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 This is an "It Just Bugs Me" entry. This area of the wiki is more friendly to the idea of conversation in the article itself, due to the highly subjective content. The regular entry on this topic is in the main wiki.
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- Several things about Nickelodeon's Network Decay bug me, but nothing quite like their treatment of their own game shows. First, they give out parts of the set from Legends of the Hidden Temple and Double Dare as prizes on Figure it Out, then they shove it all off to Nick GAS, which eventually trickled down to only showing a scant handful of the myriad game shows they've developed, and then they decide to scrap it and turn it into some stupid network called The N. The hell?
- Wait, what? As far as I know, The N is completely unrelated to Nickelodeon and was actually created by the decaying of an equally unrelated network devoted to edutainment shows that are actually entertaining. One of us is obviously thinking of something else.
- The N was originally part of Noggin, a children's network owned by Viacom (which also owns Nickelodeon). Viacom made the decision to give The N its own channel, as opposed to sharing one with Noggin, so they shut down Nick Gas and gave it to them. The N immediately went into Network Decay, having all of its original programming cancelled and is now being remade to attract the "tween" demographic, as opposed to the teen and young adult audience it focused on before.
- The N had actually begun this years before, when it canceled "Radio Free Roscoe" and "O'Grady", its only original comedies, and replaced them with "South of Nowhere", "Instant Star" and other Degrassi-esque soaps. Then they canceled those and replaced them with reality shows and...nothing, really. The network now runs 24/7 but actually runs less programming then it used to do with half the air-time; if you catch an episode of something other than Degrassi or Fresh Prince of Bel-Air count yourself lucky.
- And now not even Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It pretty much shows Degrassi all day long.
- Doesn't Nickelodeon target the... (deep, exasperated sigh) "tween" demographic anyway?
- Originally, it was more of a family channel with an emphasis on the "tween" and preteen demographic; the early morning slots were taken up for the preschoolers, the daily blocks were taken up for the tweens, the late afternoons and evenings (especially during the weekends) were for the older teens, while the nighttime was for the adults. It wasn't until around the turn of the millennium that that demographic narrowed to the tweens, and virtually all of their old content was scrapped; they tried to salvage them by shunting them off to their own channels, but those eventually died or mutated into carbon copies of the "MTV for kids" feel of the new Nick. They didn't even bother to open up the time capsule they had created for the new millennium, like they said they would. Now that is sad.
- But Nickelodeon's "tween" shows are better than Disney's "tween" shows. Why? In Neds Declassified School Survival Guide, there's an episode where Moze grows to giant size. I'd like to see THAT happening in Hannah Montana.
- Oh, and The N and Nickelodeon did have one solid connection besides corporate ownership: The Adventures of Pete & Pete, which was rerun on The N in 2003. Oh, and they also ran Sabrina the Teenage Witch reruns at the same time Nickelodeon was doing the same (which was odd since Nick doesn't make it a hobby of airing old Disney sitcoms during the day).
- Sabrina wasn't a Disney sitcom. Viacom owned the rights to Sabrina at the time, which explains Nick rerunning it.
- When Nickelodeon took over Camp Snoopy at Mall of America, they rethemed the Screaming Yellow Eagle ride to Danny Phantom while leaving the Ghost Blasters ride untouched, even though that'd make the most sense to retheme...
- This troper is at least glad that it was still Camp Snoopy during his younger days, and will forever mourn it's death.
- It bugs me that Aang, Katara, Sokka and Toph NEVER show up in those Nicktoons Unite! crossover videogames.
- It bugs me that Nickelodeon showed School of Rock, an independent movie aimed at adults.
- It bugs me that inane crap like The Fairly OddParents and El Tigre are on the air while good, funny shows like Angry Beavers, Rockos Modern Life and Aaaah! Real Monsters get taken off the air.
- I would agree with you, but it seems that you're praising the shows you watched as a kid and bash the ones today. Nostalgia's not a healthy thing, my friend.
- Wait, what? I hate to butt in, but what's wrong with nostalgia?
- Nothing, but you shouldn't assume everything sucks today (This troper likes FOP as well as the ones you mentioned). The thing is that sometimes shows that suck get good ratings (re: Rocket Power) or shows are cancelled after one season either just to make room, or because it's too quirky (re: Invader Zim, aforementioned). Blame Executive Meddling and table it.
- Exactly. It's not bad if you use it to remember times you loved, but not if you use it to bash other eras and act like your cartoons on that age are superior. The 90's weren't that great. This is the same decade that gave us Captain N The Game Master and Captain Planet, after all. :P
- Because all of those shows you mentioned are have ended years ago.
- That's no excuse for not showing them in reruns. Also, the fact that those shows "ended years ago" while the Faggy Odd Parents has been going on since 2003 bugs me.
- Faggy Odd Parents? What are you, 12?
- It makes more sense to play a show that still makes new episodes (Fairly Odd Parents)than one that hasn't had a new episode in dang near a decade (Angry Beavers).
- For that matter, it bugs me that Nickelodeon does care about Disney/Pixar/whoever stealing the premise of Real Monsters to make Monsters, INC., or Fairly Oddparents showing up on Jetix and the Disney Channel.
- Well, technically, Oddparents is being shown on Jetix in another country where it's not a Nicktoon.
- Erm...I'm pretty sure I got Fairly Oddparents on Jetix back when I had the channel. And I live in the states, where it is a Nicktoon
- And why is Nickelodeon UK showing Transformers Animated when it's a Cartoon Network show?
- It bugs me that Spongebob Squarepants takes up so much airtime when they could be running other shows in those spots. Don't those people running the network that kids are gonna get tired of Spongebob if they keep shoving him down their throats like that?!
- Do you have kids? Some could watch the same episode all day.
- It bugs me that Nickelodeon doesn't show any of the good animated or live action shows anymore, and WON'T RELEASE THEM ON DVD. (Although there are a few DVDs of them out now, so progress is being made.)
- Now, for scale issues. If Nicktoons are tiny, why is Dora the size of a normal human in a George Lopez ad?
- Even though I like the newer Nicktoons, it bugs me to no end how too many shows have been taken off the air, and how many of them are not on DVD, while the ones thar are cost a lot of money, especially since I could just watch them for (relatively) free on TV or online. And I find that the the recent "pandering to tweens" thing is annoying (even though I'm past the age where watching cartoons is acceptable). Heck, let's just say I have a deep dislike of TV stations and leave it at that.
- You too? I realized that the networks [[strikeout:are]] have been decaying since CN Real was created. But...I digress
- Five words: Pete & Pete
 Season Three. Those blowholes at Nickelodeon can bite my neck hair.
- Turbonick. Just Turbonick. For those of you who don't know what it is, Turbonick is a browser on the Nickelodeon site that should allow you to watch nicktoons. But, there are various problems with it. (1) The search browser only gives you a selection of words. For example, if you type in 2 or 3, you can't put anything after them. You want to try and find an obscure show, like Catscratch? Or looking for an episode with a weird title? Well, unlucky you. (2) The selection of shows is just off. I mean, it's a kids site, a kids site, and they have The Cosby Show and Nick News. What about Catscratch? Or The Xs? Or even that Rugrats spinoff All Grown Up? Take. Advantage. Of. YOUR. DEMOGRAPHIC(3) Most of the shows that are featured only have trailers for episodes. For example, The Cosby Show has three entries that each consist of a little bit out of an episode. I counted 12 shows out of the 35 represented on Turbonick that actually have full-length episodes. They aren't even providing full-length episodes for Spongebob Squarepants. (4) It's actually decreasing its number of full-length episodes. For example, Spongebob, along with some of the shows that currently don't have full-length episodes used to have them a couple of years ago. (5) The Alternate Company Equivalent on Cartoonnetwork.com, which is currently jumping the shark even worse than Nick, is much better looking, less glitchy, and better organized, with a longer line of shows (including favorites that don't come on TV anymore) and more episodes for each. Turbonick=Epic Fail.
- Nick is owned by Viacom, which hates You Tube with a passion. It doesn't come as a surprise to me that they're removing the full-length episodes so the kids are forced to purchase the DV Ds for those shows or watch TV. There's just more money in that, I guess.
- They've recently revamped the site, and while they've added a whole bunch of episodes and taken out the shows that no one watches, Spongebob, Avatar and The Fairly Odd Parents seem to be lacking. And yet I Carly has quadruple the episodes that Spongebob has. Hmm...
- The new logo. Why change what's been working for 25 years just because the sextet of logos (Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., Nicktoons Network, Noggin and The N) didn't look right together on a business card? I'm sure the cohesion pleases higher-ups and design enthusiasts, but I'm still no fan of the change.
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