Saturday Morning Tribute

Here's a homage to the best of what children of the 1980s were watching on Saturday Mornings. Hope you enjoy it, as it nearly cost me my life to create. *Note to self: Stay AWAY from Windows Movie Maker in the future.*

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• cartoons
• saturday
• morning
• 1980s
• 80s
• animation
• nostalgia
• abc
• cbs
• nbc
• bumper
• psa
• retro
• genx

[eracguy]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Nope, not a Saturday thing, was a syndicated show. I know this as I was done with Saturday morning cartoons by the mid 80's. I got too "big" for that. Still a nice little homage to that time.

[xreddragonx]

@eracguy Yes it premiered as a syndicated show. TMNT is more or less an "honorary" inclusion, since it premiered in the late 80s, but missed Saturday Morning placement (via CBS) by one year. It's hard to not make a connection in my mind to 80s Saturday Morning when I think of that show, so, it's good enough for me.

See also: Fido Dido (@3:31, 1990 CBS bumper).

[deejayziggy]

what is that cat at the beginning? i have been looking for that cat show forever! lol i cant think how to spell his name ol g remor or something keeps popping in my head

[thebest12345]

This brings back a lot of good memories. I always looked forward to Saturday mornings

for the variety of cartoons. Nowadays, the programmings have no quality and does not

make any sense.

[MagnaderAlpha]

Good times! Kinda sad. I took a gander at what they air NOW during Saturday mornings, and it's sad to see that kids nowadays get mostly Cable TV runoff. A lot of Cable shows are being put into the time slots in a "hand-me-down" type of fashion. Kids are basically getting second hand programming.

[masterbeaner]

Where are all the good cartoons nowadays for Saturday mornings? Magination blows... hey kids let watch animated witchcraft, Yu gi oh blows so hard... monsters came out of a card and fought each other as we sat here and got fatter... so on and etc. for the lifelessly dull crap these poor kids watch.

[masterbeaner]

Just realized why i grew up to become a graphic designer... because I grew up with GREAT, imaginative Saturday Morning cartoons, animations, designs, and innovations that blew my mind out of reality, and way out of "thinking outside the box"!

[osaji922]

@ccipollini1984 not only do they not make good cartoons but they don't air them as a special block. A lot of the time I'll see a new cartoon air on my tv guide and I'll say "really? they're just going to throw a new episode on like that out of the blue?" That's weird for me. They need a saturday morning block and not just run reruns in the morning. It needs to be dignified as an actual saturday morning block to make it feel special and can't miss but I know they'll never do it. They're dumb

[osaji922]

@ccipollini1984 It's not the kids' fault. They cant help being born when they're born. Hell, I would have wanted to be born myself but I'm blessed that I watched everything my older brothers and sisters watched making '92 not so bad. I blame the executives and the FCC. The FCC has to be fought over making the 3 networks put on educational programming on saturdays. Then I have t blame the cable networks. Okay so cartoon network, nickelodeon, and disney have cartoons but they don't make good ones

[osaji922]

@buckfeel else sucked on there. It wasn't even mediocre bad. It was just bad but I appreciate what Fox and 4kids did during that period of time. Unfortunately right now they're looking like the Fox kids of the late 90's early '00s and they're bankrupt. I think it's called toonzai now. They reair the terrible Sonic X episodes and other strictly japanese animated programming that sucks. It is what it is. You enjoyed a small part of good programming before it ended. Consider yourself lucky

[osaji922]

@buckfeel that's was what's up. I remember the 90's era tv since I was born in '92. I remember the sat. mornings back in at least '93 on up. So around the short hiatus in between '01 and '03 Fox thankfully revived it with their FOX BOX and then 4 kids and then CW4kids. I liked it. It had the 90's style of programming but the only problem they had was getting good shows. TMNT up until before the fast forward years in '06 was good. Kramp Twins was good. Spectacular Spiderman was good. Everything

[osaji922]

@eracguy you can never be too "big" for cartoons