40 Facts About Your Favorite Kids Shows to Take in Before Dad Yells at You to Go Outside and Play!

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40 Facts About Your Favorite Kids Shows to Take in Before Dad Yells at You to Go Outside and Play!
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You know the feeling. You’re watching TV on a nice cool couch in the basement when you hear your dad’s footsteps overhead. You just know he’s about to come downstairs, turn off the TV and tell you what a nice day it is outside. 

Pfft. Grass? Sunlight? Pollen? No thank you. We’re fine right where we are, thank you.

Apologies for making you relive that childhood trauma. Here are some awesome kids-show facts to make up for it…

Captain Planet

LeVar Burton, AKA Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, voiced Captain Planet's Kwame. CRACKED.COM

Sonic the Hedgehog

Jaleel White is best known for his role as Steve Urkel. Не is also the voice of Sonic from Sonic the Hedgehog (1993-1994) CRACKED COM

DuckTales

CRACKED.COM Don Cheadle voiced Donald Duck in the season one finale of DuckTales when Donald swallowed a voice modulator that made him able to speak with a normal voice.

Rugrats

Reptar from The Rugrats Movie was actually voiced by... ...Busta Rhymes. CRACKED COM

Avatar: The Last Airbender

GRAGKED.COM AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER The Boulder, a character inspired by The Rock... ...was voiced by another WWE legend, Mick Foley aka Mankind.

Young Justice

ALYSSA MILANO IS THE VOICE OF POISON IVY... .. in the series Young Justice. CRACKED.COM

Hey Arnold! (Again)

HEY ARNOLD sounded funny for a reason 33 CRACKED.COM The problem with kid actors is puberty. Once the voice changes, Arnold starts sounding like a grown-ass man. In all, five different actors voiced Arnold - six if you count Arnold as a baby.

Doug

DOUG started as a fruit salesman CRACKED.COM Before he starred in one of Nickelodeon's first cartoons, Doug shilled in a commercial for Florida Grapefruit. Не bounced on a pogostick to show that grapefruit juice puts a bounce in your step.

My Life As A Teenage Robot

MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT was ruined by Catwoman CRACKED.COM XJ9 was a robot designed to defend Earth but all she wanted to do was live like a normal teenager. Enter Vexus, evil queen of a robot planet. The role was purr-fectly voiced by Batman's Eartha Kitt.

Aaahh! Real Monsters

AAAHH! REAL MONSTERS took place in a noirish dystopia INC CRACKED.COM Animator Gábor Csupó based the look of the monster academy's city dump on Brazil and Blade Runner. A movie version was shut down because it was considered too dark for children.

As Told By Ginger

AS TOLD BY GINGER was influenced by Welcome to the Dollhouse CRACKED.COM The Sundance winner was a coming-of-age dark comedy about an upopular outcast. It inspired Emily Kapnek to create a Nick version, with storylines about absent parents, depression, and unrequited love.

Captain Kangaroo

The first kids' show 1955 CRACKED.COM Captain Kangaroo was a show based on the warm relationship between grandparents and children and inspired all your favorite shows when you were a wee lad or lass.

Captain Video

The first sci-fi series 1949 GARTAIN VIDEO CRACKED.COM Captain Video and His Video Rangers was a kids' show with a $25 prop budget per episode.

Shining Time Station

CRACKED GEORGE CARLIN PLAYED MR. CONDUCTOR ON SHINING TIME STATION. The foul-mouthed comedian told stories of Thomas the Tank Engine on 45 episodes between 1991 and 1993. Не also narrated 104 episodes of Thomas and Friends, and was featured in 19 one-off Thomas-related videos and films.

Bob Saget

CRACKED DANNY TANNER BY DAY, FILTHY COMEDIAN BY NIGHT. Bob Saget was a comedian known for some of the crudest jokes imaginable. Не even told the dirtiest version of the dirtiest joke The Aristocrats in the 2005 doc. Не also somehow played the dorkiest dad on the most precious sitcom Full House.

Full House

The Full House TO THE FANS OF FULL HOUSE FULL HOUSE/FULLER HOUSE WE LOVE YOU BUT PLEASE RESPECT OUR NICE NEIGHBORS AND OUR QUIET STREET NO DOUBLE-PARKING NO LOITERING NO LOUD TALKING NO LITTERING NO BLOCKING DRIVEWAYS E QUICK AND COURTEOUS DON'T MAKE ANYONE CRACKED.COM SAY HOW RUDE! After a few years of peace and quiet, neighbors again clocked over 1,000 tourists a day right after Fuller House was announced. It's hard to imagine 1,000 people have even watched the reboot.

The Addams Family

The Addams Family living room set was decorated in pastel colors. A location photo recently surfaced showing that the famously dark and gothic show was actually filmed on a rose, seafoam, and buttercup set. CRACKED.COM

The Angry Beavers

THE ANGRY BEAVERS confronted mortality CRACKED.COM The scripted (but unaired) final episode would have shown the Beavers becoming aware that they were mere cartoons on the brink of cancellation. In TV terms, they realized they were about to die.

Pelswick

PELSWICK preferred to be known as 'permanently seated' CRACKED.COM Creator John Callahan was paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident. His dark, self-deprecating humor inspired Pelswick, the first kid show with a paraplegic lead character. (And a grouchy, funny one at that.)

Recess

Back to School Movies and Episodes 1997 Recess The New Kid The second episode of the cartoon it actually the first to feature the entire main cast, as Gus starts his first day at Third Street Elementary School to meet the gang and overcome the stigma/caste system as the New Kid. CRACKED.COM

Kids Inc.

DLO Kids Incorporated was a musical TV show aired during the '80s and '90s. It featured children and teenagers, many of whom would become famous after

Elmo’s Christmas Countdown

123 SESAME STREET aired a special in 2007 called Elmo's Christmas Countdown. It featured a wide array of celebrities and Muppets appearing in skits

Sesame Street

SESAME STREET traumatized many of its young viewers with an episode where Bert and Ernie visit an Egyptian tomb and find mummies that look exactly lik

Rocko’s Modern Life

Carlos Alazraqui played an angry racist on Reno 911! But on Nickelodeon, he was an affable wallaby. Alazraqui is best known for his role as Deputy Jam

Boy Meets World

Boy Meets world The kids pretty much went to school on set. RECYCLE All of the child actors did their school work together on set. It always ended up being more like a regular school classroom, Danielle Fishel has said. CRACKED.COM

Source: Parade

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

VOICE TALENT WAS ESPECIALLY HEROIC CRACKED.COM Kaneda, in the original English dub, is voiced by Cam Clarke (Leonardo; the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series), Masaru and Kai were voiced by Bob Bergen (current Porky Pig), and, in the 2001 remaster, Kaneda was voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam Park, the black Power Ranger).

Source: Uproxx

Archie Comics Appearance

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES HUNG OUT WITH ARCHIE. When Veronica gets kidnapped in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Meet Archie comic, the Turtles sho

Peppa Pig

Australia banned an episode of Peppa Pig for encouraging kids to not be afraid of spiders. Is Australia home to several species of venomous spiders? S

Peter Laird

Co-creator Peter Laird has nothing but contempt for the 1987 cartoon adaptation of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES In 2012 he wrote a blog post about wha

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