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Post by abjordans on Sept 9, 2015 8:14:27 GMT -5
Only way to start this thread That's literally the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. Here's some I remember watching: - Pound Puppies - Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show - Garfield and Friends - Muppet Babies - Pee Wee's Playhouse - Camp Candy - TMNT - The Real Ghostbusters - Punky Brewster (the cartoon with the weird alien) - Alf: The Animated Series - Captain N: The Gamemaster - Beetlejuice - Flintstones Kids You and I must be around the same age. Those were the shows that molded me as well.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Sept 9, 2015 8:19:23 GMT -5
Here's a All in the Family theme song parody me and Room J. Temperature made a year ago after CW ended Vortex.
Boy the way Holograms played Cereal that made the commercial break. Kids like us we had it made, Those were the days.
And you knew the lineup then, Mice had Brains and Bats were men, Mister we could use a toon Like Animaniacs again.
Didn't need no Spongebob state, Every channel pulled its weight. Gee our old TV antenna came in clear. Those were the days.
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Post by Malcolm on Sept 9, 2015 11:11:23 GMT -5
My local fox station used to aired the first 13 episodes after the fox kids block on saturday. So did mine. Except replace local Fox station with local WB station and replace Fox Kids block with Kids WB block. Same thing, though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2015 11:36:40 GMT -5
I would scoff when cartoons would build up something as a big "event you've all been waiting for" (before I just gave up paying attention to what channels were running in regards to cartoons, save a few exceptions). But I'll be damned if the Kanto Pokemon League and the Battle City finals didn't seem like the Saturday morning's edition of Wrestlemania 3. I always loved it when on Monday at school, we'd all discuss the episodes and it would eventually turn into us trying to do a critical breakdown of why our Pokemon team or Yu-Gi-Oh deck would win in those situations. I even had classmates that would start with Charmander and run a Butterfree and Pikachu because of Ash, and I'd run a team to counterpoint that. Lo and behold, I come to find out (when I'd already stopped watching the show and playing the game) that Gary's team was very similar to mine (Arcanine, Nidoqueen, Blastoise, etc.) I have a few more memories of when I was younger than that, but that's when my "Saturday Morning" watching was at it's peak. I'd even work it into my routine of watching WCW Main Event right into WWF Livewire. Once those went off the air, it was ALL cartoons. I'd channel hop, but much to the dismay of some of you, I'd avoid ABC like the plague. I dunno why, but I was always much more interested in what Fox Kids was running (as difficult as it was to follow X-Men or their other shows) and then would hop to CBS. But I don't remember thinking anything on ABC was "gotta see", whether it was ABC Saturday Morning or "One Saturday Morning". I was even a huge Sonic the Hudgehog fan but enjoyed "The Adventures Of..." more than "SATAM". Though I do remember when they debuted One Saturday Morning by having it run Friday night in place of TGIF. I thought that was neat, and I was interested in watching "BSN Doug" (that sounds so dirty) but that was it. My local fox station used to aired the first 13 episodes after the fox kids block on saturday. So did mine. Except replace local Fox station with local WB station and replace Fox Kids block with Kids WB block. Same thing, though. We had a channel here in Kansas City that ran it at, like, 5 AM Saturdays. But I recall watching the first saga and the World Tournament on there. Plus the intro was different than that...I don't recall that being the one that ran here. They eventually carried Dragonball Z and ran it on Sunday mornings around 9:30, which my mom would let me watch before we left for church if I got ready quick enough. They ran those up to the first couple of episodes of the Frieza Saga until Toonami got a hold of it. When me and a couple friends of mine saw Resurrection F in theaters, we ended up getting tickets on a Saturday morning because that was what worked for all of us due to work schedules. As we were sitting there waiting, it hit me that we were watching a major event in one of our all-time favorite animated shows on the big screen. It was like the ultimate realization of a Saturday morning, right down to the snack cakes (we never did sugary cereals at our house, my dad didn't like any of them, so we just did Little Debbie's or Hostess snacks).
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 9, 2015 11:44:47 GMT -5
How can we not mention Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2015 11:56:29 GMT -5
How can we not mention Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue? That was before my time, though I would've recognized most of the toons from stuff that ran during the weekday. I remember when I first heard about it I thought "Ya know, if that had come on when I was around 8 or 9, I wouldn't have cared that it was an anti-drug PSA", and I probably would've forgotten that it ever was. I just always think it's funny that people crap on it when most of the people that do (some of you posting 80s toon stuff would probably not apply to this generalization) seem like they were probably too young to care so much about it. Now in my Kids WB and nothing else age (when they ran Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh and all their other stuff), it would've bothered me. But I always find it funny when they say they watched it when they were 7-9 or whatever and they felt THEN that it was the modern-day "Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine".
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Post by rocket on Sept 9, 2015 18:28:57 GMT -5
How can we not mention Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue? Oh lord, that was something. Seeing all those scans reminded me of the one for NBC's final year: ![](http://i.imgur.com/AGKzUiD.jpg) This aired in syndication and is apparently not liked, but I thought it was funny when it aired:
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Post by MrElijah on Sept 9, 2015 22:45:21 GMT -5
How can we not mention Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue? Oh lord, that was something. Seeing all those scans reminded me of the one for NBC's final year: ![](http://i.imgur.com/AGKzUiD.jpg) This aired in syndication and is apparently not liked, but I thought it was funny when it aired: And after: "Don't bother checking what's on NBC, they've stopped airing cartoons!" Garfield and Friends pulled no punches.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 0:07:12 GMT -5
I was so pumped for the premiere of Medabots, and was so afraid I'd oversleep and miss it, that I stayed up from Friday night to Saturday afternoon. To this day, I do not know why I was that excited for Medabots.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 10, 2015 1:22:28 GMT -5
Thanks for this pic in particular. A few years ago I found an "Ark II" DVD set on sale and I hadn't heard of it before, so I was going to go home and look it up online... and I couldn't remember the damn name of the show. And when I went back to the store to look again, I couldn't find the damn DVD set. It bugged me for years. And now that I'm looking it up, it's out of print and around $200 in the US (and around $200 CDN used in Canada).
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Sept 10, 2015 17:05:29 GMT -5
Three f***ing pages and nobody has mentioned the USA Cartoon Express?! Come on! LAFF-A-LYMPICS, GOD DAMMIT!!!
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Sept 11, 2015 6:27:39 GMT -5
As a kid I mostly watched Fox Kids, along with NBC's assorted teen sitcoms.
I also watched DragonBall Z (only the Frieza Saga) and Voltron: the Third Dimension (Tim Curry as Lotor is life) in syndication.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2015 8:59:29 GMT -5
I don't think anything needs to be said.
Also:
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Sept 11, 2015 9:40:59 GMT -5
I always liked trying to get up early, and seeing the shows that aired before the unofficial start of Saturday morning cartoons. Some strange, interesting choices.
What about the live action shows that aired on Saturday mornings? Remember the TNBC block that was on for a while, like Saved by the Bell The New Class, California Dreaming, City Boys, etc?
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Sept 11, 2015 15:38:04 GMT -5
It was City Guys. That and California Dreams were the best of the TNBC sitcoms. New Class was pretty bad.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Sept 11, 2015 15:42:59 GMT -5
It was City Guys. That and California Dreams were the best of the TNBC sitcoms. New Class was pretty bad. Hey! I consider it a victory that I remember TNBC at all! And yeah, New Class was bad. Even though you had the rest of the original cast do a great cameo near the end. Wasn't there a fourth show? I thought TNBC was a two hour block.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Sept 11, 2015 15:58:35 GMT -5
It was City Guys. That and California Dreams were the best of the TNBC sitcoms. New Class was pretty bad. Hey! I consider it a victory that I remember TNBC at all! And yeah, New Class was bad. Even though you had the rest of the original cast do a great cameo near the end. Wasn't there a fourth show? I thought TNBC was a two hour block. That is true, I'm probably one of the few people who would remember City Guys. TNBC was two hours, but New Class aired two episodes and the second hour was California Dreams and Running the Halls. Hang Time replaced Running the Halls and then City guys replaced California Dreams.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 11, 2015 16:06:20 GMT -5
Really liked the 1990's X-Men cartoon. In particular the Magneto and Asteroid M storyline stands out.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Sept 11, 2015 16:28:48 GMT -5
Hey! I consider it a victory that I remember TNBC at all! And yeah, New Class was bad. Even though you had the rest of the original cast do a great cameo near the end. Wasn't there a fourth show? I thought TNBC was a two hour block. That is true, I'm probably one of the few people who would remember City Guys. TNBC was two hours, but New Class aired two episodes and the second hour was California Dreams and Running the Halls. Hang Time replaced Running the Halls and then City guys replaced California Dreams. I remember City Guys, Hang Time, New Class and One World. Don't remember California Dreams being on the Saturday block. I mostly watched it on TBS/WGN/syndicated on WB/UPN affiliates.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Sept 11, 2015 16:43:17 GMT -5
That is true, I'm probably one of the few people who would remember City Guys. TNBC was two hours, but New Class aired two episodes and the second hour was California Dreams and Running the Halls. Hang Time replaced Running the Halls and then City guys replaced California Dreams. I remember City Guys, Hang Time, New Class and One World. Don't remember California Dreams being on the Saturday block. I mostly watched it on TBS/WGN/syndicated on WB/UPN affiliates. I also watched it mostly on my syndicated WB channel, but I know I watched the finale on NBC. I remember seeing the commercials for it and feeling sad it was ending.
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