Marc Summers climbs over obstacle course of his own making toward Double Dare reboot
Still awakened in the middle of the night by the screams—the terrible screams—and the pants—the pie-filled pants—erstwhile Double Dare host Marc Summers has spent decades racing away from the show through the Super Sloppy course of his life. But like a contestant climbing through a giant mouth, then taking a circuitous slide down a river of slime, Summers knows he’ll only end up back where he began. Like the heroin it was named for, Marc Summers needs another hit of that sweet, sweet gak: He’s begun lobbying for a Double Dare reboot with him as the host, if only to quiet those screaming middle-schooler voices in his head.
Unfortunately, capturing the flag of his old job is not as simple as, say, rooting around in a pool filled with clam chowder. Standing in Summers’ way are various nasty obstacles—specifically the comments he’s made over the years about Nickelodeon and its management. “Let’s just say that right now … the people who run the Nickelodeon network and I don’t necessarily see eye to eye,” Summers told HuffPost Live. “I’ve been trying to make nice to those people, but they refuse to talk to me.”
One possible reason for that conflict may be that Summers sees Nickelodeon as a shitty network, while Nickelodeon respectfully disagrees. As Summers told Tampa Bay’s MAX 98.3 last year:
Well, I have all sorts of issues with Nickelodeon these days… There’s somebody in upper management who for some reason has decided that they hate my guts. Meanwhile, their network is going in the dumper.