Anyone know why Moose decided to stop getting slimed? I mean, you got paid more money for getting slimed. Why would you want less money? Plus it was sort of her character trademark. Why would she want to ruin the character?
Moose stops the slime
Anyone know why Moose decided to stop getting slimed? I mean, you got paid more money for getting slimed. Why would you want less money? Plus it was sort of her character trademark. Why would she want to ruin the character?
Interesting point, she wasn't slimed or even watered it all during her remaining episodes she appeared in the 1986 season.
She just didn't like it, and figured she'd been having it done to her long enough.
Robert A. Black, YCDTOTV writer 1985-86
http://www.rablack.com
Ah yes... very tricky, those Argentinians...
I can imagine spending 5 years doomed to be a human klenex would hurt an actors dignity.
did you ever actually hear her complaining about the slime?
Is it really THAT hard to believe why she didn't want to get slimed anymore?
"Without a song or dance, what are we? So I say 'Thank you for the music', for giving it to me...."
For the extra money I would have had a lot worse things than slime dumped on my head.
Although I suppose as the star of the show she figured she was already getting paid enough without the exrtra slime money. I just wonder if she hated it that much the whole run of the show-or if eventually she just got sick of it. Maybe everyone really did complain about the slim all the time and that's why Roger Price incorporated it into the characters-seeing as how so much of their personalities were based on their real life selves.
The thing people disliked most about the slime was that you couldn't get it out of your hair. Your only chance was to blow-dry it and brush it out, but even that didn't work all the time. I would see Alasdair and the other kids walking around for two or three days after they got slimed, and they'd still have little green bits in their hair. My guess is that Christine was always bothered by that, since they tried having her wear a wig for one season to see if that helped.
Robert A. Black, YCDTOTV writer 1985-86
http://www.rablack.com
Ah yes... very tricky, those Argentinians...
I heard the wig was because she had a punk rock haircut that season. Which makes me love her even more. Christine was a punker! Hmm a Canadian punker in the 80's. Maybe she saw Teenage Head! ( the band, not ..well.. you know) they were supposed to be Canada's answer to the Ramones.
I can't speak for Christine obviously, but I can say, having been slimed once with the "official" recipe and several other times with an "unofficial" recipe, you could NOT pay me enough to endure it as regularly and for as long as Christine did (especially since I have the same kind of hair that she had). (EDIT: And the wig could have been for both reasons-she DID cut her hair, and the wig may have been for the purpose of hiding that as well as for shielding her from slime).
Last edited by LastoftheGypsies; November 2nd, 2011 at 10:16 AM.
"Without a song or dance, what are we? So I say 'Thank you for the music', for giving it to me...."
I wonder if she had any issues with getting made a fool of.
I mean getting slimed was usually the result of being tricked by someone else and then them laughing at you as it dumped down. In addition to that, you got slimed because you "didn't know" things-which also could make a person feel dumb. Also she was pretty much the Mr. Bill of the show in every other way, getting all the torture, and a lot of thart seemed to stop along with the slime.
It would be sort of like if Wile E. Coyote was able to renagotiate his contract and say no more anvils.
When you think about it, she stopped the water too-and the water didn't get stuck in her hair -it just was sort of humiliating. And wasn't there even an episode made where she got a raise and so everyone tries to outsmart her into getting slimed but fails?
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