The show's trademark green slime dousing prank was introduced in 1979, as was the practice of using the phrase " I don't know " as a trigger for the prank.

The show featured a format somewhat similar to the 1979 and 1981 local episodes of YCDTOTV on CJOH ( including the showing of music videos ), and used a variation on YCDTOTVs trademark green slime called " Yellow Yuck.

YCDTOTV has been occasionally referenced on Robot Chicken, including some of the show's trademark gags, such as locker jokes, Barth's Burgery, and green slime.

Likewise, when someone said " I don't know ", green slime, a gooey substance, would pour on him or her from above.

The first episode in which " I don't know " was used as a trigger phrase for the green slime was one of the local episodes seen only on CJOH, broadcast on March 17, 1979 — fittingly, St. Patrick's Day.

Although the slime was usually green, other colors, such as red, blue, yellow, and even black and white, were occasionally used.

1981's " Safety First " episode, which featured white slime as part of a recurring joke in about " wearing white at night ," was the first episode known to have used a slime color other than green.

The most dramatic example of this was in the 1982 episode " Television ," in which Christine is slimed in green, red, blue, yellow and " stripes " ( red, blue, and yellow at once ), while trying to explain about green slime to then-newcomer Vanessa Lindores.

On the show, the recipe for the green slime was treated as a closely guarded secret, with attempts by the kids to find out the true recipe all being unsuccessful ( in one episode, Ross ( Les Lye ) even went so far as to decoy the kids with a fake recipe ), although some episodes posited revolting theories as to what the slime was really made of-one 1989 episode which dealt with smoking, for example, theorized that slime was mucus from smokers ' lungs.

In reality, however, the slime recipe used through most of the show's run consisted of a mixture of lime green gelatin powder and flour ; eventually, oatmeal was added to the recipe, as was baby shampoo so that it would wash out of the actors ' hair more easily.

Nickelodeon's former studios in Orlando had a green slime geyser and green slime is still dumped on the host of the annual Kids Choice Awards at the end of the ceremony, and on at least one celebrity during the ceremony.

They saw they were each covered with filth and a green slime.

It has also been known to overwhelmingly cover people with the network's trademark green slime.

It contained informative non-fiction pieces, humor, interviews, pranks, recipes ( such as green slime cake ), and a comic book section in the center featuring original comics by leading underground cartoonists as well as strips about popular Nicktoons.

He covers himself and the room with green slime.

In some countries, the pedestrians ( and animals ) are zombies, and blood is turned to green slime: In Germany, aliens replaced the pedestrians.

You Can't Do That On Television was derided by parents from its very beginning as a local show on CJOH in 1979 for its ubiquitous bathroom humour and for breaking with the Canadian tradition of kind, gentle and educational shows for children, as well as for the shock value of certain sketches such as the show's infamous " green slime.

A number of species have come to be considered invasive, including, most notably in North America, dandelion, which was originally introduced by European settlers who used the young leaves as a salad green.

Similarly, green deposits were found in the hair, originally thought to be a copper-based pigment used for decoration, however it was later found to be the result of a reaction between the keratin in the hair and the acid of the peat bog.

Like many Italian dishes, minestrone was probably originally not a dish made for its own sake, like for example the ancient Roman green onion soup " Patella Lucretiana ", or Lucrezio's dish.

* Origanum vulgare gracile (= O. tyttanthum ) is originally from Kyrgyzstan, and has glossy green leaves and pink flowers.

Since the 1950s, the club's helmets have featured eagle wings, originally silver on a kelly green helmet.

A space frame of wrought iron arches, held together by horizontal tubular structures containing long prestressed cables, supports glass panes which were originally tinted green with copper oxide to reduce the significant heating effect.

* Pimientos de Padrón-small green peppers originally from Padrón ( a municipality in the province of A Coruña, Galicia ) that are fried in olive oil or served raw, most are mild, but a few in each batch are quite spicy.

Each Risk game comes with a number of differently-colored tokens denoting armies ( originally, one set each of black, blue, green, pink, red and yellow ).

The most common originally was to use a single image sensor with three filters ( once again red, green and blue ) passed in front of the sensor in sequence to obtain the additive color information.

The film was planned originally to be filmed in colour, but after several screen tests, it was changed to black and white because of the very obvious ' green tint ' of the heavy make-up required by Curtis and Lemmon when portraying Josephine and Daphne.

* Christmas Crunch: A special edition named Christmas Crunch was first released for the 1988 holiday season and contained Cap ’ n Crunch with red and green Crunch Berries in a green box with the Cap ’ n wearing a Santa Claus hat ( originally also containing a toy or Christmas tree ornament inside the box ).

Wadjet ( or ; Egyptian, " green one "), known to the Greek world as Uto () or Buto () among other names, was originally the ancient local goddess of the city of Dep ( Buto ), which became part of the city that the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet, House of Wadjet, and the Greeks called Buto ( Desouk now ), a city that was an important site in the Predynastic era of Ancient Egypt and the cultural developments of the Paleolithic.

Like many New England towns, Salem ’ s town green was originally centered around a church.

A fourth green town, Roosevelt, New Jersey ( originally called Homestead ), was planned but was not fully developed on the same large scale as Greenbelt.

The name comes from the colours of the Democratic Progressive Party, which originally adopted green in part because of its association with the environmental movement.

Session tapes from the initial 1 March 1967 recording of this song reveal that Lennon originally sang the line " Cellophane flowers of yellow and green " as a broken phrase, but McCartney suggested that he sing it more fluidly to improve the song.

The maple leaves in the shield, blazoned " proper ", were originally drawn vert ( green ) but were redrawn gules ( red ) in 1957 and a circlet of the Order of Canada was added to the arms for limited use in 1987.

The figures were also originally painted with bright pigments, variously coloured in pink, red, green, blue, black, brown, white and lilac.

The three colors of red, white and green originally represented the three guarantees of the Plan of Iguala.

Most of Thornhill's residential development took place during the 1990s, Cardiff County Council originally planned Thornhill as " The Villages of Thornhill "; with clusters of houses interspersed by large " green " areas.

During the early 80 ‘ s Cippenham Football Club amalgamated with Cippenham Cricket Club and originally played on the village green, crossed by a road.

The Board's logo consists of a standing stylized figure ( originally green ) with its arms wide upward.

The Błonia Park, originally established in the Middle Ages, is an example of a large village green in Cracow, Poland.

The home cap was completely navy blue, while the away cap featured a navy blue upper and a forest green bill.

On a green pitch, Benaud came in at 7 / 96 and featured in a century partnership in only an hour, making 43 himself.

The national flag of the ZAR featured three horizontal stripes of red, white, and blue ( mirroring the Dutch national flag ), with a vertical green stripe at the hoist, and was known as the Vierkleur ( lit.

Hal Roach Studios released a colorized version in 1986 that featured ghouls with pale green skin.

On 1 May 1898, the character was featured in a rather satirical cartoon called Casey Corner Kids Dime Museum but he was drawn ironically, as a bearded, balding old man wearing a green nightshirt which bore the words: " Gosh I've growed old in making dis collection.

The 1959 models were marketed as " the Linear Look ", and also featured a bar-graph speedometer which showed a green indicator through, then changed to orange until, then was red above that until the highest speed read by the speedometer,.

The new logo featured red outline with TEXACO in black bold lettering and small banjo logo with red star and green T at bottom.

The film featured a musical sequence for " The Wedding of the Painted Doll " that was presented in early two-color Technicolor ( red and green ).

Laid out as a “ villa park ,” the community featured traffic circles and green space, using the mansion as a central amenity.

This earlier crossing was largely identical to the pelican crossing, but instead of a green light for motorists, featured a white diagonal cross.

The " On Screen Cars " exhibit has a display of TV and film cars including Del Boy ’ s Reliant Regal as featured in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses and Mr Bean ’ s lime green Mini.

The main ident featured the two ( Wallace wears a red crown and Gromit wears a green crown ) eating Christmas dinner, with a large blue 2 ( the channel's logo ) situated in the middle of the table, covered with flashing Christmas lights.

Two significant secular commissions helped establish the firm's reputation in the late 1860s: a royal project at St. James's Palace and the " green dining room " at the South Kensington Museum ( now the Victoria and Albert ) of 1867 which featured stained glass windows and panel figures by Burne-Jones.

Produced by Jah Paul Jo and Rasta Li-Mon ( Lee Manning ) and released on their indie Birdcage Records label, the single sold amazingly well and represses featured the seven inch 45 RPM in a rasta rainbow of colors: red ( original ), green, yellow, blue, white and clear vinyl.

Unlike the chair at the Mall, the Met's outfield seating featured green bleacher-style benches.

The Rhythm identity featured a turquoise, black and green color scheme, and a logo adorned with a cobra.

An operator basically sat in front of this device that vaguely resembled today's PC, except the monitor was smaller, the device was more expensive ( US $ 2, 000 ), it featured a text-only ( 24 × 80 ) interface and the available colors for the screen were only green and bright green, although a seven-color IBM Color Monitors later became available.

Painted emerald green metallic, with a white interior, the Impala featured hardtop styling.

The new flag featured the imperial coat of arms within a yellow rhombus, on a green field.

The paintings featured colors like titanium white, phthalo green ( a color used often, but in small quantities ), phthalo blue, prussian blue, midnight black, dark sienna, Van Dyke brown, alizarin crimson, sap green, cadmium yellow, yellow ochre, Indian yellow, and bright red.