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The lewdness was due to executives trying to pitch shows and ideas in the network's fledgling days, a task that took up a healthy amount of daylight. Everyone remembers Mo from Nickelodeon Guts; the accent and striped shirt were synonymous with kids flailing on bungie cables while trying to dunk basketballs and maneuver wave pools with flimsy paddles.

Funny enough, Mo walked into the audition for Guts with absolutely no knowledge on sports or the show that she was auditioning for. Like most good things, it seems that the acquisition of Mo for the show was just a lucky pick that became one of the cornerstones of the program. For any kid athlete that was lucky enough to participate on Guts got a medal put around their neck while they were on the podium.

It was the true victor; the kid who scaled the Aggro Crag first and had the highest score overall, that got to hold a piece of the very Aggro Crag that they conquered over their heads, soaking in the cheers and praise from peers and Mike O'Malley alike.

Except when the cameras stopped rolling and the lights went out, that piece of the Crag was taken back by Nick. Not all was lost, however; victors would receive a piece of the Crag, albeit a cheaper version, in the mail after the fact. Childhood crushes are an odd thing; as hormones begin to flow and furniture begins to be secretly humped when no one's home, the attraction to the opposite gender begins to take place.

For one Nickelodeon Guts contestant, the attraction evolved into a full obsession with British ref Moira Quirk. Moira revealed in an interview that a young fan had taken quite a liking to her after his time on the show, sending her letters and following her around to the point that it became a problem. No word on if he still stalks Mo, or if he has moved onto other British gameshow hosts after her refusal to scale his Aggro Crag.

It's fun to watch interviews with the stars of Nick's yesteryear, especially when it comes to the really cooky hosts and stars of your childhood. However, everything may not have been as innocent as projected on the big screen; there was, and still is, talk that host Mike O'Malley and co-host Mo hooked up on the Aggro Crag.

And why not? If you worked on one of the most prominently rad gameshows of the 90s, why not shag on top of the manmade mountain of your successes? O'Malley and Mo both make a point to deny it in every interview, even when they aren't asked. Seems like a subconscious admittance of guilt to us.

It's draining enough being on TV; actors, contestants, and hosts have often voiced the effect that long shoots and bright stage lights can have on the psyche. They are usually adults; when it comes to kids, the outcome is multiplied tenfold as exhaustion and frustration take hold.

Kids participating in Nick gameshows were often subjected to fifteen hour long shoots, which were often broken up nonsensically, adding to the sense of disorientation apparent in most of the episodes.

The shrine of the silver monkey must be particularly hard to assemble after your eleventh hour on set, but still; the head goes on last Billy, stop embarrassing yourself.

If you've seen Nick Arcade, you know that it's the dream of every contestant, or spectator, to participate in the video zone, the VR game encased in fog and flashing lights. As Phil Moore gets them pumped for the ensuing challenge, it's easy to see their naive 90's eyes fill with excitement as he describes their plight against wizards, mummies, and whatever else the substance-crazed writers came up with.

Then, you watch as they flail around pathetically. Seems that those VR worlds aren't as easy as they look, as kids actually watch themselves on a monitor while traversing a physical green screen set. That would be difficult as an adult, let alone a jacked up kid who just trounced the other team by playing ActRaiser. Mostly everyone has seen those pictures of kids through the ages unwrapping consoles and having complete and utter spazz attacks next to their holiday symbol of choice.

The wrapping paper is reduced to confetti as the kid realizes that they won't ever have to go outside again. Now imagine that excitement, except you just stumped a group of panelists on Nick's Figure It Out. Well apparently with a lack of wrapping paper to take his excitement out on, a victorious contestant on the show turned to host Summer Sanders, bopping her square in the nose in a display of victory.

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Contestants guess the correctness of celebrities' answers in order to win spaces in a tic-tac-toe game. Creators Merrill Heatter uncredited Bob Quigley uncredited. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Photos 6. Top cast Edit. Merrill Heatter uncredited Bob Quigley uncredited. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Nine celebrities, seated in a three-by-three tier as in a tic-tac-toe board, joined two contestants one of them a champion in a game known best for the celebrities' witty answers to questions.

The object was to win an otherwise standard game of tic-tac-toe by determining whether a celebrity was giving a correct answer to a general knowledge question or bluffing "agree" or "disagree". During the first complete game of a show, a "Secret Square" game offered the contestants a bonus prize package for a correct answer.

The contestant winning the best-of-three match was champion and returned to face a new challenger. In later years, daily winners were allowed to select a celebrity, and won a bonus prize concealed inside an envelope.