You Can't Do That on Television

Released: 1979



Comedy
You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before airing internationally in 1981. It featured pre-teen and teenaged actors in a sketch comedy format. Each episode had a theme. The show was notable for launching the careers of many performers, including Alanis Morissette, and writer Bill Prady, who would write and produce shows like The Big Bang Theory, Gilmore Girls and Dharma and Greg.
The show was produced by and aired on Ottawa's CTV station CJOH-TV. After production ended in 1990, the show continued in reruns on Nickelodeon through 1994, when it was replaced with the similar All That. The show is synonymous with Nick, and was at that time extremely popular, with the highest ratings overall on the channel. The show is also well known for introducing the network's iconic slime.
The program is the subject of the 2004 feature-length documentary, You Can't Do That on Film, directed by David Dillehunt.
Starring: Christine McGlade, Les Lye, Adam Greydon Reid, Lisa Ruddy, Alasdair Gillis, Ruth Buzzi, Klea Scott, Alanis Morissette
Created by: Roger Damon Price
Language: English
Scenes
Season 2 Episode 3: Strike Now
At around 16:40 into the episode a boy is tied up and needs to pee and tries negotiating with the guard but partway through the negotiation he sighs and says "too late"
Season 3 Episode 4: Fads & Fashion
Lance Prevort accidentally loses Kevin Kubusheskie's baby photo album, so to try to trick his mother, Abby Hagyard, he dresses his son in a diaper and baby bonnet to take photos of him to replace them. Starts at roughly the 14 minutes mark.
Season 4 Episode 2: Rules & Regulations
Lisa(Lisa Ruddy)has to use the bathroom and is squirming in desperation but her teacher says she's not allowed an "an excursion" without a note from her parents, Lisa pleads but the teacher says she'll have to wait until the bell.
Season 6 Episode 8: Outer Space
Lisa Ruddy and Christine McGlade give Dougie some kind of weird-looking diaper, and it ends up beeping once it detects that he peed in it. Starts around the 6 minutes and 30 seconds mark.
Season 7 Episode 6: TV Commercials
At roughly 18 minutes in the episode the locker sketch contains a scene where a boy confesses to being in a a commercial for diapers.
Season 7 Episode 10: Enemies & Paranoia
A boy realizes that he's too old for the baby doctor, but the baby doctor tells him he's not ready yet because he still wears diapers, he's on baby formula, and he's not even named yet despite him not even being a newborn baby. Starts at roughly the 18 minute mark.
Season 9 Episode 3: Communication
Lance Prevort and Valerie Prevort realize they're bad parents because they never listen to their son Christian Tessier, so they decide to start over from the beginning of his babyhood. Starts at roughly the 20 minute mark.
Season 9 Episode 10: Time
Around 23 minutes into the episode there a sketch where Chris has a girl over for dinner and his mother reveals that he wears diapers for bedwetting every night.
Season 9 Episode 10: Time
There's a sketch around ten minutes into the episode in which two characters are shown having just gotten out of a school play, I think is the nativity from the context, and one dressed as a baby , presumably Jesus, says that he couldn't get his diaper of to go to the bathroom so he went in the diaper.
Season 9 Episode 18: Failure
Chris Bickford's father, Lance Prevort, never registered Chris's birth, so they never got a birth certificate. However, he obtained a birth certificate dated last week, which causes Chris's mother, Valerie Prevort, to treat him like a one-week-old despite him already being 15, much to his annoyance. Starts at roughly the 15 minutes and 50 seconds mark.
Season 9 Episode 19: First Times
Stephanie forces a diaper on a boy she's babysitting (I don’t know who) because her babysitting class told her that mothers expect the babysitter to put a clean diaper on the baby. This happens at roughly the 18-minute mark.
Season 10 Episode 1: Blame
Roughly 10 minutes into the episode a Amy is seen in bed and asks for a glass of water, she then gets water dunked on her. When her mother comes in she tells at her for wetting the bed and tells her that she'll get put back into diapers.
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Edited: 2025-06-07 08:57:30