How Canadian TV Shaped Me - Nitro Rad

I [Music] if you're from the United States and I ask you to think of some Canadian cartoons tell me what comes to mind probably johnny test right 16 George of the jungle may be Totally Spies you know a lot of stuff that varies in quality right but what if I told you that there was a lot more to Canadian programming than the handful of show G guys had down there in the states I see a lot of TV and cartoon focused YouTube channels really misconstrue the overarching quality of Canadian programming often using johnny test in george the jungle as cherry-picked examples but the reality is we actually had a lot of dope shows in Canada that never aired or didn't air much in the United States I'm a Canadian I've spent my entire life here in Canada and resulting from that I of course watched a lot of Canadian television as a child every day after school I'd park my ass down on that couch I'd play my gameboy advance and I'd watch why TV and Teletoon until bedtime on basic Canadian cable there were three main channels for youth programming why TV teletoon and the family channel channels 27:44 and 43 why TV stands for youth television it had all the Nickelodeon stuff like spongebob Fairly OddParents Rugrats Jimmy Neutron everything you name it it was probably my TV it did have some live-action stuff to like I remember Malcolm in the middle would air later into the evening and then there was the anime block which would air on Friday nights it was called bionics think Toonami pretty much the same thing as that now over on Teletoon this is where you got everything Cartoon Network like then 10 Foster's home K&D and of course Billy and Mandy some Cartoon Network stuff like Dexter's Lab Samurai Jack and Powerpuff Girls aired on YTV instead though for some reason and later into the evening we'd have the detour block which is where the more adult-oriented programming would air a think addled Swim you know we'd get Tim and Eric Futurama Space Ghost Robot Chicken the list goes on Family Channel was one I didn't really watch a whole lot of it was mostly just Disney and even as a kid I didn't have that much interest in Disney the weekenders was the absolute favorite of myself and everyone else I know around here though I hear that one wasn't really that big in the US but it was huge here in Nova Scotia I also watched a lot of recess lilo and stitch can possible in Fillmore but not much outside of that if you're like me and you grew up in the great white north it was probably these three channels you were mostly flicking between as a kid and it's been a wild ride seeing these channels evolve over time not just in what programming they air but also the bumpers and the aesthetic of the channels themselves why TV always boasted itself as being the more weirder Channel why TVs bumpers would often feature a variety and animation styles oftentimes 3d with some a strange looking creature doing something weird and then the logo appears [Music] there were a couple of programming blocks that between shows would feature a host to discuss the programming in question fun toys and contests sometimes even interviewing the people involved in the show first of all there is vortex this was all the Saturday morning stuff which was mostly action cartoons it was hosted by Stephenie bro sharks who was later replaced by Paul allymeier after her departure vortex was later on replaced by crunch in 2006 hosted by AJ fry and his head of ridiculously wacky hair this dude went on to host Innerspace later on and now he streams pub G on Twitch but the crown jewel of hosted programming on my TV was the weekends had their own thing right but throughout the week we sat down with Carlos and sugar after each episode Carlos was such a chill dude everything he had to say was positive and encouraging and sugar well she was well-known for her cartoonishly high-pitched voice that drove parents nuts these were my people man the zone was also hosted by a handful of different people before Carlos sugar stuck to it but that would have been slightly before my time I think I've only would have been catching the tail end of that by the time I started watching TV sugar left to pursue voice acting in 2007 and it's been hosted by Carlos ever since he does have less involvement in it now that he's on Entertainment Tonight as well but this dude will live on in my heart forever as that chill guy who hung out with me after every episode of Spongebob or Fairly OddParents or Teen Titans or whatever else I was watching after school and then there was the YTV voice guy check it out Monday at 4 in the zone to this day it's still the same dude like he's got one of the most iconic voices to anybody growing up in Canada whenever advertising every show he'd always come up with the weirdest things to say about it but no you want to know what they said to me my people while YTV had a gradual change over the years teletoon on the other hand kind of looked the same for a while and then had a massive shift in 2007 before then it usually looked like this bumpers were done with 2d animation sometimes rather crude looking a lot of motion tweens and stuff and there was a number of different voice people as well mostly doing cartoony and wacky voices for the commercials right but then in 2007 everything changed [Music] the logo and from this to this it was sleeker cooler modernized and the cast of many voice people were all replaced with dan patronage of ik I totally butchered that I'm sure sorry dude this guy wasn't cartoonishly wacky like the announcers before he was a little bit more chill and had a deeper tone to his voice even more so when he hosted the detour of the devil man the detour bumpers were some next-level [ __ ] look at this dude it was stylin it was weird it was cool as hell in my eyes this is the very definition of radical even the transitions between blocks like when Teletoon would end in the detour would start you've got that viewer discretion warning the following program is intended for adults 18 and older it may contain language subject matter violence and/or sexual content that some viewers find offensive it was like a transmission from another planet letting you know that the good [ __ ] was about to come up and the transition back to Teletoon that would happen at like 5:00 a.m. so nobody would ever see it even that had a level of care and time put into it y GV had some dough bumpers to here's a handful of my favorites oh my god you know what who could forget the CC a BSA's dude yes uh hey what you watching me well I'm just the TV I mean I mean I'm not even human you you've got the remote control you can change channels if you don't like what you're watching you can flick me on and off on and off whoa I'm getting dizzy see you're smarter than me I think I have this whole thing memorized because I would have seen it so many times as a kid nobody's good at everything but everyone's good at something what's your thing that's when everybody remembers mostly because uh this was a PSA company that I actually studied when I did my PSA semester in college I think the one most people will probably remember is the Canadian House HIPAA one the whole point of that commercial is it starts with like this absurd documentary about tiny hippos that's obviously fake and at the end it's like well you know that was obviously fake that's why you question what you see on TV you know you knew we couldn't be true but nobody took that from it everyone I knew as a kid just wanted a pet house hippo man I could do a whole video on the CCA why TV intellagen rocked my world man like even when they weren't even showing shows they were just being the wrong weird little thing with interviews and bumpers and a visual style that morphed and changed over the years but yeah that's pretty much the groundwork for a what shaped Canadian television when I was younger but now why don't we take a look at some of my favorite shows that I grew up watching [Music] being e'en this one really shaped me into Who I am now it was a cartoon about a twelve-year-old filmmaker who made movies with his friends and that is exactly what I was at that age I could relate to the show more than anything else on the air at the time it just it spoke to me so personally I still quote this show to this day are you gonna talk or are you gonna chess chess easy - there it is now the show was made by ian james corlett who americans may know as the voice of mega man in the 80s cartoon there's bound to be trouble if Wiley's around and the original voice of goku before sean Chimel took over and then Canadians might know him for voicing Andy Larkin and what's with Andy and also making yvonne of the yukon that one was kind of weird but what's with Andy kicked ass Kyle and Korey these were Ian's older brothers they were hilarious characters the show just had a really good cast that made for some great moments and situations and comedy one episode is Ian pulling a prank and Kyle and Korey setting them up with a fake treasure hunt that actually leads to a bunch of poison ivy but they're so stupid they can't even find it let's look for a shortcut through the dense bush [Music] [Applause] the actual animation in this one was pretty basic heavily relying on motion tweens and stuff but I've watched it again and I think the humor holds up pretty well there's some great visual gags in there too I love everybody stretchy noodle arms this one aired on YTV between 2005 and 2008 so I would have been about 11 or 12 when I first watched it and now something from teletoon we have kid paddle it was a show about three kids who loved going to the arcade we had kid the troublemaker Horace the weird kid that would eat anything and big the smart kid who liked to modify his game consoles this was one of the first shows I ever watched that did a reasonably good job of accurately portraying kids interest in videogames I mean like every time I would see a video game in an episode of Fairly OddParents or Jimmy Neutron or something all I could ever think as a kid is games don't work like that or games aren't really like that at all it only seen like these shows were written by people that never played a video game and didn't know anything about them but then kid paddle comes along and really nails what a kid who loved video games was really like I mean I often found myself not really being convinced by the amount of freedom these characters seemed to have in the arcade games they were in but it's funny how that was so many cartoons strictly depicted video games as overtly simple like they were in the 80s hit the button shoot the bad guys and that's it but then here was a show that was aware that modern video games had so much more to them adventures a wide array of inventory in different ways you can approach a situation oh this show had some mad cool transitions too and I love how every episode would end with the frame slowly zooming out as a character's final bits of dialogue played out followed by one last comedic bit by a character on the black screen and then wrapped up with one episode I really finally remember was one where they wanted to make a short film for a contest and kid explains how stop-motion animation works I actually had no idea that's how this stuff was done as a kid this taught me the basics of that process and I was a huge fan of Knox corner at the time in understanding the magic behind it in that moment it was amazing to me I even made some of my own stop-motion stuff after seeing that episode this has got to be from like 2005 man I can't believe I still have this on the scene where he shows his sister and his dad was too relatable man like I would always make stuff and show it to my dad and he would have the exact same reaction like I would pour my heart into the thing hoping to get a great reaction from him but he'd just be pissed off that I used his power tools and stuff his props I still think this one's a pretty great show but unfortunately finding this one in English online these days is pretty difficult it was a France Canadian production so it's much easier to find in French it was probably much more popular over there than it was here so that probably explains why all the kid paddle games only saw French European releases the artists of the comic it was based on was also French so kid paddles roots are more dominantly French than they are Canadian if you can find it in English though you'll probably recognize bigs voice it's all rough games and scary nights I hate summer camp yeah that's Danny Brochu the voice of Buster Baxter from Arthur it must be worth millions which speaking of was also partially Canadian produced but if you're Canadian like me you might also know him as the voice of Danny from this show was about a prankster named Andy Larkin and his friend Danny always getting into trouble pulling pranks on people it was based on the just series of books by Andy Griffith's I remember my friend Rob he was reading one of them in like grade six and he showed me that there's a part where he like stubs his toe or something and then there's like four or six full pages of bleeped out swearing I was 11 I thought that was like the funniest thing many episodes would revolve around the planning and execution of an elaborate prank which often went horribly wrong and then Andy had to deal with the consequences in less than one hour we'll be at the paleontology Institute and I still haven't thought of a way out of this mess I'm finished I may as well just move to Yellowknife I have to agree this ranges from covering the town and fake snow to try and get school canceled to reversing the doors of the school so people can enter but can't leave one episode is Andy pretending to be dead and nobody buys it they even put his dead body intact one of my favorite things about the show was during the first season where part of the theme song would change to describe what happened in that episode [Music] if things go my way I'll be pulling off the first man-made snow day out of the whole town and before we move on you can't talk about what's with Andy without mentioning mush the pizza guy is such a good character I'll be back for you honey but you understand there's pizza that needs to live way side there was another Canadian one I remember in like third grade or teacher read us the entire original Wayside novels so when they made a cartoon out of it I was really interested I didn't really think it was amazing but it did have some pretty great moments so there's a good chunk of what I watched as a kid when it came to more slice of life stuff but Canada also had a lot of pretty badass action shows as well here's one Brady reminded me of a shadow see you Brady because I never would have remembered this if you didn't bring it up sky land it was a 3d sky Punk series about a young girl with psychic powers and her older brother as they join a ragtag gang of sky pirates on their adventure to save their mother from an evil dictatorship like a lot of Canadian shows this was a combined effort between Canada and France but this one also had work done on it in Luxembourg as well while I think the character models are a tad dated and the voice acting could be a little bit better some of the cinematography in this show is absolutely gorgeous I absolutely love how this show looks I love the way the ships look how they're tall and slender and like it just looks so different from everything else oh and speaking of 3d shows you can't forget reboot my format guardian to men to defend my newfound friends their hopes and dreams to defend them from their enemies this was the very first of its kind it was the first 3d television series ever made and it was Canadian - I'm pretty sure Americans did have this one so you guys probably are pretty familiar with it beast wars - same team made that one though for some reason they called it beasties here in Canada I don't know why because that sounds stupid as hell beast wars is a way better title for that and if Skyland was sky punk then die Gatto defenders was rune Punk [Music] this show was about a bunch of teenagers that used magical dye Gatiss tones to summon spells to do battle with each character had a guardian kind of like a pokemon that would assist them in battle they traveled the realm in search of the four spirit stones they need to keep an ancient being sealed away so it doesn't destroy humanity it was a typical hero's journey cartoon you know they had a long quest ahead they met tons of characters along the way it was just really fun and lots of badass action - and later on into the series they were able to channel their Guardians energy into a wearable organic armor that would give them an edge in battle it was so badass especially set like the rock armor and he had that mask on it was so cool dude the show had a magical fantasy setting but there was also a blend of Technology and machinery as well Erik the team's engineer was even voiced by the Teletoon voice Kai and his little sister voiced by sugar from the zone the scheduled energy are stones draw from is found within the land itself over deep water our stones have no power to draw on oh yeah so how come my power don't still work because your brother is a genius and he included a backup power source that runs on reserve energy this show was really good at explaining the universe's rules and how these spells worked and what stakes their limitations would create I'd say overall the tone was pretty comparable to something like Teen Titans it had its darker moments but overall it was pretty light-hearted the humor in it has aged pretty well I'd say a lot of pretty good visual gags in there I think the animation also holds up really well too and and that's probably because it was produced by now vana these guys were the top dogs when it came to producing 2d Canadian animation Babar Rupert's sticking around pipi Longstocking Ned's newts sam and max Franklin rescue heroes George shrinks Maggie in the ferocious beasts Braceface red wall all of which Nelvana had some part in producing and all of which were at least partially Canadian and if you want to ask me I'd say one of the coolest shows they ever put out was class of the Titans it followed seven teenage descendants of ancient Greek figures like Jason Hercules Artemis or is it Artemis I don't know they would channel the power of their ancestors for example Harry had Herculean strength because his ancestor was Hercules and Odie he had genius intellect because his ancestor was Odysseus and then there was Neal who got his unseparable narcissism from you guessed it narcissist I hated Neal so much as a kid but rewatching this now I think it was the best character like he's the comic relief obviously but it's not like he's not cowardly he doesn't run away from fights he can fight he's just too lazy to because he's too busy looking at himself in the mirror they attended a high school that was run by Greek gods who had seasoned them into warriors so they could battle Cronus the god of time and whatever ancient Greek monsters he'd throw their way oh I love cronuts his voice acting his actor gave an amazing performance why don't you two sit down hmm I offered her a deal that I wouldn't hurt you while she was gone don't make me break my promise the humor and writing were really great and the characters were all lovable and of course the animation is really good - it was just an all-around badass show the episode where Harry battles the Hydra especially sticks out in my memory that's one thing I loved about this show it had the G rating but it was not afraid of showing monsters getting their heads chopped off oh here's another one I loved as a kid it was actually produced in my hometown - in Nova Scotia Delilah and Julius looking back on this one the animation it's really fluid but the stills they don't look very flattering trust me though it looks fine in motion it was about two secret agents going on missions and fighting crime the secret headquarters even said somewhere in Nova Scotia seen a slice of home on TV was always really nice cos like the only thing from Nova Scotia's Trailer Park Boys and that's all I hear about it so when I was a kid it was just nice seeing that on screen right there Delilah Anju and they're saving the world one crime at a time baby every single episode cold opened with the tail end of the previous mission it gave the show a very energetic flow one of the most cherished action series out of Canada though was easily cyber 6 it was a newer series about a genetically engineered vigilante that fights crime and lives a double life posing as a male in the real world to hide her identity the animation in this one falls somewhere between DC Comics and Japanese anime in it is absolutely phenomenal looking there was a handful of Canadian shows that draw some influence from anime a Spider Riders there was one that was actually co-produced and animated in Japan though so unlike avatar which you know there's tons debate over whether or not it should actually be considered anime Spider Riders was quite literally a Canadian Japanese anime and credit where credit is due that English intro is fire the Japanese version had their own version of it but in Canada we had the Spider Riders rat and it wasn't this one piece quality stuff either no no that's what happens when Americans give an anime a rap this is what happens when Canada does it [Music] so try to be speaking of anime influence marathon there was a company that was well known for its anime style which shows like martin mystery and Totally Spies I'm fairly certain these two did air in the u.s. martin mystery was badass as hell it followed martin his stepsister diana and Jabba the cave man as I solved this are mysteries involving ghosts demons aliens monsters all sorts of bizarre types they worked for a secret organization called the center run by a woman codename mom and her alien assistant Billy in like every single episode Martin completely destroys something in her office and she has to deal with it Martin was a fumbling [ __ ] but it was really good at what he did so she couldn't afford to fire him oh I actually remember some people I knew did not appreciate their depiction of Nova Scotia because there's an episode where they go to anagen ish and like yeah Nova Scotia has Scottish origins I mean Nova Scotia is literally New Scotland and Latin right but I've lived here all my life and let me tell you we're not Scottish we don't have Scottish accents there was this guy in my sixth grade class named Caleb who was so mad about this I mean I don't blame him I mean I got a rationally mad when I was in sixth grade when he told me that the Gamecube was for babies right having the show take place in a variety of Canadian locations was really nice though I mean like when most of the shows you watch our American cartoons it's really not often you see geography closer to home but yeah anyway they would be living their normal lives attending high school and then they get a call from a center and they'd have to find a nearby portal to quietly pass through sometimes they'll even work it into like a visual gag right like this one episode or the portal appears in the fridge and Martin's just grabbing a bunch of food as he backs into it Martin also had a bunch of gadgets that he would activate from his wristwatch and the bit of animation the use for these sequences was so cool-looking Totally Spies actually had a pretty similar concept come to think of it but with espionage instead of the paranormal instead of the center we had whoo and instead of paranormal investigators we had Sam clover and Alex three spies who kicked ass with an array of gadgets the two shows even had a crossover episode where Martin tries so hard to be cool and impress the girls but they all think he's a loser even though he's like this legitimate paranormal investigator with real expertise in his field but he's such an idiot try hard that they don't take him seriously at all proof of the paranormal how else can you explain footprints just Andy that's how the culprit hopped on his snowmobile and the idea of Jerry and mom knowing each other was a really nice touch organization Totally Spies is a pretty rad show but it was kind of notorious for having some odd scenes that could be construed as fetishism in a way Lenalee characters transforming and animals and stuff I mean depending on who you are it's either gonna be O or it's gonna be gone about and while it's pretty easy just to point fingers and go that's weird well it is weird it's actually really frickin weird honestly there's something fascinating to me about watching old shows and tracing that weird thing you kind of like back to it and I say this with utmost maturity I'm not trying to come off as weird or strange or anything and I do apologize if I kind of reached some comfort zones but it's just really fascinating to me how TV shapes us when we're young like to these animators it could have been something they weren't even thinking of to them it could have been just like hey wouldn't it be funny if this happened to this character but then kids would see these things and they would feel things they don't understand and that would lead to this butterfly effect and how they developed as a human being for example I know more than one person that kinda have a thing for giant girls because of episodes of shows like Archie's weird mysteries or Pokemon that would feature a gigantic female character it's weird as hell yeah but you gotta admit it's fascinating how television shapes us whether we know it or not and whether it's something like our sense of humor or our vocabularies or something a little bit weird I can't say for certain whether or not TV shaped me in that way but I do think that Martin mystery really helped shape my interest in the horror genre it was a g-rated cartoon but I feel like it really pushed that G rating and I know that sounds weird like you can push a PG or a 14 but how do you push a G rating by having an attitude and writing that's digestible by children but also having terrifying monsters and happenings like this one episode where everybody in the entire town vanishes and the next day everyone's back but they only repeat one phrase on loop like their NPCs filling a role some episodes were almost Twilight Zone in nature and it was cool as hell oh that opening theme and unlike most other cartoons at the time it didn't have vocals I would explain to you what the show was about instead it was just this eerie theremin it was so cool [Music] another paranormal investigation show I loved watching was ghost trackers it was a competition where teenagers had to go into a haunted house and try to find as much evidence of paranormal activity as they possibly could they were even decked out with all of the legit equipment that real ghost hunters would use and even though I didn't really believe in ghosts it was still really cool even pretty scary at the time as well oh here's another spooky when I loved mystery hunters it was a documentary style show about two kids who investigate bizarre happenings and it was kind of creepy I mean they're dealing with real ghost encounters creature sightings people that claim to have really made contact with aliens or whatever but while the first half of the episode would focus on documenting it the second half they would try to explain it scientifically even trying to recreate it sometimes this really put me at ease as a child and I think I can attribute my critical thinking of unexplainable happenings back to this show remember things aren't always what they seem real good example my bed used to vibrate at night and I had no idea why and every time I'd google it the conclusion I'd always get was it's a ghost like are you serious I remembered this long Yahoo Answers thread almost a hundred answers about ghosts but there was one reply that gave me a solid answer hey is your bed up against the chimney because the furnace is probably just vibrating the chimney and that's probably just vibrating her bed yeah my head's up against the wall on the other side of that wall is the chimney it was really that simple the whole time another live-action show I remember was prank Patrol it follows a new kid every episode as the show's host helps them devise build and execute an elaborate practical joke and their friends I remember one episode had a kid tricking his friends into thinking you found like a superhero glove or something that would make things explode and they had the real practical effects to back it up it was really satisfying to see all the engineering and building to these pranks and then finally seeing it all come together at the end on the topic of live action there's a show called six level one which was a live-action and 3d animated hybrid following a group of friends who entered this digital world or something to fight bad guys it was followed by two seasons titled six level two and six level three and could forget uh-oh it was a game show for kids with this ridiculous host and tons of slime for kids who got the answers wrong but they didn't just get slime poured on them know they got slime poured on them by the Punisher look at this guy he looks like he could tear you in half but instead he's on this kids show porn goo on people it was so weird so you guys convinced we had some killer programming up here in Canada but keep in mind this is just a small handful of favorites in a sea of awesome stuff that never made it south of the border as far as I know but that's not to say that every Canadian show was a banger we did have some whatever stuff - some shows are just kind of weird like Jacob - - I wouldn't really even say that was a bad show which is kind of gross sometimes Angela anaconda god that's what I'm sure everyone knows about Jesus that thing was terrible that's got to be like the ugliest show I've ever seen in my life god Johnny test's is the shining example everybody uses as an excuse as the wide Canadian show suck and it's funny because that one's not even entirely Canadian I did some research and yeah while it is animated in Canada the episodes are often still written in storyboarded by Americans and then sent to Canada just for the actual animation to be done so sometimes the actual writing and scenarios and jokes and stuff are still a result of the US and I find it kind of unfair to entirely blame Canada for the poor direction I mean the lame flash animation sure but like it's less so that it's being animated in Canada is why the animation is cheap but more so that they decided to outsource the animation to save money and the studio they hired just so happen to be Canadian I mean it's the same deal for Teen Titans go it was once animated traditionally but now it's animated and flash by a cheaper studio where that studio is does not matter it doesn't suck because it's being animated in Canada it's because the show's creators made the decision to do it more cheaply if you want a real example of a bad Canadian show brady's beast so I hated that show as a kid I thought it was so boring and ugly and bad monster by mistake was another 3d one I loved it as a kid but looking back on it I think it's only okay it's about a kid who turns into a Blue Monster every time he sneezes if I do have to give it credit anywhere though it's the theme song fun fact about this show my friend Brandon used to vandalize the Wikipedia page for it's so frequently that it got deleted it's back up now this was years ago but good lord Brandon a lot of people are here hated 16 and like yeah the animation kind of sucks ass but this was one I really loved growing up a lot of my friends did do I think it was really good to have a show about older characters that dealt with a lot more mature teen stuff getting a job having relationships drama amongst your own friends there was content in here that I would argue was valuable to people growing up Total Drama that was also by the same team that one's kind of a guilty pleasure for me it also had the more mature nature you know with the adult jokes and raunchy er humor apparently this one got censored in the states though there was this one episode where the challenge was to eat bull testicles right which yeah that would be pretty gross to most people but in the States they just called them meat balls so suddenly it makes no sense why he wants to eat these things if there's one thing about the show that did age pretty well though it's the theme song [Music] one really cool thing about the show airing internationally was that different countries had a different winner Owen won the first season in Canada but in some other countries like Australia Gwen was actually the winner how cool is that so yeah there's a handful of shows that I grew up watching but keep in mind I'm not the only Canadian guy out there that's on YouTube no there's plenty of other people that do what I do that also had Canadian TV shaped them as well so guys what do we got I've been Canadian my whole life now one point in that life I watched a very good Canadian made show called 16 it was a nice show talking about the problems teenagers may face at that coming-of-age time of their lives I thought that's exactly what being 16 would be like being the mall hanging with your friends and everyone having a weird stereotypical personality the Contin matter was actually pretty genuine sometimes it had some girls out of humor sometimes the humor was a bit immature but out of all the shows I watched at that age this was the most genuine it actually involved me personally with the characters as you saw their growth and relationships bloom it would be unfortunate however that after 16 the studio would work on the total drama series it wasn't necessarily even one of my favorites but one of the shows that really impacted me was Carl Squared it was about this for lack of a better word rad teenage dude named Carl who sent away a letter in the mail with his DNA and got a clone back that wasn't the part of the show that really got me Carl's personality he loves skateboarding he had a video camera which him and his friend Jamie they would love to make just stupid teenager videos and I think music videos as well which really piqued my interest because that was the first time I had seen anyone really use a video camera in a TV show I think other than in being Ian it was also an incredible show you got a blog and you would always open up the episode with his problem and he would ask his his audience what what you should do about it I was thought that was super cool that he had this connection with some audience over the internet who he could just beckon for help at any given point and get an answer back which I think probably interested me in becoming a youtuber later on in life really great show loved it a little bit a lot I used to love shows by me the studio behind cool cartoons like beast wars and reboot I could go on for days about why reboot was like one of the best cartoons out there the show had so much charm and wit and likeable characters that went through so many changes throughout the series and even a villain who still gives me nightmares to this day and although the show was initially marketed towards kids and the later seasons of reboot the writers were given a lot more creative liberties with their show and ended up taking things in a much more darker tone and it was really cool to see how the story evolved into something much more complex from where it started now we got this really intense cliffhanger that failed to tie up all the loose ends of the show and for many years myself and other fans waited for some sort of explanation or conclusion or resolved to the cliffhanger and instead all we got was a live-action reboot a reboot yeah cuz that's what we wanted so one show I wanted to talk about was weird years this shows about the door kovitch family moving from the fictional cry obeah to happy valley labrador trying to fit into the new world and this one's obscure even by Canadian standards it was on at 8:30 on weeknights in 2006 oh seven but then fell off the face of the earth for a decade until someone uploaded most of the episodes online I rewatched everything that was available and the show lived up to the weird no doubt but it also had a lot of heart and genuinity though despite its light-hearted tone and child-friendly look this show and some of its subject matter is not for children it earns its PG rating there was that one episode where the neighbor's wife had a serious lust for donk oh and I remember seeing several other episodes when I was younger and going whoa back up I didn't think they'd show that and re watching them now they had my jaw dropping just like back then but he really surprised me how much I grew to like all the members of the family and the crazy situations they found themselves in by the way the mother character Magda she is absolutely adorable especially when she gets mad Oh also I'd like to give a shout out to urban vermin no one remembers that but I've got some episodes saved on tape that I ought to share so there you go it's a big chunk of Canadian stuff for you guys keep in mind though this is just a small drop in the bucket there's even more rad Canadian shows out there and if you grew up in Canada like me seriously guys common below all about the Canadian shows you guys love growing up and for the majority of you guys outside of Canada well maybe you might have recognized some of this stuff but hopefully some of it was new and I hope you found some of it maybe kind of interesting a lot of the stuff really shaped me as a person and it's always amazing to look back on it and that's why I think it's a crying shame that a lot of these shows are completely overlooked in favor of this cynicism towards Canadian programming based on a handful examples it just it just kind of breaks my heart to see a lot of these things that shaped me into the human being I am now ignored because of a couple of bad shows came from the same country and I'm not trying to call anybody out here I'm really not it's just I don't know I guess I'm just expressing a general disappointment and if any of those channels end up watching this video or catch wind of the things said in this video well then I challenge and encourage you to more deeply explore the world of Canadian programming try to find some more diamonds in the rough maybe something I brought up in this video or perhaps something totally new and that's exactly what this is to a lot of people it's new like it's amazing to me that a lot of these things I grew up watching are totally foreign to a lot of people and while a lot of Canadians might find disappointment in that personally I feel really grateful like I got to grow up watching being Ian I got to grow up with a show that as a juvenile filmmaker I could really relate to I got to grow up with I gotta defenders and get paddle and what's with Andy not a lot of people on this planet did but I did how lucky was that man if I could go back in time and watch all of these shows the first time ever again I'd give the world for it man value your time as a kid because it doesn't last long you gotta make good jobs last let me get after school when did they change all the rooms [Music]

Channel: Nitro Rad

Views: 212,302

Keywords: nitro rad, review, cartoons, canadian, canada, ytv, teletoon, the zone, the detour, teletoon at night, bumpers, ytv bumpers, teletoon bumpers, being ian, di-gata defenders, class of the titans, totally spies, totally spies!, martin mystery, kid paddle, johnny test, 6teen, total drama, total drama island, carlos, sugar, weird years

Id: xwkkkDtF_5Q

Length: 40min 56sec (2456 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 16 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/rayz0101]

Martin Mystery was the best, can't believe they skirted by with a G rating. I still remember the episode that was an homage to "The Thing".

[u/hotbrownDoubleDouble]

It's weird watching this and experiencing a cultural divide that is only a few years wide. I suspect I'm something like 5 years older than the narrator. Yet even though I watched all the same time slots (The Zone after school and Saturday Morning cartoons) I have never heard of a lot of the shows he talks about. A few of them I remember, but I remember them as 'kids shows'. The hosts he talks about are 'not my hosts', I grew up with Phil and the purple blob thing on The Zone. Looks like the time period the narrator describes in nostalgia was when I was 'over' cartoons and smoking weed in highschool. It's interesting to see such a cultural divide when we can't be more than 5 years (maybe 10) different in age.

Then again, this could be me just realizing I'm 'old' and people I view as 'kids' are now old enough to experience their own versions of nostalgia. Still wierds me out when I find out someone I work with was born after Y2K.

[u/RedNoodleHouse]

A little on the long side, but I imagine for those eating a meal after a big day and have nothing in particular happening soon, or those currently commuting on public transport, this'll be a good watch. The former was me when I first watched it.

[u/Axiom_of_Infinity]

It's worth noting how Nitro Rad mentions the fetishism aspect of those particular moments in cartoons that could shape future interests. I know a few people that can trace certain "likes" back to that particular episode of Totally Spies. One even became an artist for the community, as it is niche - but yeah, I couldn't help how relevant that part was to my own vicarious experiences... and just in general how much TV shapes us. I'm going to be much more attentive to what my child is influenced by now, as best I can lol.

[u/J_Cholesterol]

Wow class of the Titans was so good what a throwback! Totally got me into Greek mythology

[u/Chuzurik]

i love martyn mysteries! java!

[u/[deleted]]

I grew up watching too much Canadian TV, but everything referenced in this video happens after I stopped watching TV entirely. It's so weird. It's vaguely familiar and nostalgic, but also alien and commercial. It feels like a parallel universe.