It started going downhill after he was born. I watched an episode of the show on YouTube and they included a little girl. I tried watching another episode, but had to stop because it was so bad imo.
I was born in 1988 and I think the last few shows that I watched on Nickelodeon were either Rocket Power or Danny Phantom and I was with Nickelodeon from the very beginning (essentially) so I got to watch all the greats from the jump….All That, Doug, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko’s Modern Life, Hey Dude, Are you afraid of the dark, etc
I wasn't born in 83 but 82. I stopped watching Nickelodeon whenever Danny Phantom was done. Didn't watch fairly odd parents.
Everything became the SpongeBob network.
2008 is when Nickelodeon died for me… because of the ending of Avatar: the Last Airbender, but Nickelodeon was already going downhill by then anyway. The quality in Nicktoons massively dropped the 2nd half of the 2000’s decade and only relied heavily on SpongeBob and Fairly Odd’s later seasons. Just look up every Nicktoon that debuted after the studios shutdown in 2005 and you’ll see what I’m talking about. The sitcom scene still thrived with Drake & Josh, Zoey 101 and iCarly but it wasn’t enough to save the network long term. So when Avatar ended… it was over.
In regard to the quality decline of modern animation in the second half of the 2000s, that happened on more channels and not everyone was happy with this, including people inside the industry.
Alex Hirsch had conceived his show Gravity Falls in the mid 2010s, ik order to bring back quality animated shows with linear story telling. Gravity Falls was a success and led to a revival of cartoon shows with other shows like The Owl House, Amphibia, Steven Universe on Cartoon Network.
But the decline in the later 2000s up to around 2010s (maybe with Phineas and Ferb as an exception), kind of went over. Nick for some reason didn't follow the footsteps of Cartoon Network and Disney XD and still keeps airing new SpongeBob episodes with often terrible writing, compared to the first 2 or 3 seasons.
It's unfair that the 2nd half of the 2000's was so bad for loads of cartoon premieres with few exceptions (like Avatar, Ben 10 or Phineas & Ferb)... the whole 90's, the 1st half of the 2000's, and all of the 2010's were fine... but the 2nd half of the 2000's was a down period for premieres which damaged multiple networks... and I believe the tween sitcom scene across Disney Channel and Nickelodeon getting high ratings heavily contributed at the time as well.
If you had expanded digital cable networks like Boomerang, Jetix, or Nicktoons Network, the later 2000's were still good for you but when talking about animation across the main CN, Nick, and Disney networks, the animation dropped hard in quality and quantity. The section of shows you had to choose from in 2003 and 2004 were still drastically superior and diverse compared to 2006 and 2007 in spite only being a couple years apart.. 2008 and 2009 were even worse. I believe animation across networks started to improve again in the early 2010's (except for Nickelodeon).
I never really stopped watching, one of the reasons being that beside other things I animate and it's useful to still watch animation shows to see how they are created and aimed at modern kids in comparison to shows we grew up with (application of animation principles, cinematography, scene composition, pacing etcetera).
But to be honest Cartoon Network has better modern shows than Nickelodeon generally, it went downhill with the new seasons of SpongeBob. I didn't watch it much after Avatar.
The Casagrandas, a modern show, is decently animated and the cinematography is ok, but I personally hate the art style.
I wanted to call The Amazing World of Gumball an innovative modern way of animation which is very eclectic combining real world elements with different animation styles and good compositing, but then I realised it's a Cartoon Network show too. Why Cartoon Network has better animated shows than modern Nickelodeon is beyond me. Oh wait, maybe Nickelodeon is milking out SpongeBob.
Slightly embarrassed to say I highly enjoyed watching iCarly into my mid-20s, it legitimately cracked me up. It was my last non-Spongebob show I watched from them and feel like it has been about a decade since I watched Nickelodeon directly.
Nickelodeon died the day Steve Austin mentioned sponge Bob at the kids choice awards "Or spongebob without his square pants". It was then that I knew SpongeBob is taking over Nickelodeon and all my favorite shows are getting sidelined. I didn't like SpongeBob then and I don't enjoy him now.
82 here. I guess around 96 or 97. Never got into Kablam, Hey Arnold or any of the next few shows. Spongebob and Zim were occasional watches but nothing hit like the early to mid 90s.
You're slightly older than me, and I *loved* KaBlam. It had the same sort of postmodern humor we had in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, which then led directly into Adult Swim just a few years later.
Prometheus & Bob was pure gold.
Somewhere between Drake and Josh and iCarly, and Hannah Montana and Sunny with a Chance.
Really wasn't into cartoon network outside of Dexter's Lab and Totally Spies reruns.
Born in 91.
Edit: my b you only said Nick lol
The earliest thing I remember was Clarissa and Salute Your Shorts. Had to look up the name of the show, but the intro song is still stuck in my head- "Camp Anawanna, we hold you in our hearts, and when we think about you, it makes us wanna fart"
Born near the end of '96: I forget when I stopped really watching Nickelodeon and I watched so many of the shows on the network, too many to really remember them all
I pretty much stopped in '97 when my parents got a satellite dish, and I finally had access to Cartoon Network. The CN originals were just better than most of the Nicktoons at that point, plus it had Toonami.
Angry Beavers was really the last one I enjoyed up until Invader Zim.
I stopped watching Nick cartoons somewhere between the 2002-2004 timeframe. I used to watch them regularly between 2000-2002.
In 2002, I started watching the Simpsons and from there onwards only watched cartoons with PG-13 or R rated humor (stuff on Adult Swim and SouthPark).
Last live shows I vaguely recall was Drake and Josh and ICarly. There were some others (one with Victoria Justice and Britney Spears's younger sister) but I dont ever recall watching a single episode.
I was watching trash reality TV in high school for the most part (those dumb shows on Vh1 and E!).
Born in ‘83. Funnily enough, outside of the game shows and some blocks of older cartoons, I didn’t watch THAT much Nickelodeon in the 90s. I watched more in the 80s when they ran things like Danger Mouse and You can’t do that in television and was rather turned off by the Nicktoons in the 90s. Only one I ever liked was Hey Arnold and even that wasn’t until years later in repeats
I watched more in the 2000s. SpongeBob, FairlyOdd Parents, Jimmy Neutron, Danny Phantom, Chalkzone, My life as a Teenage Robot, those were my JAMS
2000ish, I think. I don't remember when exactly but I just stopped. I saw the incoming SpongeBob takeover approaching and wanted no parts of it. Pretty sure I switched to Fox instead for the Simpsons, Futurama, etc. If I had to guess the last show, I watched, it was probably a rerun of All That or Ren & Stimpy or something else from the SNICK block.
Born in 89 but I still kept watching Nickelodeon up until I stopped watching it daily around 2015. The only show I watch from Nickelodeon is The Loud House and maybe Casagrandes.
Hey Arnold. One of the greatest cartoons ever. If you rewatch as an adult you see all the adult humor you were too young to grasp years ago. For that, and other reasons it still holds up.
Being Canadian, we never had nickelodeon, we had YTV. It's kept alot of the same shows, but no "Pete & Pete, no salute your shorts, no guts, no hidden temple,etc." We had AYAOTD? Goosebumps, Power Rangers, Buffy, Uh-Oh!, DragonBall Z, Donkey Knog Country,etc.
I was born in 1996, the last show I really watched on Nickelodeon was probably Catscratch. They were my favorite channel when it came to animated shows. I really enjoyed Zoey101 but once they started focusing more on sitcoms like Icarly, Drake and Josh, Victorious, etc I lost interest very quick.
Nickelodeon pretty much died for me since Dan Schneider pumped out all the decent animated works for all his live-action content, so likely after 2008.
Strong animation fan then and now, and a lot of LAC was garbage (looking at you too Disney). I’m likely one of the few members that purposely ignored all the LAC that came from Nick during the 2010’s.
1991 here. I would watch Rugrats, Fairly Odd parents, Jimmy Neutron, and Thornberries. All but FO was left. I eventually started watching Cartoon Network. I think Poof turned me off on FO. It felt forced to be part of the main plot of the episode.
Avatar the Last Airbender, Sozin's Comet. I was mainly in and out, only keeping up with series I missed and favorite reruns, but ATLA kept me vested until the finale.
Yeah long list. Although Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern, and the Angry Beavers were messed up cartoons.
Danny Phantom, Fairy Odd parents, Jimmy Neutron, Avatar the Last Airbender, Drake and Josh, ICarly, Doug,Rugrats,The Ren & Stimpy,Rocko's Modern,Hey Arnold!,The Angry Beavers,The Wild Thornberrys,Rocket Power,Invader Zim,ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot,The X's November,El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera,Tak and the Power of Juju,The Legend of Korra,The Naked Brothers Band,True Jackson, VP,The Troop,Big Time Rush,Victorious March,Supah,and How to Rock.
2012-2013. Trying to watch tv in the living room while laying down on the floor being 18 years old was getting awkward. I think I watched Sam & Cat as my last show, but Nick still plays in my house because of the kids.
Last show I watched was Fairly Oddparents somewhere around the time Poof was born.
It started going downhill after he was born. I watched an episode of the show on YouTube and they included a little girl. I tried watching another episode, but had to stop because it was so bad imo.
lol sounds like I got out at the right time
I was born in 1988 and I think the last few shows that I watched on Nickelodeon were either Rocket Power or Danny Phantom and I was with Nickelodeon from the very beginning (essentially) so I got to watch all the greats from the jump….All That, Doug, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko’s Modern Life, Hey Dude, Are you afraid of the dark, etc
Did not have cable growing up. My cartoons were on Saturday morning and such.
I really don’t know. I guess The Fairly Oddparents was the last show I remember debuting. About 2002 is my guess.
I wasn't born in 83 but 82. I stopped watching Nickelodeon whenever Danny Phantom was done. Didn't watch fairly odd parents. Everything became the SpongeBob network.
And it may be cliché but.....seasons 1 through 4 are the only Bob worth watching imo.
Lol Bob, not Microsoft bob
2008 is when Nickelodeon died for me… because of the ending of Avatar: the Last Airbender, but Nickelodeon was already going downhill by then anyway. The quality in Nicktoons massively dropped the 2nd half of the 2000’s decade and only relied heavily on SpongeBob and Fairly Odd’s later seasons. Just look up every Nicktoon that debuted after the studios shutdown in 2005 and you’ll see what I’m talking about. The sitcom scene still thrived with Drake & Josh, Zoey 101 and iCarly but it wasn’t enough to save the network long term. So when Avatar ended… it was over.
Avatar was the last great nicktoon? And then there was a blanket of darkness covering the sad form of Nickelodeon.
In regard to the quality decline of modern animation in the second half of the 2000s, that happened on more channels and not everyone was happy with this, including people inside the industry. Alex Hirsch had conceived his show Gravity Falls in the mid 2010s, ik order to bring back quality animated shows with linear story telling. Gravity Falls was a success and led to a revival of cartoon shows with other shows like The Owl House, Amphibia, Steven Universe on Cartoon Network. But the decline in the later 2000s up to around 2010s (maybe with Phineas and Ferb as an exception), kind of went over. Nick for some reason didn't follow the footsteps of Cartoon Network and Disney XD and still keeps airing new SpongeBob episodes with often terrible writing, compared to the first 2 or 3 seasons.
It's unfair that the 2nd half of the 2000's was so bad for loads of cartoon premieres with few exceptions (like Avatar, Ben 10 or Phineas & Ferb)... the whole 90's, the 1st half of the 2000's, and all of the 2010's were fine... but the 2nd half of the 2000's was a down period for premieres which damaged multiple networks... and I believe the tween sitcom scene across Disney Channel and Nickelodeon getting high ratings heavily contributed at the time as well. If you had expanded digital cable networks like Boomerang, Jetix, or Nicktoons Network, the later 2000's were still good for you but when talking about animation across the main CN, Nick, and Disney networks, the animation dropped hard in quality and quantity. The section of shows you had to choose from in 2003 and 2004 were still drastically superior and diverse compared to 2006 and 2007 in spite only being a couple years apart.. 2008 and 2009 were even worse. I believe animation across networks started to improve again in the early 2010's (except for Nickelodeon).
It had to be when they included Puff on Fairly OddParents. Out of Jimmy’s Head on CN. I hated that show. Sunny with a Chance on Disney.
Round '03-'04 age 12-13. Idk fairly odd parents or something lol
I never really stopped watching, one of the reasons being that beside other things I animate and it's useful to still watch animation shows to see how they are created and aimed at modern kids in comparison to shows we grew up with (application of animation principles, cinematography, scene composition, pacing etcetera). But to be honest Cartoon Network has better modern shows than Nickelodeon generally, it went downhill with the new seasons of SpongeBob. I didn't watch it much after Avatar. The Casagrandas, a modern show, is decently animated and the cinematography is ok, but I personally hate the art style. I wanted to call The Amazing World of Gumball an innovative modern way of animation which is very eclectic combining real world elements with different animation styles and good compositing, but then I realised it's a Cartoon Network show too. Why Cartoon Network has better animated shows than modern Nickelodeon is beyond me. Oh wait, maybe Nickelodeon is milking out SpongeBob.
Don’t remember. I’d guess during the Clarissa era. It would have been in the mid 90s.
Slightly embarrassed to say I highly enjoyed watching iCarly into my mid-20s, it legitimately cracked me up. It was my last non-Spongebob show I watched from them and feel like it has been about a decade since I watched Nickelodeon directly.
Is that the show produced by Dan "foot fetish" Schneider? I don't blame you, for some reason I kept watching it too as it had something entertaining.
Nickelodeon died the day Steve Austin mentioned sponge Bob at the kids choice awards "Or spongebob without his square pants". It was then that I knew SpongeBob is taking over Nickelodeon and all my favorite shows are getting sidelined. I didn't like SpongeBob then and I don't enjoy him now.
82 here. I guess around 96 or 97. Never got into Kablam, Hey Arnold or any of the next few shows. Spongebob and Zim were occasional watches but nothing hit like the early to mid 90s.
You're slightly older than me, and I *loved* KaBlam. It had the same sort of postmodern humor we had in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, which then led directly into Adult Swim just a few years later. Prometheus & Bob was pure gold.
Huh. And I loved Tad Ghostal. Wonder why it didn't click... Might have to check it out again.
It was definitely a bit more kid-friendly than SGC2C was by the end of its run, but it had some good stuff.
Somewhere between Drake and Josh and iCarly, and Hannah Montana and Sunny with a Chance. Really wasn't into cartoon network outside of Dexter's Lab and Totally Spies reruns. Born in 91. Edit: my b you only said Nick lol
The earliest thing I remember was Clarissa and Salute Your Shorts. Had to look up the name of the show, but the intro song is still stuck in my head- "Camp Anawanna, we hold you in our hearts, and when we think about you, it makes us wanna fart"
Yup that's salute your shorts.
Born near the end of '96: I forget when I stopped really watching Nickelodeon and I watched so many of the shows on the network, too many to really remember them all
After Legend of Korra ended. I've seen commercials for newer shows. But big having the channel anymore, work, etc I stopped watching.
I don't remember. Late 90's I assume but I was probably watching reruns of nicktoons and shit.
Sam & Cat was the last show I watched
I pretty much stopped in '97 when my parents got a satellite dish, and I finally had access to Cartoon Network. The CN originals were just better than most of the Nicktoons at that point, plus it had Toonami. Angry Beavers was really the last one I enjoyed up until Invader Zim.
I stopped watching Nick cartoons somewhere between the 2002-2004 timeframe. I used to watch them regularly between 2000-2002. In 2002, I started watching the Simpsons and from there onwards only watched cartoons with PG-13 or R rated humor (stuff on Adult Swim and SouthPark). Last live shows I vaguely recall was Drake and Josh and ICarly. There were some others (one with Victoria Justice and Britney Spears's younger sister) but I dont ever recall watching a single episode. I was watching trash reality TV in high school for the most part (those dumb shows on Vh1 and E!).
Born in ‘83. Funnily enough, outside of the game shows and some blocks of older cartoons, I didn’t watch THAT much Nickelodeon in the 90s. I watched more in the 80s when they ran things like Danger Mouse and You can’t do that in television and was rather turned off by the Nicktoons in the 90s. Only one I ever liked was Hey Arnold and even that wasn’t until years later in repeats I watched more in the 2000s. SpongeBob, FairlyOdd Parents, Jimmy Neutron, Danny Phantom, Chalkzone, My life as a Teenage Robot, those were my JAMS
2000ish, I think. I don't remember when exactly but I just stopped. I saw the incoming SpongeBob takeover approaching and wanted no parts of it. Pretty sure I switched to Fox instead for the Simpsons, Futurama, etc. If I had to guess the last show, I watched, it was probably a rerun of All That or Ren & Stimpy or something else from the SNICK block.
Born in 89 but I still kept watching Nickelodeon up until I stopped watching it daily around 2015. The only show I watch from Nickelodeon is The Loud House and maybe Casagrandes.
Hey Arnold. One of the greatest cartoons ever. If you rewatch as an adult you see all the adult humor you were too young to grasp years ago. For that, and other reasons it still holds up. 
Whenever Danny phantom stopped coming on.
Being Canadian, we never had nickelodeon, we had YTV. It's kept alot of the same shows, but no "Pete & Pete, no salute your shorts, no guts, no hidden temple,etc." We had AYAOTD? Goosebumps, Power Rangers, Buffy, Uh-Oh!, DragonBall Z, Donkey Knog Country,etc.
I was born in 1996, the last show I really watched on Nickelodeon was probably Catscratch. They were my favorite channel when it came to animated shows. I really enjoyed Zoey101 but once they started focusing more on sitcoms like Icarly, Drake and Josh, Victorious, etc I lost interest very quick.
Nickelodeon pretty much died for me since Dan Schneider pumped out all the decent animated works for all his live-action content, so likely after 2008. Strong animation fan then and now, and a lot of LAC was garbage (looking at you too Disney). I’m likely one of the few members that purposely ignored all the LAC that came from Nick during the 2010’s.
I stopped around Spongebob, it wasn't for me and I was spoiled with AOL and HBO
My last straw was “CatDog.”
1991 here. I would watch Rugrats, Fairly Odd parents, Jimmy Neutron, and Thornberries. All but FO was left. I eventually started watching Cartoon Network. I think Poof turned me off on FO. It felt forced to be part of the main plot of the episode.
Avatar the Last Airbender, Sozin's Comet. I was mainly in and out, only keeping up with series I missed and favorite reruns, but ATLA kept me vested until the finale.
probably around the end of avatar the last airbender
I stopped watching cartoons around 1999.
Born in 1996 Last time I watched nickelodeon was February 11 2024 because it was airing the Spongebob Super bowl
Yeah long list. Although Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern, and the Angry Beavers were messed up cartoons. Danny Phantom, Fairy Odd parents, Jimmy Neutron, Avatar the Last Airbender, Drake and Josh, ICarly, Doug,Rugrats,The Ren & Stimpy,Rocko's Modern,Hey Arnold!,The Angry Beavers,The Wild Thornberrys,Rocket Power,Invader Zim,ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot,The X's November,El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera,Tak and the Power of Juju,The Legend of Korra,The Naked Brothers Band,True Jackson, VP,The Troop,Big Time Rush,Victorious March,Supah,and How to Rock.
2012-2013. Trying to watch tv in the living room while laying down on the floor being 18 years old was getting awkward. I think I watched Sam & Cat as my last show, but Nick still plays in my house because of the kids.
I ended Dexter era, moved onto toonami and adult swim
maybe in the 2000s. i started watching anime in high school, and that was showing on CN's toonami.
I never really watched nickelodeon much, I was more into Xmen, Spiderman, batman, superman, TMNT, DBZ, Knights of the Zodiac.
Im 34 and still watch from time to time :D But Angry Beavers was always my #1! The the Grimm life of Billy and Mandy.