Take your kids to the Nickelodeon Kids' Court, the first show where kids' rules
Kids Court is a 1988-1989 court show aimed at kids. The show was first aired on Nickelodeon hosted by the Paul Provenza. Each case would be solved by using The Honorable Judge O'Meter, a cardboard rendering of an English judge. The meter can only be responded to by the sound of the loud audience. The loudest noises the audience makes wins the case.
- Catchphrase:Paul: Kids Court is now in session!Paul: Is this fair, or unfair?
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: If the defendant in the cases were found guilty, Paul Provenza would then ask the audience for "sentences" as punishment for the offender and a few of them invoked this trope. A specific example involved a boy who had booted a girl from his wrestling team; as punishment, he had to wear a dress!
- Dramatic Spotlight: During the show's opening sequence where two kids would argue what their situation problem is.
- Every Episode Ending: During the closing credits, Paul Provenza would ask the kids in the studio audience on what their situation problem is.
- Thing-O-Meter: The Honorable Judge O'Meter.