christine wore a thin hairband in most of her episodes in the 1985 season. This had the effect of making her look even younger than she had in previous seasons (height notwithstanding). In the five 1986 episodes she appeared in, the hairband was gone and Moose, who was well into her twenties now, was finally starting to actually look her age.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The entire cast over time, and especially when they replaced everyone for the 1989 and 1990 seasons. Some newer cast members are conspicuously similar in looks and demeanor to previous ones, particularly Chris Bickford (a second-generation Alasdair) and Christian Tessier (who is much like Doug Ptolemy).
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f5a90567	comment	"The Not-So-Fair Show" (1982) features Les Lye as the cigar-smoking, deep-voiced "Unfairy Godmother".
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f6f6adeb	comment	"Culture Junk" (1982): Christine is soaked simply because, as Ross tells her, the cue cards says she was supposed to say "water", even though she did not. Turns out it was the writers' revenge for Moose calling their scripts "lousy."
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Bus driver Snake Eyes (Les Lye). The school bus sketches nearly always ended with Snake Eyes seconds before or after crashing the bus into something or driving over a cliff. Before the introduction of Snake Eyes, this was also a recurring gag involving Christine, as in the introduction to the opposites from 1981's "Crime and Vandalism".
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The show literally runs on them. "Who (or what) do you think's in the burgers?" "I don't know" and "Water" count as well. The parents saying "don't encourage them", or occasionally, "don't discourage them". Some episodes had their own. The Whatever Turns You On pilot had a running gag of Christine trying to introduce the show but never getting to finish it due to various interruptions, including Ross hitting her with a pie, the overly critical makeup lady (Ruth Buzzi), and rock band Trooper's performance. The final interruption is the end of the show.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_fa8a26f8	comment	Name Amnesia: A Running Gag with 1989 cast member Nick Belcourt was that he was unable to remember if his name was Nick or Ted. This stemmed from a real-life occurrence in which Nick accidentally read Ted Wilson's lines during one script read-through.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: In an early episode, Lisa interrupts Mr. Schidtler's lecture to tell him that "the janitor is just about to have fallen off the side of the building." Instead of investigating, Mr. Schidtler proceeds to correct Lisa's grammar, all while the janitor falls to his doom. Another example, from 1990's "Blame":
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Amy Stanley may look like a sweet little girl, but call her "little" at your own risk.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: The 1989 episode "First Times" features a link delivered in Japanese by Chris Bickford with English subtitles. When he reverts to English to protest to Ross, the subtitles remain.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_feaaef51	comment	Leaving Food for Santa: A skit from the 1984 "Christmas" episode has Valerie and Lance arguing over what kind of snack Vanessa should leave for Santa. Lance suggests pizza and beer, while Valerie informs him that Santa should be on a diet, "or else they'll have to write 'Goodyear' on him and float him over the football stadium." Vanessa suggests a coin toss, which Lance loses.
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You Can't Do That on Television / int_feb72f62	comment	Literal Genie: As mentioned in Jackass Genie, the writers loved malicious or inept genies as comedy devices. At least two fell into the Literal Genie flavour of accidental wish-bungling: "ESP, Magic, and Astrology" (1984) features Les Lye as the "Genie of the Electric Lamp", who grants Christine's wish never to do housework again by making her entire house disappear, then grants Kyle and Korbett's wish to be on the winning team by giving them the uniforms of their opponents. "Revenge" (1985) stars Alasdair Gillis as the "Masked Revenger", a genie-like "superhero" who grants wishes for revenge.
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