Are Kids Missing Out On Saturday Morning Cartoons

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I bring this up because in another tread we is kind of talking about this well when i was growing up we had Fox-kids an digimon an other blocks to compete with one another but now if u is a boy an only have broadcast television an do't want to watch ABC kids reruns u basically have to watch 4kids cw-block when not so long ago we had UPN kids, Wb kids, Fox-kids an ABC kids if i miss any please let me no but what do u think about this.
 
Grammar Police: "are", not "is". (Sorry, I was an English major in school.);)


Now, to answer the question: kids who didn't grow up with those blocks aren't missing something that they never had in the first place. Even the kids who don't have cable have alternatives like DVD and VHS, and many are content to just surf the net, watch streaming videos or play video games on Saturday morning.
 
Not on your life, with the way Sat. morning programming's been with a critical decline in toons today. Not much toons on the stations for Sat. morning, and almost none on the old stations like say, ABC.
 
I don't think that kids are missing out too much by not watching a Saturday morning block. Sure, some of the blocks back during the 90s and early 00s had some good moments, but I think that there are plenty of other choices for kids to watch and do on Saturday mornings. As Silverstar mentioned, they could watch some DVDs/VHS, watch videos online or play video games. I also think that there are plenty of kids who are content with watching shows on CN or Nick during Saturday mornings as well.
 
Too much Sat. morning programming is starting to be more an more geared to teens thease days, with too much live junk produced, rerplacing all the toons we grew up with; even ABC, one of the finest is showing less of toons....
 
Not really. When I started watching Saturday mornings (back 2000), I watched it a lot. But as I got older, I don't care much anymore, since all the real Saturday morning blocks are dead sans 4Kids.
 
In any case, what we've seen is the devolution of Saturday morning. The end of an era, that all good things must come to an end. Hanna Barbera is gone, as is Looney Tunes, Filmation, Sunbow, World Events Productions, DIC, Rankin Bass, Ruby Spears, DFE, UPA, et al..........

"But something touched me deep inside......the day.....Saturday morning......died......"
 
Kids aren't missing out on anything. How silly.

Nick's ratings reflect this. If on a Saturday morning a kid wakes up and wants to watch cartoons they can turn on Nick and get hours of Spongebob, Barnyard, Mighty B, Penguins and Oddparents.
 
I'll have to disagree with the general opinion that they aren't. I think Saturday Morning Cartoons are an important part of being a kid. I still wait longingly for Kim Possible and such on Saturdays as much as i did when i first was allowed to watch them in 2001. Sure in this day and age we have fancy dvd players and the internet, but whatever happened to good old saturday morning cartoons? In this humble posters opinion, wouldn't it be better if Pepper ann made a glorious return to the tv?
 
How could kids be missing out on cartoons when there are cable/satellite channels that play cartoons any and all hours of the day? Speaking as one of the oldest posters here (I'm a child of the 1970s), I have to say that Saturday morning TV meant much more back in the 1970s-early 80s before VCRs and DVDs when Saturday morning cartoons was all that we had, but nowadays, kids can literally look at a cartoon whenever they want. So what is is that "the kids' are missing out on, exactly?
 
Though I enjoyed Pepper Ann, I don't see how one cartoon from the 90's popping back on TV again would restore Saturday morning as we remembered it.

While I respect all others' opinions, I think the above reasoning is flawed for the simple fact that Saturday morning cartoons haven't gone anywhere. There's still Kewlopolis, Qubo, ABC Kids and CW4Kids on broadcast TV, and Nick, CN, Discovery Kids, Disney XD and Boomerang on cable satellite. The fact of the matter is that kids today have more choices than we did growing up; they're not limited to just watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, nor are they restricted to just the broadcast networks.

If anything, we're the ones who missed out, at least in terms of sheer quantity.
 
I think kids should be paying attention to satAM cartoons, especially CW4kids and CN's Crushzone. Both blocks offer a lot of great programming (mainly boy oriented) and fun bumps and other things that could really make them look back 10 years from now and say, "Wow, remember how cool Saturday morning cartoons back then?" When I think about my old satAM cartoons and the memories I had with them it makes me want to cry because it was special, if kids are not giving todays shows a chance then they are missing out on some quality stuff. My memories with satAM cartoons isn't just limited to the cartoons themselves, there was a lot of great commercials, public service announcements, characters, icons and other things going on at the time which made them special, todays satAM experience lacks a lot of that, but the shows are still strong. CN has Transformers Animated, TSS, Batman, Star Wars, Ben 10, Bakugan and Pokemon, CW4kids has Huntik, Chaotic MI, Sonic X, 5D's and TMNT. So there is a lot of variety to be had if given the oppertunity to check them out.
 
Man, you is helping people out with grammer error on lots of rabroad thread. Me glad you is here to help. Me not so good with grammer me self.

I don't remember Saturday morning ever being that big. The original He-man, GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, Silverhawks, and TMNT were all airing five days a week. So I think kids today are missing out more on shows that air on a daily basis from basically day one.
 
I think the point of Saturday Morning Cartoons was to give kids a chance to see a block of cartoons rather than a few here and there. But now they air regularly so there's no missing out on anything.
 
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