Looking back, I think Saturday morning cartoons represented freedom: After five grueling days at school, homework, bullies, and chores, you finally had a day to yourself, and what better way to start than by jumping into your favorite worlds and seeing your favorite characters going on new adventures? It was a jump from our mundane reality into worlds of fantasy where anything was possible and your imagination was the limit, and there was no homework or responsibilities to be found.
I don't watch a lot of TV anymore, but I think part of what makes it special is it's something happening now. You can't pause it, you can't skip to the next show, it's happening now and you can't go back. And that makes it special.
When I was a kid around 1990 in Norway I hated getting up for school, but for some reason I could easily get up early on Saturdays to watch Swedish dubbed TMNT episodes. Funny how that works.. I even remember it feeling sort of cool that I got up before my parents did, having the living room all to myself for a while and an entire Saturday in front of me..
We definitely called them Saturday morning cartoons. We weren’t allowed to watch TV on weekday mornings or Sundays. We also didn’t have cable, so Saturdays were a big deal for us. My favorites were Ninja Turtles, Muppet Babies, Real Ghostbusters, Tiny Toons, X-Men & the Batman reruns. The anti-drug cartoon you spoke about was a big deal to us. I loved seeing all of the characters together. They played it for us in school several years in a row. Great video, awesome memories :)
@@Sirrantsalot I hope news shows, tabloid shows, and reality shows meet the same fate. Then, the normies are will be in for A REAL shock, and it will be glorious.
Weird as it is, the thing I miss most about live tv is the bumpers and promos. Made watching the new episode feel special, like you were part of an event.
Remember the HBO bumper around the early 2000s? They had that view flying through a city and finally coming out over a lake? I loved that as a kid/teen. It just made it feel like an actual theater or at least got you hyped. Now the HBO bumper is bad static.
@@larrymoseley6844 I remember those and the claymation dog and something peeking out of a manhole cover or something while they sang "After these messages... We'll be right back!" Now I got to go look up and see if I can find it on UA-cam my memory is fuzzy, I remember claymation something...
There's a sort of charm to being limited in what you can watch. It's the reason why everyone can quote Spongebob, or why everybody was trading Pokemon/Yugioh cards at school. Every Saturday morning, we all experienced the same journey through those shows. Now with so many shows and streaming services, we're more isolated than ever.
You don't need to wait for anything... Ok a little exegarated but in comparison. But I hated Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh. The times I watched I can count on one hand.
I agree to some extent however I feel like we all still watch all of the same big streaming service shows. Squid Game, Stranger Things, Rings of Power and such. In that way, I still feel connected with people when talking about the same shows.
Part of the fun was being able to talk about what happened in your favorite cartoons and anime with your friends at school because all the other children watched them too
I am a generation X guy myself (42 years old as of October 2022) and I do remember there was a day off ritual I would do. I grew up in France during the 80s and we had Wednesday off from school and went to school Saturday mornings. Wednesday morning and Saturday afternoon cartoons was a thing. I long for those days when it was simpler. Simplicity made me less anxious.
I actually have a large collection of original Saturday morning Cartoons from 1980-1995 taped off TV with the original commercials. They are pure nostalgic gold. Hits you right in the feels.
Thunder Cats, Transformers, He-man, She-Ra, Gummy Bears, Scooby Doo, Smurfs, Mighty Mouse, Mickey mouse, Fraggle Rock, Garfield, Heath Cliff. We were so lucky to grow up then. After cartoons were over we went outside and played until the sun went down.
Nostalgia is like a knife sometimes. You think of how things used to be and how happy you used to be and it can feel like someone stabbed you in the gut and it hurts because you know things will never be like that again
The character Don Draper in Mad Men’s famous Carousel pitch scene said it best, comparing nostalgia to the pain from an old wound, and adding that nostalgia is “delicate, but potent.”
Can’t duplicate the Saturday morning experience. I would plan what I was going to watch. The commercials and PSAs were just as much part of the experience. I sometimes watch UA-cam vids that are recorded 3-4 hour blocks of NBC, ABC, or CBS with commercials and it brings me right back. I was fortunate enough to be in the sweet spot age wise though the 80’s when Saturday morning cartoons were at their peak.
approaching 39 and feel the same way. like James said, streaming service and dedicated channels still exist, but they just dont have the same charm. much like my walkman and pogs, some of things are just a generational staple that can't be replaced.
Growing up my dad would also make us pancakes while putting on DVDs of the old Hanna Barbara shows on Saturday morning. There’s something so special about that and I’m glad a lot of parents are passing it down intergenerationally
One of the things I looked most forward to as a kid was getting up on Saturday mornings, getting a bowl of cereal, sitting down in front of my TV, and watching cartoons.
As a 90's kid, Saturday Mornings were basically waking up early, eating pop tarts or cereal, and being quiet for my parents. After the cartoons finished up we'd go play manhunt or some n64.
My parents are in their late 70s, and sometimes they watch cartoons in the morning and it's ADORABLE. Great video James! Thanks for making me miss something so badly that I didn't even realize I did.
Saturday morning cartons were so special to me. Waking up at 7am with the promise of pancakes in the morning and ham sandwiches for lunch. I’m sad that those blocks are gone but I will always cherish those days.
Born in '92 I had the tail of saturday morning cartoons. And while I loved them I still associate them with this feeling of my mom and dad being really peeved that I was watching them and wanting me to do something else.
Great video. I'm a 3rd grade teacher and just used The Adventures of the Gummi Bears theme song to introduce my class to poetry AND Saturday morning cartoons. Showed them an episode and at least one went home to watch more!
Both Sonic the Hedgehog shows, Batman the animated series, TMNT, and Spider-Man were my favorite animated shows to watch in the morning. The Power Rangers capped off my day before playing Super Mario world. Back then going outside was fun, meeting up with friends and talking about the episodes of cartoons and the newest secret of our favorite games. I miss the 90's.
Thank you for this, James. I appreciate your reverence for '80's nostalgia. My dad passed away this morning and I have been thinking about how comfortable I was growing up in the '80's midwest watching Sat. morning cartoons and waiting for him to get home from work.
In LA, the New Beverly theater still shows Saturday morning cartoons on a weekly basis. Vintage cartoons shown on their original 35mm reels. They even turn the concession stand into a cereal bar, which is really cool.
For me Saturday mornings were up at the buttcrack of dawn, making myself a big bowl of cereal, and parking in front of the TV until noon, when the last of the cartoons were showing. Nowadays, I go get a bagel or something, come back and pull up a playlist of some favorite toons. Really helps destress after a hard work week.
In South Africa we also had the Saturday morning cartoon tradition when I was growing up, TMNT and Spiderman were classics. Spiderman was even translated into a traditional language (Zulu) and his name was Rabobi. This clip made me happily nostalgic for simpler times. Thank you
Saturday morning cartoons really were an event at times. I remember when ABC used to make specials prompting the new line up of cartoons that would be dropping. Also felt like a big deal when shows would jump networks like Doug or Gargoyles
they had a bizarre cartoon show called Mummies Alive! from 0600-0700 on Fox every day when I was little; it was an incentive to get up early. I never understood anything that was happening
I loved Mummies Alive, they taught people about Egypt thru a white school kid who trips over a tomb and unlocked Power Ranger ripoffs or Fantastic 4 knockoffs if you factor superpowers
The only thing I didn’t like about only having live tv was that I would sometimes miss some episodes of shows that were two parts or more, resulting in me not knowing what happened in between or missing the ending until the parts I missed were shown as reruns.
Now I feel sort of sad in a way. Also sorta makes me want to look up random shows from when I was a kid. Interestingly, this makes me realize I haven't watched "normal" TV at all since at least 2016. That makes me feel old. Do TV channels even still exist?
For me Saturday morning cartoons were very much a thing I was aware of growing up. We lived in a rural area, with only 3 channels on the local antenna TV. Those channels didn't really play cartoons during the week, but they definitely did on Saturday mornings. This made the ritual even more poinient at our house. Pancakes were very common too!
I'm with ya, only difference is I would always eat cold pizza for breakfast on Saturday morning. Every Friday after school my dad would drive us to town (50 min drive) and he would order little caesars and bring us to Mr. Movies. So we always had leftovers. Best breakfast in the world: cold pizza and pepperoni crazy bread with a big glass of coke!
I remember getting my Grandma to Record Saturday morning cartoons for me every weekend she would get out the tv guide and make me mark witch shows i wanted her to record. I still have VHS's with the 80's &90's cartoons on them.
Anyone remember The Toxic Avenger also had its own cartoon? In retrospect, it's definitely weird that all these R-Rated adult movies had their own kid-friendly cartoon versions. Imagine letting your kid watch Tales From The Crypt thinking it would be like the cartoon, but then being horrified at how graphic the live action show is.
I thought about the Toxic Avenger cartoon the other day! Definitely bizarre. Made me think about the 'action figures' I had growing up - Terminator, Alien and Predator figures which I bought from the local toy store, sure I had watched the films but at that age, definitely inappropriate.
I also enjoy these retrospective sits downs with James. It has this claiming affect on me hearing his calm, thought-out perspective on his memories, along with a bit of research. I wish this was weekly feature. He's great at it. I'd love to see him do a show about the animation studios. Shows looked so much better in 80's, like Japanese animation style. Fantastic episode, James!
It touches my feels to know so many of us are bonded by doing the same things, having the same type of memories and feelings about these things. Thinking about I wish I knew all of you back then , it would have been a blast.
80s cartoons were the best. And 80s anime is my particular favourite style of animation. It's just so wholesome and brings me back to those days of innocence when the world felt exciting and new.
In many markets, at 12 Noon, you know what capped off the Saturday Morning block in the end? *WWF Wrestling,* which back then was a live-action cartoon in and of itself, with its outlandish heroes and villains.
It was just the same here in the UK. One of the best things about Saturday morning cartoons (or even weekday cartoons like TMNT) was talking with your mates about them when you went to school. That shared community again… you’d all watched the same programme and experience and could discuss it. Especially as the Batman, X-Men and Spider-Man cartoon storylines developed
There are multiple different blocks of old Saturday morning cartoons on UA-cam with the commercials left in. Makes me so happy those people hit record on the VCR so many years ago. I missed them badly. Now on with the show
I watch a streamer on twitch, every once in a while he will watch several older commercials about video game related stuff, watching them back to back you see how an era of culture is captured through advertisements.
Love this video for the nostalgia. its crazy how it is applicable through so many decades too! I grew up in the early 90s and watched these exact same cartoons Saturday morning. Really took me back to sitting in front of my parents TV, head in my hands watching Scooby Doo.
I remember Saturdays as either a great day or horrible, and it mostly depended on if I woke up to my moms music vibrating my power rangers off the shelfs. If that happened, I knew it was a day of cleaning and chores. Now that my own kid is on its way, it’s kind of sad realizing Saturday morning cartoons are dead and if I want to reproduce those happy memories with my kid, I have to artificially do it.
This video explains exactly why I wish I was born earlier... or one of the reasons anyway. Too many choices means everyone lives in their own media bubble. Makes it extremely hard to relate to people, as I used media as a way to start conversation. Most people I meet don't know what any of the stuff I enjoy even is. It's very isolating and sad.
dude there are forums, communities... and if you meet people of your generation, most likely they grew up watching / listening to / playing the same stuff as you did
Just wanted to shout out Svengoolie! Watching him is a staple Saturday evening event that really keeps the nostalgia of programs like Vampira, Joe Bob Briggs, Elvira, etc alive. Go make some stovetop popcorn, grab some drinks, and turn off the lights to enjoy some classic horror movie camp.
I remember that drug psa cartoon. My teacher played it for us when I was in kindergarten. It struck me with a sense of nostalgia. Id like to watch that again and see it from an adults perspective.
Definitely part of my childhood. In addition to the cartoons, I also remember WWF wrestling on Saturday mornings. Also, they kept up with Saturday morning cartoons as late as the late 2000s, before the switch to digital TV. I watched the TMNT: Fast Forward, Spider-Man, and Chaotic. Those are the ones I remember, though.
For me I wasn't allowed to play video games on school days, so Saturday and Sunday were monopolized by the NES and then SNES. But I do get the sentiment, that being Saturday's being special because of no school, staying home, and partaking in a media you enjoyed. I watched cartoons far more frequently during the weekdays, and since a fair amount of the classics ended up on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney (We had cable) I experienced them through that.
I know someone (age of my parents) who wasn't allowed to watch any child programmes at all. Later they laughed a little because he rewatched Mickey mouse ect as an adult.
Wow, I was just having this exact conversation over the weekend with family and touched upon many of the same points you did. It's sad. My baby will never know the awesomeness that was a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch and sat morning cartoons.
@@booberry349 MeTV is mostly made for nostalgic adults such as myself. They're simply copying the vibe of the big three advertising SMC (Saturday Morning Cartoons).
Oh wow! I didn't realise Muppet Babies has never been released!. That was one of the main staples of my childhood!. Makes me even more glad my mum recorded so many episodes on VHS. James thank you so much for this trip down memory lane
I was born in 84. Do remember waking up early back in the 90's to watch ninja turtles. I didn't really watch cartoons much in the 2000's so I have no idea when it ended.
I remember watching Peewee's Playhouse. In that show they always had "The word of the day" and when it was said you had to just scream. I remember watching it early one morning and someone said "the word of the day" and I started screaming and my parents got mad at me because I was yelling so early in the morning, lol
@@crow_g1639 your generation would cream if they could watch their favourite cartoons anytime. Back in the 90s, didnt people download from the Internet?
Streaming movies and tv shows are becoming the new norm in today's entertainment to the point where cartoons shows on television are becoming the thing of the past. But we will never forget the awesome memories of watching our pasttime cartoon shows from the 80s and 90s.
Cable channels were part of the reason they stopped Saturday morning Blocks, especially when CBS and ABC just showed reruns of cable shows (CBS with Nick Jr. stuff) before they switched to the horrid TV/EI shows and news formats in the late 00's. Streaming only really killed appointment television.
Man I absolutely love when you do these videos or when you delve into what it was like playing old video games like contra. It takes me right back to being a little kid and a teenager and means so much so sincerely thank you!
An idea so simple. When I have my children, I’ll show them the shows I watched on Saturdays so they can understand how special those times were. Thanks so much for this
@@murraysaucedo897I loved the Nintendo cereal, Mr.T, fruit loops and Batman & Ninja Turtles. Still got my Batman bank that came with the cereal along with my Ninja Turtles bowl that came with the cereal.
I found it interesting that Lorenzo Music (originally) voiced Bill Murray's character in the Real Ghostbusters, and then Bill Murray voiced Lorenzo Music's character in the Garfield movies.
I also remember at the end of the morning lineup, there would be either Beakman's World, Bill Nye The Science Guy, WWF Superstars, or it would go right into some sports coverage. We didn't get TV Guide, so I never knew if some Olympics or other sports coverage would ruin my Saturday morning cartoons for the day lol
Back in the day where you had 0 knowledge of things & it was a hassle to pick up a tv guide or one that came in the newspapers on Saturdays. I wish my D.V.R existed back than so I can record every cartoon instead of having a VHS with tapes recording like 6-8 hours with very limited channels. I remember at 1 point I didn't want to get up in the morning to watch the Saturday cartoons because it was a huge hassle just getting up.
I asked my nephew (9 years old) a few years ago if he knew what "Saturday Morning Cartoons" were. He looked confused, asked me to repeat myself several times, and said, "I have no idea what that means." I felt myself age 80 years when he said that. As someone who didn't grow up with cable, I lived for weekday afternoon cartoons and Saturday Morning cartoons. In my teen years, they ended weekday afternoon cartoons (except for PBS), and when I was 18 (2010), they did away with Saturday Morning Cartoons. It officially capped my childhood
I remember it. In very early elementary school. They portrayed Michael Jordan as being the genius or the intelligent one of the group. Sort of like Donatello in TMNT!
James talks about the shared community aspect of ever kid having watched the same programs due to accessibility and how much that turned out to be meaningful, and it sort of reminds me how so many animation fans have grown up to follow Japanese anime releases on a weekly basis. Most anime fans want to see their favorite shows as they release episode by episode so they can be a part of the conversation online. So in a way that sort of shared viewing lives on in other places.
Weekly? Oh man... I grew up with the sheer dumb luck of finding the one video rental store in the neighbourhood that actually had a few Streamline VHS tapes!
I have box sets of all favs like The Real Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice cartoons. I've been sharing these memories with my now 16 year old daughter since she was a toddler and still loves watching them with me. She brags to her friends whom don't experience the same from their parents and it's a shame. We should always create our Saturday mornings and share them. I'm really happy you do too, Bro.
This video was so enjoyable, it put my into a zen like state of familiar comfort. I truly believe if James has been a presenter on mainstream tv back in the day he would be considered a national treasure. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The ones I remember in a block every Saturday were, Garfield and friends, my pet monster, pound puppies, real ghostbusters and a claymation show that I think was called the trap door. Eventually they added captain power and the soldiers of the future as well. Great times, I would get up before everyone else in the household just to watch every Saturday.
Thanks AVGN!! I was born in the early 80's and the Saturday morning cartoon ritual was a huge part of my childhood. As an adult I have filled several external hard drives with the complete series of about 99% of the shows mentioned in this video. I love this genuine content, keep up the great work ✌🏼
Saturday morning cartoons in the early 2000s.... the final days of the tradition. It never leaves my memory how me and my brothers would rather get up early to watch cartoons rather than play the ps2, or go outside
If there ever was a society for the preservation of things like Drive-In and Grindhouse theaters, Old Cartoons, Classic Games, etc, I think James should to be its chairman. Thanks for the trip down memory lane as always!
You mentioned Danger Mouse in this video 👍 and thank you for making such an awesome piece here, it took me back to those days where things were more simple. I'm thinking we are probably about the same age since I remember all the shows you mentioned (I'm 43). Also, WWF was on Saturdays and Sundays in the morning!
One of my greatest memories of being a kid during Saturday Mornings was trying to plan out my schedule for the morning... What times everything was on and what shows I would watch at those times. Also, remembering being excited to see what new cartoons might be coming for the new year. I still remember when Saturday Morning cartoons started to die on the big 3 networks when NBC started chopping cartoons off and putting on more news shows. 1991 was basically the last year before they killed things. I remember cause Super Mario World had a cartoon adaption that came out that year along with the really poorly animated 3rd season of Captain N: The Game Master.
James, I do miss the SMC. They were a huge part of my childhood. I usually do my yard work and make repairs on my home on Saturdays. While talking to my peers about the 80s and early 90s.
Anyone between 30-50 absolutely remembers that amazing feeling waking up on Saturday morning grabbing your favorite cereal and sitting in front of the 📺
Looking back, I think Saturday morning cartoons represented freedom: After five grueling days at school, homework, bullies, and chores, you finally had a day to yourself, and what better way to start than by jumping into your favorite worlds and seeing your favorite characters going on new adventures? It was a jump from our mundane reality into worlds of fantasy where anything was possible and your imagination was the limit, and there was no homework or responsibilities to be found.
Def
this 💯
With a big bowl of cereal.
Back then we had so much limited choices, it made you appreciate the show a lot more.
I agree with you 100%
Nothing was as incredible as waking up in the morning knowing it’s saturday and having no homework
Dragon ball z kai
"Nothing was as incredible".
Nothing was as important...lol
Yessss.
I agree
Just ignoring your homework and not doing it
I don't watch a lot of TV anymore, but I think part of what makes it special is it's something happening now. You can't pause it, you can't skip to the next show, it's happening now and you can't go back. And that makes it special.
When I was a kid around 1990 in Norway I hated getting up for school, but for some reason I could easily get up early on Saturdays to watch Swedish dubbed TMNT episodes. Funny how that works.. I even remember it feeling sort of cool that I got up before my parents did, having the living room all to myself for a while and an entire Saturday in front of me..
same here, I had no problem getting up at 7 to watch that three-part Yugioh episode with Arkana.
I was the same way. And it was because we didn't want to go to school, but we absolutely wanted to watch Saturday morning cartoons!
Jadu.. vilka tider :)
And if you lived in the south of Sweden you'd almost certainly be watching Danish cartoons. :D
Those were the days
the fact that a lot of saturday morning cartoons are now coming out with complete box sets on DVD shows how much these impacted us growing up
got to get that nostalgia $$$
And you can watch those box sets on youtube too lol.
Provided that they aren't blocked or taken down (of which Warner Bros., Viacom, and Disney in particular are very strict about).
Are now coming out on DVD? They have been coming out for 20 years or so lol
Unfortunately there are some particular Saturday morning classics that likely won't get such releases. We'll forever cherish Space Cats.
We definitely called them Saturday morning cartoons. We weren’t allowed to watch TV on weekday mornings or Sundays. We also didn’t have cable, so Saturdays were a big deal for us. My favorites were Ninja Turtles, Muppet Babies, Real Ghostbusters, Tiny Toons, X-Men & the Batman reruns. The anti-drug cartoon you spoke about was a big deal to us. I loved seeing all of the characters together. They played it for us in school several years in a row. Great video, awesome memories :)
We're never aware that something might end, but it always does.......and that's when we know just how beautiful it was.
And that you have to fight to keep it alive.
Yuck
You never know what you've got till it's gone.
@@Sirrantsalot I hope news shows, tabloid shows, and reality shows meet the same fate. Then, the normies are will be in for A REAL shock, and it will be glorious.
Yes, :( it must end for worse stuff to appear
Weird as it is, the thing I miss most about live tv is the bumpers and promos. Made watching the new episode feel special, like you were part of an event.
Remember the HBO bumper around the early 2000s? They had that view flying through a city and finally coming out over a lake? I loved that as a kid/teen. It just made it feel like an actual theater or at least got you hyped. Now the HBO bumper is bad static.
Watch the nfl if you miss commercials.
After these messages….. we’ll be riiiiight back!
I especially felt this when watching Adult Swim.
@@larrymoseley6844 I remember those and the claymation dog and something peeking out of a manhole cover or something while they sang "After these messages... We'll be right back!" Now I got to go look up and see if I can find it on UA-cam my memory is fuzzy, I remember claymation something...
There's a sort of charm to being limited in what you can watch. It's the reason why everyone can quote Spongebob, or why everybody was trading Pokemon/Yugioh cards at school. Every Saturday morning, we all experienced the same journey through those shows.
Now with so many shows and streaming services, we're more isolated than ever.
You don't need to wait for anything... Ok a little exegarated but in comparison.
But I hated Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh. The times I watched I can count on one hand.
my school banned pokemon cards
I agree to some extent however I feel like we all still watch all of the same big streaming service shows. Squid Game, Stranger Things, Rings of Power and such. In that way, I still feel connected with people when talking about the same shows.
@@ExtremelyCaffeinated what? and what? and what? never heard of any of those.
@@sheilaolfieway1885 that's a you problem bro, those are all very popular shows
Part of the fun was being able to talk about what happened in your favorite cartoons and anime with your friends at school because all the other children watched them too
That was especially the case with Xmen and Spiderman for me.
I see that as bringing some kind of social cohesion which many people miss today, in a world of infinite choice at your fingertips.
That's something I miss, I have memories still going to school and talking about what was on the day before
Definitely
the 80s and 90s were the best decades to be a kid watching saturday morning cartoons
*2000’s we’re way better than the 80s
Facts
yep
Transformers , he man, thunder cats , voltron
Rank rodent no way hosay ! Thunder cats , transformers , turtles , your turn ?
I am a generation X guy myself (42 years old as of October 2022) and I do remember there was a day off ritual I would do. I grew up in France during the 80s and we had Wednesday off from school and went to school Saturday mornings. Wednesday morning and Saturday afternoon cartoons was a thing. I long for those days when it was simpler. Simplicity made me less anxious.
Your like the last year of the generation x if I'm not mistaken
@@KentPetersonmoney yes I think so.
Do you remember "Le secret des selenites" and "les mondes engloutis"? Clementine? I loved those.
@@antoniopereiraneves2009 Le secret des selenites = I don't remember
Les mondes engloutis = yes. I love that show.
I actually have a large collection of original Saturday morning Cartoons from 1980-1995 taped off TV with the original commercials. They are pure nostalgic gold. Hits you right in the feels.
upload
Back those up! Archives are super important in case something messed up happens and shows become lost media.
Do you realize you have literal historical pieces in your hands? Treat them with care.
i'd totally be down to watch those on youtube
That's so cool. I had done the same thing but didn't keep them. I kick myself for not doing that.
James, thanks for dropping the nostalgia bomb. Those were the days, a bowl of cereal and a morning block of cartoons.
I was born in ‘82, and this was a great nostalgic ride.
Thunder Cats, Transformers, He-man, She-Ra, Gummy Bears, Scooby Doo, Smurfs, Mighty Mouse, Mickey mouse, Fraggle Rock, Garfield, Heath Cliff. We were so lucky to grow up then. After cartoons were over we went outside and played until the sun went down.
Born in 81here
@@christineperez7562 exactly, great times
Valentines day 82 myself. Miss the late 80's and 90's was too young to have an opinion of the early 80's haha
83 checking in. Man, ninja turtles was the best thing about Saturday
This is by far the most nostalgic episode yet. Brought me way back.
This era was awesome, I'm glad to have lived through it.
You said it 💯💯💯
James' ideas come from the heart and that's what makes them truly Special. Greetings from Poland! The CN times in the '90s will always stay with me.
Nostalgia is like a knife sometimes. You think of how things used to be and how happy you used to be and it can feel like someone stabbed you in the gut and it hurts because you know things will never be like that again
That's true Patrick
@That 80's Dude That's true
Because you are holding old experiences instead of living other ones.
The portuguese word "Saudade" serves exactly that purpose: sad nostalgia
The character Don Draper in Mad Men’s famous Carousel pitch scene said it best, comparing nostalgia to the pain from an old wound, and adding that nostalgia is “delicate, but potent.”
I was a bullied, anxious and depressed kid. But every Saturday morning, I was in heaven.
On LSD?
I hope you're okay now! Best wishes to you!
i missed that part where that's my problem
@@Mhats POS
@@rairai8769 Or LDS?
Can’t duplicate the Saturday morning experience. I would plan what I was going to watch. The commercials and PSAs were just as much part of the experience. I sometimes watch UA-cam vids that are recorded 3-4 hour blocks of NBC, ABC, or CBS with commercials and it brings me right back. I was fortunate enough to be in the sweet spot age wise though the 80’s when Saturday morning cartoons were at their peak.
After the cartoons were over for the day, we'd go out on our bikes and explore, or just run around till the street lights came on.
I also watch old recorded cartoons on UA-cam.
Truly miss these times even at 41 I would do almost anything to experience this era again..
43 and right there with you
46, me too my friends.
I'm a little younger at 38. But man I would do anything to go back to those days.
40 I miss it. No internet or smart phones. It was truly a different experience! 👍🏻🇺🇲
approaching 39 and feel the same way. like James said, streaming service and dedicated channels still exist, but they just dont have the same charm. much like my walkman and pogs, some of things are just a generational staple that can't be replaced.
Growing up my dad would also make us pancakes while putting on DVDs of the old Hanna Barbara shows on Saturday morning. There’s something so special about that and I’m glad a lot of parents are passing it down intergenerationally
Id watch that stuff on the bunny ears back in the day. Mostly static untill you added more tin foil to increase the signal 😅😂
The special thing was the pancakes
One of the things I looked most forward to as a kid was getting up on Saturday mornings, getting a bowl of cereal, sitting down in front of my TV, and watching cartoons.
As a 90's kid, Saturday Mornings were basically waking up early, eating pop tarts or cereal, and being quiet for my parents. After the cartoons finished up we'd go play manhunt or some n64.
manhunt!!!!
Once Saturday morning cartoons were done we'd be outside.
My childhood to a T
We played GI Joe in the backyard. Manhunt?!
Oh man manhunt, I remember lots of trespassing with that game lol
Great video. But for me, all I can focus on is the Super Mario Bros Super Show DVD peaking out behind him. 🧱🧱🧱
I’ve been saying this for years. Woke up early to watch shows and you felt like you had that feeling you were all watching it together.
My parents are in their late 70s, and sometimes they watch cartoons in the morning and it's ADORABLE. Great video James! Thanks for making me miss something so badly that I didn't even realize I did.
that is so cute!!!
@@ariblank5351 Agreed!
Saturday morning cartons were so special to me. Waking up at 7am with the promise of pancakes in the morning and ham sandwiches for lunch. I’m sad that those blocks are gone but I will always cherish those days.
The biggest thing about Saturday morning cartoons for us was that we didn’t have cable so it was the only slot that was kid-specific.
Late 80's/early 90's was when I was deep into Saturday morning cartoons. I wouldn't miss an episode of X-Men on Fox
X-men really was a great show. From the intro music on its timeless and well done.
Among the greatest feelings.
The X-Men cartoon is on Disney+, and they're coming out with new episodes.
the 90's batman too! Love seeing throwbacks to the joker paying his taxes because even he wouldn't toy with the IRS
Bada dada den den den
Bada dada den den den
... DEN DEN
Born in '92 I had the tail of saturday morning cartoons. And while I loved them I still associate them with this feeling of my mom and dad being really peeved that I was watching them and wanting me to do something else.
I was born in 1991 so I did as well.
You guys had trash cartoons.
And as we got a little older we were able to be blessed with Toonami. I definitely miss those days -- even though I only had three channels.
Great video. I'm a 3rd grade teacher and just used The Adventures of the Gummi Bears theme song to introduce my class to poetry AND Saturday morning cartoons. Showed them an episode and at least one went home to watch more!
Both Sonic the Hedgehog shows, Batman the animated series, TMNT, and Spider-Man were my favorite animated shows to watch in the morning. The Power Rangers capped off my day before playing Super Mario world. Back then going outside was fun, meeting up with friends and talking about the episodes of cartoons and the newest secret of our favorite games. I miss the 90's.
My uncle worked on sound effects for the Beetlejuice cartoon. His team won an award for it one year.
I remember the foghorn sound effect for the stench when Beetlejuice would take his shoes off
That's cool! I always wondered where the weird sound of Doomy's horn came from.
Thank you for this, James. I appreciate your reverence for '80's nostalgia. My dad passed away this morning and I have been thinking about how comfortable I was growing up in the '80's midwest watching Sat. morning cartoons and waiting for him to get home from work.
In LA, the New Beverly theater still shows Saturday morning cartoons on a weekly basis. Vintage cartoons shown on their original 35mm reels. They even turn the concession stand into a cereal bar, which is really cool.
Woow, cool
For me Saturday mornings were up at the buttcrack of dawn, making myself a big bowl of cereal, and parking in front of the TV until noon, when the last of the cartoons were showing. Nowadays, I go get a bagel or something, come back and pull up a playlist of some favorite toons. Really helps destress after a hard work week.
I remember sometimes I would get up too early and the color test pattern would still be on before the TV station signed on for the broadcast day.
Well said.
In South Africa we also had the Saturday morning cartoon tradition when I was growing up, TMNT and Spiderman were classics. Spiderman was even translated into a traditional language (Zulu) and his name was Rabobi. This clip made me happily nostalgic for simpler times. Thank you
Saturday morning cartoons really were an event at times. I remember when ABC used to make specials prompting the new line up of cartoons that would be dropping. Also felt like a big deal when shows would jump networks like Doug or Gargoyles
I remember TGIF doing the cartoon specials. It was great for sure.
Yes I remember
disney ruined doug
I fondly remember X-Men Saturday mornings. That show’s intro and music were top notch!
They are bringing that back as a direct continuation.
they had a bizarre cartoon show called Mummies Alive! from 0600-0700 on Fox every day when I was little; it was an incentive to get up early. I never understood anything that was happening
I loved Mummies Alive, they taught people about Egypt thru a white school kid who trips over a tomb and unlocked Power Ranger ripoffs or Fantastic 4 knockoffs if you factor superpowers
I know it's not a cartoon but Power Rangers used to come on saturday mornings... that was the show I always woke up for or recorded with a VHS.
It's funny you mention that, I was just watching that on DVD last night. XD
Adventures of sonic and tails where he was obsessed wit chilli dogs
The only thing I didn’t like about only having live tv was that I would sometimes miss some episodes of shows that were two parts or more, resulting in me not knowing what happened in between or missing the ending until the parts I missed were shown as reruns.
Facts I missed a lot of episodes from so many cartoons
in honesty in what show it mattered? except a few twoparter episodes of batman and a couple of others
It's kind of sad to think that we turned off the tv after our cartoons one day and never went back to those shows that used to make us so happy.
We went back. Yes we did. As adults. After years of hardship.
We didn't turn off our TV. The TV slowly took them away.
Now I feel sort of sad in a way.
Also sorta makes me want to look up random shows from when I was a kid.
Interestingly, this makes me realize I haven't watched "normal" TV at all since at least 2016. That makes me feel old. Do TV channels even still exist?
For me Saturday morning cartoons were very much a thing I was aware of growing up. We lived in a rural area, with only 3 channels on the local antenna TV. Those channels didn't really play cartoons during the week, but they definitely did on Saturday mornings. This made the ritual even more poinient at our house. Pancakes were very common too!
Same. We had 3 5 9 24 68. 68 was always the fuzziest and you had to put tinfoil on the antenna lol!
I'm with ya, only difference is I would always eat cold pizza for breakfast on Saturday morning. Every Friday after school my dad would drive us to town (50 min drive) and he would order little caesars and bring us to Mr. Movies. So we always had leftovers.
Best breakfast in the world: cold pizza and pepperoni crazy bread with a big glass of coke!
Pancakes are my friends
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@@aprox23 that is an awesome memory, thank you for sharing.
I am the last generation of experiencing Saturday Morning Cartoons in the 2000's, but still love Cartoon Network.
I remember getting my Grandma to Record Saturday morning cartoons for me every weekend she would get out the tv guide and make me mark witch shows i wanted her to record. I still have VHS's with the 80's &90's cartoons on them.
Anyone remember The Toxic Avenger also had its own cartoon? In retrospect, it's definitely weird that all these R-Rated adult movies had their own kid-friendly cartoon versions. Imagine letting your kid watch Tales From The Crypt thinking it would be like the cartoon, but then being horrified at how graphic the live action show is.
I thought about the Toxic Avenger cartoon the other day! Definitely bizarre. Made me think about the 'action figures' I had growing up - Terminator, Alien and Predator figures which I bought from the local toy store, sure I had watched the films but at that age, definitely inappropriate.
The toon version was Toxic Crusaders
After hearing Kaufman himself on here I can definitely hear a pitch in my head lol
'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' and 'Little Shop of Horrors' as well. I think both aired on FOX.
I remember all my Terminator, Robocop, Alien and Predator toys as a kid, stuff I shouldn’t have been watching at that age!
I also enjoy these retrospective sits downs with James. It has this claiming affect on me hearing his calm, thought-out perspective on his memories, along with a bit of research. I wish this was weekly feature. He's great at it. I'd love to see him do a show about the animation studios. Shows looked so much better in 80's, like Japanese animation style. Fantastic episode, James!
It touches my feels to know so many of us are bonded by doing the same things, having the same type of memories and feelings about these things. Thinking about I wish I knew all of you back then , it would have been a blast.
I have never seen James play pokemon
Here here!
@@happybuttersblast8334 i feel like thats a big thing missing today.
80s cartoons were the best. And 80s anime is my particular favourite style of animation. It's just so wholesome and brings me back to those days of innocence when the world felt exciting and new.
As an 80s kid I still think Saturday is the best day of the week.
I regret that my son hasn't grow up with the awesome things we had in the 80s. Those cartoons were the reason I got up on Saturdays!
Most of us have chorse and Sunday is work and church.
In many markets, at 12 Noon, you know what capped off the Saturday Morning block in the end? *WWF Wrestling,* which back then was a live-action cartoon in and of itself, with its outlandish heroes and villains.
Or PBA bowling
I remember watching wrestling after cartoons
Or kung fu movies.
@@Madbandit77 WGBO 66 Samurai Sunday!
It was just the same here in the UK. One of the best things about Saturday morning cartoons (or even weekday cartoons like TMNT) was talking with your mates about them when you went to school. That shared community again… you’d all watched the same programme and experience and could discuss it. Especially as the Batman, X-Men and Spider-Man cartoon storylines developed
There are multiple different blocks of old Saturday morning cartoons on UA-cam with the commercials left in. Makes me so happy those people hit record on the VCR so many years ago. I missed them badly. Now on with the show
The commercials were such an important part
I watch a streamer on twitch, every once in a while he will watch several older commercials about video game related stuff, watching them back to back you see how an era of culture is captured through advertisements.
@@sofakingonmynuts1438 Are you talking about Vinesauce?
@@Smashlord3 my favorite jabroni Vinny.
This feels like a trip down memory lane. Thanks James!
Those videos are the best! The nostalgic ones.
Love this video for the nostalgia. its crazy how it is applicable through so many decades too! I grew up in the early 90s and watched these exact same cartoons Saturday morning. Really took me back to sitting in front of my parents TV, head in my hands watching Scooby Doo.
I remember Saturdays as either a great day or horrible, and it mostly depended on if I woke up to my moms music vibrating my power rangers off the shelfs. If that happened, I knew it was a day of cleaning and chores. Now that my own kid is on its way, it’s kind of sad realizing Saturday morning cartoons are dead and if I want to reproduce those happy memories with my kid, I have to artificially do it.
This video explains exactly why I wish I was born earlier... or one of the reasons anyway. Too many choices means everyone lives in their own media bubble. Makes it extremely hard to relate to people, as I used media as a way to start conversation. Most people I meet don't know what any of the stuff I enjoy even is. It's very isolating and sad.
Nicely said. I’ve been saying the same thing for years now.
aqua teen hunger force! i like your profile pic! 😃
You’re right man! But that’s what freedom is. You can select to watch whatever you want and you can find anything for everybody.
dude there are forums, communities... and if you meet people of your generation, most likely they grew up watching / listening to / playing the same stuff as you did
Expand your spheres of influence. As an adult cartoons/media shouldn’t be your only form of conversation starters.
One of your best episodes recently. Thanks for the memories and the great ideas at the end!
Just wanted to shout out Svengoolie! Watching him is a staple Saturday evening event that really keeps the nostalgia of programs like Vampira, Joe Bob Briggs, Elvira, etc alive. Go make some stovetop popcorn, grab some drinks, and turn off the lights to enjoy some classic horror movie camp.
And while your at it move to Berwyn!
Isn't Svengoolie Paul Thomas Anderson's dad?
I remember that drug psa cartoon. My teacher played it for us when I was in kindergarten. It struck me with a sense of nostalgia. Id like to watch that again and see it from an adults perspective.
Some you didn't mention... Reboot, Sonic, Mario Bros, Recess and I remember a weird Mighty Ducks cartoon
Definitely part of my childhood. In addition to the cartoons, I also remember WWF wrestling on Saturday mornings. Also, they kept up with Saturday morning cartoons as late as the late 2000s, before the switch to digital TV. I watched the TMNT: Fast Forward, Spider-Man, and Chaotic. Those are the ones I remember, though.
WWF at noon, and The AWA before that at 11am! I miss those days 😞
For me I wasn't allowed to play video games on school days, so Saturday and Sunday were monopolized by the NES and then SNES. But I do get the sentiment, that being Saturday's being special because of no school, staying home, and partaking in a media you enjoyed. I watched cartoons far more frequently during the weekdays, and since a fair amount of the classics ended up on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney (We had cable) I experienced them through that.
Cool
I know someone (age of my parents) who wasn't allowed to watch any child programmes at all. Later they laughed a little because he rewatched Mickey mouse ect as an adult.
Wow, I was just having this exact conversation over the weekend with family and touched upon many of the same points you did. It's sad. My baby will never know the awesomeness that was a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch and sat morning cartoons.
I love that you mentioned the MeTV lineup of Saturday morning cartoons and the great Svengoulie! Those are Saturday traditions in our house.
Yep, still watch Svengoolie myself.
Is he on in the evenings now or is it in the mornings?
Me TV needs to advertise products aimed towards children during their cartoon programs😊
@@littlekingtrashmouth9219 Svengoolie is on Saturday Nights still.
@@booberry349 MeTV is mostly made for nostalgic adults such as myself. They're simply copying the vibe of the big three advertising SMC (Saturday Morning Cartoons).
Oh wow! I didn't realise Muppet Babies has never been released!. That was one of the main staples of my childhood!. Makes me even more glad my mum recorded so many episodes on VHS. James thank you so much for this trip down memory lane
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So many great childhood memories. Glad I was born in ‘82! 🎉
I was born in 81 and I'm glad! I hate this day and age we are in now and I wish I could go back to the 80's or 90's and stay there😔
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I was born in 84. Do remember waking up early back in the 90's to watch ninja turtles. I didn't really watch cartoons much in the 2000's so I have no idea when it ended.
I remember watching Peewee's Playhouse. In that show they always had "The word of the day" and when it was said you had to just scream. I remember watching it early one morning and someone said "the word of the day" and I started screaming and my parents got mad at me because I was yelling so early in the morning, lol
The early version of TikTok
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i miss Saturday morning cartoons, they were awesome in the 80s & 90s
The new gen may not know the struggle if you miss your favourite episodes.
Weak generation
@@crow_g1639 your generation would cream if they could watch their favourite cartoons anytime. Back in the 90s, didnt people download from the Internet?
@@marmedalmond9958 HAHAHAHAHA......just google "56k Modem" and you will have your answer.
Streaming movies and tv shows are becoming the new norm in today's entertainment to the point where cartoons shows on television are becoming the thing of the past. But we will never forget the awesome memories of watching our pasttime cartoon shows from the 80s and 90s.
That's fine.
Cable channels were part of the reason they stopped Saturday morning Blocks, especially when CBS and ABC just showed reruns of cable shows (CBS with Nick Jr. stuff) before they switched to the horrid TV/EI shows and news formats in the late 00's. Streaming only really killed appointment television.
That's ok
And that’s ok. Sometimes we can recreate it with streaming which may not feel same but honestly it’s what we could do
It misses out on some subtle but memorable things like trying to rush back to the living room as the commercials are ending.
For me, as a kid in the early 2000s, every after school day was cartoon day.
Man I absolutely love when you do these videos or when you delve into what it was like playing old video games like contra.
It takes me right back to being a little kid and a teenager and means so much so sincerely thank you!
An idea so simple. When I have my children, I’ll show them the shows I watched on Saturdays so they can understand how special those times were. Thanks so much for this
The innocence of waking up to your favorite cereal and Saturday cartoons 😩
we were happy and we didn't knew
What cereals did you eat while watching Saturday morning cartoons? I had Cocoa Pebbles, Captn Krunch Berries or Fruit Loops usually
@@murraysaucedo897I loved the Nintendo cereal, Mr.T, fruit loops and Batman & Ninja Turtles. Still got my Batman bank that came with the cereal along with my Ninja Turtles bowl that came with the cereal.
What a huge part of childhood. You really know how to quantify the experience.
I found it interesting that Lorenzo Music (originally) voiced Bill Murray's character in the Real Ghostbusters, and then Bill Murray voiced Lorenzo Music's character in the Garfield movies.
Story has it that bill murray took the Garfield roll by accident as he thought it was a cohen brothers movie, which makes the premise even funnier.
I always thought that was intentional, as it seemed too coincidental to have been an accident.
@@adamatomic41 I can't find any proof that it was. I think it would have been a lovely tribute if that were so.
I also remember at the end of the morning lineup, there would be either Beakman's World, Bill Nye The Science Guy, WWF Superstars, or it would go right into some sports coverage. We didn't get TV Guide, so I never knew if some Olympics or other sports coverage would ruin my Saturday morning cartoons for the day lol
Back in the day where you had 0 knowledge of things & it was a hassle to pick up a tv guide or one that came in the newspapers on Saturdays. I wish my D.V.R existed back than so I can record every cartoon instead of having a VHS with tapes recording like 6-8 hours with very limited channels. I remember at 1 point I didn't want to get up in the morning to watch the Saturday cartoons because it was a huge hassle just getting up.
Saved by the bell, Soul train, Wwf superstars and old school karate movies were also a great part of Saturday mornings!!
My childhood consisted of waiting for Saturday for that next X-Men episode. Being a kid in that late 80s early 90s was the funk!
Previously…on X Men….
I missed so many episodes of X-men due to it being around 10-11 and I went to play soccer. So many cliffhangers I never knew what ended up happening.
In the early 80's it was Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Iceman and Firestar.
I asked my nephew (9 years old) a few years ago if he knew what "Saturday Morning Cartoons" were. He looked confused, asked me to repeat myself several times, and said, "I have no idea what that means." I felt myself age 80 years when he said that.
As someone who didn't grow up with cable, I lived for weekday afternoon cartoons and Saturday Morning cartoons. In my teen years, they ended weekday afternoon cartoons (except for PBS), and when I was 18 (2010), they did away with Saturday Morning Cartoons. It officially capped my childhood
Well that's because future generations didn't grow up watching cartoons on Saturday if they don't have cable
I remember weekday afternoon cartoons. I always had to run home from school to catch my favorite cartoons.
All the channels that had Saturday morning cartoons were on antenna(except WB, maybe) AND cable.
I was telling my nephew (in his 20s) about Buck Rogers just the other day. I don't mind feeling old if I can pass on the knowledge!
Anyone remember “Pro Stars”? A cartoon where Micheal Jordan, Bo Jackson, and Wayne Gretzky were superheroes.
No
I remember it. In very early elementary school. They portrayed Michael Jordan as being the genius or the intelligent one of the group. Sort of like Donatello in TMNT!
Loved that show
Yessir
Great theme tune
Even in the 2000s there were Saturday morning cartoons. They weren't on cable, but I used to watch some when I was a kid.
That era was the best era, the shows were genuine and not just toy commercials
@@NeverSaySandwich1 💯💯💯👍
Yes this is exactly what I just commented lol. I used to watch like Sonic X, and Yu-gi-oh 5ds on CW4kids
Cable had the WB, Fox, ABC, etc. You got the regular channels too.
James talks about the shared community aspect of ever kid having watched the same programs due to accessibility and how much that turned out to be meaningful, and it sort of reminds me how so many animation fans have grown up to follow Japanese anime releases on a weekly basis. Most anime fans want to see their favorite shows as they release episode by episode so they can be a part of the conversation online.
So in a way that sort of shared viewing lives on in other places.
Weekly? Oh man... I grew up with the sheer dumb luck of finding the one video rental store in the neighbourhood that actually had a few Streamline VHS tapes!
I have box sets of all favs like The Real Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice cartoons. I've been sharing these memories with my now 16 year old daughter since she was a toddler and still loves watching them with me. She brags to her friends whom don't experience the same from their parents and it's a shame. We should always create our Saturday mornings and share them. I'm really happy you do too, Bro.
This video was so enjoyable, it put my into a zen like state of familiar comfort. I truly believe if James has been a presenter on mainstream tv back in the day he would be considered a national treasure. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The ones I remember in a block every Saturday were, Garfield and friends, my pet monster, pound puppies, real ghostbusters and a claymation show that I think was called the trap door. Eventually they added captain power and the soldiers of the future as well.
Great times, I would get up before everyone else in the household just to watch every Saturday.
Trap door was awesome.
Thanks AVGN!! I was born in the early 80's and the Saturday morning cartoon ritual was a huge part of my childhood. As an adult I have filled several external hard drives with the complete series of about 99% of the shows mentioned in this video. I love this genuine content, keep up the great work ✌🏼
Saturday morning cartoons in the early 2000s.... the final days of the tradition. It never leaves my memory how me and my brothers would rather get up early to watch cartoons rather than play the ps2, or go outside
The PS2? I hardly play that. I play PS4.
@@tonyp9313 PS2 is the GOAT
james is such a great storyteller
Yes! I wholeheartedly agree!
I agree
Your channels great too
Yes he is!! I've loved his takes on movies, cartoons and the like for many years now.
^_^
@@GymnasticsCoach83 Me to
I loved Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. As a kid who grew up without cable it was great to be able to watch a decent selection of cartoons
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Not to mention with your favorite cereals!
If there ever was a society for the preservation of things like Drive-In and Grindhouse theaters, Old Cartoons, Classic Games, etc, I think James should to be its chairman. Thanks for the trip down memory lane as always!
You mentioned Danger Mouse in this video 👍 and thank you for making such an awesome piece here, it took me back to those days where things were more simple. I'm thinking we are probably about the same age since I remember all the shows you mentioned (I'm 43). Also, WWF was on Saturdays and Sundays in the morning!
From what I recall it wasn't wrestling...it was high lights of what happened the week prior. It was still great watching it though
Fantastic episode Thanks James!
One of my greatest memories of being a kid during Saturday Mornings was trying to plan out my schedule for the morning... What times everything was on and what shows I would watch at those times. Also, remembering being excited to see what new cartoons might be coming for the new year.
I still remember when Saturday Morning cartoons started to die on the big 3 networks when NBC started chopping cartoons off and putting on more news shows. 1991 was basically the last year before they killed things. I remember cause Super Mario World had a cartoon adaption that came out that year along with the really poorly animated 3rd season of Captain N: The Game Master.
It ended when Disneys one saturday mornings, and that new lineup. That's when TGIF died too, after family matters was gone
James, I do miss the SMC. They were a huge part of my childhood. I usually do my yard work and make repairs on my home on Saturdays. While talking to my peers about the 80s and early 90s.
Loved this one. Warm with nostalgia now. You captured the essense of being a 90s kid and the joys of it perfectly.
Anyone between 30-50 absolutely remembers that amazing feeling waking up on Saturday morning grabbing your favorite cereal and sitting in front of the 📺