Show with monster visiting kid I saw on Nickelodeon [S]

Way back in the late 90s/ early 2000s, I remember I was watching Nick in The Afternoon and they had Stick Stickley’s “brother” request some show. I didn’t hear what he said, but when the show started I think I remember seeing the words “Squid Zone” appear in slimy green text. The show was mostly live-action. It was about a kid who would frequently be visited at night by a monster that could shoot green lasers out of his fingers and would threaten to take him away if he didn’t solve a riddle or guess his name by a certain date. I forget what the riddle was. He invites his friends over for a sleepover to prove it’s true and when the monster shows up they disable his lasers by tricking him into shooting his fingers at each other and then they eventually blow him up somehow, causing an explosion of slime.

At the end, the boy is cleaning his sheets in the kitchen sink while one of his parents is screaming about whatever he did last night to make such a mess. His friends come to the window to show him something. He follows them to a field with a big tree and a lot of pods on the ground, which will presumably hatch into more monsters.

I am guessing that it is a pilot that didn’t get picked up or possibly some acquired show they were trying out. I remember seeing some website or video discuss it online many years ago, but can’t find anything about it now.

Anyone else ever saw this or heard of it? I kind of doubt it, but I want to document it.