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  • Hi, I’m John Green. Welcome to my salon. This is Mental Floss on YouTube. Did you know

  • that a young Bill Nye worked on a local comedy show in Seattle called Almost Live? During

  • one episode, the show’s host saidjigowatt,” meaninggigawatt.” And the story goes

  • that Bill jumped in to correct him and the host snapped, “Who do you think you are,

  • Bill Nye the Science Guy?” The name stuck.

  • And that’s the first of many outrageous truths about children’s television I’m

  • going to share with you today.

  • In 2000, People Magazine included Steve from Blue’s Clues on their list ofAmerica’s

  • 100 Most Eligible Bachelors.” And they weren’t the only ones to take notice. A New York Times

  • profile on Steve observed that hedeveloped an avid following among both preteen girls

  • and mothers...the latter scrutinize the show with an intensity that might make even Elmo

  • blush.” So congratulations to the New York Times for that weird, misogynistic editorializing.

  • Schoolhouse Rock was created by Bob Dorough in the 1970s. His boss told him, “My sons

  • can’t memorize their times tables, yet they sing along with Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling

  • Stones, and they get THEIR words.” Dorough was initially unsure if combining education

  • and rock and roll would work, but the show took off and aired through 1985. By the way,

  • Dorough’s personal favorite song wasLolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Hereabout

  • three generations of a family who sold adverbs. And he sang all three parts.

  • In 1997, over 700 people in Japan experienced seizures, vomiting, and eye problems after

  • watching an episode of Pokémon. In the episode, the characters go into a computer and destroyed

  • a virus, which causes Pikachu’s eyes to flash red and led to a television-induced

  • seizure in many viewers, mostly children. Mark says that this is a Pokémon. Not my

  • area of expertise.

  • So as you may know, the Internet has a theory[a] that Barney is Satan. No real surprise there,

  • but let me take you through the argument. You take the phraseCute Purple Dinosaur

  • and then replace the letter “U’s” with “V’s,” as the ancient Romans would.

  • Then you pick the Roman numerals out of that phrase, which it just so happens to add up

  • to 666. COINCIDENCE? Yes, definitely. I meandecide for yourself.

  • Sometimes nineties nostalgia strikes at weird times. Like in 2012 when there was an Adventures

  • of Pete & Pete reunion show featuring an appearance by the fictional band: Polaris. The group

  • spent time rehearsing at a warehouse in Providence and the grungy punk band playing next door

  • came over and said, “Are you a Polaris cover band?” Truly only nineties kids will get

  • that.

  • Nickelodeon aired new episodes of the Rugrats from 1991 to 2004. Since the premiere episode

  • was Tommy’s first birthday, if he aged naturally throughout the series, he would have been

  • 13 by the time it ended.

  • The Powerpuff Girls were originally named the Whoopass Girls[b]. Creator Craig McCracken

  • started a short in college calledWhoopass Stew!” before Cartoon Network bought the

  • idea and changed the name, you know, to tone it down a bit.

  • Now South Park is known for parodies, but sometimes other shows beat them at their own

  • game including, believe it or not, Arthur[c]. In a 1999 episode, the gang from Arthur entered

  • a contest to write an episode of a TV show. Buster’s idea was shown in the animation

  • style of South Park, complete with Buster getting killed by a spaceship and Francine

  • saying, “Hey! You squished Buster!” That was my Francine impression. I know it was

  • excellent.

  • Reading Rainbow was on PBS for 21 seasons, but that wasn’t enough for host LeVar Burton.

  • Along with his business partner, Burton spent 18 months acquiring all of the rights to the

  • show, so they could create an app version. The app launched in 2012 and has been enormously

  • successful. As if you needed more reason to believe that LeVar Burton is the coolest person

  • in the world. Well, it’s actually a three-way tie with T&G co-stars Wil Wheaton and Patrick

  • Stewart.

  • Scooby-Doo’s name was originallyToo Much.” But right before production started,

  • one of the creators of the program heard the Frank Sinatra songStrangers in the Night

  • and was inspired by the refrain: “Dooby-dooby-doo.” Is that copyright infringement? No, apparently

  • my singing was not good enough for that to be copyright infringement.

  • Remember in the nineties when people who had way too much free time were up in arms because

  • they thought that Tinky Winky, the Teletubby, was gay? Well, this rumor got so huge that

  • people involved with the creation of the Teletubbies had to make official statements. The BBC responded,

  • Tinky Winky is simply a sweet, technological baby with a magic bag.” And a representative

  • for the company that licensed the show in the U.S. said, “The fact that he carries

  • a magic bag doesn’t make him gay.” Chuckle.

  • The cartoon Rocko’s Modern Life is known for its hidden inappropriate innuendos. One

  • example is the restaurant in the show, “Chokey Chicken,” a possible reference to masturbation.

  • The name of the restaurant was eventually changed, by the way, toChewy Chicken.”

  • A few different Jack Russell Terriers played Wishbone on the TV show of the same name,

  • but the main dog actor was named Soccer. Now, I’m not calling Soccer a sellout, but he

  • was also known for his commercial work, with companies like Nike and Mighty Dog Dog Food.

  • Meanwhile, our office dog, Alex, can’t book a role to save her life. I mean, the only

  • thing she’s ever done is, like, be in our hot dog eating contest.

  • The creators of Yo Gabba Gabba!, Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, started as directing

  • partners who worked on music and skateboarding videos. After the men became fathers, they

  • were struck by how unimpressive children’s programming was, so they developed their own

  • show, despite having no experience with children’s TV or writing. The show took off when Napoleon

  • Dynamite director, Jared Hess, found it on the Internet and sent it to a Nickelodeon

  • exec and ever since, I’ve been hanging out with DJ Lance Rock.

  • All right, weve gotta speed this up!

  • Little Richard sang the Magic School Bus theme song.

  • Sesame Street has won over a hundred Emmys, by far the most Emmys of any television program

  • ever.

  • When Michael Cera was 14, he voiced Brother Bear in The Berenstain Bears.

  • Lamb Chop is still performing today with Shari Lewis’s daughter, Mallory. They do a lot

  • of performances for the military who promoted the puppet to a three-star general.

  • Miranda Cosgrove earns $180,000 for each episode of iCarly. Compare that with Miley Cyrus who

  • earned $15,000 per episode of Hannah Montana.

  • In 2011, the Fox News program Fox and Friends spent a segment devoted to whether the SpongeBob

  • book, SpongeBob Goes Green!, was pushing the political agenda that climate change is real.

  • Johnny Knoxville has cited Tom & Jerry as a major influence on Jackass.

  • Kermit the Frog of The Muppets was originally made out of Jim Hensen’s mother’s coat

  • and ping pong balls. To be clear, those were the eyes.

  • Inspector Gadget’s nemesis, Dr. Claw, is never shown in any episode. But he does have

  • an action figure that has a face.

  • Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie already had three kids when Jolie got pregnant with twins. To

  • help the other three understand, they showed their kids an episode of Dora the Explorer

  • about twins.

  • And lastly, we return to the salon so I can tell you that in 2001, Bob the Builder covered

  • Mambo No. 5” with relevant lyrics like “A little bit of tiling on the roof.”

  • That version hit number one on the UK charts.

  • Thanks for watching Mental Floss here on YouTube, which is made with the help of these nice

  • people. Every week we endeavor to answer one of your mind-blowing questions. This week’s

  • question comes from Victor Kugler who asksWhat was the first flavour of ice cream?”

  • That’s a fantastic question, Victor, I don’t know the answer. By the way, this is kind

  • of a Transformer ice cream cone. It starts out as an ice cream cone and then it becomes

  • a little person! But Meredith tells me it depends on how loosely you want to define

  • ice cream.” Like in the 6th century, people in the Persian Empire would combine

  • snow with grape-juice concentrate, and that was sort of ice cream. But, the first known

  • ice cream recipe involving actual cream comes from England in the early 1700s. The recipe

  • mentions multiple fruits as flavor options including cherry, raspberry, and lemon. So

  • one of those. If you have a mind-blowing question please leave it in comments and well endeavor

  • to answer as many as possible. Thanks for watching Mental Floss here on YouTube and

  • as we say in my hometown - Don’t forget to be awesome.

  • [a]We'll want text probably: "CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR" -->

  • "CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR" --> "C V V L D I V" -->

  • "100 5 5 50 500 1 5" --> These add up to 666

  • [b]Can we say this on the show? It's just too good to not include. Maybe with a bleep?

  • Or alternate: "'The Whoop-A Girls.' Only the 'A' was an actual curse word that we can’t

  • say on this show. Creator Craig McCracken created a short in college called 'Whoop-A

  • Stew!'" [c]Maybe we can link? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6AdWpll1Y

  • at 2:10

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