Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead offered a dose of reality in the Nickelodeon '90s
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For those old enough to remember it, kids ruled the ’90s. Between our very own “Choice Awards” and a steady stream of slime to shower celebrities with, Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, and Nerf retailers flooded TV screens with images of independent youngsters with the magical ability to eat McDonald’s whenever they wanted. “Kids rule,” the tagline for 1994’s Camp Nowhere read, and it was an ethos injected into the culture four years earlier with the release of Home Alone. But Steven Herek’s HBO...

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