"The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story" Documentary is up on Hulu

[DrForester]

This just showed up on my Hulu recommendations. Apparently it was made a whiles ago, and I just never heard of it. Watching now and it's pretty good. Goes over teh creation of the channel, and the golden years of the channel, including a lot of interviews with people involved.

The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story

The Orange Years chronicles the rise of the Nickelodeon network, featuring interviews with the actors, writers, and creators from all the golden age Nickelodeon shows that shaped your lives. It’s wild. It’s crazy. It changed the world.

www.hulu.com

Enjoying ti so far. 90's Nick was such a part of my childhood.

 

[Tavernade]

It'll be interesting to watch this after having devoured every Nick Knacks episode on YouTube a few months ago.

 

[DrForester]

Just finished it, it's pretty good if this was something you watched all the time. They basically just go in order over all the shows they made. Lots of good guests in the video.

I remembered watching that Nick News interview with Magic Johnson after his diagnosis when it aired.

 

[Cheesebu]

I really enjoyed this. I loved hearing about how Rugrats, Doug, and Ricky started. They even mentioned that all the Rugrats music was from a guy in Devo, which has always been my favorite bit of trivia. That show would be nothing without that music.

I had never seen that All That skit with Chris Farley so that was a treat too. And the Legends of the Hidden Temple section was great too.

 

[Heart of Poumn]

Saw it pop up on Thursday. Was interesting to see how the started out and how they had a lot of women at the top.

And then at the end they're like

Spoiler: Not really much a spoiler but just in case

aaaaaaaand spongebob and Dora happened, making us a ton of cash and people left. Was both funny and sad.

 

[data west]

Weird that they didn't talk about wild and crazy kids

 

[viandante]

thoroughly enjoying this so far, as a big nick kid..

 

[TheHyde]

I thought The Orange Years referred to something completely different....nevermind :)

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Watch this, will I.

 

[DJ88]

Oh man more people need to see this!

I loved learning about the origins of so many of the network staples, the creation of Nickelodeon Studios, and all the actors they brought back for interviews. So good and really made me miss that era of Nick.

 

[Ruken]

That was pretty good. Hearing about their whole philosophy at the time was really interesting, how they really made it a physical thing with Nickelodeon Studios, the magazine, and all their branded stuff like moon shoes and gak.

 

[Chucker]

Weird that they didn't talk about wild and crazy kids

Click to shrink...

My wife and I both thought this also.

That said, great doc if you were growing up during it.

 

[Elegant Weapon]

Weird that they didn't talk about wild and crazy kids

Click to shrink...

Yeah I thought they would talk about every NICK show lol

But it was a great documentary and I look forward to watching it again with my brother

 

[viandante]

this was great.

i want to go back.

 

[Bigkrev]

I watched this a couple of days ago. I kinda like how for the first 90% of the show it's all about showing new creative things, talking about them... and then at the end its like "well, then Spongebob and Dora happened and then everything changed forever"