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An Entertainment Weekly Best Tell-All of 2013! One of Parade Magazine's Best Books About Movies/TV of 2013! A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Social Sciences Book in 2013! "The book is quite impressive. Mathew Klickstein must have a large multi Gigabyte RAM in his head to remember all those quotes and sort them into a meaningful book. Or at least he must be very well organized. Well done." Roger Price, creator of You Can't Do That on Television and inventor of "green slime" "While this is a book you can fit in your purse, and while the cover is a happy mixture of the classic Nickelodeon lime green and bright orange, it's filled with a lot more than nostalgia ... And while SLIMED! is certainly fun, especially for readers who grew up watching these shows, it also provides a serious lesson on the birth of cable television." Kirkus Reviews Finally, you can find out all you ever wanted to know about your favorite Golden Age Nickelodeon shows and personalities from those who made it all happen in this fascinating, funny and intimately forthright warts-and-all telling of how Nick became the First Kids' Network ... and the only network for YOU! SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age tells the surprisingly complex, wonderfully nostalgic, and impressively compelling story of how Nickelodeon the First Kids' Network began as a DIY startup in the late 70s, and forged ahead through the early eighties with a tiny band of young artists and filmmakers who would go on to change everything about cable television, television in general, animation, and children's entertainment, proving just what can be done if the indie spirit is kept alive in the corporate world of contemporary media. Get the real back story about all of your favorite Golden Age Nick shows: Everything from such classics as You Can't Do That On Television, Out of Control and Double Dare to early 90s faves like The Adventures of Pete & Pete, the original three Nicktoons, Clarissa Explains It All and more.