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The feel was of the world's most elaborate birthday party with the kids in charge and the adults discretely offstage with the fire extinguishers.

Nickelodeon’s 19th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards – A Slime Time Had By All

Spurred on by the exuberant antics of a bearded Jack Black — who bounded about a packed and rollicking Pauley Pavilion like a slightly overstuffed neutrino — and a contingent of circus performers swooping, plunging and contorting, Nickelodeon’s impressively staged 19th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards had the feel of the world’s most elaborate birthday party with the kids in charge, the grownups in serious regression mode, and the real adults discretely offstage with the fire extinguishers in case anything got seriously out of hand.

Infectious was the mildly transgressive behavior as talk turned to farts, butts and nose-picking, while a highlight of the densely packed hour-and-a-half live Saturday night program was a burp-off between a thunderous and rumbling Justin Timberlake and a staccato, tinny Hugh Jackman.

Repeat kid favorite Will Smith took home his fifth “Blimp,” winning Favorite Movie Actor for Hitch, and used the opportunity to admonish the kids to watch who they hang around with. “You are who your friends are,” he extolled.

A record-breaking 25 million kids voted in a total of 16 categories on Nick.com and via cell phones by wireless text messaging between March 6-April 1.

A lean and croaky Lindsay Lohan nabbed the award for Favorite Movie Actress for her nuanced portrayal in Herbie Fully Loaded, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire snagged the cup as Favorite Movie. Chris Rock clinched Favorite Voice in an Animated Movie (Madagascar) and the “Wannabe Award,” an annual honor bestowed on a celebrity role model who kids most “want to be.”

SpongeBob SquarePants absorbed honors for the fourth consecutive year as Favorite Cartoon. Top TV awards went to Drake & Josh as Favorite Show, title star Drake Bell as Favorite Actor, and to Jamie Lynn Spears (Zoey 101) as Favorite Actress. Lance Armstrong crossed the finish line as Favorite Athlete. In music, Green Day picked up a pair for Favorite Music Group and Favorite Song (“Wake Me Up When September Ends”). A frenetic Jesse McCartney and and absent Kelly Clarkson netted Favorite Male Singer and Favorite Female Singer respectively; and the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling took Favorite Book honors.

Another highlight was US Olympic Freestyle Aerial Skier Ryan St Onge whipping, flipping and twisting off a vertiginous ramp and plunging into a 10,000-gallon tank of Nickelodeon’s signature green slime on the slopes near Park City, Utah. Tony Hawk called the action.

Robin Williams joined the illustrious ranks of celeb slime victims Johnny Depp, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Mike Myers, Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, and Rosie O’Donnell when Black hosed him green at the end of the show before Williams turned the tables and opened the floodgates on the host.

Among others presenting, performing (Pink’s “Stupid Girl” was the performance highlight), hanging around and/or lurking were Bruce Willis, Cameron Diaz, Whoopi Goldberg, Adam Sandler, Shaun White, Hilary Duff, Jessica Alba, Shawn and Marlon Wayans, Sasha Cohen, Apolo Anton Ohno, Eve, Romeo, Ludacris, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Nelly, Jon Heder, Emma Roberts, Avril Lavigne, Ryan Seacrest, Tom Kenny, Nick Cannon, Kristin Cavallari, Kevin James, Toby Dawson, Devon Werkheiser, Bow Wow (“Fresh AzImIz”), and Chris Brown (“Yo (Excuse Me Miss)”).

The entire telecast will encore Sunday, April 9 at 1 p.m., and Kids Choice Awards: Best of the Mess, a 30-minute version, will air Tuesday, April 4 at 5 p.m.; Thursday, April 6 at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 8 at 11:30 a.m. (ET/PT). The half-hour version is also available on TurboNick, Nickelodeon’s broadband video service on Nick.com, through April 8.

MOVIES:
FAVORITE MOVIE
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

FAVORITE MOVIE ACTRESS
Lindsay Lohan (Herbie Fully Loaded)

FAVORITE MOVIE ACTOR
Will Smith (Hitch)

FAVORITE VOICE FROM AN ANIMATED MOVIE
Chris Rock (Madagascar)

MUSIC:
FAVORITE MUSIC GROUP
Green Day

FAVORITE FEMALE SINGER
Kelly Clarkson

FAVORITE MALE SINGER
Jesse McCartney

FAVORITE SONG
“Wake Me Up When September Ends” (Green Day)

TELEVISION:
FAVORITE TV SHOW
Drake & Josh

FAVORITE TV ACTRESS
Jamie Lynn Spears (Zoey 101)

FAVORITE TV ACTOR
Drake Bell (Drake & Josh)

FAVORITE CARTOON
SpongeBob SquarePants

WANNABE AWARD
Chris Rock

SPORTS:
FAVORITE ATHLETE
Lance Armstrong

OTHER CATEGORIES:
FAVORITE VIDEO GAME
Madagascar: Operation Penguin

FAVORITE BOOK
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

See a preview of the show and the full list of nominees here.

lindsaycrackshot UPDATE
Apparently Lindsay Lohan accepted the award for Fave Actress in Herbie Fully Loaded in the guise of Lindsay Not Fully Dressed.

About Eric Olsen

Career media professional and serial entrepreneur Eric Olsen flung himself into the paranormal world in 2012, creating the America's Most Haunted brand and co-authoring the award-winning America's Most Haunted book, published by Berkley/Penguin in Sept, 2014. Olsen is co-host of the nationally syndicated broadcast and Internet radio talk show After Hours AM; his entertaining and informative America's Most Haunted website and social media outlets are must-reads: Twitter@amhaunted, Facebook.com/amhaunted, Pinterest America's Most Haunted. Olsen is also guitarist/singer for popular and wildly eclectic Cleveland cover band The Props.

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