So what is your satAM regiment?

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I figured I would start a post and ask people if they still watch saturday morning cartoons and if so what is your schedule and regiment for doing so? For me, I usualy wake up around 7:00 these days (when I was a kid it was more like 5:30) and then I usualy put it on CW4Kids until about 8 and then switch over to CN until about 10:30 when Huntik comes on CW4Kids and then it's basicly back to CN for the rest of the morning. It was much more diverse for me when Fox had 4Kids because they had a few shows I would watch, same with CW4Kids and then CN would play clean up for me. Today though it's not even close to being the fun it was in the 80's and early 90's when satAM was at it's apex, but at least there are still good toon's to watch. I usualy kill off like 3 bowls of cereal between the 9-11AM time period, hehe. Usualy around Noon I have to get ready for work on Saturday's and then I go about my day, but when I was a kid it was all about playing with friends when cartoon's ended and playing some video games and with whatever toys I was enjoying at the time, aahhhh the good old days.
 
Back then, I wake up at 7:00 A.M to watch a full hour or 2 of Pokemon. Good times, Good times. But now, I really don't do that any more. Sadly, (IMO) there know good cartoons for me to watch at that time. But if CN start showing old school Pokemon again, I will wake up at 7:00 am, like I used to.
 
There are good cartoons to be had on satAM in my opinion, CN has Tranformers Animated, TSS, Alien Force, Pokemon, Bakugan and Batman TB&TB, CW4Kids has Huntik and Chaotic and usualy a TMNT cartoon of sorts floating around. I know CN has the whole YAH lineup from the night before on their satAM but still, it's worth giving a second watch usualy. Give it a try man, see what you think.
 
Here's the thing.

I think the institution of Saturday morning, you know, the whole waking up early, plopping down with a bowl of cereal, and watching five straight hours of cartoons after a long week of school, is pretty much dead. Consolidation in the industry (when Disney bought ABC, it set off a chain of events that ended up making networks one-studio-only outlets on Saturday mornings), the lack of diversity on the airwaves (card/battle-based games are the core of 4Kids' lineup and, sadly, most recent imports elsewhere), and government interference (the three hour education mandate on broadcast television essentially helped the cable industry capture the audience who weren't interested in preachy pseudo-educational fare) played a LOT into that.

Also, there's nothing on Saturday mornings we couldn't watch any other day of the week, so there's no reason TO get up.

You mentioned it up there that the whole You Are Here lineup is on the night before Saturday and they repeat it verbatim. Why do they do that? Wouldn't it be reasonable to, say, put the premieres on Saturday morning rather than Friday night? It'd give people a reason to get up.

Also, the absence of Bugs Bunny and the other Looney Tunes stable of characters from Saturday mornings, let alone the airwaves of America, is disheartening to say the least. An entire generation is completely unfamiliar with those characters, and Warner Bros. has no one to blame but themselves. And no, recasting the characters as babies, alien fighters, and space rangers is not the same as showing them in their original incarnations.

So, to answer the original question, I have no Saturday morning regimen because there's nothing there to make me feel like a kid again.
 
Yeah, if only Warner Bros could find a way to bring these collections of shorts to a wide audience by perhaps releasing them in a compilation available in stores that carry digital media and give viewers the benefit of viewing their shows whenever they want. We can dream though can't we?

As for my Saturday viewings, I usually watch TMNT, Huntik, Kamen Rider, Pokemon and the replay of Batman: The Brave and The Bold. I'll be adding Power Rangers R.P.M. to that soon since Disney doesn't want it on their boys network.
 
Regiment I wake up at about 8:00 am (used to wake up like a 6:00 am) I watch the reairings of Wolverine and the X-Men. Then I wait tell 9:30 for TMNT and have breakfast. Then go online wait for Yu-Gi-Oh and Kamen Rider. Yeah Saturday morning suck now they were dying out for years but this is the first time I really felt they were dead.

I remember back when I was a kid I woke up every Saturday and watched all of the Fox Kids line up.
 
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Wake up at 8am, watch some of the premieres on Disney XD, and then try to complete Ocarina of Time while praying for it not to delete all my data. :sweat: Nothing much. Saturday mornings...they just don't feel the same as when I was younger.
 
My saturday morning regiment is to stay asleep. I used to be into the whole "up at 6.A.M" thing, but that sorta died when I got into Junior High. I didn't have the energy.
 
Somehow, I'm one of the few who manages to wake up around 6 or 7 in the morning on Saturdays. Anyway, this is what my Saturday morning TV schedule looks like:

9:30am: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-Back to the Sewer
10:30am: Transformers Animated
11:30am: Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
12:30pm: Power Rangers: R.P.M.

(The former won't be on my schedule after the 28th of this month though.)

So when I'm not watching any of those shows, or if any of them are repeats and I don't need to watch them, I'm either playing video games, watching a DVD, reading, or surfing the internet.
 
Networks weren't the sole cause of the death of Saturday morning cartoons. There was also rules about having to play 3 hours of educational programming, plus more kids do stuff Saturday mornings.
 
When I was a kid I used to watch the whole Fox Kids/FoxBox line-up for the majority of the Morning. Rarely did I ever change to Kids'WB, and if I did it was for Batman, Batman Beyond, X-Men: Evolution, Yu-Gi-Oh! or The Batman.

I was of the age to work around the time 4Kids TV came around, I've been working pretty much every Saturday for the past 6yrs now, unless I request off. Now I pretty much just record the shows that I wanna see and watch them later on, which these day hasn't been much besides TMNT and Transformers: Animated. I tried giving Huntik and Kamen Rider a shot, but after 3 episodes I just couldn't get into them. CW4Kids no longer has Spider-Man, so thats another one gone, and I'm pretty sure Disney XD won't be showing that on Saturday mornings.

I do watch Sonic X before I have to leave for work though, even though I have the whole series on DVD. Other than that, its work from 9am-6.pm.
 
My current saturday morning schedule (they're advanced by an hour, because of the Daylight Savings Time stuff):

9:30: Jimmy Two-Shoes
10:00: Dinosaur King/Pokemon
11:00: Monster Buster Club
11:30: Ying Yang Yo!
12:00: Bakugan

Hard to believe Disney XD rejuvinates my saturday mornings again.
 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles BttS, and Huntik. I would watch Yin Yang Yo if it was not on at the same time as the Turtles where I live. Besides that nothing really. Maybe Chaotic if it's a new episode but that show does nothing for me.
 
Well, I can say I did took a look at TMNT (2003). I was surprise what 4kids did to it, it made a pretty good decent TMNT. But I stoped watching it after the TMNT:FF begin.

As for Bakugan...I watch 5 second of it then change it. Sorry, I'll stick with the old school Pokemon and the first season of Yu-gi-oh.
 
Of course, if Warner Bros. used something called commercial advertising, commonly known as "ads," to advertise for those collections on outlets children look at like The CW, Nickelodeon, ABC, and, um, that one network that airs cartoons they own that used to air them regularly as well as present them in a comparably reasonable price rather than $60 a set, then maybe more kids can get them.

Or, you know, they could actually air them on television, a medium they aired regularly on for a little over four decades. It's freer and more accessible and a lot better than a lot of stuff currently on the air.
 
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