Nickelodeon Is Bringing Back the Classics to Help You Feel Again (It Won’t Work)

The bird never stays for long before stretching its wings—feathered with memories of late night games of truth or dare, of eating sugar until you felt dizzy, of your grandmother’s hands as they combed through your hair—and flying away. You wish it would stay awhile. You wish you could keep it. Nickelodeon wants to help you cage that bird.

It won’t work, of course, but Nickelodeon will try (for a price). They’ll bring back the cartoons and sketch shows that thrilled you as a kid, ask you, for the sake of their advertisers, to get as excited about Doug and Hey Arnold! now as you did in the ‘90s. “We are looking at our library to bring back ideas, shows that were loved, in a fresh new way,” Nickelodeon’s president of content and development and CHIEF PANDERER Russell Hicks tells Variety. “…We are getting ready to bring back some of the ones they’ve told us multiple times they want to have brought back.”

Hicks won’t say which shows they’re considering reviving (in fact, he doesn’t even say if they’ll be full series—the beloved characters of your youth could just be brought back and killed again for a movie or special). Who knows? It might be Rocko’s Modern Life or—in yet another one of life’s many disappointments—those lumpy grotesques from Rugrats. Thankfully, you’ve learned to stop getting your hopes up.

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