Dart Verhoeven
Highlight Bits & Quotes
13The Heir to the Nickelodeon Kingdom
Jonathan Nickelodeon introduces himself as the 60-year-old heir to the network, explaining that slime was invented when he sneezed on a TV as a baby.
"I'm part of the Nickelodeon eardom if you will, the kingdom of Nickelodeon."
"I sneezed right on the thing and he said wait hold on a second this kind of works."
"I'm 60 years old my dad has not died yet"
"Why do you want to run a kids network?"
Freddy Gumbo: The Mimic and the Children's Hospital Incident
Freddy Gumbo discusses the exhaustion of mimicking Taylor Swift's lack of rhythm. The group then reminisces about sliming an entire children's hospital, destroying a billion dollars in equipment for the 'price of joy.'
"It was so special to me when we slimed the entire children's hospital."
"That MRI machine that we ruined was already on its way out."
"That is the price of joy."
Freddy Gumbo: The Human Slime Target
Freddy Gumbo explains his role as a slime stand-in who gets blasted with gallons of chemicals to ensure the lighting is perfect for celebrities, despite his pleas to light the set before testing.
"I'm mostly the guy who is hands-on testing out the slime to see how it feels to get slimed."
"We got to light before we test the slime right because we're wasting a lot of slime."
Dart Verhoeven's Rocket Science Pivot
Dart reveals he transitioned from JPL rocket science to slime projectiles after an undisclosed mistake that set the military back years, finding more fulfillment in surprising people with green goo.
"I used to work on spaceships and rockets and missiles and now I am the projectile expert for slime."
"It has set us back many years war wise."
Vanilla Jackson and the Smirnoff Ice Incident
Vanilla Jackson, the inventor of 'icing' people, discusses his role as a time designer and recounts a dark story about putting Smirnoff Ice in his grandmother's IV bag.
"I'm kind of the inventor people don't really realize it of to icing people."
"I stuck a Smirnoff Ice in her IV bag and she had to do it."
Jerky McJiggle's Deep Undercover Vetting
Jerky describes his intense process of stalking celebrities with Voldemort-style prosthetics to ensure they won't react poorly to being slimed, specifically calling out Anne Hathaway.
"I'll usually just do a Voldemort prosthetic no nose just slits."
"Our official position as the Nickelodeon slime team is that Anne Hathaway is a bitch."
Slime as a Regulated Foodstuff
Dart explains the legal classification of slime as food because it enters mouths and noses, while Freddy describes the 'freewheeling' human testing phase involving her own bowel movements.
"Slime is technically classified as a food right because it goes in mouths"
"We were betting on your shits"
The Green Slime Purists
The team discusses their protest against blue and red slime for the Patriots' Super Bowl, asserting that if slime isn't green, it isn't slime.
"It's not slime if it isn't green"
"I said it's green or I go"
The Inappropriate Slime Comparison
Dart expresses his disgust at the comparison between slime and bodily fluids, while Jerky doubles down on the physical similarities when the substance gets 'chunky.'
"I do not like the connection between slime and come"
"Slime when it gets wet it reacts similarly to when it gets wet it gets chunky"
Jerky's Undercover Point Break Mission with Monster Energy
Jerky reveals he spent a year undercover with 'Monster Energy guys' to develop a line of slime, which involved skydiving, base jumping, and eventually robbing banks at gunpoint while covered in green acid.
"It was sort of a Point Break kind of situation where I started to really feel affection for those guys."
"We hit a lot of banks. We'd wear masks when we go into banks and we'd rob them at gunpoint."
Dart's Secret Desert Compound and the YouTube Missile
Dart confesses to working in a government desert compound where he used YouTube viral video quotes as launch codes to activate a missile aimed at YouTube headquarters for interfering with elections.
"My whole sole operation was to send a missile and kill the creators of YouTube."
"You just said the code on air and you activated the missile."
The 2024 Kids' Choice Awards Slime Roster
The team lists an increasingly bizarre roster of celebrities and entities set to be slimed at the upcoming awards, ranging from King Charles to a sleep paralysis demon and the Haim brother.
"Jimmy Carter is running for a Kids' Choice Award. He's 100 and he's ready to get slimed."
"The Haim brother is out of his cage, he's being fed human rations and he will be slimed."
The Mystery of the Slime Formula
The hosts and guests introduce the high-stakes world of Nickelodeon slime, comparing its secret formula to Dr. Pepper and emphasizing that the mystery is what keeps the industry alive.
"Slime is 83% mystery but we'll show you the other 17% no problem."
"The crossover between ingredients of Dr Pepper and ingredients of slime very very similar."