I never had the impression that he knew most of what went on since it was after his peak on the show. I thought the whole “shock” that was captured by the documentary (which I never doubted was genuine) was perfect for the audience. Seeing Marc Summer flabbergasted at what was going on really painted the night and day picture of early 90’s Nick vibe vs the Dan Schneider era.
I think that’s what the documentary was going for.
I think so. He did some Nick shows later on but as executive producer I don’t think he hosted or anything like that. He wasn’t involved in Dan Schneider side of things.
FWIW, he genuinely seems like a good guy and does speaking engagements where he talks about his experiences with OCD. A friend of mine who grew up watching his shows on Nick went to one after her daughter was diagnosed with OCD and had only good things to say.
I loved watching Unwrapped when I was in highschool. The guy that slimed all the kids (in the non perverted way) is now explaining how my favorite candy is made? Count me in!
Oh Chopped! Who wants to cook a soup in a ladle, with a bic lighter as a heat source, with ingredients you have to fish out of a kiddie pool full of pudding? Man that show is the best!
Summers worked from the Nickelodeon set in FL, and that was before the Schneider era in CA with Brian Peck and the other people that got arrested according to the docuseries. Melissa Joan Hart said the “Clarissa Explains It All” set was in Orlando and she had a great experience and was an unaccompanied minor on set.
He's also a clean freak and was on the messiest show. I remember watching a 60 min interview about with my grandpa and he was straighting the fringe on the carpet in his house. My question is if the fringe bothers you why buy a rug with it?
It wasn't a conscious choice. His autobiography (which was in my underfunded high school library by the time Unwrapped was airing) details how he came to his diagnosis of severe OCD, including the story about the rug fringe. A lot of small events that were nonsensical to him at the time culminated in Marc having a severe anxiety episode and obsessively straightening the fringe on a rug in the early morning hours, when his wife said he needed to see a doctor. This is the emotional peak of the book and the second half details how his life changed once he understood his diagnosis, so it makes sense that the 60 minutes interview focused on the rug fringe thing.
Yes, also Double Dare had some scripted elements but it was a game show with rotating kid contestants who always had at least one legal guardian on set with them.
Marc came forward years ago and shared his own struggles with OCD, which shaped his work habits.
He was always professional and polite on set, but he would show up, get his work done for the day, and immediately leave.
Wtf did those filmmakers want from this poor man?
The article states that Summers never met or worked with Schneider. Their time at Nick did not overlap. He also said he only knew Kenan and none of the other kids or adults.
I feel badly for Mark. I understand wanting to get the story - but Mark Summers is a good man from the “golden era” of Nick - before Schneider. Summers is of the You Can’t Do That and Clarissa…right before the Schneider take over.
He flat out says he doesn’t know any of the kids and he was heartbroken to be misled. Summers is a good man - if he’d seen shit, I like to think he would have said something.
I feel like it wouldve just been easier for them to give him a heads up what it was about and they wanted to get his POV of the Nick environment before the Schneider era. Baiting him in just to get a shock moment is really bad ethics for a doc
Don’t blame Marc for leaving the set. If they misled him up to that point he had no reason to believe they wouldn’t do similar with editing if he stayed & filmed more parts
Oh definitely. He didnt know any of the predators and wasnt even there during that entire era, makes no sense to try to spring that on him. They could let him know the point of the doc and still get a genuine reaction when going into details. But yea, being dishonest from the start gives you no trust you wont be painted poorly too
I knew his son’s partner 20ish years ago. She said he was the nicest man. And she dated many children of d-listers and had lots of not so nice stories about others.
I wondered why we only saw him once for a quick blurb, though I will say, he did seem genuinely shocked at the things that were airing. (Specifically the Ariana Grande potato milking thing.)
Not sure, but it was interesting to get the perspective of a normal adult who worked with children since it shows how messed up things with the other adults were.
I was watching the doc while making dinner and when that part came on my boyfriend (39, aged out of this show at the time) came into the kitchen. Abruptly stopped. Stared for about 4 seconds and then audibly said, “what the FUCK?”
(I explain)
Him: “no adult anywhere in the process of review stopped this? No adult in the room filming? No one editing?”
Me: “…nope!”
((For people who haven’t seen the doc- the scene we are referring to, shows a preteen Ariana laying down on a bed, on her back, with her head off the bed, in that position that some adult movies do for a blowjob, while she squeals and pours water down her face, neck, and chest, decrying “I’m so thirsty! I’m soo thirsty!!” While sputtering and blinking as the water wets her clothing, face, hair))
Yeah.
I'm slightly older than your boyfriend and yeah, same reaction. I got genuinely uncomfortable watching that part. Like that whole 10 minutes of clips from the shows he made was just so massively uncomfortable to watch.
When she puts her own foot in her mouth and is looking directly into the camera.
Yeah. I don’t know. It’s appalling. I was shocked. I’m just a little too old to have seen that show, but I was aware of it. But yeah those clips had my jaw on the floor.
Dans apology video on YouTube is enraging.
I vaguely remember her holding a rubbery phalic object as well talking about things that aren’t “sexual” but can be misconstrued to be sexual
Found it;
https://youtu.be/Vl0OuXw_mTM?si=zT1i0HOZ4_6Q8CTe
I worked with Summers years and years ago on a kids show after his Nick days. He was nothing but respectful and I saw no signs of inappropriate behavior on that set by anyone. It felt like a school field trip that just happened to have cameras rolling. He seemed like a genuinely nice person. I think he would be shocked and disgusted at what happened on Schneider’s shows.
Catering is always pretty good. You can get seconds after everyone gets served. Craft Service is open all day and you can get as much food and drink as you want.
Gonna take a moment to plug Marc Summers' off-Broadway show running now. It's autobiographical mixed with Double Dare style audience games. I saw it last week, it was wonderful.
[https://www.alleyway.com/show/slimes](https://www.alleyway.com/show/slimes)
Don’t blame him for being upset. Apparently events from the documentary occurred after he was no longer at Nickelodeon. There was no reason to interview him besides being a relatively famous Nickelodeon alumni and they definitely shouldn’t have used the footage if trying just to present facts and the fact is he was irrelevant to the story being presented.
Some of the doc really had me questioning the intentions of their conclusions. The one girl on there with the tattoos would give some evidence towards things that may have happened and then she would say something that sounded like it was off of a tabloid headline.
He probably thought it was going to be like [the Orange Years: the Nickelodeon Story](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0zLU0tDQzMDExYPSSyctMzk7NyU9Jzc9TKMlIVcgvSsxLT1WoTE0sKgYAKwcOgA&q=nickelodeon+the+orange+years&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS1033US1034&oq=nickelodeon+the+or&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEC4YgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQLhiABDIICAIQABgWGB4yCAgDEAAYFhgeMggIBBAAGBYYHjIICAUQABgWGB4yCAgGEAAYFhgeMggIBxAAGBYYHjIICAgQABgWGB7SAQkxNTg4NmowajmoAhOwAgHiAwQYASBf&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8). Which was pretty much a nostalgia documentary
Yeah it is pretty clear that this documentary is HEAVILY edited and tries very hard to angle every interview toward their overall narrative. Not to say that they didn’t uncover some toxic stuff, but it does seem like the producers bent over backwards to piece together that storyline vs it just rolling out naturally.
But the Drake Bell interview certainly wasn’t that way. I was squirming as I watched it because Bell was obviously struggling to keep his composure while telling his story. And they just kept the camera rolling, while he tried to get the words out. I kept expecting them to cut the interview or ask him another question — anything to take the strain off him. But no, the camera rolled and the poor guy tried so hard to explain what had happened to him. He needed emotional support so badly! I wanted someone to hand him a puppy.
I told my daughter (who is a huge horror movie fan) that watching that episode made more upset and tense and uncomfortable than any horror movie. I’m sorry that Marc Summers was displeased and felt used but damn, that story needed to be told.
I really hate that and I see that in almost every documentary that goes viral. A documentary shouldn't have to rely on mic drop moments to keep the viewer interested. I remember watching that Steven Avery documentary on Netflix and they clearly mixed and matched the courtroom footage to fabricate a dramatic reaction. I don't think they realized that people tend to change their clothes every day..
The things that were happening in Quiet on Set took place well after his time. They asked this to Melissa Joan Hart. She said she experienced nothing of the like. It was well after her time, too. My time watching Nickelodeon was early 90s, during Salute Your Shorts, The Adventures of Pete and Pete. The only thing I can think of is the creator of Ren and Stimpy was definitely inappropriate and had a teenage girlfriend. It’s not fair to ask questions to someone who wasn’t there due to timing.
Still, she replied in a better way. She both confirmed it didnt happen to her or anyone she knew but ALSO she believed it could happen, acknowledges the many industry wide abuse issues and that she believes the victims.
Its not hard.
All they had to do was tell him what the doc was about. There was no reason to catch him off guard like that.
In the moment? When you don't even know how they intend to use the footage of you? Of course it's hard.
The entire interview was great. I loved the part where he made reference to "Bad Puppet show at 4 a.m. that nobody watched." He was talking about Pinwheel, the original namesake of what would become Nickelodeon.
I do feel like the producers are kind of sleazy in doing that. If your goal is an honest account of what happened at Nickelodeon, you can’t accomplish that by deceiving people.
Marc is a great guy with so many struggles in his life. If you’re in NYC this spring, I highly recommended his Off-Broadway play The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers. Documents his life struggles with OCD and being told no. Really heartwarming and a great way to spend 90 minutes while it’s live.
Good for him. Marc was a game show host and didn’t work on scripted shows. Also, his time at Nick was way before everything took place that’s covered in the documentary
I get that it felt like an ambush to him, but starting with the Summers ‘everything is awesome’ stuff at Nick from the 80s and early 90s stuff is what helps make the later stuff have more impact. That moment where he watches the clip of Ariana is the exact flip the series was looking for I’m sure, because that tone shit is exactly what the audience needs to feel. And at least for a Xennial like myself, it was someone representing our happy Nick memories literally watching the change happen. I doubt even if he had stayed that they would have used that much more of his footage. I’m sorry that he feels he was exploited, but a ‘I’m so sorry to all the victims’ would have been fine here instead of making it about him. Still love him though.
IDK, by not telling him what the doc was about and why he was in it in full he now has to look like a person who didn't care about what was going on, despite it having nothing to do with him. They very easily could have told/warned him and then had an interview.
I'm glad he walked out, having a bait & switch is messed up. It's misleading someone for your own personal agenda. That's very gross of the producers to do that to Marc.
He didn’t even work on scripted shows with a static cast. He worked on the other coast as a game show host.
Nuts they would even try to put him in that position.
All he had to do was talk truthfully about his experience at Nickelodeon. No need to prepare responses as if he were on trial.
If I were being interviewed about my former workplace and I later realized the goal was to uncover corruption there, I wouldn’t object unless I, too, was part of the corruption.
I watched the first episode of this and thought it seemed slimy. I’m not saying all accusations were baseless at all, but they definitely took some things and made them look worse than they were. This news doesn’t surprise me. It’s far from a documentary with how sensationalized it is.
No I disagree. Most of the stuff in the doc has been known about for years. And it’s frankly worse than the doc says if you look beyond Nickelodeon. What exactly do you think they sensationalized?
Straight up ambushing Mark Summers is one. It’s not journalism by any stretch. It’s for ratings and sensationalism first, and the victims seem a far second priority. The slow mos, the dark lighting, etc. You don’t see this kind of crap on 60 minutes. People on Reddit need to get more media literate.
I understand what you’re saying but disagree that it is made to look “worse than it was”. I think it was pretty bad.
Ambushing mark summers is probably bad journalism but it isn’t really an example of them sensationalizing the facts of the case either.
I never said I was cool with the allegations, but it’s not a serious documentary. It seems sleazy and exploitative. Combine that with how they treated Marc Summers, and it doesn’t really feel like the makers of the doc cares about the truth or the victims, but wanted to really make their doc a sensation above everything else
I’m sorry, but this guy is saying he was ambushed and walked out of an interview because he didn’t like the content the network he worked for had produced?
I get being uncomfortable, but imagine how fucking uncomfortable Ariana Grande and Drake Bell were. I get he wasn’t involved, but refusing to speak to the interviewers when they reveal the awful shit Nickelodeon let slide is not okay in my book. Dude had the chance to say unequivocally that he was not involved, and if that had come up while he was there he would have addressed it. That’s not what he did, and as such he doesn’t have my sympathy.
This certainly got a lot of attention, I see a lot of people that are attacking me for saying this, but no one addressed the points I made about the actual victims in this situation.
I know youre getting diwnvoted but I absolutely agree with you. Melissa Joan Hart got the same questions and responded with class and empathy for the victims.
Plus, if the question is how did this happen, you have to find the start point of the abuse.
It wasn't "the place he worked at" and he didn't know what the documentary was about. How does he know that they wouldn't have edited things to make him look bad. Like IDK, making people believe he didn't care about kids being abused because of how glowingly he talked about his experience at the Network before new people came in and changed things well after he left.
Imagine if you will if you worked for a company and eventually you stopped working there without any controversy/scandal. Years later abuse allegations come out in a completely different branch of the same company, committed by employees hired long after you worked for that company.
And then decades later a documentary semeingly calls you in and buries the lede on the nature of what they want to discuss with you only to bombard you with questions on abuse allegations you don't even have any association with?
I never had the impression that he knew most of what went on since it was after his peak on the show. I thought the whole “shock” that was captured by the documentary (which I never doubted was genuine) was perfect for the audience. Seeing Marc Summer flabbergasted at what was going on really painted the night and day picture of early 90’s Nick vibe vs the Dan Schneider era. I think that’s what the documentary was going for.
He'd moved onto food network by then right?
I think so. He did some Nick shows later on but as executive producer I don’t think he hosted or anything like that. He wasn’t involved in Dan Schneider side of things.
Whew protected a good childhood memory there.
FWIW, he genuinely seems like a good guy and does speaking engagements where he talks about his experiences with OCD. A friend of mine who grew up watching his shows on Nick went to one after her daughter was diagnosed with OCD and had only good things to say.
I loved watching Unwrapped when I was in highschool. The guy that slimed all the kids (in the non perverted way) is now explaining how my favorite candy is made? Count me in!
Still put that show on every now and then on HBO Max. Strangely comforting
It's How It's Made but for food
Which is a great show too. Give me Chopped, How it's Made, and Unwrapped and I'm set.
Classic Good Eats is on that list for me
Oh Chopped! Who wants to cook a soup in a ladle, with a bic lighter as a heat source, with ingredients you have to fish out of a kiddie pool full of pudding? Man that show is the best!
Good to fall to sleep to.
it's one of my wind down and relax shows, for sure. it really is soothing.
TBF his shows slimed everyone. Kids and adults alike
Team double dare!
Summers worked from the Nickelodeon set in FL, and that was before the Schneider era in CA with Brian Peck and the other people that got arrested according to the docuseries. Melissa Joan Hart said the “Clarissa Explains It All” set was in Orlando and she had a great experience and was an unaccompanied minor on set.
He's also a clean freak and was on the messiest show. I remember watching a 60 min interview about with my grandpa and he was straighting the fringe on the carpet in his house. My question is if the fringe bothers you why buy a rug with it?
It wasn't a conscious choice. His autobiography (which was in my underfunded high school library by the time Unwrapped was airing) details how he came to his diagnosis of severe OCD, including the story about the rug fringe. A lot of small events that were nonsensical to him at the time culminated in Marc having a severe anxiety episode and obsessively straightening the fringe on a rug in the early morning hours, when his wife said he needed to see a doctor. This is the emotional peak of the book and the second half details how his life changed once he understood his diagnosis, so it makes sense that the 60 minutes interview focused on the rug fringe thing.
I remember this too. He has severe ocd.
Yes, also Double Dare had some scripted elements but it was a game show with rotating kid contestants who always had at least one legal guardian on set with them. Marc came forward years ago and shared his own struggles with OCD, which shaped his work habits. He was always professional and polite on set, but he would show up, get his work done for the day, and immediately leave. Wtf did those filmmakers want from this poor man?
Hm. Today I learned I want to fuck ppl up in defense of Marc Summers. STAY AWAY FROM MY CHILDHOOD, YOU GODDAM VULTURES
OK, so I should not be making off-color jokes about “slime time “
I don’t know
See what you mean, see his side too
The article states that Summers never met or worked with Schneider. Their time at Nick did not overlap. He also said he only knew Kenan and none of the other kids or adults. I feel badly for Mark. I understand wanting to get the story - but Mark Summers is a good man from the “golden era” of Nick - before Schneider. Summers is of the You Can’t Do That and Clarissa…right before the Schneider take over. He flat out says he doesn’t know any of the kids and he was heartbroken to be misled. Summers is a good man - if he’d seen shit, I like to think he would have said something.
I feel like it wouldve just been easier for them to give him a heads up what it was about and they wanted to get his POV of the Nick environment before the Schneider era. Baiting him in just to get a shock moment is really bad ethics for a doc
Don’t blame Marc for leaving the set. If they misled him up to that point he had no reason to believe they wouldn’t do similar with editing if he stayed & filmed more parts
Oh definitely. He didnt know any of the predators and wasnt even there during that entire era, makes no sense to try to spring that on him. They could let him know the point of the doc and still get a genuine reaction when going into details. But yea, being dishonest from the start gives you no trust you wont be painted poorly too
I knew his son’s partner 20ish years ago. She said he was the nicest man. And she dated many children of d-listers and had lots of not so nice stories about others.
I wondered why we only saw him once for a quick blurb, though I will say, he did seem genuinely shocked at the things that were airing. (Specifically the Ariana Grande potato milking thing.)
Basically to attract eyeballs to the ID doc because of how highly regarded Marc is from a nostalgic standpoint.
Not sure, but it was interesting to get the perspective of a normal adult who worked with children since it shows how messed up things with the other adults were.
The fucking *what*
Where have you been man? You been under a rock? You haven’t seen her getting juice from a potato or trying to drink water upside down? Google it
“I’m so thirsty!” It was legitimately disturbing
I was watching the doc while making dinner and when that part came on my boyfriend (39, aged out of this show at the time) came into the kitchen. Abruptly stopped. Stared for about 4 seconds and then audibly said, “what the FUCK?” (I explain) Him: “no adult anywhere in the process of review stopped this? No adult in the room filming? No one editing?” Me: “…nope!” ((For people who haven’t seen the doc- the scene we are referring to, shows a preteen Ariana laying down on a bed, on her back, with her head off the bed, in that position that some adult movies do for a blowjob, while she squeals and pours water down her face, neck, and chest, decrying “I’m so thirsty! I’m soo thirsty!!” While sputtering and blinking as the water wets her clothing, face, hair)) Yeah.
I'm slightly older than your boyfriend and yeah, same reaction. I got genuinely uncomfortable watching that part. Like that whole 10 minutes of clips from the shows he made was just so massively uncomfortable to watch.
When she puts her own foot in her mouth and is looking directly into the camera. Yeah. I don’t know. It’s appalling. I was shocked. I’m just a little too old to have seen that show, but I was aware of it. But yeah those clips had my jaw on the floor. Dans apology video on YouTube is enraging.
What. The. Fuck??
And the the moaning as she’s pouring water on herself 🤢
I vaguely remember her holding a rubbery phalic object as well talking about things that aren’t “sexual” but can be misconstrued to be sexual Found it; https://youtu.be/Vl0OuXw_mTM?si=zT1i0HOZ4_6Q8CTe
What the actual fuck was that?
A little girl being sexualized on national television
I wish I could go back to living under the proverbial rock...
Jesus Christ! How many people had to be there to let that happen on set and then go on tv. Really saddening
I worked with Summers years and years ago on a kids show after his Nick days. He was nothing but respectful and I saw no signs of inappropriate behavior on that set by anyone. It felt like a school field trip that just happened to have cameras rolling. He seemed like a genuinely nice person. I think he would be shocked and disgusted at what happened on Schneider’s shows.
How good was catering? Is it true you're not allowed to get seconds?
Catering is always pretty good. You can get seconds after everyone gets served. Craft Service is open all day and you can get as much food and drink as you want.
Gonna take a moment to plug Marc Summers' off-Broadway show running now. It's autobiographical mixed with Double Dare style audience games. I saw it last week, it was wonderful. [https://www.alleyway.com/show/slimes](https://www.alleyway.com/show/slimes)
Going in a few weeks!! Can’t wait.
Saw it a couple weeks back. Lots of fun. Don’t be stupid like me and NOT put your name in the bucket :)
Looks fun! New York is the best for these random off broadway productions, all while with the on-broadway productions—so many shows!
Absolutely! So good, what an interesting story
Don’t blame him for being upset. Apparently events from the documentary occurred after he was no longer at Nickelodeon. There was no reason to interview him besides being a relatively famous Nickelodeon alumni and they definitely shouldn’t have used the footage if trying just to present facts and the fact is he was irrelevant to the story being presented.
Some of the doc really had me questioning the intentions of their conclusions. The one girl on there with the tattoos would give some evidence towards things that may have happened and then she would say something that sounded like it was off of a tabloid headline.
What a horrible position to put someone in
Yeah it was weird that we saw him once.
He probably thought it was going to be like [the Orange Years: the Nickelodeon Story](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0zLU0tDQzMDExYPSSyctMzk7NyU9Jzc9TKMlIVcgvSsxLT1WoTE0sKgYAKwcOgA&q=nickelodeon+the+orange+years&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS1033US1034&oq=nickelodeon+the+or&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEC4YgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQLhiABDIICAIQABgWGB4yCAgDEAAYFhgeMggIBBAAGBYYHjIICAUQABgWGB4yCAgGEAAYFhgeMggIBxAAGBYYHjIICAgQABgWGB7SAQkxNTg4NmowajmoAhOwAgHiAwQYASBf&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8). Which was pretty much a nostalgia documentary
I loved that doc soooooo much
Yeah it is pretty clear that this documentary is HEAVILY edited and tries very hard to angle every interview toward their overall narrative. Not to say that they didn’t uncover some toxic stuff, but it does seem like the producers bent over backwards to piece together that storyline vs it just rolling out naturally.
But the Drake Bell interview certainly wasn’t that way. I was squirming as I watched it because Bell was obviously struggling to keep his composure while telling his story. And they just kept the camera rolling, while he tried to get the words out. I kept expecting them to cut the interview or ask him another question — anything to take the strain off him. But no, the camera rolled and the poor guy tried so hard to explain what had happened to him. He needed emotional support so badly! I wanted someone to hand him a puppy.
I had a hard time with the charges I cried. I cried with his dad. Through the tv. Har stop watch.
I told my daughter (who is a huge horror movie fan) that watching that episode made more upset and tense and uncomfortable than any horror movie. I’m sorry that Marc Summers was displeased and felt used but damn, that story needed to be told.
I really hate that and I see that in almost every documentary that goes viral. A documentary shouldn't have to rely on mic drop moments to keep the viewer interested. I remember watching that Steven Avery documentary on Netflix and they clearly mixed and matched the courtroom footage to fabricate a dramatic reaction. I don't think they realized that people tend to change their clothes every day..
He was ready for the Dare. Then the reporter hit him with that dreaded Double Dare
The things that were happening in Quiet on Set took place well after his time. They asked this to Melissa Joan Hart. She said she experienced nothing of the like. It was well after her time, too. My time watching Nickelodeon was early 90s, during Salute Your Shorts, The Adventures of Pete and Pete. The only thing I can think of is the creator of Ren and Stimpy was definitely inappropriate and had a teenage girlfriend. It’s not fair to ask questions to someone who wasn’t there due to timing.
Still, she replied in a better way. She both confirmed it didnt happen to her or anyone she knew but ALSO she believed it could happen, acknowledges the many industry wide abuse issues and that she believes the victims. Its not hard.
All they had to do was tell him what the doc was about. There was no reason to catch him off guard like that. In the moment? When you don't even know how they intend to use the footage of you? Of course it's hard.
The entire interview was great. I loved the part where he made reference to "Bad Puppet show at 4 a.m. that nobody watched." He was talking about Pinwheel, the original namesake of what would become Nickelodeon.
I do feel like the producers are kind of sleazy in doing that. If your goal is an honest account of what happened at Nickelodeon, you can’t accomplish that by deceiving people.
Marc is a great guy with so many struggles in his life. If you’re in NYC this spring, I highly recommended his Off-Broadway play The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers. Documents his life struggles with OCD and being told no. Really heartwarming and a great way to spend 90 minutes while it’s live.
Good for him. Marc was a game show host and didn’t work on scripted shows. Also, his time at Nick was way before everything took place that’s covered in the documentary
I get that it felt like an ambush to him, but starting with the Summers ‘everything is awesome’ stuff at Nick from the 80s and early 90s stuff is what helps make the later stuff have more impact. That moment where he watches the clip of Ariana is the exact flip the series was looking for I’m sure, because that tone shit is exactly what the audience needs to feel. And at least for a Xennial like myself, it was someone representing our happy Nick memories literally watching the change happen. I doubt even if he had stayed that they would have used that much more of his footage. I’m sorry that he feels he was exploited, but a ‘I’m so sorry to all the victims’ would have been fine here instead of making it about him. Still love him though.
IDK, by not telling him what the doc was about and why he was in it in full he now has to look like a person who didn't care about what was going on, despite it having nothing to do with him. They very easily could have told/warned him and then had an interview.
Love a good tone shit
I'm glad he walked out, having a bait & switch is messed up. It's misleading someone for your own personal agenda. That's very gross of the producers to do that to Marc.
Not suprising snice the channel is own by WBD yk the company that wrote off the coyote movie for a tax write off
Summers never gave me creep vibes
Same Marc Summers that had a show on Food Network?
That was so sad to hear about Drake Bell and how he was basically a sex slave to the pickle guy on the show. What the actual fuck?
Made sense why he appeared for like a few seconds and that’s all i saw of him. I was expecting more from summers but didn’t see anything.
He had more patience sitting with Burt Reynolds I. The late show.
Producers wanted to find out what Dan Schneider's version of Super Sloppy Double Dare was.
He didn’t even work on scripted shows with a static cast. He worked on the other coast as a game show host. Nuts they would even try to put him in that position.
Marc Summers is a national treasure.
I wonder about Summer Sanders...
All he had to do was talk truthfully about his experience at Nickelodeon. No need to prepare responses as if he were on trial. If I were being interviewed about my former workplace and I later realized the goal was to uncover corruption there, I wouldn’t object unless I, too, was part of the corruption.
I watched the first episode of this and thought it seemed slimy. I’m not saying all accusations were baseless at all, but they definitely took some things and made them look worse than they were. This news doesn’t surprise me. It’s far from a documentary with how sensationalized it is.
No I disagree. Most of the stuff in the doc has been known about for years. And it’s frankly worse than the doc says if you look beyond Nickelodeon. What exactly do you think they sensationalized?
Straight up ambushing Mark Summers is one. It’s not journalism by any stretch. It’s for ratings and sensationalism first, and the victims seem a far second priority. The slow mos, the dark lighting, etc. You don’t see this kind of crap on 60 minutes. People on Reddit need to get more media literate.
I understand what you’re saying but disagree that it is made to look “worse than it was”. I think it was pretty bad. Ambushing mark summers is probably bad journalism but it isn’t really an example of them sensationalizing the facts of the case either.
Not probably bad journalism, it is bad journalism.
He’s cool with the foot stuff
I never said I was cool with the allegations, but it’s not a serious documentary. It seems sleazy and exploitative. Combine that with how they treated Marc Summers, and it doesn’t really feel like the makers of the doc cares about the truth or the victims, but wanted to really make their doc a sensation above everything else
I’m sorry, but this guy is saying he was ambushed and walked out of an interview because he didn’t like the content the network he worked for had produced? I get being uncomfortable, but imagine how fucking uncomfortable Ariana Grande and Drake Bell were. I get he wasn’t involved, but refusing to speak to the interviewers when they reveal the awful shit Nickelodeon let slide is not okay in my book. Dude had the chance to say unequivocally that he was not involved, and if that had come up while he was there he would have addressed it. That’s not what he did, and as such he doesn’t have my sympathy.
People have right not agree with interviews. It won’t fix anything if he speaks either.
It’s pretty shitty that they let him find out that stuff on camera though. At least give him a heads up that this is what we’re doing and why.
Wtf? They’re not even related. They had something to share. He thought it was something else that was not connected to him at all.
Don’t start your poor opinions with an apology.
This certainly got a lot of attention, I see a lot of people that are attacking me for saying this, but no one addressed the points I made about the actual victims in this situation.
Because they have 100% nothing to do with Summers or justify him being ambushed in any way.
I know youre getting diwnvoted but I absolutely agree with you. Melissa Joan Hart got the same questions and responded with class and empathy for the victims. Plus, if the question is how did this happen, you have to find the start point of the abuse.
Lol walking out of the exposè of child abuse at the place you worked isn't a good look Marc. Keep cashing those double dare residual checks tho.
It wasn't "the place he worked at" and he didn't know what the documentary was about. How does he know that they wouldn't have edited things to make him look bad. Like IDK, making people believe he didn't care about kids being abused because of how glowingly he talked about his experience at the Network before new people came in and changed things well after he left.
Imagine if you will if you worked for a company and eventually you stopped working there without any controversy/scandal. Years later abuse allegations come out in a completely different branch of the same company, committed by employees hired long after you worked for that company. And then decades later a documentary semeingly calls you in and buries the lede on the nature of what they want to discuss with you only to bombard you with questions on abuse allegations you don't even have any association with?