Nickelodeon show jokingly disses Tony Awards

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 9:37pm

https://youtu.be/osvOaPuUmx0  Things like this just egg on the kids who watch that Theatre is not a popular or acceptable thing in today’s culture. Obviously, we know different but I don’t think this is a very good way to introduce the Tony Awards to kids, whether it was a joke or not. (“We were that kid” rings a bell.)

[GeorgeandDot]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 9:40pm

I'd be lying if I said that this didn't piss me off beyond belief.  As if theatre kids don't feel isolated enough

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 9:48pm

Pro tip: Don't shoot down the kids who will be putting MONEY in YOUR pockets as you bring SPONGEBOB to BROADWAY!

*mic drop*

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 9:50pm

What the hell?! This is absolutely infuriating. It put me right back in my middle school mentality, and now my heart is breaking for the kids who watched that and think loving theatre or the Tonys is something to be ashamed of. So very sad.   

[Cfried]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 10:02pm

This is absolutely horrible and beyond unnecessary. 

[Itonlytakesajourney]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 10:10pm

A children's show made my blood boil. A children's show. What complete disrespect towards every actor or director or producer or designer, etc. on Broadway. Now, in addition to edgy middle school boys calling theatre degragatory terms, every young kid will watch this and wonder if having any interest in theatre is acceptable or not. What a gross thing to do.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 11:02pm

So, are any if you going to do anything about it? 

 

 

[N. Wratch]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 11:08pm

I'm more confused and perplexed than mad (though I am certainly mad). I haven't seen this attitude towards Broadway in a long time, and it seems like the weirdest time to take a dump on musical theater as shows like Hamilton are changing the perception of it (especially among the Nickelodeon crowd). I would have expected this joke maybe ten years ago, but certainly not today.

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 11:09pm

As a teacher of awkward, artsy students grades 4-8, this upset me and I used the comment form on the Nickelodeon website to address my concern.

If you feel compelled to do so, here's the link!

http://www.nick.com/report-a-concern/

 

[Willie4316]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 11:20pm

As someone who had been ashamed by my love of theatre in my younger years before I realized how widely accepted and supporting it is, this infuriates me. While it can be played off as a pun that kids don't like award shows, citing something specific and part of real time television just comes across as derogatory and stereotypical. It only serves to enforce the backwards old school view of "boys should do sports and nothing that would cause them to appear in a less than macho way."

Also as a side note, a really boneheaded decision considering a Nickelodeon stable is coming to Broadway in 3 months time. 

Updated On: 8/15/17 at 11:20 PM

[HenryTDobson]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 11:25pm

Offensive and not funny in the slightest. They should have went with something really boring, like a documentary about rocks.

[loveinnewyorkcity]

Posted: 8/15/17 at 11:46pm

I get that this a show for children and immature jokes are the norm but this speaks levels to the immaturity of the adult who wrote the 'joke'.

[cardamon]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 12:05am

I found a tweet referencing that "joke" from January 2015 (https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=henrydanger%20tony%20awards&src=typd). So it looks like it was written pre-Hamilton or The Spongebob Musical, for those wondering about the timing. Still doesn't excuse Nick's continuing to rerun it. Or airing it in the first place.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 12:10am

Why is a video of this only surfacing now, then? I'm so confused.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 12:16am

I mean, I watched the clip. I'm not outraged. I just don't understand it? I mean, are the Tony Awards any worse than the Oscars? At least they have musical numbers. And I can't imagine most of their audience even knows what the Tony Awards are? Just seems odd. And bad writing for that matter. Why not poke fun at the Kardashians or people/shows that are actually awful?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 7:07am

Faux Outrage.   Its several years old, some of you are giving this far more importance then any kid did.

 

 

Updated On: 8/16/17 at 07:07 AM

[Sunny11]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 7:31am

I would think that kids kind of regard most of the big awards shows as " boring old people in suits droning on for hours" . I remember being excited about the oscars to see how my favourite movies did but never being able to sit though the actual ceremony for very long. It's quite dry viewing. 

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:26am

This seems like a much less relevant, and less hilarious retread of the time The Simpsons made this joke in the early 90s in one of their Halloween specials.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:51am

>This seems like a much less relevant, and less hilarious retread of the time The Simpsons made this joke in the early 90s in one of their Halloween specials.

I get the outrage over this possibly ostracizing kids, but this joke has been done before. The Tonys are pretty laughable and one of the crappiest award shows on tv.  My other note is about jokes here, the show they are watching is also a gag about Walking Dead/Orange is the New Black fandom so they are trying to be funny and not offend.  

Anyway if you want the Tony's to be relevant to young people work on that, because it isn't.  CBS has done a pretty awful job and despite the popularity of Wicked/Glee/Frozen/Hamilton/Evan and even the embracing of "nerd culture". This is certainly not an easy task, but they are failing.  

Also homogenizing EVERYTHING children come in contact with isn't going to solve this problem.  What is wrong with being considered weird for watching the Tonys?  What is wrong with embracing counter culture?  That is how a lot of us learn to grow and find our place in this world.  I watched PBS every night when I was a teen, this wasn't going to make me popular or remotely cool.  The Tonys is not cool, it is a nice honor for the great artists, but it kinda ends there.  My 15 year old niece LOVES Broadway and so do her friends.  She doesn't have cable and has probably never seen the Tonys.  She is also chubby and accidentally died her hair green.  

[JennH]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:55am

Hold up guys...ok, I watched it and are we sure we know the context of it? Because I think the knee jerk reactions are HIGH on this, and irrationally high at that. I wasn't offended at all because it looks like that these kids were trying to watch the last episode of their favorite show (what ever it was) and having on the wrong channel right when it was supposed to start and they began to freak out in the style of a kids show. I mean, wouldn't WE freak out a tad if we wanted to watch the Tony's and the TV was on the wrong channel, no matter what was playing? It's not dis on the Tony's, it's just a "Oh ****, were on the wrong channel, and our favorite show is about to start!" and it happened to be the Tony's. Sorry but I think this is faux outrage at it's finest. Context is everything, and from watching it three times to make sure I wasn't missing anything, that's I got from it.