The 21st Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards was held on March 29, 2008, at the

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. The show was the first

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Kids Choice Awards show. The event was hosted by Jack Black. Voting began March 3 on Nick.com and

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. A "Bring on the Nominees" special hosted by Lil' JJ aired also. The Naked Brothers Band and

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were musical performances for the show. A sweepstakes was announced to promote the show. The number of votes cast broke the record previously set in 2007. 86,708,020 kids cast 88,254,272 votes (since kids were allowed to vote multiple times) between March 3–29 in 18 categories, to honor and vote for their favorites. Votes were cast via Nick.com,

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, and for the first time via Nick's new mobile website (wap.nick.com). The award show attracted 7.7 million viewers. The 2008 Kids' Choice Awards is notable for being the only time that ''

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'' did not win the

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since the show was first nominated in 2003, with ''

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'' winning instead.

Presenters and Performers, and Stunts for KCA 2008

Presenters (in order of appearance)

Performers (in order of appearance)

* The Naked Brothers Band performed "I Don't Want to Go to School" *

performed "G.N.O (Girl's Night Out)"

Slimed Celebrities

* Harrison Ford – While presenting Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie with

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, Ford replaced an orb containing the winner with a blimp, similar to the classic scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Also like that scene, a "booby-trap" bucket of slime was dumped onto his head. Ford joked about it and LaBeouf gave him his trademark fedora. *

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– While presenting Favorite TV Show with Rihanna, who was carrying an umbrella, Fraser asked why she had one. The singer slyly replied that "this is for you", and a stream of slime rose from the podium and hit Fraser's forehead. * Orlando Bloom – Bloom was the mystery celebrity at the end of the show who got slimed with 27 gallons of the green goo alongside Jack Black. * Jack Black – The host was slimed at the end of the show with the 27 gallons of slime collected from the slime stunts with Orlando Bloom.

Slime Stunts (in order of appearance)

*1/3 –

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performed the Slime-o-Lition

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driving the Jack Black

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. *2/3 – Usher performed using a

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slime cannon shooter blasting the costume sumo wrestler five feet. (Note: The level was tilted so the sumo wrestler can go to 5 ft.) *3/3 – Heidi Klum performed the human

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using a butt spike belt.

Nicktoon appearance

* Otis and Pip form Back at the Barnyard.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, in bold. Other nominees are in alphabetical order.

Movies

Television

Music

Sports

Miscellaneous

Wannabe Award

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The Rocktopus

The Rocktopus is an eight legged octopus of rock n' roll who haunts Jack Black in his dreams. Later during the awards show, they settle their differences in time for the Rocktopus to activate the slimer machine.

iCarly: Live From Hollywood

The iCarly cast was live outside the

in Hollywood, where the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards were held. The cast aired from 9/8c - 11/10c. Carly, Sam, Freddie, and Spencer were at the Kids' Choice Awards because Spencer was hired to make a Kids' Choice Awards Blimp out of Wieners. Although Spencer was working on his sculpture, he happened to peek around the show, like the Gift bags for the Celebrities, going into Jack Black's Dressing Room, and stealing some mini wienies from the Snack table. In the end, his sculpture was destroyed when the Snack lady attacked him. People actually believed that it was a fan who destroyed the sculpture as security tackled the Snack Lady.

Musical Guests

Countdown to Kids' Choice: *

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The Show: * The Naked Brothers Band, "

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" *

, "G.N.O. (Girl's Night Out)"

References

External links

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Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Press Kit (Nominees)

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Main Website
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