Nickelodeon jumped on that wagon super hard and then faded. For years, as a culture, we’ve been in this wave of nostalgia to revisit our childhood. It was one of the earlier Nicktoons of its’ kind and also helped launch the career of Stephen Hillenburg in the process. Almost as if Joe Murray, the show’s creator, crafted an adult show in the guise of a children’s show. As an adult now, I have deeper fondness of the humor that the show created, its absolute randomness and honest depth and reliability.

Rocko was a show I liked as a child but never something that grew to love the vein that I did with Rugrats. Rocko’s Modern Life will always be one of the those shows. On the other hand, as I’ve aged, I found a new appreciation for certain properties that I didn’t have when I was a kid. Though, as an adult now, I have to admit some of those shows are better left to nostalgia than they are to the actual re-watch. The network helped to launch the careers of Kenan Thompson, Melissa Joan Hart, Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell and Josh Peck – just to name a few.

The likes of Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, The Wild Thornberries, All That, SpongeBob SquarePants and more. So many iconic shows came from one network. The age old question of that generation has always been, “Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network?” As a child, I was always partial to the era of Nickelodeon. Growing up in the 1990s meant watching hours of cartoons and playing outside.

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