Gunge
The British charities Comic Relief and Children in Need, supported by the BBC, have used gunge for fundraising in the past.
In the U.S., slime is often associated with children's television network Nickelodeon, whose parent company Paramount Global has trademarked the word.
[3] The show subsequently went through several different slime recipes incorporating ingredients such as lime gelatin dessert powder, flour, oatmeal or Cream of Wheat, baby shampoo, and even cottage cheese (not all necessarily at the same time).
Marc Summers, host of the network's game show Double Dare, mentioned it was a mixture of vanilla pudding, oatmeal, applesauce, and green food coloring.
But Also featured a closing sketch called "Poet's Corner" in which that week's guest would be challenged to an improvisational poetry contest against Peter Cook, with Dudley Moore acting as referee.
Having already established messy slapstick humour through custard pies and buckets of water being thrown over presenters and guests, Tiswas had taken to locking up adult volunteers into a cage.
In the late 1980s, Nickelodeon and its Canadian counterpart, YTV, even held write-in contests in which the grand prize was a trip to the YCDTOTV set in Ottawa, Ontario, to be slimed.
On Crackerjack, the two weekly celebrities, one male and one female, would compete against host Stu Francis in a gunge based gamed called "Take A Chance" to try to win points for their child contestant.
Also, gunge started to appear on mainstream shows such as Game for a Laugh on ITV and Noel's Saturday Roadshow on the BBC.
The entertainment factor attached to the process of gunging was realised by the producers of the charity event Comic Relief, who held an event, in cooperation with the Guinness World Records at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham where an attempt to set a record for the Most People Gunged Simultaneously took place on 12 March 1999.
In Germany, on Sat.1, Halli galli,[9] Glücksritter (RTL),[10] Glücksspirale,[11] plus the German version of NHP - Gottschalk's Haus-Party, all involved a high dose of gunge.
Likewise, Glücksspirale on SAT1, Glücksritter RTL and Rache ist Süß Sat1, had contestants plucked out of the audience and gunged in the most spectacular ways.
Celebrities Lee Ryan, Ben Adams, Katy Hill, Lesley Waters, Katherine Merry, Heather Suttie and Victoria Hawkins were gunged on this show.
From 1997 to 2003, a Canadian show called Uh Oh!, that ran on YTV, featured a punishment system that had the participant go inside a closet sized room and have green gunged dropped on them if their partner was not able to answer the question correctly.
Basilchildren's Swap Shop returned minus the gunge gallery but introducing a new game with a western theme called Gold Rush.
Fe Fi Fo Yum has a challenge which sees two children go barefoot into a bowl of gunge to collect objects for their teammates such as letters/numbers or other items.
The final game also makes use of the gunge bowl, where the last part involves wading in the pool and up a ramp in order to release their captive teammates.
A variation of this challenge sees the three contestants again running barefoot along an inflatable lane, in an all play game, throw pies into mouths attached to a bungee cord, in the second series, this has the added difficulty of "Garum sauce" falling onto the inflatable at a random point in the game causing the children to slip and slide thus increasing the difficulty of the challenge.
This tradition has continued with Kobe Bryant in 2016, Michael Phelps in 2017, Danica Patrick in 2018, and Dwyane Wade in 2019, although it did not happen to Serena Williams in 2024.
Following the merger between CBS Corporation and Nickelodeon owner Viacom to form what is now Paramount Global, the sports division of CBS has produced programs related to the National Football League for Nickelodeon that incorporate the latter network's identity into football games, including the use of green slime.
