How Does It Feel? to be tHe KIng oF slIme? DaviD aizer
Former host, NickelodeoN’s slime time live!
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know this sounds ridiculous because I’m a grown man, but I'm not allowed to tell you what is in slime. I had to sign a nondisclosure. As you can imagine, Nickelodeon’s pretty protective. What I can tell you is that it’s cold and gooey—and, actually, fairly delicious. It tastes a bit like vanilla pudding. You’d be surprised to know what actually goes into it. I’ll just say that it’s a naturally occurring substance found at the center of the universe. Here’s the other thing: You take a shower, then you take another shower—and two days later you’re still finding slime in your ears, behind your ears, everywhere. It does come out of your clothes, though. Kids just loved our show. We taped in Orlando, and families would plan their vacations around getting slimed. It was always amazing to me how much a kid would go out of his or her way to get slimed. They’d wipe themselves off and then want to be slimed again. The show was total chaos. The bigger the game, the more slime. The consolation prize was usually a pie in the face, but everyone wanted the slime. Our show actually was named in the Guinness Book of World Records for dumping the most slime at one time. I don’t remember how much, but it was gallons upon gallons. I was on the show from 1999 to 2007, and I was slimed more times than I can count. The stuff was shot out of cannons. Blasted. Dumped. There’s something innocent about getting slimed. Jim Carrey is one I challenge any adult to watch it of many and not laugh. You’re sitting there celebrities minding your own business— to get slimed. and, boom! We slimed all sorts of celebrities, and they were always good sports. Christina Aguilera. The Backstreet Boys. All the members of NSYNC. We would drop this thing called the Big Shaboozie. That is the actual term. First it was called the Super Sloppy Slime-off, then it was changed to the Big Shaboozie. It was the prize for winning the game. The prize. To this day, people still recognize me as the slime guy.
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december 2014