MESS FOR SUCCESS : Don’t Worry, Neatness Doesn’t Count in the Raucous Nickelodeon Live Tour

Onstage, the Nickelodeon Live Tour has the trappings and energy of a rock concert, complete with hockey-arena setting and screaming fans. But backstage, the glamour quotient isn’t quite the same, says host Phil Moore.

“It’s more like, ‘I can’t get this whipped cream off me. Look, I got slime on my shoes,’ ” Moore said with a laugh Sunday after a show in Minneapolis. “It’s got that rock ‘n’ roll feel, with that Nickelodeon smell.”

The Nickelodeon Live Tour, which comes to the Anaheim Arena on Saturday for two shows, is a touring compendium of the often-raucous children’s shows that air on the cable network. That means participants, from the audience, are likely to get a cream pie in the face or doused in buckets of green slime.

Yes, moms and dads, that means you, too. In fact, it may be your own precious little ones who do the sliming. Gleefully. “Dress to make a mess,” Moore cautioned.

The event borrows some of the games of last year’s Double Dare Tour, including William Tell. In that game, mothers aim toilet plunger “arrows” at targets that will dump slime on fathers’ heads. In Musical Pies, a cream pie is passed around until the music stops, and, well, we’ll let you guess the rest.

Featured prominently in the current 70-stop tour are games from Moore’s own show, “Nick Arcade,” in which participants are placed in video-game settings. Also featured are stunts from the show “Guts,” including an obstacle course for kids, a basketball game in which players are suspended from elastic cords, and the Agro Crag, a climbing game complete with avalanches and snowstorms.

“Guts” host Mike O’Malley is Moore’s co-host for the Live Tour.

Parents are invariably good sports about the proceedings, Moore said, adding that one of the tour’s strong points is that it allows families to take part together.

“It is totally interactive. Kids maybe see a side of their parents they’ve never seen before, and parents see the enthusiasm of their kids.”

The secret of the stunts and games, Moore said, is that they’ve taken things that kids do and blown them up larger than life. With the basketball game, for instance, “they’re like Neil Armstrong on the moon. There’s no way you can be a kid and not want to do that.”

After the Anaheim date, the tour moves to the Los Angeles Sports Arena for a Sunday show.

What: Nickelodeon Live Tour.

When: Saturday, Feb. 12, at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m.

Where: Anaheim Arena, 2695 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim.

Whereabouts: From the Orange (57) Freeway, exit at Katella Avenue and go east. Turn left almost immediately into the arena parking lot.

Wherewithal: $12.50-$17.50.

Where to call: (714) 704-2500 (box office).