I've had a weird little crush on Steve Carell ever since his correspondent days on The Daily Show, but no one -- apart from a few fellow TDS fans -- has really agreed with my awkward attraction until now.A few nights ago, Justin Timberlake hosted Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, which is an annual brightly-colored celebration of slime and burping and all things immature. As Tobey MacGuire and Steve Carell stepped up to present the award for Favorite Animated Movie, there was a collective gasp heard from anyone older than 14 in Nickelodeon-watching households... "The 40 Year-Old Virgin could totally beat up Spiderman". Look at these pictures! Someone has obviously been working out. Carell looks like he could pound in MacGuire's nerdy little face and take his lunch money. Of course, this strange shift in the public consensus on "hotness" was so sudden that it knocked the Earth off its axis and we are currently spiraling into the sun.
Cable was just starting to make its way into people's homes when
I was young, so my friends who actually had cable were able to watch shows like Fraggle Rock and other
cool stuff while I was stuck with network TV. This may explain why most of my younger years were spent at a
friend's house watching Nickelodeon and a little show called You Can't Do That On Television. It was this
show, I believe, that introduced the whole "slime" concept that has become synonymous with the kid network.
There's a bunch of full episodes on YouTube right now, though the quality on some of them is a bit low. Still, if
you're roughly my age and need that nostalgia fix, they're worth checking out. 
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