SLIMED!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age
"While this is a book you can fit in your purse, and while the cover is a happy mixture of the classic Nickelodeon lime green and bright orange, it's filled with a lot more than nostalgia ... And while SLIMED! is certainly fun, especially for readers who grew up watching these shows, it also provides a serious lesson on the birth of cable television."--Kirkus Reviews"SLIMED! explores the behind-the-scenes drama of controversial shows like Ren & Stimpy and the family lives of its child stars, but it also reveals the network's unconventional programming and knack for recruiting up-and-coming talent (Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins was on the writing staff for Clarissa Explains It All)--as well as the secret ingredients to the network's famous green slime."--The Atlantic,Fall Books Preview"Culture isn't all serious business--sometimes it's just good fun."--Publisher's Weekly, Top 10 Social Sciences pick"ReadingSLIMED!is like taking a trip back to summer camp to see your old friends.Mathew Klickstein has captured the outrageous, inventive, and crazy times of early Nickelodeon, and the stories are sweeter than a mug of bug juice.A nation of Nick fans will salute his shorts."--Steve Slavkin, creator ofSalute Your Shorts"Somewhere between a tribute, a belated yearbook, and an autopsy,SLIMED!attempts to figure out--with the help of nearly 200 performers, writers, producers, and execs who worked at the network between 1985 and 2000--how a fledgling channel with virtually no original programming identified, captured, and entertained the hell out of its preteen demographic....SLIMED!is the best kind of blast from the past: dishy, unwholesome, and thought-provoking enough to make you question your own memories."--The Village Voice"Klickstein provides a bracing oral history of Nickelodeon in the 1990s, the era of shows likeRen & StimpyandClarissa Explains It All."--Entertainment Weekly, Top Four Tell-All Books Of Year"Mathew Klickstein’s oral historySLIMED!… does a wonderful job of reliving those times through interviews, photos, and assorted behind-the-scenes details. The book truly defines the joy one felt to be a 'Nick kid' and brings a heaping dose of nostalgia along with it."--Parade Magazine, Top 25 Books About Movies/TV"The book is quite impressive. Mathew Klickstein must have a large multi Gigabyte RAM in his head to remember all those quotes and sort them into a meaningful book. Or at least he must be very well organized. Well done."--Roger Price, creator ofYou Can't Do That on Televisionand green slime"Mathew Klickstein has written what is quite possibly the first serious pop culture book of our generation."--The Loafer