What's your opinion on the show Wish Kid?

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JoeBobWilly

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I just wanted to see people's opinions on this show. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Wish Kid was a show, by DIC Entertainment, about a kid named Nick McClary, and the wishes (some examples of the wishes he made include him becoming the principal of his school, and his family becoming rich by winning the lottery) that he made with his magical baseball glove. Each epsiode of the series involves Nick and his best friend, Darryl, getting involved in one of his wishes. Unfortunately for Nick, he can only make one wish a week, and the wish would only be temporary.

In my opinion, I found Wish Kid to be a pretty entertaining show.There's a DVD to this show, which I own, but only one volume was released with four episodes. Considering that Shout Factory and S'more Entertainment have DVD rights to DIC shows, I hope that one of them will release a Wish Kid DVD set sometime in the future.
 
Dude, I don't think any cartoon show that has to pay royalties to Macaulay Culkin is gonna fly anytime soon- at least not anymore than it already has.

And I want my COPS animated series completed on DVD before they even waste a dollar on anything Macaulay Culkin...


And..wait...you mean there were actually more than four episodes of Wish Kid made? Heh...whattaya know.. Fine...maybe 5, at most...
 
They pulled out all the stops for NBC's last Saturday Morning season; anything considered cool at the time got its own show: Nintendo, Michael Jordan, and Macaulay Culkin....quality be darned, it was about getting the stars.

Nick McClary said in the print ads, "AWESOME! This sure beats staying home alone!" Did you hear that? He said Wishkid was better than Home Alone! ...No wait, he actually said the show beat being stuck home. Which was a matter of opinion. But no kid was going to read those words that way. Tricky of NBC.

I never watched Wishkid, however. What was the extent of Mac's involvement in it? Was he the voice of Nick? Did a live-action Mac appear at the beginning and end?
 
Whoa, is THIS part true? I didn't think it had that long of a life....Mac had hit puberty by 1994; if they did this, they must have used a different kid.
 
If you read it on Wikipedia, it most likely isn't true.

As you said, Culkin would've been too old to do the series by 1994. Plus I had the Family Channel in '94; there were no new episodes of Wish Kid.

Just as well; I saw a few episodes of it. It was 'meh' overall; little more than an attempt to cash in on Mac's Home Alone fame. The series itself was mediocre, and I got the point after a couple of installments.
 
As memory serves, Wishkid only had one season (13 eps) on NBC (1991-92). I didn't really watch it, either, as I thought it was drek. NBC & DIC scraped the bottom of the creative barrel that season, as we also were stuck with Pro Stars (which I've seen VHS copies of in stores). People are jonesing for Capt. N: The Game Master to return, but I think it's a little dated to be brought back now, even in reruns. DVD release? Only if Nintendo thinks of letting it happen.

Fam did have the Wishkid reruns in '94, but it was the same 13 eps that aired on NBC three years earlier.
 
Not just the Family Channel... but Fox Kids was to commission a new season of it after NBC got out of the game. Jeffery Scott wrote the pilot for it, but they never made it.

Yeah, there was a UAV DVD of it, wasn't there? I see some places have the DIC UAV DVD's for dirt cheap, but the only ones I'm looking for are Bump in the Night and Heathcliff the movie.
 
Oh, come off it. I won't say it's the most reliable resource out there, but Wikipedia is still right the vast majority of the time.

Never saw it, but it sounds like a fun show that could easily be mediocre or, at a stretch, good, but probably not bad. I'm leaning toward mediocre.
 
Come off what? My chair? If I did, I'd have to type standing up. :p

Anyway, kindly ease up. It's not like I'm the first and only person to ever question Wiki's reliability. The "Oh, come off it" snipe wasn't really necessary, was it? Let's try to remain civil here.

I have seen it, and it was mediocre. JMPO.
 
Granted, the last time I saw Wish Kid was back when it first aired, but I didn't like it even back then. To go into too much detail about why I disliked it would be doing you a disservice because my memory's fuzzy on it and thus it might look like I don't know what I'm talking about, but I definitely remember being bored by it rather quickly, especially compared to many other (better) offerings available at the time.

FYI, this is Matt Wilson's most hated animated show of all time. ;)
 
I can see why. It's so... gimmicky. Plus, it was done by DiC and a blatant attempt to cash in on Home Alone. Nothing about it is original at all.
 
Yeah, Wish Kid was pretty bad. ProStars was slightly worse, though that project was Nike adworks at its "best" (Jordan, Jackson, and Gretzky were not only the stars, but also all Nike pitchmen; the irony of it all). Yo, Yogi! was already universally panned by everyone who watched it and everybody involved. And Chip and Pepper?!? The last time I heard, they're fashion designers now. Best show of the last "real" NBC Saturday morning season was Spacecats, from Paul Fusco, creator of ALF. Any show that has Charles Nelson Reilly as an omnipotent head called "D.O.R.C." couldn't be all bad right?

Right?

But strangely, Wish Kids stayed around on the lineup during the summer transition to TNBC, which occurred after the Olympics. They would have kept ProStars on, but one of the stars happened to be playing in the Olympics. Ah yes, the 1992 Olympic games. Year of the failed "Olympic Triplecast." Olympics gone pay-per-view. Of course, NBC mastered the concept by acquiring and being acquired by many folks. I won't be surprised to see women's gymnastics and soccer on Oxygen next year during the games, but I digress.

There was. It aired on USA Network for a couple of seasons during the period when USA aired more original programming to compete with Nickelodeon (ironically during the time that USA was still half owned by Viacom, who owns Nick).
 
Obviously. However, you didn't just question its overall reliability; you said that the majority of information on Wikipedia was false. That, I find difficult to believe.
 
Search Amazon, or your local merchant of DVDs: Captain N, as well as the entire 80's Nintendo cartoon pantheon, is now almost completely on DVD. All that's missing is the "Captain N and Super Mario World" show, which should be along in a month or two.
 
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