NickCam Shorts

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Genre: Teen Sitcom, Sketch Comedy
Created By: Dan Schneider and Jake Farrow
Opening Theme: "In Living Color" sung by NickCam Cast
Country of origin: United States Language: English
# of seasons: 2 # of episodes: 38
Production
Producer(s): Dan Schneider, Jake Farrow, Bruce Rand Berman, Joe Catania, Robin Weiner 
Location(s): Studio 7N; Nickelodeon on Sunset and KTLA Studios, Hollywood, California 

Camera setup: Videotape; Multi-camera 
Running time: 24 minutes

Production Company(s): Schneider's Bakery, Nickelodeon Productions 
Distributor: Nickelodeon

Broadcast
Original channel: Nickelodeon
Picture format: 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format: Stereo
Original run: February 18, 2012 - January 26, 2013
Chronology
Preceded by: NickCam
Followed by: Rhodey, NY 

NickCam Shorts (stylized as NiCK:)C@M Sh:orts)  is a spin-off  to its parent series NickCam for Nickelodeon airing on February 18, 2012. It is a sketch-comedy, variety show created by Dan Schneider & Jake Farrow and stars the same actors from the original series.

Format
Similar to the Nickelodeon Series All That and current NBC Series Saturday Night Live, NickCam Shorts featured a format of cold open, a cast delivering an opening monologue and perform in sketch-comedy pieces and a dance team performing during a music video (instead of a musical guest). The cold open or open monologue took place in a green room five minutes or less after the title sequences of the show.
Title Sequence
For every episode there is a NickCam Shorts title sequence at the beginning after the greenrooms. The cast were seen up front in the camera behind a multi-color room (green screen) with members’ name shown in alphabetical order. The random music video and dance team would be shown after. The theme song is a re-themed version of “In Living Color” from the sketch comedy series on FOX.
Green Room
During each episode all of the cast members would be shown in the greenroom. This has been done for only the spin-off version of NickCam. Weird events would happen in the green room. The set of the green room was like in All That. It was a hang out room that contains a couch, a platinum inch television screen, a kitchen section, an elevator that cast members can also appear from beside the door. Props, pictures, and room accessories are all 
located throughout the room as well.

Sketches
  • Ad Men – At the beginning of each show an advertisement for an unusual product plays.
  • Air Arizona – Featuring a U.S. airliner to Arizona with the three flight attendants (Maunda Alexander, C. Scott and Aldonesa Janglian) getting into screwball situations on a daily basis. 
  • Crazy Cab Driver – Gary (Smith) an incompetent taxi cab driver who would pick up various people. He would do weird things that would annoy the passengers while driving, and call angry drivers “DUNK-HEAD” in a way to accuse drivers to be driving drunk.  The passengers would never get to their destination and would fall out of the cab at the end of the sketch.
  • Dragon Prank – Whitaker would show surveillance videos of him scarring other cast and crew members or other people with a Chinese dragon puppet. In the end, the people he scarred would scare him back with the puppet.
  • Goliath Toys - Various Cast Members play workers in Toy Company that makes toy that go big when awry.
  • Goth & Order – A spoof of Law & Order with Maunda Alexander as Orlanda Berry (Olivia Benson), Kwame Alexander as Jake Miller (John Munch), Marlon Smith as Douglas Crest (Donald Cragen) and Ryan Coleman as Owen  Tollin (Odafin Tutuola). The four detectives investigate different cases and sometimes scare people with their looks.  
  • Lucas E. X – A crazy kid played Ryan Coleman who tries to steals people’s jobs and life.
  • Lantern Fashion – A parody of Antiques Roadshow where Janglian plays a woman named Francine Bates who examines different Lanterns while weird events happen.
  • Life in a Dojo - A sketch that featured Do (Shirin Scott) and Joe (Whitaker) doing the same thing in a dojo but with different methods. Do would use the right way while Joe would use his "own" stupid method.
  • Muchi vs. Magic…. – Janglian would star as herself and fight with everyday items that are magical.
  • Party XL – A parody of Party City with Maunda & Kwame Alexander, Aldonesa Janglian and Ryan Coleman playing employees at store that sells unusual and dangerous party supplies.
  • Rattlesnake Doyle - Featured a talking snake puppet (performed by Kwame Alexander) trying to fit in with others.
  • Rewind Race – Various Cast Members would race a studio audience member with different toys. If the audience member won, something good will happen to them, if the cast member won something bad happen to them.
  • Riddle of the Day – One various vast member would announce a vocabulary word and another would use it in a riddle. The riddles will always be extremely rude and offensive to other cast member.
  • Sally Escapes from Stuffs – Kwame Alexander plays a girl named Sally who tries to escape from small, medium or large things and would always succeed. Sally never said anything
  • SOL (Scream Out Loud!) – A various cast member would get the studio audience to scream loud enough for the “Scream-O-Meter 2000” machine to rise. If the machine was overloading, it would explode and some substance would fall all over the cast member.
  • The Colossus Twins – Smith plays Heath Colossus a teen who wreaks havoc with his twin sister Heather (C. Scott). Casey’s younger sister played Heather during the second season.  
  • The Golden Stock Market – A parody of Bloomberg Television where Various Cast Members give out weird news reports and analysis on the Stock Market.
  • War Enterprises – Denzel Whitaker plays an Iraq War veteran named Steve Reynolds (spoof of Steve Rogers/Captain America) getting a new job as a receptionist at War Enterprises, a company that designs military weapons.  Most of his time was spent talking on the phone, much to the chagrin of his boss (Casey Scott, later her sister Shirin). Steve would beat people up if passed him by without asking.
  • Where’s Your Revolution - A studio audience member hides about what their revolution is and Smith must find it under three boxes or something bad will happen to him.  
The NCS Dance Crew
  • The NCS Dance Crew is a dance team that would perform at the beginning and end of each episode and during each music video. 
Cast
  • Denzel Whitaker as Nick Cameron
  • Maunda Alexander as Rosanne “Rosey” Kenseth
  • Kwame Alexander as Rhodey Wilde
  • Casey Scott as Louise Busch  
  • Marlon Smith as Ra’mon Harvick 
  • Jannae Scott as Shirin Busch
  • Aldonsa Janjigian as Qristyl Logano
  • Ryan Coleman as Mitchell “Mitch” Johnson
Episodes
Season 1: # of episodes: 19 Season premiere: February  
Season 2: # of episodes: 19 Season premiere: 
Multi-Part Specials
NickCam Shorts Live (Two-part Special) Air date: February 18, 2012  
NickCam, iCarly & Victorious: Web Trinity (Three-part Special) Air date: June 23, 2012
NickCam: The Final Shorts (Two-part Special) Air date:

Spin-off
The series Rhodey, NY was the second spin-off to NickCam, starring Kwame & Maunda Alexander as their characters from NickCam with Jannae Scott as a newer character, and Leon Thomas III as Andre Harris from Victorious. The series would follow Rhodey Wilde (Kwame Alexander) and his cousin Rosanne Kenseth (Maunda Alexander) who move to New York City and meet talentful new friends at an apartment building where Andre and his grandmother now live. After the cousins get jobs at the Opening of a new Mystic Theme park, Rhodey finds ways to survive the big city; sometimes on his own. The show was picked up by Nickelodeon on November 29th, 2012.                              

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