you can't do that on television

A show that started out on local TV in Canada on CJOH.
Executives of a station called "The Pinwheel Channel" in the US happened upon it and decided it was just what their station need. Then The Pinwheel Channel became Nickelodeon.
Then they had a hit.
Not only boosted the lulling stations ratings but also gave them their trademark slime scheme. Nick doesn't acknowledge this, perhaps because publicizing it will do no good to them. The slime would fall on someone when they said "I don't know." Water would also fall on someone who said "water."
It ran in the US from 1981-1990. It was such a big hit in the US, it left Canadians scratching their heads. Most Canadian children found the show disgusting and it never had a wide audience in its homeland.
Supposedly was cancelled because the show went through kids like a revolving door on crack and it was a tedious task to send royalty checks to 200+ different children.
Alanis Morissette appeared on about six episodes of the show in 1986, as a minor character.

GUY #1: Moose on You Can't Do That On Television was my first crush.
GUY #2: How 'bout Lisa Ruddy?
GUY #3: I don't know... (Glop...)
GUY #1: I'm so thirsty.
GUY #3: Would you like a glass of water? (Splash)

by The STFU'D Noob July 10, 2006

telstra

1. The name given to something that takes without giving.

2. An alternative word for evil.

3. Telstra fits with the definition of a physco-path. Complete disinterest in the wellbeing of others. Actively causes other people to suffer to fulfil its own desires.

4. Lawbreaker

5. Liar

The Telstra never returned the promised service but happily took large sums of money.

by Telstra Duped Me February 14, 2008

run tell dat

Go ahead and tattle. Used, esp by children, to taunt or challenge someone known to be a tattle-tell to really go and tell the whole story. Often preceded by the word "go"

Child: "Ooooh, I saw you kissin Shaniqua behind the bungaloos!"
Teenager: "And I teabagged her too. Go run tell dat!"

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Wimp: "Ugh! I know it was you who threw that snot rag at me! I'm going to tell Mr. Franklin."
Bully: "That wasn't snot, stupid. Hahaha. Go run tell dat!"

by faunboy August 18, 2010

telly

Slang for television. The original meaning of 'telly'.

Someone turn on the telly.

by Bobrox May 2, 2006

teleprosy

Function: Noun
Etymology: Greek tele- "far"; lepra from leops "a scale," related to lepein "to peel," from lopos "a peel".
1.)a chronic infectious disease of the mind transmitted from one person to another by verbal or extrasensory means caused by a psychobacterium (psychobacterium leprae) affecting especially the cerebrum and logic centers of the brain and characterized by incessant and audible extrusion of stupid bullshit and accompanied by loss of rational thought with eventual mental paralysis and idiocy -- called also Dixie Chick's disease.
2.) Not-smartness spread by talking.

His words completely drowned out the dying screams of my brain cells as they succombed enmasse to his virulent strain of teleprosy.

by Matthew Heflin August 20, 2007

Telcat

An annoying austrailian/oriental person who inhabits Continuum, has a voice that could kill the def, is idiotic beyond any human potential, and is trying to break the record for "Most people pissed off by one person."

Telcat is a fat whore who needs to have her throat cut.

by Fuck You Tel April 2, 2004

Cool Story Bro, Tell It Again

A dickish/sarcastic way of telling someone, after they told you something such as a story, a time they had in there life, etc.etc.etc.

Sleezy: Some guy moved into my neighborhood and they call him Snoop.
Meezy: "Cool Story Bro, Tell It Again."

by ERIKGYOUKNOWHOIBE September 29, 2011