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You Can't Do That on Television

1979–1990NickelodeonComedy

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The Ottawa-made sketch show that gave Nickelodeon its slime, and its house style for a decade.

You Can't Do That on Television opens with a main title sequence of 38 seconds.

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The opening titles

Season 1

38s

The cast against the bus set. The alternative copy runs the opening and closing together.

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