The History of Saturday Morning Cartoons & Why They Disappeared
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Join us as we take a trip down memory lane to explore the history of Saturday morning cartoons. From the golden age of cartoons in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to the decline of animated programming in the 1990s and 2000s, we'll delve into the evolution of children's television and the rise of the cartoon block and shows like Looney Tunes, Dungeons and Dragons, Pac-Man and Scooby-Doo.
We'll discuss the networks that brought these beloved shows to life, as well as the impact of the Children's Television Act of 1990 on the landscape of animated programming. But we'll also delve into the reasons behind the decline of Saturday morning cartoons and their eventual disappearance from the airwaves.
Whether you're a long-time fan of kids' TV shows or just want to learn more about this fascinating slice of history, this video has something for you!
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I’m a 43 year old man that fondly remembers waking up at 6am in the 80s. helping myself to a gigantic bowl of cereal and sitting in front of the TV to watch cartoons until wrestling came on and then eventually ventured outside.
I loved watching wrestling. I think it came on around 11am nor noon in my area.
The HulkHogan Cartoon!!!!
40 here and same here! Loved getting up at 6 am with a big bowl of fruity pebbles in my lap ( with box and bottle of milk at my side ) watching thunder cats, peewees playhouse, muppet babies, etc.
42 and same. The cartoons back then were great too. Nowadays they ret on older cartoons and make them all look like Steven universe to appease sjws and feminists. I feel bad for kids today, shit cartoons and media. The restriction of Saturday morning also made it an event.
41 and same
I remember when American Bandstand or Soul Train would come on, signaling cartoons were over and would have to go help my Dad in the yard.
Ignorant comment above mine.....smh..... anyway I agree those two shows signified time to get Saturday chores done lol...I had the bathroom and the kitchen ( cleanest rooms in my house today)... and no you couldn't go out/ to the movies until chores were done
Dont if ur dad was,a wrestling fan or not but after fat Albert at 1230 went off it was time for all star wrestling u guys from philly remember that 100 pm on 29 and championship wrestling at 5 on 17 then hew haw then wild wild west gotta,stop gonna reveal my age lol oh the good ole days
When American Bandstand or Soul Train cam on I knew it was time for lunch
Dude, you are speaking the truth.. That's how it was. American Bandstand came on, and that ended seven straight hours of cartoons
James Miller time to start cleaning the house so true...we had the good life.
Kids today will never experience the same anticipation we felt waiting for our Saturday morning cartoons nor the disappointment in not getting up early enough to watch one of our shows.
I so agree
We still have morning (I said “morning,” not just Saturday mornings and we have them in afternoons on weekdays) cartoons through our non commercial affiliate but I still get annoyed when my mom makes me go back to sleep at 6am and I can’t watch reruns of Fetch! and Cyberchase
Waking up before your parents did, pour your own cereal, program the VCR for your other favorite show. Plop down before your siblings woke up to catch your shows.
I remember on Friday nights before a new season of cartoons would air they always had a season preview. Cartoons back then were huge for networks. It was such a great time waking up early to watch so many great cartoons.
They will never experience getting up early, turning the TV on to warm it up , watching the test pattern on the screen until the national anthem played at the start of the broadcast day.
The whole world was shut out on Saturday morning....it was just me in my pajamas, my big bowl of whichever sugar filled cereal my grandmother would buy for me when she took me shopping on Friday afternoon, and 3 channels of colorful greatness for a few hours before lunch and an afternoon in my homemade superhero or ninja suit as I played til bedtime.....like Eddie Money said, "I Wanna Go Back"....
80’s: Parents protest advertising
2020’s: hand their kids cell phones with an encyclopedia of porn available
One thing remains the same, put you're child in front of something with no supervision. Then blame the video / media providers / advertisers for the bad parenting leading to censorship and miles of endless rules.
@@CoalCoalJames however there needs to be more barriers to porn. I finally put that shit down a few years ago, but since 10 years old I watched hardcore porn, now I am shocked at the number of women that want to be choked, slapped, tied up and abused in the bedroom... But I know why, our fetishes are being determines by hardcore porn. It's pretty twisted.
2020's parents being 80's kids
@@Corbiel sad that women are being pushed to accept domestic violence as sexua independence.
@@randomvim not pushed, indoctrinated by porn. I've noticed a huge difference in the fetishes of women who are 30, compared to the women who are 20. At some point between these age groups porn became accessible enough that porn is viewed before health class, and of course healthy sexuality is too taboo for schools they are busy accepting all genders and sex orientations.
We have created a very toxic system where If I have feelings for a woman, I struggle to perform the sexual acts that she asks of me, and instead now I just have friends with benefits because I can only be a sadist to someone I do not respect...
At the same time, when a woman accusing a man of rape, that man's aggressive sexuality is defended by other women whom find themselves enjoying his behaviour. I see it happen at least twice to men I knew were pieces of shit, but women would tell me how much they loved the way he would dominate them... It is fucked.
I too have perverse fetishes that are a result of porn, but unfortunately they are less mainstream than the BDSM scene.
I remember my mom telling us "Why do you get up so early to watch cartoons but you don't want to get up early to go to school?" 🤣
yup, same. It reminds me of this guy I worked with who told me about how his Dad said to him after picking him up from summer school on account of skipping out so many days during the normal school year, "Y'know, for a guy who hates being in school, why do you spend your summer's here ?"
My mom would say that too. It struck me as an extremely stupid qiestion. If you have to ask that question than you won't understand the answer...sorry mom
I doubt she was actually unaware of the answer. She was just asking you the question to possibly highlight to you that your priorities might have been less than ideal to her.
Never got sick on Saturday morning.
Laron Henderson heck yeah. Ugh! I would cry and go through the changes if I missed a show.
My opinion on Saturday Morning cartoons is that they are a reward for kids. You got through 40 hours of school plus however many were dedicated to extracurriculars your parents are making you participate in? Here's four hours just for stuff YOU like! Want more? You're gonna have to get up early! It was an escape for both overly pressured popular kids and the heavily harassed outcasts to alleviate their respective anxieties. It needs to come back if you ask me!
@arbereshe Haven't you ever been so stressed out over multiple topics that you just go "I need something mindless to take my mind off of all this"? It's the same way with Kids' TV. Their stressors may seem small when compared to those of adults, but keep in mind that they're the most stressful things kids can relate to via their egos. Now, when I say "ego," I don't mean it in terms of selfishness or vanity; I mean it in the proper Freudian sense - the representation of the self that balances the Id and the SuperEgo. As Decartes said: "I think, therefore I am." Many occultists use the phrase "As Above, So Below." Our world is to us how our mind perceives it. When we don't have the experience with which to reference a situation, our mind relates it to what we know. Therefore, what seems like "nothing" to an adult could possibly be either metaphorically or literally "the world" to a juvenile. To be quite honest, adults have more outlets by which to relieve stress, as more is legal to adults than children, but children need stress relief as well. That's why I'm in favor of Old school stule Kids' TV: It gives them the knowledge that no matter what life throws at them, they have a release.
Good entertainment can educate as well as entertain. The 90's was full of sit com style shows where a cast of characters had to deal with a moral grey area and figure out what to do. Some of them like Highlander even included sword fighting. Educations only boring if you make it boring.
It was nice I remember with after school cartoons too. It was a nice break as you could watch maybe an hour or so of cartoons before the news came on or dinner was ready.
"Ego" is how you say "me" or "I" in Greek.
@@graveofmonsters4076 What makes a lot of educational kids shows "boring" is that the writers, producers, directors, et cetera, are so out of touch that they think that if they throw in some "cool" slang every third word that what they're presenting automatically becomes cool itself, when, in fact, it winds up sounding more like the dialogue from Party at Kitty & Stud's. Educational shows that actually relate to kids (Sesame Street, original Electric Company, Magic School Bus, the like) are few & far between. Bear in the Big Blue House is another that gathered fans, particularly in the Autistic community. You have to really know the audience you're trying to teach in order to get the messages across. Few people in the television industry actually do, and therein doth lie the problem. But yeah, I agree with you: learning CAN be fun. But, as previously stated, sometimes, all you really want is some mindless entertainment to kick back & relax to, and ｔｈａｔ is the primary purpose of old school kids programming blocks.
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@The Black Shadow I'm a Big Fan Of Both 80's and 90's Cartoons, I Remember Waking Up Every Saturday Morning Just to Watch Saturday Morning Cartoons, and My Top Ten All Time Cartoons Of The 80's and 90's Is,
10. Alvin and The Chipmunks.
9. Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes. Animated Series.
8. Barnyard Commandos.
7. Babar The Elephant. Animated Series.
6. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures. Animated Series.
5. Beetlejuice Animated Series.
4. Bobby's World.
3. Bionic Six.
2. Captain Planet and The Planeteers.
1. Camp Candy.
Here's My Honorable Mentions.
New Kids On The Block Animated Series, Captain N The Game Master, Peter Pan and The Pirates, COPS Animated Series, Count Duckula, Tale Spin, The World Of David The Gnome, Dungeons & Dragons, Tiny Toon Adventures, Defenders Of The Earth, Tom & Jerry Kids, Disney's Ducktales (The Original One), The Adventures Of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda, Ewoks Animated Series, FooFur Animated Series, The Adventures Of The Super Mario Bros 3 Animated Series, The Get Along Gang, The Adventures Of The Gummy Bears, G.I. Joe A Real American Hero, The Wizard Of Oz Animated Series, He-Man and The Masters Of The Universe, Heathcliff, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N' Wrestling, A Bunch Of Munch, Inspector Gadget, Jem and The Holograms, The Jetson's, Back To The Future The Animated Series, Kissyfur, Bucky O'Hare And The Toad Wars, Lazer Tag Academy, The Legend Of Zelda Animated Series, Darkwing Duck, Maya The Bee, M.A.S.K Animated Series, Doug, Hammerman, My Little Pony Animated Series, Saban's The Adventures Of Pinocchio, Saban's The Adventures Of The Little Mermaid, Filmation's Ghost Busters, The Real Ghost Busters, Slimer & The Real Ghost Busters, Police Academy Animated Series, Pound Puppies Animated Series, Chip 'N' Dale's Rescue Rangers, James Bond Jr, Rude Dog And The Dweebs, Seabert Animated Series, She-Ra Princess Of Power (Original Series), Thundercats, Snorks, Super Mario Bros Super Show Animated Series, Mother Goose and Grimm, The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Transformers, Rupert, Rugrats, Space Cats, Underdog Animated Series, Voltron Defender Of The Universe, Wuzzles, Stop The Smoggies, Super Mario World Animated Series, The Adventures Of Tin Tin, The Legend Of Prince Valiant, The Pirates Of Dark Water, The Adventures Of Ton Sawyer, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Where's Wally Animated Series, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, Wish Kid, Batman The Animated Series, Capitol Critters, SuperBook, Flying House, The Adventures Of The Swiss Family Robinson, The Adventures Of The Jungle Book, The Lil'Bit's, Danger Mouse, Conan The Adventurer, Dog City, EEK The Cat, The Mysterious Cities Of Gold, Fievel's American Tails, Shirt Tales, My Little Pony Tales, Shakespeare The Animated Tales, Serendipity The Pink Dragon (Dinosaur), Super Dave Daredevil For Hire, The Adventures Of T-Rex, The Wind In The Willows, The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, The Addams Family Animated Series, The Little's, Mr. T, The Legend Of White Fang Animated Series, Disney's The Little Mermaid Animated Series, The World Of Peter Rabbit and Friends, Wild West Cowboys Of Moo Mesa, Adventures Of Little Koala, X-men Animated Series, Noozles, Sherlock Hound, Towser, Aladdin Animated Series, Kid Video, Muppet Babies, My Little Pony 'N' Friends, Free Willy Animated Series, Gargoyles Animated Series, Gargoyles The Goliath Chronicles, Life With Louie, Clementine's Enchanted Tales, Mutant League, The Berenstain Bears, Oscar's Orchestra, Reboot (C G I Animated Series), The Care Bears, CBS Storybreak, The Baby Huey Show, The Busy World Of Richard Scary, Paw Paws, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z Kai, The Magic School Bus, The Tick, The Bluffers, Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego, Dennis The Menace, Bravestarr, etc. etc.
My family has a tradition that we celebrate Saturday Morning Cartoon Day one day per year. Our friends (all in their 40s now) come over, we all stay dressed in our pajamas with 80s T-shirts, eat kids sugary cereal and watch the shows. We pull old copies of TV Guide from the internet, select a random Saturday schedule from our childhood and watch the shows in the exact order that we would have watched them as a kid. We have all the content on disc or streaming digital. (Pac-Man has not aged well).
Halfway through the morning, we pull up a compilation of Saturday morning kid commercials on RUclips and give ourselves an era-specific commercial break! So much nostalgia. It's amazing how you can remember the details of a commercial that you haven't seen in 35+ years! "I remember this one!" - is usually shouted out.
Of course, it doesn't feel the same, but it is our fun day to celebrate a fun memory with friends and reminisce of a simpler time.
It is as close as you can get to the real thing.
(In the afternoon we play 80s era NES/Atari games)
I would not trade that one day for 24 hours of cartoons.
Did you remember to play American Bandstand and Soul Train at noon to signal the end of the Saturday Morning, and time to go outside?
I'm pushing 60 and I still reminisce Saturday morning cartoons from the mid 60's to the early 00's watching them with my daughter (now she's 32).
Well I remember me and my brothers waking up at 7am on Saturdays with our bowl of cereal . We would watch Dungeons and Dragons . SpiderMan and his Amazing Friends our favorite. The simplicity of our younger years. Now in my 40's I think back to those times with a huge smile.
7 am? Slacker. 6 am to catch the local station airing things like Little rascals and TERRAHAWKS.
Yep, you just listed two of my favorite cartoons growing up. Dungeons and Dragons and Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends were a couple of the best cartoons ever. I’m also in my 40s and still remember many of the episodes and the music! It is funny how I could never get up on time during the week for school, but I was always awake bright and early with my bowl of cereal Saturday morning!
Absolutely were some of the best shows.
Some of my favorite were Ghostbusters, Muppet Babies and Alvin and the Chipmunks
Luis Cales yea we did cereal and pop tarts!!! Way cool!!
I miss good Saturday Morning cartoons...
me to it was so fun
I wish my kids could have seen them in their heyday
I’m 46 and would still be watching them. I’ve been seriously disappointed they no longer air lol.
Now all I see is paid programs in the morning,if I get lucky I'll catch some SAVED BT THE BELL early at 5a
Crypt King me 3.
As a kid of the 1980’s I can honestly say that Saturday Morning Cartoons were a big part of life. Saturday morning cartoons is what started my fandom of all things in the geek culture. I can’t imagine a world without Marvel Superhero’s, GIJoe, Transformers, and the list goes on and on. It was a great time to be a kid and whether it was for the better or the worse, Saturday morning cartoons have definitely made an impact on my life and I know I’m not the only one.
What do you know about Marshall Brave star, Silver Hawks, Defenders of the earth, Mask, Thundercats, Jem and the Rockers, Punky Brewster, the never ending story, Silver bullet... Lol. I know those are 2 movies at the end but I had to, it was the 80s. Atl.com
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@@syminite1 I love all them except Jem and punky
Neither G.I. Joe or Transformers were Saturday morning cartoons.
@@jnnx I still remember one sunday morning when I thought transformers was supposed to come on and the strangest GI Joe intro came on and I discovered they made a full length cartoon movie and that was an awesome surprise.
Nothing like oversleeping on Saturday morning and realizing you missed most of the good cartoons. The whole day was ruined I tell ya!
@Lamelo ball compared to Michael Carter-Williams that was a good one!!! Never a dull episode.that became my favorite show.
i cant imagine any kid in america who overslept on saturday morning. Saturday mornings were bigger than the superbowl and christmas.
@@regvision unfortunately it happened sometimes if your casio watch or LED radio clock alarm didn't beep.
@Anthony Edwards a bigger stronger Michael Jordan yeah i remember the constant repeats also. But the show was so good i still watched hoping they would make new ones, but the reality was they didnt like thundarr because of the violence....they just did not want the action cartoons of the 60s to return...the 70s marked the end of action cartoons on saturday mornings.
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@@jjryan1352 casio watch, LED radio!! that dont sound like no kid to me. You must have been a kid in the 90s or somethin..totally different from growing up in the 70s!
It wasn't just animation. During the glory days when the shows themselves weren't commercials, there was also Sid and Marty Krofft. My favorite was season 1 of the original Land of the Lost. Years later I figured out why. David Gerrold was the showrunner and he got his buddies - SF writers like Larry Niven - to write episodes.
Just glad I got to experience it as a kid in the 70s. The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show was absolute GOLD.
"Overture. Cut the lights. This is it, we'll hit the heights. And oh, what heights we'll hit. On with the show--this is it!" As the characters line-danced out, we'd name them in order.
In the 90s it was The bugs Bunny and Tweety show! Very similar by the looks of it.
Kids really missing out on that anticipation of Saturday mornings, now all they do is talk about how bored they are meanwhile having access to cartoons 24/7. I guess there is such a thing of too much of a good thing.🤔
@Mr. Al 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember waiting for one of my older brothers to get up to do the magic and make the cartoons appear on screen
Kid's today are bombarded by media constantly, they'll never really understand how special Saturday mornings were. I'm not saying this is a good or a bad thing but Saturday morning cartoons are a precious memory that only people of a specific age group share and it'll die with us.
I grew up with Saturday Morning Cartoons and truly glad of it! 😉👍
Until I was about 8 years old I thought it went “...Thursday, Friday, Cartoonday, Sunday.
When I was in kindergarten (1992), my teacher called Saturday "Cartoon Day" and Sunday "Church Day."
I was born in 1976, I was 9 in 1985, I have many good memories from the age of 4. Perfect timing of some of the best cartoons and tv shows I’ve ever seen. So many cartoons, samurai Sunday’s where they would show Kung fu 70’s movies. I had the pleasure of watching shows syndicated from 30 years before my time. You name it, I saw it. Best years of my life... love your channel!!
Back to the future,where's Waldo,heatcliff, Garfield and friends,eek the cat,tale spin,duck tales..?
CWAIGN82 yes! All of that.. too many to list!
Alexi Barona lol, you were 2 in 89 but you say 91 to 93 was like the 80’s, you honestly can’t remember anything about the 80’s I would say 90 wasn’t much different as things don’t change overnight, but from 92 on the feel of the 80’s was all but gone.
You really grew up in the 90’s when cartoons were coming to an end. I started driving and chasing girls at the start of the 90’s so I’ll admit cartoons weren’t really a priority anymore for me, I just don’t remember Saturday morning cartoons after the first couple of years of the 90’s, but from 92 on you knew the 80’s were over, I feel the 90’s is when the world really started changing for the worst
I’m not trying to be a jerk, but if you were 10 in 1990 ( 5 years old to around 10/12 years old is growing up to me) you’d be 39 today or going to be 39 before the years over. Really if your under 34/35 you can’t really remember the 80’s and truly understand Saturday morning cartoons nostalgia
If you were born after 83/84 hard to say one grew up in the 80’s, sure you were born then but as far as the culture of the time having a impact on you is from age 5 to 10, But that’s my opinion
I hear people all the time say they grew up in the 80’s and I ask when they were born because I know there too young and they say 85 up I just laugh. I was born in the mid 70’s I have never said I grew up in the 70’s as I turned 5 in 1980 and can’t remember anything about the culture of the 70’s, I grew up in the 80’s.
You're lucky. I was born in 1983, so I saw the death of SATAM cartoons. 😢
Yup I was born in 1976 too. I also looked forward to the Saturday morning cartoons. When cartoons were worth watching
This is why growing up in the 80's was awesome!
And 2000s
I was stationed with the Army in Djibouti, Africa for a year. We had internet there, albeit weak, and expensive. One of the USO shows they had was an appearance of the Harlem Globetrotters on post. After their show I looked for their cartoons from the 1970s on RUclips and found the complete broadcast series, as well as other Werner Brothers and Hanna Barbarra cartoons. So every Saturday I was not on mission I would have a Saturday morning cartoon day where I would eat cereal and watch the old SMCs I watched as a kid. The Globetrotters, Jetsons, Herculoids, Fat Albert, and others all joined me for morning breakfast when they could. Good times.
Great story. Thanks for sharing!
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Do you have any of the 2 CBS Storybreak Episodes: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees, and What Happened in Hamelin?
Please, let me know!
I had a messed up childhood, bullied at school during the week, and parents who were fighting their own demons. But Saturday mornings for about 4 hours I got to escape from this messed up broken world by watching my favorite cartoons. Now as an adult who is pushing 60 years old and battling my own demons, there is no venue for escaping. As the weight of this world continuously presses down on me I find myself so very strongly longing for those four hours of my childhood Saturday morning. Time, technology, and government regulation have stolen something precious from not only myself but I imagine countless others as well.
its just time for you to find inner peace and healing! Cartoons are not the answer to your situation. But the good thing is you have good memories of the comfort you got from cartoons. Appreciate the memories of saturday mornings...dont try to re-live it.
This world is indeed broken. Broken by sin, which is rebellion against our Creator. Saturday morning cartoons were wonderful. But true peace can only be found in reconciliation with God, through his son Jesus. Read the bible my friend, the answers are there.
Please check out tabletop role-playing games and get together with friends, or make new ones at the rpg store. Go have adventures and escape for 4 hours at a time
41 and I can relate! I hope and pray you can find some peace through therapy, faith, support groups… whatever helps. You got this :)
5 hours of summer, once a week
I was part of the Saturday morning cartoon generation.
I loved Saturday cartoons!
Saturday was the best day of the week, no school and cool new cartoons. I remember waking up early on Saturday eager to watch the new cartoon episodes. It was a special time. My kids know nothing about it.
I remember in the 70's, i would wake up Saturday mornings when their was still just fuzz on the tv. Go and make a big bowl of cereal, sit on the couch and wait for my favorite cartoons to come on.
It's a shame that kids today can't experience how awesome Saturday mornings were back then.
Bishop man I remember tuning the TV to the pre-broadcast test screen at 5:50am and waiting for 6am and the toons to start.
Me too!
I remember doing that as well. When the channel would "wake up" they would play the Star Spangled Banner while showing the Thunderbirds flying over iconic American landmarks. It was awesome!
And if you are young enough, you will also remember turning on the TV and waiting for the tubes to warm up before the screen would come on. Then, depending on the station, you would get the vertical color bars (NBC if I remeber correctly, what I called the bullseye (I believe CBS), or the fuzzy picture (ABC). Then you could get your cartoons and the Sid & Marty Krofft Supershow. God, I'm old as dirt.
This is very sweet, bless :)
Saturday's are not the same anymore you knew saturday morning cartoons were over when ABC Weekend Specials,American Bandstand, & Soul Train came on you knew saturday cartoons were over and it was time to go outside & play
Now that brings back memories too however WWF Wrestling also came on after cartoons so I watched that and then you had some of the shows you mentioned.
Jason Harshman don’t forget Kung Fu movies
BomberMonkAssassin35 exactly I would watch and eat Frosted Flakes
Imozart...I forgot about Kung fu coming on after the cartoons! After that, then endless sports games would come on...then my world descended into endless boredom, but this was back in 1978. It picked up for me when we got cable in early 1981.
El Padre con Verga Larga Then after all that Golf,that’s when you knew it was time to go outside to see what your friends are getting into.
I remember the claymation bumpers like the cowboy guy that would sing "after these messages we'll be riiiiight back"
Give ABC a lot of credit for hardly using a pitchman for their network bumps. I use to hear Ernie Anderson do maybe one bump a week while CBS used Rick Dees and NBC had Casey Kasem for all of their bumps.
As somebody in the animation industry, this episode was actually extremely well written and accurate.
Where do you work dude ? / What show do you work on ?
@@mickeypye2593 I guess he died
The Friday Night Fall Line-up Specials were exciting too! Those were great times. 😎
I loved those!
TGIF
That was the signal for Saturday Morning Cartoons.
I still watch Saturday mornings cartoons even though I wake up late in the morning. It's a tradition that goes back to the 80's for me.
*"Old habits die hard!"*
👍😂
I really loved saturday morning cartoons. Now i'm a dad and I wish I could watch them with my kids. But its not the same having to pick a show on Netflix (like f****ing paw patrol) and then watching it. I don't know what it is but sometimes it is nice being confronted with shows that u didn't pick.
Warren JB, I feel the same way. RUclips is like turning on a tv and just watching whatever is on. I wish they could just autoplay everything in your subscription box.
Warren JB, yup - youtube comes close but the content is very different. but I think im just getting old
Luckily there is cartoon network and Disney xd has some good marvel cartoon. My son who is 12 now would rather play fortnite or watch RUclips. He won't even bother with Netflix or Hulu
you know what i wish for.... A Saturday Morning Cartoon style twitch channel
that airs for 6am to 8:30 or 9am all classic and new Cartoon & Anime from 70s,80s,90, and now
with classic 80s & 90s and new commercials from the U.S ,Japan & Europe
also throw in some 80s & 90s music video and even some godzlla -is si-fi movies now
and then at 10:00am of curse .
Saturday mornings. TV. Sugary cereal. Soccer games. Orange slices. Those were the days.
Its like you read my mind.
That is exactly how my Saturday mornings went down
Orange slices!! lol sometimes I wonder if I was the only one that wondered what special Oprah episode of the 80's or Donahue that ALL parents truly believed that running around endlessly to kick the ball around then never think of soccer again. like ever here in America still rarely think of it and I'm 40 lol
UncleDeluxe and pop tarts 😊
These days, it's like Saturday mornings. Animal Shows. Travelogues. Did I Mention Invention with Alie Ward. The Henry Ford Museum of Innovation. Whole Grain cereal. This is the future, not like the good ol' days which were a lot better back then when you were rewarded after putting in 5 days or 40 hours of school.
Kids today may have more access to cartoons but Saturday morning was such a special time they will never understand. When Candlepin bowling came on you knew it was over and time to go out and play
Who remember ABCs Wide World of Sports?
I guess everybody had a local bowling show. "And now let's hear it for the out-of-towners!" What a let down to know that cartoons were over.
It's the notion that it was our time. Now that 'kids time's is whenever feasible', it's not as singularly special. It's far better for access, but there are tradeoffs.
They're kind of doing something on me TV now
Lots of bugs Bunny lots of Popeye some Tom and Jerry some Droopy dog some Pink panther and the inspector
Dude, this is a brilliant synopsis and I never took into account the syndication aspect that made after school TV watching like another Saturday morning
I don't care that all those cartoons were really 20 minute commercials for toys - the 80s was the greatest decade to be a kid. Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons; G.I. Joe and Transformers came on after school + cartoons just before school and marshmallow laden cereals for days (yet Type-2 diabetes in children was RARE)! Actual original movies with amazing imagination (Never Ending Story, Goonies, Last Starfighter, etc); Nintendo and Sega and personal computers were great bonding tech with friends, yet that stuff didn't run our lives. Playing outside was cool! Our parents didn't do the 'helicopter parenting' we have today - we had freedom to explore and had grand adventures. Oh yeah - those damn toys from our childhood are worth a FORTUNE now! Paid off a credit card debt with selling just a handful of my original Transformers. 80s KID FOR LIFE!!!!
those cartoons and movies made your imagination grow, you were always dreaming and it was great. oh yea dont forget voltron after schools also
Interestingly when Hasbro got half the transformers killed off in the movie and the backlash they got they started to realise that the cartoon/comics were standing on their own feet and slowly stopped killing off characters when their toys stopped production
Let me do a little bit of Math here. There were 520 Saturdays in the Decade of the 80's (52 Saturdays per year, for 10 years = 520 Saturdays). Cartoons aired for 4-Hours per Saturday Morning, which totalled 2,080 Hours of Saturday Morning Cartoons for the 80's Decade. That basically means, as I did not miss one minute of it, that I watched Cartoons on Saturday Mornings, in the 80's, for a total of 2 Months, 26 Days and 16 Hours!!
@@suplex2000 hahahahhah wow it seemed so much more .
to be hnest i remeber waking up about 5:30am 6am and there were so cartoons on during that time and it was off about 2pm
@@macky765 I actually remember around 6:00am they would always have on Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse before the peak 8:00am start time.
As a 17 year old, I can recall watching Saturday morning cartoons on ABC, The CW, NBC, and FOX up until a few years ago when all the main stream stations switched to educational and informative shows. Those were the days.
Not trying to bust your happy bubble but what your talking about is nothing like Saturday cartoons era, which was ended in early 90’s because of government regulation.
Trying to relate is adorable...I’ve got GI Joes older than you.
@@shawnahall7246 IIRC, NBC was the first station to move away from Saturday morning cartoons, with Fox being the last of the big 4 to move away from them. NBC actually moved away from cartoons in the early 90s (changing to Saved by the Bell & clones), while Fox still showed cartoons on Saturday morning up in to the early '00s.
@@shawnahall7246 the Early 2000s still had great cartoons dick
The Children's Television Act of 1990 ruined Saturday Morning Cartoons for broadcast networks. I'm talking slow and painful death, shoving their E/I crap down our throats since the 90s. Shows were still good though.
Loves Saturday morning cartoons. They taught morals, social interaction and other unintentional stuff. I learned how to swim from He-Man. If you remember he kept his knees straight when kicking. I won my 1st swim team trophy at 6 years old thanks to him.
We have a broadcast station that has a cartoon block that also teaches morals.
and even though on some of the shows that would have PSAs'(public service announcements) at the end, whether it was about bullying, drugs or helping old ladies across the street, if one of those fave characters(Prime, Duke, Lion-O, etc) said not to do the bad stuff and do the good stuff that was gospel to a kid back then.
Had a paper route from 82-85, so I was up at 5AM on weekends. Got my papers delivered by 7. I'd already had breakfast, so no mere sugar cereal for me. I had a GIANT tollhouse cookie purchased from an awesome bakery, a HUGE glass of chocolate milk and a nice comfy chair. Ahhh, the good old days
Wow! You were quite the entrepreneur. Respect for your work-ethic! And that cookies sounds dee-lish!
I was born in 1965, so I'm so happy to have been part of a generation that grew up on saturday morning cartoons. During the rest of the week, the parents had the control over what could be watched on tv. But on saturday mornings, parents loved to stay in bed late. There was no shows for adults on saturday mornings anyway, so us kids had the tv for ourselves! Huzzah! With a big bowl of cold cereals we were spoiled with great Hanna & Barbera shows (Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, Herculoids, Yogi Bear, Quickdraw McGraw, etc.), the ever-present Warner cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner, etc.), the Superheroes (Spider-man, the Super Friends, etc.)... Even the ads were cool, no boring mom & dad ads, but either toys or games or cereal brands.
I was definitely a part of the Saturday Mornings Cartoon Generation. I am 36 years old now and I still get my fix of nostalgia by coming on RUclips watching clips and even full episodes of my fav cartoons, TV shows, movies etc. Brings back so many memories. #80sbaby
Yeah sometimes when the rigors of life get to me, I fire up something from the 80s or early 90s on RUclips. Or record a run of an old-school game. I'm the same age.
I really miss it. Even tho we were all still glued to a screen, it was different because the screen was in a fixed place. If you wanted to do something else, the screen couldn’t follow you everywhere. Made us all appreciate it much more, we were focused more in the moment when we were outside, and when we watched something on tv, it wasn’t taken for granted as much, so we were totally immersed in it.
I had always felt bad for the kids who weren't allowed to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings because their parents would force strict religious commitments on them. Some of my best childhood memories are from watching Saturday morning cartoons.
The good ol" days... Me, my brother watching Scooby-Doo, and munching Cap"n Crunch....
Scooby Doo, the greatest Saturday Morning cartoon of all time since 1969 while Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids is a solid second.
Yep, I was part of the Saturday Morning Cartoon Generation, born in '75
Same here, only I was born in 1974.
Me too I was born in 73
In my house, I got to pick a couple cartoons to watch and that was it. Allotted so many hours from the TV guide. Spent more time outside.
I was born in 74.
I miss the good ol days of Mister Rogers Neighborhood.
I got a lot of educational material from Mr Rogers and sesame street. I felt very balanced between cartoons and educational material back then. Still remember when Mr Rogers showed us a pasta factory. Cool.
And now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
As far as violence, sure maybe there was an effect of desensitizing violence, and maybe I see old cartoons too much in rose colored glasses, but there's a point here. Most action cartoons heavily influenced the idea of not "might makes right" but "protect those who can't protect themselves". G. I. Joe were highly trained soldiers fighting a technologically advanced snake themed terrorist group. Transformers was about evil robots fighting good robots, the evil robots us humans had little chance against. Even episodes that had more mundane side plots like bullies, the heroes never flat out attacked the normal person being a jerk, they inspired the other normal victim to stand up for themselves.
I think a lot of those old toons, as much merchandise as they were shilling for, did have pretty solid moral compasses.
while I defend free-market Capitalism to the death--and believe advertisers should be allowed to market however they see fit--I do find the whole concept of "you want this show to continue? buy the toys" to be extremely manipulative. I keep thinking....you mean....you can't possibly get the show to continue in *any* other way, like (and I'm just throwing this out there) advertising revenue? What if we like the show, but not the toys? What if we like the toys, but not the show? I loved franchises that really fleshed out their worlds, and kept pulling you back in with better storytelling as time went on. I find it frustrating when many franchises completely "flamed out" because companies were so focused on just selling the toys, they barely bothered to put in the effort to make us care about them; case in point: MASK, COPS, and Super Naturals. MASK was a really fun concept with awesome characters....yet the origin story makes no sense, when Trakker *references* it in an episode, he sounds like a naive dolt, and the direction the series went...also made absolutely no sense. COPS--again, fun characters with potential--got bogged down in paint-by-numbers cliches, which is why we only got one season of the show, and no Mainframe figure. Super Naturals...gave us one friggin' comic book, which barely explained anything....and then they wonder why the figures hit clearance, despite being so awesome, and I would've wanted to know more.....
Tony Jackson I agree!
And now we have south park teaching our 4th graders how to curse like sailors lol. I'm a fan but won't let my kid watch
I was never into those so-called action packed afternoon cartoon like G.I.Joe and Transformer Thundercats and stuff and tried to keep my younger brothers to not watch those programs as it produces too much questionable violence compared to nicer cartoons like Scooby Doo and Teddy Ruxpin.
@@Decade_of_the_Dawg That show isn't aimed at kids anyway, it's TV-MA which is 17 or 18 and up. Kids still watch it though.
I’m proud to say that I’m an part of one of the last generations to watch Saturday morning cartoons. While all my friends had cable and watching Disney and Nickelodeon I was watching PBS on weekdays and watching CW kids on Saturday. I watch shows like sonic X (I think that was title) Pokémon, and Spider-Man.
Sonic X is correct if you have the time peroid correct, and the Sonic cartoon you remember was an anime.
Having 24 hours of cartoons everyday is like have ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner...at first it's great, but later, it loses it's pleasure...
And makes you sick! 🤣 I'm ambivalent about the whole concept of "On Demand" but then I'm a grumpy old fart....
@@hurdygurdyguy1 To some extent I disagree- I remember growing up and only having been able to see 1 Hammer film and 1 Hitchcock because there was so little access- but I also see your point.
Then you get bored, realise the product now is mediocre, or down right terrible, and you would rather be in a dark closet that having to deal with it for one more second.
I remember in the 90's when Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon channels started to gain traction. It was THE highlight of a school holiday to discover our motel room had SKY TV with Cartoon Network. Then, once my folks finally forked out to get SKYTV at home, like you say, the novelty of 2, then 4 (with Boomerang and Disney Channel) then 6 (with Ceebeebees and NickJnr), there was just sooooo much cartoons, on all the time, it just became "so much on, and nothing to watch".
It was great because we were limited to Saturday mornings. It was special. But by the mid 80s, the best cartoons (for me) were on every day before or after school.
Literally the only thing I miss about childhood. As someone who didn't grow up with cable, Saturday mornings (and to a lesser extent, weekday mornings and afternoons) were basically the only times I had for "good" TV.
Parents griped about cartoons being garbage and just being there to sell stuff, but look at what replaced them: infomercials and court shows. All the factors turned the timeslots into the very garbage they sought to destroy.
It's by design
@@playerone2629it is 😢
It's worth mentioning that the SatAM model had its roots in the radio era. That was when child-focused advertising really began, with shows like Space Patrol pioneering the art of causing children to nag their parents into buying specific brands. Hell, Space Patrol was so shameless that they had their actors promoting products *in character* during breaks in the story. One minute the commander is fighting space pirates, the next he's talking about breakfast cereal.
TV just picked up the model that radio had developed and took it further.
Those magical early mornings on a Saturday. Now viewed from the flipside, I can see my parents must have been just as grateful for something to keep me occupied while they could sleep in.
One of my favorite VHS tapes (that I no longer have, nor own a VCR) consisted of just a CBS SatAM block of cartoons from like '87-'88 that had Muppet Babies, CBS Storybreak, Galaxy High, and the Teen Wolf cartoon on it. But hell I was watching Kids' WB Saturdays well into my high school years because I was NOT missing Jackie Chan Adventures or Batman Beyond!
Respect for the silver sugar pic!
Surfer! @#$%&ing autocorrect
Only just recently, I found a cable network called MeTV that airs an hour of Tom & Jerry cartoons followed by an hour of Looney Tunes every Saturday morning. It reminded me of the glory days of Saturday morning cartoons as I was growing up in the 70's and 80's. Suffice it to say, it's a nice treat to my inner child! Those of you who didn't spend the majority of your childhood in the 70's and 80's missed out on an awesome time to be a kid! I wouldn't trade those memories for the world!
That spectacular moment when RUclips follows TG's "commercial break" with two actual unskippable ads.
i was born in 1990, and before i was born my mom got into tmnt lol and she told me when i was born she would wake up with me and hold me while she watched them. and whe i was old enough to really watch it, she would always make sure i got up on time to watch tmnt. shes ths reason why i love tmnt soo much. i feel like im the only one whos mom actually watched cartoons with them and she loved watching them. lol ive always said, my mom is one of a kind lol. and me and my mom have a huge collection of tmnt toys, i have atleast 1 of every figure in the original box, cant beat a toy for 3.99-5.99 lol and wed goto flea markets and buy used tmnt figures for me to play with so i didnt open up the ones we was collecting. and my dad said she was stupid for buying and collecting them, that theyd never be worth anything, and me and my mom showed my dad how much tmnt figures was going for mint still in the box, and he was like thats crazy. and he ate crow lol 😂😂
my mom said sense they are both mine and her collection we can sell them and split the money anytime i want. but they have to muc sentimental value to me. but i had 3 big totes of played with tmnt toys, there was roughly 600 figures. we sold them all for 1400. as a bulk deal. and weve been offered up to 10,000 for all the mint in box turtles as a bulk deal. but we passed bc we can sell them seperatly for a better price. plus we have lots and lots of them. lol and thats not counting the turtle cars and trucks we sfill have in the box, and the 2 technodromes bc one box was a misprint and the other was a regular one. heck i seen a misprinted technodrome sell for 300. and it had the box, but it was also played with, not like my mint in box one.
i miss my mom waking me up at 645 am on saturdays and us watching the new tmnt episodes.
Saturday mornings were the best. Even having to laundry while watching was worth it. The hardest part was having two shows you wanted to watch air at the same time. "Commercial break! Flip the channel!"
My wife and I taught our kids recently about Saturday morning cartoons and now my youngest loves to get up and turn on Netflix to watch the shows he wants rather than watching all the time during the week. It's hilarious.
I wish I could time travel back in time to watch Saturday Morning Cartoons in the 80s and 90s.
For me Saturday Morning Cartoons ended when WWF Superstars came on. Gave me another hour until I had to go outside and do yard work
Yess!!! great lineup
My father, brother and I would sit and watch our favorite cartoon every Saturday morning every week like clockwork it was the time when we all bonded together, because my father was a serviceman for the U.S. Army and had the weekends off.
Dad watched cartoons too? Nice!
I specifically recall X-Men being the cartoon that I just couldn't miss on Saturday mornings.
X-Men was definitely a must watch. Especially when the Pheonix Saga premiered. Best time of our lives. lol
I still remember the the episode with Mal (The Shape-Shifter.)
Ah yes. The Dark Phoenix saga from the 90's is still the best animated series yet ! My favorite scene was when Galdiator tossed the Juggernaut like a rag doll
Saturday Morning Cartoons was an institution not unlike going to church on Sundays. How I miss those days.
I'm glad someone pointed out that aspect of young life. Saturday it was jumping out of bed early in the A.M. voluntarily. Sunday morning, you became a 'drug baby' getting drug to church.
They kept Sundays sacred. Absolutely no cartoons on Sundays. On Sunday mornings, all there was on TV was preaching until about 10am or so EST. That's how I remember the 70s and 80s at least.
Except cartoons were fun and something you looked forward to... going to church (or temple, or mosque, or whatever religious installation) not so much, if at all.
@@kevinerose That was unless you had cable TV with Nick, and USA(you had to get up 6am early) in the 80's, and 90's then you could still see some cartoons on Sunday before church. otherwise you are right for broadcast TV it was all church till 12 noon on TV in my neck of the woods, and then the usually Sunday early afternoon news shows, followed by sports like Golf, Football, ec., or some crappy movie, and all PBS would show is some cooking show, travel show about Europe. or a rerun of This old House lol!
@@kevinerose heh Sundays were weird in indiana ... there was a channel 4 and on Sundays from 7 to 10 am they'd have 60s-80s anime on then jimmy swaggart on for about an hour or two and then 3 more hours of anime ....
Saturday morning cartoons are the main reason I learned how to program the VCR as a kid.
Saturday TV had everything: Cartoons, Kung Fu movies, monster movies, wrestling!
In the 80's In the Philippines, a chnanel called RPN 9 made the Saturday Cartoon block as THE SATURDAY FUN MACHINE. It started at 8am and ended at 12nn.
For most of my life, even into adult years I would never miss a Saturday morning. I love animation and for the longest time it was my only access to it. I discovered so many shows I still love today, and so many that I hope to never see again.
Awesome video.
It makes me sad that my own kids won’t ever get to experience something as awesome and kid-centric as Saturday morning cartoon. I even miss those commercials.
As a child in the 80's i was excited to wake up every saturday morning to sit in front of the TV for cartoons.
Now as an adult, the cartoons have just been replaced by College Football Gameday. : )
Not so fast, my friend. What do you do the other 8 months of the year that Gameday isn't on?
I remember one Saturday morning as an adult deciding that I was going to watch Saturday morning cartoons... maybe with my kids? I was startled to discover that there was no such thing anymore. It never occurred to me that it was just a 'bubble' that eventually had to burst. Same thing happened with Toys R Us... I didn't realize they were going until they were long gone. That's another part of my childhood that my kids will never experience. I took so many things for granted. (Remember when MTV played music?) I do occasionally make my kids turn off RUclips and watch some Looney Tunes, and they've seen every episode of The Real Ghostbusters. I'm trying...
Good job keep up the great nostalgia!📺
I remember having to develop ninja-like skills like pouring cereals on my hand so I wouldn't wake my parents up to maximize the time I could spend watching cartoons on Saturday mornings.
Yeah being stealthy was an important part of my childhood. My siblings and I joked, we don't need play the board game, Don't Wake Daddy...we lived it.
I loved me some Saturday morning cartoons. How many of you remember the Friday night specials they aired in the fall to introduce you to their Saturday morning line up? They wanted to make sure you watched their channel and not the competitors. I would watch those to see what new cartoons were coming out and then get the tv guide to plan out my morning. Todays Cartoons don't even come close to what I grew up with.
ofcourse I remember, My intro to the new saturday morning line up, LOL, that was my eyewitness news back then
I do, I loved the saturday morning preview specials.
Yep TGIF
Even though I grew up with cartoons in the '60's and '70's (which endeared me with a love for good animation, not you Hanna-Barbera, you sucked!) I have great memories of getting my son up for school, getting breakfast and we'd both watch Spongebob (early SB ❤), Wonderful World of Gumball, Chowder (totally underrated) until "oh no! Quick, get dressed, late for school!"
A lot of it's wrapped up as a shared experience, my brother and I when we were kids and then my son and I 15 years ago ... *sigh*
@@hurdygurdyguy1 say what you want about Hannah Barberra they still entertain millions to this day with their HB exclusive animation. i cant imagine a cartoon world without the inclusion of HB.
I remember getting up so early on Saturday mornings that the TV stations hadn't even started broadcasting yet. Just a rainbow test pattern and high pitch tone to drive my ears nuts until the sign on song of choice was played. Then it game on as I ate half a box of cereal and watched all my favorite shows.
I remember waking up before the bloc started once in late 1986, and somehow the channel *still* used an "off the air" sign up to that point. It was close to the end of their time doing so, but...what an experience!
In Iowa if I got up to early I'd have to watch the Ag(riculture) report before the first cartoons came on.
Such a fascinating history.
Ah, yes, I remember all those classics. Even though I was born mid-90s. And of course it would never dawn on any unsuspecting, innocent youth at the time that television animation programming was all about the marketing to the adults behind it, we were all about the laughs and joy and excitement of the new toys provided for us by our hapless parents' wallets, the spoiled brats that we were. Sorry, Mom and Dad! Guess you can kiss that college fund goodbye. Ah, but at the end of the day, I'd say everything evens out, because the cheerful childhood memories that these franchises provided, was all worth it in the end.
Man, if there was a streaming service where I could just watch those classic cartoons as they were shown back then I would totally watch that!
Look up the boomerang cartoon app man it's got all the oldies
Forget it! You could never duplicate the moment, the times when you were young the commercial advertising. its an era gone by id just rather appreciate the fond memories instead of trying to re-live it. besides we have all to some degree lost special people in our lives from back then. Appreciate the memories.
Good times.
@@jasonjones7451 they mean like with the comerciales and giveaways and contests u know the whole saturday morning vibe of the 80's and 90's
Tubi and Pluto TV have a lot of old cartoons
Wow
How times have changed now
I miss the 80s as a kid from the 80s I can remember just sitting there on sat morning with no care in the world
you can't forget, you had to have your favorite bowl of cereal with you.
I lived for my Saturday morning cartoons. my mother purchased the TV guide weekly and I used to map out my special morning by circling all of the shows I just had to watch. I was obsessed with Superfriends, Pac-Man, the smurfs, kids incorporated, and Pandmonium. What great memories!
I saw the end. RIP Vortexx, the last saturday morning centurion.
KidsClick resurrected Saturday morning cartoons.
kidsclick.com/
Thanks to MeTV, we can relive those memories every Saturday morning. The Bugs Bunny show is the gold standard.
You can also thank MeTV for forcing CBS' hand, because CBS is ending its agreement with Litton and returning to Sat AM cartoons, starting in fall, 2023 and this can have a domino effect, because this can also force both ABC's and NBC's hands, too- this will be a gradual process. CW is continuing its agreement with Litton and Fox is out of it, entirely. The CTA of 1990 needs to be reformed to ensure SatAM stays. More to come in the coming weeks, months!!!
@@michaelpowell5266 don't count on it mike, even if CBS,NBC & ABC ending their agreement with litton & bringing back SatAm cartoons in fall 2023 it's just would not feel the same like it did in the 80s & 90s so we gotta accept reality so don't feel too confident, besides TV along with cable TV is dead anyways so what's the point of bringing back SatAM cartoons even with the three top stations ending their deal with litton that doesn't necessarily mean that SatAM cartoons is gonna be officially coming back.
kids nowadays be into their tablet or phone or watch cocomelon or something else, i don't think kids in this generation cares about our SatAM cartoons anymore except us adults like me who was born 6 months after the 80s decade began, sure i also like some 70s cartoons or so on.
even though sadly i was not born in the 1970s but i enjoy watching some great 70s, 80s, 90s & 00s cartoons, i'm about to be 43 in june & i stopped watching TV & relive the classics on pluto tv or any of the sites that has almost the golden era of cartoons, the ones we grew up watching.
i know you don't understand what i'm saying but afa bringing back SatAM cartoons after CBS ending their deal with litton [kinda doubt it imo] (possibly NBC & ABC follow suit), i give my 2 cents that if it might be true or not or is it a fact, so like i said do not count on it, don't get me wrong i ain't no traitor it's just that even if SatAm cartoons are coming back it's just not the same anymore so you gotta realize that time has changed nowadays, so let's all enjoy the nostalgicness in cartoons especially SatAm cartoons in our hearts.
@@michaelpowell5266any update on this? As of February 2024 CBS is still showing those boring animal shows
Honestly, videos from guys like you, Thew Adams, Chris McFeely and Phelan Porteus have kind of taken the place of Saturday Morning Cartoons, thirty five years after I got up and watched the original things (Transformers G1, The Real Ghostbusters etc) on TV.
Okay, sure loads of it was terrible, but the ones that were good have lasted for such a long time.
It's going to die soon, but we should be thankful for our '80s TV.
My favorite thing was ditting in front of the TV singing along with Alvin and the Chipmunks or Jem and the Holograms. 😁
I bet I could still sing the lyrics to Alvin and the Chipmunks and the Gummi Bears themes...
@@mrgrrr7666 I sing the Gummi Bears theme all the time😂
@@kaseygoade786 "Magic and mystery are part of their history...."
We're the Chipmunks... C H I P MUN K! :D
You left out one of the most important reasons why broadcast television's Saturday Morning lineup died off. It was an animation ghetto. The drive to produce cartoons cheaply had forced the quality of animation to drop to the point that they were unwatchable even by kids. Kids started to tune out *before* the growth of weekday animation and the regulations and the growth of cable animation had taken hold.
Saturday morning cartoons in the 1970s were pretty bad. The TV animation industry was dominated by Hanna-Barbera, who had developed a style that was fast, cheap, and mediocre. Their main competitors Filmation, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, and Ruby-Spears were of similar quality. The content of television cartoons was also more restricted in the 1970s than it was in the 1960s or 1980s. Standards were loosened during the Reagan administration. Besides allowing animated shows to be program-length commercials, cartoons could also get away with more intense action, zanier humour, and scarier imagery. The look of cartoons also changed. Hanna-Barbera saw its share of the market decline in the 1980s. DIC and Nelvana started producing Saturday morning cartoons for the networks. Shows such as Dungeons & Dragons and Mighty Orbots were animated in Japan, where impressive visuals could be obtained for an affordable price before the value of the Japanese yen rose against the U.S. dollar in the latter half of the 1980s. Disney entered the TV animation market in 1985 with Wuzzles and Adventures of the Gummi Bears (although the actual animation was outsourced to the Japanese studio TMS). Ralph Bakshi produced the idiosyncratic Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures. The networks' Saturday morning line-ups still had dreck like Rubik the Amazing Cube and Turbo Teen, but in general the 1980s were an improvement over the 1970s.
Let alone that in the 1980's was also when Anime was starting to take its babysteps in the US and was dazzling audiences! I remember watching G-Force back then!
tomwaterwitch Those baby steps were back in the 60s with the likes of Astro Boy and Speed Racer... 80s was the time it was climbing trees and skinning knees.
@@Ginormousaurus Well said. It was very cool to have a 4-hour block of cartoons on Saturdays, but at least in the late 70s and 80s most of it was crap. By 1985 it was clear weekday afternoon syndicated cartoons were where the talent was, not Saturdays. This dynamic may have changed again in the 90s, but I was done watching by then
Have you seen Nielsen ratings that indicate which year the Saturday morning ratings started to decline? That would be interesting to learn.
And that the reason why 4kids is hated.
ahh the good ole days of cartoon watching!
100%
now some of them are on disney+
I'm 40yrs old and I still watch all my old favs. Cartoons nearly every single day. That and documentaries lol.
I remember I used to (make my parents) go to the grocery store and I'd buy gummy snacks and box juice (specifically remember Slimer Ecto Cooler box juice) in preparation for Saturday.
Some of my all-time faves are STILL
Loony Toons (the original ones, the ones that weren't censored because they had guns and such),
Eek The Cat (and The Terrible Thunder Lizards),
Beakman (Beakmen?),
I know there's more but can't think.
I do remember watching
Reboot,
the Reboot reboot,
Captain Planet (there's a Captain Planet parody with Don Cheatle on YT somewhere that's friggin hilarious 😂),
Animaniacs,
Pinky and The Brain,
Batman,
Batman Beyond,
okay, there were probably like 5 different Batmans,
Superman,
Ghostbusters,
Transformers,
Beast Wars,
...and so many more I can't remember the name but I have memories of like this one where some kid/teen puts on shades and things are in 3D or something? I _think_ you had the option to put 3D glasses on too to see "better" action, or maybe it was just the fact that if I remember correctly the scenes were it CG? I don't remember all the details.
Regardless, Saturdays were a blast. And then Tennis or Golf would start and that was the sign to get up and do something else.
I grew up in a rural area where we had 3.5 channels (that fourth one only came in clear when the moon was in retrograde over Jupiter, or something). I loved Saturday morning cartoons because it was the ONE TIME I knew there would be something on TV I would like. We didn’t get cable until I was in middle school and that was like Prometheus bringing fire to early humans. Now cartoons were on ALL THE TIME.
And even then, I like our modern era of streaming and full seasons on Blu-ray much better. New cartoons might not hold up to what we had as kids, but I can share the old stuff with my children much easier than I could get them for myself in the first run.
"...it was also a lot of fun."
Yes, yes it was. Watching TV on Saturday mornings with my sister's and bowls of Apple Jacks, Freakies, or Honeycombs were some of the best times of my life! I wouldn't trade them for the world.
Greed equals progress and decline in society. Television has been the frontrunner of both in society. But that being said...the 60's and 70's were the best times to be a kid. You knew after American Bandstand and Soul Train it was time for chores outside. Yes... chores people, chores. We had chores to do. Aww, nevermind.
The irony is not lost on me that I just watched an informative video on probably the least informative era of television. I love it.
I'm 38. So yeah. Smurfs, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Ghostbusters,The Real Ghostbusters. Dungeons and dragons, Peewee's Playhouse, Rude Dog and the Dweebs, Snorks, Galaxy high, Alf from Melmack, Silver Hawks, Thundercats, Transformers, G.I. Joe, The Toxic Crusaders, MadBalls, TMNT, Looney Toons, Saved By The Bell,with a big bowl of Fruity Fruity Pebbles. When Soul Train came on, it was over. You took your ass outside to play till the street lights came on or you got called home for dinner.
One of my favorite episodes yet. I loved me some Saturday morning cartoons and it's kinda sad that my kids don't get to enjoy that. Some of my favorite memories are getting out of bed on a Saturday morning and watching some Looney Tunes til breakfast was ready.
I was born in 1974. I remember the late 70s cartoons and watching all the 80s cartoons and Saturday mornings to me were magical. I miss ABC Weekend Special and America Band Stand. Playing outside all day when kids use to be outside. Now you only see kids in the neighborhoods unless it's Hawloween. Those were good times. Very well mad cartoons back in the good old days. Today they don't know how to make good awesome cartoons anymore. Hanna Barber and Ruby Spears made awesome good quality cartoons for Saturday mornings. Saturdays mornings is a lost jewel. Now it's just another adult day like any other day. God bless the good old days.
I was there when they added "we'll be back after these messages" and when they started reading the titles of each cartoon episode. I thought it was dumb because somehow I knew the commercials were different and I could read the episode title if I felt like it.
To be a kid again. Being in my late 40's now, back then we had great Saturday morning cartoons on most of the stations. Rerun cartoons as well i.e. Speed Racer, G-Force. A grand video, Dan. Thanx.
This is gonna be long like a love letter, and yeah it should be considered that, I did love Saturday morning cartoons, still do.
We lucky few who grew up in that era, we who through our imaginations went on countless adventures and fought side by side with heroes against tyranny. I embrace you all! For you are my silent brothers who fought with me 😁
Aah! And let us not forget the battles with our parents, how could you make them understand the importance of laying on the couch and bare witness to the struggle of good vs evil 🤔
I feel for this generation...they will not know the wonders we did.
And to the government, we did not turned into the monsters you thought we would be, nor did we became mindless sheeps...we turned out just fine 🤪
Great video! One of my favorites of the year 👍🏽✌🏽
We did become monsters. Look around.
Bro you just sat on your fat ass and watched the chill
I can't help feeling that the love for Saturday morning cartoons is greatly distorted by nostalgia for one's childhood...
Can't agree with you more.
James Matthews yes and no. While definitely the remembrance of QUALITY is distorted, typically Saturday Morning Cartoons symbolized a break from school, a freedom we only knew in a personal age we likely don't remember, and also a bond with friends and siblings. AND it was definitely the first chance to actually control the -one- television in the house. for a kid it wasn't just press a button and see some stuff, you dictated what was viewed, and learned to compromise through this control.
Part of the reason I loved Saturday morning cartoons was because, as the youngest of six kids, I was often disregarded by my siblings. I felt like an outsider. But then there was this one block of TV time that was for me! Someone played stuff little me wanted to watch at as time when nobody else was up. It made me feel good on a subconscious level.
I think the ineffectiveness of the "edutainment" programs was the failure to realize that programming that entertained children was what drove them to the timeslot. Kids weren't going to watch just anything on Saturday mornings just because it was there. Even before video games I was able to find other ways to entertain myself if I didn't like what was on TV.
I remember waking up on Saturday mornings before cartoons would come on and I would watch a show called Davey and Goliath until the cartoons came on, what a magical time Saturday mornings were. I miss them, now I'm in my 40's and i watch 80's Saturday cartoons and commercials on you tube every Sat morning
Oh, I don't knowww Daaaavey :D
Personally, I remembered growing up watching not just cartoons but also some live-action programs as well. One of them was the "SHAZAM!" TV series and I enjoyed it so much that I became a fan of the "SHAZAM!" comic book franchise as well. Boy, do I have such fond memories.
Live action Spider-Man still has a special place in my heart even if a lot of it is hard to watch in 2018.
"SHAZAM" & "ISIS"
(long before that was
a terrorist group) were
"live-action cartoons"
from the Filmation studios.
@@laustcawz2089 - Was that comment your only point? I know that already.
I want Saturday Mornings back.
Us oldes want it back too I wish my child experience them but sadly she was born 2003 😩
same here I miss them even the ones they use have some on weekdays ABC not the same anymore not many good show like sesame Street teletubbies square one and many more power rangers to wish to for them to came back but yet they got so many crime show that show killing it they take kids show off this sucks so I do get half this mums that they don't fully understand they take everything and every bit fun away that I find so silly
Wow!
This was great. You guys are great!
I was a Saturday morning cartoon kid.
2 words BUGS BUNNY! I'm 52 and I still love Bugs just as much now
One of my favorite memories from back then was when the television networks would host a preview show on Friday primetime to showcase the new cartoons for the upcoming season..
I remember that. There was also that one year (1991?) that it was also used to introduce the Super Nintendo on tv.
How about the best ever Canadian cartoon - Rocket Robin Hood? LOL!
This video is the seminal explanation on this subject. I personally was incredibly interested in this topic, to the point of writing a paper on it for school. Yet I couldn't have imagined explaining it in a more concise, informative, engaging, and hilarious way. Kudos to you, sirs, Kudos.