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

A Nostalgic Look at ’80s Canadian TV With ‘You Can’t Do That on Television’ Star Adam Greydon Reid
Canadian actor, writer, and director Adam Greydon Reid got his start on "You Can't Do That on Television," made in Ottawa in the 1980s. Tim Leyes
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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.