What Happend to the Disney Channel we grew up with?

[laundry]

You go to be on Figure it Out?!?!?! That is so cool! I loved watching that show growing up. What was your talent?

you beat me to the question!! im dyyyyingggg to know!!!! make it a quick response please!!

 

[punkyb87]

it's ok. heck, when I was in 6th grade I got to be on Figure It Out (the year they did "family style") which would have felt like cheating if we didn't spend the week before at Disney World (they paid for my flight and my mom's so we had them book the flight there for a week early and got my dad and sister tickets on the same flights)
that and I won

I still like Disney better

wow that is sooo cool I always wanted to be on one of those game shows!

you beat me to the question!! im dyyyyingggg to know!!!! make it a quick response please!!

lol same here

 

[orangekid13]

If I had a vcr I could record it from a tape to my computer and post it on youtube... it's hard to explain.

When I was in grade school in Washington there were bars in the playground to play on, it was just a level bar a good height off the ground (there were shorter ones at the end of the playground for the younger kids, it kind of wrapped around the building and the fields were past, they kept us seperate so it was easier to round everyone up at the end of recess). The bars were a couple inches in diameter and there was a pad under them, they were just to play on...

At my grade school (not sure about any others) a lot of kids got good at a bunch of different ways to spin around and around the bar holding on different ways (standing with it in front of you reaching over and holding behind your knees, one leg over holding the bar, one leg over holding your leg, sitting on it holding the bar, sitting on it holding ankles around the bar, and the hardest one: standing with the bar behind you, wrapping your arms behing the bar and holding onto your shirt. Assume one of the positions and start spinning... forwards was easier than backwards on some, harder on others, for the easy ones it didn't make much of a difference.

I got good at all of them, then moved to California. The playground equipment was closer to a jungle gym and there were only a couple high chin-up bars, I tried to play on them but the texture was wrong and they were too skinny.
Then though some budget miracle when I was in 5th grade my school got the money to get a new playground... the stuff we got was from the same company that made the big toys at my grade school in WA (the bars weren't from them) but we got a set of 3 pull up bars at different heights, and one of them was just barely low enough to spin on. (after a while I had to start piling up the bark underneath cause it got compacted.) My 4th grade teacher saw what I could do and was impressed from the start, later that year they started running commercials on Nickelodeon to send in tapes of your talents, inventions, accomplishments, etc... My 4th grade teacher told me about it a few times, he was so excited he made sure to tell my parents about directly, then bugged them about it a couple more times after the first shows started airing.

At the end of the school year my grandparents were in town and we had them bring their video camera. I think it was after school got out on the last day that we taped me doing a bunch of different spins. We sent in the tape with all the info they needed and waited, I didn't think anything was going to happen.

Later that summer my mom had taken my sister and I up to visit my grandparents in WA and we got back to their place one evening and they had a weird message from my dad saying we really needed to call home when we got back, but he didn't sound worried which is why it was weird. We called him and he had my mom put me on the phone and told me there was a message on the answering machine for me when he got home from work. He played it for me and it was one of the producers of Figure It Out saying they wanted to fly me and a parent to Orlando to be on the show.

The following weeks we worked with the producer to schedule it and we had a few million questions for them, we decided that since I was going we shouldn't leave my big sister out so we planned a week in Disney World beforehand. We flew to Florida on the 3rd day of my 6th grade year, on my birthday. That night I was sitting on the top bunk in our room at the Wilderness Lodge, opening presents and eating birthday cookies and Mark McGuire broke the home run record.

We moved to some weird really cheap kinda dirty hotel with a broken scary elevator and lipstick on the glasses and the next day we filmed the show. I won all 3 rounds to get a Nintendo 64, a mountain bike, and a trip to Busch Gardens. That night my sister got food poisoning, we had to get up really really early for the flight home, and it was back to school. (We decided we should have gone from the $60/night place to the $300/night WL doing WDW after Figure It Out so the change wasn't so disappointing.)

The words they had to guess were "Human Pinwheel On Monkey Bars And Spotter" (cause it was the year they did Family Style, so they had to pretend my mom was involved) and I was on the second half of the show with the girl that rode ostriches. The panel was Kevin Kopelow, Michelle Trachtenberg, Robert Ri'chard, and Lori Beth Denberg. Nobody was slimed cause they were running short on time so they changed the secret slime action from wearing blue to sticking your finger in your ear.

 

[Joanna71985]

I have a feeling I may have seen that one.

That is so cool though!

 

[laundry]

oh my god hahaha. im glad you typed out such a long explanation and tbh, i usually just skim those huge posts. BUT YEAH i totally read the wohle thing! way to go youre like a celebrity to me right now. my friend and i honestly tried absolutely everything to be on the show, including things we saw other people on the show doing. well, for example, we saw one kid bite cheese into the shape of states (seirously, how dumb) and we thought if we did that we could be on the show. MAN i wanted that soooo bad.

 

[salvaXdana]

awh thats awesome that you were on figure it out!

just wondering, did anyone else watch 'mousercise?'
i just remember waking myself up at like 5:30 in the morning every day before school just so i could do the excersises hahaha
heres a video i found of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTsYy0vm8Ys

 

[pyr8freak87]

awh thats awesome that you were on figure it out!

just wondering, did anyone else watch 'mousercise?'
i just remember waking myself up at like 5:30 in the morning every day before school just so i could do the excersises hahaha
heres a video i found of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTsYy0vm8Ys

Was it just me or did mickey mouse look a little like mighty mouse in this video?

 

[salvaXdana]

hahaa he did! just a bit!

 

[pyr8freak87]

hahaa he did! just a bit!

Good so it wasn't just me....lol....for a minute i was starting to think I was seeing things

 

[DisneyFanForLife89]

I was just thinking about the old Disney channel yesterday!!!

Anyone remember when they used to have Zoog Disney, or whatever you call it?

 

[CarrieQuiteContrary]

I totally remember zoog!

I really miss the old Disney shows.. Once Lizzie McGuire came on is when everything changed I think. I wouldnt think the show that are on the Disney channel now were that bad if the characters didnt act so stupid... They WAY overact everything. I know they are "trying" to do that, but its to the point where its annoying to watch. I have an 8 year old sister and watch with her sometimes, when I can stomach it, haha.