Saturday Morning Memories

Oh, god, I loved "Pee-Wee's Playhouse." That was must see TV for me when I was younger, especially when he did the secret word and when Cowboy Curtis and the King of Cartoons would show up and especially Jambi the Genie. There was some trippy stuff on Pee-Wee. He once got married to a bowl of fruit salad, the final payoff to all those, "If you love it so much why don't marry it?" jokes.

He had this one redheaded little boy bully puppet on there, Randy, that I'm pretty sure was created just to screw with kid's heads. That was one of the few shows I can remember being disappointed to see the end credits on, because I knew I'd have to wait another week for it to come on again.
 
I was going to say, I wondered why Pee-Wee had a talking toilet in his living room, but I went to Wikipedia and found out that it was actually just another chair, called "Dog Chair." Just sloppy editing on my part for leaving that in.

He probably had a talking toilet in his bathroom, though.
 
Earlier, I gave you guys a list of my personal favorites. Here's a few losers I wish I'd never seen:

Super Globetrotters (1979): :eek: :eek: :eek: The 'Trotters are given the Impossibles' powers and then-some, plus, since they're base is mobile, they have an orbiting satellite to relay info.

Dingbat & the Creeps (coupled w/Heathcliff, 1980): I think this is where the lineage to Aqua Teen Hunger Force really comes into play, IMPO. A vampire dog, a talking pumpkin, and a sentient skeleton. Wacky.

Wishkid (1991): DIC tried to capitalize of Macaulay Culkin's success coming off "Home Alone". A magic baseball glove? Fuhgedddaboutit!
 
I remember getting up early to watch cartoons. Sometimes, I would get up as early as 6 or 6:30 to watch some shows that got pushed to an earlier slot because of a syndicated show taking its place later on. I'd also tape one show while watching another. My favorite Saturday morning shows growing up were The Real Ghostbusters, Garfield & Friends, and Gummi Bears. From elementary school to all the way up to my first few years of high school, I was a pretty dedicated Saturday morning cartoon watcher. WWF Superstars also aired late Saturday mornings in my area and I always made sure to catch that. Crappy teen shows, local news, and block exclusives eventually killed off the good Saturday toons that used to dominate the mornings. I didn't mind Saved by the Bell, but its success led to crappy knockoffs and less cartoons being shown in the morning. I never really got much into live action Saturday morning kids shows either. If I wanted live action, I'd watch Dukes of Hazzard, the A-Team, or something else at night. Saturday morning was for toons.
 
Well, I went to the search function and came up with this thread, I know it's a little older but I liked the topic and thought it would be cool to post some of my memories and what I would do during satAM cartoons. My Saturday's starter pretty early, I would wake up and stumble out of my room and into the living room and my mom was usualy always up and fiddling around in the kitchen while my dad was still asleep, so the TV was all mine!!! I would pop on the TV like 5:30 or so in the morning and there would always be some NWA wrestling on at that ungodly hour, usualy a clip show of what happened that week or something, but then around 6am the cartoons would start. I don't remember what show was on what network, I just remember flipping through the channels until I found something I liked, and sometime between 7-8 in the morning I would hit the kitchen for some morning "yum-yum's" which usualy consisted of cereal and a tall glass of Ecto Cooler. Some of my favorites back then (and still today) were Fruity Pebbles, Honey Smacks, Golden Grahams, Sugar Crisp, Frosted Flakes, Cookie Crisp and a host of other greats. Usualy around 8am is where my dad would wake up and he would come downstairs and sit in his chair and read the paper and talk randomly, same with my mom but I was usualy focused on my shows. Depending upon where I lived I would have a different way of watching my shows, when we moved and when I turned 8 they put a TV in my room, so I watched them there while I played with my action figures and the such, when I got older it was just me and my mom and I watched them in the living room again, but this time it was usualy while I was talking on the phone and/or hanging with friends. I moved around alot and I have different memories with different shows that I associate with different rooms/houses I was in at the time, also different sounds and circumstances help to add to the mystiqe of certain shows at certain times. It's complicated. I think my shows usualy ended around noon, or just before, so then I would start my day and hang with friends or play video games or go somewhere with my mom, whatever the case it was always fun back then. It's fun now too, but around noon I have to get ready to head out for work and it boggs me down throughout the morning but I still love my cartoons and will never again give up satAM, but there was a time when I did because of work needs and other situations at that time. Never again......
 
All my Sat morning stuff I miss a LOT on from the late 60's to 70's and beyond were all toons, and ONLY toons. None of that live TV junk for me!! For me, toons, they're the REAL Saturday moring bill of fare, not live stuff that caused today's toon line ups to be almost nonexistant. 'Sides today's live stuff is geared for teens these days. Give me the CB Bears over Space Adcademy. Give me The New Adventures Of Batman over Saved By The Belle. Give me The Galaxy Goof Ups and even Flash Gordon over Punky Brewster, Pe We's Playhowse and the rest of the other live stuff. I'll take toons over live surgar coated programming anythime!! THAT is real Sat. Morning programming!!
 
I only memories on my saturday mornings are Pokemon. Nothing but Pokemon. I remember the time slot of Pokemon was starting at 7 a.m.. As a Pokemon fan, I woke up at 6:50 a.m. and begin watching the Magic.


I'm so Plaining to buy Season 1 of Pokemon soon.
 
Ah, I remember getting pretty mad when my dad dragged me away from watching shows like Jackie Chan Adventures and What's New Scooby-Doo. What do you expect? I'm only fourteen. :sweat:
 
Ah yes if it weren't for Saturday Morning cartoons Saturdays would be pretty dull. I think i was first allowed to watch them in 01... i think Sabrina the animated series and Pepper ann and the House of Mouse were the first i saw
 
I do too! I watched it when I was at least five years old back in the early 1990s (or circa 1990). Age is nothing but a number. I hope CBS airs new Saturday morning cartoon series which I am interested in this fall.
 
My favorite Saturday morning memories revolve around ABC's showings of Darkwing Duck. God, I loved that show. Obsessed is honestly more the word.

I also remember getting up way too early for weeks on end in early '92 to watch that Ultraman: Towards the Future show. The Tennessee Tuxedo cartoons they played before Ultraman were a lot more interesting, honestly.
 
I loved watching Kidd Video. I remember watching it in my bedroom on my tv with my rabbit ear antenna. My favorite part of that show were the videos at the end of show.
 
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