I Miss Saturday Morning Cartoons!
 

I remember back in the day, when Saturday morning cartoons were the sh!t.

I would wake up at 8:00 AM and watch cartoons for like 5 hours straight!

It used to be the good cartoons, not the garbage that's on nowadays!

Cartoons like:
Tranformers
G.I. Joe
He-Man
M.A.S.K.
Visionaries
Thundercats
Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors
Thundarr The Barbarian
Blackstar
Dungeons & Dragons
Challenge Of The Superfriends
Spiderman & His Amazing Friends
Bravestar
Challenge Of The Go-Bots
Ghostbusters
Space Ghost
C.O.P.S.
Herculoids
Hulk Hogan's Rockin' Wrestling



What were your favorites?

Wow, you pretty much had all of my favorites in there, mine were:

Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends (probably my most favorite oldie)
GI Joe
He-Man
MASK
TMNT
Jem & the Holograms
Kid N Play (anyone else remember this?)

I remember Kid' N Play from the early 90s. :D

I remember coming home from school to watch GI Joe and Transformers between 3 and 4 o'clock

many more faves, but those were the top 2

Yup,

After school was another great line-up! (It sucked when I had to stay after school in detention! It seemed my name was always written on the chalkboard! :cool:)

Mine went:
3:30 - Transformers
4:00 - G.I. Joe
4:30 - He-Man
5:00 - M.A.S.K.

Those were the days..............

I don't know, at least a couple of those cartoons strike me as being as crappy as today's stuff. :P

Ah, the stuff I loved to watch on Saturday mornings...

X-Men
Spider-Man (Fox)
Power Rangers
TMNT (the CBS run was my favorite)
ReBoot
Men in Black
Godzilla TAS
Batman Beyond
Animaniacs
Pinky and the Brain
Tiny Toon Adventures

One of my favorite times to watch cartoons later on, though, was actually Sunday mornings. The block of cartoons didn't last nearly as long and usually was where more of the crap got shoveled, but there were gems like Battletech, Dragonball Z, Creepy Crawlers (man, did that one suck), The Incredible Hulk, and my favorite, Beast Wars. :D

Here's the best (Not all were Saturday Morning).

GI Joe
Transformers
Smurfs (Remember when the purple smurf infected everyone "Gnat! Gnat!"? That was our introduction to the aids virus.
Gummy Bears (Theme song: Gummy bears... bounc'n here & there & everywhere... high adventure that's beyond compare... they are the gummy bears!!!")
Thundercats
Dungeons & Dragons (eye of the beholder episode was my favorite)
HE-Man
Snorks
Spider Man
Q-Bert

All good shat!!!

Top 5:

1) Batman - The Animated Series
2) Transformers
3) Super Mario Bros. Super Show
4) Looney Toones
5) Godzilla - The Animated Series

Unfortunately, a lot of the shows back then just don't hold up today without a healthy dose of nostalgia. Not that that's a bad thing - I love my G1 Transformers ;)

But these were the shows that would make me drag my ass out of bed at 6 AM every Saturday morning:

Transformers
G.I.Joe
He-Man
Thundercats
M.A.S.K.
Silverhawks
Thundarr the Barbarian (may have aired on Sundays)

The original ninja turtles is still funny, but in new ways. As a child I never questioned why this "Shredder" fellow wore a suit of armor in present day. And his ludicrous line of questioning: "Did they look like reptiles?" "Were they turtles? I must know!"

lol. I just a couple episodes last week and enjoyed them, but after the second one I was done. I still very much enjoy a lot of the cartoons from back then but I can only take them in small doses.

Heck, Saturday morning was the best time ever back then. I even remember fondly the prime time specials every fall on the major networks premiering their new cartoon lineups.

Robotix, the ewoks, star wars droids, the original pound puppies, smurfs, he man, transformers, visionaries, M.A.S.K., even GoBots. So great.

Does anyone remember Freakazoid? To this day it is the most random & crazy cartoon. They would be in the middle of a scene then cut to a field of flowers. Freggin crazy! I use to laugh my ass off! Qui a coupe le fromage?

I remember Freakazoid! Was a WB show. By the time that show came out I wasn't watching as many cartoons anymore, but I did catch it a couple of times and really enjoyed it. It was pretty awesome.

How about Eek the Cat? I used to freakin LOVE that show! It was one of the last cartoons I used to watch on a regular basis. Came out not too long before Freakazoid, if I remember correctly.

Oh man Eak the Cat! One of the coolest theme songs for a cartoon. Remember the dinosaurs sketch during it? The Terrible Thunderlizards! One episode they sought a camouflage specialist and all he had was a flower on his head. He put it on and they all said "where did he go?" Ha!

I can actually remember sneaking downstairs at 5am to watch the original Superfriends and trying not to wake my folks as I made a bowl of cereal so yeah I really miss them and feel that my daughter is missing out. On top of that I'm really becoming disturbed with all the "cartoon" channels moving away from cartoons. Looks like cartoons may like print become somewhat of an outdated thing. Cartoon Network is moving quickly away, Toon Disney became Disney XD, we don't get Boomerang around here, so it's kinda sad.

Agreed! Saturday morning cartoons sure aren't what they used to be.

I'd say I probably only watch a handful of today's cartoons...

Transformers Prime, Young Justice, Clone Wars and Spongebob. And the first three are watched due to the fact that I grew up with their older brothers, so they have a big nestalgia factor.

I agree on missing saturday morning cartoons. The only network left that still does it only airs bad anime, now.

And as has been pointed out, in general most cartoon focused channels are moving away. Toon Disney was great. DisneyXD, not so much. (I got bored and counted once, one week. In that week there were less than two dozen different programs. The majority of it was I'm in the Band, and Suite Life).
And I'm sorry, a network called Cartoon Network should not have live action programs.

Nicktoons still has it going on, though (But just barily), at least.
The hub has a LOT of potential, if they get some more variety under their belts.
And I've been saying for years that Scifi Channel (Syfy now. Ugh. There's a whole 'nother can of worms there) really shoudl start a retro saturday morning block, bringing back a lot of these older cartoons like Heman, Shera, Pirates of Dark Water, Gobots, and other stuff. (Syfy needs more variety anyway. Get the hell away from those godaweful movies.)

Teletoon has really changed as well. Miss the mornings when Johnny Bravo, Ned's Newt and stuff like that was on Satuday mornings. YTV isn't airing anything all that great on Saturday's with, in my opinion, the acception of Spongebob, and Fox Kids I don't think even exists anymore. The mornings on Fox featuring Beast Wars, The Whacky World of Tex Avery and Sonic the Hedgehog are all gone for good nowadays.

*Sigh*

I'll just come out and say that for the most part, today's cartoons for kids really suck!

I remember spending most of my saturday mornings watching Power Rangers or Swat Kats. Man, they ruled...

Swat Kats was an awesome show.