“I was sort of hoping to find some challenges to replicate for a more adult party, and I didnât find them, but thatâs okay, good on you Nickelodeon.
Double Dare was always mystifying as a kid because I almost never knew the quiz answers and never really understood why people bothered with them because donât you want to do the physical challenges?
I always thought Iâd be great at that obstacle course if I got a crack at it. But now as an adult with lower self esteem, I recognize I probably wouldnât have gone on Double Dare and been so amazing at the obstacle course that theyâd make it an Olympic event and Iâd be the first American to win gold (pretty sure thatâs how basketball got in the Olympics, america was just really good at it).
I also always thought the same thing about Nickelodeon Guts. If I could get on that one, Iâd show them a thing or twoâ¦
UNfun fact: Iâve tried buying a piece of the aggro crag on eBay. Mostly what you find are replicas. I wonder if the kids who won those still have them or if their moms threw them away.
I ALSO wanted Nickelodeon to take over my school. Partially because I hated school so damn much that even one day of not school was huge. I listened to an interview with a guy whose school got taken over, and he said it was legit and fun. Which makes it even worse. I was hoping to hear it was just a marketing scam and kinda sucked. That way I wasnât missing anything.
My school never got taken over, I never appeared in wild n crazy kids, I never successfully won anything by saying âSnick or treatâ when the phone rang.
What the fuck?
Maybe some Nickelodeon executive will hear my pathetic cry and bring this shit back, take over my work or something.
And this is growing up: when I was a kid, I thought I should be on Double Dare because of my obstacle course prowess. As an adult, I think Iâve earned it through my talents as a complainer on the Internet. “