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Haterater
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Hate that Saturday Morning cartoons are gone. It was the default for kids that didn't have higher options out there.
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PurpleWarrior13
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My childhood TV watching was mostly Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and, when I was really young, PBS Kids (also Boomerang a bit later). There was a time when I did watch a lot of FoxBox/4Kids TV every Saturday morning to see One Piece, Ninja Turtles, Mew Mew Power, Winx Club, Shaman King, etc, but I stopped around when I was 13 and it was never my main source of entertainment. I mostly only watched it because I could actually get it on my bedroom TV.
But I am aware of the long-standing tradition of Saturday morning cartoons and it's a shame to see them go away like this. Cable was the main killer, along with other things like video games, the internet, and FCC regulations being increasingly strict on free-to-air children's programming. |
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Polycell
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If merchandise-driven shows weren't verboten, I'm pretty sure Saturday morning cartoons would still be putting in a good showing. We'd also probably see more of that sort of anime brought over(*cough*Precure*cough*).
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kirac91
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i will always remember watching sailrmoon, cardcaptors, digimon and some other classics.
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Mr. slicer
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Teletoon got the rights to most of the shows. They are currently airing Yugioh Zexal, Beyblade (Metal Masters for some reason), Pokemon XY, and while not an anime Power Rangers. It`s not quite the end yet. |
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niastyle
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Wow. No more Saturday morning cartoons. I'd like to take a moment to remember some of my favorites from my childhood, and the only reason I was up at 7am on Saturday's.
Muppet Babies X-Men Beetlejuice Pound Puppies My Little Pony (the original) A Pup Named Scooby-doo MoonDreamers Lady Lovely Locks Maxie's World Beverly Hills Teens Robotech Thundercats Voltron She-ra Get along Gang Snorks Fraggle Rock Smurfs Rainbow Brite The Little's Strawberry Shortcake Man! Memory lane stretches longer than I thought. I must be really old. |
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Zalis116
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I've also heard college football cited as one of the culprits that killed Saturday morning cartoons. You've got games starting as early as 9 AM on the West Coast and noon on the East Coast, plus several hours of College Game Day, Pre-Game Analysis, Kickoff Countdown, Final Countdown, Final Final Countdown, and Fantasy Football Speculation Destination airing before them... all of which got better ratings than kids' shows in the era of increasing network specialization.
I don't remember all the shows I watched on Saturday mornings in the late 80s and early 90s, but I know that for awhile I was able to switch between networks and get a solid run of cartoons I liked from 6 AM to noon. Among them were GI Joe, James Bond Jr., Bucky O'Hare, Super Mario Bros. 3/World, Captain N the Game Master, Muppet Babies, Garfield and Friends, Back to the Future, X-Men, TMNT '87, Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego, CBS Storybreak, and probably others that only lasted a short while. But as the 90s wore on, getting up at 6 or 7 AM to see increasingly changed or canceled Saturday morning blocks lost its appeal, and catching up on sleep lost during the school week became more important. Though I lament the loss of Saturday morning cartoons as a concept, I don't miss the "watch it or lose it" aspect of the pre-DVD/pre-Internet days. Family trips meant guaranteed missed episodes unless I could catch them in a hotel (not good odds with early checkout times and a father wanting to hit the road) or getting lucky with rabbit-ear antennas to get a barely-watchable signal on the one channel that came in at the lake cabin. |
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EricJ2
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Even during the "Golden era", I remember if a show got the finishing-up slot at 12-12:30 pm, that was the Network Kiss of Death--Almost guaranteeing that you would never, ever see a single episode, as it would nearly always be pre-empted by local and network sports pre-shows.
I remember when the two smartest-written shows of the 80's were on right against each other at 10am: Garfield on CBS, and ALF/ALFTales on NBC. (In one ALF cartoon, ALF has to grab a remote and stop an out-of-control machine: He pushes a button, and all of a sudden, the screen statics and changes to a slob cat passed out in front of a refrigerator...."Oops, wrong remote!"  )
When Fox lost the X-Men/Tick block, and all CBS had left was Mythic Warriors, that was the beginning of the end, and Fox's cheesy CGI Avengers didn't carry on the legacy either. |
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