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U-Pick Live is a program that aired on
Nickelodeon from October 14, 2002 to May 27, 2005 on weekday
afternoons from Nickelodeon Headquarters in New York City's Times Square.
Starting at 5:00 p.m. EST to 7:00 p.m. EST. The show allowed
viewers to pick via internet voting the Nickelodeon shows, usually
cartoons, that would air. The hosts of the show also took part in
sketches and gags, often including members of the studio audience and celebrity
guests. Interviews with celebrity guests and musical performances
were also frequent features.
Cast
- Brent Popolizio as himself
- Candace
Bailey as herself
- Jeff Sutphen
as Pick Boy, a "Super Hero" that "picks" people from the audience.
Pick Boy is egoistic yet naive. Pick Boy became a target to many
polls at nick.com such as "What kind of hairstyle should Pick Boy
Have?". Despite his popularity, Pick Boy was kicked-off the show
when he was voted the most in a poll asking "Who should be kicked
off from the show forever?" Pick Boy was brought back to the show
next season. After U-Pick Live ended, Pick Boy made many
appearances in ads, 2006-2007 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice
Awards, and ME:TV. He made an appearance at the Democratic
National Convention in August 2008 for Nickelodeon's Kids Pick the President
campaign.
- Antonio Neves as himself (2002-2004), best known by fans on the
show for playing the Nicktoon tapes and using extreme stunts to
deliver the tape. He also appears as Antonio's Floating Head.
- Garbagio as himself (2002-2004), best known by fans on the show
for wrestling random objects (most notably, in a special episode
entitled: "Milk and Cookies"). Wears a modified Mil
Mascaras wrestling mask.
- Tom Lamberth as Cow, a cow (Guy in a cow suit) that might just
stand there and moo, or do various strange things.
- Logan
Sekulow played "Logan the Intern" on a number of the final
season programs. He was best known for his dance off with Brent and
he also sung with Brent on a number of skits. He has since starred
in his own Christian-oriented talk show, The Logan Show.
Regular
aspects
Activities and sketches
- The Prize Wall -- A member of the studio audience
picks one of 14 and 5/8 doors to try to get the Bucket of
Bucks. All the other doors have other possible prizes behind
them.
- Candace's Corner -- Candace talks to the viewers about
various subjects, though she is frequently interrupted by other
members of the cast.
- Brent and Candace go outside to Times Square to do various
things picked online by viewers.
- Boys vs. Girls - Brent and boys from the audience compete
against Candace and girls from the audience in various, often
messy, games. when the show was over for good the boys had won
every episode!
- Celebrity guests engage in a lightning-round style barrage of
silly questions and commands from audience members. Acting silly
with kids frequently takes celebrities off guard and brings out a
side of them we don't typically see.
- Ten Seconds with Brent -- What the title suggests.
Normally, Brent would be cut off in the middle of an important
sentence. Once, he got a "cookie-on-a-string" to distract the
stagehand who managed the timer, successfully preventing him from
starting it for about thirty seconds. On one occasion, he was given
only three seconds.
Gags
- Antonio delivering a tape of the chosen Nickelodeon show to
where it apparently will be played.
- Garbagio "wrestling" various objects.
- Pick-Bot 2000, robotic co-host
- Obstacle course races in the hallways of the studio.
- Pick Boy runs through walls of shaving cream, bricks, etc
- Mr. Chi Chi, chimpanzee attorney at law
- Pantsing Candice. On one episode they had to cut to break as
Candice's shorts came off revealing a red thong.
- Sometimes during a cut-in after a commercial break, it would
feature Brent in front of the camera talking with Candice behind
him. While he was talking, his arms were wrapped behind Candice.
Candice put her arms through his arm pits and she moved her arms to
correspond to what he was saying. This is revealed after Brent is
done explaining. Candice backs away quickly, revealing the
illusion. This happened 5 or 6 times during the run of U pick. The
First occurred on the thanksgiving special.
Other
- Best of U-Pick Live episodes aired occasionally,
featuring highlights of previous shows.
- Producers: Jonathan Judge, Mitchell Goldstein, Jeremy
Slutskin
- The series was directed by Joe Perota
- Slime Time Live would often transfer viewers from
STL to U-Pick Live near Slime Time
Live's end.
- Once there was a blizzard that came to New York and Slime
Time Live was in charge of U-Pick Live for that
particular day.
- The Executive Producer of U-Pick Live was Richard Barry.
- Sheldon Shellstein from the Shiny Shoop Shoop Show was a
regular guest star
Former
Schedule
The first U-Pick Live logo used October
14, 2002 - Friday, June 18, 2004.
Season 2 Launch Schedule (Started: Monday,
October 6, 2003)
5:00PM SpongeBob SquarePants
5:30PM UPICK the Shows (3 choices)
6:00PM UPICK (Head2Head, 2 choices)
6:30PM Hey
Arnold!
Big June 2004 (Started: Monday, June 7, 2004) U-Pick Live Big June
5:00PM SpongeBob SquarePants
5:30PM UPICK Old School (3 choices, Nick classics), lasted one week
then replaced by Danny Phantom on 6/14/04
6:00PM UPICK School's Out Pick (school's choice)
6:30PM Nicktoon Premiere (each day)
Season 3 Launch Schedule (Started: Monday, October
4, 2004)
5:00PM SpongeBob SquarePants
5:30PM UPICK the Shows (3 choices)
6:00PM Hey
Arnold!
6:30PM Rugrats
Final Day Schedule (Friday, May 27, 2005)
5:00PM SpongeBob SquarePants
5:30PM Martin
Mystery
6:00PM Jimmy Neutron (New episode)
6:30PM UPICK the Shows (Choices were: Neutron, SpongeBob and
Rugrats -- SpongeBob won)
Notable
episodes
- (October 14, 2002) Series Premiere.
- (February 21, 2003) Garbagio wrestles cookies and milk and
loses.
- (February 28, 2003) A rematch was done to see if Garbagio could
beat the cookies and milk then.
- (June 2004) An episode focusing on fictional band The Pickles,
made up of the cast members, and their history in documentary form.
- (June 2004) Jeff
Probst of the reality show Survivor presides over a U-Pick
Survivor episode. Pick Boy is voted off the show, but is later
voted back on.
- (April 2005) U-Pick debuts its virtual lounger, a new
segment in which a viewer attends the show via internet video
conferencing
- (April 2005) Instagram debuts. A new segment in which one home
viewer gets to determine the outcome of a live segment on air.
- (April 2005) Sheldon Shellstein from the Shiny Shoop Shoop Show
makes a famed guest appearance in which he launches the catch
phrase "I'm not your sister"
- (May 27, 2005) The U-Pick gang celebrates their 401st
episode. This was the last episode.
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