{"id":5148,"date":"2012-07-10T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2012-07-10T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T18:09:27","slug":"a-nickelodeon-green-slime-candy-bar-not-quite-but-pretty-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=5148","title":{"rendered":"A Nickelodeon Green Slime candy bar? Not quite – but pretty close!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To my knowledge, Nickelodeon never licensed its Green Slime property to the confectionery business.\u00a0 But wouldn’t it have been a great idea if they did?<\/p>\n

Even though Nickelodeon never produced an official Green Slime bar, the folks at Australia\/New Zealand’s Cadbury division came up with something pretty darned close.\u00a0 And I’ll be revealing that bar wrapper in just a minute.<\/p>\n

Green Slime became the sort of unofficial mascot\/stuff of Nickelodeon through their licensing as well as its use during Nick’s Kids Choice Awards shows.\u00a0 But its use and connection to Nickelodeon goes back to a show I watched quite a lot of in the 1980’s, “You Can’t Do that on Television”.<\/p>\n

On YCDTOTV, anytime one of the young actors would make the statement “I Don’t Know”, green slime would pour from the rafters onto their head.\u00a0 In the same way, anytime one of the actors would say “water”, they’d get similarly drenched.\u00a0 It was silly goofy fun, and it was just one of the factors that made You Can’t Do That On Television a great program.\u00a0 What can I say – I’m a fan.<\/p>\n

Here’s a clip from YouTube of them dumping multiple colors of slime upon Christine, the original host:<\/p>\n