All That is an American
live-action,
sketch
comedy-
variety show that aired on
the
Nickelodeon cable television network featuring short comedic sketches
and weekly musical guests. The
theme
song for
All That was performed by
TLC.
Early episodes were taped at the now-defunct
Nickelodeon
Studios
at Universal Orlando
, but then moved to Hollywood
at the Nickelodeon on Sunset theater (formerly the
Aquarius Theatre).
All That first aired on April 16, 1994, as a "sneak peek"
and debuted as a regular series on December 24, 1994.
It was successfully
broadcast internationally, in countries such as the United Kingdom
, Australia, and Canada
.
All That lasted 10 seasons before it was canceled in 2005.
The last episode aired on October 22, 2005 on the Nickelodeon
network. The show started out in the
SNICK
block until 2004, when the network converted the SNICK timeslot
into a second night for
TEENick.
Cast
Creative process
The main creative force behind
All That was
Dan Schneider.
All That
marked the beginning of Schneider's prolific career in creating and
writing hit
television shows for young audiences. The
New York Times, in separate
articles, referred to Dan Schneider as "the
Norman Lear of children's television" and "the
master of a television genre".
During Season 1,
Heath Seifert and
Kevin Kopelow were brought on as producers and continued working in
that capacity through Season 3. The writing team advanced to
Executive Producers/Head Writers for Seasons 4-6. Heath and Kevin
continued their relationship with Kenan and Kel by Co-Executive
Producing/Head Writing
Kenan &
Kel and eventually writing the feature film
Good Burger.
Spin-offs
- The Amanda
Show was a sketch
comedy show starring Amanda Bynes.
The first episode in the beginning featured Josh and Kenan wishing
Amanda good luck with her new show. Characters from The Amanda
Show appeared on All That after the episodes she
hosted. Show Run: 1999-2002.
- Action League
Now! was a stop motion animation show. It became
a part of KaBlam! before getting
its own short lived series. Three
segments of ALN appeared on the show. Show Run:
1996-2000 & 2003-2004. 2 segments were on season 1 and the last
one was on season 10.
- Kenan &
Kel was a sitcom series starring All
That cast members Kel Mitchell and
Kenan Thompson. The show ended in the
same year when the first run of All That ended. The show
ran from 1996-2000.
- The Nick Cannon
Show was a semi-scripted show starring Nick Cannon. Cannon would come across a
situation he thought needed changing and then "take over" to make
things better, or at least funnier. Nick's character, Latanya,
usually appeared in show. Show Run: 2002-2003
Cast members
Josh Server and
Chelsea Brummet both guest starred on other
running TEENick shows created by Schneider. Server and Brummet
appeared in
Drake &
Josh, but not in the same episodes. Brummet in "Mean
Teacher", and Server appeared in "Theater Thug". Josh has also
guest starred in
Kenan and
Kel,
The Amanda
Show, and later in
Ned's
Declassified.
All That was also the starting point of other shows on
Nick.
Amanda Bynes from
All
That was given her own show,
The
Amanda Show, which featured two actors by the names of
Drake Bell and
Josh
Peck. The two actors were then given their own show
Drake & Josh, in which
Josh Server guest-starred. In the show, Bell and Peck had a sister,
played by
Miranda Cosgrove, who
became a breakout star in the show. Cosgrove was then given a show
named
iCarly, co-starring
Jerry Trainor who had previously played the
supporting role of "Crazy Steve" on
Drake & Josh. All three shows were
produced by Dan Schneider.
Although not technically considered spin-offs, many cast members of
All That were given their own shows. Two of the most
notable are
Jamie Lynn Spears with
Zoey 101 and
Lil' JJ with
Just
Jordan.
Jack DeSena won the role of voicing
Sokka on
Avatar: The Last Airbender,
voicing from 2004-2007, and airing 2005-2008, after he and the
other cast completed filming episodes in 2004, and then aired in
2005.
All That alumni who have achieved fame include Cannon, who
is hosting the fourth season of
America's Got Talent; Bynes, who
has starred in feature films such as "
She's the Man" and the 2007 version of
"
Hairspray"; and Thompson, who
is a regular cast member on
Saturday Night Live.
Format
All That featured a format of
cold
open,
sketch-comedy pieces and a
musical guest in its first six seasons and the final season. The
cold opens took place in the
green room
five minutes before the show was to start. Usually, Kevin the Stage
Manager (played by
Kevin Kopelow)
tries to rouse the cast members to preparation for the show by
announcing
"Five minutes!". Some of these cold opens
included playing
spin the bottle and
having to kiss a
cactus, a
squid, or a chair;
Kel
Mitchell reenacting a fight on Kopelow; and guest star
Mark Curry tying up
Kenan Thompson and wearing his Superdude
costume. All other seasons featured a weekly host introducing and
occasionally participating in the various sketches and a musical
guest, a format pioneered by
Saturday Night Live.
Many of the sketches were original material, although
Bill Cosby,
Roseanne,
Steve
Urkel,
Ross Perot, and
Bill Clinton, were impersonated by
Kenan Thompson,
Katrina Johnson,
Angelique Bates, Johnson, and
Gabriel Iglesias, respectively. The humor
was very pre-teen-oriented;
Josh Server
would eat his own dandruff or appear on stage wearing only his
underwear, or a cereal called
Lucky
Germs or
Fruit Poots. From Season 7
onward, the humor was geared more toward younger viewers than the
first six seasons.
In the first five seasons,
All That used mostly
urban contemporary,
rap, and
R&B, but in
later seasons aimed for more mainstream,
modern rock-oriented acts.
Green rooms
In the beginning of each episode it would show some of the cast
members in the greenroom. This has been done for every episode that
they have made. Something weird would happen in the greenroom like
an evil clone of Jamie Spears that's really a monster (season 8), a
wig running away (season 9), or an alien that comes for pudding
(season 5). In seasons 1-6 the greenroom would have the All That
logo painted on the wall and it also had a sign that said ON AIR.
In seasons 7-10 they would have a view of the logo outside and an
elevator and it also had a sign that said To The Stage:
The Greenroom in Season 1 was located on the set, which was mainly
black with set equipment and a stairway to the backstage halls.
Which sometimes they're seen in, too. Season 2's Greenroom was a
chillin' place for the cast members in which are pop culture
props.
Seasons 3-6's Greenroom was the same when the show moved to
Hollywood. Inside was the Logo painted on the left wall, and
couches, tables, chairs, and other pop culture props were seen,
even 2 arcade video game machines. It also contains an ON-AIR light
board above the door, where the cast leaves to go so the show,
which they walk up a short staircase and hand rails. There is also
an additional door on the right, were some cast members also appear
in the green room.
Seasons 7-10's Greenroom was seen as a classic
Now hang
out room. Inside contains a couch, a kitchen section on the
elevated part, which is also where the door is located. There is
also an elevator in this greenroom, that cast members can also
appear from. Props, Pictures, and Room Accessories are all located
throughout the room as well. A platinum inch television screen is
also seen on the left hand side, that always displays: An orange
background with an orb that displays the All That logo (Season
7-8), sometimes an All that logo with a 7 behind it (part of season
7). A red background with the regular logo with many 10s appearing
and disappearing numerously (10th Anniversary). A light purple
background with the
All That logo displayed on it (Season
10).
Theme openings
For every season, there is an All That Opening title at the
beginning after the Green Rooms. At first in Seasons 1-2; 3, the
opening title was showing the cast on the classic 90s streets,
playing Wall Ball, and going through each cast members name in
alphabetical order. After Angelique's departure after Season 2,
Amanda became a new member, but the opening title remained the
same, just placing her in, and Angelique edited out,
respectively.
In Seasons 4-5 Opening Title, after Katrina and Alisa have left the
show in Season 3, the show got a whole new title open. And now with
new faces, Danny, Christy, and Leon, the cast were seen walking
down a classic
red carpet, with old
Hollywood classic outfits. After Season 4, when Lori Beth had left,
the title was just edited to take her out, respectively, and just
continue with it till the end of Season 5.
In Season 6 Opening Title, The show has seen the departure of
breakout stars Kenan and Kel, which caused the show to do another
new title. This time, Season 5 feat. Cast Members Nick and Mark
were credited, and new member Gabriel. The cast were seen up front
in the camera behind a multi-color room aka
green screen. Thus after the season ended, the
show has a different theme on the continuing seasons of
All
That.
In the 7-8 themes, it was when the show had an all new cast, and
they were seen in the opening titles in white clothing behind a
black room, where the new looked
All That logo was seen in
Neon colors. In Season 8, Jamie Lynn was added
as a new member of the show, and was also in white clothing as the
others.
In the Season 9 Opening title, after the loss of Bryan, the cast of
this season were seen behind the black room with the same kind of
logo, but everyone is instead in red clothing, to mark the shows
real color. Mid-way, Ryan joined the cast, and was added in. After
this season, relaunch members Shane, Giovonnie, and Season 8 member
Jamie left the show, and the show was caused to do another and
final opening title.
For the 10th Anniversary, the producers compiled all the cast
members's openings together, and placing a "10" for each of them.
Each member was shown in either one of their title appearances, but
Jack was the only one who was seen to have both of his opening
titles. Plus, at the end, the title quickly zooms center through
each of the group endings of each season (1-2, 3, 4-5, 6, 7, 8,
9).
In the 10th season of
All That's title, with new cast
members Kianna and Denzel, it showed the cast getting out of a
Black Limousine, and walking down the red carpet, and talking to
their fans and at the ending it showed the cast in front of the
neon All That logo with cameras flashing.
Notable sketches
The Three most famous sketches on All That were Good Burger, which
soon became a Nickelodeon film, Dullmont High School, and Vital
Information. All three were from the Golden Era seasons (Seasons
1-6), but Good Burger wasn't in Season 6. These three sketches
returned in the 10th Anniversary Reunion Special for just one time.
The Same cast members who were in these sketches, reprised their
roles, despite them being older. Vital Information returned to the
show in the Anniversary and continued in Season 10 until the show's
cancellation.
- Good
Burger is a recurring sketch that took place at a fast
food restaurant. The cashier, Ed played by Kel Mitchell in Seasons 1-5 and Ryan Coleman in Season 9, was portrayed as a
clueless teenager who always found a way to mess things up. A
notable quote from Good Burger, stated by Kel in every episode, was
"Welcome to the Good Burger, home of the good burger, can I take
your order?" Good Burger was later made into a 1997 movie starring Kel
Mitchell reprising his role as Ed and Kenan Thompson as a new character named
Dexter. Frequent customers include: Bernie Kibbitz (Josh Server), Lester Oaks, Construction Worker
(Kenan Thompson), and Connie Muldoon
(Lori Beth Denberg). (Seasons 1-5,
9-10)
- The Loud Librarian was played by
Lori Beth Denberg, who would
ironically yell out, "Quiet, this is a li-berry!" along with
various noisemakers such as foghorns or drums whenever the silence
in her library was accidentally violated.
- Dullmont Jr. High School is a known
sketch that has many characters that carried into varying sketches,
but remained the same. At the school, strange things would happen,
mainly due to the insane staff members. (Seasons 1-6)
- Vital Information is a sketch in which
Lori Beth Denberg (later Danny Tamberelli and Lil' JJ during the relaunch, respectively)
deadpanned ridiculous sayings, usually three in a row. (Seasons
1-6, 10)
Series history
The run of
All That can be divided into two parts: seasons
one through six and seasons seven through ten (when the original
cast was replaced by an entirely new cast).
The Seasons 1 + 2 cast members with
Creators Mike, Brian, and Dan
This is the very first season of
All That, which began in
1994-1995 with the pilot and 14 episodes. On April 16, 1994,
Nickelodeon aired The All That Pilot, which was the beginning of
Season 1, The beginning of The "Golden Era", and the start of The
All That series. During the Pilot, this season introduced the first
cast members:
Angelique Bates,
Lori Beth Denberg,
Katrina Johnson,
Kel
Mitchell,
Alisa Reyes,
Josh Server, and
Kenan
Thompson. All That also features Kevin Kopelow, the Stage
Manager which the cast members do something bad to him constantly,
exclusively during the cold opens. The first season began airing
and being broadcasted from Orlando, Florida.
The second season on All That ran in 1995 to 1996 with 21 episodes
aired. This season is similar to season one, because this season
stars the same cast members and is also broadcast in Orlando,
Florida. During Season 2, there have been the beginning of new
skits for different cast members.
After Season 2 ended, the show moved out
of Florida and moved to Nickelodeon On Sunset (formerly The
Aquarius Theater) in Hollywood, California
. Season 2 is also the final season featuring
Angelique Bates, due to her contract
expiring.
The Season 3 cast
In the third season of All That,
Amanda
Bynes joined the cast to replace the departing
Angelique Bates. Bynes' characters and
sketches included Ask Ashley, Space Sketch (a
Star Trek parody),
I Luv Lucy, and Meagen Marples,
who loved to slap herself with liver. About a year after Bynes'
arrival,
Katrina Johnson and
Alisa Reyes left the show. Johnson left
half-way because her contract expired, and Reyes left the show
because she got tired of doing sketch comedy. During the second
half of Season 3, when Katrina Johnson left the show, only
appearing in sketches taped before her departure, and was replaced
by temporary cast member, Tricia Dickson. Although limited to small
roles for part of the season, Amanda became a breakout star; Ask
Ashley was a favorite among fans.
Season 4 saw the entrance of three new faces:
Christy Knowings,
Leon Frierson, and
Danny Tamberelli, and featuring cast member
Zack McLemore, who joined for half a
season. Tamberelli was the first cast member to star in another
Nickelodeon series prior to
All That, co-starring as
Little Pete on the hit Nick series
The Adventures of Pete &
Pete.
Tamberelli's characters and sketches included
Jack Campbell:
Fat Cop, Hairy Spice from the
Spice
Boys,
Cheeseburger Doyle: Private Eye, a talk show
host named Francis, and
Vital Information host, succeeding
Lori Beth Denberg in Season 5.
Knowings's sketches and characters included
Whateverrr!!
co-host Jessica, the nurse for unlikely dentist Dr. Bynes (played
by Josh Server), and Miss Klump, the teacher when Lori Beth Denberg
- who played teacher Miss Fingerly — had left the series. She also
played Winter Wonders in a sketch called
What Do You Do?
This sketch was a parody of a game show on which several
All
That cast members had appeared as panelists,
Figure It Out.
Frierson's characters and sketches included
Leroy &
Fuzz, CJ of
disco group
CJ & the
Cloudy Knights, and Billy Fuco — a boy who liked shouting
"I'm Billy Foco!" He once appeared in a
Repairman
sketch in which he played Repairboy and offered Repairman a second
opinion.
McLemore's characters included Mr. Trevell, a teacher at Dullmont
Junior High that Miss Fingerly had a crush on, and the manager of
"CJ & the Cloudy Knights".
The entire Season 4 cast was, in alphabetical order, Amanda Bynes,
Lori Beth Denberg, Leon Frierson, Christy Knowings, Kel Mitchell,
Josh Server, Danny Tamberelli, and Kenan Thompson with featuring
cast member Zack McLemore appearing sporadically. Christy Knowings
and Danny Tamberelli are said to also be breakout stars of the new
cast.
Season 4 is also Lori Beth Denberg's final season on the show. In a
live chat on
Nick.com, she reasoned
that she left
All That, because she "was getting older."
The Season 4 + 5 cast
As the show was entering its fifth season, Danny Tamberelli
succeeded Denberg in the
Vital Information sketch, and
Danny was given a new set and a new desk unlike that of Denberg's
Vital Information. Joining the cast were
Nick Cannon and
Mark Saul.
Cannon's sketches and characters included Sweaty Spice from the
Spice Boys; Latanya, a cashier at the
convenience store Quick-N-Fast; and a bank
robber in a superhero sketch called Boring Man. Saul's sketches and
characters included Stuart, who would kidnap — and then pose as — a
hall monitor, a cashier, a judge, a
postman, and even Ashley in an
Ask Ashley sketch;
Rineheart the Dancing Monkey Boy; Nigel Forrester, a spoof of
Steve Irwin and
Nigel Thornberry; Ricardo, a
ladies' man, and Dr. Maybe, a parody of
Dr. No.
All That celebrated its star-studded
"100th episode" during this season, although it was
actually the 85th episode to be produced. This one-hour special was
one of the only episodes (other than the 10th anniversary) in the
show's history produced
live. The
actual 100th episode occurred during a Season 6 episode. The Season
5 cast included, in alphabetical order:
Amanda Bynes,
Nick
Cannon,
Leon Frierson,
Christy Knowings,
Kel Mitchell,
Mark
Saul,
Josh Server,
Danny Tamberelli, and
Kenan Thompson.
The 100th episode featured several celebrities:
Melissa Joan Hart (
Sabrina the Teenage
Witch and Nickelodeon's
Clarissa Explains It All),
Larisa Oleynik (Nickelodeon's
The Secret World of
Alex Mack),
Robert Ri'chard
(Nickelodeon's
Cousin
Skeeter), and
Britney Spears
(in a taped video appearance; Spears was originally supposed to
perform in person but had to back out due to a knee injury;
Lauryn Hill took her place) all made
appearances. Former cast member Lori Beth Denberg, wearing her
traditional
Vital Information outfit, returned to show for
the very last time ever to do the sketch. Former cast members
Angelique Bates,
Katrina Johnson, and
Alisa Reyes made brief appearances on the red
carpet. The show continued on winning its first KCA for Favorite TV
Show in 1999. Plus in 1999, Kenan became the host of Nickelodeon's
Oh Yeah! Cartoons for the 2nd season.
Season 6 and a temporary
demise (2000)
The Season 6 cast
Season 6 began with new cast member
Gabriel Iglesias, along with the departure
of
Kenan Thompson and
Kel Mitchell. Also on many occasions during
Season 6, Kevin Kopelow would appear a few times because of
co-producing other nick shows. It is also rumored that cast member
Amanda Bynes was supposed to leave
All That after Season 5 to continue working on
The Amanda Show, but she
returned for the season. Because of this, Bynes would often make
brief appearances throughout the season, same as what Kel did in
season 5.
It was rumored that Josh Server wasn't exactly happy doing this
season. This is probably due to the fact that he was getting older
and/or all the other original cast members (
Bates, Denberg,
Johnson, Mitchell, Reyes, Thompson) have left the show,
leaving him and a few others to adjust to the changes. In addition
to Josh, it was also said that cast members
Danny Tamberelli, and
Christy Knowings wished to leave and
explore other avenues. Later in 2000, Josh became the host on
Oh Yeah! Cartoons, taking Kenan's place for the 3rd
and final season. The show went on hiatus after a 14 episode
season.
To keep the show running, the producers compiled a series called,
"
Best Of
All That", which were episodes featuring the season four cast
members:
Amanda Bynes,
Lori Beth Denberg,
Leon Frierson,
Christy Knowings,
Kel Mitchell,
Josh
Server,
Danny Tamberelli, and
Kenan Thompson. After those eight
episode, following were two episode called "Peas, Cheese, Bag of
Chips" (that had skits featuring food) and "Dates, Goats, and
Romance" (which shows clips from skits that had goats,dates, love
or even all three elements).
Eventually, Nickelodeon canceled
All That for a short
time. Josh Server became the longest serving cast member since
being an original from the first season in 1994. In the meantime,
the show won another KCA in 2000, and went into reruns until 2001.
All That skipped the 2000-2001 television season during
the leadup to its relaunch.
New era begins (2002-2005)
After a television season hiatus, The New era of All That began in
2002. Nickelodeon has titled the second run of All That,
"
The Relaunch Era". At the beginning when
Nickelodeon ended the first run, all the old cast members from
Season 6 were replaced by a new cast.
Now, the new openings are: The theme opening
(with audience as
sound fx), cast members in alphabetical order, Special Guest
(if necessary), musical guest, and ending groups.
The first episode of the "new"
All That featured special
guests
Frankie Muniz and
Aaron Carter and aired in January 19, 2002 -
May 4, 2002. The seventh season and ongoing season theme
openings/outro themes were slightly remixed to fit the relaunch. In
this particular episode, Muniz was seen running around the streets
grabbing random people to be the new cast members.Season 7 kicked
off with cast members
Chelsea
Brummet,
Jack DeSena,
Lisa Foiles,
Bryan
Hearne,
Shane Lyons,
Giovonnie Samuels, and
Kyle Sullivan. At the beginning when the cast
headed off to do the show, the audience wasn't shown anymore and it
went right to the beginning credits.
Weekly guest stars
In conjunction with the seventh season,
All That brought
in weekly special guest stars who helped open the show and
participated in some of the sketches.
All That during the
"golden age" had featured some guest stars previously, including
Dr. Joyce Brothers in one segment of
Ask Ashley,
John Leguizamo
in character from the movie
The
Pest, and
Sherman Hemsley
in a cold open, and again in a
Good Burger sketch.
Among the guest stars who appeared during this period were former
cast members
Kenan Thompson and
Amanda Bynes. Thompson reprised his
Principal Pimpell character in a Harry Bladder sketch,
lunch lady Miss Piddlin in a Sugar & Coffee
sketch, and Superdude. Bynes appeared as herself in a
Sugar
& Coffee sketch and reprised Ashley in a blooper "from the
late-
Nineties." Other special guest stars
included, in no particular order:
Melissa Joan Hart,
Frankie Muniz,
Tony
Hawk,
David Arquette,
Britney Spears,
Aaron
Carter,
Will Friedle,
Christina Vidal,
Matthew Lillard,
Ray
Romano,
Alexa Vega and
Daryl Sabara (
Spy
Kids),
Nick Carter,
Justin Timberlake,
Buddy Hackett,
Barry Watson,
Jennifer Love Hewitt,
P.Diddy,
Tom Green, and
Brittany Snow (
Guiding Light) Some viewers didn't
appreciate the intensified emphasis on special guest stars since
All That (unlike the 90 minute long
Saturday Night Live or even the 60
minute long
MADtv) was only a 30
minute program (including commercials).
Joining the cast in Season 8 was
Jamie
Lynn Spears, who was previously better known for being the
younger sister of
pop star,
Britney Spears. This first led to a short
decline from fans because they felt as if Jamie Lynn had got on the
show simply because of her sister's popularity. However, as Season
8 progressed, viewers began to like Jamie Lynn as she came into her
own on the program.
Bryan Hearne left
the show at the end of this season, so he could begin his music
career. This was the first season when the All That cast members
started attempting dares on the
SNICK program:
Snick On-Air Dare. Occasionally,
On Air Dares have special guest from other shows.
Before Season 8 ended, Nickelodeon advertised a competition called
"
R
U All That?: Nickelodeon's Search for the Funniest Kid in
America". After this contest ended in 2003, the
finals aired on July 26, 2003. The contest picked five finalists,
and all of them performed a sketch with some of the cast members.
The winner was Christina Kirkman, and the runner up was
Ryan Coleman. Christina became a regular cast
member from that point.
The Season 9 cast
In Season 9,
Christina Kirkman
earned her spot on
All That by winning the
R U All
That contest.
Ryan Coleman, who
was the runner-up, soon also got a part on the show midway into
Season 9 to replace
Bryan Hearne, who
left at the end of Season 8 as previously mentioned. During this
season and Season 10, the cast attempted to resurrect some of the
classic sketches, like
Good Burger (with Ryan Coleman as
Ed), and
Vital Information for your Everyday Life (with
Lil' JJ as the anchor). The cast of Season 9 continued to do On-Air
Dares.
This was the final season for
Shane
Lyons,
Giovonnie Samuels, and
Jamie Lynn Spears. In 2004,
All That won another KCA for Best TV show at the
2004 Kids' Choice Awards. After the
last episode aired in Season 9, Nickelodeon put the show on a short
hiatus for the Fall of 2004, and Dan Schneider quit again after
filming the upcoming season. The show then returned when the 10th
Anniversary ended. Also in this season they didn't have weekly
guests anymore they just had musical guests. This continued until
the cancellation.
Various cast members and producers
from
All That's ten-year history.
See the article for cast and crew identification.
In 2005, Nickelodeon celebrated the 10th anniversary of
All
That by airing episodes from the first six seasons in the week
leading up to a "reunion special" hosted by
Frankie Muniz on April 23.
Ashanti and
Bow Wow
were the musical guests.
Kenan Thompson,
Kel Mitchell,
Josh
Server, and
Danny Tamberelli
reunited on the show. In addition,
Nick
Cannon appeared on the special but only via
satellite in a Repairman sketch. Other cast
members attended but had no speaking parts (namely:
Katrina Johnson,
Alisa Reyes,
Leon
Frierson,
Mark Saul,
Christy Knowings, and
Giovonnie Samuels).
Angelique Bates,
Amanda Bynes,
Lori
Beth Denberg,
Bryan Hearne,
Gabriel Iglesias, and
Shane Lyons were no-shows. Iglesias was left out
of the opening intro also.
A more recent sketch called
The Unreal World (a parody of
The Real World) was voted
the funniest moment in
All That history, beating such
1990s sketches as Kenan Thompson's Ishboo character and an older
Good Burger sketch.
Approximately 6.2 million total viewers watched the special on both
its April 23 and April 24 airings, making it the top
cable or
broadcast program for the 2-11, 6-11,
and 9-14 age
demographics., and
TV.com gives it a rating of 8.7/10.Pictured
left are, left to right:
Kel Mitchell,
creator Brian Robbins,
Kenan
Thompson, Eddie Mitchell,
Jack
DeSena,
Jamie Lynn Spears,
Katrina Johnson,
Alisa Reyes,
Kianna
Underwood, musical guest Bow Wow, Giovonnie Samuels,
Christina Kirkman,
Lisa Foiles,
Denzel
Whitaker, executive producer Dan Schneider,
Chelsea Brummet,
Ryan Coleman,
Kyle
Sullivan,
Danny Tamberelli,
Mark Saul, Leon Frierson, and Josh Server.
The last segment of this episode paid tribute to the ending
soundclip of the original seasons. As the room for the 10 year
anniversary party was empty, Kenan and Kel stood sleeping in the
costumes of their roles as old men. Kenan woke up and says "Hey,
Clavis!, wake up, the show's over," and Kel responds with his
signature, "Ah yeah, kick it". They then turn and slowly walk away
as the screen fades to black in a dramatic yet subtle ending to the
10 year tribute.
Return of "Vital Information"
After a four season hiatus,
All That decided to bring back
the "Vital Information" segment with
BET's Coming to the Stage winner
Lil' JJ succeeding
Lori
Beth Denberg and
Danny
Tamberelli, respectively. Lil' JJ's very first "Vital
Information" occurred during the
10th Anniversary Reunion
Special.
Season 10-The Final Season
(2005)
The tenth (and what turned out to be the final) season of
All
That began after the 10th anniversary, with
Kianna Underwood and
Denzel Whitaker as the two new cast members
that were added after the departure of
Shane
Lyons,
Giovonnie Samuels, and
Jamie Lynn Spears. They joined the
returning cast
Jack DeSena,
Lisa Foiles,
Chelsea
Brummet,
Kyle Sullivan,
Christina Kirkman, and
Ryan Coleman.
In the somewhat same vein as Season 6, the show was losing an
amount of steam due to Lyons, Samuels, and Spears leaving the show,
causing some of the Relaunch sketches to be discontinued. The 10th
season was only slated for 15 episodes (2 episodes never aired)
until the cancellation. At the start of this season, they used
Hip Hop and
R & B musical guest again, but
there were no more special guest during this season. Cast member
Jack DeSena meant to leave after Season 9 to continue to
work on
Avatar: The Last
Airbender, but he continued to flim on
All That until
production of the show ended in early 2005, after Dan Schneider
left for the second time.
Season 10 ended on October 22, 2005 (featuring musical guest
Lalaine) with the show reaching 181
episodes.
Cancellation (2005-2006)
According to
Lisa Foiles on her
Official Yahoo! Group, the rumors of the impending cancellation of
All That were in fact, true. This was the message posted
on Lisa's club by Lisa Foiles herself (as of September 5,
2005):
Episodes
| Season |
Episodes |
first airdate |
last airdate |
| Season 1 |
15 |
April 16, 1994 |
April 1, 1995 |
| Season 2 |
21 |
October 7, 1995 |
October 12, 1996 |
| Season 3 |
20 |
November 16, 1996 |
October 18, 1997 |
| Season 4 |
21 |
November 15, 1997 |
November 28, 1998 |
| Season 5 |
19 |
December 12, 1998 |
October 16, 1999 |
| Season 6 |
14 |
January 15, 2000 |
November 4, 2000 |
| Best of All
That |
10 |
2001 |
2001 |
| Season 7 |
13 |
January 19, 2002 |
May 4, 2002 |
| Season 8 |
15 |
September 21, 2002 |
April 26, 2003 |
| Season 9 |
16 |
September 6, 2003 |
April 24, 2004 |
| Season 10 |
17 |
April 30, 2005 |
October 22, 2005 |
|
Broadcast history
- Nickelodeon
(April 16, 1994 - October 22, 2005)
- SNICK (April 16, 1994 - August
28, 2004)
- TEENick (September 21,
2002 - October 22, 2005)
- The N (March 12, 2008 - September
15, 2008)
NOTE: TeenNick planned on airing this, but decided not to.
Awards and nominations
Media franchise
All That: The Album
All That: Fresh Out The Box Cover
All That Music and More Festival
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All That: The Album
On November 26, 1996, Nickelodeon released All That on CD, titled:
All That: The Album. It
contains All That Dialogues from the show, and songs sung by
musical guests (i.e. Faith Evans, Coolio, Monica, Naughty By
Nature, etc.). All That's theme opening and outro theme were
finally released on this CD. Music from the CD is mainly inspired
from the show, related to
Drake
& Josh: Songs from and inspired by the hit TV show and
iCarly: Music From and Inspired by
the Hit TV Show.
All That: Fresh Out the Box
On October 1, 1998, Nickelodeon released a 112 page book of All
That called,
All That:
Fresh Out The Box by Steve Holland. The book contains
information of the show's sketches, cast members and notable points
of the show. It also contains different character information as
well. Bonus features include: An episode guide complete with
quotes, the Playlist – the hottest musical acts, the coolest
grooves, special Guest Stars, behind the scenes of All That, and an
Ultimate All That Trivia Contest.
Tour
On June 30, 2000, Nickelodeon gave All That a promotional summer
tour titled
All
That Music and More Festival, which traveled all over the
United States and was hosted by the cast of All That. The tour
began after season 6 and lasted until September 3 of 2000. The tour
mainly featured the cast members of All That and a musical guest.
Many of the musical guests joined and performed during the tour.
Also while the tour went on, the cast members did numerous live
sketches. There was also a ticket contest the year before the
festival began. On July 29, 2000, Nickelodeon broadcasted the
highlights and events that happened during the entire
festival.
References
- All That: Fresh Out The Box
- All That Fresh Out The Box
- All That: Fresh Out the Box, Steve Holland, Pocket
Books, 1998
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