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You Can't Do That on Television

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I am 34 years old and have out grown this show but I am very nostalgic and think it's a shame that this show has just fallen off the face of the earth. It's a great show. I watched every episode when I was a kid. I even wrote letters to Les Lye, the man of many characters on the show, and he wrote me back every time. From Kevin Illianovitch Rasputin Kubacheski, Alasdair Gillis, Lisa Ruddy, and the rest. What happened? Why does Nick ignore the show that helped launch it to stardom? I'd rather my kids watch reruns of this than stupid MTV shows. Maybe we just need to complain a bit more.

So what I need to know is who owns the shows and how do we get this put on DVD already? I'd really love to see it again just to reminisce and here those great Les Lye one liners.
"da I heard that"
"kids got a point there Valleri"
"ready, aim, "

YCDTOTV is undoubtedly one of the best kids shows ever produced. It would be grand to have all of the original Canadian series productions (even the ones Nick didn't air), in their original form, assembled in a high quality DVD set (in order, season by season). In spite of the fact this series is now almost 30 years old, I think kids today will enjoy it just as much as those who saw it when it originally aired. It would be a shame if this show was lost.

It is so sad that, like many other great shows, this show is not available on DVD. I'm also amazed that no one has brought the show back with a new generation of kids. It was such a great show, basically a children's version of The Carol Burnett Show. The budget of it had to be next to nothing, yet I still watched it whenever it was on. Today, we have all these big budget shows that just don't measure up.

Please please please bring this series out on DVD so that we, and a brand new generation, can once again enjoy the simple pleasures of water, slime, firing squads, dungeons, classrooms, detention rooms with big dictionaries, Barth's restaurant, and a host of other goodies.

I was born in 1979, and Nick was a huge part of my life (as well as others my age). Nick was really great from the early 80's till the mid 90's. Some of the early 80's great shows I remember, "you cant do that on television", "tommorrow people", then the mid 80's "cities of gold", double dare", "noozles", the 90's brought us "Clarrissa explains it all", "Pete and Pete", "Are you afraid of the dark", "legends of the hidden temple", "Hey dude", Salute you shorts". Then all of a sudden, Nick, the disney channel, MTV, and many other stations turned to crap, all promoting a metro-sexual, self-absorbed and trivial lifestyle to teens of the new millenium. It's a shame, the quality of television has plumeted. Movies suck. politicians are more phoney then ever. There's nothing good about the 2000-2010 era... heck, we dont even have a name for it!

For the love of God and all things sacred... Well, okay, nothing is sacred to this show. And that was the irreverent beauty of it. To be honest, I had forgotten that this show existed until a few days ago. I am so ashamed. This show is undoubtedly the root of my sense of humor. I can admit that I was a rather devoted fan back in the day.

Sure, it was crude, sure the jokes were one-liners, sure it was obnoxious, campy, and the best this since Monty Python's Flying Circus. Not even the venerated SNL and Mad TV can really effectively compete with this show. Frankly SNL has deteriorated over the last 10 years+. But YCDTOT is an icon, a shining example of what every TV show today strives NOT to be: tasteless, classless, and well just plain stupid at times. But funny enough to keep you coming back for more. It's kind of a Monty Python (crude, hilarious) meets Married with Children (classless, tasteless) and then cross-breeds with SNL and Mad TV. Of course it was first, and it was best...

The fans DESERVE this to be remastered and released in all its vile gut-busting glory. Prefer by season, with commentaries, possibly interviews and where-are-they-now's, any behind the scenes footage, cut scenes, banned episodes, out-takes, un-aired episodes or sketches...

Fans will eat it up, spit it out, then eat it up again, then go visit Barth.

*I heeaaarrrrddddd that!*

I hope You Can't That on Television is released on DVD. It was Nickelodeon at its finest! I would particularly like to see the "forbidden" orphans episode which I actually manage to watch the one and only time it was aired.

I never understood why it was so controversial, I suspect the fuss was a classic case of political correctness gone crazy!!

This was probably the greatest show ever on television, and I'm pretty sure that anyone who has ever seen it would agree. I have been waiting for years for this thing to be released in some sort of format, and I can't believe it never has. I also can't believe that with all of the cable channels out there now (including the Nickelodeon spin-offs) that none of them air these repeats.
You Cant Do That On Television aired on Nickelodeon from 1983-1992 and basically made the first network for kids everything that it was... (I mean come on, they STILL use the green slime!) Actually though, the show was Canadian, and started out in the late seventies... it was HUGE! Then after 1992 it just dissapeared, never to be seen again... (However FYI there are a few episodes on YouTube that I discovered not to long ago- check those out if you've never seen the show before, because I'm sure you will become a fan.)
This is a show that must be released on DVD, but I'm sure there is some sort of battle of rights about this. I'm also sure that in todays sacharin world this show would never be deemed viewable for kids the way it was when I was a kid. It's too bad, cuz it really was funny.

I have been waiting to get any of the episodes of this classic cable comedy series. I spent many an afternoon skipping homework to stare hopelessly at Alasdair and secretly hoping that I was Christine. I can't wait till the company gets their act together to release the series.

You Can't Do That on Television was my absolute most favorite show as a child. I watched this show every time I got a chance to, reruns and all. I would LOVE for someone to provide a DVD set of this show so I can reminisce and share it with my kids.

Someone really needs to release this show on DVD. It was truly an entertaining (sometimes corny) but GREAT show!! I grew up watching this and know that a lot of 30 somethings would love it for the nostalgia. Most kids today probably wouldn't like and may find it outdated and not racy enough for them, but do it for us, people who knew that t.v. didn't used to be all trashy.