num_pages: 287
description: The special 5th Anniversary Edition of SLIMED!An Entertainment Weekly Best Tell-All BookOne of Parade Magazine 's  Best Books About Movies/TV Included in Publishers Weekly's  Top Ten Social Science Books Before the recent reboots reunions and renaissance of classic Nickelodeon nostalgia swept through the popular imagination there was SLIMED! the book that started it all. With hundreds of exclusive interviews and have-to-read-em-to-believe-em stories you won't find anywhere else SLIMED! is the first-ever full chronicle of classic Nicktold by those who made it all happen!Nickelodeon nostalgia has become a cottage industry unto countless podcasts blogs documentaries social media communities conventions and beyond. But a little less than a decade ago the best a dyed-in-the-wool Nick Kid could hope for when it came to coverage of the so-called Golden Age (19831995) of the Nickelodeon network was the infrequent listicle op-ed or even rarer interview with an actual old-school Nick denizen.Pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein changed all of that when he forged ahead to track down and interview more than 250 classic Nick VIPs to at long last piece together the full wacky story of how Nickelodeon became the Only Network for You!Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Nickelodeon with this special edition of SLIMED! that includes a new introduction by Nick Arcades Phil Moore in addition to a foreword by Double Dares Marc Summers and an afterword by none other than Artie the Strongest Man in the World himself (aka Toby Huss).After you get SLIMED! youll never look at Nickelodeon the same way again.Mathew Klickstein might be the geek guru of the 21st century.Mark Mothersbaugh
language: English
title: Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age
publisher: Plume