RIP Saturday Morning Cartoons

[Ghost Utmost]

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/29/352538416/thats-all-folks-saturday-morning-cartoons-bid-farewell

So the last network to air Saturday morning cartoons - the CW - has given up the Sat AM cartoon ghost. It's over Brehs. This seriously makes me misty. I grew up on them sh;ts. I am 39 so I don't know what the cartoon game has been like for the past couple decades + but when I was a kid it was exciting like.. maybe when a new movie you really been waiting for - except it was every single week.

 

[Yapdatfool]

It'll be replaced by this shyt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Magnificent_Morning



TBF, all I did on saturday mornings was play video games, but I loved the hell outta looney tunes when it was on abc

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

A tragedy.....:wowkobe:

 

[NobodyReally]

It really is sad. The end of an era, and no one seems to be fighting to preserve it.

 

[MartyMcFly]

That train started years ago when I woke up and I saw the news on ABC and CBS instead of the cartoons I was used to seeing. It's been going downhill ever since. I get that cartoon network and Nick and Disney are leaders in that space now but there's something to be said about cartoons on non cable networks

 

[manyfaces]

I didn't even know there was a network that still showed them. I know it means practically nothing to kids these days that between vod, streaming video, and children's television dedicated networks, have 24 hour access to their favorite programs, but for me there was nothing better than that Saturday morning cartoon experience. I would grab my blanket, pillow, and cereal and me and my brothers would set up shop on the couch from about 7 to noon or later if there was a good Saturday afternoon movie on, like a karate (kung fu) flick or something. With that shyt being so easily accessible now that anticipation and special moment doesn't exist anymore.

 

[cole phelps]

rip I remember watching kids wb and tmnt back in 03 etc.....

 

[MidniteJay]

Dem Saturday morning cartoons been wack the last few years but to see it officially shut down I can't help but feel like my childhood got tossed in the bushes.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

I remember when the new season started they used to have the premier show on that friday night... cbs, nbc, abc ... then fox moved in and then the cw ...

zorro, lone ranger, godzilla, pacman, shazam (not captain marvel), speed buggy, i can go on ..... its a sad day

 

[cole phelps]

Dem Saturday morning cartoons been wack the last few years but to see it officially shut down I can't help but feel like my childhood got tossed in the bushes.

to think a decade ago I was watching shyt like this

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

another thing the innanets killed

 

[MartyMcFly]

 

[MartyMcFly]

another thing the innanets killed

Not just the internet breh but cable and the FCC..back in the mid-late 90s, the FCC ruled that there needed to be a certain amount of hours on Saturday morning dedicated to education so a lot of shows went the way of the dodo

 

[Roman Brady]

another thing the innanets killed

nah this one is on 9/11

 

[Ziggiy]

Seriously I can recall the ENTIRE Fox Kids lineup from memory. Use to have the best weekends waking up at 6am with my sister's and brothers to catch all the cartoons... This really is a sad day brehs