Remember Saturday Mornings In The '80's?

[🪦 ColdBlooded Killer ●]

I always woke up as early as possible, got a big bowl of cereal, and cracked out on cartoons all morning. I always hated when they were over. They always would show one of thoese cheesy after school specials about drugs or some stupid crap.

[🪦 knewby ●]

LOL...for me in Va. it was old school wrestling...Jimmy superfly, George animal steele...cartoons and wrasslin\'

[🪦 adam ●]

That\'s what has made you the man you are today Adam!! hahahah

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HAHA :lol:

They did leave out Robotech.. I was a big robot fan.. I always ended up hurting myself with my Voltron and Transformers diecast toys

[🪦 WarLocK ●]

Man! Awesome thread. Loved the montage. When I was 5-7 yrs old I would watch He-Man, Thundercats, Voltron, Transformers, and Scooby Doo on Sat. mornings. 8-10 was Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff, Dungeons and Dragons, and TMNT (one of my favs). And when I hit about 12-14 yrs it was still TMNT, X-Men, Super Mario Bros super show (loved Zelda on Fridays), and Doug from Nickelodeon. Geeeeeeez, those were the days. I miss just sitting around for hours eating junk food in my jammies, playing with toys and watching toons all day. I\'m gonna feel sorry for my kids with the crap they get stuck watchin.

[🪦 Last_of_the_Brunnen-G ●]

I liked Spider-man and his Amazing Friends, He-Man, and that DC Super Powers(no, not the Super Friends, it was a different show).

[SNIKT!]

Great thread, I keep coming back to it...The shows I remember most fondly are He-Man, Transformers, TMNT, Dungeons and Dragons, Spider-Man and his amazing friends/Incredible Hulk hour (loved the theme songs to both of these),
The Real Ghostbusters(really got into this one too...great animation)but I watched pretty much all cartoons. You guys remember electric company? Wasn\'t there a live-action spider-man show that went along with that?

[🪦 stainboy ●]

For the younger crowd they\'ll have NO idea what Saturday mornings were like back then. No cable tv, no 24 hour cartoon channels, no VCR\'s to watch tapes. We literally LIVED for saturday mornings as it was the only time to see cartoons at all. Life seemed so very much simpler back then.........................Larry

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I always woke up as early as possible, got a big bowl of cereal, and cracked out on cartoons all morning.  I always hated when they were over. 

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Man, both these responses made my head spin with nostalgia.

Remember life when responsibility ended on Friday when school was over? I lived for Saturday mornings. I even remember when the new season of programming would start in August or September (this was back when summer TV was exclusively re-runs) and they would even have a Friday night primetime special about what new cartoons were debuting on Saturday.

This stuff was classic.

[🪦 vezolution ●]

Groovie Ghoulies & Super Friends were probably my favorites back then. Great Space Coaster was great too, even though it was on during the week and not on Saturday. I\'m a NYC public school teacher and I see that my students lack the innocence that we had back in the day. There is so much information and imagery thrown in their faces at such a rapid pace, and it\'s so readily availible. Things years ago were a lot slower. We knew what it was to be children, to enjoy the years it seemed to take to grow up. Saturday morning was all about being a kid and it\'s a shame that the generation today will never know what thats like. Sorry to talk so much...
-Justin

[🪦 Vanilla Ice......Cream ●]

The times,they are a-changin\'!


Sorry,I couldn\'t resist. :lol:

But seriously,I remember back in the day when I was just a kid,watching Tom and Jerry,Scooby Doo,Dangermouse,and so much more.All you see cartoon-wise these days are crappy Japanese cartoons with poor voice-overs.I\'m gonna make sure that when I have kids,I\'ll have them watch old school stuff,when people actually payed alot of attention and dedication to making cartoons.

[🪦 fright-rags ●]

Remember life when responsibility ended on Friday when school was over? I lived for Saturday mornings. I even remember when the new season of programming would start in August or September (this was back when summer TV was exclusively re-runs) and they would even have a Friday night primetime special about what new cartoons were debuting on Saturday.

I totally remember that! It was usually in early-mid September because I remember it coinciding with the school year starting up. But yeah, they would do a special Friday night preview of all the new shows coming on Saturday mornings...that was great.

It\'s strange for me to think that I\'m at the age when I starting to sound like my dad with stuff like \"It\'s not like the old days when I was a kid...\" but with technology advancing at such a high rate, we\'re experiencing things like that at a younger age now. I mean, I\'m 29 and my childhood seems lightyears away compared to kids these days...yet it\'s still pretty fresh in my mind too. Just look at the internet...I didn\'t even know what email was until college, and now it\'s so engrained in us that to be without it would be like taking away food practically. And that was just over 10 years ago...never before have things changed so fast than what has happened in the past 30 years or so. That\'s why I will always cherish my childhood as it was so innocent. I look at my daughter and wonder is she\'ll experience even half of that as she grows up...I hope so.