Sephiroth
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 28, 2014 17:54:18 GMT -5
Can we stick to reminiscing about Saturday morning cartoons and not launching into some social commentary that will result in this thread getting locked?
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Sept 28, 2014 18:29:09 GMT -5
On a side note, in addition to Vortexx ending yesterday morning, Beware the Batman (which started out as a SatAM show for Cartoon Network) aired the last of its unaired episodes last night on Toonami. I'm sad to see it go, I really stared to get into it around the Ra's Al Ghul three-parter. Ended with a couple of unfinished plots (evil Sapphire Stagg, Bruce and Ava's romance, Bruce is still presumed dead by the general public, etc.) and I'm really curious to see where the whole Outsiders story would've gone.
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Post by Red Impact on Sept 28, 2014 21:15:35 GMT -5
On a side note, in addition to Vortexx ending yesterday morning, Beware the Batman (which started out as a SatAM show for Cartoon Network) aired the last of its unaired episodes last night on Toonami. I'm sad to see it go, I really stared to get into it around the Ra's Al Ghul three-parter. Ended with a couple of unfinished plots (evil Sapphire Stagg, Bruce and Ava's romance, Bruce is still presumed dead by the general public, etc.) and I'm really curious to see where the whole Outsiders story would've gone. I never watched Beware the Batman, it just seems like they reboot animated Batman every other year for the sake of it, and I still haven't gotten over Cartoon Network canceling Young Justice and the way that ended.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Sept 28, 2014 21:51:04 GMT -5
So I went on a bit of a kick watching some of the shows I remember from my childhood. I noticed that they must not have cared about music rights. Turbo Teen in particular used popular songs in the back round,without lyrics,but it was clearly Beat It and I'm So Excited. MASK wasn't as obvious but they used the drum fill from Money for Nothing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2014 22:02:00 GMT -5
With Cartoon Network and the like, I can't say that I really miss Saturday morning animation. I suppose I miss a few of the things they used to show, but times change and mass media has to change with it. This is just me, but I'm fine with Cartoon Network and what they show now. If it wasn't for them going to the well with Scooby-Doo movies and new Tom & Jerry cartoons during the weekdays, I'm pretty sure I could have that channel on all day and whatever is on at any given time would be better than 99 percent of other TV shows being broadcast at the same time.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Sept 29, 2014 4:14:09 GMT -5
So I went on a bit of a kick watching some of the shows I remember from my childhood. I noticed that they must not have cared about music rights. Turbo Teen in particular used popular songs in the back round,without lyrics,but it was clearly Beat It and I'm So Excited. MASK wasn't as obvious but they used the drum fill from Money for Nothing. You should check out Kidd Video sometime. It would take an act of God for that to get an official DVD release.
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wisdomwizard
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Post by wisdomwizard on Sept 29, 2014 8:05:15 GMT -5
I don't want this thread to go off-topic anymore than Sephiroth, so I'll just say that the reason Saturday Morning Cartoons ended was because the broadcast stations think that cartoons are just "kid's stuff" and just wanted to be rid of them, not because of "soccer moms" or the FCC. That's all I'm going to say about it.
For what it's worth, I've heard there are some users on YouTube who have their own Saturday Mourning playlists, so anyone here can always check those out.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Sept 29, 2014 9:59:43 GMT -5
How is a discussion about what lead to the demise of the Saturday morning cartoon block off topic on a thread about the last airing of the same. Secondly what could possibly be against the rules?
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 29, 2014 11:24:43 GMT -5
It's a shame yes, that it is no more, and moreso that it ended with a whimper. But that's the point...IT ENDED WITH A WHIMPER, so this moment was inevitable. It's not like there was any really good block still in existence in recent years, and Vortexx lost its meaning to me when I finished Spectacular Spider-Man. (I guess also if you wanted to re-live JLU, a bowdlerized JLU but JLU nonetheless)
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Post by mattperiolat on Sept 29, 2014 11:34:17 GMT -5
Sit down, children, and permit me to show you when you could get up on a Saturday, be entertained and educated at the same time. And it was glorious. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_e24kdjdbtw
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Sept 29, 2014 13:11:37 GMT -5
I'm not so much sad about the end of saturday morning cartoons as it is pretty much the end of cartoons in general on free network tv(keyword "free") aside from PBS Kids.
I just used to have good memories of coming home from a hard day of school and kicking back watching Pokemon, Digimon, Sam & Max, Animaniacs, Jackie Chan Adventures, Static Shock, and more. I didn't have the luxury of cable or the internet well until about 2008/9 and even now it's still a struggle just to keep up with the cable/internet bill. And cable/internet or not this still means less choices. So I guess my past experience being dirt poor is probably why this doesn't sit well for me.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Sept 29, 2014 19:41:51 GMT -5
I miss the Saturday Morning cereal commercials that would all end with an announcer telling us that "------" was part of a balanced breakfast complete with the image next to a plate of eggs,bacon,an orange, a banana and some orange juice.
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 30, 2014 11:45:35 GMT -5
So yeah, starting the last of Beware the Batman: {Spoiler} Killer Croc AND Man-Bat! And a Penguin reference, and a vague Catwoman one...though of course she was not a mutant cat person, unless you count the "cat zombie" portrayal in the Tim Burton universe. Wonder if they would have eased into using the better-known villains had the series continued? That on top of "J. Jonah" Dent being around...will have to keep watching to see if they give us Two-Face at the last moment somehow....
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 30, 2014 11:48:52 GMT -5
So I went on a bit of a kick watching some of the shows I remember from my childhood. I noticed that they must not have cared about music rights. Turbo Teen in particular used popular songs in the back round,without lyrics,but it was clearly Beat It and I'm So Excited. MASK wasn't as obvious but they used the drum fill from Money for Nothing. You should check out Kidd Video sometime. It would take an act of God for that to get an official DVD release. Think Rubik the Amazing Cube used real songs, in instrumental form, too. And didn't an episode of Q*bert on Saturday Supercade use "Beat It"? (I am just going by that being mentioned in the Arcade Fever book) Later on, the DiC Nintendo shows had covers or knockoffs of real songs, all have been gone since syndication of course. Didn't Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling do the same?
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