Today is the last day Saturday Morning Cartoons will be played on Broadcast Tv in USA

[biggboye5000]

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is school house rock still playing on any of those channels?

Probably but I couldn't really tell you. In the age of Netflix and all that I am sure the series is available online or on DVD. I watch a lot of stuff that way including old classic TV shows.

 

[xspade7]

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the era ended around the early 90s when the networks decided not to air whole blocks of cartoons on saturday morning

now its just nature shows, news shows and cartoons for toddlers.

cable killed the kids day

Fuck Cable glad we have internet streamers they'll get none of my money (except for internet)

 

[biggboye5000]

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peace

Don't feel bad as a lot of the stuff we caught in the 70s obviously was carried over from the 60s. I was too young to recall TennTuxedo & the kids/1st one but WaitTilYoufFather was only on prime time in the 70s like how they tried this in the 80s

Yeah Wait Till Your father Gets Home was in prime time. They tried to capitalize off of the Flintstones which I believe was prime time in the 60s. Of course The Simpsons succeeded wildly at it in the late 80s early 90s with their stuff starting from The Tracey Ullman Show.

Kid Power I ONLY remember because of the song and the dance the kids performed. That stuck in my head and me and my lil sis would copy their dance from the opening credits.

Lotta great songs and jingles from those shows back then both cartoon and sitcom.

Interesting i found out the cartoonist behind Kid Power which was directly derived from the Wee Pals comic strip was a black man Morrie Turner who passed just this year at 95.

 

[Blu Diablo]

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It's not that kids don't have choices and programming these days, the problem is that they've convinced us that it's normal to pay for shit that used to be FREE.

 

[geechiedan]

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Probably but I couldn't really tell you. In the age of Netflix and all that I am sure the series is available online or on DVD. I watch a lot of stuff that way including old classic TV shows.

Fuck Cable glad we have internet streamers they'll get none of my money (except for internet)

thats what missing..the big event shared experience we all used to have. Thats what made saturday morning cartoons so special. We ALL saw the same thing at the same time and could talk about it and learn from it. Thats what you get with sporting events right? 80 thousand people in the same building experience the same happening. Thats why movie theater's still exist in the age of streaming and recordable television...people still want and NEED that shared experience.

Oldheads..remember the week Roots was on tv..

or the last episode of MASH..

or that episode of the Cosby show where they first lipsynced that Ray Charles song

remember we ALL talked about that shit at work and school the next day...if those things happened today they'd only be a fraction as big as they were back then..and thats what made saturday morning cartoons so great..you knew that everyone in your class was seeing the same thing at the same time..technological advancement is great but the cost is it killing that large social interaction.

 

[Blu Diablo]

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thats what missing..the big event shared experience we all used to have. Thats what made saturday morning cartoons so special. We ALL saw the same thing at the same time and could talk about it and learn from it. Thats what you get with sporting events right? 80 thousand people in the same building experience the same happening. Thats why movie theater's still exist in the age of streaming and recordable television...people still want and NEED that shared experience.

Oldheads..remember the week Roots was on tv..

or the last episode of MASH..

or that episode of the Cosby show where they first lipsynced that Ray Charles song

remember we ALL talked about that shit at work and school the next day...if those things happened today they'd only be a fraction as big as they were back then..and thats what made saturday morning cartoons so great..you knew that everyone in your class was seeing the same thing at the same time..technological advancement is great but the cost is it killing that large social interaction.

Excellent point.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

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thats what missing..the big event shared experience we all used to have. Thats what made saturday morning cartoons so special. We ALL saw the same thing at the same time and could talk about it and learn from it. Thats what you get with sporting events right? 80 thousand people in the same building experience the same happening. Thats why movie theater's still exist in the age of streaming and recordable television...people still want and NEED that shared experience.

Oldheads..remember the week Roots was on tv..

or the last episode of MASH..

or that episode of the Cosby show where they first lipsynced that Ray Charles song

remember we ALL talked about that shit at work and school the next day...if those things happened today they'd only be a fraction as big as they were back then..and thats what made saturday morning cartoons so great..you knew that everyone in your class was seeing the same thing at the same time..technological advancement is great but the cost is it killing that large social interaction.

that got me every time you hear the announcer(or sometimes the show's stars) say"(Show title) will not be seen tonight,but will return next week at its regular time."

*annoucer suddenly has a serious tone in his voice*

"BUT NOW.. PREPARE YOURSELF..for a special television event!!" heard this before the premieres of V(original miniseries),Roots,The Day After or the broadcast tv showings of Jaws,Superman The Movie or any of the earlier Bond films

 

[ShortyCumStain]

the era ended around the early 90s when the networks decided not to air whole blocks of cartoons on saturday morning

now its just nature shows, news shows and cartoons for toddlers.

cable killed the kids day

You make a point there.

 

[doug777]

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[ThaBurgerPimp]

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this video pretty much sums it up..also agreed with the comments

 

[Upgrade Dave]

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thats what missing..the big event shared experience we all used to have. Thats what made saturday morning cartoons so special. We ALL saw the same thing at the same time and could talk about it and learn from it. Thats what you get with sporting events right? 80 thousand people in the same building experience the same happening. Thats why movie theater's still exist in the age of streaming and recordable television...people still want and NEED that shared experience.

Oldheads..remember the week Roots was on tv..

or the last episode of MASH..

or that episode of the Cosby show where they first lipsynced that Ray Charles song

remember we ALL talked about that shit at work and school the next day...if those things happened today they'd only be a fraction as big as they were back then..and thats what made saturday morning cartoons so great..you knew that everyone in your class was seeing the same thing at the same time..technological advancement is great but the cost is it killing that large social interaction.

Good point but there are shows that capture the nation's imagination like "Scandal" or series finales of popular shows that rival the buzz of those old shows.

the era ended around the early 90s when the networks decided not to air whole blocks of cartoons on saturday morning

now its just nature shows, news shows and cartoons for toddlers.

Apparently, that's where the money is for local networks.


I've always been more concerned at the lack of cartoons on broadcast tv during the week after school. It's telling that "Thundercats" and "GI Joe" have been replaced with The Steve Wilkos Show and Maury. That's what's on tv when kids get home now.

 

[playahaitian]

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thats what missing..the big event shared experience we all used to have. Thats what made saturday morning cartoons so special. We ALL saw the same thing at the same time and could talk about it and learn from it. Thats what you get with sporting events right? 80 thousand people in the same building experience the same happening. Thats why movie theater's still exist in the age of streaming and recordable television...people still want and NEED that shared experience.

Oldheads..remember the week Roots was on tv..

or the last episode of MASH..

or that episode of the Cosby show where they first lipsynced that Ray Charles song

remember we ALL talked about that shit at work and school the next day...if those things happened today they'd only be a fraction as big as they were back then..and thats what made saturday morning cartoons so great..you knew that everyone in your class was seeing the same thing at the same time..technological advancement is great but the cost is it killing that large social interaction.

good post

 

[biggboye5000]

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this video pretty much sums it up..also agreed with the comments

Great nostalgic memories.

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