How Saturday Morning Cartoons Died.

[@MelloTreezTV]

You cannot talk about 90s Saturdays mornings without mentioning UPNKids

[@StagehandMotel6]

Ill do a video on UPN kids. To be fair I didn't even know it existed.

[@MelloTreezTV]

Whaaatt????…. Bro go type in UPN 90s cartoon line up. Thank me later!… I’m subscribing and waiting on that video😂

[@StagehandMotel6]

@@MelloTreezTV Thanks for the sub I'll move that up on the list.

[@plawson8577]

@@StagehandMotel6It ALL began in 1992. Likely before you were born. That was when NBC became the first major network to retire from the Saturday morning Cartoon business. I still remember the backlash.

[@kellychuang8373]

Oh yeah also went through that part at the time though usually it was on Sunday Mornings when that block was around.

[@IjiModo]

Saturday morning cartoons were this poor kid's sweetest dream every week.

[@StagehandMotel6]

I just miss the cereal of the 90's. What they put in it wasn't good for you but man was it good. Ain't like today.

[@stpworld]

I found a tape i recorded when I visited my grandparents in michigan with a portable vcr its so old super mario world was still tuning with the nbc chip and pepper Saturday morning @@StagehandMotel6

[@lavenderflowersfall280]

​@@StagehandMotel6I want my marshmallow alphabets 😢😢😢

[@kellychuang8373]

Yes and in a time before Internet and smartphones which this era is long dead.

[@chozahfearless7524]

@@StagehandMotel6I doubt it’s good for you now it’s just bland 😂 if it’s not good for me at least let it taste good

[@theultimateawesome5516]

As a child with no game system and basic cable. Saturday morning was my only source of cartoons

[@kellychuang8373]

Which sadly those days are all gone now.

[@supersonicx01]

I feel you and I was in the same boat. Cartoons were the way to go. Unless you get screwed by doing early morning chores that you couldn't escape from. That's where you needed to have a fresh cassette tape, aTV / vcr hooked up combo to not make your Saturday feel empty

[@kellychuang8373]

@@supersonicx01 Really was a time long ago and not like now also hear there's the death of physical media, this seasons anime is looking way intense though don't ask me about how I get that may want to ask someone who takes that chance or go through an organization that does this sort of thing or look around for info and I can't post that here either since that would also get me dead real dangerous games I can tell you that.

[@supersonicx01]

@@kellychuang8373 I need friends who took the roll of guinea pig to enter into the new animes that come out. I left them all behind when I moved. So I've been out of the anime loop for years now

[@kellychuang8373]

@@supersonicx01 Though you really have to be careful around said clubs and organizations especially if you are loose in posting things on say social media too. Really not something to post along with other dangers especially if the stuff you're interested in has a history of people blaming it for ills and problems.

[@SorceressRose]

For me, Kids WB and 4Kids were my Saturday mornings. It was honestly really good to be a kid during that era. Sadly, all good things come to an end.

[@dreamguardian8320]

Sad, but true.

[@kellychuang8373]

Yeah also used to go through that too and now those days are over and I'm going into other parts that couldn't even go on that block most likely anime may want to look into that as well. Though I can't go into too much details on this given the disaster zone we live in and those enemies want this and that lifestyle dead or me along with it like those people that wanted Saturday Morning Cartoons dead, North Korea, PTC (Parents Television Council), 1 Million Moms, KArens and who knows what other nutjobs out there.

[@iradhill81]

I don’t know how you made this video without showing ninja turtles not even once!

[@Highrollinhunter]

Same here that's how I got my anime binge as a kid

[@kellychuang8373]

@@Highrollinhunter That's cool and this seasons anime is going to be really tough this year and not all of that is going to be on TV or you have to look into different avenues really can't get into too much details since I know there's new anime coming out but HOW that's another matter that I can't go into too much details enemies and people into that will get mad and likely end me for that have to do that yourself but I can clue you it's not like the usual way that's for sure.

[@jonelrobinson582]

I miss watching Saturday Morning cartoons. ABC Kids, Vortexx and Cookie Jar tv were my jams when I was kid.

[@BlkboyShino9696]

I’m 27 and was blessed to be apart of the generation that had Saturday morning cartoons I will always remember getting home from school and watching cartoons and playing video games then on Saturdays waking up to some good bomb ass breakfast and seeing my favorite show on I will always hold on to those memories well into my 50s and beyond

[@TheLegendryZelda]

I’m there with you, we could have had a great time if we meet irl XD

[@jasonrandom372]

Saturday Morning Cartoons were truly only for those who grew up in the 70's, 80's, or 90's.

[@lucasquintanilla1673]

@@jasonrandom372 I was born in the year 2000 and grew up in the 2000s and the very early 2010s seeing Saturday morning cartoons when I got up early. To be honest I might very well be among the very last people who grew up with this sort of thing, even if it was only for a few years. As far as I remember from about 2012 onwards I don’t remember it happening again I think 2011 may have been the last time that I saw it on TV and the cartoons I did see by that point were quite old stuff like G.I., Joe and Conan the barbarian. Earlier than that when I was watching it more often in the 2000s I mainly watched TV to see sonic X although there were a few other programs before that that I usually saw. To be fair however, I had to get up pretty early to do that as it was around 5 AM in the morning to be able to accomplish that.

[@tapatiovidzz]

Seems that you aree slightly older than me. What were your favorite shows throughout the 2000s and 2010s while the Saturday blocks were still going?

[@JDFrank20Diaz]

Anyone Remembered that Saturday we got 3 New Episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh Cause Dark Magician Girl made her Debut My goodness it was worth it Memories sadly these kids today will never experience thst joy of Saturday Morning Cartoons

[@Venom3254]

Fox Kids and WB kids were literally my go to networks on Saturday mornings. Got introduced to many of series that I still enjoy to this day. Sad to see the concept go out, but my memories are still intact which no FCC can't take away.

[@Dtoons]

I grew up in the 90's and as the 200o's rolled in I saw Saturday morning cartoons die out. Those were fun times, but there's really no need to have those days come back when people can watch those shows anytime, anywhere, and have other means to entertain themselves. I hated having to get up early to watch shows anyway, so it all worked out!

[@GenerationX1984]

It started when they finally cancelled The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, which was the longest running Saturday morning cartoon of all time.

[@PIB2000]

I think people also forget that millennials ended up killing Saturday Morning Cartoons with the rise of not only the internet, but also Nicktoons and Cartoon Network. Though you can't blame them since many kids just preferred having cartoons anytime, all the time instead of once a week. I think when people talk about the death of Saturday Morning Blocks, they gloss over the fact that the boom that Nick and CN had with their generation was a factor.

[@dwainsimmons3447]

@@PIB2000 the millennials didn’t killed Saturday morning cartoons.

[@PIB2000]

@dwainsimmons3447 Like I said, Nicktoons and CN became popular with millennial kids in the 90's. Gen Z kids would either be too young to remember Saturday Morning blocks or those blocks died before they were born.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

It basically started in the early 1990s, when NBC shifted from programs targeting a younger audience to programs targeting teenagers on Saturday mornings, which meant eighty-sixing the cartoons in favor of Saved By The Bell...

[@moormagic1]

My mother didn't allow us to watch cartoons on Saturday. We had to do housework. By the time we finished our work, shows like Sky King or Shirley Temple movies were on.

[@StagehandMotel6]

On what channel?

[@moormagic1]

@@StagehandMotel6 I can't remember, and it was only 3 channels.

[@leohopkins71]

As a 70s baby, I can appreciate the Saturday morning classics of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s cartoons. I also liked the cartoons of the early 00s, which marked the end of the Saturday morning era. But as long as i have streaming videos and DVDs, my preferred medium, to help remember happy childhood memories, that's good enough for me.

[@treseancann1261]

I was born in 1994 and I loved Saturday morning cartoons. I grew up with Kids WB, Fox Kids, Disney's One Saturday Morning, and Nick on CBS. Even when I had cable, I still watched Saturday Morning cartoons. What I wouldn't give to go back to those days.

[@bradyanderson6311]

Nick on CBS blows it.

[@jalen3666]

Older Gen Z’s (1997-2003) were the last to grow up with dope cartoons. Hopefully cartoons get better in the furture.

[@humanoidcorn4476]

Spoilers: it's about to get a lot worse!

[@chozahfearless7524]

You mean millennials. Gen is 2003 after my sister was born 1997 she was one of the last millennials.

[@jalen3666]

@@chozahfearless7524Gen z starts in 1997-2012, millennials is 1981-1996

[@dat1tallguy637]

@jalen3666 A lot of times 97 babies are considered to be cusp, kinda like between Gen Z and millennials but that is when Gen Z starts for the most part

[@jalen3666]

@@dat1tallguy637 your a zillenial then like me to young to be millennial and too old to be gen z.

[@mqgTWO96]

Excellent video Stagehands. You broke down the decline of Saturday morning cartoons in a nutshell. One thing to also point out, is, there was a big huge shift for Saturday morning blocks around Fall 2002 specifically, the Fall 2002 season is when One Saturday Morning became ABC Kids, Fox Kids became FOX BOX (which just changed to 4Kids in 2005), Power Rangers eventually moved from FOX to ABC, etc. Kids WB would remain the same but would also start to decline in ratings big time as well. By this point, the big 3 kids networks (Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel) became the dominant source for kids entertainment while Saturday morning blocks were on its way out.

[@blueblur2273]

Well actually in 2001 Kids WB rebranded as Toonami on Kids WB. This is when they started showing shows from Cartoon Network on the Kids WB. So they did go through some changes also around that time and it makes sense that shortly after ratings for that network began to decline. After all what's the point of watching Kids WB if they are just going to show reruns of shows you already saw on Cartoon Network. I understand that not everyone had cable but sharing shows with CN really took away from the uniqueness of that channel. Less original and exclusivity programming gave you less reason to tune in if you could always catch that programming on another channel.

[@MrChristianDT]

I feel like there was another brief one in between One Saturday Morning & ABC Kids. I remember One Saturday Morning going on hiatus for a while, then they came back with mostly girly shows, like Olson Twin Adventures & Lizzy McGuire for a year or two before that was gone for... maybe a year. Then we got ABC Kids. I cannot, for the life of me, remember what that middle lineup was called, though.

[@zecraw]

CBS had a pretty epic block in the 80's and early 90's. Muppet Babies, Garfield and Friends, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Ninja Turtles, etc. Great time to be a kid.

[@123theprodigy5]

Damn bro, you made me feel old, I miss my childhood as well. I didn’t have cable for a brief PERIOD So I had no channels for kids except for PBS Kids, quBO ABC kids, and the CW for kids. Man, I missed those times.

[@dat1tallguy637]

The CW4Kids slapped so hard🔥

[@123theprodigy5]

@@dat1tallguy637 yep, I missed those days.

[@jonelrobinson582]

@@dat1tallguy637 agreed!

[@MrOmerta]

Wow 7:00 min mark exactly. I remember when my childhood went from early morning cartoons to early morning gaming trend. Still game and watch cartoons to reminisce. Luckily still got the Simpsons etc.

[@08dguy]

I remember getting up early on Saturdays to watch cartoons on Kids WB and on Sundays Fox Kids when I was a kid. At one point they aired Kids WB shows on Sundays in my area for whatever reason. I miss those kind of days.

[@dat1tallguy637]

Man even being born in 2004 and having some sort of cable and internet access for most of my childhood, I'm glad I was raised on the Saturday morning tradition from my earliest memory. Almost all the blocks I grew up on were after these, and Saturday morning cartoons on broadcast TV were basically dead by the time I was 10 but I'm glad for my memories before that, watching stuff like The Replacements, Spectacular Spider-Man, Sonic X and even E/I stuff like Liberty's Kids. And it's nice to see some networks like MeTV and KidsClick, until it ended some years back, still try to recreate that magic even if it will never truly be the same.

[@sominboy2757]

i was 17 when Saturday morning cartoons stopped. September 2014. literally the last generation to grow up with them

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Yeah. Those were good times

[@tapatiovidzz]

Man, you, like me, literally grew up to almost full adulthood with Saturday Morning toons. I was 15 when they ended. I enjoyed every moment of it. Which were your favorite shows?

[@taylorthenatural5509]

The nostalgia of most of the shows you mentioned sent me back in time.😊 I'm loving the new content! ❤

[@SirSonic900]

This was my childhood. I waited all week for Saturday morning cartoons. I really miss those days. Sometimes, I wish I could go back to those days for a while.

[@thebostonpowers42]

For obvious reasons, in 2018-2019 ABC had the perfect opportunity to temporarily air reruns of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Aladdin: The Animated Series, Timon and Pumbaa and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command on Saturday Mornings but they blew it.

[@2ndstreetmarvel]

🤘🏿Saturday cartoons were the best.🤘🏿The world changed when they went to everyday of the week.

[@pureakkuracy7510]

We rarely had cable so CW4Kids eventually vortex was everything man

[@HCIbn]

I'm pissed and it's 2024 and still no Saturday morning cartoons. How the hell am I supposed to eat my cereal on that day.

[@KamenSentaiMetalHero]

Born in 2000. I have fond memories of me and my younger brother waking up early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons while eating cereal. I remember all too well when Saturday morning cartoons got phased out in favor of all of those boring educational programs. While I wouldn't want to go back to being a kid, I do miss those days.

[@davidlewis5189]

I was born in 1988, and remember watching many saturday morning cartoons. Not to mention the cartoons that played in the early morning and afternoon on weekdays

[@DarrenLee73]

I miss the good old days of waking up,grab a bowl of cereal,turn on the tv and sit down and enjoy watching The Real Ghostbusters,Camp Candy,Mighty Orbots,or the X-men cartoon.

[@dreamguardian8320]

I miss the good old days too.

[@js6131979]

Right there with you for SATURDAY MORNINGS! Used to be on TV at 6 am. PARENTS would COMPLAIN about being close to TV. Or BRAIN WASHED watching CARTOONS. Now it's a wonder how TV'S still exists TODAY. With all the INTERNET and STREAMERS out there to choose from for ENTERTAINMENT.

[@midcoastJB007]

@DarrenLee: I hear you loud and clear on that. The Real Ghostbusters is still one of my favorite cartoons of all time. Additionally, I fondly remember watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Garfield and Friends, Muppet Babies, The Transformers, Batman: The Animated Series and more as a kid growing up.

[@senk0san]

As a 2005 person growing up I had a mix of both cable and comcast. Aside from 4Kids there was this other SM cartoon block called Vortex. It hosted shows like Sonic X, YuGiOh, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, DBZ, etc. I remember back in 2013-15ish I waited for that block to air on the CW. Man it’s a shame that it’s not longer there but I’m kinda glad to grow up/experience Saturday morning cartoons even if it was at it’s near end. 👍

[@brianodonnell4496]

FoxBox had Sonic X and Kids' WB had Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@jonelrobinson582]

I remember seeing Sonic X on Vortexx and it was my favourite and the theme song for Yu-Gi-Oh slapped so hard

[@brianodonnell4496]

@@jonelrobinson582 That was for Fox.

[@dwainsimmons3447]

And people hated that.

[@brianodonnell4496]

@@dwainsimmons3447 4Kids had Pokemon on Kids' WB.

[@juanborrego7421]

I miss the Saturday morning cartoons when I was younger and either Paid Programming or national sporting events after that.

[@StagehandMotel6]

That I do remember

[@wturner777]

Same.

[@vsal3782]

Man do I miss these days so much! I was born in 92. Yea before video games were what they are today I would be thrilled for Friday nights just to watch Cartoon Cartoon Fridays and see all the new Cartoon Network episodes along with the new debuting shows! And then I’d wake up on Saturday and tune it to my local ABC station to watch one Saturday morning, my family only had basic cable so no Disney channel for me. Then I switch between there and our Fox channel who first aired the WB and later changed to the Fox Box. And I can’t forget Jetix either it was another Disney type block that aired on ABC Family and was Disneys answer of trying to have there own anime block. I remember it aired Bayblade, Naruto Shippuden, power rangers, and that one with the robot monkeys! Life was so much easier and fun back then! This video was a nostalgic flash back!!!

[@kap1618]

Times like this made me so glad that I didn't have helicopter parents. As long as I was sneaking out the house or failing in school, they didn't care how I spent my lazy weekends.

[@Missqueenfairy]

Once I heard the 1 Saturday morning theme song I started to sing it. Where I would watch Recess, Pepperanne, Doug, and Loyd in Space. Oh the good old days! I woke up early every Saturday morning to get my cartoon morning binge on. Starting with Beyblade, Shinzo, and Medabots on ABCFamilies block Jetix. Then had breakfast with WBKids with Pokémon, Yu Gi Oh, XMen Evolution, Static Shock, and Loonatics Unleashed. Then onto the Foxbox also known to me as 4Kids to watch TMNT, Ultimate Muscel, Winx Club, Mew Mew Powered, Sonic X, Shaman King, and One Piece. (Course, the shows did not come on in that order.) I didn’t even need an alarm clock. My inner clock knew when to wake up, lol.

[@ToontownAndCpenguin]

I miss both Friday nights & Saturday mornings. I love how television was an event like they celebrated these things & it was so cool! My main watch was Disney's One Saturday Morning, despite having cable, I still enjoyed watching it. Shows like Teacher's Pet was there before anywhere else & it was one of my favorite parts of Saturday morning but I would bounce around a little bit if there were episodes I had seen multiple times already because I did have the Disney Channel so I didn't need to stick to One Saturday Morning & I more so dropped watching the block when they started pulling in the Disney live action shows. One thing I enjoyed was the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch, I was too old for it when it came out but since they don't do commercials & the cartoons were cute, it was a fun thing to watch if nothing else on the other channels were peaking my interest. The in between of the shows was great, the bumper that played La Bamba with clips from the shows in the Bookworm Bunch lives in my brain. Honestly, I had a ton of fun with the commercials but sometimes they were annoying. It was an event & I totally was excited for it. I also like when they put in little skits or whatever that went along with things. It's probably why I enjoyed Cartoon Cartoon Fridays because they too had little in between things that brought you in & made you apart of the party. General early days of Nicktoons Network before they had commercials was awesome too because they'd have a lot of Nicktoons bumpers as well as short cartoons from my childhood. I was a teenager when we got Nicktoons Network & I watched Nickelodeon during the 90's so seeing shorts from Kablam! & Oh Yeah! Cartoons during the commercial breaks on Nicktoons brought me back. I also enjoyed the ones unfamiliar to me brought in from Canada & stuff such as Doodlez, that was one of my favorites. Network television in general just isn't what it use to be & that's probably for the better but I'll always remember the good times I had watching it. Friday is my favorite day of the week due to the Friday night premiers I watched but I still love the old Saturday mornings. My memories of cuddling up with my dog in front of the fireplace on a chilly Saturday morning watching cartoons will forever be burned into my memory.

[@legosi2736]

Born back on summer in the year 2000, I grew up on cartoon network, boomerang, 4k id's, WBkids, disney, playstation 2 3, gamecube, n64, sonic x, kirby right back at ya, an so much more ❤. So I was grateful an lucky to have enjoyed Saturday morning's an I'll forever miss it 🥲😌😔 good time's..

[@brianodonnell4496]

Fox Kids and FoxBox?

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Saturday morning cartoons may have died on traditional broadcast TV (with The CW being the final network to shed their Saturday morning cartoon block), but there have been a few non-traditional attempts at a return of Saturday morning cartoons, including Sinclair Broadcast Group's syndicated Saturday morning cartoon block, KidsClick, as well as the more successful MeTV Saturday Morning Cartoons block on MeTV (a classic TV network specializing in programs from the 1950s to the 1980s), consisting of classic cartoons targeting baby-boomers, generation X and early millennial viewers.

[@dat1tallguy637]

Yeah man I used to check on KidsClick every now and then in my early teens just because I was so happy seeing someone attempt the Saturday morning formula again, and they had shows based off relatively popular IP like Barbie, Angry Birds, Transformers and Pink Panther. It's a shame it didn't last long. But as someone who's only grown up in a world where Tom and Jerry and especially Looney Tunes were only on TV via Cartoon Network compared to the 90s when , for Looney Tunes at least, was on tons of networks them popping up on MeTV was mindblowing for me and that's honestly my main way of revisiting those shows these days.

[@blindeyecreed]

Man i still remember when i woke up one Saturday and ran to my parents room to watch tv and my favorite cartoon channel was no longer there... just some nature thing takings its place..

[@Minny_Paul]

I'm just happy I grew up with Kids WB on Saturday mornings. I'm thankful it was there for me since I never had cable or satellite tv and would always watch PBS Kids during the weekdays. Good times...

[@brianodonnell4496]

They had all of the old WB shows?

[@Minny_Paul]

PBS didn't. The WB did.

[@brianodonnell4496]

@@Minny_Paul They had Sylvester and Tweety?

[@TamaraBeasley-i5n]

I’m glad that I was a kid in the 80’s we had weekday afternoon cartoons and Saturday morning cartoons to look forward to,

[@Trekapedia]

For me, Kids’ WB! became the biggest and best lineup. They just seemed to click. Even before Pokemon showed up and took over, I loved Kids’ WB! My favorite non anime show of all time is Batman Beyond, a Kids’ WB! show that hit right before Pokemon arrived. I miss the Saturday morning lineups and it’s sad that some parents couldn’t leave well enough alone. They feel EVERYTHING has to be educational and so, we really can’t have nice things you know? Ty for the videos and content. Keep it coming please from one ‘90s kids fan to another.

[@Sinnathan]

I’m so glad I was born in the early 90s. Kids WB, Fox Kids/FoxBox/4Kids, etc. Then afterwards go to the mall with my family to hit up KB toys, EB games, The Warner bros store and the Disney store. We had it so good and didn’t even know.

[@brianodonnell4496]

Who remembers the Warner Bros. Studio Store?

[@notthegreatestdetective]

i never saw the big deal about saturday morning cartoons, maybe some of what we watched wasn't influencing us the right way, but it was more about escapism, and fueling our imaginations, apparently parents hate joy

[@chozahfearless7524]

They hate it if they don’t have a childhood smh. Baby boomers always wanted take away what they didn’t have and if they couldn’t they resented us for it.

[@notthegreatestdetective]

idk if its baby boomers exclusively, or just certain kinds of parents, parents in general, or who's influencing the parents i.e. religion, political beliefs etc., i just think people take things too far sometimes@@chozahfearless7524

[@Venom3254]

​@@chozahfearless7524They were literally the first ones who got Saturday morning cartoons given to them 😂 Ironic how they saw newer shows and went apeshit cause it wasn't their slapstick violence.

[@ZephXrotH]

omg you grew up just like me obvious after watching a few of your videos we watched the same cartoons and such. I used to watch them at my friends house or before a football game sometimes LOL. I remember waking up before everyone to watch the original Dragon Balls.

[@johnsamoilis6379]

WPIX in New York not only had Saturday Morning Cartoons but had cartoons Monday-Friday from 5am-7:30am and again with another short block after school. I had Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and cable but I found myself watching WPIX a lot of the time.

[@StarDev94]

Kids WB, One Saturday Morning, and Fox Kids/FoxBox were my JAM growing up!

[@maverickhuntermeta4954]

Fox Kids should be on the thumbnail. They were the kings of Saturday Mornings, Weekday Mornings & Afternoons and even Sunday Mornings.

[@samflood5631]

Saturday Morning Cartoons in the 90s and early 2000s were my childhood. I remember watching every show that premiered on both Fox Kids, Jetix and WB Kids. But when Streaming Services took over, there hasn’t been any new Saturday Morning Cartoon that helps recreate that nostalgic feeling. Here’s a list of my favorite Saturday Morning Shows 1. Power Rangers 2. Transformers 3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4. X-Men 5. Batman 6. Spiderman 7. Static Shock 8. Shinzo 9. Digimon 10. Oban Star Racer 11. W.I.T.C.H. 12. Kamen Rider Dragon Knight

[@TheRealSwood]

I remember due to the E/I mandates I had to catch reruns of Power Rangers either on ABC Family or Toon Disney as a kid because even though ABC Kids would advertise new episodes of Power Rangers, in my area they would show Teen Kid News instead to meet the E/I requirements. I guess ABC left meeting those programming requirements to local affiliates. Also Kids WB was the GOAT on Saturday mornings. Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Batman Beyond, Xiaolin SHowdown, Jackie Chan Adventures, Static Shock, Mucha Lucha, The Batman, What's New Scooby-Doo, Spectacular Spider-Man, X-Men Evolution, MegaMan NT Warrior, and just so much more! Truly a stacked line up throughout the years.

[@calebglasscock7392]

I was born in 1996 so I was way too young to appreciate having Saturday morning cartoons be a part of my childhood if I knew how bad cable was going to get these days, I would have made my own DVD collection from all those great blocks especially Kids WB.

[@humanoidcorn4476]

Me too, man! Me too!

[@calebglasscock7392]

@@humanoidcorn4476 I kept seeing commercials and promos for all those CN and Nick shows on VHS and DVD and at the time I thought buying them was a waste of money I just wish I could have seen how valuable they really are these days as a collection.

[@gorillazzilla]

Got it in one, I miss those years. Sci-Fi channel used to do anime marathons on Saturday too.

[@sdjl9521]

I hope one day, they may come back. Because we're all kids at heart and everyone obviously missed them.

[@WadeLife]

Kids nowadays have no clue how it was on Saturday mornings the one day you woke up earlier than a school day just to watch all your favorite cartoons..

[@Highrollinhunter]

I miss Saturday morning cartoons especially watching Sonic X and Power Rangers as a little kid on TV now educational shows took over and just ruined the fun of TV even WWE had a Saturday morning show aimed at kids before educational animal shows took over

[@brianodonnell4496]

The old Fox.

[@CubeAtlantic]

i remember NickToons Network, PBS Kids, CN, Jetix & Toonami being a good vibe even doe the channels were on the airwaves on weekdays & not entirely Saturday Mornings. Kids WB & et-cetra was a good vibe. 👌

[@calebglasscock7392]

The main thing cable needs to have as a special feature one day is a timeline setting for all the channels that way people can choose which shows they want to watch without having to use streaming services.

[@larrythebatmanfan]

I didn't have cable as a kid so we only had the channel programmed into the tv. Which was CBS , Fox , PBS , NBC , the wb , tbn , pax 55 and abc

[@AhkeeNorthern]

I was born in 2002. Grew up with 4KidsTV, Toonzai, and finally Vortexx. Sonic X, Yugioh, Chaotic, DoReMi, etc. Good times.

[@bradyanderson6311]

Fox and the WB lose up to that.

[@SolCresta3405]

They were unpleasant times...

[@bradyanderson6311]

@@SolCresta3405 so PBS beats them.

[@SolCresta3405]

I just have a lot of bad memories when it comes to 4Kids. They have *RAPED* and *PILLAGED* Sonic, Kirby, F-Zero, TMNT (I don't care the amount of fans the 2003 show has), G.I. Joe, especially *THAT* one, and Ojamajo Doremi.@@bradyanderson6311

[@dwainsimmons3447]

@@SolCresta3405 yes they were

[@Trollyaccount]

Growing up in the 90s was epic we got to see new 90s 80s 70s 60s and 2000s cartoons 🥹

[@organous8870]

It does actually kind of make me sad that today's kids don't have this kind of event. But, that's only because they have access to so much whenever their schedule permits. So things are better now, even if some of the magic is lost.

[@jasonrandom372]

R.I.P Saturday Morning Cartoons. 1970 to 2005.

[@TailsPrower07]

Born in 2000, was watching Saturday morning cartoons from the late Fox 4Kids era to when it ended in the CW with Toozai and whatever the hell the final name was (Vortex or something) As embarrassing as it may be to admit, I probably would still be watching the shows on that block (not all but some). Always enjoyed watching Sonic X and Yu-Gi-Oh. I know it's much easier to watch now, but the feeling of waiting until Saturday mornings to finally watch them will never be outmatched by just looking them up or getting whatever service needed to watch them

[@NextNate03]

Don't forget about weekday mornings and afternoons cartoons.

[@papajupiter5817]

Saturday morning cartoons was a golden era and I’m glad I grew up in it

[@brainthebrian3690]

Absolutely loved channel fliping on saturday and sunday morning to see what all the cartoon blocks were playing. It was so fun to see crazy rare cartoons and or lesser known stuff early in the morning; catching things like he adventures of sonic the hedgehog and underground, one time they threw on this anime call magical do rei mei on CW, go go Riki, that one weird Xbox pinita party game cartoon on 4 kids, a roller ball robot cartoon, This Dragon show on qubo, then the favorites would come on and it be just a complete good time. That sh!t was cool.

[@dat1tallguy637]

Yooo GogoRiki and Viva Pinãta! I adored the CW4Kids when I was little! Also I'm pretty sure that dragon show was Jane and the Dragon, at least that's one I remember.

[@brainthebrian3690]

@@dat1tallguy637 Jane and the dragon was there too, but there was actually a show called Dragon; it was by Dav Pickley, the same guy who made Captain Underpants. It came on really early on sundays; at least where I lived.

[@dat1tallguy637]

@@brainthebrian3690 This one looks very very vaguely familiar for me from what I'm looking at I never got or at least never watched the 24 hour Qubo channel, I only saw the Saturday morning NBC block growing up and it looks like Dragon was on there when I was extremely little which is probably why it's very fuzzy for me in terms of memory. Super cool the Captain Underpants guy developed it though.

[@WickedKnightAlbel]

I miss Saturday Morning blocks...

[@brianodonnell4496]

Even for Pokemon on nowadays, Season 9 was the trashy one with the new dub.

[@Osarogie112258]

Real good times (and fun to see the change) and realizing the FCC ruining another nice thing.

[@wturner777]

It’s actually the angry moms that pressured the FCC to do this.

[@kellychuang8373]

@@wturner777 Oh yeah so terribly true and those angry moms form extremist groups like 1 Million Moms and PTC (Parents Television Council) too.

[@Code7Unltd]

@@wturner777 And a lot of those likely... a) had too much time on their hands b) had too much money in their pocket c) no man to care for (read: sexual frustration) The question that remains is how do bible-thumping grousers get their money? I know adults work for a living, but the '90s economy wasn't a rose bed.

[@thend4427]

I feel bad for kids these days they missed out on gold

[@dwainsimmons3447]

I don’t think so.

[@thend4427]

@@dwainsimmons3447 you didn't live through it so you don't know

[@dwainsimmons3447]

@thend4427 I was there when Saturday morning cartoons ended in 2014.

[@thend4427]

@@dwainsimmons3447 it was mostly the anime that I watched back then lol

[@dwainsimmons3447]

@@thend4427 I watch satam when I was 5-6 in 2008-09.

[@supersasukemaniac]

I miss saturday morning cartoons. I loved the early 2000's Ninja Turtles and i remember shows like the Weekenders and Pepper Ann. But Freakazoid was one of my favorites.

[@ssj2rhandy]

I really miss the 2000s and early 2010s Saturday mornings were at their prime during those days

[@deandredukes95]

Man I feel old

[@StagehandMotel6]

Pumping 30 man I am gonna make a lot happen in that time

[@jeffreywilliams8499]

I'm almost 32 years old I miss you childhood so much

[@filthycasual8187]

Same, man. Same.

[@dreamguardian8320]

So do I. If only the fountain of youth was real.

[@tapatiovidzz]

I am a child (and and adult) of broadcast TV. I regret nothing for not having cable because I benefited from not having cable. PBS Kids still has some great shows for kids from 0-10 to watch every day. I went through my childhood in the last decade and a half of Saturday Morning Cartoons. I have fond memories of waking up on Saturdays and turning on my TV and either tuning to the WB/CS or FOX for the cartoons. There are so man memorable shows, like Sonic X, Kirby, the Spectacular Spider Man, Justice League Unlimited, Huntik, Dragon Ball Z, the YuGiOh series, and some others by 4Kids. I also remember the CBS blocks that lasted a while. My favorite show from those has to be Liberty's Kids. I will miss being able to set a kid of mine up at a TV to watch cool shows like this while I am getting ready for the day.

[@kristopherwillis8075]

As a 90's kid i love this video the nostalgia was hitting me hard bro keep up the great work 😊.

[@eastsidereviews727]

Being born in 91, its crazy to think I'm apart of the last generation to fully have and appreciate Saturday morning cartoons. It was probably inevitable that they would end due to the rise of the internet and the 24/7 nature of cable and satellite, but it feels like we lost something special with the death of those Saturday morning blocks.

[@kitestar]

the 90’s really felt like the Wild West in terms of TV, while sure us 90’s kids remember it with rose tinted glasses (myself included) looking back, yeah it was kinda ridiculous all the flickering box wanted to do was sell us breakfast cereal and toys that’ll just go in a box after playing with it once. To this day TV is still pulling similar stuff, not so much cereal anymore but toys absolutely are being highly publicized on the staple networks

[@conradojavier7547]

If it weren't for the Karens, you would have watch Demon Slayer on Saturday Mornings.

[@mizv4043]

and congress wont reverse it. thats the worst part of it. they talk about deregulation. they could start with deregulating saturday morning programming

[@dat1tallguy637]

It would probably be horribly dubbed and censored but man that'd be a sight to behold😅

[@marlonnicholson8410]

Even the cereals suck now with low sugar

[@JamesHathaway54]

I remember the days of waking up at like 7am On THE WEEKENDS to watch these cartoons on Saturday mornings.. crazy cause now i can't even Fathom waking up that early on the weekends as a 31 year old😂

[@ThelronFjord]

I always wonder what my niece and nephew do on Saturday mornings to entertain themselves. Do they do the same thing where they play, or watch their Cocomelons or Paw Patrols, or do they play video games. I lament that they will never have a special cooperated-mandated time to enjoy cartoons and ads, but they ain't my kids, and I wouldn't force them to do something they wouldn't want to.

[@inkajoo]

Capitalism used to be fun. You wanted to participate. Slowly the creativity and joy left as greedy players amassed power and the economy was gradually squeezed to the point where only the bottom line now matters. There is no money for the joyful cultural part anymore.

[@crimsontriage1314]

I remember one of the few things i looked forward to was Jackie Chan Adventures when kidswb had an afternoon time slot.

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

One Saturday Morning and Kids WB were my favorites when I was a kid in the 90's oh man.

[@KawaiiJackHonne]

I was born in 00 i grew up with KIDS WB To Vortexx

[@The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane]

Saturday morning cartoons truly died when Fox Box became 4Kids TV, which led me to create my own television network DVDtv as a protest against 4Kids TV. DVDtv was inspired by Fox Kids, BKN, UPN Kids and USA Action Extreme Team (the blocks I grew up watching), as well as HBO.

[@Truekingr6]

I would always catch 4kids every Saturday until highschool and i was there for the last broadcast of i forget what it was called now, vortex or toonzai. Either one the last show ever was Yu-Gi-Oh zexal and i had zero idea that i just watched the last broadcaat ever, so when i tuned in the following Saturday, i kept waiting for the E/I show to end and a sonic X or cubix theme song to start but nope, it was just "a magnificent morning" i also saw the end of the abc family morning, i really enjoyed the replacements, Zack and Cody,hannah montana and they always finished it off with an episode of power rangers., good times.

[@khiclark31]

R.I.P. to Saturday morning cartoons and to cartoons after school😢

[@Xo-3130]

Fun fact. The last line for Saturday Morning Cartoons is an ominous line from Yugioh Zexel delivered by Astral.

[@douglasworley-lr9dr]

So glad i was born in 1957...God bless Warner Bros. And Sid and Marty Krofft.😊😊😊

[@dreamguardian8320]

I'm glad I was born in 1983.

[@Thunderbird616]

It's ironically how we went from helicopters' parents wanting stuff to be "educational" to parents now protesting educational/history programs being taught in schools 😅😂 I'm glad the internet and streaming services made it easier to watch stuff I missed out as a child, but I do still have love and respect for PBS kids and these programmings ❤ great video btw Hope to see your channel grow! 🎉

[@MrChristianDT]

DearGod, one side of my nephew's family is still going on about "violent cartoons." I never grew up with that, thankfully, & still get confused about where we exactly draw the line of inappropriateness with fucking talking drawings made to entertain children, but here we are.

[@carolyns4519]

My mother was a helicopter parent who banned Powerpuff Girls from our house for being too violent. You know what WAS allowed, though, for some reason? Courage the Cowardly Dog! You figure that out, because I still can't...

[@Thunderbird616]

​@carolyns4519 I was rewatching that recently fun show for me, but it can get wild if not a bit soooky 😅 and DT that kinda sad about your nephew still. I wish them the best 🙏

[@Tony_Anthemz]

being a 5 year old in 1980 with a power wheel Tricycle was like being a grown man in 2024 with a Bentley drop top on the Miami strip... lol the 80s was the best childhood ever for toys and cartoons.. Sega master system gaming and making games on the commodore 64.. what a life lol

[@itsjoshua2508]

I was born in 2008 and I remember when it was just Netflix and Hulu and Adult Swim started at 8pm

[@buzztheshowhost4783]

The early 2000s where the Golden years to be a kid it was marvelous!

[@SwiftGundam]

Having the PiP (Picture in Picture) function was a tremendous asset for Saturday mornings.

[@christinethilmany9606]

thank goodness I was born in 1997 I was a 2000 kid!, I miss the Saturday morning cartoons now Saturday mornings are boring.

[@goldeneye1689]

I remember the era when Saturday Morning Cartoons was real, but then one day it just stopped and that's the day I realized it's the end when the next week didn't continue.

[@timbartschwolfman]

I was born in the 90s and grew up with Foxkids, When FoxBox replaced Foxkids in my opinion the Downfall of Saturday Morning Cartoons began, then came Litton Entertainment to ruin Saturday morning cartoons But in 2021 MeTV brought Back Saturday Morning Cartoons

[@Thespeedrap]

I agree with you I miss my early childhood to begin with all I ever did was watch cartoons and regardless of whether they were good or bad silly or negative I just like to be entertained by something.

[@SolCresta3405]

FoxBox was pretty much the harbinger of Saturday morning cartoons dying.

[@BadMarriageKawagoe]

I grew up in the golden age of cartoons, but now I'm old and the idea of getting up that early on a Saturday just horrifies me. How I used to manage is a mystery lost to time.

[@GroovyFlacko]

Kids WB, Fox kids, and One saturday mornings were my main cycle on Saturdays man i miss those days

[@b3h8t1n]

Saturday morning cartoons were 5a to noon when i was coming up 😅

[@megabolt5898]

The fact that I am watching this video on a Saturday morning at 8:00am... ............................

[@fraggingremlin3868]

FCC made legislation limiting the amount of time commercials could be played with animated television. Less commercials = less money. Which is also why you see a sudden up tick in live action shows like lizzie mcguire, even stevens, and phil of the future. Because live action didn’t have to abide by the new rules.