Line #45 VideoGame/NickelodeonClickamajigs


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Just a sample of the many games released on the site.]]
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4	''Nickelodeon Clickamajigs'' are a series of simple flash games from the late 1990s and early 2000s hosted on the Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} website. There isn't really any gameplay to most of them: just click on the screen and watch the animations play. A few have simple click-and-drag gameplay but most simply, as the name implies, involve clicking and watching animations.
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6	Several of the games were animated by Rodney Alan Greenblat (creator of ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'' and ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'').
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8	!!These games contain examples of:
9	* {{Acrofatic}}: A clickamajig called "DUTCH" has a very fat boy try to jump over a jump rope. If you press the space bar at the right time, the kid will do a series of acrobatic jumps and flips. If you miss, well, he'll fall over.
10	* AgonyOfTheFeet: "International Toe Stubber" revolves around a man hurting his toe and complaining in several languages.
11	* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: In "Candy Time", the rabbit the boy picks up is pink.
12	* AmusingInjuries:
13	** In "International Toe Stubber", the screen displays several flags on the bottom. Clicking a flag will cause a short animation to play of a man stubbing his toe and yelling, "Ow, my toe!" in that language.
14	** In "Nutcracker vs. Sugarplum Fairies", the player controls a giant Nutcracker beating up the Sugar Plum Fairies. They eventually get him back--when the player clicks "quit", the curtains close, sounds of violent smashing are heard, and the curtains open to reveal a destroyed Nutcracker.
15	** In "Howie! Your Punching Pal", the titular character can be subject to several of these, including a GroinAttack.
16	* AnimalsLackAttributes: Averted in "When Dogs Meet". The dogs lack genitalia however they do have anuses, as the entire premise of the game is about how dogs sniff each other when meeting.
17	* AshFace:
18	** One clickamajig is about a comedian in a club slinging lame jokes to a booing crowd and the player can toss dynamite at him. He's fine save for this and a bad quip.
19	-->'''Billy:''' Dyno-myte!
20	** Another had a boy playing with a chemistry set and this could happen if the player mixed the blue and yellow chemicals together
21	* BadSanta: In ''Nick'd'' you have to defend your home from four robbers dressed as this. They start by stealing the tv, even yanking it up the chimney or the trapdoor that leads to the crawl space one-handed. They then move on to steal everything else including the stockings and even the ''couch''! Thankfully real Santa is there to give back some of what the thieves stole. Hit the thieves 25 times and Santa captures them in his sack while returning everything they stole. Hit Santa 3 times however, and the game ends with you getting coal and the thieves getting away with everything they stole!
22	* BagOfHolding: In "Candy Time", the boy pulls several things out of his trick-or-treat pail that shouldn't be able to fit in there.
23	* BananaPeel: "One Fine Day on Main Street" consists entirely of the player dropping these on a busy sidewalk, to the misfortune of the passersby.
24	* BerserkButton: In "Black Licorice", whatever you do, '''''DO NOT GIVE THE TRICK-OR-TREATERS BLACK LICORICE!''''' Seriously, you'll be guaranteed to have nightmares for weeks if you do so.
25	* BigBallOfViolence: In "Loves Me, Loves Me Not", the two daisies get into one on the title screen.
26	* BlahBlahBlah: In "Substitute Teacher", the substitute's only dialogue consists of endless repetitions of "Yap yap yap yap, blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda."
27	* BoundAndGagged: How the family finally deals with the troublemaking Timmy in ''Family Portrait'' they get the portrait taken with Timmy looking surprised at being tied up. Then the portrait tilts revealing that the house belongs to a seriously DysfunctionalFamily (after all where did they have rope and a gag to bind Timmy in the first place?)
28	* BullyHunter: "Bully The Bully" has you solve a bullying problem by being a bigger bully.
29	* ButThouMust: In "Black Licorice", the instructions say not to give the children black licorice. You have a plate full of caramel candies and black licorice, but when you run out of caramels, you will be forced to give them black licorice. Then the nightmare begins.
30	* CannotTellAJoke: One clickamajig called "Belt Billy!" is about a comedian in a club slinging very bad jokes to a booing crowd. The player slings things like tomatoes, eggs, pies, bricks, rubber chickens, bottles, watermelons, bowling balls, tires, brains, and even sticks of lit dynamite at him, to which he gives lame puns like "I'm an egghead", "Tastes like chicken", "This round's on me", "Spare me", "I'm getting tired of this", and "Dy-no-mite!"
31	* ChallengingTheBully: "Bully The Bully" involves challenging and beating up a stereotypical school bully.
32	* CordonBleughChef: The lunch lady in "Chef's Mystery Special" serves some very disgusting food.
33	* CreepyChild: In "Black Licorice", you're supposed to give the kids candy but whatever you do, you can't give them black licorice because it causes them to turn into horrible, grotesque demon-like monsters.
34	* DesperatePleaForHome: PlayedForLaughs in "Bad Haircut". The entire game is spent subjecting a boy to have awful haircuts, with him sobbing at each one. You can either have the barber "fix it" by moving onto the next haircut, or exit the game. The exit scene is him whining and sobbing and declaring that he wants to go home, leading to the barber finally giving him a good cut... [[BaitAndSwitch with a "Kick Me" sign on the back of his head.]]
35	* DoesNotLikeSpam: The children in the Clickamajig "Black Licorice" do not like, well, black licorice. Enough so to turn into demonic creatures upon being given some!
36	* DoubleEntendre: One Clickamajig was called "Making Whoopie". While it's actually about making people sit on whoopie cushions, it also means something else... which led to several confused teachers wondering just ''what'' the kids were doing on the internet.
37	* EyeScream: In "Bully the Bully", you can poke the bully in the eye.
38	* FishingMinigame: "Gone Fishin'" is about a Tom Sawyer-like boy fishing in a lake and catching some very unusual things.
39	* {{Foodfight}}: "The First Food Fight" has you orchestrating a food fight (the first one in history, apparently) between the Native Americans and pilgrims during the Thanksgiving feast. Once you quit the game, the attendants will stand up to pray... before chucking their food [[CameraAbuse directly at]] ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]]''.
40	* ForcedTransformation: Several chemical combinations in "Chemistry Set" cause this to the boy; turning him into an alien, a dog, the Mona Lisa and even an older, attractive female version of himself.
41	* FoulCafeteriaFood: Provides the page image. In "Chef's Mystery Surprise", you tap each student's tray as they walk by to give them their lunch. Every meal is completely disgusting and inedible, but the students just get scowled at when they whine.
42	* FrothyMugsOfWater: Averted in "Gabe the Gefilte Fish". He sings a version of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" which mentions vodka.
43	* GagHaircut: "Bad Haircut" has a boy receiving various botched haircuts, including Princess Leia's haircut from ''Franchise/StarWars'' and outright being scalped.
44	* {{Gasshole}}:
45	** "Pull My Finger", where you pull someone's finger to create various [[StockSoundEffect stock]] [[ToiletHumor fart sounds]]. Additionally, pulling the finger creates burp sounds.
46	** The game "Obnoxor 5000" has the titular robot who was made to be, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obnoxious]]. That also includes him burping and farting. He can also create armpit farts as well, [[RuleOfFunny despite being made of metal]].
47	** One of the ways the photo can be ruined in ''Family Portrait'' is from a long loud fart that causes everyone except Timmy and Grandma to run away from the portrait. Timmy insists it wasn't him and points to his Grandma as the culprit (and considering she chuckles right along with him he may be right!)
48	* HalloweenEpisode:
49	** In "Black Licorice", you hand out candy to trick-or-treaters.
50	** "Candy Time" is about a boy finding strange prizes in his trick-or-treat bucket.
51	* HappyDance: The kids who get off the school bus do this in "School's Out" to celebrate the last day of school, except for the kid at the end of the game, who seems to miss school very much.
52	* IGotARock: In "Candy Time", a boy is going through his Halloween bucket looking for candy. He finds a rotting fish, baby, [[TakeThat picture of President Nixon]], Thanksgiving turkey, live crab, smelly cheese, live rabbit, package of bacon, apple, monster, and rat before finding a candy bar. A monster then attempts to steal it.
53	* JumpScare: "Black Licorice" is particularly infamous for this. Whatever you do, do '''not''' give the adorable trick-or-treaters black licorice, or else they'll ''morph into sharp-toothed demons and scream at you!''
54	** If you play this game in send-to-a-friend mode, you only give the children caramels, and no black licorice is on the plate. However, after you give the children some of the orange candies, the door will close, only for the mail slot to be bust open by the one of the trick-or-treaters, who will still morph into a sharp-toothed demon and scream at you.
55	** "Chef's Mystery Special" has a far more hilarious jumpscare in the form of a caricature picture of the lunch lady that appears every time she serves you something gross.
56	* LamePunReaction: Basically, anything the player does in response to Billy in "Belt Billy".
57	* LastSecondPhotoFailure: In "Family Portrait", a family is attempting to take a picture, but every time the player clicks the button, something goes wrong, usually as the result of the mischievous son Timmy. A few of his antics include streaking across the camera, spitting at the camera, and getting into a fight with his sister.
58	* LovesMeNot: "Loves Me, Loves Me Not" is about yanking petals off of a daisy to see if your crush loves you. Every time you pluck a petal, the daisy alternates between happy ("Loves me!") and sad ("Loves me, not!").
59	* MagicPotion: One clickamajig involves messing around with a witch's cauldron by adding a variety of ingredients into the mixture, such as eyes, bat wings, and werewolf fur. The combination of ingredients will then produce different results, such as creating a single puff of smoke, summoning a shark-hat wearing swimmer with sharp teeth, or creating flying skulls with bat wings.
60	* MoodyMount: ''Clicky The Pony'' is definitely one. Sporting a scowl the entire time he's carrying the fat kid, then bucking him off after one insult too many and laughing at the OffscreenCrash caused by him doing so.
61	* {{Mooning}}: One of the titular robot's functions in "Obnoxor 5000" is to turn around and bare his metallic buttocks.
62	* MuseumOfBoredom: The clickamajig "Field Trip to the Museum" has a class going on a field trip to an art museum. All the children are bored because the rules say that they can't touch the paintings or sculptures. One girl, however, decides to break the rules and damage the paintings in any way she can.
63	* MysteryMeat: "Chef's Mystery Special" is just that. The lunch lady serves gross slop that includes shoes, tin cans, rotten food, cigar butts, human body parts, and other inedible stuff. Be afraid, school children, be very afraid.
64	* NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork: In "School's Out," all the kids who get off the schoolbus are excited for summer vacation...except for the last kid, a nerdy-looking boy who clutches his textbooks and sheds a SingleTear as the bus drives away.
65	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: One of the bad photos you take of the family in "Family Portrait" includes a blurry shot of the boy, who decided to take off his clothes and run off naked.
66	* NightmareFace: In "Black Licorice", when you give a child a piece of black licorice, they make a scary face with bulging bloodshot eyes, sharp teeth and devil horns while saying, "I DON'T LIKE BLACK LICORICE," in a demonic voice, with evil laughter in the background.
67	* PantsPullingPrank: "Bully the Bully" allows you to do this. Ending the game results in you doing this and then promptly giving the bully a {{Wedgie}}.
68	* PottyEmergency: "Whizz Kid" is about a little boy who's in desperate need of a porta potty, but people keep cutting in front of him. End the game, and [[PottyFailure he'll promptly wet his pants.]]
69	* PrecisionFStrike: In "Clicky the Pony", one of the phrases the JerkAss cowboy says is "This sucks!"
70	* ProducePelting: "Belt Billy" allows you to throw a variety of items at an unfunny stand-up comedian. Amusingly enough, your interference can actually create better punchlines than his.
71	-->'''Billy''': "I told my doctor, 'Doc, it hurts when I do this!'" ''(cue brick to the face)''
72	* RecurringExtra: The brown-haired boy who appears in "Candy Time", "Chemistry Set", and "Pumpkin Carving", identified in the latter as "Rodney" in reference to their creator Rodney Greenblat.
73	* {{Retraux}}: Some of the games are designed in a vintage-looking style. Examples include “Pull My Finger”, “Handshadows”, and “One Fine Day on Main Street”.
74	* RunningGag: Each time the Lunch Lady serves you gross food, in "Chef's Mystery Special", you get a rather hilarious caricature photo of the Lunch Lady as comical scary music plays. Players, prepare to laugh.
75	* SimpletonVoice: In "Bully the Bully", the bully says things like "Duh, I'm gonna get you!" and "Now I'm mad!"
76	* StockYuck: In one of the Halloween games, "Black Licorice", the player must give a group of Trick-or-Treaters candy. Give them black licorice and [[NightmareFuel they turn ghoulish and scream at you]].
77	* StuffedIntoALocker: The intro screen for "Bully the Bully" features a locker rattling and someone inside it saying "Hello? Hello?"
78	* SoundtrackDissonance: In "Nutcracker vs. Sugarplum Fairies", the song "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies" plays peacefully in the background as the Nutcracker is murdering the fairies.
79	* StockSoundEffects: In the send-to-a-friend version of "Black Licorice", the scream at the end is reused from the scene in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' where the witch falls off the cliff as it gets hit by lightning.
80	* SummerCampy: "40 Winks" is set in a summer camp counselor's cabin.
81	* TeasingTheSubstituteTeacher: "Substitute Teacher" revolves around the class annoying, and ignoring, their math substitute teacher.
82	* ThrowTheDogABone: In "Candy Time", a boy gets several random things in his candy bucket. He only gets a piece of candy when the player ends the game, only for a monster to appear and try to steal it from him.
83	* TooHungryToBePolite: The family in “Holiday Stuffing” who greedily demand more food and get angry when you don’t give it to them fast enough.
84	* TotallyRadical: The poems you make using drag-and-drop words in "Busted Rhymes" are completely filled to the brim with beatnik poet lingo.
85	* TravelingSalesman: One shows up at the door during "Trick or Treat" with a vacuum cleaner and a stack of encyclopedias.
86	* VaudevilleHook: "Belt Billy" has a cane appear to drag the comedian away when the player clicks "Exit".
87	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: There's a lot of it in some of the Clickamajigs:
88	** In "Crying, Screaming Baby" you can either give the baby things to soothe him or you can poke him to make him cry until his face turns pink. You can get him so riled up he starts screaming like a warning alarm.
89	** One Clickamajig called "Glen John: Aging Astronaut" had the player harass an elderly astronaut with a bunch of old people items such as dentures or a can of prunes by letting them float around and bump into him. When the player leaves he would yell "Come baaaaaack!", as if his misery were preferable to solitude.
90	** In "Nutcracker vs. Sugarplum Fairies", you control the Nutcracker and the purpose of the game is to beat up the Sugarplum Fairies. You can have him punch them, kick them or even ''eat them.''
91	** In "Substitute Teacher", you can make the students throw things like spit balls and erasers at the substitute teacher.
92	** "One Fine Day on Main Street" has you placing [[BananaPeel banana peels]] on a sidewalk to make unknowing pedestrians slip up like Creator/CharlieChaplin.
93	** "40 Winks" has you torturing a camp counselor who is [[SleepDeprivation just trying to get some sleep.]]
94	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The titular Mr. Whatever shapeshifts into a variety of different things when clicked.
95	* YankTheDogsChain: "Bad Haircut" is about giving a boy at a barbershop a bad haircut. There are two options presented as dialogue balloons: "Fix it" and "I wanna go home". "Fix it" gives him another bad haircut, while "I wanna go home" ends the game. The boy gets a seemingly normal haircut and says, "Gee, thanks!" As he leaves, he turns around, revealing that the words "Kick Me" have been shaved into the back of his head.

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