dralph

wow, random bored internet lookup of the day. Donnie the hair guy - this is Dave, the guy on the top right of the picture, your good ol crew cheif. My hair is a bit more in control now, hope all has been well with you. I still talk to random people from those years, but good times they were. It is kinda sad to see KI entertainment go the way of the do-do. Those were the best summers of my life, and I hope they bring it back to those days so other people can experiance what we did. Wow, memories. Viva la Slime Bowl! Wish I had more pictures from those last years at the slime bowl, I do have my "yearbook" from my first year. I do have 2-3 years of the PKIE variety show on VHS but it's not the same. Good to know you're still alive! Hope all is well.

not to get too off topic here, but the landscaping issues that adam12 is hitting on were being worked on for the most part...were being the key word. I don't know about now, because I've ceased to work there, but I remember once a week I had to walk the entire park with a HUGE list of things that looked ugly, a lot of which was my opinion and that list went to the higher-ups, and surprisingly, some things did get fixed...I think it's a matter of the park dumping too much other random stuff on the few employees they do have that are qualified to do those jobs...but I agree, it'd be nice to see the park get a general perk up!

I agree with you that they need more audience interaction. I think that the shows tend to be bland for the younger crowd unless there is something drawing them in, be it something as small as an actor running through the audience talking to people, or just giving high fives, stupid small stuff like that. However, knowing from experiance, and I'm sure SML828 would know this, after the 2nd year of Nickelodeon the "mess" was trimmed WAY down, partly due to budget issues, and the other part was people (see:parents) complaining about the water/mess getting on them, despite all the warnings. On a side note, they've tried a few times to keep the "marching band" going, but it will never be as good as the glory days of the original Clown Band, although the Way Too Much TV Band did have it's moments.

well, from 96-99 I was in the nick show as a tech, the rest of my years was spent as an in-park, the blonde quiet guy with glasses, and sometimes big out-of-control hair...both have been fixed (thankfully!) what'd you do?

Howdy Ya'll - I'm new here, got bored one day and stumbled across this site. Anyways, having worked in the PKI Entertainment dept. for 6 years, I've noticed a lot of the good and bad shows. For the long time E&A workers, it was agreed upon that Entertainment Tonight was THE worst show ever done there. Thats saying a lot, as there have been lots of bad shows there! I took part in the Nick show for 3 years, and it went from bad to worse, to even worse. I want to blame a lot of it on budget cuts, which is true in some cases, but the way they used to handle which new shows to get was very limited, the central company would offer 2-3 shows, which they got to chose from. Graveyard shift was definatly one of the better song/dance shows to go through in a while. Scooby used to be entertaining for the young'ins, but repeating the same bad show for a second year was not a good idear. Although I'm not there anymore, I go back at least once a year now to watch the shows, and every year I keep my fingers crossed for an improvement in them. I know there a lot of changes coming up in the entertainment dept. for next year, which could either be a godsend or pure hell for the E&A staffers. I guess we'll have to wait and see. I will say that they could use their local "talents" a lot more, but I think they started doing that this past year, I noticed they were everywhere auditioning. I got lucky when I got hired there, and those were some of the best summers of my life (especially my first year) but most of the people I met and became friends with were from out of town, which I think hurts the park in the longrun (harder to get return employees, ect...) I'm not even sure what I'm rambling on about anymore, but I'm bored...so yeah, again, hey everybody!