A Nostalgic Look at ’80s Canadian TV With ‘You Can’t Do That on Television’ Star Adam Greydon Reid

Etched into the minds of many Generation X and Millennial Canadians is the image of “You Can’t Do That on Television” stars having green slime dumped on their heads. Anytime someone said “I don’t know” on the sketch-comedy show, they got slimed. “It smelled like Play-Doh,” Adam Greydon Reid, one of the show’s stars, told The Epoch Times in a recent interview. That was one of the ingredients, along with oatmeal to give it texture and shampoo—the shampoo made it easier to wash out, he said. Each sliming came with a $50 pay bonus, literally listed on the actors’ pay-cheques as “$50 slime.”...