What happened to Sat. morning cartoons?

Walks Backward

Walks Backward

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ACME dynamite, Bugs and Daffy taking on everybody. And Yosemite Sam, my alter ego, blastin' varmints everywhere. Johnny Quest. Beanie & Cecil. Crusader Rabbit. Popeye. Rocky & Bullwinkle. Where did they all go. When we got a tv, big cab with tubes and a picture tube about 12" across, we were the envy of our area. Kids from all over showed up to watch the cartoons on Sat morning. Even in the mid 80's there were still some on the air. Then, without notice, they were gone.

No doubt the cartoons were found to be too violent, politically incorrect, or displayed too much patriotism and the libitards demanded their removal so children wouldn't see Bugs Bunny defeat evil Nazis with the American flag in the background. But yeah, I miss Popeye whipping the snot outta the badguys. And the Roadrunner? What a bird with ole Wilie Coyote always in constant pursuit......

Ok, you can now post 15 million YouTube videos of cartoons now. But if anyone has any real data on the removal of the Sat morning cartoons, I'd like to hear it. Kids haven't changed that much have they? Or am I just an out of touch old man that misses a piece of Americana that's fallen by the wayside?
 
Loved the old Saturday morning cartoons.Johnny Quest was a favorite. How bout evening programming like the Rat Patrol and Time Tunnel,Voyage to the bottom of the sea ? Ya i miss those days.Everyone got there fvcking nose in a Tablet or Cell phone now.
 
I think the cable channels have monopolized cartoons with the cartoon channels, while local networks have forsaken us.
The good news is we can watch them all day now.
Cartoon Network & NickToons are a couple of the biggies.
 
cartoon network before that you watched till---10 or MAYBE 11 a.m. then cartoons where off and you went OUTSIDE .......till dark....

kids today do not know what "go play outside" means ---- they wonder around the yard trying to find a WIFI signal.....
 
Before my time, there were very awful racist versions of many cartoons. Absolutely horrible, many on youtube. Even Tom and Jerry, Bugs.
 
Chubbles said:
Before my time, there were very awful racist versions of many cartoons. Absolutely horrible, many on youtube. Even Tom and Jerry, Bugs.
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They were just what was going on at the time...still very funny to me, especially the WWII cartoons where there lay into Hitler and Tojo!
 
In the early 50's, when we would go to town, my mother would take us to the movies. We'd see the feature film, a newsreel, and a couple cartoons. Then when at the trading post, the old man there would tune in to one of the two tv stations he could get and play cartoons on Sat morning for us kids. Later, when we had a tv, our house was filled with kids watching cartoons as mom fixed us Koolaid. We were one of five houses with electricity, and the only one with a tv. The antenna reached 35 feet into the air I think. We got two stations, and three on clowdy days. Gillette razor co. sponsored the boxing programs and my father and friends would gather to watch the fights. They would smoke cigars and cigarettes, eat sandwichs my mother would make, and drink coffee or Coke in a bottle. I'd gather the bottles for the deposit and buy arrows at the feed store. It was a simplier time and the cartoons were a small part of life that I miss today. Tom Terrific and his mighty dog, Manfred with Tom wearing a funnel for a hat. My big malmute male dog's name is Manfred and he accompanies me on my adventures into to the woods. He lets me know of danger like his cartoon counterpart did for Tom, 60 years ago. Only I don't wear a funnel for a hat.:coffee:
 
Oh yea, I'd watch cartoons like underdog, then some Little Rascals. Then it was outside all day. My neighbor has four kids, and I never see them outside. Ever!

We used to build forts. Loved it. Don't think kids build forts these days.
 
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