For the past two months, Nickelodeon’s Totally Turtles channel on Pluto TV, originally intended to be a network for all the iterations of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that Nick owns the rights to, has been airing nothing but the animated incarnations of the Last Airbender franchise; with Avatar: The Last Airbender being featured on weekdays, and The Legend of Korra being featured on weekends. I’m assuming this is meant to be a form of promotion for/counterprogramming to the former show’s recent (and apparently critically panned) live-action Netflix reimagining, with Nick even going so far as to constantly spam advertisements for the original show being available to stream on Paramount+ during commercial breaks. I knew I had to record at least a little bit of the hours upon hours of Avatar reruns, so here are the ads and screenbug appearances from a three-hour stretch of season 1 episodes that I taped last night. I made sure to use an add-on for my computer that lets you stream Pluto TV content, Kodi, rather than the Pluto TV app itself via its page on my web browser, so that the countdown clock and clickable pop-up ads that appeared the last time I covered one of that platform’s Nick networks wouldn’t show up.

Thankfully, my latest recording of a Nickelodeon channel on Pluto TV happens to be one sporting the latest take on a now-iconic error: during the final episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender that I taped yesterday evening (“The Great Divide”), Totally Turtles accidentally aired the full end credits for the series when they normally apply on-screen credits to it; and, this being Nick, the channel thought that the closing credits sequence was an actual part of the proper episode, and therefore overlaid on-screen credits on top of the ORIGINAL credits. This has happened so many times on all the Nickelodeon networks (both cable and Pluto TV ones) by now, I can’t help but feel as though Viacom is doing these errors intentionally so that people can get some kind of sick thrill out of the hysterical nature of it all. Hey; their ploy is working!





















































































































































Fuck. (YouTube Kids repellent)