There were some mild disagreements about 1-seeds, and I’m pretty sure someone turned into the Mr. From those results, seeding was calculated from 1 to 64 characters were then placed in the bracket accordingly, without any classifications in mind. With those rules in mind, the Ringer staff was asked to compile their own personal character rankings. (And Spunky probably would’ve lost in the first round anyway.) That might seem unfair to Rocko’s dog Spunky, but it felt more important to get some variety into the bracket. The field was limited to four characters per show.

The shows that were merely licensed by Nick-such as Degrassi and Peppa Pig-were not eligible. Only characters who were featured in original Nickelodeon series were considered.Just seeing this makes me feel like a kid again, like I’m watching Kenan Thompson take a bucket of slime to the head while Summer Sanders laughs in the distance.īefore we really dig in, let’s explain how we assembled this amazing field of 64 characters. Welcome to the Best Nickelodeon Character Bracket. But no matter which shows we gravitated toward, almost all of us have bled slime-green at one point or another.īecause Nickelodeon means something to everyone, and because Nicktoons’ 30th anniversary deserves to be honored, we at The Ringer are celebrating the way we know best. The generational divide is most cleanly drawn in the sands of Bikini Bottom-you’re either pre-SpongeBob or post-SpongeBob-but even in that stratification there are countless microgenerations: those who bowed down to Double Dare and The Adventures of Pete & Pete those who caught the peaks of The Fairly OddParents and iCarly. Nick can mean many different things to many different people depending on when, exactly, they were between the ages of 6 and 16. Since then, Nick’s slate has taken on many forms-from live-action series made for tweens like Salute Your Shorts to variety shows like All That to groundbreaking cartoon series like SpongeBob SquarePants and Avatar: The Last Airbender-but it has almost always had a grasp on young imaginations. Debuting three now-iconic series, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rugrats, and Doug, on August 11, the network launched their Nicktoons brand and officially leaped into original animated programming. Thirty years ago this week, Nickelodeon changed kids’ television forever.

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