But Craig and I met working for a company that does theme parks and visitor centers, so it was very buttoned-down. Their aesthetic was renegade, and they were really open to making stuff that was just about letting the creators run with some crazy ideas. The women that we worked with and the women that started the network were trying to do something that did not really have anything to do with animation as it was being practiced at the time. The girl power was palpable on the executive level. Well, first of all, Nick at that time was a product of great, awesome women making animation. Can you describe the world of Nick at that time and the process of you and the series’ creator, Craig Bartlett, coming together to work on the show? You had shows like Blue’s Clues, you had Hey Arnold!, you had Rugrats, and you had people like Coolio doing the theme song for Kenan & Kel. I want to start by going back to the ’90s and talking about the golden age of Nickelodeon. Below is an excerpt of a conversation from this week’s Ringer Music Show with Jim Lang, the composer of Hey Arnold! Listen to the full interview here. To mark the anniversary, The Ringer is looking back at Nick’s many iconic characters and the legacy of the network as a whole with the Best Nickelodeon Character Bracket. Introduced on August 11, 1991, under the brand of “Nicktoons,” Doug, Rugrats, and The Ren & Stimpy Show would quickly become hits and change the course of animation, television, and popular culture at large. Thirty years ago this week, a rising, but not-yet-ubiquitous kids network by the name of Nickelodeon launched its first original animated series.
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