Saturday Morning Cartoons Are But a Sweet, Sweet Memory

[General Zod]

https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/...-are-but-a-sweet--sweet-memory-192052477.html

I am so glad I do not have any children. Educational shows my hairy ass. The shows in prime time sure are not educational. I watched cartoons on Saturday mornings. Sure as hell did not interfere with my education growing up.

 

[C.A.B.]

What we need is to have another baby boom.
Babies grow into toddlers.
Toddlers grow into Kids.
Kids are planted in front of the T.V.
Kids see cereal and toys.
Kids want what they see.
kids harass mom for shit on T.V.
Mom buys shit so kids shaddap.
Companies sell more shit.
Companies sponsor more cartoons for ad space to sell shit.
Kids want what they see.
Repeat.

Great for cartoons. Great for the economy. I'm all for it.

 

[rdhd]

I've seen some of the crap put on as "educational". Bull-darky and crap, all of it. The cartoons were much better, didn't turn me into a violent maniac. Captain Kangaroo is quantum physics compared to the stuff now.

 

[DontAskJusTckle]

One disturbing trend in cartoons I witnessed over time is the erosion of the concept of blowing away the bad guys. Back in the 1960s, the bad guys got their asses kicked royally, and monsters were simply obliterated. Space Ghost is a good example. If Space Ghost had been created any time after 1995, he wouldn't have blown away the monsters or bad guys until first having a conference with Jan and Jase and everybody was in agreement. They would make an attempt to try and understand the monster, why he was behaving this way. Maybe the monster was hurting inside and needed some nurturing. What gives us the right to be judge, jury and executioner?!

 

[desdemona]

The FCC regulation apparently put the nail in the coffin for the main networks while cable channels weren't forced to comply at all. So advertising dollars went elsewhere - i.e. Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, whatever. I don't see it being resurrected, sadly. And I thought the Schoolhouse Rock videos were some of the best earworms ever made - I can still sing most of the verses.

 

[milagros317]

As a kid, I used to watch cartoons every Saturday morning and I enjoyed them. 😀

 

[C.A.B.]

The FCC regulation apparently put the nail in the coffin for the main networks while cable channels weren't forced to comply at all. So advertising dollars went elsewhere - i.e. Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, whatever. I don't see it being resurrected, sadly. And I thought the Schoolhouse Rock videos were some of the best earworms ever made - I can still sing most of the verses.

"...I'm just a bill
Yes, I'm only a bill,
And I got as far as Capitol Hill
Well, now I'm stuck in committee
And I'll sit here and wait
While a few key Congressmen discuss and debate
Whether they should let me be a law
How I hope and pray that they will
But today I am still just a bill..."

 

[desdemona]

Lol... Interplanet Janet? Conjunction junction? Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here... Ah, those were great memories 🙂

 

[BBGuy5240]

When I was a kid, Saturdays Mornings from 8-12, that was my Time to sit in front of the TV

"KIDS WB" was what my friends and I watched with a passion

 

[PiedPiper]

Saturday morning cartoons, yeah,.... but when I was watching them back in the late 50's-early 60's, there was a lot of other cool stuff, too... Jon Gnagy "Learn to Draw" .... Mr. Wizard,... Hans Conried's Fractured Flickers, ... "The Big Picture" (I know)....... I thought Saturday morning was the most educational little spell in the week.

 

[Amnesiac]

I was a veteran of the '86-92 years. We had blocs full of Looney Tunes, The Real Ghostbusters (which I seem to remember more from weekdays), Captain N the Game Master, Dungeons & Dragons, Ewoks, Droids (which I didn't watch for some odd reasons), The New Archies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Rankin-Bass Superman cartoons and many others that I loved dearly but can't remember very well. I remember after-school cartoons much better. But by 1992, I started to tune out because Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, and Animaniacs provided better-quality entertainment on a weekday basis (I just couldn't get into Camp Candy folks, sorry). The only Saturday morning cartoons I remember watching with any regularity were The Pirates of Dark Water and Eek The Cat:

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I miss the random goofy crap they threw in for the bumpers and channel markers that were popular on channels like MTV and Nickelodeon at the time:

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I DO however, remember lots of the advertising of that era, and feel as nostalgic about it as I do the cartoons. My all-time favorite is this piece of 1989 goodness (despite the fact that I have never eaten one to this day):

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But the whole "veg-out-and-watch-pandering-cartoons-full-of-product-placement-while-eating-pure-sugar-cereal" phenomenon was VERY real, and in a day when we had all the freedom but none of the information (no Internet) that today's kids have to help us know any better, ignorance was indeed, pure bliss. I often say that I wouldn't want to have been born at any other time, and this is one of the reasons that I mean it. For all of the vapid manipulation it was responsible for, Saturday morning cartoons provided a magnificent collective experience for us all when we had so little that was for us and no one else.

Thank you Saturday Morning Cartoons. As long as we live, we shall carry on your memory and cherish all the numerous hours of joy that you gave us.

Farewell.

 

[ddd]

KIDS WB was great growing up! Anamanics, Pinky and the Brain just to name a few.

Ill even admit that once in awhile, ill come across a cartoon I used to watch and dont care how old I am, ill drop the remote and watch just like I was a kid again!

 

[SlaverTickler]

From Rocket Robin Hood to Justice League Unlimited, it was a fun time, it was a good run, but I think the best times are over.

 

[SlaverTickler]

What we need is to have another baby boom.
Babies grow into toddlers.
Toddlers grow into Kids.
Kids are planted in front of the T.V.
Kids see cereal and toys.
Kids want what they see.
kids harass mom for shit on T.V.
Mom buys shit so kids shaddap.
Companies sell more shit.
Companies sponsor more cartoons for ad space to sell shit.
Kids want what they see.
Repeat.

Great for cartoons. Great for the economy. I'm all for it.

In the 80s they had Transformers. That was basically a 24 minuet add for toys. Still managed to tell good stories while selling a product.

 

[Dussicar]

One disturbing trend in cartoons I witnessed over time is the erosion of the concept of blowing away the bad guys. Back in the 1960s, the bad guys got their asses kicked royally, and monsters were simply obliterated. Space Ghost is a good example. If Space Ghost had been created any time after 1995, he wouldn't have blown away the monsters or bad guys until first having a conference with Jan and Jase and everybody was in agreement. They would make an attempt to try and understand the monster, why he was behaving this way. Maybe the monster was hurting inside and needed some nurturing. What gives us the right to be judge, jury and executioner?!

Ah, Emerikah!

Getting America to chase its own tail since...Whenever they decided they were on to something big!!!

 

[jediofthefeet]

One disturbing trend in cartoons I witnessed over time is the erosion of the concept of blowing away the bad guys. Back in the 1960s, the bad guys got their asses kicked royally, and monsters were simply obliterated. Space Ghost is a good example. If Space Ghost had been created any time after 1995, he wouldn't have blown away the monsters or bad guys until first having a conference with Jan and Jase and everybody was in agreement. They would make an attempt to try and understand the monster, why he was behaving this way. Maybe the monster was hurting inside and needed some nurturing. What gives us the right to be judge, jury and executioner?!

Yeah, no more direct hits when someone fires a weapon. The shots hit the ground and the villains fly off into the sky from the shockwave. WTH???!!! I saw that a lot with the newer Transformer series after G1 ended. Too much psychoanalyzing the villains. Its mass brainwashing. Even afternoon cartoons began to disappear. I used to be in front of my tv religiously at 3:30pm to see Looney Tunes. My uncle put up with them, but said Woody Woodpecker was too silly for me to watch and would never let me watch it. Cartoons are super dark now. Voltron was Japanese anime, but it didn't delve into dark magic, demons, and such. I like the orginal Yu-Gi-Oh, but there were times the symbolisms and such were very evil. And other Japanese anime is often far darker than that. But to each his own, if you like it, then watch it. The same goes for any other thing you see or hear that you have control over. If you don't like it, there are thousands of other options from which to choose.

 

[General Zod]

Yeah, no more direct hits when someone fires a weapon. The shots hit the ground and the villains fly off into the sky from the shockwave. WTH???!!! I saw that a lot with the newer Transformer series after G1 ended. Too much psychoanalyzing the villains. Its mass brainwashing. Even afternoon cartoons began to disappear. I used to be in front of my tv religiously at 3:30pm to see Looney Tunes. My uncle put up with them, but said Woody Woodpecker was too silly for me to watch and would never let me watch it. Cartoons are super dark now. Voltron was Japanese anime, but it didn't delve into dark magic, demons, and such. I like the orginal Yu-Gi-Oh, but there were times the symbolisms and such were very evil. And other Japanese anime is often far darker than that. But to each his own, if you like it, then watch it. The same goes for any other thing you see or hear that you have control over. If you don't like it, there are thousands of other options from which to choose.

Wait.....................People have a choice on what to watch or not watch on TV? 😱

 

[Gothika]

i miss all that

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

I remember 3 and half hours of "The Bugs Bunny/RoadRunner show". And the original cartoons too....not the half-assed ones that came out in the 80s where all the characters were friends. Also "Archie's T.V. Funhouse", "Hong Kong Phooey", "The Scooby Doo Celebrity Mysteries"(with "Worlds Famous Actors": Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Mama Cass!!!!)

Ok, I probably just confused all the young folk around here.


Drew

 

[paracarl44]

Sad News.

Since this thread was posted I started to notice there are No Cartoons on Saturday morning. It was part of a ritual in my day to watch cartoons on Saturday morning.