Can you imagine that sad car drive home, feeling like a loser for having been immediately eliminated with a bag of hair gel, chocolate syrup and canned tuna as your consolation prizes.
You had to live it to understand both the frustration of watching a kid not being able to assemble a 3-piece monkey and eternally wondering if you'd have the same problem if you ever made it on the show.
I remember realizing as a kid that I probably would have problems too, when there were several moments where I thought they had it right, and it wasn't.. The monkey's middle section was diabolically misleading in how it looked, where it being upside down looked correct, but right side up looked wrong until you spun it the right way, and really only then when you had the head on.
I always wondered why people tried to assemble it from behind. Its always seemed like it would be easier from the front. Of course there's np way I would get to the temple. The steps of knowledge I would have a decent chance because history was always one of my favorite subjects, and I was good at remembering what I had heard back then. But I have, and had back then, physical health issues so it would take a miracle for me to get past the moat and I don't see anything short of divine intervention or a teammate able to solo the final temple game getting me through the temple games.
@@roguerifter9724 I'm pretty sure they assembled it from behind, because that's how the base mold forces you to do it. I vaguely remember a kid who did do it forward facing him first, he was one of the only ones I ever saw actually complete it. Then he flipped it around, how every other contestant had it.
It was one of those situations where you know when you were younger thinking "Oh I can do that" Then actually struggle putting together kids first lego set(That was me I was that kid)
To be fair, after going through a confusing obstacle course being chased by crazy men in tribal regalia, I'd have a lot of trouble putting together a styrofoam monkey too.
I find it kind of funny that he makes fun of them for not solving it and says that it was the same throughout all seasons, but I get a feeling the majority of the ones who had difficulties were the ones who were there during season 1, since he later says they were filmed together.
If you compete again in the CW version, our minds mature as adults, assembling the monkey is not very difficult, The Queen's Armory is the new one that will frustrate you and wasting your precious time even more.
@@arrowghost I love the reboot,. It's one of the few that's actually good. Despite the fact that it has adults now, it;s outside, and there;s a new host, not much has changed at all! Take note, people, THIS is how you do a reboot RIGHT!
@Colleen go screw yourself. The reboot is embarrassing. The format was simple, yet they unnecessarily jumbled it all up. The CONSTANT cutaways to the confessional segments. And the temple itself looks tiny compared to the studio
"Sponsors of the show couldn't afford to give away more prizes." Me: I imagine that a commercial slot is VASTLY more expensive than a bottle of hair gel/spray.
I used to work for Stone Stanley and was part of the production team in Los Angeles. It wasn't till later did I find so many people loved this show. It was one of the most impractical shows because we had to ship our production staff to Orlando several times a year to do this show. Fun fact, all the stunts were tested on the producers kids. If they couldn't do it, they wouldn't put it in the show.
I was on season one of this show as a kid, and I remember being secretly relieved that we were eliminated just before having to go into the temple, which I found terrifying and confusing. I also recall them spraying us down with water prior to recording the second round, as it had been at least a couple hours since we had crossed the moat. I can’t even remember what I won but thank God it wasn’t tuna!
@@knockeledup I've heard that it was a lot of friends and family of the crew and the producers. I might be wrong but I'd doubt anyone got flown out to the studio to be on this show.
@@knockeledup They used to put ads in the local paper. Most of the time you didn't know what it exactly was going to be. It would read something like " Casting call - children's game show ages 8-12".
@@knockeledup I lived about an hour from Universal and there was an ad in the local paper for an open casting call. All we knew was that it was for a new Nickelodeon game show for kids. The audition lasted for about half a day and when you were done you got to spend the rest of the day in the park. They asked us some trivia questions (I specifically remember one question - “What’s the name of the current movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis?” and somehow I knew it was True Lies. I think they just wanted to make sure you didn’t totally freak out under pressure when it came to answering questions. Then they had us do some physical challenges that I can’t remember. It wasn’t a full set at this point and the challenges weren’t really super involved - I remember some kind of tug of war and maybe a relay race? I think we found out if we made it within a week and filming was like a week or two after that. I remember filming took place on the first day of school in August and my mom let me skip to be in the show.
All I wanted to do as a kid was try the temple run and show that a triple amputee kid can do well too. Now as an adult, I know I'm not nearly in shape enough to do it, even if I had all my limbs xD
@@emarskineel I don't remember any of the relics having anything to do with Mayan culture. I remember a lot of them being from Europe, North America, and Asia.
Kevin's clear frustration about the kid's having trouble with the monkey puzzle is too real. I remember SCREAMING at my televison screen while watching this part. Just an eleven year old calling other eleven years olds dumbasses.
Shrine of the Silver Monkey is quite infamous, but not so in the CW version, hence they created The Queen's Armory in order to frustrate the players and wasting their time.
Same here! 🤣🤣 However thinking back on it now, who's to say that we would nail it on the first, second or even third try? You have to factor in having millions of eyes on you, that adds to the pressure. Remember that! 😅
Mind Kidzag Yeah, most of the legends had some made up stuff that were added in for entertainment "like the Cannonball of Galileo falling on a sandwich, which resulted in the invention of pizza).
I mean, it's great that someone like Harriett Tubman was treated with the same amount of respect as Midas or Egyptian kings, but her walking stick? That's like saying that Thomas Edison's dish rag was important.
The thought of kids going on a game show and being given cans of tuna as consolation prize is insanely hilarious. I would be so pissed flying all the way out to Florida, losing in the first round, then having to go back home with a box of fucking tunafish cans
Also how the fuck did a childrens show get away with having masked guys grabbing kids in shadowy corridors, pre 9/11 was a different time man no one gave a fuck
It seemed like this video only showed temple guards popping out from across the room but my memories are of the guards grabbing the kids in a full body embrace from behind.
I remember guards sneaking up behind contestants and dragging them away, I always wondered what would've happened if a kid completely freaked out and just started hitting the poor fools in the guard costumes.
The first time I saw a successful temple run (with literally no time left on the clock, no less) remains one of the strongest memories I have of watching TV as a kid. It was pure euphoria.
Dude I remember this. My memory is HORRIBLE but I remember a 00 ending and the cheers. I don’t know what team or anything but this comment triggered something in my brain and I’m remembering something I didn’t know I could. That’s crazy. Just remember the cheering in the living room at the day caretaker’s house with the few kids who were there.
At least a few times, that I can remember, the winners had less than ten seconds left on the clock. A few were at least a few seconds off from winning. The show was always fun and entertaining to watch for sure.
Imagine working as one of the temple guards. "Hey, what do you do for a living?" "I'm an actor" "Really? Any roles I'd know?" "Well, currently I dress in a cartoonish mesoamerican costume, hide in a styrofoam pyramid then jump out to scare middle schoolers."
@@tigerburn81 yeah but im sure they screened them. you typically have to fill out a corey report for any normal job, Im sure for something like this they would do even more. Especially since the 80s is what brought a lot of that type of stuff to the attention of the media.
Kind of reminds me how Figure it out got really cheap. The slime challenge they used to give a kid in the audience a 100 toy r us (rip) dollars when a panelist got slimed. Then they gave a crappy bookbag or sweater with a figure it out logo.
I'd say having a day of competing and that holding room would be a fun get away. Though the days it was hair products were BS. Im personally blamming them for every guy that were his hair in spikes.
I don't know man. Hair gel was the shit back in the 80's, and a free supply of it would go along ways towards establishing your street cred. Of course it got a little out of hand at some point, and we wound up with a massive hole in the Ozone layer.
True. Had no idea that it was cancelled in 96 because I used to watch it in early 00s. Wanted to join this show back then but I was also aware that I wasn’t fit enough to complete the challenge (I was a chubby kid)
Same I started watching this around then. I would binge reruns when they would play them in the early 00s too but by then, I had already known it was canceled, only I thought it got canceled later in the 90s. Man I wanted to be on this show soooo badly. It was an amazing time to be a kid in the 90s
I loved this show, but the one thing that infuriated me the most about it was that they made the Temple so dang difficult that we almost never got to see the kids get far. I realize the prizes showcased their sponsors, but you don't need a fortune to impress a kid. The viewers and the contestants would both be there for the awesome temple, with or without more expensive prizes.
During Kirk Fogg's interview about the movie, he made a lot of references about the game show including how Olmec talks. And of course, there was a budget too, once the budget exhausted, the show comes to a close. But thankfully, CW decided to revive it.
The fact that the Temple was so hard was one of the things I loved about this show and Global Guts. It made it super exciting when you saw a kid actually win.
Alot of it wasnt even the difficulty of the temple, but the fact that the temple guards was just a mechanic that limited potential winners down a big amount. Sorry you did nothing wrong, except pick a room at random, you lose, should have won every medal before hand i guess.
I remember when the blue barracudas finally won, and that one kid who just straight up dominated the temple. Don't remember which team that was though.
chasrhew88able Given the rather broad definition of "molest", that's more accurate than most people would know. But seriously, I do want to hear more about what it was like being a Temple Guard.
Yes kids got scared but that was because we were set up to do jump scares especially in the dark Forest no didn't really see a lot of Tears... But after we stop taping kids that lost were pretty upset, and no no molesting to my knowledge...
I remember being a kid watching reruns in the early 2000s thinking they were new episodes. I wanted to compete in this so bad. Little did I know the show was cancelled long ago.
Same honestly. I watched this show religiously in the early 2000s only to find out it was long canceled. Being born in 95 it wasn't ever going to happen for me lol.
Same bro, but thinking about it I wouldn't have been able to join either way cause I was living in another country which was something that never came across my kid selfs excitable mind.
I remember watching reruns in elementary school around 2005/2006 and having no idea what some of those 90s prizes were and thinking these episodes were recent.
This was an amazing show. I was probably 12 or so when I watched it. Now Im 29 and wish for shows like this nowdays. We were lucky, so much fun those days on TV
I am constantly searching for gameshows with obstacle courses. Legends started that love for me. It's all reality shows now though, so I have to just search for the clips of just the obstacle course and skip all the drama.
i would love just a like half hour long video of olmec just going "OR you could head into the x room and do y, which would lead you to..." as one continuous run on statement
@@lockecole3726 I wrote that at four in the morning, on a phone, with my eyes about to fall asleep. I can actually spell perfectly well, thank you very much.
@@mikaeruu0309 Well, if you actually can read, you'd have noticed that I never even insinuated that you couldn't spell, just that you didn't spell check.
i always got a kick out of olmac saying "THE SHRINEEE OF THE SILVER MONKEYYYYY" like everytime he says it like he been waiting his whole life to say that!
It's vague! "You COULD enter the Cave of Sighs into the Pit of Despair, or you COULD try to move upward into the Gargoyle Room!" And on and on go the suggestions for thirty seconds. What the heck does that tell me?
Ah yes, the infamous Shrine of the Silver Monkey. I have to wonder if there was something about the statue's design that made it hard to assemble. Also, I swear every time the Dark Forest room was a part of the temple, there would *ALWAYS* be a temple guard in that room hiding in one of the trees.
It's a tough puzzle for the kids, not so for the adults in the CW version, hence The Queen's Armory, a lot worse than the original Shrine of the Silver Monkey. Watching the adult players go through that room is time consuming and frustrating.
Which is why the trees in that room always smelled moldy after awhile! They were made of a porous material and basically never cleaned. (Similar to what happened to the Double Dare floor.)
The Dark Forest didn't always have a Temple Guard, but that room was always big gamble on whether or not their was one (the Throne Room during the second season was also a gamble due to the rotating wall). Later in the second season and throughout the entire third season, Olmec would warn players of the possibility of one of the trees being haunted by the spirit of a Temple Guard. Even though both Olmec and Kirk always mentioned that there were Temple Guards who were assigned to 3 specific rooms in every episode, the Dark Forest was the only room that Olmec would warn players about specifically.
One of my friends was on the show. Because the monkey statue was styrofoam, it was somewhat squishy. And it was decorated on all sides. So lining it up would feel correct, and look correct under a time crunch, and then you couldn't get the pole on the head all the way through. If it was a stiffer material it would slide around a bit when you applied pressure which could help line things up. But the squishiness caused kids to think it was okay and panic when it didn't slide together like they expected. Panic would lead to them no longer being able to figure it out.
The interview parts are so awkward looking back, but as a little kid, I never saw them as awkward. Weird how you don’t develop social awareness of awkwardness until like middle school
I wish with the Escape Room business growing so strong, someone would recreate this for private parties and the like. I would love to get some friends together and have a nice birthday party game show competition.
@@Veolynn13 I mean, all you'd have to do to make it viable is to show them how the shrine fit together before the competition began, and put it back during the other challenges.
Actually, 5Wits is basically 3 escape rooms with very Temple-esque challenges as part of the game, including slapping buttons on walls and putting together large puzzles. They're usually in malls, so you should see if you have one near you.
@@RainbowManification they filmed 4 episodes at a time lol. doing each stage of the obstacle courses for each show so they didnt have to set up the whole set for every episode
OMG!! When I went to Florida my parents surprised us by taking my sister and I to a taping of this. We were definitely the coolest kids in school for a hot minute! We were obsessed with this show.
Hey...my grandpa used LA Looks...on his customers. Should've mentioned my grandpa was a barber. Actually come to think of it, I cleaned his shop for years and never saw a new bottle.
I loved this show! My siblings and I would each pick a team at the start of the episode. My brother always picked the silver snakes, my sister liked the blue barracudas, and I was a purple parrot fan. Whoever's team made it the furthest got bragging rights for about 30 minutes, which is a big deal when you're 8.
Being on Double Dare or Legend of the Hidden Temple was the ultimate dream of almost every child in my generation. I will always remember my trip to Nickelodeon Studios as a small kid and we were able to see one of the sets where they’d film, but i was absolutely crushed when they weren’t filming that day.
@USANATV2007's Entertainment Club (2nd Channel) lol it’s okay, i still honestly love the memory of visiting the sets, even though they weren’t filming it was still a “oh my god it’s really real!!!!” moment for me as a kid lol
14:08 This really shows how out of touch the execs at this channel are. Most of the shows they had on their hands could've easily become a lasting legacy that might even be going to this day, but their lack of vision and faith in their viewer's attention spans seriously crippled them. These are the exact kinds of shows that would have prevented orlando studios from shutting down.
Execs love to pretend they're thinking long-term with company decisions, but they only only ONLY ever act in the short-term. Make beloved franchises into utter zombies because of merch potential, but don't give the ones that never had a chance to get old more breathing room.
teenage spaceland Way to miss the point. How does this apply to killing a show in it's early stages out of a baffling obligation to never let any shows last? Nick is a complete hypocrite with this rule anyway, they'll kill Hidden Temple while it only gained traction for show length reasons, but turn Rugrats, SpongeBob and FOP into zombies. Hell, SpongeBob and FOP doing that made me wonder "Why the hell does Power Rangers suffer so much from a forced mid-season split?"
teenage spaceland I understand that, and I still think it was kinda missing the point of that. Bit if a blanket statement to also apply it to shows that went on way too long when the given reason for this show was nonsense. Although I'm probably coming off a bit rude here.
“Despite being the same puzzle every time, the kids always had trouble with the silver monkey” Audience: “the head is backwards” Host: “oh, they’re having some trouble” Audience: “The Head is Backwards” Kid: “it won’t go in” Audience: “THE HEAD IS BACKWARDS”
I would love to have Olmec do a GPS voice, Complete with saying “OR you could take a right and see this...OR you could go straight and do this...” Also wanted to say, this gave me two massive flashbacks from watching this video. One- my green monkeys shirt my cousin got me years ago (that sadly blew away in a tornado) Two- using la looks and red food coloring to make fake blood for short films. Edited to add a third flashback- So, so many rolled ankles with moon shoes
Man the consolation prize were just crushing those kids happyness.cans of Tuna... hair gel... They could at least have given them some Legos or a small Olmeg statue or just a bag of candy bars and gummy bears.
Oh. My. God. You have unlocked a part of my brain that was long forgotten. This was one of my favorite shows. Getting home and putting on Nick GaS. Thank you.
SWEET VINDICATION! I always cheered for the Green Monkeys and I am SO SATISFIED to know that they are statistically the best team based on number of temple runs and successful treasure recoveries.
That’s funny cause I always cheered for the Silver Snakes. I always wanted to be on that show and I used to get mad at the kids for not knowing the answers. I was and still am quite the history buff.
I wasn't alive for the original Legends of the Hidden Temple series, but I have fond memories of watching the reruns early in the morning before school, in the early 2000s. Legends of the Hidden Temple blew my mind, and no doubt was a big part of the lives of generations of children.
I agree- it sounds silly, but these kids' game shows set high standards for my taste in this genre, standards that haven't really been met since then. Most of reality TV competition/game shows nowadays is way too scripted/overproduced, dumbed-down or tries to be funny, or just unrelatable. This show had a nice mix of visual spectacle (the physical challenges) and mental engagement (entertaining dialogue and the trivia questions).
I was born in 1997, so all my memories of watching this and the other classic Nick game shows were from the GaS channel in the mid-2000s. Legends of the Hidden Temple may have influenced my being into history along with the American Girl dolls, actually.
That show was awesome, man I'm really old. This show has really become better and better. It's very exciting, creative, and informative in the history of parks, tv shows, and events in the entertainment industry. You don't need me to tell you how improved this channel and it's content has become, you've gotten plenty of that already. Lifelong subscriber here.
An actor friend of mine was one of the helpers who would assist the kids crossing the moat and such. Nickelodeon Studios was great fro actors who didn't necessarily want to move to LA to have regular gigs in the 90s.
Don't forget Universal Studios and the millions of gallons of slime spilt on countless unsuspecting fans. I heard it tastes quite sweet actually, like a nice cream frosting.
They also shot each of the certain segments of the show all at once and spliced the show together. What I mean is, they shot more than 1 crossing the moat challenge during a day, or the other parts of the show all together and then edited it after.
Yep! It was instant pudding mix most of the time!! They had some other kinds that were made of gelatin, but the kind I had was jello vanilla pudding, for sure.
"I'm trying to force it but it won't go!" The head is backwards." "Try jiggling it around." "The head is backwards." "Maybe it's broken." "THE HEAD IS BACKWARDS!"
This brings back so many fond memories of my Grandma, as we would watch reruns of this show when I stayed over with her as a kid. I think she enjoyed it as much as I did. What I would give to go back and relive those days.
Omg mee toooo! My granny had Dish which had the Nickelodeon GaS channel. My brother and I would watch Legends and GUTS exclusively until our parents would inevitably pick us up and ruin our fun! 😅 I’m happy your comment reminded me of being at my Granny’s house, where I totally forgot was the only place with the GaS plug! 🎉
Spazer Dazer mas is now Nepotism something something but like It still updates on occasion. I'm still hoping for another RDP tho. With all the attention Apple Sleep Experiment is getting, I'm hoping but not expecting a new one
Legends of the Hidden Temple, Guts, and that show where you tore up the house to find stuff were amazing, even though I watched all the reruns in the early 2000s when I was a kid.
I was a 90's kid and remember Legends of the Hidden Temple, Guts, Figure it Out, and so many of the other Nick shows of that decade. 90's Nick was definitely peak for that network.
God, when I was a kid, the Dark Forest always made me feel a chill. It looked so terrifying, and of course, whenever a temple guard jumped out it gave my little kid heart a shock.
I recently spent a non-zero amount of time trying to find some details of this vaguely memorable show from a fuzzy early childhood. The ‘90s talking stone head kids challenge show’ mucked up my search recommendations for a while. This video is great.
honestly the temple run seemed super cheap even as a kid i noticed things like unavoidable temple guards and vague descriptions of what they should be doing and where they should be going
the reason for this was because sometimes they would run out of prizes to give if the kids from the first two shootings would win making the temple unbeatable for the later shootings
I recall the show was fun to watch. The biggest thing I noticed about the temple run was that temple guards weren't always a penalty for picking a wrong room. They were likely to show up on the route the kids had to take. That always struck me as unfair since the time limit and vague descriptions made it hard enough, and on top of that they throw in unavoidable lose conditions.
With the maximum number of pendants possible being 2 and with three temple guards the best chance at winning was to sweep the second to last round and hope to get lucky on the first go or neutralize all three guards as soon as possible, thus opening up all the passageways and making a mad dash back out
It was hilarious! Harriet Tubman was really popular with American kids at the time, being highlighted in many schools' curriculum. Most children in the Hidden Temple age range knew who she was, her going back even after saving her family, as well as a few songs celebrating her (One literally named "Harriet Tubman") She was a beloved legend and an absolutely coolest butt-kicking hero. That's some 90's wholesomeness.
The "embarrassing" answer on the steps of knowledge was not _that_ embarrassing. Paris was definitely *heavily* involved in that story. Good on that kid for knowing :-)
Jacob Carlson Yeah Paris didn't fight against the Trojans, but he was a Trojan prince. I think the dude who made the video thought the kid was talking about Paris, France. lol
Maybe it's embarrassing because the talking head was supposed to give the answers as multiple choice but they didn't waited long enough to hear the correct answer
@@thecommenter578 Yeah, the video creator was clear that the embarrassment was about timing issues, not simply the answers. The kids were jumping the gun because there was no penalty for doing so.
Sometimes, even when they got that damn monkey correct, it just wouldn't activate anything. It frustrated me as a kid/teen, because I felt it was unfair. Kinda felt like the staff was trying hard to not allow the kids to win. I guess I was kinda right, considering how (not so) often they did. :/ Lmao, hair gel and tuna. XD At least they got a savings bond. That's actually pretty cool and would be worth quite a bit now, depending on how much it was for originally and if they kept maturing it. Man, I loved this show and literally every show on Nick in the 90s. Such a great time to be a kid. :)
What was the monkey supposed to activate? If they didn't complete the monkey AND all puzzles previously, they couldn't win; it seems pretty simple. Lame for sure but those were the rules.
From what I've learned, the monkey was pretty shoddy and wouldn't work sometimes even if correctly assembled. On top of that, apparently from the back the middle section looked the same way upside down or rightside up and it wasn't always obvious whether the base was oriented right. And lastly, the height of the pedestal made it quite hard for a kid (especially the younger ones) to put the head on properly - all of which were oversights made by the production team, but never corrected.
They were oversights according to Kirk Fogg himself, but since they helped with keeping the show under budget in terms of prizes, I doubt the producers were losing any sleep on it.
Many of the kids who were on the show explained what happened with the Silver Monkey, they also were annoyed at themselves, they said the combination of the stress of the time limit and that they had to assemble the monkey facing out made it difficult as the back of it had little details making it hard to know if you had the base or body in the right order.
Imagine how it must've sucked to have that once in a lifetime chance to go on Legends, lose on the first round and only get a can of tuna as a consolation prize. Man, this show was peak hype for a kids back in the day. As the show ran on TV, I'd imagine myself up there running all those obstacle courses (as a Blue Barracuda, of course) and winning a copy of Yoshi's Story and light-up sneakers. A shame this show never got another renewal but I guess it's better that the show retired in its prime.
This was my favorite show of all time as a kid. Kevin every video just gets better and better . Defunctland=best channel on RUclips. Seriously bro amazing what you are doing! Keep it up
Yeah, the forked up part is Moon Shoes were a thing back in the 1950s. They were dangerous in the '50s, don't understand how they thought they'd be any safer in the '90s lmao
It's one of those "what do we have" sort of tie-in movie situations. They just went down the list and filled the rest of the runtime with expanding foam. Not that something like that must be necessarily bad, but I wouldn't be in the writers shoes.
I thought legends of the hidden temple was just a fever dream when I was a kid. My college roommate reminded me that this was an actual show when we were kids! Thanks for a great trip down memory lane!
I love that some of the prizes are just depressing, like when he says they won microscopes and the looks on the kids faces is one of sadness and despair.
I thought that too when I went to Nickelodeon studios lol, I thought I would have the chance to compete on a show. Turned out they weren't even filming that week so I was doubly disappointed, but it was still fun to tour the studio.
There was a show like that filmed at Universal In Orlando. My sister and I were in the audience and tried to get picked, but I can’t remember which one it was.
They had tours of Nickelodeon studios that would include some un televised mini game show type thing and double dare style pies and sliming. They’d pick kids out of the audience to compete, I got picked and got slimed. My underwear was totally green the rest of the day. I think for something like this or Guts they actually scheduled kids to appear on the show just because it was more reliable than hoping they could just find enough kids in the audience to field the necessary teams.
My childhood essentially started at the beginning of the 90s and ended at the very end of the decade. Because of this, I experienced all of Nickelodeon's golden age gameshows, sitcoms, Nicktoons, and variety shows as they first aired. Legends of the Hidden Temple was by far one of my favorites. A friend of mine and I in the mid 90s tried our hardest to create our own temple obstacle course in my parent's family room just to pretend like we were participating on the show. I would have probably done anything to be a contestant on this show back in the day. Watching clips of it now opens up a floodgate of wonderful childhood memories from the 90s. What an amazing decade to be a kid in!
I think I remember that, too. One kid jumped right out of the temple ( on the first floor), but it hardly mattered since that was the second kid and he had no pendant.
I remember reading an interview with Kirk Fogg where he said there was definitely one incident where a girl was so scared by a temple guard in the Pit of Despair that she vomited all over the place. They had to stop filming, empty and sanitize the room, and then let her continue her run from that room with her time remaining. Due to creative editing the whole incident was smoothed over in post.
This was a fun show to watch back in the day. I had no idea the recording session was so grueling. Watching as a kid, you just expected everything to be done instantly in one take.
Gameplay and Talk I heard sometimes the scenes where they run through the temple would be at 8 or 9pm after a long full day at the studio & eating pizza they served them in the waiting room & even Sometimes on a school night. I now understand why they were going so slow through the temple. I yelled so many times “run faster” at the tv screen as a kid
Me too! The video is delightful in its own right, but oh my lord! All of the sassy comments about tuna and Harriet Tubman's walking stick have got me in TEARS! lol
I remember seeing the reruns of it (I’m a 2007 baby) and didn’t understand it wasn’t being filmed anymore, I asked my dad if there was any way I could be on the show (since we only live about a state away from the Nick studios) and then he explained why I couldn’t, both because the show had been cancelled and I was too young
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Can you imagine that sad car drive home, feeling like a loser for having been immediately eliminated with a bag of hair gel, chocolate syrup and canned tuna as your consolation prizes.
well then i guess they should have waited to hear the choices instead of blurting out "Paris!".
For the life of me, I have no idea why that kid thought Paris would even be an option.
Paris was actually the name of the guy that started the war by stealing someone else’s wife. Not the right the answer, but at least it was related
In a few episodes of wheel of fortune in russia the prize was a bag of potatoes. Not even kidding
Actually, Hershey's gave a $50 savings bond.
You had to live it to understand both the frustration of watching a kid not being able to assemble a 3-piece monkey and eternally wondering if you'd have the same problem if you ever made it on the show.
I remember realizing as a kid that I probably would have problems too, when there were several moments where I thought they had it right, and it wasn't.. The monkey's middle section was diabolically misleading in how it looked, where it being upside down looked correct, but right side up looked wrong until you spun it the right way, and really only then when you had the head on.
omg so true and funny
I always wondered why people tried to assemble it from behind. Its always seemed like it would be easier from the front. Of course there's np way I would get to the temple. The steps of knowledge I would have a decent chance because history was always one of my favorite subjects, and I was good at remembering what I had heard back then. But I have, and had back then, physical health issues so it would take a miracle for me to get past the moat and I don't see anything short of divine intervention or a teammate able to solo the final temple game getting me through the temple games.
@@roguerifter9724 I'm pretty sure they assembled it from behind, because that's how the base mold forces you to do it. I vaguely remember a kid who did do it forward facing him first, he was one of the only ones I ever saw actually complete it. Then he flipped it around, how every other contestant had it.
It was one of those situations where you know when you were younger thinking "Oh I can do that" Then actually struggle putting together kids first lego set(That was me I was that kid)
To be fair, after going through a confusing obstacle course being chased by crazy men in tribal regalia, I'd have a lot of trouble putting together a styrofoam monkey too.
I find it kind of funny that he makes fun of them for not solving it and says that it was the same throughout all seasons, but I get a feeling the majority of the ones who had difficulties were the ones who were there during season 1, since he later says they were filmed together.
Lol
If you compete again in the CW version, our minds mature as adults, assembling the monkey is not very difficult, The Queen's Armory is the new one that will frustrate you and wasting your precious time even more.
@@arrowghost I love the reboot,. It's one of the few that's actually good. Despite the fact that it has adults now, it;s outside, and there;s a new host, not much has changed at all! Take note, people, THIS is how you do a reboot RIGHT!
@Colleen go screw yourself. The reboot is embarrassing. The format was simple, yet they unnecessarily jumbled it all up. The CONSTANT cutaways to the confessional segments. And the temple itself looks tiny compared to the studio
Ah yes, the fabled walking stick of Harriet Tubman, my favorite ancient Mesoamerican artifact
Watching this tonight, and I watched a good bit of the show as a kid. I don't remember this "legend," but this is SOLID GOLD lol
OF COURSE!!! it operated the switch post of the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD!!! LOLOLOL
well yes, it was lost when the people of Paris raided Troy in a wooden baguette
Naaaa man @@dglass2008 💀
@@ZephyrOne832 ??? Are you a professional at making incoherent responses to people's comments? I have an unemployed neighbor who does that same thing!
Imagine going on a kids game show and coming home with the wonderful prize of canned tuna.
But if you make it to round two before getting eliminated you might go home with Moon Shoes, and the inevitable ankle fractures they would cause.
or a microscope
@@michaelcook7107 even as a 5 year old, I thought those things looked like a baaad idea
"Sponsors of the show couldn't afford to give away more prizes."
Me: I imagine that a commercial slot is VASTLY more expensive than a bottle of hair gel/spray.
I went out with your mom and come home with her canned tuna
I used to work for Stone Stanley and was part of the production team in Los Angeles. It wasn't till later did I find so many people loved this show. It was one of the most impractical shows because we had to ship our production staff to Orlando several times a year to do this show. Fun fact, all the stunts were tested on the producers kids. If they couldn't do it, they wouldn't put it in the show.
@@INCNetski nope
@@Disneyart How about you post a video trying to build a replica of it?
@Mike G LOL WTF, now that's a true mystery worthy of Olmec! XD
Oh wow! A fun fact indeed! Thanks for your hard work!
It was my childhood and Stone Stanley was an iconic figure on that show.
Imagine waiting months and months to finally be on this show just to win a can of tuna
☠☠☠☠☠
omg thats what i was thinking too
A great prize for the family cat.
4:40 "Charlie Not Included" 🤣
they knew what they were signing up for
I was on season one of this show as a kid, and I remember being secretly relieved that we were eliminated just before having to go into the temple, which I found terrifying and confusing.
I also recall them spraying us down with water prior to recording the second round, as it had been at least a couple hours since we had crossed the moat.
I can’t even remember what I won but thank God it wasn’t tuna!
How did you get on the show? Was it random selection or an audition process? I’m so curious!
@@knockeledup I've heard that it was a lot of friends and family of the crew and the producers. I might be wrong but I'd doubt anyone got flown out to the studio to be on this show.
@@knockeledup They used to put ads in the local paper. Most of the time you didn't know what it exactly was going to be. It would read something like " Casting call - children's game show ages 8-12".
The temple looked terryfing to me as a kid from my sofa so I can fully understand your relief.
@@knockeledup I lived about an hour from Universal and there was an ad in the local paper for an open casting call. All we knew was that it was for a new Nickelodeon game show for kids. The audition lasted for about half a day and when you were done you got to spend the rest of the day in the park. They asked us some trivia questions (I specifically remember one question - “What’s the name of the current movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis?” and somehow I knew it was True Lies. I think they just wanted to make sure you didn’t totally freak out under pressure when it came to answering questions.
Then they had us do some physical challenges that I can’t remember. It wasn’t a full set at this point and the challenges weren’t really super involved - I remember some kind of tug of war and maybe a relay race?
I think we found out if we made it within a week and filming was like a week or two after that. I remember filming took place on the first day of school in August and my mom let me skip to be in the show.
All I wanted as a kid was to do the temple run. Now that I’m an adult, all I want to do is do the temple run.
All I wanted to do as a kid was try the temple run and show that a triple amputee kid can do well too. Now as an adult, I know I'm not nearly in shape enough to do it, even if I had all my limbs xD
@@WorldinJeopardy Mind over matter dude!
This will be forever better than American Gladiators for me!
Nah, Everyone knows the real deal is the SUPER AGGRO CRAG.
@@borrago Yeah they're airing the adult game version on the CW network on 10th October
As a kid I was terrified of the temple guards. Now that I’m an adult, I’m terrified of the temple guards.
*The walking stick of Harriet Tubman*
ah yes that well known ancient Mayan relic
Ummm, it's an African relic. C'mon dude.
TheHorseFormerlyWithoutAName I can’t tell if you’re joking. It doesn’t fit with the theme of the others lol.
@@emarskineel I don't remember any of the relics having anything to do with Mayan culture. I remember a lot of them being from Europe, North America, and Asia.
TheHorseFormerlyWithoutAName It's an American relic, though.
It's American relic, dummy...
They should bring some of these kids back to do the same challenges as adults. Could be hilarious if they pull it off.
Considering the Temple Run was designed with adult proportions in mind, it actually wouldn't be that surprising if they won.
CZsWorld what are you doing in a video that doesn't have to do with horror?
I'd like to see Legends of the Hidden Temple: College Edition!
it was also rigged as they did really have funds to pay trips all the time
+Joseph Blasi
What in the world are you talking about? Are you trying to say that they did NOT have funds for trips?
Kevin's clear frustration about the kid's having trouble with the monkey puzzle is too real. I remember SCREAMING at my televison screen while watching this part. Just an eleven year old calling other eleven years olds dumbasses.
Shrine of the Silver Monkey is quite infamous, but not so in the CW version, hence they created The Queen's Armory in order to frustrate the players and wasting their time.
its also alot of pressure being watched by millions of people
I was 9 but I was doing the same 😂😂😂
Same here! 🤣🤣 However thinking back on it now, who's to say that we would nail it on the first, second or even third try? You have to factor in having millions of eyes on you, that adds to the pressure. Remember that! 😅
"COMING SOON: Indiana Jones and the walking stick of Harriet Tubman!"
Im assuming this too will involve aliens and an Aztec temple.
Nonsense. Since Harriet Tubman operated the underground railroad, this one will involve molepeople.
Mind Kidzag Yeah, most of the legends had some made up stuff that were added in for entertainment "like the Cannonball of Galileo falling on a sandwich, which resulted in the invention of pizza).
Indiana Jones stopped after the third movie.
I mean, it's great that someone like Harriett Tubman was treated with the same amount of respect as Midas or Egyptian kings, but her walking stick? That's like saying that Thomas Edison's dish rag was important.
The thought of kids going on a game show and being given cans of tuna as consolation prize is insanely hilarious. I would be so pissed flying all the way out to Florida, losing in the first round, then having to go back home with a box of fucking tunafish cans
Also how the fuck did a childrens show get away with having masked guys grabbing kids in shadowy corridors, pre 9/11 was a different time man no one gave a fuck
Tyler Benson Well, Pre-9/11 '01 since the show premiered on the same day in 1993.
It seemed like this video only showed temple guards popping out from across the room but my memories are of the guards grabbing the kids in a full body embrace from behind.
I remember guards sneaking up behind contestants and dragging them away, I always wondered what would've happened if a kid completely freaked out and just started hitting the poor fools in the guard costumes.
Legend has it, one of the contestants who took home that prize was John Krasinski (Jim) from the office.
The first time I saw a successful temple run (with literally no time left on the clock, no less) remains one of the strongest memories I have of watching TV as a kid. It was pure euphoria.
Oblivion Hymnist yo sameee
ruclips.net/video/7cHJ8xaGmMg/видео.html you are welcome.
@@ChildRebelSold1er I believe this was the first episode right? First aired anyway...Tried to make it look possible to win lol
Dude I remember this. My memory is HORRIBLE but I remember a 00 ending and the cheers. I don’t know what team or anything but this comment triggered something in my brain and I’m remembering something I didn’t know I could.
That’s crazy. Just remember the cheering in the living room at the day caretaker’s house with the few kids who were there.
At least a few times, that I can remember, the winners had less than ten seconds left on the clock. A few were at least a few seconds off from winning. The show was always fun and entertaining to watch for sure.
Imagine working as one of the temple guards.
"Hey, what do you do for a living?"
"I'm an actor"
"Really? Any roles I'd know?"
"Well, currently I dress in a cartoonish mesoamerican costume, hide in a styrofoam pyramid then jump out to scare middle schoolers."
Livin' the dream.
"So what do you do for a living?"
"Temple Guard."
Sound like a job for which the peedohs would line up around the block.
@@tigerburn81 yeah but im sure they screened them. you typically have to fill out a corey report for any normal job, Im sure for something like this they would do even more. Especially since the 80s is what brought a lot of that type of stuff to the attention of the media.
I remember hearing that the guards were played by different crew members, and that they would argue over who got to be a guard on any given day
Umm... are we not going to talk about the fact that the consolation prize was a can of tuna.
TheRepty818 Or bottles of shampoo.
The food ones were usually $50 savings bonds from the company, and the rest was advertising.
I dropped the screw in the tuna!!!!
Kind of reminds me how Figure it out got really cheap. The slime challenge they used to give a kid in the audience a 100 toy r us (rip) dollars when a panelist got slimed. Then they gave a crappy bookbag or sweater with a figure it out logo.
CURSE YOU POOP DAWG!
"Tough luck kids, you lose. Now here's your consolation prizes -- some crap we picked up at CVS."
Dont know, NBA jam is some consolation prize.
Flyboy179 Yeah but the majority of these prizes are complete poop
I'd say having a day of competing and that holding room would be a fun get away. Though the days it was hair products were BS. Im personally blamming them for every guy that were his hair in spikes.
I don't know man. Hair gel was the shit back in the 80's, and a free supply of it would go along ways towards establishing your street cred. Of course it got a little out of hand at some point, and we wound up with a massive hole in the Ozone layer.
kyriss12 Well, at least we can all agree that tuna is the worst consolation prize ever.
God I wanted to be on this show so bad...didnt realize it was already canceled by the time I started watching it in '96
Oh dang i swore i watched in in early 2000s and thought it was still live
me too, and who would have guessed it was over before it even began
pajamagirl123 I wasn’t even born until 2000 but I want to play this show
True. Had no idea that it was cancelled in 96 because I used to watch it in early 00s. Wanted to join this show back then but I was also aware that I wasn’t fit enough to complete the challenge (I was a chubby kid)
Same I started watching this around then. I would binge reruns when they would play them in the early 00s too but by then, I had already known it was canceled, only I thought it got canceled later in the 90s. Man I wanted to be on this show soooo badly. It was an amazing time to be a kid in the 90s
I loved this show, but the one thing that infuriated me the most about it was that they made the Temple so dang difficult that we almost never got to see the kids get far.
I realize the prizes showcased their sponsors, but you don't need a fortune to impress a kid. The viewers and the contestants would both be there for the awesome temple, with or without more expensive prizes.
During Kirk Fogg's interview about the movie, he made a lot of references about the game show including how Olmec talks. And of course, there was a budget too, once the budget exhausted, the show comes to a close. But thankfully, CW decided to revive it.
The fact that the Temple was so hard was one of the things I loved about this show and Global Guts. It made it super exciting when you saw a kid actually win.
If the temple was less difficult the show won't have that much of an impact on children. It'll just be another children's game show.
Alot of it wasnt even the difficulty of the temple, but the fact that the temple guards was just a mechanic that limited potential winners down a big amount. Sorry you did nothing wrong, except pick a room at random, you lose, should have won every medal before hand i guess.
I remember when the blue barracudas finally won, and that one kid who just straight up dominated the temple. Don't remember which team that was though.
"I won a TV!"
"I won a game gear!"
"I won a can of tuna..."
"I won a rock..."
They bought 4th place prizes the day of. Tuna seriously it's like what do you think the car ride home was like.
We forgot the 4th place prizes! Here's a $1.25, run to Peoples Drug and get something fancy!
@@Taintsnicely5434 consider this allot kids flew in out of state to be on shows like this. You'd have to eat the tuna on the way to the airport
Game shows be like:
I was a temple guard in season 3
So much fun!!!
Loved working on the show
I have to ask, did kids really get that scared shittless when you jumped out at them? and what did you do when you took them to the back?
You guys owe me for scarring my childhood!
chasrhew88able Given the rather broad definition of "molest", that's more accurate than most people would know.
But seriously, I do want to hear more about what it was like being a Temple Guard.
Did you witness lots of tears?
Yes kids got scared but that was because we were set up to do jump scares especially in the dark Forest no didn't really see a lot of Tears... But after we stop taping kids that lost were pretty upset, and no no molesting to my knowledge...
Host: "You won't go home empty handed though... Here take some tuna!!!!"
Audience: "Yaaaaaay!!!!!!"
"Charlie not included."
Audience: "Awwww..."
I'm really curious how much that bond was for.
Either those kids lucked out or they were swimming in hair gel and tuna.
@@stargate525 probably like $25 or $50 back then..
I remember being a kid watching reruns in the early 2000s thinking they were new episodes. I wanted to compete in this so bad. Little did I know the show was cancelled long ago.
Same honestly. I watched this show religiously in the early 2000s only to find out it was long canceled. Being born in 95 it wasn't ever going to happen for me lol.
The should've bring it back again every lustrum so new generations can face the frustration of the Silver Monkey
Well, it beats missing it in real-time but at least I had Sega Channel
Same bro, but thinking about it I wouldn't have been able to join either way cause I was living in another country which was something that never came across my kid selfs excitable mind.
I remember watching reruns in elementary school around 2005/2006 and having no idea what some of those 90s prizes were and thinking these episodes were recent.
This was an amazing show. I was probably 12 or so when I watched it. Now Im 29 and wish for shows like this nowdays. We were lucky, so much fun those days on TV
Hi
Remember Hey Dude? We used to live in genuinely more innocent times...
What
umm math wrong though. I'm 32 as of typing and i was 4 in 93......
I am constantly searching for gameshows with obstacle courses. Legends started that love for me. It's all reality shows now though, so I have to just search for the clips of just the obstacle course and skip all the drama.
I was traumatized by those temple guards as a kid. Scariest thing about any kid's game show ever
Yep
Same
Olmec too 🤦🏾♂️
The guards and the haunted forest were some of my earliest nightmares. 😖😱
504Ever I remember watching this with my parents when I was younger and pissing myself when a guard jumped out
i would love just a like half hour long video of olmec just going "OR you could head into the x room and do y, which would lead you to..." as one continuous run on statement
be tje change you wanna see kn the world
@@mikaeruu0309 Well, I want people to spell-check before they post on RUclips, but, alas; I feel that change will never happen.
@@lockecole3726 I wrote that at four in the morning, on a phone, with my eyes about to fall asleep. I can actually spell perfectly well, thank you very much.
@@mikaeruu0309 Well, if you actually can read, you'd have noticed that I never even insinuated that you couldn't spell, just that you didn't spell check.
@@lockecole3726 who hurt you so badly that you have to lash out at random people on RUclips over a slight spelling error?
'Who fought the romans in-'
'PARIS!'
I want to have that kid's confidence.
Paris was indeed a person involved with the trojan war, so that kid's answer wasn't that far off!
@@IvyCatholic Damn you right.
*Trojans, little oopsie
@@Game_Hero Yeah, little oopsie. Turns a question about classical mythology into a question about ancient history. Small mistake.
You lose kid here's some tuna
Cornelius Palahniuk Could I get a rock instead?
Cornelius Palahniuk 🤣
Sorry that you were traumatized by the Temple Guards, hope you enjoy your microscope!
TonyVS Hey a microscope sounds pretty cool.
Hair gel though.
i always got a kick out of olmac saying "THE SHRINEEE OF THE SILVER MONKEYYYYY"
like everytime he says it like he been waiting his whole life to say that!
For real, every other room gets the same basic naming of it then so much emphasis placed on THE SHRINNNEE of the SILVER MONKEY
CW made it too, but hell, that room isn't very difficult to the adults, its replacement is The Queen's Armory.
Mine was "THE CHOICES ARE YOURS....AND YOURS ALONE!"😂
*laughs in Michael Buffer*
YEEEESSSSSSSS THE BEST 😂
And I still can’t follow along with Olmec’s directions for the Temple Run as an adult 😞😔
For real, how does these kids even not get lost
If there's another game show boom there better be a Temple Run.
It's vague! "You COULD enter the Cave of Sighs into the Pit of Despair, or you COULD try to move upward into the Gargoyle Room!" And on and on go the suggestions for thirty seconds. What the heck does that tell me?
@@jessragan6714 right!? lol
@@jessragan6714 it’s like saying you COULD run into a Temple Guard or you COULD run to a locked door
Ah yes, the infamous Shrine of the Silver Monkey. I have to wonder if there was something about the statue's design that made it hard to assemble.
Also, I swear every time the Dark Forest room was a part of the temple, there would *ALWAYS* be a temple guard in that room hiding in one of the trees.
It's a tough puzzle for the kids, not so for the adults in the CW version, hence The Queen's Armory, a lot worse than the original Shrine of the Silver Monkey. Watching the adult players go through that room is time consuming and frustrating.
Which is why the trees in that room always smelled moldy after awhile! They were made of a porous material and basically never cleaned. (Similar to what happened to the Double Dare floor.)
The Dark Forest didn't always have a Temple Guard, but that room was always big gamble on whether or not their was one (the Throne Room during the second season was also a gamble due to the rotating wall). Later in the second season and throughout the entire third season, Olmec would warn players of the possibility of one of the trees being haunted by the spirit of a Temple Guard. Even though both Olmec and Kirk always mentioned that there were Temple Guards who were assigned to 3 specific rooms in every episode, the Dark Forest was the only room that Olmec would warn players about specifically.
One of my friends was on the show. Because the monkey statue was styrofoam, it was somewhat squishy. And it was decorated on all sides. So lining it up would feel correct, and look correct under a time crunch, and then you couldn't get the pole on the head all the way through. If it was a stiffer material it would slide around a bit when you applied pressure which could help line things up. But the squishiness caused kids to think it was okay and panic when it didn't slide together like they expected. Panic would lead to them no longer being able to figure it out.
The interview parts are so awkward looking back, but as a little kid, I never saw them as awkward. Weird how you don’t develop social awareness of awkwardness until like middle school
they're not that awkward, even viewing them as an adult. he's just making light jokes
I wish with the Escape Room business growing so strong, someone would recreate this for private parties and the like. I would love to get some friends together and have a nice birthday party game show competition.
Elizabeth Neeley I would totally make an escape room around this show, it would be great
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY IN THIS WORLD SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!!!
@@Veolynn13 I mean, all you'd have to do to make it viable is to show them how the shrine fit together before the competition began, and put it back during the other challenges.
Actually, 5Wits is basically 3 escape rooms with very Temple-esque challenges as part of the game, including slapping buttons on walls and putting together large puzzles. They're usually in malls, so you should see if you have one near you.
great idea
Imagine visiting universal Orlando, being asked to see a screening of legends, thinking that sounds fun, and then being there for 12 hours.
And people wonder why most game shows have paid audiences
It was on the tour in '94, sorta. I remember seeing them film it below as we walked through Nick Studios.
I went to a filming of this! It was a few hours but definitely not 12. It was fun to see in person .
I mean you could just leave after one show.
@@RainbowManification they filmed 4 episodes at a time lol. doing each stage of the obstacle courses for each show so they didnt have to set up the whole set for every episode
OMG!! When I went to Florida my parents surprised us by taking my sister and I to a taping of this. We were definitely the coolest kids in school for a hot minute! We were obsessed with this show.
No one ever bought LA Looks hair gel, it sort of just showed up in your home and never ran out. Lol
Can confirm it never ran out, and looked amazing.
Hey...my grandpa used LA Looks...on his customers. Should've mentioned my grandpa was a barber. Actually come to think of it, I cleaned his shop for years and never saw a new bottle.
Ugh... GEL
I work at the dollar tree... can confirm there is an infinite supply of L A looks GEL still available to this day.
lmfao it came with the homes back then
I loved this show! My siblings and I would each pick a team at the start of the episode. My brother always picked the silver snakes, my sister liked the blue barracudas, and I was a purple parrot fan. Whoever's team made it the furthest got bragging rights for about 30 minutes, which is a big deal when you're 8.
Lmaooooo I did the same too 😂😂😅😅😅
Yes same here 😃
@@deanfulford69 lol i did same thing but just to my self cause i am only child ;(.
All 3 of you were 8 at once?
@@Supasmartguy Technically, the time LOTHT came out, I wasn’t born. I was born in 1994. I saw them later on in the early 2000’s
Kevin: “...explained in the simplest way possible.”
Olmec: **Proceeds to explain in extremely confusing terms**
Olmec.... I'm 12
@@maximuffin6395 SHRINE OF THE SILVER MONKEYYYYY!!! *eyes glow bright red*
Yes, that was indeed the joke
Being on Double Dare or Legend of the Hidden Temple was the ultimate dream of almost every child in my generation. I will always remember my trip to Nickelodeon Studios as a small kid and we were able to see one of the sets where they’d film, but i was absolutely crushed when they weren’t filming that day.
Double Dare, Eureka's Castle, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons, and Captain Planet are peak 1990.
@@nameless646 I COMPLETELY agree, it was a level of hype i really don’t think is possible today for kids 🤣
@USANATV2007's Entertainment Club (2nd Channel) lol it’s okay, i still honestly love the memory of visiting the sets, even though they weren’t filming it was still a “oh my god it’s really real!!!!” moment for me as a kid lol
14:08 This really shows how out of touch the execs at this channel are.
Most of the shows they had on their hands could've easily become a lasting legacy that might even be going to this day, but their lack of vision and faith in their viewer's attention spans seriously crippled them. These are the exact kinds of shows that would have prevented orlando studios from shutting down.
Execs love to pretend they're thinking long-term with company decisions, but they only only ONLY ever act in the short-term. Make beloved franchises into utter zombies because of merch potential, but don't give the ones that never had a chance to get old more breathing room.
I guess you enjoyed having Fairly Odd Parents on the air for 16 years.
teenage spaceland Way to miss the point. How does this apply to killing a show in it's early stages out of a baffling obligation to never let any shows last?
Nick is a complete hypocrite with this rule anyway, they'll kill Hidden Temple while it only gained traction for show length reasons, but turn Rugrats, SpongeBob and FOP into zombies. Hell, SpongeBob and FOP doing that made me wonder "Why the hell does Power Rangers suffer so much from a forced mid-season split?"
UltimateKeyMaster I was responding to the original post, didn't read your comment.
teenage spaceland I understand that, and I still think it was kinda missing the point of that. Bit if a blanket statement to also apply it to shows that went on way too long when the given reason for this show was nonsense.
Although I'm probably coming off a bit rude here.
Kevin.... my 90s kid heart just imploded. You're out here doing the Lord's work
“Despite being the same puzzle every time, the kids always had trouble with the silver monkey”
Audience: “the head is backwards”
Host: “oh, they’re having some trouble”
Audience: “The Head is Backwards”
Kid: “it won’t go in”
Audience: “THE HEAD IS BACKWARDS”
Lol
I wonder if one of the prizes was a carton of crayons and a picture of their loving family...
@@bluezebra8675309 Hoo! Someone gets it
@@RetroWrathX13B Oh man, we didn't need to sacrifice the kids?
@@TheIsc0ut “aw man, we all going to hell for nothing!”
I would love to have Olmec do a GPS voice,
Complete with saying “OR you could take a right and see this...OR you could go straight and do this...”
Also wanted to say, this gave me two massive flashbacks from watching this video.
One- my green monkeys shirt my cousin got me years ago (that sadly blew away in a tornado)
Two- using la looks and red food coloring to make fake blood for short films.
Edited to add a third flashback-
So, so many rolled ankles with moon shoes
Why the hell is this not a thing... the should totally be a thing... he could also replace Alexa.
I wanted moon shoes so bad as a kid! I'm kinda glad I never got them.
Green Monkeys for life!
Man the consolation prize were just crushing those kids happyness.cans of Tuna... hair gel...
They could at least have given them some Legos or a small Olmeg statue or just a bag of candy bars and gummy bears.
Ah but sponsorships!
@Kairi's First Mix Bionicle were THE SHIT back then. Had the original six warriors, those rahi Monsters and all six Borok :D
How about Nick themed pogs anything but hairgel and tuna.
Olmec you uncultured swine
I remember one was 'The return of Jafar' Imagine if you already owned it 😆
I was a Blue Barracuda. I never made it past the moat, but it was still really cool.
Blue Cat I can see by your name that you are keeping the blue spirit alive.
You remember what your consolation prize was? lol
Do you still have your can of tuna?
Blue Cat you’re like 10
Just got a reminder earlier today. The savings bond matured. XD
Oh.
My.
God.
You have unlocked a part of my brain that was long forgotten. This was one of my favorite shows. Getting home and putting on Nick GaS. Thank you.
Same! I remembered the show but couldn't remember the name of it at all, was one of my favorites as a kid
really a wonderful show. the sincere effort to make it feel more like an adventure than a run of the mill gameshow was definitely worth it
"Don't worry, you won't go home empty handed!"
"A savings bond from Hershey's!"
So much fun when you're 13 and lose on the first challenge. 😂😂😂
I was about to say..."Did I ever notice how bad the prizes were when I was a kid?"🤔
Lol what's does a savings bond from Hersheys even mean. Would it still have value today? 🤔🤔🧐🧐
and fuckin tuna
@@Kay2be2mr No, savings bonds are usually money that the child doesn't have access to until they're older.
@@Kay2be2mr I definitely remember watching some of these Nick game shows as a kid thinking some of the prizes were really lame.
I absolutely adore DefunctTV, definitely continue it.
Majin WilfredCthulu it will be ironically defunct at some point
I like all of defunctland content, it’s really frkin well made and touches on topics others may not want to touch because of how old it is.
Hope he do Tales of thr Crypt game show
The Paris answer wasn't actually that bad. Paris fought for the Trojans not against them.
Matthew Jobe
yeah he coulda picked a better clip huh?
Ikr? The kid was actually pretty smart to pick that up.
SWEET VINDICATION! I always cheered for the Green Monkeys and I am SO SATISFIED to know that they are statistically the best team based on number of temple runs and successful treasure recoveries.
That’s funny cause I always cheered for the Silver Snakes. I always wanted to be on that show and I used to get mad at the kids for not knowing the answers. I was and still am quite the history buff.
They made it to the temple more times but the Silver Snakes success rate is higher. 8/21 = 38% and 8/24 = 33%.
Somebody please find Harriet Tubman’s walking stick, thanks
legends.wikia.com/wiki/The_Walking_Stick_of_Harriet_Tubman
Jessica Menschel thanks
There was an episode where it was I think it was a belly button Jewel of buhdda XD I laughed alot that time
I wasn't alive for the original Legends of the Hidden Temple series, but I have fond memories of watching the reruns early in the morning before school, in the early 2000s. Legends of the Hidden Temple blew my mind, and no doubt was a big part of the lives of generations of children.
I agree- it sounds silly, but these kids' game shows set high standards for my taste in this genre, standards that haven't really been met since then. Most of reality TV competition/game shows nowadays is way too scripted/overproduced, dumbed-down or tries to be funny, or just unrelatable. This show had a nice mix of visual spectacle (the physical challenges) and mental engagement (entertaining dialogue and the trivia questions).
I was born in 1997, so all my memories of watching this and the other classic Nick game shows were from the GaS channel in the mid-2000s. Legends of the Hidden Temple may have influenced my being into history along with the American Girl dolls, actually.
That show was awesome, man I'm really old. This show has really become better and better. It's very exciting, creative, and informative in the history of parks, tv shows, and events in the entertainment industry. You don't need me to tell you how improved this channel and it's content has become, you've gotten plenty of that already. Lifelong subscriber here.
Andre Wallace Legends of the Hidden Temple will always be more exciting than American Ninja Warrior to me.
You're not old.
I hated when they would “lose” because they didn’t get out in time. It seemed so nit picky.
An actor friend of mine was one of the helpers who would assist the kids crossing the moat and such. Nickelodeon Studios was great fro actors who didn't necessarily want to move to LA to have regular gigs in the 90s.
Don't forget Universal Studios and the millions of gallons of slime spilt on countless unsuspecting fans.
I heard it tastes quite sweet actually, like a nice cream frosting.
They also shot each of the certain segments of the show all at once and spliced the show together. What I mean is, they shot more than 1 crossing the moat challenge during a day, or the other parts of the show all together and then edited it after.
Yep! It was instant pudding mix most of the time!! They had some other kinds that were made of gelatin, but the kind I had was jello vanilla pudding, for sure.
The head is backwards...
The head is backwards.
THE HEAD IS BACKWARDS!
thrackerzod, what are you doing here
*Captain America Voice:* I understood that reference
there's punch and cookies by the door
Yup and they would just look at it like: What's wrong?
I already opened the door and gave you instructions. What more do you want from me?
"I'm trying to force it but it won't go!"
The head is backwards."
"Try jiggling it around."
"The head is backwards."
"Maybe it's broken."
"THE HEAD IS BACKWARDS!"
There's cookies and punch by the door
Cause it's hilarious.
Bruh I love that video
This brings back so many fond memories of my Grandma, as we would watch reruns of this show when I stayed over with her as a kid. I think she enjoyed it as much as I did. What I would give to go back and relive those days.
Omg mee toooo! My granny had Dish which had the Nickelodeon GaS channel. My brother and I would watch Legends and GUTS exclusively until our parents would inevitably pick us up and ruin our fun! 😅
I’m happy your comment reminded me of being at my Granny’s house, where I totally forgot was the only place with the GaS plug! 🎉
"The head is backwards."
...
"THE _HEAD_ IS *_BACKWARDS"_*
This comment is only for the mentally advanced
Wasnt expecting to see a reference to that
Adam Dillon tbh I'm surprised people got the ref at all.
TigirlakaLaserwolf6 The years may go on, but memories last forever.
Also I still watch mas/rdp from time to time because I guess I'm stuck in the past
Spazer Dazer mas is now Nepotism something something but like
It still updates on occasion.
I'm still hoping for another RDP tho. With all the attention Apple Sleep Experiment is getting, I'm hoping but not expecting a new one
Legends of the Hidden Temple, Guts, and that show where you tore up the house to find stuff were amazing, even though I watched all the reruns in the early 2000s when I was a kid.
I guess you mean Finders Keepers.
Christopher Sobieniak Yes
That's when I watched all the classic Nick game shows, having been born in 1997. I loved this, GUTS, and all the Double Dares!
I watch the reruns from 2007 on the Nick gameshow channel til it went off the air
Fucking Finders Keepers was the absolute best with LotHT
I’d kill to have these shows brought back.
Who _doesn't_ want the walking stick of Harriet Tubman?!
Hah
I was a 90's kid and remember Legends of the Hidden Temple, Guts, Figure it Out, and so many of the other Nick shows of that decade. 90's Nick was definitely peak for that network.
Yep. Now it's all about the brainless, money-shitting sponge...
as a little kid i always would take the orange slices i ate and pretend it was a mouth guard
AshKetchum442 ok
oh... ok
Lol I did that too!
My brother and I did the same thing!
Glad I'm not the only one.
Or you could enter the Daaarrk Forest ...but beware of the Temple Guards that may inhabit the Treeees!
I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees,
The trees say:
(insert religious chanting)
Desmond Shannon Those temple guards are freaky enough! I do *not* need to see a live-action re-creation of Snow White in the forest with a minor!
God, when I was a kid, the Dark Forest always made me feel a chill. It looked so terrifying, and of course, whenever a temple guard jumped out it gave my little kid heart a shock.
I want to make a Vietnam joke but I shouldnt
THEIR In the TREEs
"and what do you like to sing?"
"Madonna."
"in chorus?"
😒"no"
Avery Nelson 😂
like a virgin
Idiot gameshow host lol
I recently spent a non-zero amount of time trying to find some details of this vaguely memorable show from a fuzzy early childhood. The ‘90s talking stone head kids challenge show’ mucked up my search recommendations for a while. This video is great.
honestly the temple run seemed super cheap even as a kid i noticed things like unavoidable temple guards and vague descriptions of what they should be doing and where they should be going
I heard that the more pendants you have, the harder they will make the temple.
the reason for this was because sometimes they would run out of prizes to give if the kids from the first two shootings would win making the temple unbeatable for the later shootings
@@leocruz1688 ahh the 'we are out of prizes don't let them win" method.
I recall the show was fun to watch. The biggest thing I noticed about the temple run was that temple guards weren't always a penalty for picking a wrong room. They were likely to show up on the route the kids had to take. That always struck me as unfair since the time limit and vague descriptions made it hard enough, and on top of that they throw in unavoidable lose conditions.
With the maximum number of pendants possible being 2 and with three temple guards the best chance at winning was to sweep the second to last round and hope to get lucky on the first go or neutralize all three guards as soon as possible, thus opening up all the passageways and making a mad dash back out
How sad would it be to lose a physical challenge on national tv and go home with cans of tuna?
Lisa C lmao
Hey now..cans of tuna, chocolate sauce, AND bottles of LA Looks styling gel.
I fucking love TUNA!!
As a kid I'd be bummed, but my poor butt would be overjoyed now.
Lisa C Will give u energy for next time...
Ep 1 Bear in the big blue house. Ep 2 legends of the hidden temple? This is already turning out to be the best new series.
Watching this show as a kid was so fun, I was always so fascinated by the temple rooms
I credit this show as some small part of why I'm a computer game developer now.
"The walking stick of Harriet Tubman" lmfao!
Ancient!
Hey they were trying to incorporate black American history lol ... don’t fault them for trying to be diverse 😊
funny shit
It was hilarious!
Harriet Tubman was really popular with American kids at the time, being highlighted in many schools' curriculum. Most children in the Hidden Temple age range knew who she was, her going back even after saving her family, as well as a few songs celebrating her (One literally named "Harriet Tubman")
She was a beloved legend and an absolutely coolest butt-kicking hero.
That's some 90's wholesomeness.
@@hotaru8309 huh?
The "embarrassing" answer on the steps of knowledge was not _that_ embarrassing. Paris was definitely *heavily* involved in that story. Good on that kid for knowing :-)
Jacob Carlson
Yeah Paris didn't fight against the Trojans, but he was a Trojan prince. I think the dude who made the video thought the kid was talking about Paris, France. lol
They were probably just regurgitating a random name from the instructional video they were shown backstage
Maybe it's embarrassing because the talking head was supposed to give the answers as multiple choice but they didn't waited long enough to hear the correct answer
@@thecommenter578 Yeah, the video creator was clear that the embarrassment was about timing issues, not simply the answers.
The kids were jumping the gun because there was no penalty for doing so.
Sometimes, even when they got that damn monkey correct, it just wouldn't activate anything. It frustrated me as a kid/teen, because I felt it was unfair. Kinda felt like the staff was trying hard to not allow the kids to win. I guess I was kinda right, considering how (not so) often they did. :/ Lmao, hair gel and tuna. XD At least they got a savings bond. That's actually pretty cool and would be worth quite a bit now, depending on how much it was for originally and if they kept maturing it. Man, I loved this show and literally every show on Nick in the 90s. Such a great time to be a kid. :)
50 bucks with thirty years of compound interest might be as much as 100-200 bucks now. Life altering amounts, to be sure.
What was the monkey supposed to activate? If they didn't complete the monkey AND all puzzles previously, they couldn't win; it seems pretty simple.
Lame for sure but those were the rules.
From what I've learned, the monkey was pretty shoddy and wouldn't work sometimes even if correctly assembled. On top of that, apparently from the back the middle section looked the same way upside down or rightside up and it wasn't always obvious whether the base was oriented right. And lastly, the height of the pedestal made it quite hard for a kid (especially the younger ones) to put the head on properly - all of which were oversights made by the production team, but never corrected.
@@KamenRiderGumo Eh, considering they only wanted a small percentage of the kids to win, it probably wasn't an oversight.
They were oversights according to Kirk Fogg himself, but since they helped with keeping the show under budget in terms of prizes, I doubt the producers were losing any sleep on it.
Many of the kids who were on the show explained what happened with the Silver Monkey, they also were annoyed at themselves, they said the combination of the stress of the time limit and that they had to assemble the monkey facing out made it difficult as the back of it had little details making it hard to know if you had the base or body in the right order.
Imagine how it must've sucked to have that once in a lifetime chance to go on Legends, lose on the first round and only get a can of tuna as a consolation prize.
Man, this show was peak hype for a kids back in the day. As the show ran on TV, I'd imagine myself up there running all those obstacle courses (as a Blue Barracuda, of course) and winning a copy of Yoshi's Story and light-up sneakers. A shame this show never got another renewal but I guess it's better that the show retired in its prime.
"The tuna is Charlie- and Dolphin- free"
I'd doubt you'd go on a popular kids game show just to win some hair gel.
If this channel ever came to an end, would your last video be a defunctland about the defunctland series?
As others have said, this channel keeps getting better with each new video. Just became a new subscriber. Keep up the good work.
This brought back so many good memories. The 90's really were a magical time in history. Kids today will just never understand.
Same here, and it truly was a great time to be a kid. I feel sorry for kids today, they don't get to experience anything like this.
This was my favorite show of all time as a kid. Kevin every video just gets better and better . Defunctland=best channel on RUclips. Seriously bro amazing what you are doing! Keep it up
Both myself AND another kid on my street broke our ankles in a pair of those "moon shoes". I can't believe they sold those 🤦♂️
L8 APEX “a pair”? As in the same one?
I miss the days when companies sold shit that might end up getting you hurt tbh, it's better than the era of avoiding lawsuits and playing it safe
Yeah, the forked up part is Moon Shoes were a thing back in the 1950s. They were dangerous in the '50s, don't understand how they thought they'd be any safer in the '90s lmao
The legends of the hidden temple movie was actually surprisingly good
They even made a joke of the silver monkey complexity 😂
Yep
That happaned
I enjoyed it. It was good old-fashioned corny fun.
It's one of those "what do we have" sort of tie-in movie situations. They just went down the list and filled the rest of the runtime with expanding foam. Not that something like that must be necessarily bad, but I wouldn't be in the writers shoes.
The reboot is really good too!
Twice
I thought legends of the hidden temple was just a fever dream when I was a kid. My college roommate reminded me that this was an actual show when we were kids! Thanks for a great trip down memory lane!
I love that some of the prizes are just depressing, like when he says they won microscopes and the looks on the kids faces is one of sadness and despair.
Imagine flying all the way out to Florida and taking part in a 12 hour long shoot only to walk home with 3 cans of tuna as your consolation prize.
To minimize the disappointment I think they only ever auditioned kids from the Orlando area.
As a kid, I always thought the contestants were kids chosen from the audience, while theyre on vacation lol.
I thought that too when I went to Nickelodeon studios lol, I thought I would have the chance to compete on a show. Turned out they weren't even filming that week so I was doubly disappointed, but it was still fun to tour the studio.
There was a show like that filmed at Universal In Orlando. My sister and I were in the audience and tried to get picked, but I can’t remember which one it was.
Wow, me too. My childhood is now ruined...
They usually were, however the majority were still Floridian locals nonetheless.
They had tours of Nickelodeon studios that would include some un televised mini game show type thing and double dare style pies and sliming. They’d pick kids out of the audience to compete, I got picked and got slimed. My underwear was totally green the rest of the day. I think for something like this or Guts they actually scheduled kids to appear on the show just because it was more reliable than hoping they could just find enough kids in the audience to field the necessary teams.
This right here is why I respect you as a content creator!
Bexabird Same here, glad you made me watch them. I'm hooked
My childhood essentially started at the beginning of the 90s and ended at the very end of the decade. Because of this, I experienced all of Nickelodeon's golden age gameshows, sitcoms, Nicktoons, and variety shows as they first aired. Legends of the Hidden Temple was by far one of my favorites. A friend of mine and I in the mid 90s tried our hardest to create our own temple obstacle course in my parent's family room just to pretend like we were participating on the show. I would have probably done anything to be a contestant on this show back in the day. Watching clips of it now opens up a floodgate of wonderful childhood memories from the 90s. What an amazing decade to be a kid in!
Haha the Purple Parrot team is off in the corner taking a beer and cigarette break.
9:00 "Terrified some kids..." I remember one kid being literally scared out of the temple itself.
Do you remember that kid that actually kicked the temple guard?
Pansy Flower Could you link a clip to me?
I watched that on tv before the internet existed.. LOL I want to say it was the first season though. Probably have it on an old VHS tape.. LOL
I think I remember that, too. One kid jumped right out of the temple ( on the first floor), but it hardly mattered since that was the second kid and he had no pendant.
I remember reading an interview with Kirk Fogg where he said there was definitely one incident where a girl was so scared by a temple guard in the Pit of Despair that she vomited all over the place. They had to stop filming, empty and sanitize the room, and then let her continue her run from that room with her time remaining. Due to creative editing the whole incident was smoothed over in post.
This was a fun show to watch back in the day. I had no idea the recording session was so grueling. Watching as a kid, you just expected everything to be done instantly in one take.
Gameplay and Talk I heard sometimes the scenes where they run through the temple would be at 8 or 9pm after a long full day at the studio & eating pizza they served them in the waiting room & even Sometimes on a school night. I now understand why they were going so slow through the temple. I yelled so many times “run faster” at the tv screen as a kid
I’m suddenly understanding why I like escape rooms so much. I always wanted to be on this show.
Just seeing some of the prizes they gave out is giving me a huge dose of nostalgia! Great video as always!
E.A. Cackowski Tuna and chocolate syrup prizes! Where do I sign up!
Love me those Skechers and nesquick
"Skechers. It's the 'S' !"
Shit. You mean shit.
Mmmmm canned tuna.
God, I am laughing with all the consolation tuna comments, what a beautiful comment section
Me too! The video is delightful in its own right, but oh my lord! All of the sassy comments about tuna and Harriet Tubman's walking stick have got me in TEARS! lol
Right? Hell, the comments alone are worth rewatching this vid every so often.
ikr
What is so beautiful and funny about it?
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and Legends of the Hidden Temple were the two shows me and my sibling watched religiously growing up in the 90s.
Nick Arcade was another great show in the early 90s which came out a year or 2 before the other shows you mentioned.
I remember this show -- and always learned something.
This was a show that was well done.
For the record; dee Bradley baker was a damn BEAST of voice acting. Some of his bet work being done in AtlA
Still is. My man is every single Clone Trooper in Star Wars The Clone Wars
He’s excellent!
Wait he was in atla? For the record hes also perry the platypus
I’m a big fan of his work as Klaus in American Dad
@@syene5739 he was momo and appa
They should remake this show, but with adult contestants, and make it more like an escape room.
Blue Sausage Someone call American Ninja Warrior
Pretty sure I heard rumors of this making a come back. Then again it's the internet so none of that could be true at all.
Literally crystal maze
Make the guards a bunch of little kids with creepy tiki masks and blow darts. Payback.
Nah b....
The temple guards were terrifying. That's how you traumatized children.
Word is some of those guards actually got off on that.
IKR? Nothing like snagging a child contestant in front of an audience of children. I was about six when I first saw it and cried.
That Sage Guy oh my sweet lord
Ahhh the kids were good lol a scare like that put hair on their chest (even the girls) and helped then grow up and go into therapy 😂
Jack Black what about that show ? Lol
I remember seeing the reruns of it (I’m a 2007 baby) and didn’t understand it wasn’t being filmed anymore, I asked my dad if there was any way I could be on the show (since we only live about a state away from the Nick studios) and then he explained why I couldn’t, both because the show had been cancelled and I was too young
it can be watched on paramount plus now