I remember the times when I was a small child, espically on a Saturday morning. I remember the days when I use to live on Nickeloden, when I use to sit in front of a television with a bowl of my favorite cereal and watch my favorite Nicktoons lineup Rugrats (Long Before Dil) Ahh! Real Monsters Rocko's Mondern Life Ren and Stimpy Doug Hey! Arnold Just to name a few. Even I have to admit, there was a time I stopped watching Nickeloden as a whole, save the Nicktoons--until what I'd like to call the "Dark" age came about. None of the good ole Nicktoons seemed to survive, one in which that infurated me being Hey! Arnold, which ending long before you found out if the main character (that being Arnold) ever found his parents and/or if Helga ever got her man. (Not to mention if Gerald and Phoboe ever got together.) The only *old school* Nicktoon changed so drastically, that it didn't even seem like the same nicktoon or appeal to me in the manner that it used to--this being Rugrats. I must admit, after such an accurance, I stayed away from the channel as a whole and buried myself into Comedy Central and Cartoon Network. Until that is, a friend of mine introduced me to the *new* Nicktoon Line up. While I must admit: I still miss the classic Nickeloden as a whole, espically the Nicktoons, but this does give me new found hope in a network I lost faith in. Mind you, I still won't watch Rugrats anymore (unless the lettering is in red, indicating it's one of the older episodes) and there are quite a few Nicktoons I could live without "My Dad the Rockstar", "My Life as a Teenage Robot" just to name a few. I can stand Spongebob on occasion (I find Patrick annoying but at least Squidward and Sandy give me a reason to watch the show.) but the star really shines with shows like "Fairly Oddparents", "Danny Phantom", and "Avatar: The Last Airbender". While the shows have their own unquie quality to them that make them all fun and enjoyable to watch, for example, like Danny Phantom has great action with great comedy or Avatar tells an compelling, epic story with excellent action sequences or Fairly Oddparents has great situation comedy while teaching those of younger ages a lesson in the process, or even Spongebob with it's zany comedy and charaters that you tend to grow and love. . .alas. In a sense, it will never measure up to the old days of Nickeloden and their nicktoons. Perhapes I dream of a past long forgotten. Or maybe I'm one of the few that still yern for the greater days of Nickeloden as a whole. Sure, there are seperate networks for such shows like Nicktoons TV for the older nicktoons, Nick Gameshow Network? for the older Nick shows. Or even a website like Turbo Nick. But in the end--is it *really* the same? I suppose we shall never see the *old* days of Nickeloden or their Nicktoons as we use to. But in the end--there's always the memories, right? -Kamirine