Fellow Oldheads remember getting up early Saturday mornings (before our parents got up) eating a bowl of cereal and watching the wild assortment of cartoons. Before Nickelodeon The Cartoon Network and Boomerang there was only channel 3,6 and 10 to see all the cartoons. The Saturday Morning cartoon line-ups were so serious that they would have prime time specials announcing what would be coming to Saturday mornings. There was something for everyone from The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, The Snorks, The Smurfs etc . The other aspect of the Saturday Morning cartoon structure was that all of the celebrities seemed to have their own cartoon. There was New Kids on the Block, Gary Coleman, The Bionic Globetrotters and even M.C. Hammer has a cartoon. If the structure was the same on Saturday mornings in this day and age we would be watching "The Kardashians Cartoon, Kanye West Cartoon The Honey Boo Boo Cartoon and maybe even "The Puff Daddy Take That Take That Cartoon Hour"
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SHOUTS OUT TO Terri B for the comment
ReplyDeleteOld Skool Saturday Mornings...wow does that bring back memories. I definitely remember waking up before my parents. My younger brother and I. Saturday mornings were perhaps the best day of the week. I remember watching all of the cartoons and of course wrestling..who could forget that. We swore up and down it was real. Also my favorite saturday morning cartoon or show was Isis. Thanks Chuck for bringing back those great old skool saturday morning memories.
Terri B. - Norristown, PA (orginally from Philly)