Date:    Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:21:08 -0500
<br>From:    Fred Shapiro  fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Slimed
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<br>On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Bob Haas wrote:
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<br>  Fred, I think the name of that show was _You Can't Do That on Television_.
<br>  It was a kid's show in which members of the cast were frequently drenched
<br>  from above with nasty green goo.  I don't know if they called the practice
<br>  "sliming."  I didn't watch the show.  I do know that it was a Canadian
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<br>  cast. The other possiblity was Nik's game show for kids--Double-Dare--
<br>  where contestants were also doused with slime.  The problem with these
<br>  shows as sources for "slimed" is that they both aired after the original
<br>  _Ghostbusters_ film, which I believe premiered in 1982 or 1983.  I think
<br>  that both Nik shows came afterwards.  Anyone?
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<br>_Ghostbusters_ came out in the summer of 1984.  Apparently _slimed_ was
<br>used in "You Can't Do That on TV" on Nickelodeon prior to that.
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