Could the show have moved to Universal Studios?

[szman]

AGH! I'm stupid! OF COURSE it was Amanda. I'm so sorry...

I don't mean seeing them together, I mean that I thought Angelique's last season was 2, and that Amanda started in 3.

Yes that is correct.

The only episode Amanda and Angelique both appeared in, is of course the 100th episode special.

I remember when All That returned with new episodes in the fall of 1996 with the original cast, I thought that was the 3rd season and the all of the original castmembers are coming back for another season. After about 6 episodes the season ended. Then in November 1996 the third season began with Amanda joining the cast and Angelique was gone and I was surprised, because I thought the 3rd season began all ready.

Since the 2nd season, All That has had long mid season breaks. I later learned that the reason they originally had these mid season breaks was so Kenan and Kel could shoot their tv show "Kenan and Kel."

Am I the only one, who thinks you can devide season 1-3 and season 4-6 into two eras. Between season 3 and 4 had the most dramitic cast change before the complete overal after season 6.

[szman]

Speaking of Ask Ashley, that was one of my favorite characters on the show. But I felt around season 5 or 6, they should have retired the character.

Once Amanda got older, the whole point of sketch was lost about a little girl yelling at people. They have retired other characters on the show like Baggin Saggin Barry because of castmembers age.

[szman]

And having the YCDTOTV name split among two generations just wasn't ideal since it would have inevitably been seen differently among them. I'm sure Nickelodeon learned so by seeing such a split between the '89-'90 seasons and earlier ones.

You mean like the older generation rips and berates the new All That. Whatever Nickelodeon learned, they forgot around 2000 or 2001.

I agree, if YCDTOTV continued deep into the 90's it would have been the same, with the people that grow up with the show in the 80's ripping it.

[CappieGuy]

I have to say I started watching All That after I started watching Figure It Out. I loooooovvvvvveeee that game show. The panelists' questions were hilarious and the slimings were great. Its too bad that this show was underrated. I am so glad Alisa did only 2 episodes cuz she was so annoying and disrupting the game. Is it me or do you think Lori Beth would have made a good host for YCDTOTV 2000 cuz her personality kinda is like Moose. Thank god I taped that game show. Hehehe.

[szman]

Lori Beth was the closest thing All That had to a host. She was the glue of the show in my opinion. In a way, she was the Abby for the show also, playing most of the adult female characters.

[slime2005]

OMG, Lori Beth Denberg was my absolute favorite star on all of Nickelodeon, next to Christine McGlade. She NEVER failed to make me laugh, literally. I loved her so much! My parents used to watch the show with me. Their favorite skits were Good Burger and the librarian. They were my favorites too, but I also loved Complaint Department (with good ol' Lori Beth in the silly wig!). Anyone remember that? How about "Okrah", the spoof on Oprah Winfrey with Kel Mitchell playing her. Haha! I would give $60 each of the first 4 or 5 seasons on DVD.

In my opinion, the Ask Ashley skits were a signal of the show's decline. I didn't think it was funny from the very start, and I was like 12 then.

[avaitor]

OMG, Lori Beth Denberg was my absolute favorite star on all of Nickelodeon, next to Christine McGlade. She NEVER failed to make me laugh, literally. I loved her so much! My parents used to watch the show with me. Their favorite skits were Good Burger and the librarian. They were my favorites too, but I also loved Complaint Department (with good ol' Lori Beth in the silly wig!). Anyone remember that? How about "Okrah", the spoof on Oprah Winfrey with Kel Mitchell playing her. Haha! I would give $60 each of the first 4 or 5 seasons on DVD.

In my opinion, the Ask Ashley skits were a signal of the show's decline. I didn't think it was funny from the very start, and I was like 12 then.

i think that in the first six,josh severe was the host.

[LastoftheGypsies]

I actually really loved the original "Ask Ashley" sketch (as evidenced by my subconsciously calling Amanda "Ashley"), but I do feel it went downhill quickly after that. It would've worked much better as just a one-time thing.

Katrina was my favorite of the original "All That" cast, the lemonade stand bits were so classic ("WAAAAHHH!! My mommy said that if I don't sell enough lemonade, we can't send my puppy to college! WAHHHHH!!"). But my sister and I (we were 11 and 6 when the show started) loved the "Good Burger" skits most of all...we thought those were so hilarious, we often fell on the floor laughing...those are probably the fondest memories I have of my sister, in between the incidents of her beating me up, etc, but that's another story altogether.

I used to have a bunch of classic All That episodes on tape, but I'll be damned if I know what happened to them all. I have one still, but it's only partial.

[slime2005]

Katrina was great too. I think I still have this one sketch on tape, The Wizard of Coz where she played Dorothy. I always loved that one...

"Toto, something tells me I'm not in my bathroom anymore."

the man made of pasta (instead of straw)- "I have no sauce! "

Lori Beth played the good witch and when Dorothy asked, "who are you?!", and she says awkardly, "uh... Lisa.. WELCOME to the land of Coz!"

I have one or two other nearly complete episodes of the classics. I know I have one of the spoofs on Cops and it was about them arresting everyone that has cheese (instead of illegal drugs. Reminds you of the Drugs episode of YCDTOTV, doesn't it? ). Theme song- "Bad cheese. Bad cheese. Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when there's cheese on you!"

Especially later on, the Ask Ashley skit best resembles what Nickelodeon is today- kids screaming, throwing fits, and overacting.

[szman]

Anyone remember Superdude? He was a superhero played by Kenan Thompson. I loved that sketch. After the Good Burger movie, should have made Superdude the movie as a follow up.

More people from my generation know what lastoast intolerante (though we still don't how to spell it correctly as you can see) mean than any other generation because of the Superdude sketch. In high school, my teacher asked us what lastoast intolerante meant, almost everyone in class knew the answer. I remember, anytime someone said to him "Your the best Superdude, even if you are lastoast intolerant", Superdude would hug the person.

Another favorite of mine was Baggin Sacking Barry, another Kenan character who has baggin saggin pants with lots of things inside including a plane, a bady, Abroham Lincoln. With the pants and the hat, he looked a lot like Rerun from What's Happening!!