Weinerville
Weinerville was an American television program on Nickelodeon that was aired from July 11, 1993 to 1994. The show was based around a giant puppet stage that was designed to look like a city called Weinerville. The show was created and hosted by Marc Weiner. Production. In the show's first season, all episodes ran in a two-hour marathon every Sunday. However, "Weinerville" quickly gained popularity; in the middle of the first season, November 15, 1993, Nickelodeon began running the show on weekday afternoons. As a result, Nickelodeon allowed Marc and his characters to host a New Year 's special event, a kids' version of "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" titled "Nick New Year's", with host segments serving as wraparounds for the best Nicktoons and shows of that year, and read letters from kids about their New Year's resolutions as they counted down to midnight, then celebrated by shooting slime into the sky. Marc and his Weinerville characters hosted "Nick New Year's" in 1993 and 1994. For the 40-episode second season, premiered on March 21, 1994, the episodes aired daily and were later part of the Stick Stickly show "Nick in  the Afternoon", which included Marc as Dottie in some segments. Unfortunately with all the success of hosting two seasons, three television specials, and especially hitting a milestone for being the show to tape its 1000th episode at Nickelodeon Studios, "Weinerville" was not renewed for a third season. According to Marc, the cancellation happened because Nickelodeon was changing their identity from family friendly to edgy, sarcastic, and somewhat subversive shows, and a puppet show did not fit with the network's new direction of programming. Overview. "Nickelodeon Weinerville" was filmed at Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios Florida. It was an audience  participation comedy show focused on Weiner and his puppets and about them making a show. The first few episodes did not have much of a plot or story line. Starting in the latter part of the first season, the show started to integrate storylines and plots. Weinerville also had three television specials. Following the first segment and a prelude to "Playland," the viewers would watch cartoons of "Mr. Magoo", "Honey Halfwitch", "The Alvin Show", "Gerald McBoing-Boing" and "Batfink". Characters. Puppets. The puppets below feature Weiner's head and a puppet body where their parts have been pre-taped so  that Weiner can interact with them: The ones listed below are puppet characters: Other sketches. The show also featured several non-puppet characters played by Weiner himself: Episodes. All episodes aired out of sequence in no particular order. The show had a total of 68 episodes by February 1994, and the last episode was the 1000th television episode broadcast in Nickelodeon's history. The production schedule for the second season was November 29, 1993 to February 14, 1994. (not all interviews were shown, Sean O'Neal and Jason Zimbler were just quickly glimpsed)