Nick's Thanksgiving Fest - Nick Knacks SPECIAL

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  • Опубликовано: 18 янв 2025
  • Happy Thanksgiving! Or, okay, a few days after Thanksgiving. Sorry this one's late guys, got super duper sick. But hey, the best part about Thanksgiving are the leftovers! Here's a Nickelodeon Thanksgiving special from 1989, not much to look at, but super important in the development of Nicktoons!
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Комментарии • 44

  • @PositionLight
    @PositionLight 7 лет назад +28

    Hey, I love the old stuff. The NickToons have been done to death I'm sure elsewhere. This content is what is unique about the PopArena.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak 7 лет назад +7

    Joey Ahlbum's wraparound sequences may call back to the Warner Bros. cartoons of the late 30's/early 40's that often spoofed travelogue shorts of the day, with narrators often paying witness to or speaking to figures on screen. Tex Avery did a number of these himself.

  • @sliders1
    @sliders1 7 лет назад +24

    The bumpers are some of my favorite parts of Classic Nick

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak 7 лет назад +7

      Ahlbum's work was quite distinctive and felt like a Nick "house style" if any.

  • @starwarsnerd100
    @starwarsnerd100 7 лет назад +10

    "Hopefully Thanksgiving Dreams can lift our spirits". "The Great Depression was terrible." I laughed out loud.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak 7 лет назад +7

    I'm sure the people behind those two shorts at least were glad to do something a little more 'original' than the usual Saturday morning stuff they were cranking out previous. This was like the first shot for people like Altieri and Pearson to do their own thing for once than follow what someone else says or wants. That was the basis of the Nicktoon initiative, creator-driven cartoons, especially at a time when most TV animation was quite committee-driven, often on behest of toy or greeting card companies with tied-in deals.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak 7 лет назад +7

    Ralph Bakshi's Christmas in Tattertown, aside from being considered a proto-Nicktoon, also served as a pilot for a potential series that didn't pan out in the end (poor Ralph).

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak 7 лет назад +7

    Ironically one of the copies of "Nick's Thanksgiving Fest" provided here on YT comes from a Nick exec. himself, Geoffrey Darby, who served as "executive producer" on this.

  • @melasnexperience
    @melasnexperience 7 лет назад +6

    I LOVE the old stuff because it's filling in gaps in my memory. I remember watching Pinwheel as a little kid, but the details were always hazy until I watched your video. Even if you didn't name it, seeing that clip of the Piggledy shorts & finally realizing I didn't hallucinate them gave me a weird sense of closure.

  • @adamnedeff3102
    @adamnedeff3102 3 года назад +1

    Terrence McDonnell is actually still active in the TV business. I've worked with him on several game shows where he's served as head writer. He's also been executive producer on "The Chase" and "Win Ben Stein's Money" and he's just a fantastic person to talk with.

  • @jamesflowers1295
    @jamesflowers1295 5 лет назад +2

    I had a fuckload of skeleton warriors toys as a kid, but I never saw the show

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak 7 лет назад +11

    "Thanksgiving Dreams" sounds like someone copied the Fleischer Studio's Color Classic short "Somewhere in Dreamland" since it's the same premise as well (except the ending to that short showed several merchants who had witnessed the poor children previous, had brought the feast to their ramshackle home when they woke up).

  • @GarrettCRW
    @GarrettCRW 6 лет назад +2

    I'm just discovering this series and I don't remember this special AT ALL (I didn't have regular access to cable until 1990), but it intrigues me for one reason: DiC seems to have had a hand in making the two shorts, as opposed to Klasky Csupo. I can't help but wonder how different my distaste for a lot of '90s-era Nickelodeon and beyond would have been had Nickelodeon stuck with DiC as opposed to going with Klasky Csupo as its main animation provider.

  • @LikaLaruku
    @LikaLaruku Год назад

    Joey Ahlbum, the Jive Five, & Wendell Craig all deserve their own Nick Knack specials.
    I haven't seen them all, they could already exist.

  • @sablelioness
    @sablelioness 6 лет назад +3

    I can't wait for more of your coverage of pre-Nicktoons animation... especially Danger Mouse =D

  • @Fel_Temp_Reparatio
    @Fel_Temp_Reparatio 7 лет назад +1

    Both this and Pinwheel were shows where I thought I'd never heard of them when I started watching your videos on them, but quickly found bits and pieces familiar. Thanks for helping me dredge up the remnants of memories from my preschool days.

  • @asia246222
    @asia246222 7 лет назад +3

    The best part of thanksgiving indeed! Fantastic getting a video from you, especially after you were sick. Thanks so much for all your hard work and research, it's fascinating stuff.

  • @OlympicFan-yd4gd
    @OlympicFan-yd4gd 6 лет назад

    This special was played for many many years after it was created. I have vivid memories of the thanksgiving dream. Thanks for sharing!

  • @nlm2nd
    @nlm2nd Год назад

    0:44 Its true! I just turned 29 on 2nd of March and I've been enjoying this so far. Though I have watched most of Kevin Perjurer's stuff and enjoy history in general. I was one of those medically fragile kids who had a lot of surgeries and procedures that involved some sort of sedation. So I don't remember most of the first decade of my life.
    The Pinwheel puppets look super snuggle worthy and if they made plush versions in the 80s I bet my oldest cousin Beth would have had one. I think it also helps to talk about all these other things so you can get a sense of how a person or I guess, a cable channel evolved. Still find the conversations people write in their autobiographies or biographies about a person odd. Like, did they transcribe their entire life? I suppose that's part of the writing process. Make it interesting to the audience AND hopefully make sense to your experience or the person you are writing about.

  • @tannith_toyart
    @tannith_toyart 7 лет назад

    The more I watch these the more I like them... so thanks for them.

  • @thing1thing2themediamaniac43
    @thing1thing2themediamaniac43 6 лет назад

    This is actually one of my Favorite Thanksgiving Specials

  • @MatthewPrower
    @MatthewPrower 3 года назад +1

    you forgot the part where the lead mouse looks like a bootleg mickey

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak 7 лет назад +2

    While talk about the initial Nicktoon pilots and series will take a long while to get to, it should be noticed Ahlbum contributed a pilot to the initiative that didn't make the cut called "Thunder Lizards", supposedly based on the singing dinosaur ID he created for Nick previous. It was a shame not to see his stylistic work morph into a show but nice he gave it a try.

  • @rftt6y7tr
    @rftt6y7tr 7 лет назад +1

    I really hope this show eventually reaches Avatar the last Airbender the show that got me back into cartoons as a teenager but I’m happy to see the historical stuff I’ve never heard of before

  • @rftt6y7tr
    @rftt6y7tr 7 лет назад

    I am thankful that this guy keeps on posting interesting videos despite losing a lot of his followers after the end of animorphs book review. I don’t always agree with you but you are always entertaining. Besides I learned what a Nickelodeon is.

  • @only257
    @only257 4 года назад +2

    I remember seeing this in 1991 I was 7 at the time😇

  • @CNFunnyJon
    @CNFunnyJon 7 лет назад +3

    Informative. Thanks Ms. Coffey!

  • @cartooningfanart
    @cartooningfanart 7 лет назад

    I Can't wait to see your review of the girl Who cried monster. Goosebumps. It is one of the series best

  • @darktetsuya
    @darktetsuya 2 года назад

    oddly I don't remember this one? still a neat bit of history, anyway. shout out to jim [although now I believe it's 'james stephanie'] sterling, love their gaming stuff on youtube!

  • @KevlarNinja
    @KevlarNinja 7 лет назад

    Whoa, saw CR talking about this the other day. Happy coincidence there.

  • @BotmanR
    @BotmanR 7 лет назад

    Somehow I had a feeling this video was coming next after seeing you capitalize on the Marc Summers Halloween special.

  • @yarnwomen3956
    @yarnwomen3956 Год назад

    Joey ahlbum also did animation for the they might be giants song hotel detective

  • @gaialanzer81
    @gaialanzer81 6 лет назад

    They aired this on The Splat! for one Thanksgiving.

  • @unclelou4839
    @unclelou4839 6 лет назад

    'Thanksgiving Dreams' looks exactly like 'The Christmas Light (1995)', LMAO. Shitfests.

  • @DennisTamayo
    @DennisTamayo 3 года назад

    The special was produced after Daws Butler's death.

  • @MissAshley42
    @MissAshley42 5 лет назад

    That's a lot of vermin. Thanksgiving Nightmare indeed!

  • @bluebaron6858
    @bluebaron6858 Год назад

    Will the 90s scene still explode?

  • @segundovargas
    @segundovargas 6 лет назад

    Who's the narrator in the special? He kinda sounds like Dan Aykroyd.

    • @BotmanR
      @BotmanR 6 лет назад

      I think it's the guy who voiced Chalky on Doug.

    • @DanzigFan-vq3zf
      @DanzigFan-vq3zf 3 года назад

      Doug Preis

  • @LikaLaruku
    @LikaLaruku Год назад

    I have the most vague memory of these toons. Pretty forgettable, maybe not helped by the fact that they only played once a year for 3 years tops.

  • @unclelou4839
    @unclelou4839 6 лет назад +1

    I was around 14 when this first aired...not a fan.