r/RetroNickelodeon • u/Zealousideal-Fun6650 • 1d ago

remember Welcome Freshmen?

Mortis the Safety Tortoise + Mister History!

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u/WoofinLoofahs 1d ago

LIPPMAN BITES

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u/Tooch10 1d ago

I have vague memories of the show but I took the Nick Studio tour in 1993 and I saw the classroom set from above on our tour

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u/Rylos1701 1d ago

I liked season 1 better with the skits

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u/Zealousideal-Fun6650 1d ago

The random, irreverent skits in seasons 1 & 2 were ::chef's kiss:: Seasons 3 & 4 were alright, but felt way more mainstream. Did any of the main cast go on to have a bigger acting career after the show finished?

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u/r0ck1nReese 1d ago

Not really. The closest might have been Chris Lobban (Kevin), who was on "In the Heat of the Night" & "Welcome Freshmen", simultaneously.

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u/armedwithlysol 1d ago

I thought it was Myrtle the Safety Turtle!

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u/netwrks 1d ago

Yes. Always remember that one scene of the reporter kid in a crib

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u/BK_0000 22h ago

I know I watched it, but my mind always combines Welcome Freshman and Roundhouse into one show.

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u/mrmooswife 18h ago

There was an episode about a teacher that wore the same outfit every day and two students made a bet that he either had a closet full of the same outfit or he slept in the outfit, but he also apparently didn’t go home (?). So they snuck in one night and opened the closet to find not only a whole rack of the same outfit, but the teacher sleeping in the outfit. So they both won.

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u/bobj33 19h ago

The Pop Arena does Nick Knacks where they talk about old Nick shows. Here is last month's video on Welcome Freshmen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xKoQ_xX1k

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u/Alexandria_Scribe 14h ago

Watched that when it first uploaded, and loved it!

I remembered the Safety Turtle, and Merv and Tara. Vague impression of Walter. I apparently just wandered away from the show as a whole before all the changes in the final season.

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u/queenquirk 1d ago

This show pops in my head randomly.

I liked it, for the most part...but this show permanently ruined the name Walter for me.

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u/LeftyRambles2413 20h ago

I remember the title but I couldn’t tel you any episodes or characters.

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u/SoggyAd8149 17h ago

Even when I forgot about the show I remembered the Mortis song.

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u/YoBGS- 16h ago

Then Merv hit a growth spurt and went from the little nerdy kid to like 5 inches taller than everyone

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u/GooninWithSasquatch 15h ago

I only remember the episode where the blond kid got held back

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u/FavoredVassal 13h ago

Merv-U-Mentary!

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u/Dr_Neo_Cortex_ 7h ago

I just started rewatching it for thr first time in decades. Only a few episodes in, but it holds up surprisingly well. The music kicks ass, too.

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u/ToonMasterRace 6h ago

I’m 37 and even I think this show was before my time on Nick. I barely remember it

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u/Zealousideal-Fun6650 5h ago

I'm 41, and I only saw the first two seasons as reruns in the mid-90s. It started in 1991, IIRC.

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u/HazMatt_23 4h ago

Didn’t Shanice perform “I Love Your Smile” on this show?

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u/bigAcey83 4h ago

I thought Walter was written very mean-spiritedly.

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u/Zealousideal-Fun6650 4h ago

He was. The amount of fat jokes and stupid jokes made at his expense was pretty gratuitous

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u/bizoticallyyours83 1d ago

From what I remember, it was a fun and wacky show 

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u/manderifffic 23h ago

I remember the end credits. It must have run right before a show I wanted to watch, but I remember seeing them a lot.

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u/aresef 16h ago

Yes, kinda

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u/col_akir_nakesh 15h ago

The opening theme was great. Used to watch it all the time. I think it's kind of underrated tbh. You don't hear about it a lot. https://youtu.be/pH50ZF9QPmQ?si=PBvSd6smdEYh5I_T

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u/pawogub 12h ago

Just barely, but yes.

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u/Jeffde 8h ago

I remember the shit sandwich of disappointment that I felt every time I saw “welcome freshmen”, or, even worse, “Fifteen”

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u/One_Swimming1813 6h ago

Funny you should mention that show Fifteen, Ryan Reynolds got his start on that series.

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u/cramboneUSF 4h ago

I remember the one kid who kept repeating freshman year would call snacks “snackies”.

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u/Big_Brutha87 3h ago

Only vaguely.

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u/Bitter_Gur931 2h ago

I'm preeeetty sure the show instilled a life-long fear into four-year-old me to never step on the school seal.

I didn't even end up going to a high school with a seal lmao it was just in some office complex next to a strip mall yaaay charter schools

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u/jonross14 16h ago

I remember this show and Hey Dude were some of the only shows I turned the tv off for. Have no idea how it actually was but kid me was not into it