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Saturday morning cartoons are no more

Zyphlin

Zyphlin

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After these messages, Saturday morning cartoons will not be right back. At least not the way some of you remember them.

“The Smurfs,” “Scooby Doo,” “The Jetsons,” “Ghostbusters,” “Animaniacs,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and other cartoons of Gen X childhoods aren’t gone, but their dedicated time slot is. So what? kids these days might say. But the nostalgic among us remember a time when cartoons weren’t a la carte — and Saturday mornings were sacred.
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Kind of sad. I realize that in reality kids probably have more options than ever now with various cable channels dedicated to 24/7 cartoons, not to mention streaming services...but somehow that actually makes the whole thing seem sadder.

There was something amazingly magical and fun about Saturday mornings as a kid. Waking up early and watching the shows you've been waiting all week to see. A full long block of entertainment that you loved, usually with a nice big bowl of sugary cereal, before heading outside to enjoy the rest of the saturday. The anticipation, and the specialness of those saturday morning shows being something you usually only saw on Saturdays (or only got seemingly new ones), made it that much better.
 
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I haven't seen sat morning cartoons on in several yrs, so I already thought they stopped airing them. It's b/c there's 50 kids channels that they're watching!
 
Zyphlin said:
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Kind of sad. I realize that in reality kids probably have more options than ever now with various cable channels dedicated to 24/7 cartoons, not to mention streaming services...but somehow that actually makes the whole thing seem sadder.

There was something amazingly magical and fun about Saturday mornings as a kid. Waking up early and watching the shows you've been waiting all week to see. A full long block of entertainment that you loved, usually with a nice big bowl of sugary cereal, before heading outside to enjoy the rest of the saturday. The anticipation, and the specialness of those saturday morning shows being something you usually only saw on Saturdays (or only got seemingly new ones), made it that much better.
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Yep, that was the one thing as a kid I looked forward to. All the best stuff came on about 6:30am for me and then I was glued till about 9:00am.
 
Zyphlin said:
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Kind of sad. I realize that in reality kids probably have more options than ever now with various cable channels dedicated to 24/7 cartoons, not to mention streaming services...but somehow that actually makes the whole thing seem sadder.

There was something amazingly magical and fun about Saturday mornings as a kid. Waking up early and watching the shows you've been waiting all week to see. A full long block of entertainment that you loved, usually with a nice big bowl of sugary cereal, before heading outside to enjoy the rest of the saturday. The anticipation, and the specialness of those saturday morning shows being something you usually only saw on Saturdays (or only got seemingly new ones), made it that much better.
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Saturday morning cartoons were great and it sucks kids today don't know what that feeling is like, but your source is taking me to an article about Weird Al...
 
You know what else doesn't exist anymore? After school cartoons from 2PM to 5PM on broadcast television.
 
And you wonder why kids are screwed up nowadays.

Saturday morning lineups advertised in the summer issues of Batman & Spiderman were when you found out what was back, and what was new. The theme songs! Waiting to see how Dirk the Daring died after the commercial break! Discovering USA Cartoon Express when you first got cable!

Good times.....goood times.
 
i hadn't noticed that they were gone. last time i checked, it was years ago, and they weren't even cartoons. they were these CGI things instead.

anyway, i always liked the Bugs Bunny stuff the best.
 
Pretty sad.

It reminds me of a moment weeks ago watching some kids (early teens) toss a football around. Not one of them was able to throw or catch! It was incredibly sad to see them fumble about, the ball bouncing off of their chest and hands. Kids don't get out enough and enjoy the sun like I use to when I was a kid.

Now back to the cartoons... anyone else miss Tom & Jerry? Not the new crap, but the old really violent ones? Like Tom in the zoot-suit? Or Jerry and his crazy cowboy uncle that kept snatching Tom's whiskers to play his banjo?

God I miss those...

 
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Saturday morning cartoons were great and it sucks kids today don't know what that feeling is like, but your source is taking me to an article about Weird Al...
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Weird. I looked at the post code and it was correct, but it took me too the weird al page (which is an entirely differently URL) as well. Just tried to update it, hopefully it's working right now
 
I honestly don't see what the big deal is. Where you once had to wait until Saturday morning to watch them, now you can watch the exact same shows any time you want, streaming online. Every day is Saturday morning now.
 
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anyway, i always liked the Bugs Bunny stuff the best.
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Sadly - the bugs bunny cartoons were pulled off the air, many episodes now are considered overtly racist or criticized for showing smoking (same with the old popeyes) - same with the older Tom & Jerry's. I remember waiting eagerly to watch Rocky & Bullwinkle, Peabody & Sherman, Dudley Do-right, even Yogi Bear or Quick Draw McGraw.... but alas Quick Draw carried guns - another huge problem. Same with some of the bugs bunny's with Sam who also carried guns. All now taboo. Only place to find those cartoons now is on Youtube.
 
Zyphlin said:
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Kind of sad. I realize that in reality kids probably have more options than ever now with various cable channels dedicated to 24/7 cartoons, not to mention streaming services...but somehow that actually makes the whole thing seem sadder.

There was something amazingly magical and fun about Saturday mornings as a kid. Waking up early and watching the shows you've been waiting all week to see. A full long block of entertainment that you loved, usually with a nice big bowl of sugary cereal, before heading outside to enjoy the rest of the saturday. The anticipation, and the specialness of those saturday morning shows being something you usually only saw on Saturdays (or only got seemingly new ones), made it that much better.
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All those sucked.

my top fav cartoons:

#1 Original spongebobs (early 2000's)

#2 Johnny bravo (90's?)

#3 Courage the Cowardly Dog

#4 Beavis and Butthead

#5 popeye
 
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