List of ''You Can't Do That on Television'' episodes
This is a list of episodes of the Canadian television series You Can't Do That on Television. The show was in production from 1979 to 1990. No episodes were produced in 1980 and 1988.
Episode list
Season 1 (1979)
These were hour-long episodes aired locally on Saturday mornings on CJOH-TV in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and were a mixture of prerecorded comedy sketches and some live link scenes, along with phone-in contests, music videos, disco dancing contests, and interviews. Until March 2013, only three episodes from this season were known to exist in their entirety. In March 2013, information and photos from the "missing" episodes were provided to www.ycdtotv.com, and in June 2013, the episodes themselves were uploaded to YouTube.
| № | Subject | Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode One | February 3, 1979 | Tim Douglas, Jim Johnson, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Mike Patton, Lisa Ruddy, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers | Repeated on March 24 when the pilot for Whatever Turns You On was being made. Contains the very first green slime scene. This episode was delayed one week because the link set wasn't ready. The only known copy of this episode cuts off abruptly during the final link, presumably less than a minute from the program's actual end. |
| 2 | A CJOH Shoestring Production (no official title) | February 10, 1979 | Marc Baillon, Tim Douglas, David Halpin, Rodney Helal, Jim Johnson, Cyndi Kennedy, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Jim Stechyson | Elizabeth Mitchell was initially the host in this episode, but in the middle of taping, she developed laryngitis, and they gave all her lines to Christine, who never relinquished hosting duties until she left the show in 1986. |
| 3 | Episode Three | February 17, 1979 | Jonothan Gebert, Brad Hampson, Ramona Helal, Jim Johnson, Les Lye, Deidre McIsaac, Mike Patton, Kevin Somers, Sarah West | The first episode to feature water. |
| 4 | Episode Four | February 24, 1979 | Todd Brewer, Iain Fingler, Jonothan Gebert, Jim Johnson, Cyndi Kennedy, Les Lye, Robin Marpack, Christine McGlade, Kevin Schenk, Gordon Smith | Christine is credited as "Christine-Moose-McGlade" during the closing credits, thus beginning her long running nickname. |
| 5 | Episode Five | March 3, 1979 | Tim Douglas, Jim Johnson, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mike Patton, Kevin Schenk, Sarah West, Bradfield Wiltse | First episode with painted lockers. Features two impromptu moments when Les is shoved into the pool by the kids at the swim race, and when Elizabeth receives her pie in the face, "for showing the most courage...and the least ability". |
| 6 | Episode Six | March 10, 1979 | Jonothan Gebert, Rodney Helal, Jim Johnson, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Elizabeth Mitchell, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers | Features the "Crazy" closing credits: "and thanks to all the Ottawa names not mentioned - it wasn't R. SOLE, we had technical problems". Christine reads the closing voice-over. |
| 7 | A Green Slime Production | March 17, 1979 | David Halpin, Jim Johnson, Cyndi Kennedy, Les Lye, Lisa Ruddy, Jim Stechyson, Bradfield Wiltse, Sarah West | No official title, but usually referred to by fans as the St. Patrick's Day episode or the "Green Slime" show. "I Don't Know" triggers green slime for the first time, and the plot revolves around Lisa constantly getting tricked into saying the magic words. This episode was the first to include each member of the cast getting slimed, and also holds the record for the most slime in a single episode (with Lisa getting it 6 times). |
| 8 | Episode Eight | March 31, 1979 | Marc Baillon, Jonothan Gebert, Rodney Helal, Jim Johnson, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Elizabeth Mitchell, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers | Cameos by producers Roger Price & Bryn Matthews' daughter and son, respectively, who are both slimed and pied. Some segments from "the network show" (Whatever Turns You On) are played, and Christine interviews Ruth Buzzi. Hodgkins gets his name in this episode. |
| 9 | A Staff Privvy/Executive Washrooms Production (no official title) | April 7, 1979 | Ian Fingler, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Mike Patton, Jim Stechyson, Sarah West, Jim Johnson | This episode was inspired by when the locks at CJOH were randomly changed at one point, and includes the time Christine was ever slimed in the dungeon. The scenes about Mr. Dime using money as toilet paper caused some level of controversy, with employees of CJOH-TV and parents who saw the show. Cartoonist Jim Unger appears to announce a contest related to one of his drawings. |
| 10 | Episode Ten | April 14, 1979 | Tim Douglas, Jim Johnson, Cyndi Kennedy, Les Lye, Deidre McIsaac, Lisa Ruddy, Kevin Somers | Deidre appears only in the library sketches as "Ms. McIsaac," the assistant librarian. The phone connection is lost during a contest segment and Les ad-libs fixing it (as Ross). |
| 11 | Episode Eleven | April 21, 1979 | Marc Baillon, Brad Hampson, Rodney Helal, Jim Johnson, Les Lye, Robin Marpack, Sarah West | An on-screen title reads: "Sorry girls... but Kevin Somers will be on next week.", the first of the shows long running gag of "crazy credits". |
| 12 | Episode Twelve | April 28, 1979 | Jonothan Gebert, Jim Johnson, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Elizabeth Mitchell, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers | Guest star Ruth Buzzi was pied and slimed during this episode. |
| 13 | Episode Thirteen | May 5, 1979 | Jonothan Gebert, Jim Johnson, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Elizabeth Mitchell, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers, Sarah West | Was broadcast live from checkpoint 4 of the Meters for Millions walk. |
| 14 | Episode Fourteen | May 19, 1979 | Marc Baillon, Jim Johnson, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Elizabeth Mitchell, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers, Sarah West | On bootleg copies, there's footage from after the credits where Ruth Buzzi is pied, and Roger Price himself is slimed for not knowing if the show will be back next year. |
Season 2 (1981 (Canada); 1982 (United States))
This season originally had the same format as the 1979 episodes (except that the disco-dancing segments were replaced with video-game contests). However, beginning with this season, each episode had a specific theme. In addition, half-hour versions were made for national and international syndication. The "international" versions of these episodes comprised the first season of the series to air on Nickelodeon, although slightly different versions were made to be shown in Canada. This seasons' first seven episodes were released on iTunes on December 17, 2012.[1] At the end of the Smoking episode, McGlade gave a special acknowledgement to Lye, who never smoked in real life, for doing so much smoking during the episode. He greatly appreciated the acknowledgement, and also said he'd never smoke again.
| № | Subject | CJOH Air Date | Nickelodeon Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | Work | January 24, 1981 | January 2, 1982 | Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Darryl Lucas, Jonothan Gebert, Kevin Schenk, Les Lye | Longtime stage hand Scott Web was quoted as saying this episode featured their grossest batch of slime, causing many in the studio audience to gag due to the foul smell. To make matters worse, Christine had to film the slime scene twice, due to discrepancies between the Canadian broadcast and the US syndication version. |
| 16 | Transportation | January 31, 1981 | January 6, 1982 | Randi Akiwenzie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Brodie Osome, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers | Despite the editing made to make this hour-long, local episode into a 28-minute Nickelodeon episode, this episode still has several references that would make sense if the episode was local—the most notable of these references being the shot where Christine falls without a parachute. The background was put in with special effects and one of the locations she falls past is Parliament Hill, which, of course, is where the parliament buildings are in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. |
| 17 | Strike Now | February 7, 1981 | January 13, 1982 | Christine McGlade, Les Lye, Jami Burning, Rodney Helal, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Kubusheskie | The first episode to use split screen. |
| 18 | Dating | February 14, 1981 | January 20, 1982 | Angie Coddett, Jonothan Gebert, Les, Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Kevin Schenk, Steve Wilson | In the original 1981 broadcast and Nickelodeon's 28-min version, Christine gets a call from a weather man to tell her the weather forecast, which is mainly cloudy with a few wet periods. When she repeats that, the word "wet" causes her to get drenched. |
| 19 | Fitness | February 21, 1981 | January 27, 1982 | Christine McGlade, Mike Lyon, Rodney Helal, Tanya King, Les Lye, Jonothan Gebert, Darryl Lucas, Pepi (uncredited), Kevin Schenk (uncredited) | This was the first episode Martin Kerr appeared on, yet he wasn't even in any of the sketches and his part didn't even make it to the Nickelodeon version at all. According to Geoffrey Darby, Martin was at the location they sent the roving camera to the previous week and he told a joke. Roger liked him, and on the show he had Christine show the clip and ask if anyone knows who he was. If someone did, Christine urged them to call in. Martin's friends soon called in and he was made an official member of the cast in the Nutrition episode. |
| 20 | Safety First | February 28, 1981 | February 3, 1982 | Angie Coddett, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Scott Sandeman, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers, Michelle Taylor | Christine attempts to explain how certain, everyday things can become dangerous when used incorrectly. Before the show is over, poor Christine is cut in half, loses her head (literally), gets shocked, has white slime dumped on her, and gets 16 tons dropped on her head. In one sketch, Barth says "Damn" twice very clearly. This scene was cut out when Nickelodeon edited episodes from 1984 on, but survived the CJOH censors, the CTV censors and Roger and Geoff's original editing for Nick. |
| 21 | Sexual Equality | March 7, 1981 | February 10, 1982 | Rodney Helal, Les Lye, Kevin Kubusheskie, Christine McGlade, Brodie Osome, Lisa Ruddy | As Moose is doing the intro, Lisa, Kevin, Brodie and Rodney claim that her job is too easy and they want a chance to host. They each find out the hard way what it's like to host, each getting pied, slimed, and watered. Meanwhile, Moose realizes that things are still not fair, as Brodie can say "I don't Know" all he wants without getting getting the green stuff dumped on him, yet she gets slimed multiple times throughout the episode. The syndicated version has a scene at the end where Brodie is slimed by Christine, which differs from the version originally aired by CJOH. This was the last episode to use the original slime recipe, which included rotten food from the studio's cafeteria. |
| 22 | Personal Hygiene | March 14, 1981 | February 17, 1982 | Randi Akiwenzie, Angie Coddett, Jonothan Gebert, Les Lye, Darryl Lucas, Christine McGlade, Kevin Schenk | According to director Geoffrey Darby, this episode caused the show to get into some hot water with CJOH concerning a sketch where Angie comes into the bathroom and decides that if Moose can host the show from the bathroom, then she can use the toilet, as Moose tells the cameras to cut away. The 28-minute version was shortened to show less of Angie, and the 24-minute version cuts the scene altogether. |
| 23 | Smoking | March 21, 1981 | February 24, 1982 | Jami Burning, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Kevin Schenk | This episode was inspired by those who opposed Geoff Darby and Roger Price when they tried to ban smoking in the studio. This was one of the few topics to be featured twice during the run of the show. |
| 24 | Crime and Vandalism | March 28, 1981 | March 3, 1982 | Jonothan Gebert, Rodney Helal, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Brodie Osome, Kevin Schenk | Throughout the show, everything in the studio gets stolen. Geoffrey Darby recalled that one of his favorite gags in the entire series was Christine and Ross wearing barrels. A scene was redone when Christine's soapbox was stolen. In the original Canadian version, it was the name of a local Canadian newscaster. In the Nickelodeon version, it was changed to Dan Rather. |
| 25 | Drugs | April 4, 1981 | March 10, 1982 | Angie Coddett, Les Lye, Mike Lyon, Christine McGlade, Kevin Schenk, Kevin Somers | Kevin, Mike and Angie spend the show trying to get Christine to "splat" pies, which are an obvious substitute for drugs, and are pied throughout the show. In the closing scene, Angie, Kevin and Mike pay Christine back for not being pied during the show, smashing pies in her face throughout the credits. The "production" shot (Mike getting pied under the voice over saying "this has been a pie in the face production") was a live, on air surprise. |
| 26 | Nutrition | April 11, 1981 | March 17, 1982 | Les Lye, Darryl Lucas, Martin Kerr, Kevin Kubusheskie, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Scott Sandeman | Moose introduces the viewers to some good, healthy foods and also explains the benefits of eating them, but she ends up wearing most of them instead. During production, Lisa showed up late for a read-through because she had a detention for talking during class. Roger and Geoff then decided to rewrite the script, including new scenes that show Lisa annoying everyone by talking too much, as well as adding in her sliming as punishment. Little did they expect that the long-running joke of Lisa talking would continue until she left the show in 1985. |
| 27 | Peer Pressure | April 18, 1981 | March 24, 1982 | Jonothan Gebert, Rodney Helal, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Kevin Schenk | This was the only episode of the series not feature Les Lye's Ross character. The clip of Billy Joel in this episode is borrowed from a Saturday Night Live episode. |
Season 3 (1982)
This is the first season in which each episode was made in the half-hour format and produced specifically for Nickelodeon. With many of the regulars from the 1981 season having grown too old for the show, this season saw the additions of several new cast members, including Alasdair Gillis, Vanessa Lindores, Elizabeth Richardson and Doug Ptolemy, and Abby Hagyard as the series' token adult female to play opposite Les Lye. Also, host Christine McGlade wore wigs throughout the season in order to hide her natural hair, which had been cut short and dyed with pink highlights.
| № | Subject | Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | Cosmetics | October 18, 1982 | Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Brodie Osome, Lisa Ruddy, Elizabeth Richardson, Kevin Kubusheskie | The first episode to show the detention room set. In the original cut, Elizabeth Richardson is slimed in the dungeon by Nasti for taking too much time putting on her make-up. Christine's real life little sister makes a cameo, playing the younger version of her. Her brother also makes a cameo. |
| 29 | Addictions | October 20, 1982 | Abby Hagyard, Martin Kerr, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Luke McKeehan, Lisa Ruddy | A scene is cut from the original airing episode where Kevin is sent to detention for eating beans and breaks wind in the room. As with the 1983 Nature episode, which also had a similar breaking wind scene, the fart joke would become more common in the later years. |
| 30 | Popularity | October 22, 1982 | Eugene Contreras, Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Elizabeth Richardson, Lisa Ruddy | |
| 31 | Fads and Fashion | October 25, 1982 | Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Darryl Lucas, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | Doug's first credited appearance. When Christine is squirted with whipped cream, she's wearing her natural hair wig. |
| 32 | Vacations | October 27, 1982 | Alasdair Gillis, Martin Kerr, Kevin Kubusheskie, Darryl Lucas, Les Lye, Brodie Osome (uncredited), Christine McGlade, Klea Scott | Alasdair Gillis' first credited appearance. |
| 33 | Rip-Offs | October 29, 1982 | Angie Coddett, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Jamie Martin, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy | |
| 34 | Bullying | November 1, 1982 | Alasdair Gillis, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Darryl Lucas, Christine McGlade, Brodie Osome, Lisa Ruddy | |
| 35 | Culture Junk | November 3, 1982 | Abby Hagyard, Martin Kerr, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Brodie Osome, Klea Scott, Lisa Ruddy | In the last water scene, there is a fake fish in the bucket. It drops on Moose in the gush of water. |
| 36 | Television | November 5, 1982 | Roddy Contreras, Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | The infamous multi-colored slime scene from this episode was prominently used in Nickelodeon bumpers, as well as the movie Fatal Attraction. Vanessa appears uncredited in this episode even though she was featured throughout the entire show and is even slimed multiple times during it. |
| 37 | Sports | November 8, 1982 | Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Tony Lefebvre, Simone Lumsden, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Brodie Osome, Lisa Ruddy | This was one of the only topics to be featured twice during the show's run. |
| 38 | Heroes | November 10, 1982 | Charlie Brien, Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | The gang takes a look at all of their favorite superheroes, and Lisa puts a new spin on Wonder Woman. |
| 39 | The Not-So-Fair-Show | November 12, 1982 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Forest Wolf Mohawk, Christine McGlade, Natalie Radmore, Lisa Ruddy, Klea Scott (uncredited) | The famous slime scene at the end where Christine gets to slime the rest of the cast was cut mid-stream in the YTV broadcast due to length. |
| 40 | Growing Up | November 15, 1982 | Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Vanessa Lindores, Darryl Lucas, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Les Lye, Lisa Ruddy, Martin Kerr | Vanessa's first credited appearance. |
Season 4 (1983-1984)
1983 marked the last season for regulars Brodie Osome and Martin Kerr, but the show welcomed newcomer Justin Cammy. With video-game arcades rising in popularity, Blip's Arkaid was added to the roster of skits this season. In late 1983, the original 28 minute episodes were cut by 3 minutes when Nickelodeon started allowing outside advertising. The first ten 1983 episodes were the last episodes to be shown in the 28 minute format.
| № | Subject | Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Media | October 3, 1983 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Elizabeth Richardson, Lisa Ruddy | Last episode to contain a fake commercial (other than TV Commercials, 1987). |
| 42 | Pets | October 5, 1983 | Eugene Contreras, Abby Hagyard, Martin Kerr, Les Lye, Vanessa Lindores, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy | This is Martin Kerr's final appearance. |
| 43 | Medicine | October 7, 1983 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Luke McKeehan, Lisa Ruddy | Christine's slime scene for this episode had to be re-shot so they could use it in Nickelodeon's inaugural Slime-In sweepstakes. |
| 44 | Rules & Regulations | October 10, 1983 | Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Brodie Osome, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy, Natalie Salat, Christine McGlade | |
| 45 | Future World | October 12, 1983 | Abby Hagyard, Mike Hora, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | |
| 46 | Nature | October 14, 1983 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy | Nickelodeon cut the final seconds of the "Mandatory Can of Beans" sketch where Lance breaks wind and a sound effect is heard. Ironically, during the show's later seasons, fart jokes were encouraged by the network. |
| 47 | Cooking | October 17, 1983 | Corey Fraser, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy | Lisa is the only cast member to be slimed at the dinner table, one of the few areas assumed to be "safe". |
| 48 | Inequality: Kids vs. Adults | October 19, 1983 | Eugene Contreras, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Brodie Osome, Elizabeth Richardson, Jennifer White | The only episode of the show not to feature a pre-empt. |
| 49 | Rumors | October 21, 1983 | Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Luke McKeehan, Christine McGlade, Klea Scott, Lisa Ruddy | |
| 50 | Classical Music | October 24, 1983 | Justin Cammy, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Brodie Osome, Lisa Ruddy | Lisa's sliming includes the thickest slime of the series, due to it being leftovers from the previous day's shoot. When Ross plays the ukulele, the sound effects don't play until a full second after he strums it, one of the show's few bloopers to make it to air. |
| 51 | Manners | February 24, 1984 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Vanessa Lindores, Christine McGlade, Les Lye, Lisa Ruddy | First new episode to shown in the 23 minute version with commercial breaks. |
| 52 | Fame | February 27, 1984 | Abby Hagyard, Mike Hora, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Klea Scott | This episode's plot was inspired by real life, as Kevin Kubusheskie had notified the show's producer's that he wanted to explore other acting opportunities once his contracts was up. |
| 53 | Priorites | February 29, 1984 | Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Luke McKeehan, Doug Ptolemy, Mike Hora, Lisa Ruddy | When Nickelodeon premiered the 1983 season, it only aired 10 of the 13 episodes before it cycled back to reruns. At the beginning of 1984, 3 additional episodes suddenly premiered without warning - Manners, Fame and Priorities. |
Season 5 (1984-1985)
Because the show had become Nickelodeon's highest-rated television series and provided extra funding to CJOH, the 1984 season saw double the number of episodes produced, with 26 instead of the usual 13 seen in the seasons prior. New regulars Stephanie Chow, Adam Kalbfleisch, Ben Schreiner, Pauline Kerr (sister of former cast member Martin Kerr) and Marjorie Silcoff, were introduced this season, while future regular Adam Reid appeared for the first time in a brief, non-speaking role, and Angie Coddett, Kevin Kubusheskie, Luke McKeehan, and Klea Scott gave their final performances. One of Les Lye's most popular characters, the school bus driver Snake Eyes, made his debut this season.
| № | Subject | Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | Courage | June 4, 1984 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | Premiere episode of the 1984 season; Kevin Kubusheskie's last episode. In his swan song, Kevin gets stuck in a suit of armor. |
| 55 | Friends | June 7, 1984 | Andrew Burke, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Luke McKeehan, Lisa Ruddy | Christine's mother has been paying the other kids on the show to be friends with her daughter, so when the checks fail to arrive on time, the kids all give Christine the cold shoulder. |
| 56 | Ambition | June 12, 1984 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy, Ben Schreiner | Christine explores her ambition of becoming a serious actress, while Ben tries to learn to dance like Michael Jackson. |
| 57 | Hobbies | June 15, 1984 | Wyatt Boyd, Justin Cammy, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Christine McGlade, Les Lye, Lisa Ruddy | The show's theme is illustrated by Christine going on an exercise kick. When Moose and Lisa show Ross their "stamp collections" (Lisa stamps on Ross' feet while Moose stamps Ross' forehead with ink stamps), it's a reference to the show's opening animation's content. |
| 58 | ESP, Magic and Astrology | June 20, 1984 | Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Korbett Matthews, Kyle Matthews, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Klea Scott | Klea Scott's last episode. A poltergeist wreaks havoc in the studio, and it turns out Lisa is the only one who can exorcise it. |
| 59 | Literature | June 21, 1984 | Justin Cammy, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Ben Schreiner | While Christine writes a novel, Alasdair researches the legendary writer "A. Nonymous." |
| 60 | Clubs | June 25, 1984 | Eugene Contreras, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Ben Schreiner, Marjorie Silcoff | The only episode of the entire series to not feature any stage pollution. Originally there was a slime gag written for Moose, but she lobbied the producers to change it to Marjorie getting it. The scene ended up on the cutting room floor however.[2] |
| 61 | Foreign Countries | June 28, 1984 | Mike Cameron, Angie Coddett, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Pauline Kerr, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Eugene Miyagawa | The kids salute the various countries airing the show by spotlighting their cultures during the links. This episode features the only sliming to take place in the school hallway. |
| 62 | Marketing | July 3, 1984 | Kevin Akyeampong, Justin Cammy, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Marjorie Silcoff | The kids try to come up with a merchandising plan to keep the show on the air, and finally decide on marketing Green Slime. This episode's preempt is "Miss Piggy Sold To A Sausage Factory", which is very similar to the actual opening animation of the show. |
| 63 | History | July 11, 1984 | Todd Corrigan, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Marjorie Silcoff | |
| 64 | Body Parts | July 12, 1984 | Alasdair Gillis, Karen Grant, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Ben Schreiner | The kids hold a "Perfect Body" contest. On the Nickelodeon edit of this episode, three sketches have been cut: an "Introduction to the Opposites" sketch in which Mr. Schidtler shows a pornographic video to his class, another sketch in which Alasdair sells Playboy magazines to his friends, and a Joke Wall joke in which Karin Grant describes her favorite body part as "what's in the pants" (then clarifies that she meant a wallet). The Nickelodeon cut added two unaired sketches and added an extra commercial break to cover up the cuts. The two unaired sketches are: Moose is tricked into eating a chocolate-covered grasshopper, and Doug visits the Groucho Marx-esque doctor played by Les Lye about his leg being put on backwards. |
| 65 | Technology | July 19, 1984 | Eugene Contreras, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Luke McKeehan, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy | The famous "Red Square, Green Square" show. This episode featured an interactive device that allows viewers to determine the outcome of a scene by touching red or green squares on their screens. Viewers chose to; shoot Luke, slime Vanessa, dump water on Christine, and prevent Lisa from being able to talk for the rest of the show. Christine and Eugene are also slimed and watered as part of an interactive video game at Blip's. Vanessa's sliming in the dungeon was a throwback to te show's first season, complete with toilet flushing sound effects and all. Luke McKeehan's last episode. |
| 66 | Moving | July 20, 1984 | Abby Hagyard, Adam Kalbfleisch, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | Christine's family joins the upper crust of society with their move to the Rolling Fairways. In this episode, the kids carry, with ease, some very interesting props across the link set—including a giant cactus and a large piano. |
| 67 | Halloween | October 9, 1984 | Mike Cameron, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | Ross is hit with a run of bad luck and suspects that Christine is a witch who put a curse on him. In subsequent seasons, Nickelodeon would always play this episode on Halloween. |
| 68 | Christmas | December 8, 1984 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | As the kids eagerly await their holiday bonuses, Alasdair inundates the studio with mistletoe to get the girls to kiss him. After she's been slimed, Lisa and Alasdair improv a slime themed "carol", the beginning of which made the final cut of the episode. |
| 69 | Holidays | January 1, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | Not only Christmas and Halloween but all other holidays are subject to parody. When Vanessa brings a turkey named Lester onto the link set in this episode, it's a reference to Les Lye's birth name. |
| 70 | Colleges | January 4, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Justin Cammy, Abby Hagyard, Christine McGlade, Les Lye, Lisa Ruddy, Marjorie Silcoff | Alasdair tries to get into college on a video game scholarship. Ross goes back to college in this episode. In one skit, he is seen on the link set waving a college pennant. The letters on the pennant are UHU, which is "yoohoo." |
| 71 | Politics | January 8, 1985 | Justin Cammy, Alasdair Gillis, Karen Grant, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy | Lisa runs for class president, with Christine as her campaign manager. When Alasdair replied "slimy" to Justin's question about describing present-day politicians, Justin mistook Alasdair's answer as "Slime me" and immediately poured a bucket of slime over Alasdair's head, one of the rare times in which one of the kids slimed a castmate. |
| 72 | Science | January 11, 1985 | Justin Cammy, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Ben Schreiner | Alasdair sets out to discover the secret ingredients of Green Slime. This was the well-known episode in which Alasdair read the ingredients of green slime on-air, only to have Ross run the credits and theme music on top of him, thus drowning out his voice. After the credits, Ross informs the kids that the audience never heard a word, and then eats the paper with the recipe written on it. |
| 73 | Divorce | January 15, 1985 | Justin Cammy, Matt Cook, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Marjorie Silcoff | The producer and his wife are getting a divorce, and she is committed to taking half of everything in the studio - including green slime. When Lisa says the magic words, the whole bucket of slime is dumped on her left side of her head, promoting the idea that the right side of slimings had been lost in the divorce. They had to film multiple attempts to get this effect right, and ultimately had to use a lumpier slime recipe to get it to pour correctly.[3] |
| 74 | Families | January 18, 1985 | Stephanie Chow, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Jeff Mousseau, Lisa Ruddy | Ross's nephew, Jeff, joins the cast. Despite Jeff's being his nephew, Ross bullies him just as badly as, if not worse than, the others. This episode ends with the locker jokes, with Ross locking the kids in their lockers. |
| 75 | Malls (Hangouts) | January 22, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Adam Kalbfleisch, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Ruth Westdal, Aneal Bhartia, Mike Maguire | The kids illustrate the theme of "hanging out" by loafing around the studio, while Adam becomes infatuated with Christine. |
| 76 | Seasons (Weather) | January 25, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Karen Grant, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Ben Schreiner | Alasdair devises a machine to illustrate various types of weather on the link set, resulting in a torrential rainstorm, a blizzard, and finally a crippling heat wave. |
| 77 | War | January 29, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Adam Kalbfleisch, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Claude Valiquette | Alasdair forms a pacifist organization called WIMP (War Insane, Make Peace), while Ross preaches about the benefits of war. |
| 78 | Jealousy | February 1, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy, Marjorie Silcoff | The kids - especially Lisa - can't hide their jealousy when Christine is given a raise. |
| 79 | Wealth | February 5, 1985 | Justin Cammy, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Pauline Kerr, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Adam Reid, Scott Cherkewich | Adam Reid appears in a brief, non-speaking role as young millionaire "Ronald Rump." He would become a regular beginning the following season. |
Season 6 (1985)
To prepare for the departure of long-time host Christine McGlade, Alasdair Gillis became a co-host alongside her. Adam Reid became a new regular cast member, while Lisa Ruddy began her last season on the show. This was also the final season with Blip's Arkaid, as home video game systems had begun to eclipse video arcades in popularity.
| № | Subject | Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | Outer Space | October 14, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Adam Reid, Lisa Ruddy | In Adam Reid's first episode as a regular, Doug prepares to become an astronaut. The closing theme uses a slightly sped up version for the first 5 episodes of the 1985 season. |
| 81 | Wildlife and Animals | October 15, 1985 | Eugene Contreras, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy | After Lisa hits him over the head, Alasdair begins acting like a dog, then a monkey. The scene where Vanessa is slimed twice was originally written for Christine, but she was able to complain to the network and get it changed to poor Vanessa. |
| 82 | World Records | October 16, 1985 | Stephanie Chow, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Adam Kalbfleisch, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy | Alasdair endeavors to break a world record for eating hard-boiled eggs, which are supplied by "Ross's Egg-o-Rama, Route 12, King Side Road." Stephanie Chow is slimed at Barth's, the only time that ever happened, and Barth implies that green slime is the secret ingredient to his burgers. |
| 83 | Identity Crisis | October 17, 1985 | Justin Cammy, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Marjorie Silcoff | Alasdair explores different identities to discover which one is "the real him." |
| 84 | Pessimism/Optimism | October 18, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | Lisa's plant is dying, and she tries to bring it back to life with optimistic thoughts, but it turns out it only needed wa- ...that is, liquid. Doug and Vanessa had a real life love-hate relationship, and when Doug is slimed, he reaches over to pat Vanessa on the shoulder (making sure to get some on her). |
| 85 | Romance and Dating | November 11, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | Lisa receives tokens of affection from a secret admirer. |
| 86 | Fears, Worries, and Anxiety | November 12, 1985 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Lisa Ruddy | Christine tries to help Alasdair get in touch with his greatest fears. On the Nickelodeon rerun of this episode, a sketch where Alasdair is scared of going to school because of a bully named "Killer Curtis" had "Killer Curtis" redubbed to "Crusher Willis," as "Killer Curtis" was the alias of a serial killer who was in the news at the time. The change is obvious, as Alasdair's voice had changed from puberty between the episode's premiere in Canada and its premiere in America. |
| 87 | Relatives | November 13, 1985 | Stephanie Chow, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Adam Kalbfleisch, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy | Ross offers to draw up each of the kids' family trees. The kids realize too late that Ross has tricked them when all of their charts turn out to be identical. |
| 88 | Revenge | November 14, 1985 | Justin Cammy, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Marjorie Silcoff | Justin and Majorie's last episode. Alasdair tries to get revenge on Christine and Lisa for embarrassing him during the opening link, with varying degrees of success. Originally Marjorie was slimed as revenge by the rest of the cast, but the producers chose to cut it, frustrating executives at Nickelodeon who had been pressuring the show for more slime and water gags. |
| 89 | Movies | November 15, 1985 | Eugene Contreras, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Adam Reid, Lisa Ruddy | Final episode for both Eugene and Lisa. A famous Italian movie director visits the set to make a movie about the show, but the kids all fail their screen tests by getting slimed. In this episode the entire cast except Abby Hagyard is slimed, a response to Nickelodeon's requesting more slime scenes. |
Season 7 (1986-1987)
Long-time host Christine McGlade appeared in the first five episodes of this season. Alasdair Gillis succeeded her as host until he too left towards the end of the season. Matthew Godfrey, Amyas Godfrey, Andrea Byrne, and Alanis Morissette joined the regular cast.
| № | Subject | Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends | August 11, 1986 | Alasdair Gillis, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Sarah Keelan, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade | As the kids skewer popular fairy tales, Alasdair tries his hand at alchemy. Vanessa gets slimed with orange slime in the opening for messing with the superstition of walking under a ladder (one of the few times a cast member gets it without saying the magic words). |
| 91 | Pop Music | August 12, 1986 | Stephanie Chow, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Alanis Morissette, Adam Reid | In Alanis Morissette's first episode, Alasdair sets his sights on rock stardom and decides to bring the others along as his touring band. One of a handful of episodes that Nickelodeon re-airs in syndication (presumably due to Morrisette's fame). |
| 92 | Know-It-Alls | August 13, 1986 | Alasdair Gillis, Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy | Matthew Godfrey is introduced in this episode as the show's nerdy know-it-all, as the other kids try in vain to put him in his place. This was Matthew Godfrey's first episode, and he is slimed, watered and hit with pies, the unofficial You Can't Do That On Television initiation (Alanis Morissette, Rehka Shah, Eugene Miyagawa, Jody Morris, Libby Livingston, and Nadia Gosselin also suffered similar fates in their first episodes).[4] |
| 93 | Parties | August 14, 1986 | Kai Engstad, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Alanis Morissette, Adam Reid | Alasdair and Adam fight over who will get to ask Alanis to the network party. Kai Engstad is dowsed with water in his first and only appearance on the show, which supports the initiation of newcomers conspiracy. |
| 94 | Garbage | August 15, 1986 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Doug Ptolemy, Rekha Shah | The city's garbage workers go on strike, turning the link set into a temporary dump. Christine McGlade's last episode. The producer's wanted to slime her for her last scene, but she had "veto" power at that point in her tenure and was able to convince the network against it. |
| 95 | TV Commercials | August 18, 1986 | Stephanie Chow, Robert Enns, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Alanis Morissette, Doug Ptolemy | Ross forces the kids to peddle his personal products - a cosmetic line and a cooking utensil that doesn't cut anything but peoples' fingers - in between sketches parodying TV commercials. Robert Enns continues the 1986 initiation conspiracy, being slimed in his first appearance. Alanis Morissette was also slimed twice in this episode, however both scenes were trimmed from the U.S. broadcasts. |
| 96 | Country | August 19, 1986 | Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Adam Kalbfleisch, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, M.J. Malcolm, Adam Reid | The kids get a taste of country and farm life. This entire episode was inspired by Matthew and Amyas Godfrey's moving from Texas to Ottawa. The scene where Vanessa gets covered in manure was censored during subsequent broadcasts. A recurring gag in this episode parodies the TV series The Waltons. |
| 97 | Back to School | August 20, 1986 | Andrea Byrne, Alasdair Gillis, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Adam Reid | Class is in session on the link set, with Ross as teacher. |
| 98 | Illness | August 21, 1986 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Jody Morris, Doug Ptolemy, Rekha Shah | The cast are stricken with Green Slime Flu, which causes the inflicted to break out in chicken pox-like green spots. One of the few episodes where every cast member got slimed. To make the slime look extra disgusting for this episode, they used leftover food from the cafeteria. |
| 99 | Enemies and Paranoia | August 22, 1986 | Stephanie Chow, Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Alanis Morissette, Chris Nolan, Adam Reid | Ross and the kids prepare for an invasion by the Soviets and their show "Don't Do That On Television, Comrade!", complete with red slime. Ross is holding a glass of vodka during the introduction to the opposites. One of the few episodes Nickelodeon stills airs. |
| 100 | Contests | 1986 | Alasdair Gillis, Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Alanis Morissette, Adam Reid | Premiere Date unknown. While Matthew counts jelly beans in order to win a counting contest at the mall, Alasdair enters the network's Slime-In contest. There was confusion throughout this episode as to what Nickelodeon's annual slime contest was called. This was done to avoid confusion with Canadian ITV viewers, who obviously had no idea what a "Slime-In" was. This was Alanis Morissette's final episode, and in the post credit scene, she gets watered and slimed by Alasdair, however this scene was replaced in the U.S. broadcast with the actual Slime-In contest winner M.K. Kasden getting slimed instead. Ironically, she and Alanis wore similar outfits. |
| 101 | Censorship | 1986 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Jody Morris, Doug Ptolemy, James Tung | Premiere Date Unknown. Ross attempts to "clean up" the show's image by forcing the kids to wear sailor suits. This episode was a response to the increasing amount of network notes the show was receiving. |
| 102 | Poverty and Unemployment | 1986 | Robert Enns, Alasdair Gillis, Naida Gosselin, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy | Premiere Date Unknown. When the kids are fired by the show, snotty rich girl Naida gets them all jobs as her personal servants. This was Nadia's only episode. As with other "1-timers", she gets the full YCDTOTV treatment of slime, water, and pies. |
| 103 | Part-Time Jobs | 1986 | Andrea Byrne, Alasdair Gillis, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Adam Reid | Premiere Date Unknown. A hilarious recurring scene with Adam Reid and Abby Hagyard is one of the highlights in this look at the job market for kids. This episode was written, in part, by fans of the show. |
| 104 | Discipline | 1986 | Amyas Godfrey, Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy, Adam Reid | Premiere Date Unknown. Ross plays drill sergeant on the link set and tries to whip the kids into shape. The closing credits are sped up and feature references to Monty Python, a Roger Price favorite. |
| 105 | Sleep | December 29, 1986 | Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy, Adam Reid, Vikram Sahay | The kids try to snatch some shut-eye whenever they can during an all-night taping session. This episode was based on a real life "lock in" the cast had requested. |
| 106 | Home | December 30, 1986 | Andrea Byrne, Alasdair Gillis, Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy | Right before the credits, Doug hugs Vanessa and immediately says "I don't know.", causing them both to be slimed. A lot of YCDTOTV was based on reality, and the Doug/Vanessa brother/sister rivalry was very much a real-life thing. |
| 107 | Mysteries and Crimes | December 31, 1986 | Stephanie Chow, Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy, Adam Reid | As Vanessa tries to get the missing pages of her mystery novel back from Doug, Adam investigates a series of disappearances around the studio. After Doug tricks Vanessa into getting slimed, she makes sure to hug him, playing into their friendship. She later gets revenge during the pie fight in the closing credits. Alasdair Gillis' last episode. |
| 108 | Luck | January 1, 1987 | Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Jody Morris, Doug Ptolemy, Adam Reid | It's all about rabbit's feet and horseshoes as the gang rely on their charms for luck. Vanessa's sliming at the end of this episode was based on a real life comment she made (jokingly) about hanging out with Doug being worse than getting slimed. As the credits roll, she can be heard joking around with Adam and Doug about now regretting that comment. |
| 109 | Savings | January 2, 1987 | Alasdair Gillis, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Libby Livingston, Les Lye, Chris Nolan, Adam Reid | Alasdair attempts to save up enough cash to buy a car while he and Adam vie for the attention of the new girl, Libby, only to accidentally trick her into getting slimed and watered. Libby Livingston's first and last episode. |
Season 8 (1987)
By this time, all but four of the second generation cast had already ended their time on the show, and it was supposed to be the final season. Only five episodes were filmed and aired, one of which ("Adoption") was banned for making light of child abuse (in Canada, the "Adoption" episode was edited to remove the "damn" in Senator Prevert's line "You get over here right away, ya damn bureaucrat!", but the episode was eventually pulled because the producers felt the episode's jokes about adoption were in bad taste). This makes this season the shortest season of the show, tied with the season in 1990. An hour-long special was also prepared for home video, but not released. It was known as "The Worst of You Can't Do That on Television" and included new footage with Adam Reid, Vanessa Lindores, and Doug Plotemy as hosts, as well as footage from 1979-1987.
| № | Subject | Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110 | Books and Reading | 1987 | Andrea Byrne, Stephanie Chow, Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Adam Reid, Vikram Sahay | Upon learning that the episode is about reading, the librarian (Abby Hagyard) prepares for stardom, only to end up disappointed when the show has only one sketch in the library (which she isn't even in). |
| 111 | Adoption | 1987 | Andrea Byrne, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy, Adam Reid | Terrified at the thought that she and Doug may be related, Vanessa tries to discover whether she was adopted, and "Little Orphan Andrea" strikes terror into the hearts of all. This episode was banned on Nickelodeon in America after airing twice. In Canada, Senator Prevert's "damn" was bleeped out in the line "You get over here right here, ya damn bureaucrat!" and the episode eventually was pulled from rotation due to the producers feeling the jokes about adoption were in bad taste. To date, the only episode of the show to ever be banned. |
| 112 | City Life | 1987 | Andrea Byrne, Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy, Adam Reid | Ross prepares the kids for their trip to the big city - on which they'll be forced to visit museums and wear sissy sailor suits - until Doug figures out a way to get out of it. During the scene where people are walking through the dungeon (which is now part of the subway system) Roger Price and Dean Carley can be spotted. |
| 113 | Anniversaries | 1987 | Stephanie Chow, Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy, Vikram Sahay | As Doug and Vanessa celebrate their anniversary on the show, the cast suspect that Ross poisons the studio food to keep them from growing taller. References to Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Alasdair Gillis, and Kevin Kubusheskie are made in this episode. |
| 114 | Smells | 1987 | Amyas Godfrey, Matthew Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy, Adam Reid | Final episode for Adam Reid, Matthew Godfrey, Vanessa Lindores, Stephanie Chow, and Doug Ptolemy. The show pioneers a new technology to allow viewers to experience the smells of the studio. When Ross tests the Smellyvision machine on Doug, electrodes are fastened to Doug's nose. Doug is wearing a horribly obvious plastic nose, as the original prop they made wouldn't stay on. |
| SP-1 | The Worst of You Can't Do That on Television | no air date | Vanessa Lindores, Les Lye, Doug Ptolemy, Adam Reid | Vanessa, Doug and Adam host a retrospective of the show's first eight years (including then-rare footage from the 1979 season and from Whatever Turns You On). Filmed in the spring of 1987 and planned as a home video release which never materialized and was remade in 1989 with new cast members and a shorter running time. Features Adam getting water and Vanessa getting slimed (and with the new recipe, which she was non-too pleased about). |
Season 9 (1989-1990)
After a hiatus, filming on what would become the 1989 season of the show commenced in the fall of 1988 with an almost entirely new cast of kids. Only Amyas Godfrey was a regular both before and after the 1988 hiatus, although three other members of the 1987 cast (Andrea Byrne, Rekha Shah, and James Tung) returned for one or two episodes. In addition, Vanessa Lindores also returned to guest-host the "Age" episode (which also featured cameos by several other former cast members). Chris Bickford was made as the official host. Adam Reid and Kevin Kubusheskie became a writer and a producer, respectively, and had occasional cameos. This season was almost filmed at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida, but at the last minute the decision was made to stay at CJOH, although a replica of the link set had been recreated in Florida. The Worst of You Can't Do That on Television was remade (albeit shortened to a half hour) with Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, and Christian Tessier as hosts, and released on video in time for the 1989 holiday season. Les Lye's "doctor" character was also changed to a dentist this season.
| № | Subject | Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | Choice | May 8, 1989 | Stephanie Bauder, Nick Belcourt, Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Ted Wilson | First episode for Stephanie Bauder, Nick Belcourt, Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, and Ted Wilson. Ted must decide whether to tell Chris about being turned down for a major movie role. |
| 116 | Chores | May 9, 1989 | Jennifer Brackenbury, Carlos Braithwaite, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, William Pohoresky, Jill Stanley, Ted Wilson | First episode for Carlos Braithwaite, William Pohoresky, and Jill Stanley. Ross puts the kids to work doing various chores including laundry, sewing and shining shoes. |
| 117 | Communication | May 10, 1989 | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sidharth Sahay, Christian Tessier, Chantal Tremblay | First episode for Sidharth Sahay, Christian Tessier, and Chantal Tremblay. The show's communication satellites are being disrupted - by an alien who wants to meet the "real star" of the show (Green Slime). This episode looks very impressive because all of the UFO footage appears to have been made specifically for it. However, it is all stock footage from UFO Kidnapped. Dean Carley is amongst the tabloid reporters outside the studio door. |
| 118 | Fitness | May 11, 1989 | Vicki Essex, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Rekha Shah, Christian Tessier, Kevin Ward, Ted Wilson | First episode for Vicki Essex and Kevin Ward. While the off-link sketches skewer exercise and fitness, the link set sketches involve Ted and Christian's quest to get revenge on the show's writer, Kevin, for getting them slimed and drenched. In real life, Kevin was a writer prodigy and co-wrote several of the 1989-1990 episodes. |
| 119 | Malfunctions | May 12, 1989 | Stephanie Bauder, Carlos Braithwaite, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Jill Stanley, Kevin Ward, Ted Wilson | Everything in the studio goes wrong, and Ted's ugliness breaks every camera in the studio. |
| 120 | Cleanliness | May 15, 1989 | Stephanie Bauder, Chris Bickford, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Jill Stanley, Ted Wilson | Ross whips the kids into a frenzy cleaning up the studio in anticipation of a visit by Mrs. Madge Wildermeyer of the Senate Committee to Clean Up Television. Abby Hagyard is slimed for the first time (as Mrs. Wildermeyer). |
| 121 | Security | May 16, 1989 | Chris Bickford, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Patrick Mills, Sidharth Sahay, Jill Stanley, Chantal Tremblay | Patrick Mills' first episode. Ross forces the kids into ballet lessons to prepare them for participation on a TV wrestling show. |
| 122 | Pollution | May 17, 1989 | Chris Bickford, Carlos Braithwaite, Andrea Byrne, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Rekha Shah | A look at pollution and ecology includes polluted slime and water. This was billed as the grossest episode in YCDTOTV history. In this episode, "toxic waste" is poured on Carlos in the dungeon, Amyas steps in dog dung, and sewage is dumped on the cast during their field trip to the sewer plant. Andrea Byrne and Rekha Shah's final episode (both are slimed with sewage during the class field trip). |
| 123 | Fantasies | May 18, 1989 | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sariya Sharp, Ted Wilson | The fantasies of everyone on the show (including the adults) are explored. Sariya Sharp's first episode, (and she receives the unofficial You Can't initiation of being slimed on her first show). Alasdair Gillis makes a quick guest appearance in the locker jokes scene. |
| 124 | Time | May 19, 1989 | Jordan Aaron, Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sariya Sharp, Christian Tessier | Ross switches the show from colour to black and white to make it easier to syndicate. The episode featured black and white slime, and concludes with a classic silent movie-style pie fight. Jordan Aaron's first and last episode. |
| 125 | Mistakes | May 22, 1989 | Stephanie Bauder, Nick Belcourt, Chris Bickford, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sariya Sharp, Ted Wilson | The gang looks at various mistakes people make. Stephanie and Sariya have toilet water dumped on them, after Christian accidentally clogs the plumbing upstairs, a growing example of the show's move towards more potty humor. R. Sole, the producer character, was only seen in two other episodes: the WTYO pilot and 1981's Safety First. |
| 126 | Punishment | May 23, 1989 | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Carlos Braithwaite, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sariya Sharp, Christian Tessier | Ross decides to punish the kids by having a different kid slimed during each link sketch. Adam Reid makes a guest appearance in this episode as his real-life role as a writer on the show, and is also slimed, prompting the only time in the show's history where someone wrote their own slime gag. |
| 127 | Beliefs | May 24, 1989 | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Patrick Mills, Jill Stanley, Christian Tessier | Ross believes Christian is an alien. Much of YCDTOTV's material was derived from reality, and Christian being an alien was an inside joke between him and Roger Price. |
| 128 | Age | May 25, 1989 | Stephanie Bauder, Chris Bickford, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Patrick Mills, James Tung | As a now-destitute Vanessa is brought back to host the show since her contract was still good for one more episode, Chris fears being kicked off the show for being too old as his 15th birthday approaches. Vanessa Lindores guest-hosts this episode and Christine McGlade, Alasdair Gillis, Kevin Kubusheskie, and Doug Ptolemy make cameo appearances. Vanessa is also slimed, pied, and watered, much to her dismay, for saying the magic words in previous shows. Lisa Ruddy was scheduled to make a cameo as well, but was out of town. |
| 129 | Excess | May 26, 1989 | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Carlos Braithwaite, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Christian Tessier, Kevin Ward | This episode has too much of everything - including slime and water. Jennifer receives twice the usual amount of green slime during her sliming, and Chris is slimed all the way through the closing credits. Adam Reid was upgraded to head co-writer (along with Roger Price) after this episode. |
| 130 | Looking Cool | February 5, 1990 | Chris Bickford, Carlos Braithwaite, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sariya Sharp, Jill Stanley, Christian Tessier | The kids explore various things people do to be cool, including... getting slimed. This was a tongue-in-cheek response to Nickelodeon adopting slime as its iconic element. |
| 131 | Losing Things | February 6, 1990 | Nick Belcourt, Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Chantal Tremblay, Ted Wilson | Nick loses an expensive camera and, in his quest to get it back, ends up finding everything that was ever lost by anyone in the history of the show. Amyas, Ted, and Chantal are slimed with black slime, a chunkier version of the regular slime, after the ingredients for green slime have been lost. |
| 132 | Failure | February 7, 1990 | Stephanie Bauder, Nick Belcourt, Chris Bickford, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Jill Stanley, Christian Tessier, Ted Wilson | When Ross fails to show up for a taping session, the kids have to make the show by themselves. The re-occurring gag of Jill having trouble remembering her lines was somewhat based on real life. |
| 133 | First Times | February 8, 1990 | Stephanie Bauder, Chris Bickford, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sidharth Sahay, Sariya Sharp, Kevin Ward, Ted Wilson | Ross attempts to have the show be the first in various settings and attempts. Dean Carley appears for an extended period of time in this episode, during the segment in which the show is done "under water" for the first time. A scene was written for Marjorie Silcoff to make a cameo and finally get slimed, but was ultimately cut for time. |
| 134 | Celebrations | February 9, 1990 | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Carlos Braithwaite, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Patrick Mills, Amy Stanley, Christian Tessier | Amy Stanley's first episode. The kids celebrate the cultures of the various countries airing the show by saluting a different country in each link. |
| 135 | Effort | February 12, 1990 | Nick Belcourt, Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sariya Sharp, Christian Tessier, Kevin Ward | Sariya makes an unsuccessful effort to keep her new adult hairdo from getting slimed and wet, and Nick makes an unsuccessful effort to remember his own name. One of only a few bloopers to remain in a final cut, Sariya flubs her line right before her second sliming, but since they had already dumped the first bucket on her and Nick, they couldn't cut and restart the scene. |
| 136 | Sports | February 13, 1990 | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Carlos Braithwaite, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sidharth Sahay, Christian Tessier, Chantal Tremblay | Ross puts the kids through rigorous athletic training. During her sliming, Jennifer impromptu uses her towel for cover. They made her reshoot the scene, sans towel, and take a full facial of slime (as the cast was frequently instructed), only to recognize later that without the towel, it didn't match continuity. |
| 137 | Smoking | February 14, 1990 | Stephanie Bauder, Carlos Braithwaite, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sariya Sharp, Christian Tessier, Ted Wilson | The kids theorise that Green Slime is really mucus scraped from smokers' lungs. Along with the Adoption episode, there was significant negative feedback from the network when this episode aired, a good example of the changing times, as the original Smoking episode in 1981 received no pushback at all. |
| 138 | Generosity | February 15, 1990 | Stephanie Bauder, Chris Bickford, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Patrick Mills, Jill Stanley, Christian Tessier, Ted Wilson | Chris lets Patrick host the show to trick him into getting slimed. The final Slime-In sweepstakes commercial was shot during this episode's taping. |
| 139 | Embarrassment | February 16, 1990 | Chris Bickford, Amyas Godfrey, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Amy Stanley, Jill Stanley, Kevin Ward, Ted Wilson | Amyas Godfrey's final episode. Jill's little sister Amy is a continuous source of embarrassment for her. Jill is slimed for forgetting her lines (a re-occurring gag on the season). |
| SP-2 | The Worst of You Can't Do That on Television | no air date | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Les Lye, Christian Tessier | Unlike the 1987 version, this special was commercially distributed by Elektra Entertainment, and runs only half an hour instead of an hour. |
Season 10 (1990)
After 11 years in production, You Can't Do That on Television is cancelled. Only five episodes were produced.
| № | Subject | Air Date | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140 | Blame | May 21, 1990 | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Carlos Braithwaite, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Amy Stanley, Christian Tessier | Features the "largest" sliming of the series when all five cast members are slimed at the same time after Christian says "We don't know". During Amy's first slime scene, due to the nature of the bedroom set, the slime and water had to be dumped from the catwalk, rather than the regular stage ladder, requiring several tries before they were able to nail it. |
| 141 | Secrets | May 22, 1990 | Stephanie Bauder, Chris Bickford, Carlos Braithwaite, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Jill Stanley, Ted Wilson | In this episode, everything sacred is revealed, and Ted locates the secret ingredients to green slime! He later comes to learn that Ross has tricked him. As an in-joke, the cast received their scripts for this episode in dossier's marked "top secret". |
| 142 | Learning | May 23, 1990 | Chris Bickford, Carlos Braithwaite, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Amy Stanley, Jill Stanley, Christian Tessier | Final episode for Amy and Jill Stanley and Carlos Braithwaite. In typical YCDTOTV fashion, Jill and Amy are both slimed in their final scene (Carlos gets away clean however).In the Introduction to the Opposites, the letters A, B, C and numbers 1, 2, 3 are hanging from above the link set. The number props are the same as those used in the Mathman sketch way back in Episode Two from 1979. |
| 143 | Privileges | May 24, 1990 | Stephanie Bauder, Chris Bickford, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Patrick Mills, Sariya Sharp, Ted Wilson | Final episode for Stephanie Bauder and Patrick Mills. They're both slimed in their final scenes. Originally this episode was planned for the 1988 season, but when Nickelodeon scrapped that, it was put on hold. |
| 144 | Inventions | May 25, 1990 | Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sariya Sharp, Christian Tessier, Kevin Ward, Ted Wilson | YCDTOTV's final show. Final episode for Chris Bickford, Jennifer Brackenbury, Abby Hagyard, Les Lye, Sariya Sharp, Christian Tessier, Kevin Ward, and Ted Wilson. Christian receives the final bucket of water, and Jennifer gets the final sliming of the show's run. |
References
- ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/you-cant-do-that-on-television/id583164073
- ↑ Black, Bob. "Writer's Notes". You Can't Do That On Television Official Fan Page. The Slime Society.
- ↑ Price, Roger. "Slime Trivia". The Slime Society.
- ↑ Price, Roger. "1986 Episode Guide Notes". The Slime Society.
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