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Saturday Morning
It's saturday morning, and I'm flipping through all the cable channels, for some reason my thoughts jumped to what Saturday morning TV was like when there were only local channels through an antennae.
I started remembering a favorite older cartoon show I loved. Krazy Kat, anyone remember that? It had been around for decades when I remember seeing it.
Krazy Kat was hopelessly in love with a rat named Ignatz, he did not return her affection and showed her so by throwing bricks at her head.
By today's standards, I suppose it would be disturbing and violent, sending the wrong message to young impressionable girls about domestic violence, but hell, I loved it and it was funny.
Are you someone that recalls a time when you would plop down still in your jammies with a bowl of cereal to watch hours of Saturday Morning cartoons?
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| February 11, 2012, 15:23 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: Saturday Morning
I was never big on morning TV except when I had to get up for work or school and then it was always news. Even as a kid it was news. My Saturdays were really always filled with some thing like meeting friends at the lake to go skiing or horseback riding or a softball game in winter it was snowmobiling so I almost never watched morning kids shows.
I was actually shocked when I was a young adult and started watching some of the kids shows that I had never seen . Some I knew from afternoon TV but morning had a lot that afternoon didn't. I was watching my friends little brother and put on cartoons and sat there in shock at several things. One, it was very violent. Two, it was very political.Three, was the fact that so much adult content was written into the so called child programming.
Most of the older cartoons like Popeye or Bugs Bunny were so nasty and Popeye especially had a lot of political stuff in it . I found especially with the earlier versions of these things.I don't know if these cartoons are still aired but I bet there would be a hell of a lot of protests if they were. I would think the censors would not be to happy either with some of the subtle adult jokes.It was easy to see why parents didn't mind watching the old cartoons with their kids.They would be very politically incorrect these days.
Some were extremely raciest and/or sexist as well. I liked some of the old cartoons but, you had to look at them with the attitude of "well it was written in a time when that was acceptable" so you can get past some of those things. I think the road runner was one of my favorites but I bet parents would say it is to violent these days. Or an animal rights group would say it promotes cruelty to animals as if some kid would take TNT and try to blow up a roadrunner or something.By the way real road runners looks like a starving chicken not nearly as cute as the cartoon version.
Speedy Gonzales was funny but I don't think it would pass the censors today either.I remember watching Magilla Gorilla in the afternoon right after Gigantor.Gigantor was really different and not really a "moving" animation if I remember correctly it was a bunch of stills. Kind of a narrated comic book.
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| February 11, 2012, 17:30 |
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Re: Saturday Morning
I find it amusing that "Power Rangers' was cancelled because of the violence. WTF? At the same time. Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner hour was on. No violence in those at all.----lol
Now, we have more "cartoon' caracters that are more lifelike and much violence in most of them.
I watch some cartoons on Saturday. On NBC I think. if I have the chance, I watch the PBS kids shows in the afternoon.
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| February 11, 2012, 21:02 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: Saturday Morning
The ones I remember from my earliest memories are Space Ghost, Johnny Quest, The Fantastic Four, and Superfriends. Also, Penelope Pitstop and Dudley Do-Right, Underdog.
Those shows were cool. Pink Panther is the best, as is Bugs Bunny, and Tom & Jerry.
I don't get the cartoons they have on now. I don't understand what the characters are suppose to be and, nose hair and body functions references are not comical to me. It is gross. Oh, the poor kids of today!
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| February 11, 2012, 23:58 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Saturday Morning
the saterday morning line up sure sucks, even now i get to watch batman followed by lost in space and star trek and so on spangoolie? here its his kid
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| February 12, 2012, 00:24 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: Re: Saturday Morning
QUOTE (ashkats @ February 12, 2012, 00:24)the saterday morning line up sure sucks, even now i get to watch batman followed by lost in space and star trek and so on spangoolie? here its his kid
I'm with you, Ash!!!
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| February 12, 2012, 00:34 |
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Re: Re: Saturday Morning
QUOTE (Iwant2kssuallovr @ February 11, 2012, 23:58)The ones I remember from my earliest memories are Space Ghost, Johnny Quest, The Fantastic Four, and Superfriends. Also, Penelope Pitstop and Dudley Do-Right, Underdog.
Those shows were cool. Pink Panther is the best, as is Bugs Bunny, and Tom & Jerry.
I don't get the cartoons they have on now. I don't understand what the characters are suppose to be and, nose hair and body functions references are not comical to me. It is gross. Oh, the poor kids of today!
Cartoon network still runs some of the old cartoons. 
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| February 12, 2012, 00:42 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Saturday Morning
i don't have cable , just netflix now they have cartoons but its all that jap animation , I'm not big on it , they took all the old cartoons off because of violence?seems we lost something some were with the times anyone knew when the dam coyote fell he was dieing , even the flinstone are gone and the jetsons, still have heman on but it seems like a wussie show sometimes
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| February 12, 2012, 00:52 |
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Re: Saturday Morning
Heman and many other cartoons were designed for one thing. To see the action figures from those cartoons. The feds even told 'em to quit that.
Not sure if Hulu has cartoons or not.
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| February 12, 2012, 02:25 |
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ashkats
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crystal falls, Michigan, US
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i don't think they do, and know they want to get their hand in your wallet
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| February 12, 2012, 22:59 |
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newbie1011
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The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: Saturday Morning
Power Rangers is still on (to my amazement). It has never been a cartoon as far as I know anyway.
I did love the Pink Panther. I recently learner that the Pink Panther cartoons started because of the Peter Sellers movies. I always thought the movies just used the cartoon.
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| February 13, 2012, 02:54 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Saturday Morning
my fav bugs was hillbilly hare, poking fun at the hillbillies doing the square dancing and other stuff all banned some i can see why one was a old bugs in Africa poking fun at the natives and cannibals. popeye was just stupid nowadays when i watch it, popeye and burtis beating the snot out of each other. rodger ramjet and bulwinkle were just to political
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| February 14, 2012, 06:07 |
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Re: Saturday Morning
Did you know that Popeye was invented by the spinach industry as a way of increasing sales?
Did ya also know the current drawings of Santa came from Cocacola for an ad campain?
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| February 14, 2012, 14:55 |
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Re: Saturday Morning
The Bugs Bunny / Roadrunner Hour and anything else that was Looney Tunes. I could watch that stuff all daylong. Our lives are all better because of Mel Blanc!
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| February 14, 2012, 16:11 |
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GG317
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Bowl of Granola, Massachusetts, US
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Re: Saturday Morning
For me, it was up at oh-five-a.m. to watch Captain Bob draw a picture of the animal of choice for that airing. He was good and slow in his teaching until the last commercial break. He'd have an entire back ground drawn for his animal that no one got to see him do, so annoying. Then it was that muppet show with, "H.R. Puffenstuff" watching Jimmy get into trouble while the magic flute talked in that obnoxiously high-pitched voice, a lot of fun all around. Top that off with; Scooby-Doo, Hong-Kong Fuey, Bugs Bunny, and Johnny Quest and it was noon, time for lunch and waiting for the local special, "Creature Double Feature" which usually consisted of one Godzilla battles everything possible and then any kind of 50's style sci-fi movie like; Alien Invaders, Gigantic Ants, and my personal favourite "It came from the Deep" a movie about a giant octopus that sucks ships to crushing depths. 
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| February 16, 2012, 15:09 |
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ashkats
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crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: Saturday Morning
i remember school morning we use to watch captain kangaroo and Garfield goose and ray Rainer and Friends, lunch time was bozo the clown . crackle has a lot of godzilla stuff on it for free
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| February 16, 2012, 22:15 |
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