WORD OF THE DAY! 2/2/13.

intestinal fortitude [in-tes-tuh-nuhl-fawr-tih-tewd]
noun
1. Courage; resoluteness; endurance; guts!

EX. Speaking of intestinal fortitude, "D-d-do you have it? Ooh! D-d-do you have it? GUTS!"

NICKELODEON GUTS 1992 THEME

I've talked about the Legend of the Hidden Temple, a Nickelodeon game show that challenged the intelligence, reflexes, agility, courage, and team work of kids from 1993-1995, leaving a deep impression in the collective childhoods of Gen Y. Today, we're talking about a similar program that ran from 1992-1996 and spawned quite a few memories-- especially, the theme (link above) and the Aggrocrag.

Now, while Legends of the Hidden Temple was probably the better show, all around between the historical theme, clever set, and awesome hosts, Guts had something special too; Guts challenged kids with intestinal fortitude to compete in an athletic battle of foam and broken dreams. In each episode, three children or teenagers (represented in Blue, Red, or Purple) competed in four variant contests that borrowed and combined elements from soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, etc. These four types of contests of skill were categorized as Aerial, Field, Track, and Pool events. the final event is a race up the Aggrocrag, a mountain of crystalline madness that only the mightiest warriors will defeat without accidentally violating one of the seven or so possible violations (ex. running across another contestants path).

The winner got to take home a piece of the Aggrocrag! Woo!

Another fun note, was that there was a variant called Globat Guts where teens representing various nations competed for a multicultural Olympicized variant of the usual program: interestingly enough, the top three teams were 1. United Kingdom, 2. Mexico, and 3. United States. But, also interesting, was that every nation represented several times winded up with a total of 12 medals and the "other country category" also had 12. I guess it shows that lots of kids have guts. D-d-do you have it?

GAME GRUMPS VS. GUTS PART 1/4

90's!!!

WTF WED! 90s NOSTALGIA & THE DEATH OF CHILDHOOD?

WTF WEDNESDAY PRESENTS

UKINOJOE'S 90s NICK'S LAMENT

This week's WTF WEDNESDAY is Ukinojoe's satirical lament from the perspective of a previously one-off character that appeared as a representative of a viewer's comment, 90s Nick. As I'm a 90s kid, I get both the nostalgia and the frustration towards this nostalgia that is all over the internet; our generation is getting older and, like every generation, we think our childhood was the best and, through our jaded eyes, what the kids are into these days doesn't compare. I feel sympathy for this character because he is unable to move on from his childhood; in the frustrated world of adulthood nothing is as cool as it was in cartoons. Or something like that.... I also get the irony of most of the things I post on this blog feeding off of 90s nostalgia. Anways, here is a transcript of 90s Nick's Lament:

"Remember the 90s?
The 90 were so much better.
Everything was better in 90s.
Here is the 90s. If you don't remember:
You did not have a childhood.
You were not a child.
You retroactively did not exist.

Remember Bobby's World?
It was a good show!
You're too young to remember.
It was a good show!

We had Nintendo 64. You don't.
Things were better than. Now all is lost.
Including hope.
Which is dead.

We had:
Nintendo games,
Bowling alleys,
Pizza parties,
McDonald's,
Skating rinks,
Ice cream,
Nickelodeon,
Cartoon Network,
Elmer's glue,
Safety scissors,
Tootsie rolls,
Combos,
Swimming pools,
O.J. Simpson,
Green Day--
We had Green Day.
What do kids these days have? Nothing.

The 90s are over. All that's left is despair.
The day the 90s died, all joy died.

This generation, they don't know
They don't know.
Kids these days,
kids these days.
This generation they don't know.
They missed out. "