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This Is the First Weekend in America With No Saturday Morning Cartoons
http://gizmodo.com ^ | october 4, 2014 | Robert Sorokanich

Posted on 10/04/2014 10:01:13 AM PDT by lowbridge

Saturday morning American broadcast TV was once animation's home field. Filling a cereal bowl with artificially colored sugar pebbles and staring at the tube was every kid's weekend plan. Not any more: For the first time in 50-plus years, you won't find any animation on broadcast this morning. It's the end of an era.

Yes, The CW, the final holdout in Saturday morning animation, ran its last batch of Vortexx cartoons last weekend. This week,where you once saw shows like Cubix, Sonic X, Dragon Ball Z and Kai, Digimon Fusion, and Yu-Gi-Oh!, you'll instead find "One Magnificent Morning," a block of live-action educational programming.

It's the end of an era, but it's been a long time coming: NBC ditched Saturday morning cartoons in 1992, CBS followed suit not long after, and ABC lost its animated weekend mornings in 2004. The CW, a lower-tier broadcast network, was the last holdout in a game that the Big 3 left long ago.

What killed Saturday morning cartoons? Cable, streaming, and the FCC. 

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: act; americana; beingakid; cartoons; childrenstelevision; culturewar; indoctrination; liberalism; nostalgia; popculture; rapingmychildhood; saturdaymorningtv; vanishingamerica
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To: lowbridge

Roger Ramjet WAS my hero...


41 posted on 10/04/2014 11:19:25 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: a fool in paradise

42 posted on 10/04/2014 11:20:03 AM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: a fool in paradise

Oh, yeah. I know all that now. It’s just that as a kid it was a mystery to me.

Like the whole juxtaposition of why Saturday morning fare had static characters “talking” endlessly to each other... while some old 1940s Tex Avery cartoon would have a couple of funny-animals hilariously chasing each other around with axes, trying to do each other in. Man, I’d go for the latter any day of the week!


43 posted on 10/04/2014 11:21:23 AM PDT by greene66
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To: a fool in paradise

kids are better off not watching Disney and Nickelodean, you can bet that leftism and crap seep in.


44 posted on 10/04/2014 11:22:17 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Now cartoons are for perpetual stoners watching Ted Turner’s Cartoon Network/Adult Swim.


45 posted on 10/04/2014 11:32:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: lowbridge
I never thought I'd live to see the day when Saturday morning cartoons disappeared. Wow.

Here's the opening to the Bugs Bunny-Road Runner show. The beginning also has CBS's old top-of-the-hour time tone.

The Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Show Opening Theme

46 posted on 10/04/2014 11:32:29 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: hoagy62

And what replaced it? Libsplanations to join the libs’ plantation.


47 posted on 10/04/2014 11:39:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: lowbridge

Amazon.com has placed warning labels on cartoons.


48 posted on 10/04/2014 12:10:38 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: lowbridge
Back when ISIS meant something completely different.


49 posted on 10/04/2014 12:11:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: lowbridge
Another bit of my past lies squashed on the side of the road. In the '80s, my son and I watched the old Looney Tunes when they were on, just as I did in the '60s. They were about all that was left of the smorgasbord of cartoons from my day (including ancient Popeye cartoons and others that were old even at that time… some of which were absolute dreck by any standard). Nickelodeon briefly had good stuff like Angry Beavers, Rugrats, Hey, Arnold and Ahhh! Real Monsters, which even an adult like myself found entertaining enough to watch. Hell, I even watched Ed, Edd and Eddy. (The Kanker sisters were a bit unsettling, though.)

But PC doomed it all, just like much of the rest of this country. Like Donald Duck in "Der Fueher's Face," we now pretty much get what the current Reich Broadcasting Corporation gives us.

Mr. niteowl77

50 posted on 10/04/2014 12:15:14 PM PDT by niteowl77 (The five stages of Progressive persuasion: lecture, nudge, shove, arrest, liquidate.)
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To: lowbridge

I stopped watching cartoons when they became PC and started targeting corporations as being evil......


51 posted on 10/04/2014 12:16:02 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
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To: bgill

Time-Lies-Warner-Turner has placed warning labels on cartoons.

They say that the content was never acceptable, then they package it to make $$$ off of it. But they have to lib-shame you first for watching them.


52 posted on 10/04/2014 12:30:29 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I stopped watching cartoons when they became PC and started targeting corporations as being evil......

That first became the gameplan in the 1970s when every week the Mystery Machine crew (Scooby etc.) ran into rotten property developer after rotten property developer. Then there was Yogi's Ark which took on all of the evil industrial polluters.

53 posted on 10/04/2014 12:32:02 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: lowbridge

Saturday morning was great back in the 1950s. Mr Wizard, Circus Boy, and many other. The cartoons shows were old theater releases with REAL ANIMATION! Mighty Mouse, Terrytoons, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Felix the Cat, Oswald the Rabbit, Popeye.
We then noticed cartoons were being shortened to make room for more advertizements.

Then came the Hanna-Barbara garbage factory and they began to destroy REAL ANIMATION. Soon all Saturday morning cartoons were H-B garbage.


54 posted on 10/04/2014 12:36:58 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: njslim

I remember doing the same. The TV station had western movies on all afternoon.
Tom Mix
Buck Jones
Wild Bill Elliot
Way too many singing cowboys.

Wonder why Tom Mix and Buck Jones westerns are no longer released? I haven’t seen one of those in 58 years.


55 posted on 10/04/2014 12:45:32 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: real saxophonist

Back in the 1970’s some Men’s magazine found and published a nude photo of her. Definitely Not Guilty of anything!

Only then did I start watching the show.


56 posted on 10/04/2014 12:48:13 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: a fool in paradise

It was claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald liked the “violent” cartoons on TV.

That, some claimed, was why he shot John Kennedy.

It got worse after Bobby Kennedy was murdered. All TV shows immediately dumbed down to kiddie levels, comic books got changed, paper back books removed their lurid covers. Movie producers said they would police themselves with a rating system and began to churn out the most bloody vile movies possible.


57 posted on 10/04/2014 12:54:29 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Sirius Lee

I remember when CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT (later called Jet Jackson) was on Saturday morning, a live action show.


58 posted on 10/04/2014 12:56:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: wintertime

My first “turn on” as a kid was watching KRAKATOA KATIE doing her dance.
“Krakatoa Katie she ain’t no lady...”

Back when Animation was also enjoyable for adults.


59 posted on 10/04/2014 1:01:38 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: lowbridge

I’m sure there were lots of cartoons on this morning. Maybe not on the formerly big 3, but in plenty of other places.


60 posted on 10/04/2014 1:01:49 PM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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