26SpongeBob Generated $12 Billion
By 2015, SpongeBob SquarePants had generated $12 billion for Nickelodeon.
27. In 2012, mathematician Vi Hart sent an open letter to Nickelodeon demonstrating that SpongeBob's pineapple house was geometrically impossible. In response, pineapple designer Kenny Pittenger posted a new "mathematically correct" design on his blog, which the show later used.
28. Marketing to children, including commercials and toys based on kids' shows, was illegal in the United States until Ronald Reagan took office and changed the law. This led to the "Dark Ages of Animation," which lasted until 1991, when Nickelodeon shifted focus back to animators and storytelling.
29. Almost all Nickelodeon shows have a lifespan of about 60 episodes.
30. Nickelodeon fired the creator of Ren & Stimpy, partly because his episodes became too offensive and unairable.
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31Nickelodeon Warns About Hidden Sugars
During the mid-2000s, Nickelodeon ran an ad warning about the dangers of hidden sugars and how to correctly identify them.
32. A woman once attempted to sue Nickelodeon, claiming she couldn't have sex because Marc Summers threw a pie at her face on Double Dare. The network settled by paying her $25,000 to "go away."
33. For over three years in the mid-90s, Gumby reruns were the highest-rated show on Nickelodeon.
34. During a scene in the sitcom "Three's Company," John Ritter's scrotum briefly fell out of his shorts. Nickelodeon deleted the scene for reruns. Ritter humorously commented, "I've requested that [Nickelodeon] air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don't."
35. In 1992, Nickelodeon buried a time capsule containing items like a Game Boy, Reebok Pump shoes, Home Alone on VHS, and Gak. They plan to open it in 2042.
