The Saturday morning cartoons thread!

Which is why i can't help but wonder if we'll ever see titles like 'Saturday Morning Newscasts: The 2000's', or 'Fox Weekend Market Place: Vol. 1' on DVD shelves someday.:p
Apparently, there's no 'fun section' in the FCC rule book, or common sense for that matter. :sad:
 
Yeah, it looks like in their (the FCC's) quest to provide a safer environment for kids to watch tv, they may have regulated saturday mornings to death. But it doesn't seem all that hard to reverse some of the decisions they've made. I mean what are they clinging to? So how could they possibly lose by reversing any of those decisions? Maybe they just need someone to push them in the right direction or bring it up.

haha also those dvds sound hilarious.
 
You're right about that. Blame those Godforsaken politicians, who quite frankly don't give a flying [censored] about the children of America. It's true- they have no common sense at all. They keep running their cake traps about education this and education that. What the heck happened to entertainment? That's what Saturday morning should be about, mostly entertaimnent with some educational elements, not the other way around. If the FCC keeps this up, they're going to have very critical problems, and we won't have a problem voting out these politicials who are pro-prohibition. We, the fans of Saturday morning entertainment of America, say it's long past due to take back Saturday morning for what it should be in the eyes of today's children, not in the eyes of those politicians and bureaucrats in the FCC.
 
I think even if the mandate was lifted that the major networks would probably still shy away from airing cartoons in the mornings due to the low ratings that cartoons have recently pulled in on Fox and The CW. The major broadcasting networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) seem content with airing weekend versions of their "morning" shows and they probably would just stick to it at this point instead of taking a gamble on cartoons, honestly, they would probably be smart to shy away from animation at this point.
 
I couldn't have said it better, myself. I'd hate to live in a world where kids watch such fine programing as 'Anchor Friends', 'Lesko's Playhouse', 'Jerry Springer's Rockin' Wrestling' or 'Proactiv Princesses' The problem is that these same politicians want to be the arbiters of what's best for us, regardless of the consequences.
 
Skippy is right, some of my best memories as a child while watching cartoons were of some of the great PSA's and commercial advertisments that came on during the break, I still have a soft spot for "Hankerin' for a hunka cheese" by Time for Timer, or "In the city or in the wood's, help keep America....Lokin' Good!" featuring Woodsy, those are classics that I will never remember and suddenly I'm craving a cheese and cracker snack. Anyway, I can definitly say that nothing even close to these greats ad's come on today to teach kids not to litter, to eat right or to not take drugs, PSA's these days are too few and between and it's a damn shame if you ask me.
 
I remember watching cartoons on Saturday mornings. Most of my mornings began at about 6:00am when One Saturday Morning on ABC started. My local ABC would air Winnie the Pooh at 6. I can't remember what was on at 6:30am though. At 7:00am I would watch FOX Kids until noon. I would watch shows like Power Rangers, Digimon, Oggy and the Cockroaches, Life with Louie, Bobby's World, NASCAR Racers, The Tick, Spider-Man and a lot more. I also remember watching Gargoyles on ABC when I was younger. In 1998 I also started watching Disney's Doug.

I wasn't able to enjoy Kids WB until 2002 when we finally got a WB affiliate in my area. But I was able to watch Pokemon because my FOX affiliate would pick up some shows from Kids WB. If I remember correctly Pokemon was at 6:00am and Histeria! at 6:30am.

Now a days I only have one Saturday Morning cartoon Pokemon on Cartoon Network.

Anyways I know of other sites that has old Saturday Morning schedules inthe70s.com, inthe80s.com and inthe90s.com.
 
Local stations are so 'news heavy' now that i fear it's only a matter of time before they start cutting back on prime time programing all together, and become nothing more than local CNN, or Fox News clones that air local news 24/7. Leaving cable, and the internet as the only remaining outlets for traditional escapist entertainment.:mad: :(
 
This past Saturday I took the time to really sit down and enjoy the cartoons that came on and to try to dig deep and get back that classic Saturday morning feeling that I had when I was a kid, to a certain extent I was successfull and in other account's I was not. I started at 6:30 and flipped over to Cartoon Network for some Chaotic and Yu-Gi-On which was fun and then I began switching between CW4Kid's and CN for the rest of the morning, I even turned it to Nicktoons and standard Nick but they didn't seem to have anything worth watching unfortunatly. The shows themselves that aired on Saturday morning were pretty good, but I felt as if the overall scope of the morning has dipped since as close back as this time last year, I think I miss shows like Transformers Animated, Huntik, Bakugan, Batman, Spectacular Spider-Man and Di-Gata Defenders airing on Saturday morning's and I would say that I definitly miss Fox's 4Kids block and Saturday Crushzone over on CN a lot. One thing I noticed was that hardly any PSA's aired aside from the one where the girl keeps asking question at the resteraunt but does not ask any at the doctor's office, but there were some pretty fun commercials to enjoy, some of which gave me a "Saturday morning" feeling. I would say my experience was around a 6/10 with lot's of room for improvement, but I am going to stick with it and try my hardest to enjoy Saturday morning cartoons as much as I did when I was a child, or at least create some new memories while I have this oppertunity.
 
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