Viewers in the U. S. made slime and water sounds with their mouths and sending in their own entries for the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner to the set of You Can't Do That On Television to be slimed ( which was later replicated by Canada's YTV, with their version being called the Slime Light Sweepstakes ).

One of the many variants of the orange logo, commonly known for the ' splat ' design, used from October 8, 1984 to September 28, 2009 ; this particular version was used as the main logo from April 2003 to September 28, 2009, and was still used on Nickelodeon Arabia | the Arabian version of Nickelodeon until its closure in 2011, and is still used on newer products in tandem with the current logo.

On November 2, 2009, a Canadian version of Nickelodeon was launched, in partnership between Viacom and Corus Entertainment ( owners of YTV, which has aired Nick shows for several years, and will continue to do so ); as a result, versions of Nickelodeon now exist in most of North America.

The show, which was based on the series Het Huis Anubis which aired on an international version of Nickelodeon in The Netherlands, became the first original scripted series to be broadcast in a weekdaily strip ( in a similar format to a soap opera ) and the first original series produced by the flagship Nickelodeon in the United States not to be produced in the United States or Canada.

The channel also announced the additions of an English-language version of the Belgian / Dutch live-action Nickelodeon series Het Huis Anubis called House of Anubis, a Kung Fu Panda animated series, and the preschool series Bubble Guppies for the Nick Play Date block.

A pan-Arabia version of Nickelodeon has been relaunched in 2008, in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.

The Polish version of Nickelodeon had launched on July 10, 2008 in Platform N, replacing a Polish feed of Nickelodeon Russia that was banned in 2002.

This development notwithstanding, cable networks directed at children have used the Saturday morning time slot as its version of prime time for its animated series ; Cartoon Network ( with " DC Nation "), YTV ( with Vortex ), Nickelodeon ( with " Nicktoons ") and Disney Channel ( with " Toonin ' Saturdays ") have emphasized their Saturday morning cartoon programming.

* Much like the ABC version, the Nickelodeon version also cut the part where Wile E. ingests the entire bottle of pills before throwing the bottle aside and reading the warning that the pills don't work on Roadrunners.

Unlike the ABC version, Nickelodeon kept in the scene of Wile E. tangled on the cactus with the dynamite.

In the original English version, he spoke with an Italian accent ; to avoid offending Italian-Americans, this was changed to a Cockney accent for U. S. distribution ( i. e. Nickelodeon ) and all references to his surname were removed as well, although, the Italian word " Barone " was retained.

Mr. Wizard's World, a faster-paced version of the show developed by Don Herbert, was shown three times a week on the then rising kids cable channel Nickelodeon.

In 2009, Mattel and Nickelodeon introduced a preteen version of Dora, with four friends named Naiya, Kate, Emma, and Alana, who call themselves the Explorer Girls.

* Arabic-The Arabic language version is broadcast on the " Nickelodeon on MBC3 " block of MBC3, and is presented in Arabic-English.

* Dutch-The Dutch language version broadcasts on Nickelodeon and Nick. Jr, It is presented in Dutch-English.

* German-The German language version broadcasts on the German branch of Nickelodeon.

* Italian-The Italian language version broadcasts on Italia 1 and on Nickelodeon.

The original English-Spanish version, however, is also available on Nickelodeon South East Asia via the Nick Jr. programming slot to subscribers of the ASTRO satellite TV service.

Cable television also allowed for the debut of game shows such as Supermarket Sweep ( Lifetime ), Trivial Pursuit and Family Challenge ( Family Channel ), and Double Dare ( Nickelodeon ).

In 1999, CTW partnered in a joint venture with Viacom's Nickelodeon to launch Noggin, a 24-hour cable channel aimed at 6-13 year olds ; Viacom's MTV Networks division ( which also operates Nickelodeon ) operated the channel with CTW and MTV Networks jointly owning Noggin.

") Fox Sports Net also utilizes Stage 19 at Universal Studios Florida, after Nickelodeon Studios closed in 2005.

Saved by the Bell also aired in Australia on Channel Seven and from 1990 until 2004 on Nickelodeon.

Many children's programs also have a large adult following, sometimes due to perceived quality and educational value, and sometimes among adults who watched the shows as children or with their own children and now have a nostalgic emotional connection ( an example is the continuing popularity of programming from Nickelodeon, which prompted the network to launch The ' 90s Are All That, a late-night block featuring reruns of 1990s Nickelodeon shows ).

Nickelodeon also launched a children's sitcom that year, a western comedy entitled Hey Dude.

Nickelodeon also gave birth to hit shows such as Doug, Rugrats, Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold !, The Angry Beavers, CatDog, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

When CBS was purchased by Viacom, which also owned Nickelodeon, Viacom simply repurposed much of the Nick Jr. lineup — in addition to adding a Saturday edition of the CBS morning-news program The Early Show.

Estrada also made guest appearances on The Wayans Bros., Unhappily Ever After, the Nickelodeon comedy Drake & Josh, NBC's Scrubs and ABC's According to Jim.

Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single " The Chicken Song " with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and along with Simon Franglen, he did the main theme for Round the Bend for Yorkshire TV, a three series comedy shown on CITV, later shown on Channel 4 and Nickelodeon.

The three Nicktoons found success by 1993, so Nickelodeon developed its fourth Nicktoon, Rocko's Modern Life, which was also a critical success.

On September 28, 2009, the new logo is used across Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, along with the rebranded TeenNick, Nick Jr. and Nicktoons ( formerly The N, Noggin and Nicktoons Network, respectively ) channels in varying versions customized for brand unification and refreshment purposes ; a new logo for Nickelodeon Productions also began being used in end credit tags on all Nickelodeon shows, even on episodes aired before the new logo took effect ( end credit tags of programs airing on TeenNick, Nick Jr. and some shows on Nicktoons only use the current Nickelodeon Productions logo and variants for their respective channel's original programming on episodes of series made after the rebrand ).

The new show, Power Rangers Samurai, debuted in February 7, 2011 ; as part of the deal, Nickelodeon also plans to air the existing 700-episode catalog of the series on the Nicktoons cable channel later that year.

Nickelodeon also continues to air bi-monthly special editions of the long-running magazine series Nick News, hosted by Linda Ellerbee since its debut in 1992 ( until the early 2000s, Nick News had aired on Nick on an almost weekly basis on Sunday nights ).

Until 1991, the animated series that aired on Nickelodeon were largely imported from foreign countries, and some original animated specials were also featured on the channel up to that point as well.

Nickelodeon also advertises hour-long episodes of its original series, such as iCarly, True Jackson, VP, Big Time Rush, Victorious and House of Anubis as movies ; though these technically do not qualify as such as the " TV movie " versions of Nickelodeon's original series are shorter than the standard length of a television movie ( approximately 45 minutes without commercials, compared to the typical 75 – 100 minutes for television movies ), the hour-long episodes of the channel's multi-camera comedies are shot using that camera setup ( whereas feature films and television movies are standardly shot in a single-camera setup ), laugh tracks are used and the programs are shot on videotape instead of film ( though the video frame rate of its multi-camera comedies are reduced to the 24p film frame rate, using the filmizing process ).

Films not produced by Nickelodeon or its Nickelodeon Movies division also occasionally air on the channel including Universal's Barbie: A Fashion Fairy Tale, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Forever ( which was later released by Nickelodeon through Paramount DVD for DVD release ).

Nickelodeon originally aired a handful of episodes in edited half-hour form during 1981 as a test run, since producer Roger Price and director Geoffrey Darby had edited the entire 1981 season of You Can't Do That on Television episodes into a half-hour format similar to Whatever Turns You On for national and international syndication.

Toward the beginning of 1982, Nickelodeon began airing the entire edited season and YCDTOTV quickly became their highest rated show.

Since Summer 2011, it now airs on Viva, MTV UK and Nickelodeon UK, where airings on the latter are heavily edited both for time constraints and suggestive references unsuitable for Nickelodeon's young demographic.

Noozles aired in Japan on the Fuji TV network in its original run from July to December 1984, with reruns continuing until 1987 ; an edited, dubbed version later aired in the United States on Nickelodeon from November 1988 through April 1993.

This was edited so he says that he likes to watch Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

* An alternate ending of an episode of the show Invader Zim was taken off since it featured a scene where all of New York is destroyed, Nickelodeon acted quickly and changed the ending.

The building's famous donut can be spotted in the scene changes of the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious.