{"id":77100,"date":"2023-03-04T16:44:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T16:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/what-is-slime-and-why-do-we-love-it\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T16:44:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T16:44:22","slug":"what-is-slime-and-why-do-we-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/what-is-slime-and-why-do-we-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Slime, and Why Do We Love It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As you learn this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/network\/nickelodeon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nickelodeon<\/a> might be whipping up 1000&#8217;s of gallons of its trademark inexperienced slime in some top-secret laboratory forward of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/nickelodeons-kids-choice-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Kids\u2019 Choice Awards<\/a>, which airs on Saturday, March 4 on the child-friendly hour of seven\/6c.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the KCAs is likely one of the few Nickelodeon exhibits the place the inexperienced stuff nonetheless flows freely, and no superstar is secure from the neon-colored goop. (Just ask <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/katy-perry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katy Perry<\/a>, who took a high-powered jet of slime to the face on the 2010 version of the awards present.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/90s-pop-culture-qOWOXIVqL1YBO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.giphy.com\/media\/qOWOXIVqL1YBO\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"Katy Perry GIF - Find &amp; Share on GIPHY\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/12\/7520315\/nickelodeon-slime-recipe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vox<\/a><\/em> recaps, slime made its first look on Nickelodeon in 1981 when the present rebroadcast the Canadian sketch comedy sequence <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/you-cant-do-that-on-television\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Can\u2019t Do That on Television<\/a><\/em>. But it actually took off within the \u201890s, thanks to Nickelodeon game shows like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/double-dare-1986\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Double Dare<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/figure-it-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Figure It Out<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Recipes for slime vary, with green jello, food dye, and baby shampoo commonly listed as ingredients. In a 2011 interview with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111028151458\/http:\/\/www.gourmet.com\/food\/gourmetlive\/2011\/102611\/10-questions-for-marc-summers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gourmet<\/a><\/em>, former <em>Double Dare<\/em> host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/marc-summers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marc Summers<\/a> said the slime base vanilla pudding, applesauce, oatmeal, green food coloring. \u201cWas it edible? For the first hour or so,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/kidschoice-kids-choice-awards-2021-xuvkt4UkFwMiTBjnvH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.giphy.com\/media\/xuvkt4UkFwMiTBjnvH\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"GIF by Kids' Choice Awards - Find &amp; Share on GIPHY\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TV Insider\u2019s Emily Aslanian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/675968\/nickelodeon-kids-choice-awards-what-is-slime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experienced the inexperienced stuff firsthand<\/a> in 2018, as she took a flip within the Slime Booth at Nickelodeon\u2019s places of work. \u201cIt\u2019s cold, but I was ready for that,\u201d she recounted. \u201cIt\u2019s also dense \u2014 much heavier than expected for a syrupy, lime-green concoction. The moment the chilly, semi-viscous liquid hit the top of my head, my mind went blank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"TfYPZAq8MU0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"7 Most Epic Slimes at the Kids Choice Awards\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TfYPZAq8MU0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/lori-beth-denberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lori Beth Denberg<\/a>, who was an everyday presence on <em>Figure It Out<\/em> within the Nineties, advised <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/kwp5e3\/remembering-sliming-on-nickelodeon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vice<\/a><\/em> that slime would \u201cstain your bras and underwear forever.\u201d Eventually, Denberg discovered find out how to take slime like a champ. \u201cSit straight up or lean back a little bit,\u201d she mentioned. \u201cIf you\u2019re gonna get slimed, get slimed. Don\u2019t curl up in a ball and let it run down your back [and] into your butt crack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And as a lot as there\u2019s a science to getting slimed, there\u2019s \u201cdefinitely a science to sliming,\u201d former Kids\u2019 Choice Awards government producer Jay Schmalholz advised Aslanian and different reporters in 2018. \u201cThere\u2019s a science to how we make it, and there\u2019s a science to how we distribute it. The first thing we do when we design our sets is start with the plumbing. So, there\u2019s been technical difficulties when you cue the slime and it doesn\u2019t go on cue. We\u2019ve had storage containers that heavily leaked and all of the sudden backstage like, \u2018<em>Where is all the slime coming from?!\u2019<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/kidschoice-kids-choice-awards-kca2017-l0Iy2NmgQ0GA9L7Ak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/l0Iy2NmgQ0GA9L7Ak\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"Kids Choice Awards GIF by Kids Choice Sports 2017 - Find &amp; Share on GIPHY\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, if it\u2019s such a problem to distribute and clear up, what\u2019s the attraction? Why will we like slime a lot? \u201cIn school and at home, children are accustomed to structure. From the moment they wake until bedtime each night, their day is planned down to the minute,\u201d college psychiatrist Heather Lappi advised <em>Vice<\/em>. \u201cWatching another child get slimed or messy and knowing that the child is not going to get grounded or have to clean up the mess is very alluring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lappi additionally cited schadenfreude and the prevalence concept of humor, explaining, \u201cWe laugh about misfortunes of others \u2026 because these misfortunes assert our superiority over their shortcomings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attraction extends to adults, too. Schmalholz mentioned that celebrities even volunteer to be slimed on the Kids\u2019 Choice awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlime embodies everything it means to be a kid,\u201d he mentioned. \u201cI relate it to this: When a kid sees a puddle, their first instinct is to jump into it. When an adult sees a puddle, their instinct is to walk around it. But the kid in all of us really wants to jump into it. It became this rite of passage for any kid growing up back then and even today \u2014 everybody wants to be slimed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 Kids\u2019 Choice Awards, Saturday, March 4, 7\/6c, Nickelodeon<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As you learn this, Nickelodeon might be whipping up 1000&#8217;s of gallons of its trademark inexperienced slime in some top-secret laboratory forward of the 2023 Kids\u2019 Choice Awards, which airs on Saturday, March 4 on the child-friendly hour of seven\/6c. In reality, the KCAs is likely one of the few Nickelodeon exhibits the place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}