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The N** season has begun. Basketball is a great sport, and it frequently pops up in shows for kids. On Nickelodeon, there was that episode of Salute Your Shorts where Camp Anawanna becomes Budnik’s Bombers. Then, there is the only plot I remember from an episode of My Brother on Me.
Now, as I recall in my book The Nickelodeon ‘90s: Cartoons, Game Shows and a Whole Bunch of Slime (buy it wherever you buy books!), My Brother and Me was the first show that made me realize that some actors were bad at their jobs. Now, the bad actors on My Brother and Me were children, but as a kid myself I still had not realized it.
My Brother and Me is one of the worst ‘90s Nickelodeon shows, but it did give us one thing: Goo Punch. Alfie and his best friend Goo are trying out for the school’s basketball team. Alfie has a dream of what he will do when he is a basketball star, which is to say he will have his own shoes. His dream is dull. Goo, though, dreams of his own beverage, which is Goo Punch. There is even a Goo Punch song.
I will forever remember Goo Punch and that song. Now, Alfie is too much of a ballhog, so he doesn’t make the team. That’s the lesson for the kids. The episode is still bad, and the show is still bad. If there is one silver lining to watching My Brother and Me as a kid, though, it’s Goo Punch. Everybody! Goo Punch. Yeah!
