Nickelodeon GUTS / YMMV

Heartwarming Moments: The Special Olympics episode of Global GUTS where two girls from the U.S. and a boy from Mexico competed. The boy won, but the special appearance by E.T. let them know that they were all winners.
Moment of Awesome: Any time a player got a perfect score (first place finishes in all five events). Not to mention the 1993 All-Star Special, in which three contestants who received perfect scores competed against each other.
The Problem with Licensed Games: The show had a video game in 1993 for the SNES. Many fans stated that the game had repetitive gameplay, annoying music/sounds, there were more girls than boys (a 6:2 ratio) when you had to choose a character, and the fact that the Aggro Crag, the final level, was a glorified Basic Training level... basically, the game sucked. Oh, and there was no Mike O'Malley, but there was Mo.
Replacement Scrappy: Asha Kuerten, but the majority place Ben Lyons squarely in this Trope. Part of the reason could be due to Mike and Moira not being employed at the time. It wasn't the last time Lyons would be this trope, either.
Retroactive Recognition: Mike O'Malley would be Kurt Hummel's father about a decade and a half later.
- A teenage Ashley Eckstein, then Ashley Drane, appeared once as a contestant.
Shipping/Ship Tease: Mike and Moira got along (at least until Global GUTS, where they had to be serious) but the duo were being their usual selves in the Behind The Scenes special (if the fans watched it, as said series was incredibly rare and only shown during special days on Nickelodeon GAS). As a result, fans thought that they were married. However, Moira was already married to comedian Michael Rayner, but is still friends with Mike. ^note Still, some of the fans thinking about this Trope was different, considering that it was one of the few Nickelodeon game shows to have a male host and a female co-host who didn't act like the announcer.
That One Level: The Aggro Crag which got harder as the series progressed. They didn't rename it the Mega Crag or Super Aggro Crag for nothing. The Obvious Rule Patch added to Boulder Canyon in Global GUTS didn't help. The final version of the Crag combined the boulder aspects of the Aggro with the flying confetti and favors everywhere. And if you didn't hit all of the actuators, the ref would force you to go back down and hit any remaining ones.
That One Rule: Numerous players were disqualified during the Super Aggro Crag on Global GUTS because they would hop over the very last boulder in Boulder Canyon (which was only about 4 inches high and not physically necessary to step on) on their descent to the first actuator.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: My Family's Got GUTS, where both Mike and Moira were replaced by Ben and Asha, the games had a family theme, and was a clone of My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad.
- Global GUTS gets its fair share of criticism too. Besides the aforementioned rules changes, the contestants themselves were given less opportunities to showcase their personalities (especially the non-English speaking contestants whose Spill Your Guts segments were translated by a voiceover) and it often made them come off as standoffish and unlikable.
Unintentional Period Piece: Good lord, pretty much everyone who appeared on this show, from the contestants to the refs to the audience makes the show a time capsule for 90s fashion. Bright, primary, contrasting colors, neon green and pink shorts and tank tops, '90s Hair abound... The list goes on and on. This isn't even getting into the show's aesthetics either. The Totally Radical "extreme" theme, the "kaleidoscope" scene transitions, the nicknames the contestants are given... One could nickname this show "The '90s: Kids Sports Edition" and not much would change. This even extends to some events featured on the show, with a few using "sports" toys at the time like Moon Shoes.
Values Dissonance: One contestant (detailed in this webcomic) said the show made a big spectacle about the time he wore a dress to school. The show presented it as "rebellious" in 1992, but today this depiction would be highly transphobic and offensive to crossdressers.

YMMV / Nickelodeon GUTS

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