Every weeknight on Nickelodeon, from approx 6-8pm ET, they do a live broadcast called "U-Pick Live". It consists of two hosts, Candace and Brent, who do a lot of horsing around, and on-air dares based on viewer votes via internet, and show the user picked cartoons from the day. A lot of it is unscripted, and they just have a good time.
Well, on this evening's show, a great thing happened
Tonight was Candace's turn to do an on-air dare. The viewers voted that tonight she had to do the entire show standing on her head. Well, for the first hour or so, nothing happened much to my dismay. I sat there frustrated as opportunity after opportunity passed without even an attempt by Brent to make use of the open targets. At one point, she even had her shoes off, and was rubbing her (socked) foot on Brent's head as he talked to the camera, but he did nothing. Finally my patience paid off, and the golden moment arrived.
Brent was rattling off some things to the camera, and was sitting on the edge of the couch next to the upside down Candace. Out of the blue, he casually said to Candace "by the way, are you ticklish?" Candace's faced flashed with fear and she immediately hollared out "Don't you dare!" and proceeded to beg him not to do it. Brent let out with a mischevious little laugh, and reached down and tickled her side. She released a squeal followed by some great giggling, and tried to maintain her balance while fighting off Brent, who was still sparadically tickling her. They went to the next cartoon while the play was still taking place (damn!).
All in all it was a GREAT unscripted scene! Candace is absolutely adorable (a small pic of her can be seen here: http://www.nick.com/all_nick/specials/upick/hosts.jhtml ), and her reaction was genuine and wonderful. Unfortunately, since it is live, there are no repeats. But I for one, will continue to watch in the future (like I have a choice, my 7 year old would not hear otherwise), and hope now that Brent knows, he will make more attempts in the future!
Mimi
Well, on this evening's show, a great thing happened
Tonight was Candace's turn to do an on-air dare. The viewers voted that tonight she had to do the entire show standing on her head. Well, for the first hour or so, nothing happened much to my dismay. I sat there frustrated as opportunity after opportunity passed without even an attempt by Brent to make use of the open targets. At one point, she even had her shoes off, and was rubbing her (socked) foot on Brent's head as he talked to the camera, but he did nothing. Finally my patience paid off, and the golden moment arrived.
Brent was rattling off some things to the camera, and was sitting on the edge of the couch next to the upside down Candace. Out of the blue, he casually said to Candace "by the way, are you ticklish?" Candace's faced flashed with fear and she immediately hollared out "Don't you dare!" and proceeded to beg him not to do it. Brent let out with a mischevious little laugh, and reached down and tickled her side. She released a squeal followed by some great giggling, and tried to maintain her balance while fighting off Brent, who was still sparadically tickling her. They went to the next cartoon while the play was still taking place (damn!).
All in all it was a GREAT unscripted scene! Candace is absolutely adorable (a small pic of her can be seen here: http://www.nick.com/all_nick/specials/upick/hosts.jhtml ), and her reaction was genuine and wonderful. Unfortunately, since it is live, there are no repeats. But I for one, will continue to watch in the future (like I have a choice, my 7 year old would not hear otherwise), and hope now that Brent knows, he will make more attempts in the future!
Mimi