Saturday Morning Cartoons

Saturday morning cartoons represented freedom from school and responsibilities. They represented the innocence of youth. We laughed, we cheered, we absorbed basic lessons about friendship, and heroism, and right and wrong. And yet, it seems, it was another quaint ritual of a forgotten time, slowly being relegated to forgotten history.
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[@navret1707]

I went home on leave between duty stations and, of course, turned on cartoons Saturday, morning. My father came down stairs and said “look at that. How old are you? Watching cartoons? Within 3 minutes he was sitting there with his coffee laughing as hard as I. Those original cartoons , 1950, ‘60s, will never get old. Rocky and Bullwinkle was not aimed at kids. Those puns would go right over a child’s head.

[@anthonycalbillo9376]

I know to, I made the mistake of watching some of the old cartoons from when I was growing up. WAY TOO MUCH ADULT HUMOR IN DISNEY!!!

[@heckell4181]

I had an older brother and sister I would ask what it means. I learned about the world in elementery school. Thanks Rocky.

[@lancerevell5979]

At 66 years old, I still love the old WWII-era Warner Btos. cartoons, with the wartime jokes and references to things like rationing. A lot that modern kids don't understand.

[@TheDoctor1225]

My dad died when I was 17 but I have memories of him doing the same with me. I am so thankful I grew up during the 70's when I could watch unedited, un-PC versions of so many of the cartoons of those eras. Thankfully I've been able to find them and now enjoy them with my sons, just as I enjoyed them and enjoyed them with my father - and we've all turned out just fine. Thank God for those old cartoons.

[@TheDoctor1225]

@@anthonycalbillo9376 Have you watched anything that comes out of Disney lately? That "adult" humor was pretty much nothing compared to the outright filth they're pushing in "children's" movies and shows today. Give them credit for the fact that those jokes were done in such a way that most kids wouldn't have noticed or gotten it - and Disney was hardly the only studio to do that.

[@morgan97475]

Getting out of bed at 0630 for school was always difficult. But getting out of bed at 0600 for Saturday morning cartoons was always easy.

[@dawnstorm9768]

Of course!

[@noahpartic7586]

No school=All too easy to Wakey Wakey. YAY🥳!

[@russiaprivjet]

i only woke up for saved by the bell

[@RussellNelson]

I remember waking up at 5AM before the cartoons came on. Fortunately, the show Modern Farming was being shown, so that I learned about terraced fields as a young child. Useful information in suburban New York City!

[@jhoover8734]

Kinda funny how that worked, huh...

[@stmchale]

I was 6 years old in 1966 living in Baltimore. The Orioles were headed to the World Series. On a Saturday morning my mother gave my father a grocery list. He came back home 3 hours later with a 25 inch color TV. My younger brother and were jumping up and down knowing we could watch cartoons in color for the rest of our lives. My mom was really mad, but when my brother and I hugged my Father she relented. Great memories, thank you History Guy.

[@markherzog3435]

how bout dem O's hon!

[@themonkeyhand]

LOL, and she never let him go grocery shopping again!

[@aisforapple2494]

Sounds like Dad wanted to watch the World Series. 🤔

[@flashwashington2735]

A mother asks her boy, "Do you know the difference between an elephant and a jar of peanut butter?" The boy shrugs, says, "I don't know." Mum replies, "Well I can't send you to the store for peanut butter!" I grew up feeling so in adequate, but free from buying groceries!!

[@tonyklymson8096]

Well we are old and if young people today are honest we are obsolete and taking up space . Yet if we inquire a little further we find they don't speak or write English . They are computer idiots .

[@clinthowe7629]

Mel Blanc was the voice for most of the cartoon characters we watched growing up.

[@williamwilson6499]

Gee, what an obscure fact.

[@garycarpenter2980]

Janet Waldo and Bea Benaderik and Jean Van Der Pyle

[@ponyote]

If not Frank Oz

[@PR_1775]

And after him, Frank Welker who seemed to be in practically every cartoon in the 80s and 90s.

[@DavidKutzler]

In 1991, I was on a ferry crossing the English Channel to visit the UK. The TV in the lounge was playing Roadrunner cartoons on a loop. There was a lovely African woman in beautiful traditional African clothing in the lounge. I don't think she had ever seen a Roadrunner cartoon in her life. She was laughing so hard that tears were running down her face and snot was running out of her nose. It was an absolute delight to see this woman getting so much enjoyment out of Roadrunner cartoons.

[@orbyfan]

My dad liked to watch the Roadrunner cartoons with me; he like the fact that the coyote never gave up.

[@garyoa1]

Meep, Meep! LOL

[@chezsnailez]

Ironically, coyotes are actually faster than roadrunners and perfectly capable of catching the wee beasties - our collective childhood was a life...

[@andysnyder4506]

In the late 1960s I lived in Southern California and my family we had a four-wheel drive Scout. We were driving down a Jeep trail called Coyote canyon. All of a sudden we saw a roadrunner run across the Jeep trail. About 20 seconds went by and a coyote came trotting along behind it. I couldn't believe my eyes because it was like the cartoon coming to life. Always loved the roadrunner and coyote and still do to this day.

[@nevinleiby]

Roadrunner was a major influence in my interest in engineering and physics. I loved to see the blueprints every time.

[@OrganicAlkemyst]

There was also the fact that as children, we never got to choose what we watched on TV so when Saturday came and we watched what we wanted, it was fantastic

[@MrBsbotto]

I think you nailed it, Chris!

[@mattkaustickomments]

💯

[@brianhuss9184]

Schoolhouse Rock helped me get an A in one of my 400 level history courses in college: the extra credit question at the end of the test was "write out the preamble to the US Constitution". I began humming the Schoolhouse Rock song that used the preamble as its lyrics and got the extra credit. On may way from my desk to turn in the exam I passed at least five others also humming that tune to themselves :)

[@nobodyspecial7185]

I could hear it now… We the people in order to form a more perfect union😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@timothyodonnell8591]

Today's teachers of a certain vintage still play Schoolhouse Rock to their students. So the legacy of Saturday morning cartoons lives on.

[@mattkaustickomments]

I bought a schoolhouse rock DVD to show my offspring. They LOVED it. Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here.

[@richdurbin6146]

@@mattkaustickomments Or the hyper energetic: VERB! That's where the action is.

[@paulrevere2379]

Still the best way to learn about pronouns. 'cause sayin' all those nouns over and over again can really wear you down.

[@goodun2974]

I was too old by the time Schoolhouse Rock! came out but my youngest sister grew up watching Sesame Street. She had her own record player in her room and I can remember her waking us up at 3 o'clock in the morning by playing her Sesame Street records, "Mah-nah-ma-nah" and so on. She was about 4 years old.

[@zanehaus]

"I'm Just a Bill" always makes its appearance for my 8th grade American History class🙂.

[@Doc_Tar]

Having grown up in the 60s and 70s I had no idea the age of Saturday morning cartoons was so relatively short.

[@scottmccloud9029]

Quick Draw McGraw. Foghorn Leghorn. Marvin the Martian. Mr. Magoo. Loved all the cartoons back then. Then if we were lucky, a Tarzan movie would come on after the cartoons were done. I loved those days.

[@Cathmoytura]

I was thinking that, too.

[@marydesmond9595]

cut short by political correctness and commercialism

[@dancooper4733]

It went on until 1991.

[@zobblewobble1770]

@@dancooper4733 KidsWB and FoxKids were still premiering their new cartoons on Saturday morning into the late 90s/early 00s at least. I remember waking up Saturdays to see the new Pokémon, Digimon, Medabots, Transformers etc.

[@MenelikiGaming]

My childhood is now "History that Deserves to be Remembered"... you're making me feel old ;)

[@stephenstevens6573]

We ARE old...

[@michaelmanning5379]

Never go into an antique store. You will find your childhood toys and the kitchenware your mom used are now antiques.

[@nickmauldin8825]

Yep. Like hearing a song you listened on the way to school then hearing it on radio when you an adult followed by “you’re listening to classic rock 99.5”. Lol. What?!? Classic rock?!? Since when??

[@joesterling4299]

I AM old. I remember when animation got cheap on TV. I started out watching Looney Tunes originally made for theaters on Saturday mornings, and that sadly morphed into the cheap crap Hanna-Barbera dished out. The difference is huge.

[@anthonycalbillo9376]

Us 80s kids are pretty much middle aged already. I already lost my hair.

[@johami614]

In our area we get MeTV which has three hours of cartoons every Saturday morning, 1 hour of Popeye, Pink Panther and Friends, one hour of Tom and Jerry, and one hour of Looney Toons. 7:00-10:00, and my three boys (age 9, 9, and 14) love it. We setup a folding table in view of the TV and they eat sugary cereal and laugh all morning. I take some pride in the fact that they are starting to pick out Chuck Jones and Tex Avery productions.

[@marckyle5895]

You're raising your kids properly, man of culture.

[@shalawndillon4525]

And don't forget it's sister network, MeTV +. They show three hours of cartoons every Sunday night.

[@williamkelly6319]

Perfect Saturday morning routine.❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@sheubahi]

That's fantastic! I'm just now seeing this video, so my apologies for responding to your year-old comment. LOL Keep showing your boys our fun history. I truly wish they'd bring back the Saturday morning cartoons. Those were wonderful times!

[@glennstubbs8232]

Crusader Rabbit was a brilliant show, but before cartoons, Saturday morning started with Modern Farming, then Victory at Sea, we had Sky King, Fury, Circus Boy, Rin Tin Tin, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, The Cisco Kid. There was a show about West Point and a competing show about the Naval Academy. We had hours of old movie serials, Rocky Jones and Captain Midnight. This era is history that needs to be remembered.

[@657449]

I forgot about them. I remember The Big Picture, a story of the 1950’s Army.

[@badcat4707]

Wile E Coyote , you deserved a mention for never ending determination 😸😺

[@MichaelSHartman]

I thought better of his ingenuity, persistence in spite of defeat, and problem solving than I did the dumb bird that did nothing, and had it easy.

[@shawnr771]

​@@MichaelSHartman The Coyote was a hack buying overrated products that rarely worked as advertised.

[@goodun2974]

🎶 "Roadrunner, that Coyote's after you/ Roadrunner, if he catches you you're through.... that Coyote's really a great big clown/when will he learn that he never can run him down?......🎶 ". That theme song is burned into my brain! I also remember that every device which was mail-ordered by the Coyote for purposes of destroying the Roadrunner was branded Acme or Ajax, and most of them involved things that went 💥 . Luckily for familes with little kids, there weren't any commercials tie-ins for purchasing those products 🤔 😳 🔥.....

[@shawnr771]

@@goodun2974 I have the complete Roadrunner/Coyote series on DVD.

[@johnbee7729]

He deserves a lifetime achievement award / Emmy

[@patmancrowley8509]

Who could forget the opening: "Overture, hit the lights. This is it, the night of nights. No more rehearsing and nursing of parts, we know every party by heart. Overture, hit the lights, this is it, we'll hit the heights, and oh what heights we'll hit. On with the show this is it!"

[@rdm925]

Yes, I can also still remember the words to it. Still watch the classic cartoons when I can and have DVD collections of them.

[@grandetaco4416]

I loved when Jerry Seinfeld did that bit on his show.

[@gunfighterzero]

Overture, curtain, lights

[@patmancrowley8509]

@@gunfighterzero DANG! You are right! Getting old sucks.

[@dawnstorm9768]

MeTV has three hours of classic toons on Saturday mornings: an hour of Popeye, an hour of MGM, and an hour of Warner Brothers.

[@whats20buks23]

My Sister once asked me why I get up early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons but not on school days. I never could answer her. But later in my life I figured it out that it made me happy on Saturday to watch the morning cartoons. R.I.P. my beautiful sister ❤

[@backagain5216]

Blessings to her as well as you. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I remember it would take the tv about 1/2 to warm up enough to watch it. Se we were up extra early! Innocence!

[@gregraines1599]

Unless you were a kid in the 60’s and 70’s you just can’t imagine how wonderful Saturday morning was for us. Captain Crunch, Frosted Flakes and Alphabits were my cereal choices.

[@bluemarlin8138]

It was like that through the 80s as well. I think it started to fall off in the mid-90s when Cartoon Network came out and there were cartoons playing all week. Us early 80s kids caught the end of the golden era.

[@czechmarque]

How Long will that Tootsie Roll last - It's lasting through the Chase Scene, it's lasting through the Fight Scene ---It's lasting through the Looooove Scene...

[@vincentconti-jb3hd]

Wrong....the fifties were better!!!!!

[@shalawndillon4525]

​@@vincentconti-jb3hd I disagree. 70s and 80s are better! #80skid

[@terryhollands2794]

Sugar Crisp

[@jamesbarca7229]

One thing I would add is that it was something the kids, no matter the age difference, all did together. I came from a truly dysfunctional family and looking back, watching Saturday morning cartoons together were probably the only times we acted like a normal family. It was like a weekly five-hour truce. After noon, all bets were off though. 🙄

[@goodun2974]

Songwriter John Hiatt (Thing Called Love, Feels Like Rain, Ridin' with the King, Confidence Man, Angel Eyes and many more) grew up in a family full of alcoholism and violence. His song "7 Little Indians" was written from childhood experience of gathering around in the living room with the TV providing a ghostly backlight while his daddy danced around in a Native American headress and told stories "from a slightly unrealistic point of view".

[@genefenton326]

Normal family should be in quotes. I’ll bet that same sentiment could be expressed by many. Oh yeah, including me.

[@alainarchambault2331]

Same, weekends became a terror at times.

[@billwilson5341]

@@genefenton326: "Normal...should be in quotes." I concur - not just in describing families though.

[@Hey_Its_That_Guy]

The Jetsons, Speed Racer, Magilla Gorilla, Tennessee Tuxedo, Underdog. It was a magical time. Thanks for the memories!

[@stephenstevens6573]

Add looney toons to that lineup and you have me 100%

[@christianheichel]

Masters of the Universe Scooby Doo

[@2Consumed]

🎶 "Go Speedracer Go-oo!!" 🎶

[@Roadglide911]

Deputy Dog!

[@ajwilson605]

Jonny Quest, Space Angel.... So many others....sigh!

[@KlingbergWingMkII]

PJs, laughs, warmth and food of home, a slow start to the day, low stress, no hurries, a gentle time indeed. Those memories bring a tear to my eyes. Thanks.

[@frankschuler2867]

Saturday morning cartoons and a bowl of Cheerios are some of the best memories of my life! I’m glad I got to be a kid in the 70s and 80s.

[@one8088]

You probly had sugar at the bottom and spooned it into your puss

[@charlesbrentner4611]

Me too. It was 'our time' on Saturday mornings. Mom and dad had the TV for news etc. during the week but Saturday' morning's were set aside for kids.

[@3rdFloorblog]

We seem to be a rare breed to have had such great times before it all went to Hell with the birth of the internet.

[@frankschuler2867]

@@3rdFloorblog I miss the wild west days of the internet during the mid to late 90s before it became the corporate cesspool we have today.

[@shalawndillon4525]

Me too.

[@mintybadger6905]

I tried to explain Saturday morning cartoons to my kids and they couldn’t comprehend the idea that cartoons weren’t on TV all day long.

[@morrismonet3554]

I remember when news wasn't on all day either.

[@goodun2974]

As a teenager I and my friends would stay up till 1130 or midnight to see live music broadcasts such as Midnight Special, In Concert, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, and so on. There were no video tape recorders or DVRs then, and so you either stayed up to watch the live broadcast or you missed it forever. We now refer to that era as "appointment TV".

[@skydiverclassc2031]

@@goodun2974 Me, too, although, if I didn't have the TV Guide available, I would sometimes watch only the first five minutes to determine if the act was someone I really wanted to see.

[@colinsdad1]

Plop a Rotary Dial phone,that some of us know and love from back in the day, and watch kids minds explode: "What is that thing???" Priceless.

[@CA999]

​@@morrismonet3554 and probably better as it did not rely on an endless feed of "footage"... As if thought, imagination, and concentration was required...

[@chainsawsubtlety9828]

History deserves to be remembered... because knowing is half the battle.

[@Booger414]

The more you know!

[@Rawsolo]

The other half is violence or red and blue lasers.

[@Itsfineweerallfine]

Well played, Sir. Well played 🎉🎉🎉

[@noahpartic7586]

Yo Joe🥳.

[@altarush]

Yo Joe.

[@sudcciv6443]

There is nothing to stop a parent TODAY from requiring their kids to "go out and play" (after a 4 hour cartoon binge on Sat. morning!), since "American Bandstand" and "Soul Train" are no longer in THOSE "Post-Cartoon Time" time slots! P.S. Waking UP to the Color "Test Pattern" and the National Anthem at 0700 was ALSO part of the cartoon binge ritual! ;)

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

I remember when ABC Wide World Of Sports, Julia Child, and Justin Wilson came on, it was time to go outside.

[@GraemePayne1967Marine]

Also, staying up late enough for the announcement of the end of the broadcast day, followed by the station's test pattern and then static.

[@jymmydkid5633]

I waited for soul train 😂 THEN went outside 😂

[@czechmarque]

In Pomona Ca, 62 thru 65 it was Sky King and Roy Rogers after the cartoons. After which it was time for my Bike and Larkin Park.

[@P00katube]

@@BIGBLOCK5022006 Or The CBS Children's Film Festival or THE GAME OF THE WEEK

[@gracemember101]

My main heroes were Dr. Benton Quest and Race Bannon -- adults I could look up to as role models. That was back before adult males were turned into buffoons. When plot lines became stupid, I was insulted and started watching PBS. The cartoon studios were to blame for their own demise. Your assessment is spot on.

[@markherzog3435]

Bandit was my hero...he dodged bullets!

[@DavidHall-ge6nn]

"Inna nyah voodoo tanna" still rates a laugh when I get together with my brothers. You have to say it creepy and sneaky, though. We all loved that show.

[@charlesberg138]

Johnny Quest. One of the best

[@jemkey6930]

OMG! My dad goes on and on about Saturday morning cartoons, how much he missed them, the idea I was missing out. So a few years ago I started buying some of his favorite past time cartoons on dvd. Transformers, GI Joe, Dungeons and Dragons, even Jem and the Holograms, (that's where I get my name). Now Saturday mornings are dad sitting in the floor between the couch and the coffee table after making toasted pb&js with me right beside him. Even now he is sitting beside me watching this video, and he agrees the nostalgic feeling deserves to be remembered. Thank you History Guy ♥

[@nvcn86]

haha i tried watching some transformers. it was so incoherent and the almost random series events that was supposed to be the plot made me give up quickly.

[@baldeagle5297]

@@nvcn86 I wonder how old you are. It seems that in today's culture, our attention span has been reduced to the length of a Tik Tok video. I'm as guilty as anyone.

[@gunfighterzero]

You are a good kid

[@mrfuriouser]

As an "official" old guy- circa 1971- I can vouch to the FACT that Jem and the holograms was an INCREDIBLE cartoon! I watched it in the a.m. before I went to H.S.! Yes, everyday ;) Your Dad has great taste. Might I recommend watching Voltron as well? You won't be disappointed. Cheers to you both!

[@madtrucker0983]

😎

[@Iamacardinalfan]

My Father used to gripe at me watching all these cartoons back in the day. But if Lancelot Link came on, he was there right with me, laughing it up as much as I did. "That's a good theory Darwin" that was his favorite line. I so miss my Father...

[@ericscott5224]

Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp! You can find full length episodes on youtube.

[@TheKulu42]

I love the show, too! I even had a Lancelot Link lunch box. Sigh. I wonder where it is now.

[@garyrunnalls7714]

Loved Lance Link secret chimp👍

[@noahpartic7586]

I watched that on Sunday Morning before church in the 70's, worth it. I also found full episodes here on KZbin.

[@hazelleblanc8969]

Fondly remember my dad laughing at Wile E. Coyote, but in an unusual way. He didn't laugh at him being turned into an accordion, but at the next scene, when he was suddenly, miraculously back to normal. I still remember every word to the Bugs Bunny theme song. Glad to have been young in the late 60s.

[@tonyperez4791]

Great episode, Thank you for sharing. I'm 66 and still can't hear Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries without Elmer's "kill the Wabbit " coming to mind. 😁😁 Learned a lot about classical music through Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies. Hope you and your loved ones have a great weekend ! Cheers, Tony

[@noahpartic7586]

🤣I could never forget "Kill The Wabbit" as Elmer Fudd jabs his spear in & out of the Wabbit hole. Fortunately, those holes tend to have an S bend & are crazy longer than that spear can reach anyway. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪SILLY.

[@stanwolenski9541]

Same here.

[@TS-ev1bl]

And the Barber of Seville, etc

[@noahpartic7586]

@T S 🤣That was fun too.

[@-jeff-]

And as an animator I have Saturday morning cartoons to thank for all those adults who still watch animation.

[@charlesbrentner4611]

And I wouldn't be surprised if many (if not all) animators today were inspired to the job by those cartoons of yesteryear.:)

[@1960HikerDude]

No better way to spend my Saturday morning than a trip down Memory Lane with the History Guy. Thanks!

[@dawnjeffersramstad8401]

I actually waited to watch this on Saturday morning. Other than not mentioning Top Cat, it was a perfect return to my childhood Saturday mornins.

[@antekatetaketna]

Top Cat with Officer Dibble.. Remember the Police Call Boxes hung on phone poles ? I found & purchased one 18 years ago... Did you know that they were made out of cast iron ?!? I only bought it because I had seen them on the cartoons.. GOD Bless you & yours

[@grandoldpartisan8170]

even!

[@therazband3007]

When I was little Top Cat was a night time show

[@mickmccrory8534]

My favorite was Rocky & Bullwinkle. A cartoon that taught kids about the cold war.

[@Paladin1873]

Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. Again?

[@motaman8074]

Such a great show!

[@jimcappa6815]

That trick never works!

[@SgtMjr]

Definitely not for kids exclusively, R & B had soo many jokes that I didn't get as a kid but sure did many years later. The Ruby Yacht of Omar Kayam ?! Kids were supposed to know that? LOL We could sure understand 'making big trouble for Moose and Squirrel' tho.

[@gvjester]

Boris and Natasha!! Is time for moose & squirrel show!! (Russian accent required!) 😊😊 Incredibly happy place! By the comments, I see we're all old but I wouldn't trade for today's mess!

[@braxtonnelson7422]

This episode of The History Guy really hits home as I am realizing that I lived through this history (that deserves to be remembered), as if I needed any reminders that I am getting old! As an "Eisenhower baby", Saturday mornings were my time to be entertained by the television with Warner Brothers cartoons at the top of my list. Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, Yosemite Sam, and Sylvester and Tweety Bird are still entertaining to me, and latter day cartoons (Ninja Turtles, Smurfs, Care Bears, My Little Pony, etc.) were cartoons that my kids watched, but I couldn't see the fascination in the cheaply animated "all talk and no action" shows. I distinctly remember my Dad standing in the living room, usually eating a bowl of cereal, watching Roadrunner cartoons along with me-- laughing out loud at their antics. It was a magical time to be alive.

[@ryanderoche3330]

History Guy, thanks for all the nostalgia and all the feels in this episode. This might have been my favorite THG episode.

[@williamromine5715]

I was born in 1942, so I missed the Saturday morning cartoons. However, the Saturday kids movies were in full swing in the little town in Wyoming, where I grew up. For 25 cents, you got into the "show house", and you got a pop and a box of pop corn. You saw 2 grade B movies, at least 2 cartoons and a serial(usually Superman). That was the only time kids could sit upstairs(where, normally, adults sat so they could smoke). The kids upstairs threw pop corn down the kids downstairs, and cap guns were sneaked in so we could have shoot outs with the baddies in the Western. For several hours, we owned the show house, all for a quarter! I can't imagine the amount of clean up that went on before it opened for the regular movie to be shown that evening. Oh, by the way, the quality of cartoons went way down when H/B started producing them on the cheap. When quantity over quality took over, cartoons suffered greatly. Thanks for the video, it jogged some memories of a time of innocence long gone.

[@markransom08]

This is one of your best episodes. I'm 68 and still miss my early 60's Saturday Morning Cartoons. Sitting cross legged on the floor watching Bugs Bunny 🐰 with a leaky "cut-open "box of cereal 🥣 . It was always over in time to head out to the city pool to go swimming for 15 cents 😂🎉

[@michaeleasterwood6558]

I remember those cereal boxs

[@alexanderthurman214]

I didn’t even know about the Saturday morning cartoons, until by buddy Joe Scotilline turned me on too them in 1966. That is until he we had a Friday night sleep over. From that day on until I was in High School, I faithfully watched them on every Saturday. May God richly bless everyone ✝️🇺🇸!

[@kjtherrick4031]

Yes, I spent many Saturday mornings with various cartoons before they turned to garbage. Kids today don't have a clue. Thanks for sharing this!

[@timothymulholland7905]

This was the day the parents could sleep in. The kids were glued to the TV from 6am on.

[@CA999]

My kids now are glued to screens all day and all night long. I can sleep and neglect them all the time! And it's apparently not a state of dystopia according to the advertisers and public relations folks!

[@davea6314]

When I was a boy, my Boy Scout troop in upstate New York went on a camping trip about once a month. If a scout wasn't coming on a camping trip the scoutmaster would have him announce why in front of the troop at a prior scout meeting. One time a boy announced to the troop that he wasn't coming on the camping trip because he had to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Lol 😆

[@novemberecho3807]

Priorities!

[@thejourney1369]

Saturday morning was when my Mom got her groceries. She used to drop me off at our local tv dealer and I’d get to watch cartoons in color. She’d bring me lunch and I’ve very happily eat my lunch and watch Top Cat, Underdog, and so many others. Thanks Bonnie and Mr. Billhimer for those sweet memories

[@jameseasterbrooks5363]

A real nostalgic era for us Baby Boomers. I love it just the way History Guy describes. It was a ritual every Saturday and also Sunday after church and before football or baseball came on. I loved Fractured Fairy Tales, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Boris & Natasha!

[@steveaustin2686]

"Rowdy, free-range children" 🤣

[@robertpierce1981]

The original Jonny Quest was awesome. Thundar the Barbarian has an awesome history. Being born in ‘71 I got to see a lot of the greats

[@samanthab1923]

Always loved Jonny Quest. We always had bulldogs. Spider-Man was good back then too

[@charlesbrentner4611]

@@samanthab1923 Iron Man was also on in the early 1970's as I recall.

[@samanthab1923]

@@charlesbrentner4611 Really? Will have to look that up. I never followed comics so I never knew about him till the movie w/RDJ.

[@charlesbrentner4611]

@@samanthab1923 Yep. I gather it started in the 1960's but it was on TV in the 1970's when I was a little guy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpu3eomXiNOFiJI

[@sarah-marc]

I remember watching the Loony Tunes an Bugs Bunny Show on channel 3, Burlington, Vermont. I'm one of the few lucky Canadians who were close enough to the border to watched the Saturday morning cartoon. I spent my whole Saturday morning on the TV. We were only 20 miles from the US border and we had a big antenna on the rooftop, witch allowed us to catch the 3 US network channels. I always thought that my father putted me in front of the TV on Saturday morning to allow me to learn English, as we originally speaked french. It didn't worked, although I learned English later in my life, and the Saturday morning cartoons probably contributed at this time. Thank you for the good memory, Mr History Guy.

[@stevebailey325]

2:33. "Ovature, cut the lights This is it, we'll hit the heights and oh what heights we'll hit! On with the show this is it!!" At 64, that song, and Saturday morning memories are still very vivid to me. Thanks Lance, great episode!!

[@motaman8074]

YESSS (65)

[@andreperrault5393]

Bugs actually did extreme comic renditions of opera. “Barber of Seville” comes to mind (61)

[@rdm925]

"No more rehearing or nursing a part, We know every part by heart!" I still remember the words to the intro song to the Bugs Bunny Show! Still love them all!

[@ivane5110]

Lucky to have been a part of this era. Not every childhood moment was magical naturally, but I can't help notice how many of those moments were courtesy of Saturday mornings.

[@juancasanova2519]

I grow up in that era and I wish my kids could have the Saturday Morning Cartoon. I grew up on Hong Kong Phey, the Hair Bear Bunch, Scooby , Land of the Lost, HR Puffnstuff, and finally the Monkees. What a great time it was to be a kid

[@marckyle5895]

HR Puffnstuff!! That show was wild! I want a hit of what they were smoking!

[@garycarpenter2980]

Hong Kong Phooey

[@kevinfarley6981]

I'm 64. Thanks for bringing back childhood memories and for giving us a peek behind the screen. Cheers!

[@39djscottie]

So many different cartoons in so little time to watch them all. My favorite was a Hannah Barbera cartoon call Jonny Quest Thank you. History guy for rustling up. Such wonderful memories growing up as a kid.

[@dawnstorm9768]

Loved me some Jonny Quest!

[@gregcorwin8316]

Like the Flintstones, originally a Friday night prime time cartoon and my personal all time favorite!

[@RobJuneau]

Johnny Quest had the best backgrounds for cartoons ever. I often lost the plot of the episodes while daydreaming because of them! 😂

[@SoloPilot6]

Jonny Quest was an experiment, to see if solid production values and storytelling were cost effective in animation. There was an important backstory (Jonny's mother killed in an attempt to assassinate his father, resulting in Race Bannon being assigned as a bodyguard), that the stories didn't mention but had to follow. It would be years before Japanese anime would prove that there actually was a market for characters who weren't drawn like they had been done by a balloon-bender.

[@dennisanderson3895]

Johnny Quest was *awesome*!

[@johnrendle8840]

Ya know, its truly strange to me as a historian that I actually lived that history. I loved the looney tunes so much and they got my appreciation and curiosity going toward classical music and Shakespear from the many references in the cartoons.

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

To this day, Bugs Bunny gave me my interest in classical, The Rabbit of Seville is one of my fave all time cartoons.

[@billwilson5341]

This is the comment I was going to post if I did not see it. *Bugs Bunny and classical music...*

[@garywagner2466]

They say that one sign of sophistication is hearing The Marriage of Figaro and not seeing Bugs Bunny.

[@williamjones7163]

I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons. It lasted until the ABC Wide World of Sports came on at noon. Those were the days.

[@pakde8002]

This topic will be fondly remembered by the generation born in the late 50s/early 60s. Saturday morning cartoons were the best. It seems like cartoons migrated to very early morning and after school hours at some point, at least in North Carolina where I grew up. Definitely remember friends watching cartoons after classes in college in the early 80's while passing around a three foot long PVC pipe. Don't know what that was all about 😸.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Those were the days History Guy 🤓!!

[@HM2SGT]

🤣 You say that, but I hear Archie and Edith singing it!

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

@@HM2SGT Well I smell them while they sing it !👃

[@beebop9808]

Those old 50's and 60's cartoons were great! I was watching one of them not that long ago, watching the classic cat outside in the snow looking into the house at the dog in the kitchen. The brand on the fridge being "Coldernel" 🤣 Those old guys pulling a fast one on us kids! lol Remember well my granny waking me at 6 am weekdays to catch 30 minutes of cartoons on the local station when they came back on air. Hey Hey we're the Monkeys! Remember those guys?! lol Life was good....

[@Paladin1873]

You know we're coming to your town . . .

[@xaenon]

The movie WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. Early in the film, Roger and Baby Herman were making a Maroon Cartoon short. In the 'kitchen', look carefully at the name on the stove. A Hotternel....

[@spokanefut]

Rocky and Bullwinkle was absolutely brilliant. I was six when it came out and my college student sister thought I was right for it. It gave the audience a great deal of credit, which I appreciated even at the time. The Tom Slick/George of the Jungle/Super Chicken Triad was a hoot on multiple levels that even my dad loved, but there were too few episodes made for a successful life in syndication, sad to say. But I haven't watched broadcast network tv in a decade. I didn't know that Bugs and Porky were no more. Vaya con dios, amigos.

[@tomloucks779]

There is a 3 hour block of classic animated shows on ME tv every Saturday morning.

[@charlesbrentner4611]

And Rocky and Bullwinkle always got the best of Boris and Natasha in the end. There was also the fractured fairytale, Mr Peabody and Sherman, and General McBragg mixed and matched on any given day. :)

[@mikehilbert9349]

Rocky and Bullwinkle was always a Sunday cartoon for me.

[@arrrg3846]

It was a time when my sister and I would have to cooperate. There was a lot of negotiation between a 7 and a 9 year old to watch our favorite cartoons on the only TV in the house. After the cartoon was settled for that hour or half hour, we had to change the channel, fine tune, and move the antenna around until the picture and sound was as good as could be. This was all before our parents woke up, when they would come and yell at us for sitting too close to the TV. 🙂

[@ice9snowflake187]

I remember that the Saturday morning viewing experience, in the late '50's started with shows like Howdy Doody, and Pinky Lee, where sometimes cartoons were incorporated, but they were mainly variety shows for kids with live studio audiences. There was also the weird "Andy's Gang" show with footage of kids in a theater from 1948 appearing as the "live" studio audience, too. Local stations showed kids programs, too- often cartoons, like Betty Boop, or 1920's "Silly Symphonies" stuff. The audience was there already, and the networks just took a while to catch on.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Remember Sky King and his niece Penny?

[@ice9snowflake187]

@@dr.froghopper6711 yeah- and "Jet Jackson" [Captain Midnight].

[@rdm925]

Thanks, My memories of Saturday Morning TV, ran from 1959-1960 into the 1970's. It was a combination at first of cartoons (WB, Tom and Jerry, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Hanna-Barbara (Yogi Bear, Flintstones, Jetson's), Popeye the Sailor Man, etc), Laurel and Hardy, 3-Stooges also live action kids shows, like Howdy Doody Soupy Sales and also remember Fury, Sky King, Roy Rogers and one of my favorites Fractured Flickers!! And the morning would end at around noon with American Bandstand! Today's children are deprived and poorer by not watching these classics by contrast !

[@lizj5740]

@@rdm925 *deprived?

[@rdm925]

@@lizj5740 , Thanks I corrected it.

[@carguybikeguy]

Usually, I’d express grief over a loss. But I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of you explaining the disappearance of a formative part of my childhood. This was fascinating!

[@bretmaples]

My kids still get Saturday Morning Cartoons thanks to having Boomerang on Amazon. They show all the cartoons I loved as a kid.

[@michaelburt1663]

I spend my Saturday watching the three hours of “Saturday morning cartoons “ on meTV. Brings me back.

[@stevewilliams6901]

YES, everything you said is true sir!! I was 5 in '66 so my entire life was centered around the Saturday morning get away from school!! This is an Excellent video!!

[@goodun2974]

Lance missed his chance to end this THG episode with "Ubba-dee-ah Ubba-dee-ah, That's all folks"! 🐷

[@Paladin1873]

You're deth-spicable! 🙂

[@rabbi120348]

wascawwy wabbit!

[@goodun2974]

@@Paladin1873 , I once put a plugged-in electric guitar in an 8- year-old girl's hands, and put a slide on her finger, and told her to slide it across the strings, which she did; her face lit up and she said "Looney Toons"! The beginning note of the Looney Toons theme was indeed played on a pedal steel guitar with a slide.

[@Paladin1873]

@@goodun2974 So that's how they did it. Thanks!

[@goodun2974]

@@Paladin1873 , Funny how sounds like that just bury themselves into our subconscious. Kids make the connection immediately when they find out what it is.

[@SteveAubrey1762]

I'M 60 years old and I STILL love those old cartoons! At the time...it was billed as Super Saturday. It was just like U said, a weekly ritual. My Super Saturdays we're from 1968- 1974. Today, we'd be called a " hippie" family so we didn't get all those cool cereals...well sometimes we would...but man, the Bugsloos, Bugs Bunny/ Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian....that singing/ dancing frog that only sang when nobody was around...Pink Panther, Scooby Doo,HR Puffinstuff, The Banana Splits, Tom & Jerry man, that was great. Oh, Sigmund the Sea monster! And there was this cartoon about weird aeroplanes and the dog, Smedley, always wanted a medal and would snicker all the time!

[@billwilson5341]

The name of "that singing/ dancing frog that only sang when nobody was around" was *Michigan J. Frog* and what a voice he had!

[@SteveAubrey1762]

@@billwilson5341 oh wow! Ty! I never knew he had a name!

[@johnkristopher9038]

The dog's name was Muttly, the cartoon: Dastardly and Muttly in their Flying Machines. Dick Dastardly and Muttly also were in an earlier cartoon called Wacky Races. I watched them every week along with many others. So many good cartoons from that time!

[@alisaaustin8431]

Yes, Penelope Pitstop. There was Kimba, Speed Racer, Land of the Lost, etc. I remember during my dating days this guy who I chatted with on the phone for the first (and last) time. He sounded exactly like Droopy the cartoon dog. I said to myself, "No. I can't. I'll just think of Droopy!"

[@CurCam713]

My late 60s and early 70s cartoons were punctuated with the 2 year life in Iran where AFRTS (farts as we called it) was limited to a few hours a day of programming. Nights was reruns of Ed Sullivan and maybe Laugh-In. Saturday mornings started with the national anthems of both countries followed by old cartoons Clutch Cargo and Spunky and Tadpole. And that was it. Otherwise for most of the time, there was nothing. Meanwhile on the Iranian stations, there was Fred Flintstone translated to Farsi. We returned to the US and I found a lot of the cartoons gone or they had started to censor out the violence. It went downhill from there. Eventually Cartoon network came along and now some of the alt media channels like MeTV run cartoons in the morning including Saturday mornings. The odd part is the adult commercials instead of commercials for toys and sweet cereals.

[@williammeredith4323]

Sir, I am an aircraft mechanic and as such, am enormously focused on details. I feel you must spend a large percentage of your time fine tuning the wall you appear in front of, and I appreciate your level of effort and attention to detail! I applaud your incredible sense of non-verbal communication this wall represents! I also grew up with Saturday Morning Cartoons, even in Boarding School. There was another television related time slot of note during the eighties for me.... Every afternoon, just before dinner, we would all gather in the 'day room' for Tom Baker as Dr. Who on BBC, conveniently re-broadcast on PBS. It would consume us and demand our attention until we, at the very last second, would sprint across campus to make it to dinner without being late! It was a program with a shoestring budget, but a bumper crop surplus of imagination, and it ran from the sixties, and is still going today! As we shared so many other experiences, I wonder if you also knew the Doctor? Perchance the Doctor is history that deserves to be remembered!

[@clydehall9990]

One of my favorite Saturday shows in that era was 'The CBS Children's Film Festival' with Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Not cartoons, but international films that, along with the fun and excitement of cartoon superheroes and ghost-chasers, added a unique Saturday window to childhood in other cultures and locations. For a kid living in a very small rural community, it was part of what made those Saturdays special.

[@ghendar]

Saturday Morning cartoons. Yet another of hundreds of different reasons it was great to be a kid in the 70s and 80s.

[@21stcenturyjedi]

I still have many fond memories as a child of the 80's getting up at 6am, pouring myself a bowl of Cocoa Puffs, and parking myself in front of the TV for the rest of the morning until either my mom would tell me to go play outside for a while, or the grown-up programming would take over the airwaves (usually old black & white movies, Kung Fu Theatre, or wrestling IIRC). We'd get up and change the channel every half-hour or hour, depending on the shows we wanted to watch. It was peaceful for everyone in the house - my siblings and I hardly ever fought over what we watched, and our parents would usually leave us alone to go do whatever they wanted or needed to do. There was something else to it, though, that goes beyond the word 'peaceful'. 'Comfort' might be the better term for it, at least for me personally. Being a smart but socially awkward kid, with a short-tempered father who yelled a lot, I remember feeling quite blue most days of the week. School wasn't a fun place to go to as kids could be cruel and merciless, and evenings at home could be good or bad depending on my parents' moods. On top of this, there was a moment in every 80's kid's life when they first found out about the Cold War and nuclear annihilation, and their outlook on life was forever changed. All of that seemed to disappear every Saturday morning, however. No kids to tease me or crush my spirit, no one yelling at me, no news programs or other outside media telling me the world is about to end. Just me, my bowl of cereal, my Lego bricks, and my TV telling me that good guys can still triumph over evil doers to keep the world - my world - safe.

[@truman0316]

I am 51. I miss my cartoon Saturday mornings fueled with Sugar Smacks or Sugar Frosted Flakes. At noon, you went outside and played until dark. You played made up games, swam in small creeks, or went on epic bike journeys. You used gun shaped tree branches to fight the Empire or the stage coach robbers. And by God's good grace we made home with only skinned knees or bruises. Thanks for the video and the trip down memory lane.

[@David.Anderson]

The good old days, the early 80s and Saturday morning cartoons

[@lancerevell5979]

My childhood "good old days" was 1960s and early 1970s.

[@carywest9256]

The mid '60s, and going back into post WWII cartoonies. They wouldn't dare show that animated stuff, because it could hurt their sensitive feelings. Give me a damn break, bunch a damn weak minded fools.

[@keithtorgersen9664]

@David Anderson, Voltron, Thundercats, TMNT…

[@gamophyte]

@@keithtorgersen9664 thunder thunder thunder caaaaats!!

[@AA-ke5cu]

The only true good Ole days as far as cartoons are concerned: the 60's ; minus the race riots; assassinations; wars and freak pot heads and drug addicts. WALLY GATOR;HUCKELBERRY HOUND; JOHNNY QUEST; PEPE' LE PUE; ROADRUNNER; BORIS AND NATASHA; FELIX THE CAT;POPEYE AND OLIVE OIL,FLINTSTONES;... when SPEEDRACER and his mach 5 came out cartoons were ruined for good and haven't been the same since. All large quick Japanese eye ball garbage.and chim chim?? Cut me a break; that cartoon totally sucked.

[@tomr1630]

I remember my dad getting a laugh over the coyotes misadventures with the road runner.

[@shibolinemress8913]

I remember watching The Flintstones, Speed Racer, Underdog, Kimba the White Lion, Gigantor, Rocky and Bullwinkle and many more favourites in the after school, pre-primetime or primetime slots. This was 1967/68, when Saturday morning cartoons were also taking on their well-known form. Then in the 1970's my Saturday morning staples were established. I bounced out of bed at 5 a.m. to catch my all-time favourites The Thunderbirds and Jonny Quest, both in re-runs by then. The cartoons ran till noon, and my Saturday ritual ended with the live-action Shock Theater, where host Doctor Creep (boy, that name wouldn't fly today!) introduced kids to the classic monster films. Gamera, Godzilla and The Creature from the Black Lagoon were my favourites! Another ritual was when the networks aired their previews of the coming season's new cartoon shows. Those were must-see TV and if you missed them, you were out of the loop the next day at school when all the other kids discussed which new cartoons they were most excited about! Never knew that my childhood would become history that deserves to be remembered! 😉😊

[@magform]

Being a veteran of those Saturday mornings of the Sixties, and now retired, Saturday mornings have certainly changed. Honestly, the big three networks seem little different on weekends than they are the weekday mornings. As I watch those same cartoons again on alternative networks, I now recognize the clever programing where the scripts, though supposedly written for the children's market, were loaded with quips only adults would noticed. Very clever writing. And those concerned parents, so worried about all that TV the children were watching, now have children and grandchildren with their faces in front of computer screens or game screens, totally enthralled with the content. Little seems to have changed in many ways. Still miss my Jonny Seven OMA. Great video!

[@dannyjones3840]

It truly is a shame that kids today will never know the childhood us born in the 70's or earlier knew. Playing outside, not having to worry about predators, and yes, Saturday morning cartoons. Love was so much simpler then.

[@dawnstorm9768]

There have always been predators, but there has not always been a 24\7 news cycle full of sensationalistic stories designed to share the daylights out of everybody. That's the difference.

[@doccindy7545]

As a 10 year old my friends and I encountered child predators in the nearby park frequently and actually taunted them and then ran away. My parents would have been mortified.

[@genek8630]

They can still watch Saturday morning cartoons on ME TV.

[@bbacher95]

Great episode! However, there's something you failed to mention that I think also deserves to be remembered... For several years in the 70's there were prime-time specials that highlighted the new cartoons that would be coming to Saturday mornings at the start of the new season. I loved those shows! If memory serves me well the networks aired them at different times so that you could watch all three of them. I had paper and pencil out to make notes on the new cartoons I didn't want to miss. I specifically remember The Great Grape Ape and Jabberjaw made their debuts on the prime-time specials, and I was eager to catch them the following Saturday.

[@schristy3637]

I forgot about the specials. I remember now how there would be full page ads(B&W) in the TV Guide. Comic book had ads too,but in color. They could be one or two pages. I still have my comic from 70's and 80's. Not a cartoon ad but a strange on. I one of O J Simpson for Dingo cowboy boots. You can see the ad on Comic vine.

[@Dr-Jan-itor]

I prefer South Park. I need to know when the New Terrance and Phillip is coming out.

[@CA999]

​​@@Dr-Jan-itor well they did recently featured the prince and princess of Canada. You must be difficult satisfy... 🙃

[@CPTDoom]

I (leading edge Gen X) remember scouring the TV Guide to find out when those specials were airing, and then using them to map out the viewing pattern for the season - which shows you had to watch first run, and which you'd watch during rerun times. I also was a great fan of the live action kids programs - Isis/Shazam and Electro Woman & Dyna Girl (which in retrospect had some of the worst acting known to TV) that aired among the commercials. Ah, the 70s.

[@j1166240]

I remember those too. Mom would always make sure us kids knew about them so she knew she could sleep in uninterrupted.

[@stevedietrich8936]

Things that we learned watching the cartoons. If you see a tunnel painted on a rock, and a roadrunner runs through it, DON"T UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, fall for it. If you run off a cliff, you won't fall as long as you keep your feet moving. Cars were invented in the stone age but powered by your legs. ACME made cool stuff.

[@dongrant5827]

Born in 1962, I should have been watching Saturday morning cartoons during the apex of the era. But, I grew up on a dairy farm, and Saturday mornings were for cleaning the calf pens!

[@johnmcmorris1170]

I was born in 1960. As a late baby boomer I was too young to get in on the cool "hippie" stuff and the golden age of the 60's and early 70's. But I DID cash in on the golden age of Saturday morning cartoon bonanza. My fondness childhood memories are laced with the Saturday morning TV on the TWO TV channels we go in rural Missouri.

[@stickplayer2]

1957 here. Right with you on this (and still too young by a few years for "hippie stuff").

[@dennisud]

As a kid, my Dad told me he loved going to the Movies and seeing Serials every week before the Matinee! So I can understand how this came about. I loved growing up and watching as much of the Saturday Cartoon as possible!

[@PinkyJujubean]

My mom had to drag us out of bed during the week but on Saturday we were up at the buttcrack of dawn eating cereal in our pjs and watching cartoons while mom slept in

[@xaenon]

Lol, as a kid in the 1970s, I was up early enough to catch the tail end of the farm report.....

[@PinkyJujubean]

@@xaenon me too. I also remember a couple channels hadn't started their broadcast day yet and I had to sit there waiting for it to start while staring at this test pattern 😂

[@xaenon]

@@PinkyJujubean YESSSS! I tried to explain to my kids what a 'test pattern' was. It took some 'splainin.

[@PinkyJujubean]

@@xaenon remember how at the end of the broadcast day they'd play the national anthem and be like "this concludes our broadcast day"? Lol

[@PinkyJujubean]

@@xaenon test patterns were just old school screen savers

[@UFOS4]

Rocky and Bullwinkle were on another level and to me, the best! Saw them when I was about 10 years old and despite not getting some of it, I got enough to make it my favorite, especially Fractured Fairy Tales. I’m sure it contributed to my sarcasm and ability to find humor in just about everything. Grandma would say “Turn that television off and get outside”! We went outside and either played or did chores.

[@robertledford499]

His description of saturday morning was spot on. Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe LePew, Mr Magoo, Elmer Fudd ad infinitum. Loved it.

[@flounder31]

Who knew being a 70s/80s kid was going to end up being SO special? We got the actual best of everything.

[@rudijoris9555]

I so remember Saturday morning cartoons! I was a little kid in the 70s and early 80s ,that is definitely one of my fondest memories! The Super Friends were my absolute favourite! This was such a good episode! Brought back some memories I haven't thought about in a long time. Thanks History Guy.

[@jbart1411]

I’m 62 years young and I miss the Bugs Bunny show Once in awhile I get my grandkids to watch them on Netflix or cable Glad I experienced that time, first hand. Thanks for sharing

[@loufancelli1330]

Having grown up in 70s and 80s I understand that some folks my age think today's kids are "missing out" but they aren't. Our parents thought we were "missing out" because we didn't play kick the can or street ball or whatever, but none of us would trade our Saturday morning cartoons for that nonsense :). I think what we miss with those sentiments is that being a kid is always a carefree, less stressful time as compared to adulthood. It doesn't matter what era you grew up in.

[@nik07nik]

Of course it matters what era you grow up in

[@goodun2974]

Lou, "a friendly game of kick the can grew wild in the backward....but now it's just a mall, that's all.... time just turned it all Into A Mall...." choppily excerpted from a lovely song from Don Henry (no, not the Eagles guy), from an album titled Wild in the Backyard. Anyway, in the late Seventies we watched Saturday morning cartoons, but invariably our mothers kicked us out of the house, telling us that dinner was at 6 and don't be late or we'd go hungry. And we were indeed runnung wild in our backyard, and in our friend's backyards, and off in the woods, unsupervised and unstructured, no helicopter parents hovering nearby. It was wonderful; and surprising how little actual trouble we got ourselves into.

[@1stpogo]

I remember every September when the various stations would have a special show on Friday nights when they would preview the new cartoons starting that fall. I would be almost giddy with excitement as the clock counted down to its start. My brother and I would sit side by side choosing which ones we were looking forward to the most.

[@jphilb]

Was going to mention this. The great Sneak Peak on Friday night. Must have been something if I still remember those once a year shows.

[@susanandtimrice5265]

Dear HG, I too was a '64 child. I remember fondly watching the BBRR Show every Saturday morning, Every Saturday from 8 or 9 to 10 or 11 laughing at Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fud, Tweetee Bird, Foghorn Leg Horn, etc. Such fond memories. Thank you.

[@d-mack-ga5340]

From all of us that grew up during the 60's and 70's - THANK YOU!

[@tk848]

I can't tell you how special those times were. Saturday mornings were an event! Bowls of cereal, toy commercials, trying to get to the tv before my brothers. Always looked forward to the Schoolhouse Rock clips between shows. One thing I really remember is how there were animated versions of many popular tv shows like Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley.

[@ifoundthisoldbook...8621]

The rule was the first kid to wake up and turn the TV on had control of the dial for the whole morning.

[@tk848]

@@ifoundthisoldbook...8621 exactly!

[@fearthehoneybadger]

I remember those good-ol-days.

[@KeeponBluezen]

Super Friends was my jam. In the late 70's it would air at 6am, what an injustice. I guess i didn't have an alarm clock yet? I dunno, because I would routinely wake up and run to the TV at about quarter to 7, and only catch the last bit. As I aged out, they all got so noticeably commercial, so I naturally moved on to more adult activities. But I still get nostalgic and sentimental about Super Friends:)

[@RemnantCult]

For me, it was Friday and Saturday evenings where cartoons were plentiful. This was because I grew up in the cartoon network and nickelodeon generation. While most shows were just reasons to show ads to kids, I still respect the era of syndicated Saturday morning shows.

[@jocelyncote8200]

I think that was in the top 10 best times of my life!

[@jeffcoan4038]

Agreed. The big bowl of cereal and 5 hours of cartoons was fantastic! Then at 12pm, go outside and play.

[@SpiritMover314]

Without a shadow of a doubt…..👌🏾👍🏾

[@SpiritMover314]

@@jeffcoan4038Yupp!…I said 7-11am…..I was close…LOL. Then, yep, outside to ride bikes, wrestle, play court baseball, race, go get our friends in the neighborhood to come out etc; Even the food tasted better then!

[@MrWeusi]

I used to watch those cartoons religiously!!

[@timbaumann9046]

I AGREE COMPLETELY... I was born in 1964 when the whole "Saturday Morning Cartoon" era came into being... Twice each year we had the Spring and Fall Lineup which if you were a kid back then that little thing called a "TV Guide" was an ESSENTIAL sort of Bible which you pursed over ENDLESSLY until you figured out just the "right mix" that appealed to you and your friends. That guide got marked on all over the place and when things like the World Series came around you the kid got real pissed if you had to miss an episode knowing that only later in re-runs you could figure out what it was you missed in that particular series because if you lived in the east coast those kids got to watch what you missed if you lived on the west coast... Ah what memories!

[@Ames2pleaze1]

Oh, what great memories! I used to read the TV Guide to see what time the cartoons started and on what channel, so I could wake up before anyone else in my family, just so I could (quietly) pour a huge bowl of cereal, turn on the TV, & watch cartoons! Funny, that I NEVER placed such energy for school, sports, or even family events... But, this was my escape from, everything back then... I'm 60 now, and I have no regrets in doing this. It was, and remains to be, a part of my life, that deserves to be, remembered. CHEERS!

[@martensjd]

This jogged my memory and brought back an old ritual: watching "Johnny Quest" while eating tomato soup.

[@terrioestreich4007]

And every show and commercial had a catchy jingle that every kid knew- I can remember so many!!