New Nick

Whatever this says about me I am going to go ahead and say it regardless: Nickelodeon was a big part of my upbringing, childhood and overall initial exposure to the way of the American psyche. Growing up in Mexico City, we had a UFO-sized satellite dish atop our house that grabbed American channels, and among my favorite was Nickelodeon. It started with Double Dare and You can’t do that on Television — this, of course, meant slime, greener than any booger I could have ever picked from my young nose. Then, as a beginner teenager in the early 1990s came Rugrats, Doug and the transcendental Ren and Stimpy. There were also live action programs, but at the moment, those escape me. Needless to say, I was kid, and Nickelodeon was a channel for me. Over the years I moved on to MTV, Cin