U-Pick Live

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U-Pick Live was a popular talk show on Nickelodeon during the early-mid 2000s. It featured a diverse cast of practically unknown scrubs looking to make an impact on daytime television. Unfortunately, no other network would take them, so they had to make due with Nick.

Cast

• Brent Poplizio as himself – The token glasses-wearing nerd. His segments on the show were rather unpopular, as he wasn't as entertaining a host as Candace (or anyone else on the show). He currently is performing as the lead singer of the indie band Dead Fame.
• Candace Bailey as herself – A sassy, slightly ditzy brunette who was highly popular with older audiences. After U-Pick Live ended, Candace faded into relative obscurity and has done little of note, though did star in that show Jericho (no, not the wrestler) and also dated the creator of Robot Chicken briefly.
• Antonio Neves as himself – Best known by fans on the show as "the floating head of a Hispanic guy". He wasn't shown much on the show and he was known for being very annoying. He continuously ranted on the show about how the network didn't appreciate Hispanics. He was the first to be fired because the network feared he would leak out to much information (mostly the reasons why Nick didn't renew such hit shows as Invader Zim, Angry Beavers, and My Life as an Emo). He currently is protesting outside Nickelodeon studios demanding a reason why he wasn't featured much on the show (even though they had given him a reason a while ago).
• Garbagio as himself – A Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler that somehow found his way on the show. He too didn't get much air time on the show; when he did, it was lackluster matches against either food or toys. He currently is doing indie Mexican wrestling shows and is a part time speaker to teenagers. His topics mostly focus on Why kids shouldn't ever work for children's television networks and how to wrestle against cookies and milk.
• Tom Lamberth as Cow – A cow. Okay not a real cow, but some hobo dressed as one. The network was desperate for a mascot and they needed to find an actor to fit a cow suit they found in the studio fast. Ironically, several shows later, Nick decided the show didn't need a mascot since they weren't getting good ratings anyway so they kept him around as a recurring joke.

Premire

One day on a boring and sunny afternoon in the spring of 2000, instead of broadcasting their usual programming, this show premiered. At first glace, the network's audience was wondering what the heck the show was they were watching, but then out of curiosity, they watched it anyway. This continued for a week, but soon there after, the show became just like the rest of the network's programming, a watered down, lame, childish, and immature show. The show was originally going to be hosted by Michael Jackson , but due to the show's majority audience being children under 10 and because of the allegations against him, the show instead had at the time, unknown actors, Candace Bailey and Brent Poplizio host the show. They were soon joined by loud mouth, Hispanic Antonio (who soon adopted the role of Floating Head as a punishment by Nick for the problems he would soon cause the show), expelled Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler Garbage whom would regularly wrestle inanimate objects and food items instead of real people due to his rather embarrassing win and lose record which was a 0-105, a hobo dressed in a cow suit, Cow, and Nickelodeon commercial slave and wannabe superhero, Pick Boy.

Run

In the beginning, the show was considered to be cutting edge. U-Pick Live was in fact the very first show on Nickelodeon to not need the use of slime unlike the television show it ran against Slime Time Live (which ran an hour before U-Pick Live. During the last few days of it's run, it was purchased by Cartoon Network, but unfortunately because Nickelodeon had ownership of most of the shows and slime, and because it's cast was under contract to Nickelodeon, the show couldn't run on it's network and thus the show died within a matter of days. Nick would brag about how they had screwed Cartoon Network outta a crap load of money)at the time was so incredibly stupid not even 10 year olds could enjoy it. The show featured many enjoyable segments (even though they were pointless, irrelevant, and at times vulgar), and the show's cast was rather enjoyable. However as the show continued it's run, many problems began to happen. The show began to adopt many pointless segments such as Candace's Corner; a segment in which Candace ate up 15 minutes talking about how much more important she was then the rest of the cast (it's a well known fact Ms Bailey is a massive narcissist. In fact she ranked #40 in People Magazine's 100 Most Narcissistic Celebrities), 10 seconds with Bret; a segment in which Brent did his best to either sell himself as an important member of the show or to promote his indie emo band, and a list of other pointless segments. Soon after tensions between the cast began to grow. Candace would begin to increase the minutes in her segments and the other members began to fight with her during the show, Antonio began to shoot on Nickelodeon on it's alleged "disrespect for the Latino community", and a crap load of other problems.

Dying Days

During the last year of it's run, the show became a massive disaster. The show had become so watered down, boring, vulgar, and included so many unscripted and explicit moments that it made WCW 's dying days look like good television. Nickelodeon made many attempts to bring the show back to it's former glory. However it's glory days were when it had real competition, it's segments didn't feel like they were dragging ass, and it's cast didn't act like a bunch of dumbasses. In the months that followed, U-Pick Live would receive it's lowest ratings ever (even though their ratings were never stellar) and plentiful lawsuits and complaints from it's audience. Then one day, Antonio during one of Candace and Brent's segments, knocked both cast mates out and delivered a harsh and vulgar promo. It contained practically every single curse word you can possibly imagine, many racial slurs, and a ton of other irrelevant nonsense. At first people got lost in his entire rant that they didn't quite catch on what the hell Antonio was so pissed off about, but then they realized it was yet another one of his long complaints about how Nick unappreciated the Latino community.

Here's a small and understandable segment of his near 20 minute rant.

“ You know, I'm so sick and tired of those smile sipping bigots in the big office telling me I'm crazy. Almost everyday, when I walk in this god forsaken building, I'm constantly being told what to do and what to say when my two non-Latino cast mates cracka Candace Boring and Brent Who the heck cares what your last name is get to write their own segments and say exactly what they wanna say. Even the freakin' masked wrestler dude whom doesn't even appear on this show for more than 5 minutes and wrestles freakin' cookies and milk, has more freedom than me. Well, I'm so sick and tired of those morons in the main office telling me what to do all the time. They always tell me that I'm totally insane and tell me they aren't racist towards the Latino community. But, BUT, if that's the case, what the heck happened to GOOD Nickelodeon shows like The Brother's Garcia, Tiena, Dora The Explorer, you know all those shows? ”

Needless to say, Antonio totally misunderstood the situation for what it really was. Nick wasn't prejudice to him for being Latino, they were basically just giving him his daily working routine, but because he went on air and acted like a nutcase, the network punished him by making his character on the show a "floating head". Following this decision, the company sent him a letter. It said the following.

“ Now you got a reason to be upset XD! ”

Brent himself treated the show's audience to yet another crazy and completely unscripted moment. However, unlike Antonio whom ranted because he was too stupid to understand the real situation, Brent basically went off and sobbed like a baby on air for real. He basically kissed the collective ass of the network and begged them to treat him as good as they treated Candiace and to increase the time of his segments. However before he could continue, the network cut to a commercial. The segment lasted 2 minutes.

Soon enough, U-Pick Live was old news, and Nick quickly replaced its timeslot with more reruns of SpongeBob SquarePants.

Death

Sadly (well... not really), in the fall of .....um....ah who cares, Nick made the decision to cancel the show. The reason behind the decision was because Candace didn't want to renew her contract. Nick was devastated that the actress chose not to renew her contract. Evidently, Miss Bailey thought she was too good for the show (but that mentality would bite her in the ass later in her career). The other members (mostly Brent) said they would gladly renew their contracts, but Nick decided not to bother since they weren't all that important. Brent cried like a baby as security dragged him out of the building. Antonio had already left the company a week prior so he dodged the completely creepy last moments of the show. Pick Boy happily accepted a contract by Nick to do a line of commercials for the company and to star in some of it's other shows (a decision he would ultimately regret). Garbage returned to Mexico to work some indie Lucha Libre wrestling shows/ He would go on to lose to the likes of Rey Mysterio, La Parka, Psicosis, and Nacho Libre. Cow, left the show quietly and he was never heard from again (He joined the Surreal Life, but people that star in that show are never heard again because that's the point of their careers where nobody would ever hear from them again). Nick closed the doors on the once interesting and cutting edge Nick tv show after something something years (ugh...who cares? Everyone lost interest after the first 3 weeks of the show).