Saturday Morning Cartoons are DEAD

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Posted: 10/5/2014 11:41:46 PM EDT

Well, according to the "article" / blog at least. I never really watched cartoons on Saturday mornings much anyways. IIRC, most of the stuff that I did watch was in other time slots or on cable channels.
https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/saturday-morning-cartoons-are-but-a-sweet--sweet-memory-192052477.html

I turned on the TV only to discover that the beloved product-placement-heavy 'toons of my own youth were no longer on the big networks. In fact, they weren't anywhere. While the cartoon exodus has been going on for years, this past Saturday morning was the first weekend in 50 years with no morning cartoons of any kind on American television's major networks. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

Why? The FCC's rules regarding required educational programming played a big part, Gizmodo reports. In the '90s, the FCC started requiring networks to air several hours of educational programming per week. NBC and CBS buried their cartoon efforts in the '90s. ABC held on until 2004, before giving up the ghost. The CW was the final holdout with The Vortexx.

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Posted: 10/5/2014 11:42:51 PM EDT

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I think they have been dead for a while. Most of what I used to watch as far as cartoons were on in the afternoons or weekends at night. Well, except that is, for the ponies

Posted: 10/5/2014 11:46:53 PM EDT

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I'm lucky if I can catch Hey Arnold or CatDog at midnight.

Hey Arnold, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and the blinding morning sunlight. Good times.

But now it's Ponies and Applejacks for breakfast.

I'm happy again.

Posted: 10/5/2014 11:46:55 PM EDT

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I think a big reason is that cartoons are so readily available on demand that Saturday morning is no longer a center point.

A sad offshoot is that many kids no longer have all the songs to Schoolhouse Rock memorized.

Posted: 10/5/2014 11:47:50 PM EDT

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What ever happened to the good Saturday morning shows?

Posted: 10/5/2014 11:50:44 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/5/2014 11:51:03 PM EDT

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Double sad.

Posted: 10/5/2014 11:55:32 PM EDT

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Foghorn leghorn. The best

Posted: 10/5/2014 11:56:57 PM EDT

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They went from politically incorrect when I was a kid, into commercials for toys with feelgood messages about everyone being a winner like soccer with no score .

Posted: 10/5/2014 11:57:01 PM EDT

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hot dog hot dog hot diggity dawg

and

Jake and the neverland pirates

don't hold a candle to the old classics

tom and jerry

Sylvester and tweety

wiley coyote and roadrunner

bugs bunny

pepe lapeau

smurfs

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:00:30 AM EDT

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Good kids should be outside doing kid stuff

not getting indoctrinated into obsessing overo GI Joe toys

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:02:44 AM EDT

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If i want to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings, I turn on Netflix.

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:03:51 AM EDT

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I just read GD

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:04:01 AM EDT

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Instead they're probably inside playing video games or doing social media.

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:04:41 AM EDT

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Saturday morning cartoons have been dead since the early 1990s.

"Conjunction junction, what's your function?"

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:06:42 AM EDT

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That shit stopped when LSD was determined to be a bad for you.

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:07:56 AM EDT

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most of the cartoons i've seen recently were just 30 minute advertisements for some stupid card game or a line of toys...

i miss the classic cartoons.. they can be had on dvd...

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:08:38 AM EDT

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That shit stopped when LSD was determined to be a bad for you.

this.. whomever wrote that stuff was seriously tripping...

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:09:26 AM EDT

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Would you like to hangout sometime? We could sit on a park bench and talk about our ailments,both physical and mental.

Posted: 10/6/2014 12:30:54 AM EDT

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Yea all we get on sat morn is either infomercials or yu gi oh crap. So if the kids are home we turn on the xbox till their mom gets up or yells at us for making to much noise

And if they are at their "dads" I'll surf Arf or beat another game again. And if your wondering, no cable for us we have rabbit ears get 3 good channels though.